Art Gelling
@artgelling.bsky.social
Landscape Architect, Environmentalist, Musician.
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Here's an important new call to action from Dartmoor Nature Alliance. Please read and share!
Dartmoor is dying - it's time to bring it back to life.
Today the Dartmoor Nature Alliance publish a new call to action to restore Dartmoor's habitats: rewet peat bogs, revive heaths by reducing grazing, double temperate rainforest area
Read it & join here:
www.dartmoornature.org.uk/call-to-action
Today the Dartmoor Nature Alliance publish a new call to action to restore Dartmoor's habitats: rewet peat bogs, revive heaths by reducing grazing, double temperate rainforest area
Read it & join here:
www.dartmoornature.org.uk/call-to-action
November 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Here's an important new call to action from Dartmoor Nature Alliance. Please read and share!
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Over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli settlers and soldiers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in the last two years.
According to the UN, October was the deadliest month for settler violence since it started keeping track in 2006.
End the occupation.
According to the UN, October was the deadliest month for settler violence since it started keeping track in 2006.
End the occupation.
November 13, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli settlers and soldiers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in the last two years.
According to the UN, October was the deadliest month for settler violence since it started keeping track in 2006.
End the occupation.
According to the UN, October was the deadliest month for settler violence since it started keeping track in 2006.
End the occupation.
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Lots of stuff here that you won't read in most of the legacy media which seems completely uninterested in the backgrounds, associations and possible motivations of those behind the BBC crisis.
Why was the BBC having its homework marked by a lobbyist who hasn't worked as a journalist for 20 years?
Why was the BBC having its homework marked by a lobbyist who hasn't worked as a journalist for 20 years?
🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier.
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Lots of stuff here that you won't read in most of the legacy media which seems completely uninterested in the backgrounds, associations and possible motivations of those behind the BBC crisis.
Why was the BBC having its homework marked by a lobbyist who hasn't worked as a journalist for 20 years?
Why was the BBC having its homework marked by a lobbyist who hasn't worked as a journalist for 20 years?
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The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
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Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Reform says Kent CC is their "shop window", where the country can see what a Farage gov't would be like.
Well... chaos, suspensions, defections, paralysis, zero "DOGE" savings, tax rises, and a leader making mad-dictator speeches, sounds about right. ~AA
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Well... chaos, suspensions, defections, paralysis, zero "DOGE" savings, tax rises, and a leader making mad-dictator speeches, sounds about right. ~AA
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform UK suspends another member of Kent county council
Isabella Kemp’s departure means party has lost nine of 57 councillors elected in May, including four after video leak
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Reform says Kent CC is their "shop window", where the country can see what a Farage gov't would be like.
Well... chaos, suspensions, defections, paralysis, zero "DOGE" savings, tax rises, and a leader making mad-dictator speeches, sounds about right. ~AA
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Well... chaos, suspensions, defections, paralysis, zero "DOGE" savings, tax rises, and a leader making mad-dictator speeches, sounds about right. ~AA
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
FURIOUS! It took Southern Water TWO WEEKS to discover/admit they caused this appalling coastal pollution incident.
For DECADES private monopolies' directors have deliberately abused defunded regulators, while bills + profits soared.
Custodial sentences needed.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
For DECADES private monopolies' directors have deliberately abused defunded regulators, while bills + profits soared.
Custodial sentences needed.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Southern Water apologises for catastrophic spill of plastic biobeads in Sussex
Resulting pollution on Camber Sands beach poses threat to wildlife including dolphins and seals
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
FURIOUS! It took Southern Water TWO WEEKS to discover/admit they caused this appalling coastal pollution incident.
For DECADES private monopolies' directors have deliberately abused defunded regulators, while bills + profits soared.
Custodial sentences needed.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
For DECADES private monopolies' directors have deliberately abused defunded regulators, while bills + profits soared.
Custodial sentences needed.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
👏👏👏 Tim Davie AT LAST forced to resign. This political appointee should never have been allowed near the DG position.
Hopefully, it's not too late for BBC News to return editorial independence, and move away from "both-sidesing" science, and platforming racists on "flagship" political shows.
