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

#animalsofmastodon
#animalphotography
#fediphotos
#petsofmastodon

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 #healthysoil structure was to let natural matter such as #leaves decompose into it and release #nutrients. Stripping away all the waste from a #garden, then buying #compost to #fertilise 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

#gardening
#Mulching

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 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 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 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

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

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/



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

‘They signed her death warrant’: how #probationservice 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

Annekin, to environment
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"The human-centric chatter, of course, misses the point – why a mature urban is cut back so severely that it may never regenerate or into joyful blossom as it once did."

The crowds flocking to ’s latest work are missing the point: the damaged tree at its heart | Gio Iozzi | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/20/crowds-flocking-banksy-tree-mural-missing-the-point-damaged-tree








Annekin, to news
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" isn’t . It responds to the news. It reacts. It’s performative and entertaining. There is drama and conflict. The show hosts and pundits talk about the news, but they make no attempt to cover all the news. Instead, they select from the news of the day, and then reinterpret, reframe, and unpack the news “through the lens of ideological selectivity.”

Invented Narratives and the - Teri Kanefield
https://terikanefield.com/invented-narratives-and-the-outrage-industry/

Annekin, to random
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"It was a far cry from Trump’s bleak, subdued victory speech at Mar-a-Lago on . When it was over, glum bolted for the door while mobbed as if he had just won the Super Bowl."

came out swinging at his address - will it be enough? | State of the Union address | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/08/joe-biden-came-out-swinging-at-his-state-of-the-union-address-will-it-be-enough

Annekin, to random
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"Critics of argue they benefit people living inside them largely by pushing traffic on to nearby roads. However, the DfT said this did not seem to be the case."

Rishi Sunak’s report finds work and are popular | Low-traffic neighbourhoods | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/08/low-traffic-neighbourhoods-generally-popular-report-ordered-by-sunak-finds

emptywheel, to random
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What the Information Operation about Joe Biden's Age Looks Like

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/03/04/what-the-information-operation-about-joe-bidens-age-looks-like/

Annekin,
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@emptywheel To me it feels like living in an echo chamber. One person mentions Biden's age. The press pick up on it & express an "opinion." The R's & D's start talking about it because the press have mentioned it. Then the media start talking about why everyone is talking about Biden's age. A narrative they started & everyone fell for. It's exhausting.

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

Annekin,
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@anathema_device I don't really know much about George Galloway. It does seem the only person he is serving is himself, & there is no evidence (according to most "pundits" I respect) that he intends to help the constitutents of Rochdale. I do wish those shouting the loudest about Gaza were actually genuinely motivated to stop the bloodshed, rather than using it to their political (& self serving) advantage. These are human beings we are talking about. Not chess pieces to be moved around at whim.

Annekin, to UKpolitics
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"This can’t go on. If #Sunak really wants to know why the country feels as if it’s falling apart, it’s because we haven’t got a functioning #government. All that he did get right was “enough is enough”. It is. Time for an #election.

Rish! purposefully grips his lectern – but shows he has no grip of the country | John Crace | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/01/rishi-sunak-purposefully-grips-his-lectern-but-shows-he-has-no-grip-of-the-country

#hypocrisy
#ToryHypocrisy
#UKpolitics
#ToryGovernment
#ToriesOut
#SaveDemocracy
#toryshitshow
#Righttoprotest

Annekin, to delhi
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"The number of within the boundary has seen a huge drop compared to the year before, two thirds of a reduction, or 64 per cent to be precise. Data also shows that the polluting around the boundary has also dropped by 18 per cent – suggesting that more and more people are making the switch to cleaner vehicles."

A year on living with the
https://sheffnews.com/news/a-year-on-living-with-the-clean-air-zone/






Annekin, to climate
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"Surrounding with is the only sustainable way forward. “ works hand in glove with . We can have both,” she says. “We’ve got the space for both.”

‘Does sort ? Yes!’: UK expert says can save planet and not harm | Farming | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/25/rewilding-climate-change-biodiversity-isabella-tree-nature-planet-farming

Annekin, to Futurology
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"This particular found that sites such as the and at Kew in London, or the Gardens by the Bay in Singapore, reduced air temperatures during in the city streets around them by an average 5C.

Botanical gardens ‘most effective’ at cooling streets in | Environment | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/23/botanical-gardens-most-effective-green-space-at-cooling-streets-in-heatwaves

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