Jen

[Roy Rogers Happy Trails Music Shop  @RoyRogers_HTMS]

🔥 Peter Bence turning Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody into absolute classical piano FIRE!
When a world-class concert pianist gets asked for the ultimate rock opera… this is what happens. Insane speed, perfect dynamics, and pure genius on the keys 🎹😎

[Batfox Pictures @Batfox_Pictures]

Club music rarely translated this well to television. Performed on Later... with Jools Holland in 1997, “Insomnia” showcased the track that helped turn Faithless into one of the defining dance acts of the decade. Later included on the album Reverence, its mix of driving beats and Maxi Jazz’s spoken word delivery made it a global anthem.

[Surfers Against Sewage @sascampaigns]

#endsewagepollution #dirtybusiness #cutthecrap

sign the petition - https://t.co/vHEj8an54y

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

“Don't swim' at 12 of 14 river bathing sites, as more locations announced.”

Here’s something to wrap your head around.

The only stretch of river graded as ‘Good’ is at Friars Meadow, Sudbury yet from 13th March to the 13th April Anglian Water dumped sewage into Friars Meadow nonstop 24 hours a day for 31 days straight. If you went swimming there during the Easter holidays you were probably swimming in human waste but none of it shows in the data because the EA don’t even bother testing until the middle of May.

PS the EA don’t actually test any bathing site in the country for most of the year 7 and a half months in fact. You go swimming between 1st Oct one year and 15th May the next you’re on your own.

https://t.co/VGBvWJVhkQ

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

So listen.

@thenerve_news has the receipts.

A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.

Please read & share.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve_news. We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

[UKSwifts @swifts_uk]

Healthy swifts can take off from the ground. But the guidance to release swifts is to place it on the flat palm of an outstretched hand and allow it to leave on its own. Never throw, toss, or force a swift into the air. Swifts can have hidden injuries and are usually on the ground for a reason, so a swift carer should always be contacted before any release is attempted. Thankyou

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The U.S. Forest Service is spraying glyphosate (Roundup) across tens of thousands of acres of national forests this spring to support commercial timber production.

Following wildfires, forests naturally regenerate with diverse shrubs, wildflowers, and wildlife. However, a recent investigation reveals that the Forest Service and private logging companies are routinely applying the herbicide to eliminate competing native vegetation, favoring commercially valuable species such as Douglas fir and sugar pine.

This practice has created large areas with significantly reduced biodiversity, often described as "dead zones", where insect, bird, and plant populations have sharply declined. Glyphosate, classified by the World Health Organization as a probable human carcinogen, has seen its use in California national forests quintuple over the past two decades, reaching a record 266,000 pounds in 2023.

Local communities, environmental groups, and residents are raising concerns about potential impacts on water quality, endangered species (including salmon and rare foxes), and public health. Critics argue that prioritizing industrial timber production over ecological diversity conflicts with the broader mission of national forests as public lands.

The issue has intensified debates over forest management, balancing economic interests with long-term environmental and community health.

[Naomi Daw @Naomi_Daw]

Campaigners are racing to save the mother tree of the Bramley apple – a 220-year-old tree in Nottinghamshire that traces every Bramley apple in the world back to a single pip. Planted in the 19th century, it’s still fruiting today, but now faces an uncertain future as its cottage goes up for sale.

Supporters want to buy the site and turn it into a heritage centre, preserving a living piece of Britain’s culinary history for the nation.

#Apple #Heritage #Trees #Environment #FoodHistory #Conservation

https://t.co/dXjpDed1kR

[ACHUB PENRHOS / SAVE PENRHOS NATURE RESERVE 🍃💚🍃 @PenrhosSave]

How could anyone think that this haven for Red squirrels and other flora and fauna should be destroyed for a tourist holiday camp , 1000 space car park, we as a cic ( community interest company ) want a community buy out . The 79th group who bought penrhos from land and lakes last year ,went into administration after allegations of fraud.The administrators running the account /site have placed penrhos for sale with estate agents Lambert Smith Hampton by closed bid !

📸David Jones& John Trac Jones

[Will Hutton @williamnhutton]

This is a brilliant investigative piece on Farage, the dark millions behind him and the double standards of so much British journalism. Read and retweet! Nigel Farage pocketing £5m from a donor shows he’s unfit for power https://t.co/zHuVfDV8dh

[John O'Connell @jdpoc]

Posted elsewhere, posted here for info.

The map of Reform Councils in the UK. So much for 'WE'VE TAKEN OVER THE NATION !!!"

[CrémantCommunarde #NION💙🤍🩷 @0Calamity]

Hahahahah! Just seen this on FB:
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Have you found yourself in the hideous position of having a Reform councillor?
Here’s how you can help your brand new councillor settle into local government properly: email them this week with an actual council problem to solve.
Got rubbish piling up? Email them.
Bus vanished from existence? Email them.
Streetlights dead? Email them.
Care package delayed? Email them.
Pavement like the Somme? Email them.
Send them in by the hundred. Make sure they’re made very clear on what their job is.
Being a councillor is not standing in front of the Union flag shouting about dinghies on GB News. It’s reading committee papers at midnight, attending meetings nobody enjoys, holding surgeries in church halls, and dealing with the endlessly glamorous world of drains, social care budgets and recycling disputes.
Welcome to local government.
The boats are in Kent. The bins are in your ward.
The email address for your ward councillor can be found on your local council website as soon as it’s updated.
Feel free to copy and paste to share wider.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

'British Press' isn't British.

90% of print Media owned by Americans.
90% of Radio channels owned by billionaires
Sky News - American
BBC - Controlled by US/Israel
ITV - Run by mostly US Corporations
Channel 4 - Controlled by Advertisers, mostly US

It's all foreign Billionaires

[Sam @SamCKx]

Based on the results now declared, this is how the UK local/principle councils look:

1 Labour 5,063 seats

2 Conservative 3,734 seats

3 Liberal Democrats 3,261 seats

4 Reform UK 1,921 seats

5 Green Party 1,133 seats

6 Scottish National Party (SNP) 413 seats

[Matthew Stadlen @MatthewStadlen]

An estimated 74% of voters who bothered to turn out in the local elections yesterday did NOT vote for Reform. Let that sink in. And then adjust your hyperbole accordingly.

[Secretbarista @SecretBaris1a]

As of today 154 UK Councils are led by Labour, 12 led by Reform. Can anyone at the BBC or Sky or the UK media generally explain the support, coverage and platforming of this shoddy little Reform. Why do you do it?

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Caroline Lucas of the Green Party reckons that Water needs to be Renationalised.

RT if you know it has to be.

[ALEXIS ™I ❤️🇷🇼• @dufitalexis1]

This is a ladybird larva. It looks nothing like a ladybird. It looks like a tiny black alligator with orange spots — and most gardeners crush it thinking it's a pest.

That mistake costs the garden dearly. An adult ladybird eats around 50 aphids a day. Its larva can devour up to 500 before it pupates. Ten times as many. That strange-looking creature working its way along your tomato stems is the most effective phase of a ladybird's entire life.

Once you know what to look for, the larva is unmistakable: an elongated blue-black body with six orange spots along the sides, six short legs, slow and methodical movement up and down stems. It doesn't fly, doesn't jump, doesn't hide. It moves from one aphid colony to the next and feeds continuously for two to three weeks before pupating.

The pupa looks like a small, still orange droplet fixed to a leaf — and it too gets removed during routine plant tidying. Inside it, the adult ladybird is forming.

If you find aphids on a plant and ladybird larvae among them, leave them alone. The biological control is already working.

🐞

[UKSwifts @swifts_uk]

Swift SOS is urgently looking for more volunteer drivers across the #London area to help transport injured or grounded swifts, swallows & house martins to specialist rehabbers. 1/5