snowbeasty

Laughs at the wrong things. Sometimes admits to being a librarian.

[Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK @CovidJusticeUK]

. @michaelgove A mistake is forgetting to put the bins out.

Referring your 'great personal friend' and donor to a 'VIP lane' so that he is awarded £164 million in public funds, as you did, is not a mistake.

We know exactly what that is evidence of.

[J @jasonllevin]

If capitalism is so great, why do corporations need tax breaks, subsidies, exemptions, grants, ballouts, legal protections, and trade barriers to survive?

And when ordinary people ask for help, why is it suddenly called socialism?

[Sophy Ridge @SophyRidgeSky]

One thing I absolutely love about British politics…

…the first thing Andy Burnham has to do after winning is shake hands with a fox and a bin

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

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[Andy Marshall 📸 @fotofacade]

I’ve rarely experienced anything as potent as this piece of medieval carving at Gloucester Cathedral. The tragic fall of a builder, watched in horror by the master mason, captured in stone crashes through the thin veil of the present.

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

You voted against scrapping zero hour contracts.

You voted against banning fire and rehire.

You voted against day one sick pay for workers.

You said the minimum wage was too high for young people.

Reform politicians openly say they don't like trade unions.

You will always put the interests of your offshore crypto billionaire donors ahead of workers.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Well..it's now June 2026

Apparently 7 billion of us who got vaccinated are now meant to be dead

Anyone out there who is vaccinated and still alive?

✋

[Waqas🔶️ @m0w4q45]

I was a prison officer, Nick. You can't preach "tough on crime." Your lot cut nearly 7,000 prison officers since 2010 and handed our jails to G4S and Serco. You broke the system, then act shocked it doesn't work.

You know what actually works? Lads out on licence getting their track tickets, learning a trade, coming home as taxpayers instead of reoffenders. That's using human capital, not warehousing it. A lad sat in a cell doing nothing helps nobody.

And funny how quiet you all go on the tax dodgers and the oligarchs bankrolling Putin's war. Boris took a Russian ex-KGB man's hospitality at his Italian villa, dodged his own officials, then made the son a Lord. Where's your "lock them up" energy for that?

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

13 years ago, Rotherham, England turned 8 miles of mowed roadside grass into a "river of flowers." In 2021, they added even more miles.

The original scheme was commissioned by Rotherham Council in 2013, designed by Professor Nigel Dunnett at the University of Sheffield, and seeded with a 180-species wildflower mix along the central reservations of the town's main ring road. It replaced mowing that had been costing the council around £80,000 a year.

Since then: the wildflower verges have saved roughly £23,000 to £25,000 per two-year mowing cycle, increased pollinator abundance, and inspired similar programs in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Birmingham, Newcastle, and Sheffield.

In 2021, Rotherham added 3.5 more miles across 12 new sites including Herringthorpe, Swinton, Harthill, and Maltby. They just keep expanding it.

The UK has lost 97% of its wildflower meadows in the last 100 years. Most of what was lost was paved, plowed, or mowed. The verges nobody was using anyway turned out to be one of the largest untapped habitats in the country.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A bricklayer in East Yorkshire has spent 35 years putting up barn owl nest boxes on weekends. This year, the region saw 308 owlets hatch.

His name is Robert Salter. He's 56 and does bricklaying full time. In 1990, he saw a piece on the news about a man in Lincolnshire installing barn owl boxes, and decided he'd do the same. He started with five.

He now has more than 350 boxes scattered across fields, farms, outbuildings, and trees in East Yorkshire. Every June, he takes four weeks off from bricklaying and visits them with his wife Sue. Scrambling up ladders, ringing chicks, cleaning boxes, repairing the ones the weather got to. He's a licensed bird ringer for the British Trust for Ornithology.

In 2024, the region ringed 95 owlets. In 2025, the count was 308. The Barn Owl Trust says that nationally, this year was "pretty poor" for barn owl breeding, but east Yorkshire is the exception, and it's the exception because of one man with a ladder.

The barn owl population in the UK was estimated at 4,000 pairs in the mid-2000s and crashed to roughly 1,000 by the early 2010s. The species is still recovering.

Most of conservation is one person who refuses to give up.

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

Wishing all my followers a very happy feast day of the Venerable Bede!

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

The cow gave birth to quadruplets against incredible odds, and the owners named them Eeny, Meeny, Miny, and Moo.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Who better to criticise someone for being selfish than the man who took a £12,000 donation in exchange for helping a billionaire pornographer save £45m, then defected to Reform just to advance his career.

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Covid vaccines - produced and rolled out at speed to end a global pandemic - are one of the greatest scientific triumphs humans have ever achieved

History will be kind and recognise this achievement

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

We’re obsessed with the idea that poor people might take more than they need, but we rarely question why some wealthy people are never satisfied with what they already have.

[socialist pete @socialistp40357]

As NHS Ambulance paramedic if I divulged a patients details to anyone other than an appropriate DR or Nurse, I would be sacked.
Yet we have a government (former health secretary, @wesstreeting) handing over personal and confidential pt data to american company, Palantir.

[Dave @ItsOurDave]

"After fourteen years of Conservative rule, you’d think that a Labour government would be bursting with impatience to deliver policies to benefit working people. This Labour government couldn’t wait to impoverish them."
Jeremy Corbyn.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve_news. We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