Gordon McGlone
@gordonmcgloneobe.bsky.social
Lifelong nature lover, gardener, campaigner, green wood carver @Greenwoodshaper on insta, sloyd fan, WildlifeTrusts old boy 1979 to 2019
Optimist 💚🌱
Optimist 💚🌱
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These are dark days. But for Starmer, the collapse of the old order is a moment of political promise. He can use it to remake his premiership and the continent: new political space has unfolded before him in every direction.
Will he seize it? New writing from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
Will he seize it? New writing from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
Europe’s darkest moment could be Starmer’s biggest opportunity
The collapse of the old order is a moment of political possibility. Starmer must seize it.
open.substack.com
February 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
These are dark days. But for Starmer, the collapse of the old order is a moment of political promise. He can use it to remake his premiership and the continent: new political space has unfolded before him in every direction.
Will he seize it? New writing from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
Will he seize it? New writing from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
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The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!
February 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!
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At OPM, Musk’s staffers won’t leave—they work around the clock and have even installed sofa beds in the office. Our access to data systems has been restricted, raising serious concerns about cybersecurity and a complete lack of oversight. We are keeping our heads down and documenting everything.
February 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
At OPM, Musk’s staffers won’t leave—they work around the clock and have even installed sofa beds in the office. Our access to data systems has been restricted, raising serious concerns about cybersecurity and a complete lack of oversight. We are keeping our heads down and documenting everything.
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Useful review 👇 of how offshore wind installations affect marine migratory species. From our team at UNEP-WCMC
#renewables #marine
🐬🦭🐠
#renewables #marine
🐬🦭🐠
🚨New study🚨
UNEP-WCMC’s experts have reviewed 68 studies evaluating the impacts of offshore developments during wind farm construction and operation on marine migratory species, including whales, porpoises, seals, various fish and crustaceans.🐬🦀
🔗 unep-wcmc.org/en/news/how-...
UNEP-WCMC’s experts have reviewed 68 studies evaluating the impacts of offshore developments during wind farm construction and operation on marine migratory species, including whales, porpoises, seals, various fish and crustaceans.🐬🦀
🔗 unep-wcmc.org/en/news/how-...
How offshore wind projects can affect marine migratory species - UNEP-WCMC
A new review by UNEP-WCMC experts sets out practical steps to mitigate negative impacts
unep-wcmc.org
December 12, 2024 at 1:17 AM
Useful review 👇 of how offshore wind installations affect marine migratory species. From our team at UNEP-WCMC
#renewables #marine
🐬🦭🐠
#renewables #marine
🐬🦭🐠
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Extinction rates in invertebrates likely to be far higher than measured. We just don't know enough about the 'little things that run the world'
#insects #biodiversity
#insects #biodiversity
📣New paper📣
We estimate the number of extinctions of Australian #invertebrates, plus the ongoing #extinction rate … Both figures are far higher than those currently recognised, pointing to alarming gaps in #conservation of an important area of #biodiversity
🪳🕷️🐌🪰🪲🪱
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
We estimate the number of extinctions of Australian #invertebrates, plus the ongoing #extinction rate … Both figures are far higher than those currently recognised, pointing to alarming gaps in #conservation of an important area of #biodiversity
🪳🕷️🐌🪰🪲🪱
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
This is the way the world ends; not with a bang but a whimper: Estimating the number and ongoing rate of extinctions of Australian non-marine invertebrates | Cambridge Prisms: Extinction | Cambridge C...
This is the way the world ends; not with a bang but a whimper: Estimating the number and ongoing rate of extinctions of Australian non-marine invertebrates - Volume 2
www.cambridge.org
December 12, 2024 at 1:27 AM
Extinction rates in invertebrates likely to be far higher than measured. We just don't know enough about the 'little things that run the world'
#insects #biodiversity
#insects #biodiversity
@jonnyecology.bsky.social great to see you on this platform Jonny. Keep up the great environment leadership work! 💚
December 12, 2024 at 9:03 PM
@jonnyecology.bsky.social great to see you on this platform Jonny. Keep up the great environment leadership work! 💚
@nickhuntscrutiny.bsky.social excellent book!
December 9, 2024 at 10:16 PM
@nickhuntscrutiny.bsky.social excellent book!
