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"What is the most precious thing in the world? It seems to be the consciousness of not participating in injustice. Injustice is stronger than you are, it always was and it always will be, but let it not be committed through you.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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niallharbison.bsky.social
This boy badly needed our help today.

To anybody who comments on my posts / shares / supports my work this is the only way I can say thanks. By using the good will and support to spend time helping the dogs who need it most and who have no one.

Have a lovely holidays 💕
December 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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protectthewild.bsky.social
Gannets have just one chick a year and a group of men club them to death for "tradition"
December 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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raptorpersuk.bsky.social
FOURTH White-tailed Eagle disappears - RSPB offers reward for information leading to a conviction for this one or any of the other three.

New blog ⬇️⬇️

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/19/f...
Fourth White-tailed Eagle ‘disappears’ & RSPB offers £10,000 reward for information leading to a conviction
Following the appalling news over the last couple of days about the highly suspicious, and almost certainly criminal, disappearance of three satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagles here, here and here…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
December 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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oliver48.bsky.social
via Julia Forbes-Nish
December 20, 2025 at 9:07 AM
john111111.bsky.social
Apps constantly asking for us to rate them like needy children or a certain petulant president. Grow up apps, not everyone will like you, live with it. PS even if I think you're the best app I've ever used I'll never answer your desperate for attention requests.
December 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
john111111.bsky.social
TV programmes versus film. Given all the shit in the world at the moment this will seem petty. But at least new TV programmes fill a wide screen TV while films need adjusting and then the picture isn't always right. And yes I have a relatively new TV. Come on film producers think about both markets.
December 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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cinnamonremote.bsky.social
@joannechocolat.bsky.social in case you’ve not seen it yet, and to pass on to others.
apolline.bsky.social Apolline Dsc @apolline.bsky.social · 7d
French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.

All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
December 19, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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protectthewild.bsky.social
The Govt is trying to amend the Public Order Act to classify animal testing sites as "key national infrastructure". Purely to clamp down harder on peaceful protests.
December 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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protectthewild.bsky.social
Share if you agree!
December 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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protectthewild.bsky.social
Nothing to see here! A new report from Protect the Wild and Grantham Against Bloodsports is based on 20 years of research and data
UK Hunts Have Claimed Over £2.4 Million In Taxpayer Money Since Ban
UK hunts have claimed more than £2.4 million in taxpayer money since hunting animals with dogs was banned in 2005, according to a new report
plantbasednews.org
December 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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protectthewild.bsky.social
Animal testing labs to be reclassified as “national infrastructure”
December 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
Words DO MATTER.

This is deeply moving.
December 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
Just one final thing - someone filmed some of my departure speech after Monkey Cage last night (I should make it clear no one knew I was going to do it) and it has been put up here - i cannot deny i was very emotional #science #comedy

www.chortle.co.uk/news/2025/12...
Robin Ince forced to quit Radio 4 over pro-trans views : News 2025 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide
Robin Ince forced to quit Radio 4 over pro-trans views - Comic leaves Infinite Monkey Cage after pressure from bosses
www.chortle.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
Please remember this next time you hear Nigel Farage and Reform say we must leave the ECHR to control our borders
peterstefanovic.bsky.social Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 14d
🚨 “Can I tell you how many times in the last 45 years the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the UK when it comes to deporting people from this country - only 13 times - in 45 years”

Hugely important point made by @vicderbyshire.bsky.social 👏
December 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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protectthewild.bsky.social
Sign the petition to end the Guga hunt:
petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...
December 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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ecowarriorss.bsky.social
Alaska is killing bears and wolves from the air
including pregnant Bears and baby cubs and baby wolves

Altogether, in 2023 and 2024, 180 bears, most brown bears, were killed

Alaska sued over hunting of bears from the air

www.cbsnews.com/news/alaska-...
Alaska sued over hunting of bears from the air to protect caribou
Conservation groups sued over a state program in Alaska that authorizes killing brown and black bears as a way to increase the size of a once-significant caribou herd.
www.cbsnews.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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protectthewild.bsky.social
Just gonna leave this here..
December 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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oliver48.bsky.social
Bye bye magnificent blue whales ...
ecowarriorss.bsky.social Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 18d
Chinese fishing firm Kaichuang reports nearly 200% increase in krill catch in Antarctica
with profits jumping 270%
Absolutely disgusting they are taking essential food from the whales and penguins and leaving them to starve

www.seafoodsource.com/news/supply-...
Chinese fishing firm Kaichuang reports nearly 200 percent increase in krill catch, aligning with nationwide ambitions
Shanghai Kaichuang Marine International has largely expanded its krill catch in 2025, causing its profits to soar.
www.seafoodsource.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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niallharbison.bsky.social
All she needed was a Chance
December 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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oliver48.bsky.social
Billionaires don't donate
out of the kindness of their hearts,
they are buying policy
Large donations = bribes
zarahsultana.bsky.social Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 20d
In the last twenty years, mega-donations to political parties from the super-rich haven’t just doubled.

They haven’t just trebled.

They’ve gone up sevenfold.

And that money isn’t generosity.

It’s to buy influence so politicians serve their interests, not our constituents.
December 6, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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protectthewild.bsky.social
Anyone remotely surprised?
Cairngorms National Park: Peregrine decline linked to grouse moor management
Is anyone surprised...?
endbirdshooting.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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stopfundinghate.bsky.social
GB News has published a YouTube video in which a contributor rails against MPs whose parents were born in India, Pakistan or Bangladesh, contrasting them with “the native population”.

On Twitter he goes even further, demanding that "those without native British ancestry” be banned from being MPs
Screenshot of a tweet from @Con_Tomlinson reading: "The British people are not represented by the sons and daughters of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh using Parliament to bicker about how best to import millions of their kin from the Subcontinent. Below is a video with the watermark "GB News ORIGINALS" in which the commentator is speaking We should ban those without native British ancestry from being MPs. We should be closing our doors to the third world, without anyone in Parliament putting pressure from foreign lobbies or ethnic loyalties over what is in our national interest."
December 4, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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protectthewild.bsky.social
It is time to end the Guga Hunt: petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...
November 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
The Telegraph denounces Brexit as ‘unmitigated economic disaster’

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/the...
Told you so! The Telegraph denounces Brexit as 'unmitigated economic disaster'
We've now got The Telegraph joining the Brexit resistance, after the formerly pro-leave paper ripped into its 'near-disastrous' consequences.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM