Tim Clarke

Full-time geek and proud (cfml, lucee, PostgreSQL, Python, Java, Linux). Part time singer and happy. @heytimc.bluesky.social @[email protected]

[Dr Tom Montgomery @DrTOMontgomery]

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The extraordinary courage of the elephant, facing down this loud, terrifying machine in defense of their territory.

How will it end? Asian elephants are already endangered and declining—hundreds are killed on purpose every year.

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[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Peter Doocy claims "people are still coming out" to Trump's 250th fair -- even as the camera shot shows clearly behind him that almost nobody is there 😆

[Stella de la Sauce 🇺🇦🌻 @stelladls]

@fedupoldgu43405 @mikegalsworthy What about it? @Tesco? @sainsburys? @waitrose? @Morrisons? @AldiUK? @LidlGB?

[Fedupoldguy1 @fedupoldgu43405]

@mikegalsworthy The first UK supermarket chain that covers all their stores car parks with solar panels should be the only one that gets business.

Come on you supermarket supremes let’s see you do it.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Those red-lit roads you've seen online aren't a film set or an art installation. They're Denmark's spin on bat-friendly infrastructure.

The streetlights have been switched to red to save the bats. Bats don't see red light the way they see white or green light, so to them, it's essentially darkness.

White streetlights are among the leading causes of bat decline in urban areas. Light-shy species avoid lit areas entirely, cutting them off from feeding grounds and migration routes that past generations used.

Standard streetlights, like the ones likely outside of your home right now, can reduce bat activity by up to 90% in some species.

Denmark figured out a dead simple fix. When they installed red LED streetlights along roads near bat colonies, bat activity returned to normal levels almost immediately.

The lights still work fine for humans. Drivers can see. Cyclists can navigate. The only thing that changed is that the bats got their night back.

Do you want your city to do this?

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Omg- how the fuck is this still happening????
Mike Deasey- you are an
EVIL EVIL MAN. I hope you rot for the rest of your sorry life and after that too, you loser!!!

[Dan Hightower @Danhightower]

Daycare calls me. That's never good.

For them.

Daycare: "your son hurt his elbow and won't move his arm. Can you come take him to a doctor's office?"

Me (ex Special Forces Medic): "A real doctor is on the way to you now. I am 6 mikes out. Alert me of status changes."

I arrive at daycare. I locate the patient. 21 month old male. Scene is not safe. I drag the patient to cover and concealment behind a seesaw, away from the other small terrorists in the AO.

I begin my assessment. Blood sweep negative for massive hemorrhage. Mental status: conscious and verbal but confused (answers "dada" when asked for blood type). One breath every 2 seconds. Bilateral rise and fall of the chest. Strong carotid pulse, strong bilat radial pulse.

Teeth and tongue intact no blood no mucus no dip or foreign objects. Eyes PERRLA, negative JVD/trach deviation, C-spine intact upon palpation.

Heart sounds strong upon auscultation. Percussion negative for hemo-T. Abdominal quads normal upon palpation. Pelvis negative for book sign.

Arms and legs negative for crepitus. However, Patient indicates discomfort in right arm upon palpation and supination/flexion of the elbow.

Nursemaid's elbow.

I begin interventions. Supination/flexion technique complete at 1215. Palpable clunk on successful reduction. I write the time on his chest in Sharpie. I tape a popsicle to his hand and tell the patient to suck but do not bite/chew. I write "1 x popsicle (10g sugar)" on his chest in Sharpie.

I reassess the patient after performing interventions then package the patient for handoff to daycare/higher level of care. I yell at daycare over the Blackhawk in my head: "21 month old male!!! Nursemaids elbow!!! Treated with supination/flexion technique at 1215!!! Patient has 1 x popsicle onboard!!"

Daycare: "sir please leave."

Me: "you should have called my wife."

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

“What must have happened to you in your life to make you want to kill a beautiful animal and then lie next to it smiling? ~ @RickyGervais.

#BanTrophyHunting NOW! 🚫

[Allan Pålsson @palss9162]

@DemocraticWins He is a total failure.

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

In Homer’s Odyssey, Circe lives alone on an island. She is skilled, intelligent, self-sufficient. Men arrive at her door expecting hospitality and dominance. Instead, she gives them wine laced with magic and turns them into pigs.

For centuries, that transformation has been read as punishment. The dangerous woman. The emasculator. The seductress who strips men of power.

But look closer.

Circe does not hunt men. They come to her. They enter her space, consume what she offers, assume control. And suddenly they are revealed as what they already are—greedy, impulsive, ruled by appetite. The spell doesn’t create the pig. It exposes it.

What terrifies patriarchal storytelling is not that Circe is evil. It’s that she is autonomous. She lives without a husband. She commands knowledge traditionally coded as forbidden—herbalism, potions, transformation. She controls who stays human and who does not. She negotiates with Odysseus as an equal once he proves he cannot be easily subdued.

For women, Circe becomes a mirror.

She represents the fear society projects onto women who refuse submission. A woman with boundaries is called cold. A woman with power is called dangerous. A woman who refuses to soothe male ego is branded monstrous. “She turned him into a pig” becomes shorthand for “She took away his dominance.”

But there is another reading.

Circe is not destroying men. She is demanding accountability. She is the embodiment of consequence. Enter her world carelessly, and you will be transformed by it.

© Women In World History

#drthehistories

[ALEXIS ™I ❤️🇷🇼• @dufitalexis1]

She hunts the midges from your garden every evening. She has just given birth in your roof. And if you seal that gap this weekend, her pup will die before it can fly. 🌿

The common pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) establishes its maternity colonies in roof spaces, behind fascia boards, under ridge tiles, and in wall crevices. She gives birth to a single pup each year, between late May and mid-July. The pup clings to its mother in the first weeks of life. It cannot move independently. You will not see her — she emerges around fifteen minutes after sunset and returns before dawn.

All bat species in the UK are protected under the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 and the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. It is a criminal offence to deliberately disturb a bat roost, block access to one, or carry out building work that affects a roost without first obtaining a European Protected Species licence. This applies even when no bats are present at the time of the work.

What every homeowner should do:

Postpone any roof, loft, or sealant work until October — the maternity period runs from May to August, and young bats do not fly until late August.

Leave small gaps under ridge tiles, behind fascia boards, and in masonry — these are roost access points, not defects to be filled.

Turn outdoor lights downward or use motion-sensing lights — light pollution disrupts their hunting corridors.

Before any building work, contact the Bat Conservation Trust (https://t.co/iNymVT5pqh) or your county bat group. They can advise on timings and whether a licence is needed.

She asks very little. Just that the sealant gun waits until autumn. 🌱

#Bats #CommonPipistrelle #WildlifeGardening #UKWildlife

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

Ban the sale of glue traps!

[Kateri Seraphina @KateriSeraphina]

Cette expérience fait partie des recherches scientifiques les plus étonnantes menées sur le bétail . En 2019, une équipe de chercheurs japonais a décidé de tenter quelque chose d’inattendu : peindre des vaches pour les faire ressembler à des zèbres .
L’objectif n’était pas esthétique, mais scientifique : comprendre comment la peau du zèbre repousse naturellement les insectes.
• Méthode de l’expérience :
Les scientifiques ont peint des rayures blanches et noires sur les vaches en utilisant une simple peinture à base d’eau .
• Résultats surprenants :
Les piqûres de mouches piqueuses ont diminué de plus de 50 % sur les vaches rayées, comparées aux vaches normales .
Même les vaches peintes uniquement en noir n’ont pas bénéficié de la même protection, ce qui montre que le pouvoir protecteur vient du contraste visuel entre le noir et le blanc .
• Effet sur le comportement :
Les chercheurs ont aussi noté une baisse d’environ 20 % des gestes de défense habituels des vaches (secouer la tête, la queue…), signe qu’elles étaient plus calmes et moins stressées .
Le secret scientifique
Les rayures perturbent la vision des mouches. Ces insectes se basent sur le mouvement et les reflets lumineux pour évaluer la distance et se poser. En voyant un motif très contrasté comme des rayures, leur perception se brouille : elles n’arrivent plus à estimer correctement leur trajectoire, ce qui les empêche d’atterrir sur l’animal .
Reconnaissance internationale
Cette étude innovante a remporté le prix Ig Nobel 2025 dans la catégorie biologie — une récompense qui célèbre les recherches à la fois amusantes et scientifiquement utiles.
Cette expérience ouvre la voie à une idée révolutionnaire : protéger le bétail contre les insectes sans utiliser le moindre pesticide chimique

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The single biggest irrigated crop in America isn't corn, wheat, or soybeans. It's not even avocados or almonds. It's lawn.

We grow more grass than any food crop in the country, around 40 million acres of it, and almost none of it feeds a single living thing.

Think about how strange that is. We took a grass that isn't even from here, planted it coast to coast, and now we pour water, fertilizer, and pesticide into keeping it short, green, and perfectly useless.

To a bee, a butterfly, or a bird hunting caterpillars for its chicks, a manicured lawn is a desert. Nothing to eat, nowhere to nest, mile after mile of it.

But here's the good news, maybe the easiest win on this whole account: you don't have to fix the entire desert. You just have to claw back a corner.

Pick one strip. The hellstrip by the sidewalk, the run along the fence, that awkward patch you hate mowing anyway. Stop mowing it and plant it with native flowers, a few black-eyed Susans, some bee balm, a couple of coneflowers. That's it. No ripping out the whole yard, no fight with anybody. Just convert one piece.

And that piece stops being dead space and starts being habitat: bees, butterflies, and birds showing up to a spot that offered them nothing a year ago.

Now picture your neighbor doing the same, and the one after that. That's how a desert turns back into a meadow, one reclaimed corner at a time.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

In a development drawing intense international outrage, Japan’s 2026 commercial whaling season is officially underway, with a state quota authorizing the slaughter of 412 whales in the North Pacific. The Fisheries Agency’s targeting list includes 145 minke, 153 Bryde’s, 56 sei, and 58 fin whales. Driven by Kyodo Senpaku and its massive new factory processing vessel, the Kangei Maru, the offshore hunt has been fiercely condemned by conservationists who warn that killing vulnerable and endangered fin and sei whales actively sabotages decades of population recovery.
#JapanWhaling2026 #MarineConservation #SaveTheWhales #OceanWildlife #NewsUpdate

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: Tensions Are Escalating In Albania.

After days of protests over a controversial luxury resort project, demonstrators in Rrjoll, northern Albania, tore down fencing surrounding the construction site.

Protesters say land belonging to roughly 200 local families was confiscated to make way for the development.

The confrontation comes as environmental and anti-corruption demonstrations continue to spread across the country.

This is no longer just a dispute over a resort.

It’s becoming a broader fight over land rights, political influence, and who benefits from Albania’s development boom.

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

A heartbroken elderly Albanian man says Jared Kushner has taken everything he spent a lifetime building, including his land, his home, and the future he hoped to leave behind for his children.

He says he returned home one day only to find his property sealed off behind barbed wire, with men in black uniforms standing guard and refusing to let him step inside the house he once called his own.

In a single moment, he says, the life he had worked for was gone.

“It was the end of the world. The end of the world.”

“I felt imprisoned.”

“They took my freedom.”

“They took my livelihood.”

“They took my land.”

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The fireflies in your yard are flashing this week, and your porch light may be jamming the signal. Turn it off tonight.

Males drift over the yard flashing species-specific patterns. Females wait in the grass and flash back. For many fireflies, that call-and-response is how the next generation gets made, and they only have a few weeks as adults to pull it off.

Then we light up the yard.

Even dim outdoor lights can wash out the conversation. Researchers have repeatedly found that artificial light at night reduces firefly courtship and mating, and newer work suggests even amber bulbs aren't harmless. The best light for fireflies is no light at all.

So here's the easiest thing you can do tonight. From dusk onward, turn off the porch light, the floods, the string lights, the landscape uplighting. Then stand in the dark for five minutes and watch what comes back.

This is one of the rare conservation wins that costs nothing and starts working tonight. The fireflies are already out there waiting for it to get dark.

[Nina Conti @ninaconti]

Links here https://t.co/wi8YT9HQvn

[Tim Clarke @heytimc]

An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcement https://t.co/PG6EXKZoPY