Hopefully, it's not too late for BBC News to return editorial independence, and move away from "both-sidesing" science, and platforming racists on "flagship" political shows.
November 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
👏👏👏 Tim Davie AT LAST forced to resign. This political appointee should never have been allowed near the DG position.
Hopefully, it's not too late for BBC News to return editorial independence, and move away from "both-sidesing" science, and platforming racists on "flagship" political shows.
Hopefully, it's not too late for BBC News to return editorial independence, and move away from "both-sidesing" science, and platforming racists on "flagship" political shows.
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Our #microbiome is us. We are holobionts, as Lynn Margulis understood.
Thinking must be ecological, for every complex being is an ecology, as well as living in one.
#microbiotoxicity, the threat of damage to microbes, has to be on regulatory agendas
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Thinking must be ecological, for every complex being is an ecology, as well as living in one.
#microbiotoxicity, the threat of damage to microbes, has to be on regulatory agendas
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The nature extinction crisis is mirrored by one in our own bodies. Both have huge implications for health
Modern life is waging a war against ecosystems around us and inside us. Keeping our own microbes healthy is another reason to demand action to preserve the natural world
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Our #microbiome is us. We are holobionts, as Lynn Margulis understood.
Thinking must be ecological, for every complex being is an ecology, as well as living in one.
#microbiotoxicity, the threat of damage to microbes, has to be on regulatory agendas
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Thinking must be ecological, for every complex being is an ecology, as well as living in one.
#microbiotoxicity, the threat of damage to microbes, has to be on regulatory agendas
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Tesla have approved a $1 trillion pay package for Elon Musk. That's 20 billion times more than a nurse in the UK earns.
Don't let anyone tell you immigrants or disabled people are the problem. It's the richest 1% hoarding all the wealth.
Time to tax the super-rich properly.
Don't let anyone tell you immigrants or disabled people are the problem. It's the richest 1% hoarding all the wealth.
Time to tax the super-rich properly.
November 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Tesla have approved a $1 trillion pay package for Elon Musk. That's 20 billion times more than a nurse in the UK earns.
Don't let anyone tell you immigrants or disabled people are the problem. It's the richest 1% hoarding all the wealth.
Time to tax the super-rich properly.
Don't let anyone tell you immigrants or disabled people are the problem. It's the richest 1% hoarding all the wealth.
Time to tax the super-rich properly.
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🍄 It's #FungusFriday at Hampton Heath... Sessile Earthstar is the find of the week, and waxcaps finally showing in numbers.
Join the litter-picking + habitat volunteers, Saturday, 10am.
Sign up for our weekly newsletter at hamptonheath.org
@plantlifeuk.bsky.social
@habsandheritage.bsky.social
Join the litter-picking + habitat volunteers, Saturday, 10am.
Sign up for our weekly newsletter at hamptonheath.org
@plantlifeuk.bsky.social
@habsandheritage.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
🍄 It's #FungusFriday at Hampton Heath... Sessile Earthstar is the find of the week, and waxcaps finally showing in numbers.
Join the litter-picking + habitat volunteers, Saturday, 10am.
Sign up for our weekly newsletter at hamptonheath.org
@plantlifeuk.bsky.social
@habsandheritage.bsky.social
Join the litter-picking + habitat volunteers, Saturday, 10am.
Sign up for our weekly newsletter at hamptonheath.org
@plantlifeuk.bsky.social
@habsandheritage.bsky.social
@munirawilson.bsky.social
As my MP, could you please have a word?
LDs have a record of reasonably well-informed environment and biodiversity policy.
Please review the links @guyshrubsole.bsky.social has posted, before vote-chasing prominent LDs discredit LDs' reputation with outdated myths.
Thanks!
As my MP, could you please have a word?
LDs have a record of reasonably well-informed environment and biodiversity policy.
Please review the links @guyshrubsole.bsky.social has posted, before vote-chasing prominent LDs discredit LDs' reputation with outdated myths.
Thanks!
Regressive, anti-environment talk from… the Lib Dems’ Tim Farron.
