Gemma

Field Programmes Officer @DurrellWildlife, and Board Member of the NGO Biflores in Brava, Cabo Verde

[Scottish Seabird Centre @SeabirdCentre]

We're celebrating #RestorationForth’s achievements! Over 3 years in the Firth of Forth we've:

🌱Planted 156,000 seagrass seeds
🌱Transplanted 880 cores
🦪Introduced 30,638 oysters

And lots more! We’re delighted to be a part of this project with other partners & volunteers.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

How the disaster started in Valencia before the inhabitants even got any warning.

[📹 GuillemValenci]

[Gemma @gemmasomerset]

Presented without comment #ClimateCrisis #JustStopOil #Valencia https://t.co/4Az2u8nkve

[Becky Paton @rpaton11]

The BBC fucked me over before, over a year I filmed an incredibly personal documentary with them about my experience of sexual abuse in Westminster, only for it to be dropped days before airing, as they were scared of rich people threatening libel. But this takes the fucking piss

[Gemma @gemmasomerset]

@lizardschwartz 😂😂😂 still (more?) adorable

[Gemma @gemmasomerset]

@lizardschwartz Hahah can't unsee it!!

[Gemma @gemmasomerset]

@lizardschwartz

[Matthew Fraser 🇪🇺 @frasermatthew]

This tweet is from the French government, warning people to beware of the Scientology cult attempting to recruit new members during the Olympics. The star of the Olympics closing ceremony is... Tom Cruise.

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

A Reminder
To disable Musk’s AI known as Grok from sweeping up data you have to use Twitter/X on the web
It doesn’t work on your mobile app
Here’s what to do ⏬️

[Byline Times @BylineTimes]

🔴 SPECIAL INVESTIGATION

Exposing the Race Riot Instigators: The Key Players & Transatlantic Network Around ‘Tommy Robinson’

@NafeezAhmed uncovers a nexus of tech platforms & far-right conspiracy – linking to Europe, Russia & the January 6 insurrection

https://t.co/xoXCYu2XqJ

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

The enemy of the working class travels by private jet, not migrant dinghy.

[Nalini McM #FBPE 🇪🇺💙🏳️‍🌈♿🍉 @nalini_mcm]

Please can we do a prisoner exchange? Non-violent #JustStopOil protesters for vicious far right thugs.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

What is happening in the UK is entirely the result of allowing the Daily Mail, GB News, Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson, Andrew Tate, and all the others to spew their bile to hundeds of thousands every single day.

[Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust @DurrellWildlife]

💚 This #WorldRangersDay, we’d like to shine a spotlight on the amazing rangers dedicated to protecting wildlife 💚

🇲🇬 In Madagascar, our teams have been carrying out celebrations to thank the 780 community patrollers who help us to save habitats and species.

[Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones]

🧵1/ Thread on the #Southport anti-migrant and anti-Muslim disinformation and propaganda. In this thread I highlight key spreaders of disinformation, the chronology, and some points about some of the inauthentic activity evident. I will focus on X.

[Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust @DurrellWildlife]

🤩 Take flight over mangroves 🤩

⭐️ This custom-built drone is dropping mangrove seeds, aiding in reforestation

🌱 We’re helping @ParksMadagascar to restore mangrove forests by drone in Madagascar, where around 2% of the world’s mangroves are found

👉 https://t.co/RYkkBZtWxc

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Must watch on House of Commons reform @EllieChowns

Dr Ellie Chowns, "As a newly elected member, I'd like to offer observations on three elements on how this house operates: sitting, speaking and voting"

➡️ Sitting
- Chamber is too small
- In Council and in European parliament we had own seat, desk, plug in devices
- Extraordinary there aren't enough seats for every MP

There is a practice of Christian prayers, as a daughter of preachers I am familiar with this. But in this day and age where we are a mix of all faiths and none, it might be time to represent a range of faiths

➡️ Speaking
- If we have more time limits more MPs would be incentivised to speak
- Trying to get a slot, bobbing up and down, last week I did for five solid hours without getting attention of the speaker
- This is not good for a democracy
- Find a better way of allocating speaking time
- The culture in this house is everything from excessive deference to braying, we need to clean to clean up politics, we are here to debate in as positive a spirit as possible

➡️ Voting
- It's extraordinary we do not have electronic voting
- While I've been here I've participated in 5 votes, that's taken 1.25 quarter
- If you add up all the votes thats 1.5 months of MPs time, totally unproductive
- If we got rid of the voting lobbies we could double the physical size of the chamber (everyone could then have a seat)

"My final point, if we want to be a truly modern house of commons: proportional representation"

[Gemma @gemmasomerset]

We're #hiring! Come and work in my team at @DurrellWildlife as 🌴🐢Programme Development Officer🐗🌍, and design and develop #fundraising proposals for our global #conservation field programmes! We're a fun bunch, promise! https://t.co/0dJDUKQgoB

[Carla Denyer @carla_denyer]

Does this seem right to you? ⚖️

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

The sentences handed to the five @JustStop_Oil campaigners are utterly disproportionate. Four and five years in prison for peaceful protest? This is what you might expect in Russia or Egypt, not in a supposed democracy. https://t.co/jE3YUrd9EY