Owllookout

[Perle @veritebeaute]

«L'OISEAU LE PLUS COMMUN DU MONDE EST EN TRAIN DE DISPARAÎTRE SOUS NOS YEUX.»
Le moineau. Celui que plus personne ne regarde.
EN 30 ANS, L'EUROPE A PERDU
PLUS DE 240 MILLIONS DE MOINEAUX.
EN FRANCE, CERTAINES VILLES EN ONT PERDU
JUSQU'À 75% DE LEUR POPULATION.
L'OISEAU QU'ON CROYAIT "TROP COMMUN POUR DISPARAÎTRE"
S'EFFACE DE NOS VILLES ET DE NOS CAMPAGNES.
POURQUOI :
— DISPARITION DES INSECTES (nourriture des oisillons)
— FAÇADES RÉNOVÉES, PLUS DE TROUS POUR NICHER
— PESTICIDES, BÉTONISATION, PELOUSES STÉRILES
— MOINS DE HAIES, MOINS DE GRAINES SAUVAGES
CE QU'IL DEMANDE POUR REVENIR :
— DES INSECTES (donc zéro pesticide)
— DES CAVITÉS POUR NICHER (nichoirs, trous de mur préservés)
— DES HAIES ET DES GRAINES SAUVAGES
— DES POINTS D'EAU
Le jour où le moineau disparaîtra pour de bon,
ce ne sera pas la faute d'un événement.
Ce sera la somme de tous les petits gestes qu'on n'aura pas faits.
Le plus commun des oiseaux a besoin de toi.
Justement parce que plus personne ne s'en inquiète. 🌿
📚 Sources : LPO — Déclin du moineau domestique en France (2022) ; MNHN/Vigie-Nature — Suivi des oiseaux communs (2023) ; BirdLife International — European sparrow decline (2021) ; Inger R. et al. — "Common European birds are declining rapidly", Ecology Letters (2015).

[Owllookout @aopearl]

@drianpace My friend booked a room in a hotel with air conditioning as a last resort.

[Owllookout @aopearl]

@tracey_my_wong In the case of ‘The King’s Speech’ Desplat’s work was mixed with compositions by Ludwig Van Beethoven- specifically his Symphony no. 7 and his Piano C oncerto no.5 ( known also as the ‘Emperor’).

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Spain, France, Switzerland and now Italy is kicking Palantir out.

Italy have rejected any new contracts and are reviewing the old ones.

Get Palantir OUT!

[Paddy Briggs 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇱 🇪🇸 @PaddyBriggs]

It is now five months since I asked @British_Airways to process a fare refund for a flight I could not take because of illness. I have given their Customer Relations people everything they require in respect of my medical condition. More than once! But they seem incapable of progressing the matter efficiently! Case: 11015898

[Just Dave now @justdavenow89]

If you want to see Michelle Mone kicked out of the House of Lords and arrested until she pays the £232,000,000 she owes give this a RT

[Jamestoo2too2 @jamestoo2too2]

@CatHobbs @Feargal_Sharkey @DefraGovUK Can't stand the fella but water should be in public hands, Thames water are £19B in debt but continued to pay dividends, even using pension funds to keep paying the shareholders whilst ignoring important infrastructure like reservoirs and Victorian pipework = no brainer

[Owllookout @aopearl]

@DrDavidVernon Thank you for posting this… I am a long-standing fan of Sebald’s work and enjoy the speculation about what might be ‘fact’ and what could be ‘fiction’.

[Prof Ian Pace @drianpace]

I was once told (by an ethnomusicologist, unsurprisingly) that playing music to students in lectures was a waste of time, as was asking them to listen outside lectures.

I took no notice, and got students to do plenty listening. It should be at the heart of music study.

[Owllookout @aopearl]

@Stephen74977713 My teacher gave me Brahms 51 exercises for piano … there are plenty of polyrhythms and after a while you don’t even think about them. (Brahms intermezzi are very good for making polyrhythm practice pleasurable!)

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Andy Burnham looks like he might cancel the NHS England contract with Palantir, they also have one worth 2.5x as much with the MoD.

RT if you want them both out of the UK.

[Owllookout @aopearl]

@DrSchwamborn I don’t know either…
Now there is a research project for an enthusiastic animal behaviourist!

[Owllookout @aopearl]

@StieglerThomas This garden is especially beautiful, and it had character too- the temptation of that half-open gate is the beginning of a story.

[Owllookout @aopearl]

@jeremydenk 😂😂

[Meteor 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇩🇪FBPE 💙 @Meteor_FBPE]

@BladeoftheS @PaulClay710 In other countries they would put solar panels over hospital car parks so that sick people, nurses and doctors could have subsidised parking 🤷‍♀️. Thats what happens in countries where the people who govern serve the people not themselves !!!

[peter hurst @phurstclass]

@Tush27J Indeed, most of the PEP thieves stole £millions more than Murrell and they are walking around scot free.

[Alethea Bernard @Tush27J]

They arrested and sentenced Peter Murrell, Nicola Stugeon's husband.

Why can't Michelle Mone and Doug Barrowman be arrested?

[ChrisMandara @naughtynell101]

@BasilTheGreat So let me get this right, you can rape someone or be a pedophile and get virtually no jail time, but social media for under 16s is a serious threat to society? Gimme a break.