Conservationist. Lover of the natural world. Let's keep the Anthropocene going!

Joined October 2013
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11 Oct 2024
Apparently at WH Smith station bookshop at Milton Keynes Central ... Fine work, people. Fine work.
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I have no idea what I just watched, but that might be the best goal celebration of all time... 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Honouring the legacy of #CambridgeAlumni John Ray and Adam Buddle, two pioneers of botany from the 17th and 18th centuries. Check out the two new plants in the Main Court of @catz_cambridge planted to celebrate their contributions to science! 🌿🌼
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Election Special 4: The Conservatives.
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Radical right-wing charities on Tufton Street, like the Global Warming Policy Foundation, are constantly spreading harmful climate change disinformation & denial. What does the Charity Commission do to stop them? Nothing. So we're taking them to court 👇 theguardian.com/environment/…
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29 Mar 2024
Great excitement catching up with this mythical beast at Eaglenest yesterday: male Blyth's tragopan in his cloud forest home
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Little curlew or Little whimbrel. First for UAE twitched successfully in Dubai Ras Al Khor. 🔥
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Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing...
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Punjab Chief Minister openly drinks a glass of polluted water from a ‘holy river’ to prove that water is clean. Hospitalized shortly after.
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12 Feb 2024
3 weeks of monitoring the local Woodcock at Gib Point finally paid off. Mesmerised. @LWTWildNews @BBCSpringwatch @InstaBirders @BirdGuides @PatchBirding @Lincsbirding
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7 Feb 2024
What a result @ChelseaFC 🔵🔵 didn’t see that coming at all….. that’s why I don’t gamble anymore 😂
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24 Jan 2024
The world's oldest known bird, a Laysan Albatross called Wisdom, has returned to her nesting grounds at Midway Atoll for the 2023-24 breeding season: bit.ly/3SvIhSM
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Here are Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant discussing the making of Killing Moon, including that quote from Mac (THREAD 2 of 5) theguardian.com/music/2015/a…
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Hello , I’ve written another letter to @antanddec about the ongoing appalling abuse of animals on @ITV programme @imacelebrity . I’ve tried to be polite but my patience has run thin . If you agree with what it says please RT . #ImACeleb
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Brent and Pink-footed Geese heading off to roost over one of my favourite creeks. Painted on site at Blakeney Point on a frosty evening
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"No piece of art has ever emotionally affected me the way this robot arm piece has. It's programmed to try to contain the hydraulic fluid that’s constantly leaking out and required to keep itself running...if too much escapes, it will die so it's desperately trying to pull it back to continue to fight for another day. Saddest part is they gave the robot the ability to do these 'happy dances' to spectators. When the project was first launched it danced around spending most of its time interacting with the crowd since it could quickly pull back the small spillage. Many years later... (as you see it now in the video) it looks tired and hopeless as there isn't enough time to dance anymore.. It now only has enough time to try to keep itself alive as the amount of leaked hydraulic fluid became unmanageable as the spill grew over time. Living its last days in a never-ending cycle between sustaining life and simultaneously bleeding out... (Figuratively and literally as its hydraulic fluid was purposefully made to look like it's actual blood). "The robot arm finally ran out of hydraulic fluid in 2019, slowly came to a halt and died - And I am now tearing up over a friggin robot arm 😭 It was programmed to live out this fate and no matter what it did or how hard it tried, there was no escaping it. Spectators watched as it slowly bled out until the day that it ceased to move forever. Saying that 'this resonates' doesn't even do it justice imo. Created by Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, they named the piece, 'Can't Help Myself'. What a masterpiece. What a message." Extended interpretations: the hydraulic fluid in relation to how we kill ourselves both mentally and physically for money just in an attempt to sustain life, how the system is set up for us to fail on purpose to essentially enslave us and to steal the best years of our lives to play the game that the richest people of the world have designed. How this robs us of our happiness, passion and our inner peace. How we are slowly drowning with more responsibilities, with more expected of us, less rewarding pay-offs and less free time to enjoy ourselves with as the years go by. How there's really no escaping the system and that we were destined at birth to follow a pretty specific path that was already laid out before us. How we can give and give and give and how easily we can be forgotten after we've gone.. How we are loved and respected when we are valuable, then one day we aren't any longer and we become a burden...and how our young, free-caring spirit gets stolen from us as we get churned out of the broken system that we are trapped inside of. Can also be seen to represent the human life cycle and the fact that none of us make it out of this world alive. But also can act as a reminder to allow yourself to heal, rest and love with all of your heart. That the endless chase for 'more' isn't necessary in finding your own inner happiness.” - James Kricked Parr
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Sun Yuan and Peng Yu's "Can't Help Myself" does not run off of the liquid that it cleans. It was created to "present an absurd, Sisyphean view of contemporary issues surrounding migration and sovereignty." It was unplugged in 2019. guggenheim.org/artwork/34812
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9 Oct 2023
Pomegranates are actually pretty easy to eat if you know what you're doing. Watch this technique.

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⚽️ Lights, birds, action! @birdlife_news appearance in #beckhamnetflix was unexpected and like seeing an Endangered species! "Bend It Like Beckham" for the birds! 🌟🦉 #NetflixStar
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10 Sep 2023
Wolves live, hunt, raise young and spend most of their lives in packs. They're highly social animals. This is what happens when one of them leaves the pack for some time and then reunites with it. [📹 jaddavenport / Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge] x.com/Levandov_2/status/1700…

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