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Annekin

@Annekin@mstdn.social

Semi retired perpetual student currently living in Sheffield (UK). Career & academic background in #Film, #CriminalJustice, & #Psychology. BA, MA & MSc, & trying to decide what to do next. Interested in the #Environment, #WildlifeGardening, #ForensicPsychology, & British & American #Politics, which I view with a mixture of fascination & horror. Big fan of #CriticalThinking, & trying to separate fact from #Misinformation. Cant say to no to #Cats

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compost, to gardening
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To us, the best mulch that you can use for the garden beds does not come from the garden center.

It is whatever biomass you have next to you that can be used and that is free.

This year I have used leaves from our trees in the garden beds and chopped weeds into the aisles.

Yes, it is labor-intensive to do that but I know that every year I have this resource available for free. So instead of sending this yard waste to the landfill and creating greenhouse gasses, it is best to find ways to use it in the garden.

What mulch do you like to use for your garden?

Annekin,
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@compost I recently started chopping up prunings & using them for mulch. I also make sure I don't tidy up much over winter. So leaves/twigs etc stay on the earth where they fall.

Annekin, to random
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We use acid free (the grass, not the Panda food). I'm sure at some point I'll find there's an with them (hopefully not though). But at the moment I feel I'm doing something to

Caught short: lack of recycled toilet paper in UK ‘fuelling deforestation’ | Trees and forests | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/24/lack-recycled-toilet-paper-fuelling-deforestation-office-waste-covid-tissue

Annekin, to animals
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richrollgardener, to gardening
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Could not resist sharing these beautiful Violas in the pots by my front door!






@gardening

Annekin,
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@JimmyB @richrollgardener @gardening same here! I'm basically buying food for them rather than flowers for myself 😀

Annekin, to random
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"A few members of the Commons sat in a modest room & took evidence from & about how might actually do something useful to end the bloodshed. The discussion was serious & practical – and delivered precisely zero attention or political benefit to those involved."

stands accused of profiting from the pain of – and rightly so. But he is not the only one | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/01/george-galloway-profiting-pain-gaza-rochdale

killyourfm, to gardening
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Nature is ridiculous! This transformation of the strawberry runners I ordered happened within ONE WEEK. They arrived after being in the mail for 6 days. I just stuck the roots in water for a couple hours, planted them, and voila. Thriving. This will never stop blowing my mind.

Young strawberry plant sprouting in potting soil with visible fuzzy stems and fresh green leaves.

Annekin,
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@killyourfm I have the same reaction with seeds. You plant these tiny dots in soil & they grow into plants. It's like magic (except it's not!) 🌻

Annekin, to USpolitics
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The writer of this piece is a member of the National Journalism Centre which is a Conservative political organisation which counts as it's former alumni Stephen Miller, political advisor during the presidency. So it should come as no surprise that this journalist would post a hit piece masquerading as concern for 's health.

https://press.coop/@thehill/110652386092156620

Annekin, to gardening
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"Healthy soils... could hold up to eight times more water than more depleted soils. And one of the ways to build structure was to let natural matter such as decompose into it and release . Stripping away all the waste from a , then buying to it, was counter intuitive."

‘Get rid of your green waste bin and let leaves rot into the #
soil,’ says garden expert | Gardens | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/29/get-rid-of-your-green-waste-bin-let-leaves-rot-into-soil-says-rhs-garden-expert


Annekin, to solar
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Research finds that if all land identified were developed for onshore or , 2.5 times more than currently required... could be produced. Given the also has huge offshore and potential for other sources such as rooftop , not all the land identified would be required to help boost the country’s output.

Mapping: England could produce 13 times more |

https://friendsoftheearth.uk/climate/mapping-england-could-produce-13-times-more-clean-energy

Annekin, to mentalhealth
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Not sure how you can call an "indefinite detention" (the clue being in the word indefinite) unduly lenient. Partic when you have already accepted a manslaughter plea on the basis of diminished responsibility (this is a rhetorical question btw)

Nottingham attacks: attorney general considering killer’s sentence for review | Nottingham | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/26/nottingham-attacks-attorney-general-considering-killes-sentence-review-valdo-calocane




Annekin, to climate
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Landmark High Court win for Mayor means ULEZ expansion will go ahead | London City Hall
https://www.london.gov.uk/landmark-high-court-win-mayor-means-ulez-expansion-will-go-ahead

Annekin, to DadBin
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and are pillars of and . Yet experienced professionals are increasingly scared to openly discuss their views on the treatment of questioning their ."

