Mushroom with scaly cap (possibly Amanita rubescens, the blusher) in Epping Forest.

I expect the story will be read on the very news website even if it didn’t make the irony editions. And famously lots of military types read the Telegraph (I assume that’s still the case)

🦇 hibernation survey with London Bat Group in Highgate tunnels. A Natterer’s bat is visible in the pool of torchlight. @batconservation.bsky.social

Complicated… www.thetimes.com/article/98c1...

A useful post from @phillipspobrien.bsky.social This chart is worth remembering when you read headlines saying that Ukraine is crumbling:

This is the ICES graph showing glass (ie juvenile) eel recruitment in the North Sea, from 1960 to 2023

@stormhour.bsky.social Rain on the Great Stour at Fordwich, one of England’s 200 or so chalk streams (also found in more limited numbers in France, Belgium, and Denmark)

@carlsayer.bsky.social

I expect you also saw this, posted by the incomparable @yarotrof.bsky.social caliber.az/en/post/prel...

Air defence missile is a very strong “hypothesis” in my view.

I like the headline. “This is, like, a cataclysmic event in the bagel world,” said Sam Silverman, a Brooklyn resident who organizes classes and events for bagel cognoscenti and is known in the business as the Bagel Ambassador. “It is insane.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/n...

Fascists = 2%. Out of 68 million that’s still more than a million.