Claire
@clairedaf.bsky.social
Local politico, green, bus user, road safety campaigner, fungus forays.
So sad at 😢 appalling plastic pollution at lovely Camber Sands. Thanks to all those volunteers.
Millions of black plastic pellets, toxic to marine and terrestrial life, that volunteers are spending days raking, but with no chance of removing all...
Southern Water seems the main suspect but is also the investigator 🥸 and claims that "there is no impact to environmental water quality"...
Southern Water seems the main suspect but is also the investigator 🥸 and claims that "there is no impact to environmental water quality"...
‘Environmental catastrophe’ fears as millions of plastic beads wash up on Camber Sands
November 8, 2025 at 10:31 PM
So sad at 😢 appalling plastic pollution at lovely Camber Sands. Thanks to all those volunteers.
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#Sikaiana, less than two square kilometres, is encircled by the sea and is home to just 300 people. It is also more than 200 kilometres from the main island of the #Solomon archipelago
#ClimateCrisis
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#ClimateCrisis
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Holding on to home, as the ocean engulfs the Solomon Islands
Morning light spreads over Sikaiana, a remote atoll in the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific where the ocean both sustains life and threatens it.
news.un.org
November 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
#Sikaiana, less than two square kilometres, is encircled by the sea and is home to just 300 people. It is also more than 200 kilometres from the main island of the #Solomon archipelago
#ClimateCrisis
news.un.org/en/story/202...
#ClimateCrisis
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Is Farage a poor judge of character or does he deliberately choose to mix with fraudsters as well as with Russian agents?
A criminal court in Brussels on Wednesday convicted two Polish nationals – including a current European Parliament assistant – of misusing EU funds tied to political entities associated with Brexit-backer Nigel Farage.
https://bit.ly/4oSrA0R
https://bit.ly/4oSrA0R
Belgian court convicts two for EU funds misuse linked to Nigel Farage's Brexit group | Euractiv
Verdict ends decade-long probe into alleged misuse of EU funds by associates of top Brexit campaigner
www.euractiv.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Is Farage a poor judge of character or does he deliberately choose to mix with fraudsters as well as with Russian agents?
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The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
The #British Library is an essential part of maintaining #British culture and heritage. It is in the heart of London and its workers need a pay increase not a pay cut.
Solidarity with @pcsunion.bsky.social workers at the British Library.
300 workers on strike. Some of them having to take second jobs or taking out loans just to be able to survive.
A Pay "award" below inflation is a pay cut. Unacceptable.
Solidarity - and keep organising! ✊🏼
300 workers on strike. Some of them having to take second jobs or taking out loans just to be able to survive.
A Pay "award" below inflation is a pay cut. Unacceptable.
Solidarity - and keep organising! ✊🏼
November 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Same or worse cuts as the Conservatives. Just different branding and more squalid and incompetent councillors
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres to sell off land
Questions about potential conflict of interest as council’s Reform cabinet member for social care owns private care company
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Same or worse cuts as the Conservatives. Just different branding and more squalid and incompetent councillors
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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This is no way to treat our veterans Prime Minister.
It’s now over a month since PM agreed on BBCBreakfast to meet with the nuclear test veterans (having kept them waiting more than a year to discuss the justice & compensation Labour committed to in opposition) & still no date offered by his office
It’s now over a month since PM agreed on BBCBreakfast to meet with the nuclear test veterans (having kept them waiting more than a year to discuss the justice & compensation Labour committed to in opposition) & still no date offered by his office
These national heroes have now waited more than a year for a meeting with Keir Starmer to discuss the justice & compensation Labour committed to in opposition. They are now in their eighties and are dying waiting for justice. This is no way to treat veterans Prime Minister
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Video emerges of Deputy PM,Defence Secretary & other Ministers BACKING compensation for Nuclear Vets
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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November 6, 2025 at 8:22 AM
This is no way to treat our veterans Prime Minister.
It’s now over a month since PM agreed on BBCBreakfast to meet with the nuclear test veterans (having kept them waiting more than a year to discuss the justice & compensation Labour committed to in opposition) & still no date offered by his office
It’s now over a month since PM agreed on BBCBreakfast to meet with the nuclear test veterans (having kept them waiting more than a year to discuss the justice & compensation Labour committed to in opposition) & still no date offered by his office
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This will impact EVERYONE.
