Tree Bird
oakwoods.bsky.social
Tree Bird
@oakwoods.bsky.social
Forest ecologist. Devon/Cornwall border, don't remember the scone wars as a child, think they were invented by incomers. Lifelong Antifascist.
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The AI bubble may be about to bust.

Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.

We all need to say this very clearly:

NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!

Expropriate their asses instead.

They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.

They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Bugger this miserable weather day. Here are Dartmoor bluebells in Meldon Woods from 2 yrs ago.

#Dartmoor #spring #bluebells
November 4, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Just a random dump of the rugged tablet on the ground in an ancient woodland in South Croydon. Luminous field maple leaves and chestnuts popping constantly underfoot. #trees #mastyear #croydon
October 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Love a nice bit of standing deadwood and dogs vomit slime mould, Fuligo septica. Ancient woodland condition surveying in Herts today.
October 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
What a boom year the honeycomb reef worms Sabellaria alveolata are enjoying in North Cornwall 😁. This week's lowest autumn tide showed them up a treat. #Cornwall #coast
October 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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“Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved”

- Jane Goodall
October 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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The world has lost its most powerful advocate for nature and hope. Yet many remain who will continue her legacy and I know she will continue to inspire generations more.
October 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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I often think about this letter to the New Statesman.

It's from a 1960s Tory, and neatly summarises how British politics has shifted massively to the right, and taken Starmer's Labour party with it.

#PoliticsLive
September 3, 2025 at 8:32 AM
If only this had been embraced 20 yrs ago when the last culling 'trial' was shown to have little effect. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Farmers and scientists join forces in Cornwall to vaccinate badgers against TB
The groups have long been at odds over culling of badgers in England as a way to control TB in cattle
www.theguardian.com
July 31, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.
“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”
July 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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🌲 New R package: forestdata makes it easy to download forestry and land cover data from multiple sources (Copernicus, ESRI, EU-Trees4F, and more). Supports sf, SpatRaster, and tidy outputs.

Explore it here: cidree.github.io/forestdata/

#rstats #rspatial #forestry #landcover
July 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Global land cover conversions increased carbon uptake during 1982 to 2019, with newly established forests in the Northern Hemisphere driving gains that counterbalanced #emissions from #tropical #deforestation.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Newly established forests dominated global carbon sequestration change induced by land cover conversions - Nature Communications
Global land cover conversions increased carbon uptake during 1982 to 2019, with newly established forests in the Northern Hemisphere driving gains that counterbalanced emissions from tropical deforest...
www.nature.com
July 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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‘The place is bleached, a dead zone’: how the UK’s most beloved landscapes became biodiversity deserts
‘The place is bleached, a dead zone’: how the UK’s most beloved landscapes became biodiversity deserts
National parks, famous for their rich natural heritage, should be at the heart of efforts to protect habitats and wildlife. Instead, experts say they are declining – fast
www.theguardian.com
July 16, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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1. The impacts of predatory capital - impossible rents, failing public services, rising costs of living - are being blamed across the billionaire press on immigrants and Black and Brown people.
It's so crude, so obvious, so familiar .... but if you tell the lie often enough, people believe it. 🧵
July 16, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi
The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world
The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse
www.theguardian.com
July 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The correct result, but honestly, it should never have come to this. Locals who have camped on the moor since birth (and whose grandparents and nth x great grandparents did the same) are just bewildered and maddened that this case was ever brought in the first place.
JUDGMENTS IN THE NEWS
Darwall & Anor v Dartmoor National Park Authority
[2025] UKSC 20
www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKS...

(Re Public Right of Access - Overnight Camping - Dartmoor Commons Act 1985 - Sec. 10(1) Confers Right of Public Access which Includes Wild Camping - Appeal Dismissed)
May 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳
April 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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It would be far less time-consuming to just document when he tells the truth.

shorturl.at/tohgb
Analysis: Trump’s 13 biggest lies of his first month back in office | CNN Politics
In speeches, interviews, exchanges with reporters and posts on social media, the president filled his public statements not only with exaggerations but outright fabrications. As he did during his firs...
shorturl.at
February 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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A paper that understands its responsibility, in a country that knows it when it sees it.

Impressive from Die Zeit. Refuses to show the salute, but calls it out for what it so obviously was.

Headline: “A Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute”
January 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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13. Was 2024 the year democracy began to die? No. It wasn’t alive in the first place. We should aim to make 2025 the year in which democracy is born.
January 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM