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Alex Ross

@wergend.bsky.social

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Survivalist 😉 First responder, search and rescue, forager, bushcraft, science and philosophy, prehistory, sustainability, rewilding, silly old romantic!


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Did anyone see the report on Trumps psychological issues?! 😆

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20% voted for Starmer?! This is significant for what it could mean outside Westminster. PR would have shown it directly. The speculative atmosphere now will make the wider conversation confrontational due to the lack of clear representation. Still, always interesting insight from Peter Osborne.

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Aah. I really like Layla, she's brilliant 🙂

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Well that's cheered me RIGHT up 😁 Apparently, not theirs 😃 🦊boom boom! 😃 I'll get my coat.

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Layla Moran in your area?

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Beaker folk, bloody, Beaker folk? What's wrong with just cupping your hands, land licking it up like a cat?!

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If I've not found a job by Thursday I'll definitely be doing something to try get more green votes.

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Haunted pencil for me 🙂

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Dr Seán DOOLAN's avatar Dr Seán DOOLAN @sdinpraxis.bsky.social
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Tories gotta Tory. May can't rewrite history - or Cabinet minutes on Brexit decision-making. Vote Out to Help Out.

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At least 5000 fewer deaths than the Battle of Towton then 😳

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Should never have had to go that far, but the correct result. I wonder what I could claim as compensation for trashing my coastal and river foraging and swimming and subsequent mental health implications. 🤔

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Then you have a wealth disparity problem. Make it free for all, you'll get a free for all - a disaster of the commons where qith no incentive to moderate consumption and waste. It also doesn't address how that electricity is generated. Carbon tax at source and ring fence it to subsidise renewables.

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EPIC, doesn't quite do the story justice.
Best doc' I've seen yet targeted towards the layperson.
Still could use some practical demonstrations/examples of the features people are looking at, but still, very well done. #glaciology
youtu.be/Yto0uFCRne0?...

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Zack Labe's avatar Zack Labe @zlabe.bsky.social
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Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 12th lowest on record (JAXA data)

• about 160,000 km² above the 2010s mean
• about 590,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,280,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 1,940,000 km² below the 1980s mean

Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

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Dr Seán DOOLAN's avatar Dr Seán DOOLAN @sdinpraxis.bsky.social
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That's climate change, folks. Warmer water = more energy

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I am hoping for a bit of a miracle - Andrew Fienstein winning over Starmer in his local seat. I really like that man.

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Happy birthday Brian. Thank you for consistently sharing fascinating insights 🤎 Many many happy returns my good man 😁🥳🎉

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Brian Klaas's avatar Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social
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It’s my birthday so I wrote about the history of birthdays, explained why people die more often on their birthdays (wish me luck today!) and included some interesting brain food about how AI is being used to save zebras. www.forkingpaths.co/p/another-tr...

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I wonder how many people Daesh ultimately killed?

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Re-reading, sheep? I suppose that shouldn't be a surprise given how useful they are, but all the way from ME? Have I been misinformed? Instead of plying you with my 1000 questions on the subject, would you be so kind as to recommend a good audiobook (ideally!) or any alternative to boffin away!

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They must have been hunting the squirrels then because it's nigh-on impossible to forage hazelnuts if sqirrels are around! They are right on it immediately! Acorns must have beeen a staple. No handy resillient shells but, they definately must have been.

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Grandiloquent Word of the Day's avatar Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social
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My Housekeeping Style Is Best Described As Scurryfunge!
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The scurryfunge, that last-minute cleaning frenzy before company arrives. The perfect attire if housekeeping doesn't become a priority until people are on the way!

Available in a variety of colors.

#cleaning #ad

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It's the foraging that particularly interests me. I've been reading a couple of interesting books about the practice of native Americans. I suppose very rural parts of the world there will be plenty more. I've heard of a few practices around the Med'. Lots of travel required though!

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I wish we knew more about their relationship with the land - foraging practices and cultivation, before more recognisable, what we might think of as industrial farming.

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Basically a regression from everything currently going wrong and making excuses for the genocide as a cherry on top. As is (media ownership) the ultras look set to become opposition. Maddening considering how much I prefer Green and Lib-dem. Murdoch &co are the problem.

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Ignore the dramatic branding 🙄
This was, I think, the most sober and true analysis of how things are in Britain today.
youtu.be/PwHTd7AnZ7c?...

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So the stream here carries clay over sandstone and picks up on rich iron deposits.

Dear #Paleosky , how can I use the clay (total beginner here,) and, with this deep red algae so abundant, surely I can make something like an ochre of some kind? (Total beginner here too!)

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Oooh here's a thought: will there be a time/place when automated cars make road lighting redundant? Even just in a city somewhere ... imagine going on that ride for the first time!

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Ed Doddridge's avatar Ed Doddridge @edoddridge.bsky.social
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If it weren't for last year, we'd all be talking about how bonkers Antarctic sea ice is at the moment... Looks like we're in for another crazy winter.

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Zeke Hausfather's avatar Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social
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Recently we've seen a vibrant debate on when the world will firmly pass 1.5C.

Over at @carbonbrief.org I weigh in with a new analysis, finding that it will most likely occur in the late 2020s or early 2030s in a world where emissions do not rapidly decrease. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-wha...

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Yea, nevermind independent reports, when your ideology is racist genocide, it helps to be blind. I wish you all you inflict.

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I think this conversation is over. I have no time for nazi ideology, I have to time for those who hold identical ideologies.

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Strange? When at least 279 people (including the three Israelis) are killed, 700+ physically wounded, to rescue 4. Announced ... as a success? When mass starvation is used as a weapon? The defence minister announces there is "no limits," and the leader references biblical genocide? No excuse. None.

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Could currently serving British ministers be vulnerable to prosecution for war crimes?
Mat Kennard, again, being one of the most sane voices in this [insert your own adjectives] world.
youtu.be/ymCaO45Zxo0?...

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Sarah J. Jackson's avatar Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social
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I prefer to remember people on their birthdays than their death days but since I saw folks giving Bourdain his roses today, 6 years after he left us. Here’s a gift link to what I wrote then

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Sean Thomason's avatar Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social
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“AI will replace movies. I can make my own version of Star Wars where I’m the hero and Obi-Wan doesn’t die.” The problem is we’ve allowed a society where adult men can say things like this without being shunned from the village to starve as a pitiful outcast.

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Two million people in Gaza, half are children. Condemning them all is a war crime. You excuse genocide.

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Sapinuwa's avatar Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social
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Hierapolis at sunset is a very photographically satisfying place🏺 Photos from different times, the last time I visited was years ago

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Byline Times and the Bylines Network are sisters but separate. Here’s how they differ, and how you can support both | Dr Mike Galsworthy

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juli g pausas's avatar juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social
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Germination postfire (9 months; left) and postvolcano (2.5 years; right). La Palma (Canary Islands) is a paradise for disturbance ecology. cf Adenocarpus viscosus 🧪🌍🌿🌾🔥🌋wildfire

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No. Bibi apologised for the "mistake." You obviously just made that up.

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