‘This isn’t how good scientific debate happens’: on in research | Transgender | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/12/this-isnt-how-good-scientific-debate-happens-academics-on-culture-of-fear-in-gender-medicine-research





Annekin, to random
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...Has anyone else noticed there is a global crisis and there are much more pressing issues to worry about than a little less honey? What about the vast cocktail of sprayed over our landscape? The has just allowed – for the fourth time – the use of a bee-killing banned for use in the EU.

Chris Packham on the : there are bigger enemies than these bovver buzzers | Invasive species | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/11/asian-hornet-chris-packham

Annekin, to Europe
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"The ruling is binding and can trickle down to influence the law in 46 countries in including

BBC News - rules violated by
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68768598







Annekin, to FreeSpeech
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“...This case is about punishing the Defendants for their speech.”

#ElonMusk vs. Center for Countering Digital Hate: Nonprofit wins dismissal of ‘baseless and intimidatory’ lawsuit brought by world’s richest man — Center for Countering Digital Hate | CCDH
https://counterhate.com/blog/elon-musk-vs-ccdh-nonprofit-wins-dismissal-of-baseless-and-intimidatory-lawsuit/

#FreeSpeech
#CenterforCounteringDigitalHate
#Fedilaw

Annekin, to environment
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"Big or small, pot or plot - interconnected have a significant impact on . Even small offer high levels of nectar production, with 85% of the total produced across a city provided by them."

Why every garden matters | Garden Organic
https://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/news/backyard-biodiversity




Annekin, to conservative
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"Britain’s loudest has had a very successful breeding year, with 24% more male recorded doing their mating “booming” noise in 2023 compared with five years ago.

Boom in mating calls of Britain’s loudest bird signals successful breeding year | | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/05/boom-mating-call-britain-loudest-bird-breeding-year-male-bitterns






Annekin, to wildlife
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"We spoke to hundreds of people, and were heartened by the majority saying that they had already begun to think of what they can do. Some had built a pond, some had left their lawn to grow long, some had made holes in their fences to allow the hedgehogs to move across gardens, and some had left log piles to create habitats for our beleaguered wildlife."

The power to help the planet is at your (green) fingertips | Gardens | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/31/the-power-to-help-the-planet-is-at-your-green-fingertips

#wildlife
#WildlifeGardening

Annekin, to AncientHistory
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#Excavations at #SheffieldCastle heat up with #19thCentury #steel working discoveries | #WessexArchaeology
https://www.wessexarch.co.uk/news/excavations-sheffield-castle-heat-19th-century-steel-working-discoveries

#archeology
#sheffield
#SouthYorkshire
#history
#sheffieldhistory

Annekin, to Flowers
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"There’s [a] downside of resuming mowing after May. #Bees are... clever creatures that can learn where flowers are in their environment (your garden). This...is called “flower constancy”, & is critical to how #honeybees & bumblebees survive. When the wild patches are cut...all the energy & effort the bees have put in to learning where to find these #flowers is wasted."

As #NoMowMay ends, here’s why we should keep patches of lawn permanently wild
https://theconversation.com/as-no-mow-may-ends-heres-why-we-should-keep-patches-of-lawn-permanently-wild-229964

#WildlifeGardening

Annekin, to random
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If that's how you look at 61. Bring it on!

Wes Streeting mocks Tories over ‘sleepy’ name-calling attacks on Starmer | General election 2024 | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/29/wes-streeting-mocks-tories-over-sleepy-name-calling-attacks-on-starmer

#AgeDiscrimination
#Toriesout
#UKGeneralElection
#GeneralElection
#owngoal

Annekin, to Bloomscrolling
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My & is finally in bloom. = happy me

Photo of wild garlic in bloom in a planter in the foreground. There is a fence and cowslips in bloom in the background

Annekin, to Bloomscrolling
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My backyard is looking very green & perky. #Bees are loving the #pelargoniums & #allium. Everything else is in bud & just waiting for another spate of warm #sunny (but not too hot please!) weather to come into bloom #Bloomscrolling
#Gardening
#WildlifeGardening
#backyardgarden
#smallgarden

Photo of right hand side of backyard. With view of street over the wall (above the plants) to the right. There is a wooden table in the foreground with plants in plant pots not yet in bloom. To the left is a Daphne which had finished flowering. Other plants are budding in anticipation of summer

Annekin, to random
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The 2024 Comedy awards – in pictures | World news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2024/may/10/2024-comedy-pet-photo-awards-in-pictures




Annekin, to random
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I worked for the for 15 yrs. The last 2 for the after it was privatised. This article reminded me of my failed attempts to get an extremely risky case classified as high risk. Bc of privatisation, this meant he would be transferred to the (who supervised high risk cases) 1/4

‘They signed her death warrant’: how failings left a violent man free to kill | Femicide | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/24/father-michaela-hall-murder-victim-probation-service

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