TechnoFobe

Pets, politics and pictures. Pretty much sums it up.

[Horse Sense Wirral Charity #1152111 @HorseSenseW]

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[TechnoFobe @GAHoldich]

@NiallHarbison So sorry. But we have to remember that without HD Bear had no chance of recovering. Sadly he wasn’t strong enough but that is no-one’s fault. Next time it maybe another Rocky or any one of dozens of dogs now living happy lives. Sad, yes, but keep on keeping on. 💕🐕🐕‍🦺

[TechnoFobe @GAHoldich]

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[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

More than a hundred thousand Bornean orangutans vanished between 1999 and 2015. Half the island's population, gone in sixteen years, and the largest single driver is the oil in your biscuit.

Orangutans exist in exactly two places on earth now, Borneo and Sumatra, and both are being cleared at some of the fastest rates on the planet to plant oil palm. Around 350,000 hectares of Bornean forest have gone every year this century. The way it is cleared is the ugly part. The forest is not felled and milled, it is drained and burned. Developers cut channels into the peat to dry it out, then set the land alight, and peat does not burn like wood. It smoulders underground for weeks, sometimes months, throwing up a toxic haze that drifts across whole countries.

In 2015 that haze became one of the worst environmental disasters in modern memory. About 2.6 million hectares burned. On many days that autumn the fires in Indonesia released more carbon dioxide than the entire economy of the United States. A study by Harvard and Columbia estimated the smoke caused around a hundred thousand premature deaths across Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, alongside half a million respiratory infections. The World Bank put the bill at sixteen billion dollars. All of it to clear ground for palm and pulp.

The animals in that forest do not walk away. The orangutan is slow, and it starves among the stumps or wanders into the new plantation looking for food and is killed as a pest. In 2018 one was found on Indonesian Borneo shot a hundred and thirty times with an air gun, then stabbed and clubbed. Mothers are killed and their babies sold into the illegal pet trade. The Sumatran tiger, the rhino and the elephant are being pushed off the same burning map at the same time, each down to a few thousand animals or a few hundred, each running out of the one forest it has.

The culprits are not hard to find. About 85% of the world's palm oil comes from Indonesia and Malaysia, and investigators have traced palm grown on illegally cleared land straight into the supply chains of the largest names in the aisle: Nestlé, PepsiCo, Unilever, Procter and Gamble, Mondelez. From there it goes everywhere. Palm oil sits in something like half the packaged products in the shop, the spread, the chocolate, the biscuit, the instant noodle, the tub of dairy-free ice cream, the very things sold as the lighter, greener, kinder choice.

Almost all of it now carries a small stamp promising it was sustainably sourced. In one recent year the stretch of Sumatra known as the orangutan capital of the world lost more forest than in the previous four years combined. Stamp and all.

[TechnoFobe @GAHoldich]

@servicerotties Perfect? It was awarded winning! The best ever and certainly unbeatable 😀👍💖

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

What A Sociopathic Scumbag 😡!

“No-one can define the rush of adrenaline that sends the pulses racing but the hunter himself” – Ron Thomson, trophy hunter.

Ron Thomson is credited with having shot more than 5,000 Elephants; 800 Buffaloes, 50-60 Lions, 30-40 Leopards, 50 Hippos and many more.

He once shot 32 Elephants in the space of 15 minutes.

Another time he and 2 others shot 2,500 Elephants using military NATO 7.62 mm semi-automatic rifles.

“We did it exceptionally well,” he said afterwards.

Sign the petition to ABOLISH Trophy Hunting at https://t.co/9DWeiRKYCF today

#BanTrophyHunting

[Dittie @DittiePE]

Border Patrol pulls over a 20-year-old in Slidell, LA for “white lights on the back of your vehicle… your reverse lights are on the whole time.”

Then, before writing a single ticket, the agent asks: “What’s your citizenship?”

The driver, Alan Laureano, was born in Slidell. His passenger — his 13-year-old stepbrother — was born in Pearl River, Louisiana. Both are U.S. citizens.

Didn’t matter. Twice, on camera, the agent tells Laureano he’s going to “check” the kid and “if he’s illegal, I will take him.”

He tries to open the 13-year-old’s car door himself. Laureano locks it and rolls the window down instead.

The agent then interrogates the child directly — full name, spelling, date of birth, birthplace — while Laureano stands his ground and refuses to hand over his own ID, telling the agent he doesn’t have the right to stop him over a taillight.

Immigration attorney Michael Gahagan reviewed the video and called it what it is: “an illegal detention.” Border Patrol isn’t authorized to detain someone over a traffic violation — they need independent reasonable suspicion of an immigration violation, and that has to come first, not get invented after the stop.

DHS’s after-the-fact statement claims the stop was based on “reasonable suspicion or probable cause of federal law violations” — but doesn’t say what that violation was. WWL Louisiana asked twice. No answer either time.

This is the pattern: pretext stop, pivot to citizenship, threaten a kid with removal before confirming anything. It only looks “routine” until you’re the one being asked to prove you belong in the country you were born in.

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

This is the Elephant habitat at Busch Gardens Tampa. A 2024 welfare complaint filed with USDA and AZA describes it as
"surrounded on virtually all sides by roller coasters," with construction that made the ground of the barn shake.
Busch Gardens calls this conservation.