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From the appalling comments this film is getting on X it’s clear to me if we want to avoid a dangerous chain of events which could one day see Britain joining Russia & Belarus as the only European countries outside the ECHR we need to constantly call out this insane drumbeat from the right to leave
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says
“We need to leave the ECHR so we can deport people that come illegally & take back control of our borders & that’s what the public wants”
Share if you disagree with his populist boll**** the UK should join Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR
youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY
“We need to leave the ECHR so we can deport people that come illegally & take back control of our borders & that’s what the public wants”
Share if you disagree with his populist boll**** the UK should join Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR
youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says public want to leave the ECHR - let’s put the record straight
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
December 7, 2024 at 8:38 AM
From the appalling comments this film is getting on X it’s clear to me if we want to avoid a dangerous chain of events which could one day see Britain joining Russia & Belarus as the only European countries outside the ECHR we need to constantly call out this insane drumbeat from the right to leave
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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says the public want to leave the ECHR. I think he’s talking absolute boll****. What about you?
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says
“We need to leave the ECHR so we can deport people that come illegally & take back control of our borders & that’s what the public wants”
Share if you disagree with his populist boll**** the UK should join Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR
youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY
“We need to leave the ECHR so we can deport people that come illegally & take back control of our borders & that’s what the public wants”
Share if you disagree with his populist boll**** the UK should join Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR
youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says public want to leave the ECHR - let’s put the record straight
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
December 6, 2024 at 4:27 PM
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says the public want to leave the ECHR. I think he’s talking absolute boll****. What about you?
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“Some 56% of farmland bought in 2023 was sold to landowners who were not working farmers. The revenue per acre is too low to warrant the purchase, unless you are extremely wealthy and are avoiding inheritance tax”
Whose land? Tax avoidance and the broken economics of British farming
Noise in the billionaire press about inheritance tax changes hides a basic fact: the non-farming rich own too much land
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 6, 2024 at 9:27 AM
“Some 56% of farmland bought in 2023 was sold to landowners who were not working farmers. The revenue per acre is too low to warrant the purchase, unless you are extremely wealthy and are avoiding inheritance tax”
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Nonsense. I visited Calais this time last year to speak to migrants. None had heard of the Rwanda scheme. The idea that migrants, barely surviving in tents, in mud, in the freezing cold, with little food, were "waiting for a Labour government" before crossing the Channel is for the birds.
December 3, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Nonsense. I visited Calais this time last year to speak to migrants. None had heard of the Rwanda scheme. The idea that migrants, barely surviving in tents, in mud, in the freezing cold, with little food, were "waiting for a Labour government" before crossing the Channel is for the birds.
Red Admiral butterfly sun grabbing in our Gloucestershire garden today November 25th.
Now that is carpe diem 💚
#nature #wildlifegardening
Now that is carpe diem 💚
#nature #wildlifegardening
November 25, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Red Admiral butterfly sun grabbing in our Gloucestershire garden today November 25th.
Now that is carpe diem 💚
#nature #wildlifegardening
Now that is carpe diem 💚
#nature #wildlifegardening
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I am clearly going mad - THIS is the link to support Storyville Books that needs your support after a flood - just order any books you want using this link
uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...
uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...
Storyville Books Bookshop UK
Nestled in the rolling hills of the South Wales valleys, we are the only independent bookshop in Pontypridd, selling new books and more.
uk.bookshop.org
November 24, 2024 at 11:49 PM
I am clearly going mad - THIS is the link to support Storyville Books that needs your support after a flood - just order any books you want using this link
uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...
uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...
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Probably the biggest march in London this year was the Restore Nature Now March - despite the numbers, the uniting of @nationaltrust.bsky.social AND @xrglobal.bsky.social, it was of considerably less interest than to the media than farmers, so here are some photographs
November 19, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Probably the biggest march in London this year was the Restore Nature Now March - despite the numbers, the uniting of @nationaltrust.bsky.social AND @xrglobal.bsky.social, it was of considerably less interest than to the media than farmers, so here are some photographs
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The River Wye is dying—& the River Severn is going the same way.
Blistered fish, algal blooms, sewage fungus sludging the riverbed.
The only good news is the response: a “volunteer army” of citizen scientists & activists rising up to protect & heal the river.
👇💪
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Blistered fish, algal blooms, sewage fungus sludging the riverbed.
