Chris Routh
@sithabill.bsky.social
Retired environmental consultant, lifelong birder & now bird ringer, always LUFC supporting Yorkshireman. Returner to vinyl.
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Do your part to stop this cruelty, end the Guga Hunt petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Do your part to stop this cruelty, end the Guga Hunt petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...
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Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Always cuts through the crap.
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Always cuts through the crap.
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
September 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Does scrubbing off Banksy’s mural silence protest or make the message louder?
September 13, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Does scrubbing off Banksy’s mural silence protest or make the message louder?
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In December 2023, Israeli president Isaac Herzog was pictured signing bombs due to be dropped on Gaza.
Next week he’ll be in the UK at the invitation of the British government.
Next week he’ll be in the UK at the invitation of the British government.
September 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
In December 2023, Israeli president Isaac Herzog was pictured signing bombs due to be dropped on Gaza.
Next week he’ll be in the UK at the invitation of the British government.
Next week he’ll be in the UK at the invitation of the British government.
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Two things can be true at once. Rayner was foolish in her conduct and right to resign. It’s also true she was always despised by much of the right wing press because she was a working class powerful woman.
September 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Two things can be true at once. Rayner was foolish in her conduct and right to resign. It’s also true she was always despised by much of the right wing press because she was a working class powerful woman.
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Essential reading before you hear Farage attempt to lecture Labour over Rayner's taxes.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings
Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Essential reading before you hear Farage attempt to lecture Labour over Rayner's taxes.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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I've a feeling Mr Farage might very much be regretting his trip... round about ...
Now 👇
Now 👇
Rep. Jamie Raskin tears into Nigel Farage as a "far-right pro-Putin politician" and a "Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe".
September 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I've a feeling Mr Farage might very much be regretting his trip... round about ...
Now 👇
Now 👇
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Humanity will not forget.
British surgeon Nick Maynard explains to #GMB viewers how Israeli soldiers play a game when they shoot Palestinian kids at food distribution points - one day they'll shoot the kids in the head, the next day in the chest, the following day the legs, the day after the testicles
July 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Humanity will not forget.
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Remember all that fulminating in the billionaire press about "free speech" (ie their freedom to abuse Muslims, trans people etc with impunity)? Now that people are being arrested for speaking about an issue of the utmost gravity, the self-appointed guardians of liberty have fallen strangely silent.
It's utterly mad.
These people are the opposite of terrorists.
THEY WANT PEACE.
The police know they're not terrorists.
The government knows they're not terrorists.
Yet, on the Home Secretary's orders, they're being arrested under the Terrorism Act.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
These people are the opposite of terrorists.
THEY WANT PEACE.
The police know they're not terrorists.
The government knows they're not terrorists.
Yet, on the Home Secretary's orders, they're being arrested under the Terrorism Act.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
More than 100 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action
Police in London detain scores of people and confiscate placards under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000
www.theguardian.com
July 20, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Remember all that fulminating in the billionaire press about "free speech" (ie their freedom to abuse Muslims, trans people etc with impunity)? Now that people are being arrested for speaking about an issue of the utmost gravity, the self-appointed guardians of liberty have fallen strangely silent.
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Watching tiny starving kids smashed to bits by IDF bombs on Channel 4 News again, little bodies in body bags, yet people chanting “death to the IDF” are the problem?
As far as I’m concerned it’s the only moral view at this point.
As far as I’m concerned it’s the only moral view at this point.
July 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Watching tiny starving kids smashed to bits by IDF bombs on Channel 4 News again, little bodies in body bags, yet people chanting “death to the IDF” are the problem?
As far as I’m concerned it’s the only moral view at this point.
As far as I’m concerned it’s the only moral view at this point.
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the core idea that can radicalize people is so simple:
there is enough.
there is enough food to feed everyone. enough resources to house everyone. money and technology and medicine to stop the suffering of people around the globe.
once you accept that there's only one question:
why don't we?
there is enough.
there is enough food to feed everyone. enough resources to house everyone. money and technology and medicine to stop the suffering of people around the globe.
once you accept that there's only one question:
why don't we?
July 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
the core idea that can radicalize people is so simple:
there is enough.
there is enough food to feed everyone. enough resources to house everyone. money and technology and medicine to stop the suffering of people around the globe.
once you accept that there's only one question:
why don't we?
there is enough.
there is enough food to feed everyone. enough resources to house everyone. money and technology and medicine to stop the suffering of people around the globe.
once you accept that there's only one question:
why don't we?
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“once you let industrial waste into your works, what comes out isn’t sewage sludge. It’s hazardous waste.”
Every year, 768,000 tonnes of sewage sludge is spread over 150,000 hectares of agricultural land in England. Our new article out now:
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Every year, 768,000 tonnes of sewage sludge is spread over 150,000 hectares of agricultural land in England. Our new article out now:
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‘A Trojan horse’: how toxic sewage sludge became a threat to the future of British farming
Sludge used as fertiliser on farmland contains harmful chemicals that scientists suspect are entering food chain
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July 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
“once you let industrial waste into your works, what comes out isn’t sewage sludge. It’s hazardous waste.”
