Notices by Sarah Dal (sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social)

@neil I just picked this up for £25 on ebay, disappointingly the thing on top doesn't rotate slowly while its in use (it's not meant to, tbf) but otherwise works great

#Gull

@alxsim just been alerted to *.argyle.social which appears to just be stolen profiles all following each other, lots are "nature" or bird based accounts and i can see many are copied from ecoevo.social, is it a server we might want to block?

https://beige.party/@RolloTreadway/114211453892528963

Pride Toronto loses corporate funding as Trump’s DEI purge has chilling effect

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/27/pride-toronto-loses-funding-trump-dei-purge

The pinkwashing is being hosed off (we all expected this - of course corporations would never actually have our back).

Expect more of this, yes in the UK, including losing workplace protections - join a union if you can!

#lgbtq+

Haltwhistle Walking Festival, including 3 day trek to celebrate 60 years of the Pennine Way

https://www.haltwhistlewalkingfestival.org/

those annoying tile slide puzzles I could never solve, in map form!

https://bothness.github.io/anymap/

Phylopic - over 10,000 free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms

https://www.phylopic.org/

Gulls Eating Things! Citsci project to record photographs of what gulls are eating and where. Submit your pics here
https://citsci.org/projects/gulls-eating-stuff/

#TeamGull #CitSci #Gulls #Seabirds #CitizenScience

how do you explain to the public that actually the newts are important when they don't even think polio vaccinations are important

Wearing A Salmon On Your Head Is Back In Fashion For Orcas, After A 37-Year Break

https://www.iflscience.com/wearing-a-salmon-on-your-head-is-back-in-fashion-for-orcas-after-a-37-year-break-76971

The Lost Medieval Library Found in a Romanian Church

https://www.medievalists.net/2024/11/lost-medieval-library-found-romanian-church/

Awesome artwork from Māori artist Huriana Kopeke-Te Aho
https://www.instagram.com/p/DCX_ZTSSMhu/?igsh=MTFkZzJxaDR3ZGF2dA==

https://www.moanafresh.com/artists/huriana-kopeke-te-aho

Austrian Airlines Abandon’s Elon Musk’s X Platform Due to “Increasing Spread of Hate, Agitation and Disinformation”

https://www.paddleyourownkanoo.com/2024/10/31/austrian-airlines-abandons-elon-musks-x-platform-due-to-increasing-spread-of-hate-agitation-and-disinformation/

BP, recipient of a recent £22bn from the UK government, "abandons goal to cut oil output, resets strategy ... vowing instead to focus on returns and investing in the most profitable businesses, first and foremost in oil and gas."

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/bp-drops-oil-output-target-strategy-reset-sources-say-2024-10-07/

Hopes Farne Islands are clear of bird flu as puffin census gets underway

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c900114d0n4o

#HPAI #Northumberland

#Sheepstodon
#SheepOfMastodon #Northumberland

So many in this country are being exposed to unspeakable cruelty or threats of it, all so the the Tories can desperately try and salvage a few poll points. Is it working Rishi?

This is horrific - the new spousal visa limit applies to renewals as well. The current household income limit is £18,700 and it's being increased to a ridiculous £38,700. I can't fathom what damage this will cause to families and businesses

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/foreign-spouse-visa-uk-migration-crackdown-b2459168.html

@JohnDal I think it's the speed limit, you haven't driven past a speed sign for a while so it doesn't know what the speed limit is

Rebellious birds make nests
out of anti-bird spikes

https://www.naturalis.nl/en/about-us/media/press-releases/rebellious-birds-make-nests-out-of-anti-bird-pins