Combined with other anti-protest measures proposed like bans on face coverings, the Crime & Policing Bill will see the right to protest in the UK stripped to the bone.
Protest is fundamental to democracy. We must protect it.
www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/govern...
Combined with other anti-protest measures proposed like bans on face coverings, the Crime & Policing Bill will see the right to protest in the UK stripped to the bone.
Protest is fundamental to democracy. We must protect it.
www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/govern...
Government's repeat protest restrictions worse than feared - Liberty
www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 11:39 AM
This will impact EVERYONE.
Combined with other anti-protest measures proposed like bans on face coverings, the Crime & Policing Bill will see the right to protest in the UK stripped to the bone.
Protest is fundamental to democracy. We must protect it.
www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/govern...
Combined with other anti-protest measures proposed like bans on face coverings, the Crime & Policing Bill will see the right to protest in the UK stripped to the bone.
Protest is fundamental to democracy. We must protect it.
www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/govern...
Congrats to 🎉the people of NY, New Jersey, Virginia and Georgia for standing up to Agent Orange.
November 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Congrats to 🎉the people of NY, New Jersey, Virginia and Georgia for standing up to Agent Orange.
Can't believe Farage actually thinks minimum wage is too high for young workers whilst he earns a fortune every hour for less work www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Nigel Farage suggests young people on minimum wage earn too much
Reform UK leader also predicted a general election within the next two years, as a consequence of Rachel Reeves’s ‘austerity Budget’
www.independent.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Can't believe Farage actually thinks minimum wage is too high for young workers whilst he earns a fortune every hour for less work www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Ever more revelations about Tory corruption and how they ensured that £m of taxpayers money would go to the US to help get Trump into power bylinetimes.com/2025/10/31/d...
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November 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Ever more revelations about Tory corruption and how they ensured that £m of taxpayers money would go to the US to help get Trump into power bylinetimes.com/2025/10/31/d...
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Nigel Farage, who has so far registered a total of £280,500 for four hours a month as a "brand ambassador" for a company selling gold bars, thinks a £10 an hour minimum wage for young people is too high bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People
The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy
bylinetimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Nigel Farage, who has so far registered a total of £280,500 for four hours a month as a "brand ambassador" for a company selling gold bars, thinks a £10 an hour minimum wage for young people is too high bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
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#Kyiv officially joins the world’s music capitals 🎶
📹Lviv choir “Homin” /How could I not love you, Kyiv of mine! (Yak tebe ne liubyty, Kyieve mii).Lyrical song written by Kyiv composer Ihor Shamo with lyrics by poet Dmytro Lutsenko, in 2014 the song became official anthem of Kyiv
📹Lviv choir “Homin” /How could I not love you, Kyiv of mine! (Yak tebe ne liubyty, Kyieve mii).Lyrical song written by Kyiv composer Ihor Shamo with lyrics by poet Dmytro Lutsenko, in 2014 the song became official anthem of Kyiv
November 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
#Kyiv officially joins the world’s music capitals 🎶
📹Lviv choir “Homin” /How could I not love you, Kyiv of mine! (Yak tebe ne liubyty, Kyieve mii).Lyrical song written by Kyiv composer Ihor Shamo with lyrics by poet Dmytro Lutsenko, in 2014 the song became official anthem of Kyiv
📹Lviv choir “Homin” /How could I not love you, Kyiv of mine! (Yak tebe ne liubyty, Kyieve mii).Lyrical song written by Kyiv composer Ihor Shamo with lyrics by poet Dmytro Lutsenko, in 2014 the song became official anthem of Kyiv
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A beautiful orange sunset that is much more relaxing to look at then the orange thing that’s coming up on 60 Minutes. Stare at this for 30 minutes. It will be much better for your heart and mind.
#Photography
#Photography
November 3, 2025 at 12:12 AM
A beautiful orange sunset that is much more relaxing to look at then the orange thing that’s coming up on 60 Minutes. Stare at this for 30 minutes. It will be much better for your heart and mind.
#Photography
#Photography
Thanks to Trump the US is U-turning on cleaner energy and cleaner transport whilst China fast-forwards on the same. Follow the fascinating roller-coaster on Canary Media www.canarymedia.com/subscribe-to...
