Jim Parkin @ParkinJim@social.cleverlibre.org

@ParkinJim it's not even a question for me given the risk that comes with being infected.
Did we ever encourage people to get infected with HIV or the measles? Encouraging chicken pox parties, in retrospect, only exposed children to a virus that exhibits latency. It's all so wrong.

Thanks again for all the lovely comments posted on my recent images.

Today's is one of my favourites from over a decade ago, at a site run by Worcestershire Wildlife Trust, and is of a common kingfisher.

We watched this male fishing in the small lake for over an hour. Mostly he preferred diving from posts at the water's edge, but when he flew up into this willow tree, I made sure I got the shot.

#kingfisher #worcestershire #bird #photography #wildlife

Lime lines...Me & him 🐾 out for a wander & capturing an abstract view from above. We spotted a local #exmoor farmer spreading lime on the hilly moorland pastures at dusk & couldn’t resist taking a peek 👀 #abstractaerialart #abstractphotography #dronephotography #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhiteisworththefight #droneart #droneartwork #dronepointofview #abstractaerialphotography #theviewfromaboveisamazing #exmoornationalpark #somerset #artiseverywhere #neverknowinglynotabstract

"Yes, I’m looking at you Fucker Carlson, and Cruella de Ingraham, and Alex Jones, and Sean Hannity. I’m talking about selfish, sadistic, cretins who most likely don’t even have any personal prejudices against the minorities and communities, just so they can make a buck. because the blind hatred that they spew increases their ratings, and make it possible for them to demand ever higher phat contracts to continue to keep doing the same."

https://politizoom.com/shame-on-you-tucker-carlson/

@Chillax unfortunately as we still have First Past The Post, sometimes you have to hold your nose and vote for something less than perfect to try and make change.

Don’t let “perfect” be the enemy of “good”.

But we absolutely need proportional representation.

Intentional or not, getting fired by publicly contradicting Elon was a brilliant move.

Under normal circumstances, contradicting the boss in a public forum is a bad idea. BUT THESE ARE NOT NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES.

https://www.globalnerdy.com/2022/11/15/intentional-or-not-getting-fired-by-publicly-contradicting-elon-was-a-brilliant-move/

#Twitter #BirdSite #BadBosses #Elon #Career #Job #Work

@PublicChaffinch In the state of Glasgow three hundred thousand dairy crimes are reported every day. Only one group of brave men and women and dogs stand between the people and total hullabaloo.

They are the milk squad

These are their stories

the milk cop is here. hide your milk!

I've enabled full text searching on this instance.

To quote from the docs

"Mastodon supports full-text search when ElasticSearch is available. Mastodon’s full-text search allows logged in users to find results from their own statuses, their mentions, their favourites, and their bookmarks. It deliberately does not allow searching for arbitrary strings in the entire database."

Despite being a red-listed wader in decline , 160,000 woodcocks are shot each year in the UK . If you think that's wrong , join our call to limit the shooting season at chrispackh.am/woodcock https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/619615

Thread 5/. The study authors warn

“To date, over 620 million people have been infected by SARS-CoV-2 with a significant proportion of them infected during the Omicron wave. While most patients survived the infection, post-COVID-19 sequela including neurological manifestations are common. The increased efficiency of BA.2 to replicate and causing apoptosis in the brain organoids is alarming, indicating that the long-term consequence of BA.2 infection in the CNS should be closely monitored”

This is going to be like food banks.

Conservatives will boast of this new scheme, when in fact it just papers over and medicalises a societal issue.

We should be enabling people to afford to heat their homes to buy enough food.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/doctors-prescribing-heating-patients-who-28558973

Up on Rannoch Moor, Buachaille Etive Mòr stands guard at the entrance to the Pass of Glencoe. On this particular day, the temperature had plummeted overnight and snow had fallen. When I arrived below the mountain, I was in thick fog which slowly lifted over the course of the morning. This drone shot shows the peak sticking out as the sun caused the fog to burn off.

#Photography #LandscapePhotography #Glencoe #BuachailleEtiveMòr

@JohnWest_JAWS @goodlawproject @doctoroxford @Fascinatorfun @ChrissieGrech

Covid vaccine misinformation is insidious.

Automated retweeting in a copy & paste fashion (much as the UK government does with its policy tweets) is common.

It is a nonsense, fact free story.