Melissa Barnyard

Going to the 🦋 still a picklingirl

[Simon Sab @friendofthefox]

Why? Same reason fox hunters don’t get prosecuted (hare hunters never) Same people in 🚜’s. Farmers are front and centre of hunt crime.

Police protect the wealthy. Laws are used to keep us peasants in our place with extra laws for the difficult ones like @JustStop_Oil

[Simon Sab @friendofthefox]

I think the police don’t act because of the “respectably” of the people committing the crime rather than the crime itself.

Killing a hare with a hound is a serious act of animal cruelty, no different to beating a dog to death in the street. Same level of terror & pain.

[Firework Campaign @fireworkreform]

Fireworks will be debated by Parliament again on Mon 9th Dec. Previous debates all concluded most people use fireworks responsibly & current laws are adequate. This time let’s make sure the Govt are fully aware this isn’t true. This A/C has posted evidence all autumn @UKLabour

[Otto English @Otto_English]

Thing is ... Brexit was done exactly as Farage wanted but he's a professional heckler who has never had to implement a single thing in his life.

So he can moan, point, shout ... without consequences
#bbcqt

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

Between March 2022 and March 2024, while bird flu was active in Scotland, a staggering 3,040,000 gamebirds were imported from abroad.

This disgraceful practice continued despite the clear risks, exposing blatant disregard for public health, animal welfare, and the environment.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Not a great look for The Telegraph that they seem to have completely forgotten Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.

[Greg Hildebrandt @HildebrandtGreg]

EXPLANATION OF WHY WE ARE LEAVING X

It appears that many people believe that my decision to leave X is somehow politically motivated. That could not be further from the truth. So, for all of you who messaged and emailed me to remove them from my mailing list, which I will do, I suggest you read the following new announcement.

Everyone at Spiderweb Art believes 1000% in free speech for everyone. My decision is simply based on the fact that as of January, in order to post on X, you must agree to let them use your posts and your content for their A.I. models. You will give up all your rights to your own content by doing so. They will have the right to use your photos and your texts for their own financial gain. And I have no intention of allowing X to use my content that I own for their benefit. I have spent 45 years of my life protecting the copyrights of my husband, Greg Hildebrandt, his brother, Tim Hildebrandt, and every other artist that I have represented.

Yes, my husband passed away on October 31st of this year. As long as I live and breathe, I will continue to protect the copyrights that he owns and the copyrights of any other artist that I work with. So, I hope this clarifies for you that politics has nothing to do with our decision.

Please understand if you continue to post on X after January, they will have the right to use your photos of your families and friends and you will not be able to stop them. I suggest you take this issue seriously. Your content belongs to you, not to them. Please read below.

X Updates Terms of Service to More Explicitly Cover AI Training Permissions
Published Oct. 17, 2024
By
Andrew Hutchinson Content and Social Media Manager
You may have seen a pop-up on X this week informing you of a change to its Terms of Service, which you have to agree to in order to continue using the app. The main change here relates to granting permission for X to use your data in its AI training, and by tapping through, and continuing to use the app, you’ve effectively given it permission to do so moving forward.
Congratulations, you’re now a contributor to xAI.
You can view the current and coming X Terms of Service for clarity, but the main change is in the “Your Rights and Grant of Rights in the Content” section of the document, which now includes more specific wording around your agreement to letting X use your posts to train its AI models.
A new element added to this section notes that:
“You agree that this license includes the right for us to analyze text and other information you provide and to otherwise provide, promote, and improve the Services, including, for example, for use with and training of our machine learning and artificial intelligence models, whether generative or another type.”
So, effectively, by agreeing to these terms, which, again, you’re doing by using the app, you’re granting X legal permission to use whatever you post to the platform to train its AI models.
Can you opt out? Well, no, not unless you live in EU.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

"And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent."

Location: Parliament Square, London (sound on)

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

On the third day of Christmas my true love sent to me, three French hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree.
Ate them. Oh-la-la.

[Wiltshire Hunt Saboteurs @WiltsHuntSabs]

We have wrote to the Duke of Beaufort requesting he reimburses the cost of our stolen drone we also expect him to cooperate fully with the police investigation and hand over those involved in conspiracy to commit theft, to pervert the course of justice, endangering an aircraft.

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

Got three minutes ? Angry that 32 satellite-tagged Hen Harriers vanished or were confirmed as being illegally killed in England in 2023 , most on/near grouse moors ? Then please sign this @WildJustice_org petition . Be nice to get to 25K tonight ! https://t.co/LojMKe4jZT

[Simon Sab @friendofthefox]

Important petition. Please sign

[Shafiqa Khpalwak @ShafiqaKhplwak]

From a woman in Afghanistan:

“My classmates in the midwifery institute are in a terrible state. In our chat group, girls moan and complain to one another, mourning the fact that they were born girls. They are regretful and disheartened by those in power. Some recall the sacrifices and hardships they endured for the sake of education. I read their tearful words, and my heart shatters into pieces. But just as much as them, I am broken and saddened. Words of consolation elude me. How can I offer them hopeful yet false reassurances when I am hopeless?

Only this verse seems sufficient:

Nothing is within my power.
I’ll turn my tearful eyes away from your tearful eyes.”

#IQRA
#LetAfghanGirlsLearn

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Bakhmut a year and a half since Russia seized it after a year-long battle.

There’s no life anymore, and these ruins will never be built back. Russia just turned a thriving Ukrainian city of 70,000 into ruined cemetery only to pin its flag over it and declare it “liberated” in TV war propaganda.

[Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole]

REVEALED: Just 2,500 farms own a QUARTER of the farmland in England

Startling new stats I obtained from @DefraGovUK & shared with @DailyMirror show how unequal land ownership is in this country

Large landowners must pay their fair share of tax
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https://t.co/Mjg0o491UO

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

We’ve already hit 15,000 signatures to end the badger cull—but we need 100,000 for Parliament to debate this issue.

Please sign and share:
👉 https://t.co/cElDJPaQLR

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

A fox chased and killed by hounds on school grounds while children were in class? This is barbaric and unacceptable! How can this STILL be happening in 2024? Shame on those responsible. The Grafton Hunt must be held accountable.

https://t.co/L19x92yYFp

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree.
Ate them.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me, a partridge in a pear tree.
Ate it.

[Hunt Saboteurs Association @HuntSabs]

Together with @ChrisGPackham we're counting down to Christmas with the top 20 worst fox hunting crimes we have exposed.

#MerryChristmas