The hypnotherapy enhancement gig seemed anything but inclusive to me.

There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research.

A Place of Joy.

Sounds incredible!

Second one is amazing. Would love to know a bit more about it

We've got them at Helman too, unenclosed, albeit illegally released. Amazing to see what they've done in short order

And it's not all misaligned algorithms, malevolent broligarchs, election interference, and bot farms. Some of it is just the net result of millions of us offering hot takes in real time, with a dash of garden variety in-group bias.

Agree to a point. How will nationalisation fix it though? Look at the mess that is NI Water. If anything, the sewage issue is worse there

I am in favour of nationalisation but I don't see this as a way to fix the sewage issue. It's too big.
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This is where things like rewilding, natural food management, catchment scale farm advice, and nature in general can do quite a lot, at relatively low cost.

And finally (now exceeding my initial 3 points) some of the biggest water quality challenges facing our rivers and seas are agricultural in origin, and often come down to very specific practices in the wrong places.

Perhaps we could make bills cheaper though nationalisation—which is no bad thing in a cost of living crisis. I just don't think you solve the environment bit this way.

(3) Even if you took all shareholder profits from privatised water companies and reinvested them in infrastructure you'd barely move the needle on sewage. The scale of the challenge is eye-watering.

Excellent, real time sewage reporting means we're all now massively well informed.

(2) Whilst chronic underinvestment has, perhaps, led to more pollution in the past decade or so (I don't have a handle on data—please correct me if I'm wrong) the main thing driving heightened public concern is probably increased information availablity.