The only good news is the response: a “volunteer army” of citizen scientists & activists rising up to protect & heal the river.
👇💪
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘The sores on the fish are nasty’: what’s behind the changes in the River Severn?
Faced with a dearth of data on the impact of local mega farms, volunteers have shown sewage pollution has soared
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2024 at 7:38 PM
The River Wye is dying—& the River Severn is going the same way.
Blistered fish, algal blooms, sewage fungus sludging the riverbed.
The only good news is the response: a “volunteer army” of citizen scientists & activists rising up to protect & heal the river.
👇💪
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Blistered fish, algal blooms, sewage fungus sludging the riverbed.
The only good news is the response: a “volunteer army” of citizen scientists & activists rising up to protect & heal the river.
👇💪
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Green wood working is gaining a lot of users. Its philosophy is a long way from the consumer driven society in which some of us struggle.
Green timber from the woods, hand tools, safe cutting edge skills and imagination are an addictive mixture. Spoon on
#sustainability #greenwood #crafts #sløydd
Green timber from the woods, hand tools, safe cutting edge skills and imagination are an addictive mixture. Spoon on
#sustainability #greenwood #crafts #sløydd
November 19, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Green wood working is gaining a lot of users. Its philosophy is a long way from the consumer driven society in which some of us struggle.
Green timber from the woods, hand tools, safe cutting edge skills and imagination are an addictive mixture. Spoon on
#sustainability #greenwood #crafts #sløydd
Green timber from the woods, hand tools, safe cutting edge skills and imagination are an addictive mixture. Spoon on
#sustainability #greenwood #crafts #sløydd
Be kind today 💚
November 19, 2024 at 7:59 AM
Be kind today 💚
@dazm1971.bsky.social greetings Darren I hope you
Like this place.
Like this place.
November 19, 2024 at 6:19 AM
@dazm1971.bsky.social greetings Darren I hope you
Like this place.
Like this place.
November 18, 2024 at 12:58 PM
“…the studies show that the burning of fossil fuels has changed the climate so dramatically that heatwaves, floods and storms are now hitting communities with a severity and frequency never seen during the entire development of human civilisation.”
#climatechaos
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#climatechaos
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How do we know that the climate crisis is to blame for extreme weather?
Scientific techniques known as climate attribution can help us discern whether the rise in severe weather events is due to global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2024 at 8:27 AM
“…the studies show that the burning of fossil fuels has changed the climate so dramatically that heatwaves, floods and storms are now hitting communities with a severity and frequency never seen during the entire development of human civilisation.”
#climatechaos
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#climatechaos
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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#ClimateCrisis to blame for dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves, studies reveal
Exclusive: Stark evidence of how global heating is already supercharging deadly weather beyond anything ever experienced by humanity
#COP29
Story by me
Data @carbonbrief.org
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exclusive: Stark evidence of how global heating is already supercharging deadly weather beyond anything ever experienced by humanity
#COP29
Story by me
Data @carbonbrief.org
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate crisis to blame for dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves, studies reveal
Exclusive: Analyses are stark evidence of how global heating is already supercharging deadly weather beyond anything ever experienced by humanity
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2024 at 8:19 AM
#ClimateCrisis to blame for dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves, studies reveal
Exclusive: Stark evidence of how global heating is already supercharging deadly weather beyond anything ever experienced by humanity
#COP29
Story by me
Data @carbonbrief.org
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exclusive: Stark evidence of how global heating is already supercharging deadly weather beyond anything ever experienced by humanity
#COP29
Story by me
Data @carbonbrief.org
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@lizbonnin.bsky.social great to see you here. Thanks for all your wonderful work with @wildlifetrust.bsky.social So much to do. 💚 🦡
November 17, 2024 at 8:19 PM
@lizbonnin.bsky.social great to see you here. Thanks for all your wonderful work with @wildlifetrust.bsky.social So much to do. 💚 🦡
@dustygedge.bsky.social hi Dusty. I’ve joined the exodus from X. Great to have found you here!
November 16, 2024 at 8:30 PM
@dustygedge.bsky.social hi Dusty. I’ve joined the exodus from X. Great to have found you here!
We have a cat who
pretends not to be there.
pretends not to be there.
November 16, 2024 at 5:39 PM
We have a cat who
pretends not to be there.
pretends not to be there.