A Grey Squirrel
the second image is a crop from the first showing the hide I was in reflected in the squirrels eye

#nature #squirrel #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #SqirrelsOfMastodon #UK

Funny how ‘annexation’ becomes ‘changing the map’ when it’s an ally. The West’s vocabulary shifts faster than its principles.

#Israel #Trump #Gaza #US #Hyprocrites #Europe #FreePalestine #Genocide #Uk #EU #Palestine #USPol #Zionism #Ukraine

This legislation is hugely important and politicians must never ever be empowered in this way. Digital ID is wrong on so many levels and for so many reasons I won't go into here. We absolutely do not need it in the #UK and it is anti-British and I am ashamed that this is even a discussion.

The answer is NO. NO to digital ID and you're sacked for even proposing it #STARMEROUT

#UK question: what is the difference between Civil Marriage and Civil Partnership in the UK (more specifically #Scotland if it changes anything)? Why would you choose one over the other? Is it just that "civil marriage" is more likely to get recognised internationally?

I can't seem to find any clear info on this online..
Edit:

• this Reddit thread gives some info, but mostly unsourced. In this one someone summarised the England & Wales rules.
• this page from what seems to be a legal firm is quite useful and focuses on Scottish law.

Basically it seems that the few legal differences are inconsequential.

#CivilPartnership #CivilMarriage

Civil Partnership or Marriage – What are the legal differences? - Gillespie Macandrew

We have prepared a helpful factsheet on the legal differences between becoming marital spouses or civil partners.

^{Lauren.Forgie@gillespiemacandrew.co.uk (Gillespie Macandrew)}

Green Party (of England & Wales) membership stood at around 68,000 when @ZackPolanski became leader & in not even 3 months, the party’s membership has increased by over 100,000 people!

That is not just a monumental shift, we are seeing the first signs of a literal restructuring of #UK politics.

The people yearn for compassionate and sensible #politics, not pandering to the rich and racist.
thecanary.co/trending/2025/11/…

The Green Party hits 170,000 members — and still climbing - Canary

The Green Party is still smashing it, adding members as fast as Labour are losing them — 200k by Christmas?

^{Willem Moore (The Canary)}

“GAZA: BRITAIN’S SEVENTH GENOCIDE”

by Mark Curtis in Declassified UK

@Declassified_UK @UKLabour @palestine@fedibird.com
@Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@BBCNews @AlJazeera

“Since the 1960s, Labour and Conservative governments have supported or acquiesced in several cases of genocide across Africa, the Middle East and Asia”

declassifieduk.org/gaza-britai…

#Press #UK #Britain #Genocide #Gaza #Biafra #Nigeria #Iraq #Kurds #Halabja #EastTimor #Indonesia #Zimbabwe #Rwanda #Bosnia #CrownImmunity

Gaza: Britain’s seventh genocide

Since the 1960s, Labour and Conservative governments have supported or acquiesced in several cases of genocide across Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

^{MARK CURTIS (Declassified Media ltd)}

#Pornhub Is Urging Tech Giants to Enact Device-Based #AgeVerification

The company sent letters to #Apple , #Google , and #Microsoft pushing for an alternative way to keep minors from viewing #porn , as #US and #UK laws have caused its traffic to plummet.
#privacy #security

wired.com/story/pornhub-is-urg…

"Microsoft has ‘ripped off the NHS’, says MP amid call for contracts with British firms"
theguardian.com/society/2025/n…

Not just the NHS. Universities and the whole UKRI are under its grip, incomprehensibly. How was this frog ever not going to be boiled? And it's not for lack of good alternatives.

#NHS #UK #Microsoft #DigitalSovereignty

Microsoft has ‘ripped off the NHS’, says MP amid call for contracts with British firms

Samantha Niblett highlighted government’s multi-billion-pound deals with Microsoft and ‘getting locked in’

^{Robert Booth (The Guardian)}

The UK comedian and writer Robin Ince is giving Mastodon a go, you can follow him at:

➡️ @robinince

People unfamiliar with his work can find out more at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_In…

#Comedy #UKComedy #UK #RobinInce #Comedians

English comedian, actor and writer

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

The UK and Denmark are so poor, so immoral, so without humanity, so uncivilised that they will steal the last belongings of refugees. What sad, pathetic countries. How embarrassed must their people be?

theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/n…

#UK #Denmark #refugees #inhumanity #immorality #forShame

Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister

Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK

^{Peter Walker (The Guardian)}

Westerners will literally steal from refugees rather than go to therapy.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/n…

#UK #Denmark #inhumanity #refugees

Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister

Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK

^{Peter Walker (The Guardian)}

Why do I get the feeling that lately, in so many countries, new regulations are popping up with only one purpose - to erode privacy 🔓? It feels like a bad joke. I can't keep up anymore.

I wish I could fight them all at once, put pressure everywhere 🌍, no matter where I live. But I don't have the time. I'm already drowning in an endless to-do list.

Why couldn't the government set a different deadline? Why are they so determined to push this through? My mind can't wrap around it I just hope they come to their senses and never implement it 🙏

#Privacy #HumanRights #Switzerland #SwissPrivacy #EU #ChatControl #FightChatControl #UK #OnlineSafetyAct #AgeVerification #Surveillance #StopSurveillance

“Mandatory volunteering”, eh? If only there were a shorter word that described what that is.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/n…

#UK

UK charities condemn ‘immoral’ plans to force asylum seekers to volunteer

Making volunteering compulsory for refugees slammed as exploitative, bureaucratic and un-British

^{Patrick Butler (The Guardian)}

Good. Stop enabling the fascist #Trump regime’s #ExtrajudicialKillings

#UK suspends some #intelligence sharing with #US over boat strikes in major break

The #UnitedKingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the #Caribbean because it does not want to be #complicit in US #military strikes & believes the attacks are #illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

#law #murder #DueProcess #WarPowers #Congress
cnn.com/2025/11/11/politics/uk…

I'm not sure but this Kingfisher looked like he a had a yawn

#nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK #BirdScrolling

"Together with visa application fees, scientists hoping to move to the U.K. face paying more than £20,000 up front for a family of four, 17 times more than in comparable countries, which makes it challenging to recruit talent."

Combined with abysmally low salaries and high costs of living, well, we are past "urgent action needed". Bring on desperate measures instead.

#UK #academia

"U.K. science sector is ‘bleeding to death,’ lawmakers say in report"

"House of Lords committee urges government to stem exodus of science and technology companies"

science.org/content/article/u-…

You don't say.

#UK #UKRI

Happy to see Lindsay Sandiford finally escape the death penalty in Indonesia.

bbc.com/news/articles/cd043m90…

It’s a tragic and not clear-cut case but everyone deserves legal representation (and I find the death penalty barbaric). In 2013, when the UK government wouldn’t help her, we did and paid for her appeal:

ar.al/notes/save-lindsay-sandi…

#LindsaySandiford #UK #Bali

Lindsay Sandiford flown home after 12 years on Indonesian death row

Lindsay Sandiford, who was sentenced to death in Indonesia in 2013, was freed on humanitarian grounds.

^{Kelly Ng (BBC News)}