I dare @timfarron.bsky.social to publish the ‘evidence’ he claims to have here that Sea Eagles “would not enhance biodiversity” & would be a “huge threat” to lambs
Ignorant & scaremongering
www.wfelibdems.uk/news/article...
I dare @timfarron.bsky.social to publish the ‘evidence’ he claims to have here that Sea Eagles “would not enhance biodiversity” & would be a “huge threat” to lambs
Ignorant & scaremongering
www.wfelibdems.uk/news/article...
Tim Farron calls for rethink over plans to reintroduce sea eagles to Cumbria
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP Tim Farron has written to the Lake District National Park Authority, raising concerns about the impact the potential reintroduction of sea eagles will have on sheep farms i...
www.wfelibdems.uk
November 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
@munirawilson.bsky.social
As my MP, could you please have a word?
LDs have a record of reasonably well-informed environment and biodiversity policy.
Please review the links @guyshrubsole.bsky.social has posted, before vote-chasing prominent LDs discredit LDs' reputation with outdated myths.
Thanks!
As my MP, could you please have a word?
LDs have a record of reasonably well-informed environment and biodiversity policy.
Please review the links @guyshrubsole.bsky.social has posted, before vote-chasing prominent LDs discredit LDs' reputation with outdated myths.
Thanks!
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Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind, in charge of running an entire county, is currently giving a speech railing against "unqualified" politicians being put in charge of Government departments
November 3, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind, in charge of running an entire county, is currently giving a speech railing against "unqualified" politicians being put in charge of Government departments
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Wasn't expecting to get the first Clouded Yellow record at Hampton Heath... in November.
Red Admiral, grasshoppers, 24 spot ladybird and more all enjoying the sunshine between showers... fungi gradually coming to the fore, but still (almost) no waxcaps.
Red Admiral, grasshoppers, 24 spot ladybird and more all enjoying the sunshine between showers... fungi gradually coming to the fore, but still (almost) no waxcaps.
November 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Wasn't expecting to get the first Clouded Yellow record at Hampton Heath... in November.
Red Admiral, grasshoppers, 24 spot ladybird and more all enjoying the sunshine between showers... fungi gradually coming to the fore, but still (almost) no waxcaps.
Red Admiral, grasshoppers, 24 spot ladybird and more all enjoying the sunshine between showers... fungi gradually coming to the fore, but still (almost) no waxcaps.
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Reminder: Here's what Nigel Farage tried to take away from you this week...
October 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Reminder: Here's what Nigel Farage tried to take away from you this week...
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Private Eye nailing it.
October 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Private Eye nailing it.
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Traffic calming, Devon style 💪
October 30, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Traffic calming, Devon style 💪
Utterly appalling. Rewarding clickbait racism c/o The Spectator + Conservative Party.
The one positive is that showing us "who they really are" makes them even more backward + unelectable... the stupidity of Truss, with the hate of Tebbit and Powell.
They belong in dark chapters of history books.
The one positive is that showing us "who they really are" makes them even more backward + unelectable... the stupidity of Truss, with the hate of Tebbit and Powell.
They belong in dark chapters of history books.
October 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Utterly appalling. Rewarding clickbait racism c/o The Spectator + Conservative Party.
The one positive is that showing us "who they really are" makes them even more backward + unelectable... the stupidity of Truss, with the hate of Tebbit and Powell.
They belong in dark chapters of history books.
The one positive is that showing us "who they really are" makes them even more backward + unelectable... the stupidity of Truss, with the hate of Tebbit and Powell.
They belong in dark chapters of history books.
Two CHEGD fungi species spotted today at Hampton Heath:
Our first "H" of the autumn... a very slimy #Hygrocybe conica (Blackening Waxcap), and a 2nd "E" #Entoloma species (Pinkgill).
2 of approx 15 CHEGD species recorded at this site.
@ldnwildlifetrust.bsky.social
@plantlifeuk.bsky.social
Our first "H" of the autumn... a very slimy #Hygrocybe conica (Blackening Waxcap), and a 2nd "E" #Entoloma species (Pinkgill).
2 of approx 15 CHEGD species recorded at this site.
@ldnwildlifetrust.bsky.social
@plantlifeuk.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Two CHEGD fungi species spotted today at Hampton Heath:
Our first "H" of the autumn... a very slimy #Hygrocybe conica (Blackening Waxcap), and a 2nd "E" #Entoloma species (Pinkgill).
2 of approx 15 CHEGD species recorded at this site.
@ldnwildlifetrust.bsky.social
@plantlifeuk.bsky.social
Our first "H" of the autumn... a very slimy #Hygrocybe conica (Blackening Waxcap), and a 2nd "E" #Entoloma species (Pinkgill).
2 of approx 15 CHEGD species recorded at this site.
@ldnwildlifetrust.bsky.social
@plantlifeuk.bsky.social
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For every 100 calories of grain fed to farmed animals, just 3–25 calories of meat are produced.
This system is wasting food & land while also causing animal suffering.
We could feed another 2 billion people by choosing #FoodNotFeed.
Learn more: buff.ly/ft7zDCB
This system is wasting food & land while also causing animal suffering.
We could feed another 2 billion people by choosing #FoodNotFeed.
Learn more: buff.ly/ft7zDCB
October 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
For every 100 calories of grain fed to farmed animals, just 3–25 calories of meat are produced.
This system is wasting food & land while also causing animal suffering.
We could feed another 2 billion people by choosing #FoodNotFeed.
Learn more: buff.ly/ft7zDCB
This system is wasting food & land while also causing animal suffering.
We could feed another 2 billion people by choosing #FoodNotFeed.
Learn more: buff.ly/ft7zDCB
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At last! Hampton Heath has - at last - had enough rain for its first #CHEGD ( #waxcap ) grassland fungi of the autumn.
Silky Pinkgill (Entoloma sericeum) - unless any actual #mycologists know better!
@plantlifeuk.bsky.social
@britmycolsoc.org.uk
Silky Pinkgill (Entoloma sericeum) - unless any actual #mycologists know better!
@plantlifeuk.bsky.social
@britmycolsoc.org.uk
October 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
At last! Hampton Heath has - at last - had enough rain for its first #CHEGD ( #waxcap ) grassland fungi of the autumn.
Silky Pinkgill (Entoloma sericeum) - unless any actual #mycologists know better!
@plantlifeuk.bsky.social
@britmycolsoc.org.uk
Silky Pinkgill (Entoloma sericeum) - unless any actual #mycologists know better!
@plantlifeuk.bsky.social
@britmycolsoc.org.uk
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Pleased to be part of this hugely significant legal challenge. The Boris Johnson Govt first suppressed the Russia report & then refused to act on it. As evidence mounts of Putin’s hybrid warfare, it’s vital that we can be confident in the robustness of our democratic systems
UK Russian interference case heads to 'Europe's Supreme Court'
THREE former MPs have lodged a case with “Europe’s Supreme Court”, accusing the UK Government of failing in its duty to protect elections from…
www.thenational.scot
October 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Pleased to be part of this hugely significant legal challenge. The Boris Johnson Govt first suppressed the Russia report & then refused to act on it. As evidence mounts of Putin’s hybrid warfare, it’s vital that we can be confident in the robustness of our democratic systems
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It's a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history. Please share it as much as you can.
October 20, 2025 at 5:30 AM
It's a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history. Please share it as much as you can.
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"Government told to prepare for 2C warming by 2050" by @thecccuk.bsky.social . Sadly we have no confidence that they will act on this as they are too busy expanding airports and competing with Reform in a race to the bottom. Tell your MP that this matters to you.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government told to prepare for 2C warming by 2050
The Climate Change Committee said the UK should make climate change adaptions beyond the Paris Agreement.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
"Government told to prepare for 2C warming by 2050" by @thecccuk.bsky.social . Sadly we have no confidence that they will act on this as they are too busy expanding airports and competing with Reform in a race to the bottom. Tell your MP that this matters to you.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Carole Cadwalladr was right and we’d be in a better world if more people had listened.
This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.
If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐
There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..
If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐
There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..
October 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Carole Cadwalladr was right and we’d be in a better world if more people had listened.