Every year, 768,000 tonnes of sewage sludge is spread over 150,000 hectares of agricultural land in England. Our new article out now:
share.google/RYo82QYEgZiL...
Every year, 768,000 tonnes of sewage sludge is spread over 150,000 hectares of agricultural land in England. Our new article out now:
share.google/RYo82QYEgZiL...
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Watch @oliviablakemp.bsky.social’s brutal takedown of driven grouse shooting in just 90 seconds from last weeks debate in Parliament.
@wildjustice.bsky.social
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July 6, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Watch @oliviablakemp.bsky.social’s brutal takedown of driven grouse shooting in just 90 seconds from last weeks debate in Parliament.
@wildjustice.bsky.social
@wildjustice.bsky.social
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Because there’s never a bad time to share Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner, here are Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner
July 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Because there’s never a bad time to share Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner, here are Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner
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Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030.
Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.
Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.
Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality
across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates
show that, unless the a...
www.thelancet.com
July 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030.
Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.
Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.
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IPCC: renewables are 10 times more efficient than new nuclear at CO2 mitigation; new nuclear builds are vastly over-cost & over-time; since all small modular reactors are in design stage, industry forecasts must be treated with scepticism; & waste, proliferation & siting problems are all unresolved👇
New nuclear would be too late and too costly | Letter
Letter: Dr Paul Dorfman is sceptical about the new nuclear renaissance
www.theguardian.com
June 10, 2025 at 7:58 AM
IPCC: renewables are 10 times more efficient than new nuclear at CO2 mitigation; new nuclear builds are vastly over-cost & over-time; since all small modular reactors are in design stage, industry forecasts must be treated with scepticism; & waste, proliferation & siting problems are all unresolved👇
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Why is Elon Musk still a member of the Royal Society? www.aba.org/proposed-bir... #ornithology
Proposed Bird Banding Lab Closure Endangers Bird Research - American Birding Association
The 2026 federal budget proposes eliminating the USGS Ecosystems Mission Area, threatening bird banding, research, and conservation nationwide, endangering 100+ years of vital ecological data.
www.aba.org
May 31, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Why is Elon Musk still a member of the Royal Society? www.aba.org/proposed-bir... #ornithology
Before the General Election Labour promised to restore nature. Less than a year in, and the new Chancellor is leading a charge against the natural world
Email your MP to remove Part 3 of the Bill AND ask THEM to call out the Chancellor for her attack on nature wtru.st/fix-the-bill
Email your MP to remove Part 3 of the Bill AND ask THEM to call out the Chancellor for her attack on nature wtru.st/fix-the-bill
Fix the Planning Bill NOW!
Before the General Election Labour promised to restore nature. Less than a year in, and the new Chancellor is leading a charge against the natural world
Email your MP to remove Part 3 of the Bill AND ...
wtru.st
May 31, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Before the General Election Labour promised to restore nature. Less than a year in, and the new Chancellor is leading a charge against the natural world
Email your MP to remove Part 3 of the Bill AND ask THEM to call out the Chancellor for her attack on nature wtru.st/fix-the-bill
Email your MP to remove Part 3 of the Bill AND ask THEM to call out the Chancellor for her attack on nature wtru.st/fix-the-bill
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Swift action anyone? Email Angela.rayner.mp@parliament.uk simply saying ‘please mandate swift bricks’ with a subject line: MANDATE SWIFT BRICKS. Please encourage everyone to do this. Will take 30 seconds.
May 29, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Swift action anyone? Email Angela.rayner.mp@parliament.uk simply saying ‘please mandate swift bricks’ with a subject line: MANDATE SWIFT BRICKS. Please encourage everyone to do this. Will take 30 seconds.
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So Labour say they won't install swift bricks because they are moving away from specific species mitigations to landscape level ones.
But swifts nest IN BUILDINGS. So how is landscape-level compensation supposed to help? Just ecologically illiterate nonsense 🤦♀️
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
But swifts nest IN BUILDINGS. So how is landscape-level compensation supposed to help? Just ecologically illiterate nonsense 🤦♀️
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homes
MPs had previously backed Conservative amendment to ask developers to provide hollow bricks for endangered birds
www.theguardian.com
May 24, 2025 at 7:07 AM
So Labour say they won't install swift bricks because they are moving away from specific species mitigations to landscape level ones.
But swifts nest IN BUILDINGS. So how is landscape-level compensation supposed to help? Just ecologically illiterate nonsense 🤦♀️
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
But swifts nest IN BUILDINGS. So how is landscape-level compensation supposed to help? Just ecologically illiterate nonsense 🤦♀️
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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WTF? If this Government can’t even agree to this smallest of initiatives, which has no cost to them & absolutely no down-sides, what hope that it will step up to the bigger nature challenges we face? This is a *popular* policy, for heavens sake. Obstinate tin-eared stupidity doesn’t come close …
Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homes
MPs had previously backed Conservative amendment to ask developers to provide hollow bricks for endangered birds
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
WTF? If this Government can’t even agree to this smallest of initiatives, which has no cost to them & absolutely no down-sides, what hope that it will step up to the bigger nature challenges we face? This is a *popular* policy, for heavens sake. Obstinate tin-eared stupidity doesn’t come close …