Tuesday

Welcome to the Butterfly Buffet! Today's special: Tree sap 🦋🌳 Flower nectar is an important source of energy for many adult butterflies and moths, but some also have a taste for tree sap, aphid honeydew, rotting fruit and even animal dung! 📹: Charlotte Brooks

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Deep Dive 04/08/2026 – Will the north-south contrasts continue? – Met Office weather forecast UK

YouTube video by Met Office - UK Weather

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A new all-electric quad bike designed and built in the UK has been launched.

UK-designed all-electric quad bike launched

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"Dear Diary The launch of our scheme to use the Royal Navy to stop small boats has gone exactly to plan. It is so patently absurd that it is all anyone can talk about, providing the perfect distraction from all our dodgy financial dealings"

Thank you, kind human! I'm the only candidate who wants LESS rubbish in the sea and MORE of your MP in Clacton. Let's put the 'represent' back in representation! Game on, Nige. Bong.

Daftness that drains our green energy strategies. Beyond childish danger, this.

Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 5d ago

Google Earth has launched a new AI tool which allows users to create fake satellite images. A collapsed Eiffel Tower, a sinkhole swallowing the Great Pyramid of Giza and Russian tanks in Kyiv were among the fake images BBC Verify created when testing the feature. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Forage maize (Americans call it corn) growing in England in drought. I saw similar in previous dry years, but dry years and drought weren't that often in them days. It in't normal.

Met4Cast@met4cast.net · 5d ago

This is supposed to be corn, it should be about 8 foot tall and growing corn but there’s absolutely nothing on it, complete crop failure by the looks of things. Farmers are going to severely struggle this year.

Sheep farmer had hydatid disease from tapeworm parasite for years

Sheep farmer had hydatid disease from tapeworm parasite for years

A farmer living with slow-growing cysts caused by a tapeworm says he had no idea anything was wrong.

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Best not mither Dicky. Likely yon twerp's on'y mardy on account of them "donations" he's had that's under investigation.

Parody Nigel Farage@parodypm.bsky.social · 3d ago

Man who shagged his girlfriend behind his wife's back lectures the Archbishop of Canterbury on Christianity.

"Dear Diary, had an enjoyable day stirring up my ignorant base by pretending that migrants on a Spanish territory in North Africa will somehow be arriving in Dover any time now"

Social media posts claiming that annual energy bills are £2,325 in the UK compared to just £485 in France and £150 in Poland are misleading. These figures resemble wholesale electricity price values and don’t reflect the annual cost for consumers. fullfact.org/economy/uk-e...

Hedge Bedstraw, Galium album (2 of 2). One of the food plants for the larva of the Hummingbird Hawk-moth. Also feeds on Lady’s Bedstraw and Wild Madder

Temperatures closer to average in the north, but there's potential for a brief return to very warm or locally hot conditions in the south and southeast on Monday, with low 30s (°C) possible 🌡️

Legacy funeral home boss Robert Bush jailed for 20 years

Legacy funeral home boss Robert Bush jailed for 20 years

Robert Bush also failed to cremate people and gave bereaved relatives the ashes of strangers.

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📉 #TourDeFrance impacted by climate change (July temperatures in France) – @vikkithompson.bsky.social 2️⃣ bsky.app/profile/vikk... ⬇️

@gabrielpogrund.bsky.social: Post script Carter Ruck,which Cottrell has used to forestall scrutiny for years,repeatedly refused to respond when asked by the Sunday Times if the criminal gave a sum equal to or greater than her 7-figure donations shortly before they were made to Reform UK Now we know:

Laura Phillips@lauraphillips.bsky.social · last wk.

@pippacrerar.bsky.social: EXCL: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UK. Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to the party, came from her son. Another important scoop from @Annaisaac

Edwin Henry Landseer, Studies of a Dog, 1835 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1131055

I’m furious that Andy Burnham's talks on social care will not include someone who isn’t even an MP and whose party accounts for 1% of Parliament. Call that democracy?

Climate smart farming. We need robust food security that is part of solution t climate change.

The Scottish Farmer@thescottishfarmer.bsky.social · last wk.

The James Hutton Institute is leading a £5 million international project to improve how agricultural greenhouse gas emissions are monitored and…

In the aftermath of the devastating Venezuela earthquakes, Copernicus Sentinel-1 measured ground displacement of up to 65 cm around Caracas using radar observations from space. 🛰️🌍 The data are helping scientists better understand the event and support disaster assessment efforts.

How Sentinel-1 measured movement of Venezuela quakes

More than one month on from the catastrophic twin earthquakes in northern Venezuela on 24 June 2026, satellite data show the ground displacement was greater than first estimated.

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"When are you planning to tell them about the Vogon's plan to destroy the planet if Farage wins?" #Binface

How in hell do farmers evacuate livestock?

Met Office - weather and climate@metoffice.gov.uk · last wk.

Major wildfires continue in parts of Europe🔥 Satellite imagery shows widespread smoke across Portugal, Spain and near to Bordeaux. There's little prospect of any rain relief and the heat will even intensify for some, with temperatures of over 40°C possible in places📈

How many so far this year? I'm losin track. Time t' give 'em monikers, in't it.

Met Office - weather and climate@metoffice.gov.uk · last wk.

More hot weather for many this week – follow @ukhsa.bsky.social advice to stay safe: 👉Drink lots of water 👉Apply sun cream generously! 👉Find shade where you can 👉Look out for vulnerable friends and neighbours More tips for keeping cool: bit.ly/3x1SZTd #WeatherReady

Lee el texto completo en www.us.es/actualidad-d... #gestionforestal #culturadelFuego #paisajeresiliente #prevencionincendios #interfazurbanoforestal #soilscience

“Los grandes incendios seguirán formando parte de nuestro paisaje”

Los grandes incendios a los que estamos asistiendo van a seguir formando parte del paisaje mediterráneo, por eso “es fundamental que aprendamos a convivir con el fuego”, es la opinión de Antonio Jordá...

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Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan

🙄🙄🙄 24 February 2026 "Reform said the party had investigated but it was agreed it was a genuine mistake and no further action was necessary."

Deputy council leader apologises for sharing post about MP

Lancashire County Council's deputy leader said he had not seen text calling for the MP to "be shot".

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Victoria Derbyshire@vicderbyshire.bsky.social · last wk.

Reform UK say they are reporting Green Party leader Zack Polanski to the police after he shared a post to his Instagram which included a photo of a man wearing a top featuring the name "Nigel" alongside an image of a guillotine

‘There are a lot of corporate interests’ in pushing back against climate policies – former diplomat

‘There are a lot of corporate interests’ in pushing back against climate policies – former diplomat

We spoke to Nick Bridge, a former diplomat who was the UK's special representative to the UN on Climate Change from 2017 to 2023.

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Scientists are warning that forgotten vegetable varieties are being lost despite their potential to strengthen food systems and tackle climate…

Forgotten vegetable crops could help protect future food supplies

thescottishfarmer.co.uk

Moredun Research Institute has taken over the Worm IgA test, ensuring sheep breeders can continue selecting parasite-resistant stock.

Moredun secures Worm IgA testing service for sheep breeders

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