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November 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Had an unexpected break in the rain so I went treasure hunting.
#fungifriends
#fungifriends
November 2, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Had an unexpected break in the rain so I went treasure hunting.
#fungifriends
#fungifriends
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Haven’t seen this before. Do any #FungiFriends know what’s going on with the cap of this Amethyst Deceiver?
November 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Haven’t seen this before. Do any #FungiFriends know what’s going on with the cap of this Amethyst Deceiver?
I really just can't believe that this boy Finch is a council leader. Pity poor Warwickshire if this is the best that the ruling group can find to lead them.
Local Refuk Finch, Warwickshire Council leader, detached from reality, rants about government-funded cycling roads like a sulky teen denied pocket money. A Green councillor had the sense to tell the pompous fool where to shove his idiotic speech.
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Refuk Warwickshire Council Leader Finch Loses It Over Cyclist Roads - Green Councillor Tells Him to Shove His Idiotic Speech
Real-time comments about UK politics, media & news.
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November 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I really just can't believe that this boy Finch is a council leader. Pity poor Warwickshire if this is the best that the ruling group can find to lead them.
Wow. Power and shade for EVs all in one go.
Meanwhile, in South Korea: "Starting at the end of November, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. This obligation applies not only to newly constructed parking lots but also to existing ones."
cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...
cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...
Mandatory Installation of Solar Panels in Public Parking Lots to Apply Retroactively to Existing Facilities
Starting at the end of November this year, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. ...
cm.asiae.co.kr
November 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Wow. Power and shade for EVs all in one go.
Nathan Gill of UKIP was a Russian asset www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill
How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Nathan Gill of UKIP was a Russian asset www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Brexit was Russian policy and we know that Russia helped to achieve it. Brexit was intended to crush us.
November 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Brexit was Russian policy and we know that Russia helped to achieve it. Brexit was intended to crush us.
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HuntingDON.
It’s amazing the amount of time we spend pontificating on the geography of people’s parents, grandparents and great grandparents’ origins, while in complete ignorance of our own.
It’s amazing the amount of time we spend pontificating on the geography of people’s parents, grandparents and great grandparents’ origins, while in complete ignorance of our own.
BREAKING: British Transport Police say armed police arrested 2 men within 8 minutes of 999 call at Huntington.
32 year-old black British national and 35 year-old British national of Caribbean descent arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
4 of 9 victims now out of hospital.
32 year-old black British national and 35 year-old British national of Caribbean descent arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
4 of 9 victims now out of hospital.
November 2, 2025 at 11:22 AM
HuntingDON.
It’s amazing the amount of time we spend pontificating on the geography of people’s parents, grandparents and great grandparents’ origins, while in complete ignorance of our own.
It’s amazing the amount of time we spend pontificating on the geography of people’s parents, grandparents and great grandparents’ origins, while in complete ignorance of our own.
Well done train crew and police for such a quick response. My thoughts are with those who were injured and their families and all those on the train.
Statement on stabbing attack at train station in Huntingdon, England; 10 injured, 9 with life-threatening injuries. - BNO News
November 2, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Well done train crew and police for such a quick response. My thoughts are with those who were injured and their families and all those on the train.
Our latest attraction in Skipton. Roleplay in a castle www.thehiddencastle.co.uk Only for children, no dressing up for adults 😥
The Hidden Castle | The Hidden Castle
www.thehiddencastle.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Our latest attraction in Skipton. Roleplay in a castle www.thehiddencastle.co.uk Only for children, no dressing up for adults 😥
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Latest frame shows a near perfect hurricane with a classic "pinhole" eye. Only 9 Atlantic hurricanes have had stronger peak sustained winds (5 of them being from the past two decades). Great concern for #Jamaica.
Melissa, now with sustained winds of 175 mph (280 km/hr) and capable of gusts to 260+ mph (425+ km/hr) on windward hilltops, 40" (1000 mm) of rain, and a 13 ft (4 m) storm surge, has started the feared turn to the northwest. First NW then north is the forecast. #Jamaica #HurricaneAlert
October 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Latest frame shows a near perfect hurricane with a classic "pinhole" eye. Only 9 Atlantic hurricanes have had stronger peak sustained winds (5 of them being from the past two decades). Great concern for #Jamaica.