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☠️🐈‍⬛ Dave

@deadcatdave.bsky.social

UK based, loves visiting Scotland, Campervan enthusiast, allotment digger, Stoke City fan, interested in birds, wildlife, music, biscuits and a lot more

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John Bull@garius.bsky.social · 2d ago

My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2d ago

More than 34,600 people died in five Western European countries due to heat this summer, as the region posted its hottest June, July and August on record.

Heat Deaths in Western Europe Top 34,600 During Warmest Summer Ever

More than 34,600 people died in five Western European countries due to heat this summer as the region posted its hottest June, July and August on record, according to a Bloomberg compilation of mortality estimates from different agencies.

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Carole Cadwalladr@carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 4d ago

NEW: ‘It’s an implicit threat’. Lord Tom Watson of Palantir writes to one of its biggest critics -Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social - to tell him the surveillance firm is watching him. www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...

They’re saying: we’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir

In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla...

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The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4d ago

Sixteen English councils spend more than 80% of core funding on social care

Sixteen English councils spend more than 80% of core funding on social care

Councils collectively spent record 71.9% of core spending on adult and children’s care last year, analysis shows Sixteen English councils spent more than 80% of their core funding on adult and children’s social care last year, highlighting the growing financial pressure on other local services. Guardian analysis of government figures found that councils responsible for social care spent a net £42.8bn on adult and children’s services in 2025-26, equivalent to a record 71.9% of their combined core spending. Adult social care took 44.5% and children’s services accounted for 27.4%. In 2017-18, care costs made up 62.4% of councils’ core spending. Continue reading...

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Alex Clegg@alexclegg.bsky.social · 5d ago

Our report from June explains how the replacement for the triple lock will work (we called it a 'smoothed' triple lock). It's a much better policy than the current triple lock - State Pension is protected from inflation spikes and tracks earnings long term, but the expensive ratchet is removed.

Resolution Foundation@resolutionfoundation.org · 5d ago

The PM has announced that from April 2030 the State Pension will be uprated with a new 'smoothed' triple lock. What does that mean for the value of the State Pension and how does it differ from uprating with earnings or prices? RF research explains... www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...

National Trust@nationaltrust.org.uk · 5d ago

This former golf course has been turned into a nature reserve 💚 Sandilands is designed to help nature thrive. The reserve is expected to provide important habitat for birds and forms part of the internationally important East Coast Flyway, one of Europe's major migration routes.

Two long-legged avocets with white chests and black heads and beaks at the edge of water, with four tiny white fluffy chicks following in their wakeAn aerial view of a former golf course at the edge of the coast, with a strip of beige sand on one side, and many ponds, pathways, wetland and marshes within it under a cloudy skyA view of long thistley grass under a hazy blue sky surrounding a vast pondAn adult avocet with long legs, a white body, black head and beak leading three fluffy grey chicks behind it along the water's edge with a scrubby bank rising behind them
Phil 6T@6townsrunner.bsky.social · 6d ago

Shocking that there’s hardly any new coverage about the disgusting attack by students at Cornell University that’s recently come into the public eye. What is happening here, I don’t want my daughter living in a handmaids dystopian world where sexual abuse is normalised.

Guy Shrubsole@guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 3w ago

“Research analysing more than 26,000 wildfires in Spain found that native broadleaf woodland had the lowest ignition risk and was less prone to intense fires” Rewilding - the smart approach to preventing fires & floods: rewildingeurope.com/news/rewildi...

Rewilding: the smart approach to preventing fires and floods | Rewilding Europe

Working with nature is one of our greatest opportunities to build a more resilient and prosperous Europe. As climate change fuels more frequent and intense wildfires, floods and droughts…

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