We're asking what that word means for animals whose habitat borders a construction zone, not a savanna.

Sign the petition and follow the investigation:
https://t.co/2A9TXO4smt

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

Climate change is coming for us all, and last night it reached the heart of Scotland's capital.

A wildfire broke out in Holyrood Park, Edinburgh, as strong winds and tinder-dry vegetation helped the flames spread.

This is not the Amazon. This is not Australia. This is Scotland.

📹 Richard Goldie

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Erin Brockovich on data centers: “You’re pushing people too far at this point. You’re taking their water. Their air is jeopardized. Their land is jeopardized. Their sanctuary is jeopardized. Their wildlife is jeopardized. The trees, the rivers, the creeks, the birds, all of it”

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer's final address to the nation as Prime Minister

"I go with good grace, I go with a smile, and I go proud of everything we have achieved"

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

This was once a chalk stream, one of the rarest rivers on earth wouldn't that be right Anglian Water.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Just to prove I'm consistent, here I am seven years ago refusing to answer questions by C4's Matt Frei about millionaire Arron Banks spending nearly £500k to fund my lavish lifestyle, while I march down the street with my mate the traitor Nathan Gill.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Anglian Water boss’s £1.3m salary top-up meets ‘furious’ response."

So what do you do with the failed former CEO of HS2?

Obvious, you make him CEO of Anglian Water and pay him £1.3 million, that's what.

https://t.co/7YNCYgN2tc

[TechnoFobe @GAHoldich]

Some days I am amazed that humans have survived as long as we have.

[XANDER GEOGRAPHIC 🏕️ @actionxander]

Some tourists walked out onto Grand Primsatic at Yellowstone National Park. Unbelievable.

[Leicester Worker @LeicesterWorker]

A reminder...

"Clacton’s MP has missed every meeting about regenerating the seaside town."

https://t.co/23gR0p55xk

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Egypt’s Ministry of Agriculture has begun implementing a unified national strategy for managing street animals, banning the use of poisons, mass culling, and the unauthorised relocation of strays outside the designated framework. Violators will face immediate legal action.

The strategy confirms sterilisation, rabies vaccination, and the Trap-Neuter-Return programme as the country’s official approach, described by the ministry as the only internationally recognised scientific method for managing stray populations while preserving ecological balance.

The announcement followed a coordination conference at the Egyptian Military Academy attended by Agriculture Minister Alaa Farouk, Minister of Local Development and Environment Manal Awad, and representatives from the Ministries of Justice, Housing, Social Solidarity, and Endowments, alongside the Egyptian Veterinary Syndicate. The plan aligns with Egypt’s commitments under the Convention on Biological Diversity and standards set by the World Organisation for Animal Health, and forms part of the wider national goal of a rabies-free Egypt by 2030.

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[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Wool is one of the most extraordinary materials on earth and we swapped it for melted bottles.

Consider what it actually is. It grows. On an animal. By itself. The sheep stands on a hill eating grass nobody else can use, and out of the grass and the rain it manufactures, continuously, for free, a fibre so good that we spent most of human history unable to improve on it. You shear it off. It doesn't hurt her. She grows more. You could not design a more generous arrangement if you sat in a room for a year: a self-replenishing, self-powered coat that renews every summer and asks for nothing but a haircut.

And look at what it does. It's warm when it's wet, which almost nothing else on earth manages. It breathes. It wicks the damp off you and holds heat anyway. It's naturally flame-retardant, so it smoulders and stops rather than melting onto your skin. It fights off smell for days. It lasts decades, gets handed down, and when it finally dies you can put it in the ground and it feeds the soil, because it came out of a field and it's content to go back to one.

That's the thing we decided wasn't good enough.

So here's the replacement. We take crude oil, out of the ground, and we crack it in a chemical plant, and we spin it into plastic thread, and we call it fleece, which is a theft of the word, because there's no fleece in it and never was a sheep near it. Polyester. Acrylic. A jumper made of petrol.

And it does the opposite of everything wool does. It's cold and clammy the second you sweat. It stinks after one wear, because the bacteria love it. If it gets near a flame it melts, onto you, which is its own special horror. And every single time you wash it, it sheds thousands of shreds of plastic too small to see, which go down the drain, into the river, into the fish, into the water, into you, forever, because unlike the sheep's coat this one does not go back into the ground. Nothing eats it. Nothing breaks it down. It just becomes the world's problem for the next four hundred years.

We took a material an animal grows out of grass, that keeps you warm wet, saves your skin from fire, and returns to the earth when it's done, and we replaced it with a garment made of oil that freezes you, poisons the water, and outlives your grandchildren.

And they'll tell you the wool's the ethical concern. The wool. Because the sheep had a haircut.

Wear the wool. Let her keep growing it.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Watchdog accused of ‘giving away’ billions of litres of spring water to foreign bottling giants."

Yep the EA are up to their old tricks again. The EA are charging Coca-Cola £6,070 a year to abstract water from the north of England which Coca-Cola then sells for £30 million.

Did I mention that according to the EA by 2050 in England we will need to find another 5 billion litres of water per day just to keep our taps running and to try and save our chalk streams.

What a hoax of a regulator.

https://t.co/i4R1bahBuz

[Keepingitreal @diggitytimes]

@LevellingDown @AWeeWumman Surely he’s not lying again….

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

Bloody woke lefties trying to save lives