For #WildflowerHour today, I visited Chesil Beach to find plants #ByTheSea. So much to see, incl Sea Mayweed, Greater Knapweed, Vipers Bugloss, Common Restharrow, Glasswort, Thrift, Rock Samphire, Sea Aster, Sea Purslane, Sea-blite, Birds-Foot Trefoil & Common Ragwort. @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social

"So no huge change. Except for the dozens of young people who set out to sea, chasing a vision they'd seen online, and are now being sent back to Morocco in coffins." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How Spain's migrant crisis created a political storm - whipped up by social media

The Ceuta crossings have shaken Europe politically, exposing divisions over the sensitive issue of migration, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford writes.

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What a day at Brighton Pride! 🏳️‍🌈 Thank you to everyone who waved, cheered and supported our volunteers as we made our way through today's parade. We were proud to be part of such an incredible celebration and to represent the RNLI in our community. Happy Pride, Brighton! 💙🚤

Pink dusk. Along this B-road starlings have colonised 20 yards of power-line. Their song is a kind of current, the current, a kind of song.

Longbarrow Press@longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 5d ago

Often on trance-walks I can’t quite retrace my twists and turns going back: my thread could be left or right; everywhere could be The Way. Special one-day offer for #YorkshireDay: 35% off Matthew Clegg's excellent debut collection 'West North East' westnortheast.wordpress.com

We’re waiting for you @moonchildsanelly.bsky.social Brighton Pride 💕 equality & freedom !!

Brighton Pride is huge

BREAKING: Labour's Bev Craig wins the Greater Manchester Mayoral Election, defeating Reform by a landslide after the second round LAB: Bev Craig: 309,525 (66%) REF: Sian Astley: 157,178 (33%)

Update from the National Trust re. Dunwich Heath, 9.24am, Friday 31 July.

"Supreme court says Palestine Action co-founder can challenge ban on group" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Supreme court says Palestine Action co-founder can challenge ban on group

UK’s highest court gives permission for Huda Ammori to challenge court of appeal ruling

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"...the two Ministers agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...

Joint Statement by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Kingdom of Spain on Wildfires and Action on Climate Change

The UK and Spain agreed that the climate crisis is an urgent policy priority and committed to co-leading the green transition, strengthening clean energy cooperation and advancing international climat...

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Russia launched overnight missile strikes on Kyiv, the surrounding region, Lviv, and the Kryvyi Rih area. Authorities reported fatalities, including children, and dozens of injuries, as residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure were damaged. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

Russia strikes Kyiv, Lviv, and Kryvyi Rih with missiles; at least two children among the dead — Meduza

Russian forces launched missile strikes overnight on July 30 against several regions of Ukraine, including Kyiv and its surrounding region.

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I do understand the need for vocational options and apprenticeships. I also hope young people from homes without inherited wealth and much money can afford the option to read, write, think, question, & dream whether in formal education or elsewhere.

Squished in the middle of this story was this heartbreaking paragraph. Unconscionable.

Brian Lyman@brianlyman.bsky.social · last wk.

A lot of what-the-hell moments in this story, but building a data center in a floodplain in Louisiana is inviting the wrath of Poseidon.

"Just when hope seemed lost, they came. Young roaches riding in on the rain." Arundhati Roy m.thewire.in/article/righ...

Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous - The Wire

Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about.

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Farage has said he thinks it’s “absolutely nuts” for CO2 to be considered a pollutant, while Badenoch says candidates aren’t welcome in the Conservative Party that support net zero. Leaders of the civilisational collapse cult.

"Five Palestine Action activists face being sentenced as terrorists for breaking windows and throwing red paint at a branch of Barclays Bank in Lancashire." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Palestine Action activists face being sentenced as terrorists over bank damage

Exclusive: Judge intends to consider ‘terrorist connection’ after convicting five for damage to Barclays in Burnley

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Elon Musk "Anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" (25th July 2026) Women with liberal views "have been programmed to destroy western civilisation and don't realise it" (25th July 2026) June 29th: endorses the shooting of "traitors"

There should be no doubt: What we are witnessing in West Bank is a sustained ethnic-cleansing campaign that exploits every incident to escalate, as the world is preoccupied with the threat of economic ruin from another war initiated by Israel and the US. www.haaretz.com/west-bank/20...

Israeli settlers burn, vandalize two mosques in West Bank, reports say

Palestinian reports said heavy damage was caused to a mosque in Qusra, where settlers also vandalized and stole property from residents; footage and reports also showed settlers setting fires to farml...

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Biking in Florals 🎨 Sarah Laing

There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.

Who are Britain’s new far right? Today we launch Undercurrent, a new channel making ground-level documentaries about the people, events & movements reshaping Britain. Our first film goes inside a Tommy Robinson rally to explore how anti-immigration activism is broadening. youtu.be/ii7UIibLYW4?...

Who are Britain's new far right?

YouTube video by Undercurrent

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Love, sadness, and solidarity with every word of this thread.

Tarik Abou-Chadi@tabouchadi.bsky.social · last wk.

Being queer means being the target of violence. Every queer person knows this. It's deeply engraved in who we are. We live with it every day of our lives. Not because of terrorism but because it is structurally enshrined in our "free" societies. Violence against queer people is not an exception ...

Evacuation of the sixth biggest population centre in France under active consideration and some will still say "it's just Summer"

Andy Scollick@andyscollick.bsky.social · last wk.

Firefighters 'overwhelmed' and 'concerned about the city of Bordeaux' (Sky News)

The FBU is urging government to convene a National Wildfire Summit to build national resilience. We need 5,000 more firefighters now.

“Please never forget Alex and what he believed in: equality and peace for all.” On the six-month anniversary of Alex Pretti’s death at the hands of ICE agents in Minneapolis, his mother, Susan Pretti, shared an emotional message. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social reads her full statement.

A quarter of a million people evacuated. That's on a scale one sees in wartime. #Wildfires #ClimateChange #IDPs

Over 250,000 evacuated as French, Spanish fires rage

Out-of-control wildfires raging in France and Spain have forced the evacuation of more than 250,000 people in total, authorities in both countries have said.

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The Sudan Solidarity Collective is continuing to support mutual aid work in North Darfur and Kordofan and has recently started supported the tea vendors union as they rebuild their livelihoods. To support go to: www.sudansolidarity.com.

When wildfires, floods or heatwaves strike, the question isn’t “Did climate change cause this?” It’s “How much worse did climate change make it?” theconversation.com/how-do-scien...

Note that The Times story isn’t about the task threat of global warming. It’s about the completely made up ‘threat’ of Net Zero. Above all photo of a wildfire. They are actively complicit in climate disinformation. Their politics might as well be described as pro-apocalypse at this point.

Nicolas Berrod@nicolasberrod.bsky.social · 2w ago

🔥 Cette désormais célèbre photo* est tellement extraordinaire qu'elle se retrouve à la Une de plusieurs journaux britanniques ce samedi *AFP/Maximilien Lamy

Reserves of strength through the beauty.