December's historical wildlife map is of the (harbour/grey) #seal! According to my research, seals were widespread around Britain and Ireland 250-500 years ago! 🐕​🧜‍♀️​

Interestingly, seals started to decline after the end of the #EarlyModern period due to increased hunting. Around 1900 they had become so rare that they had to be legally protected. They have recovered pretty well since, and it's now pupping season, so look out for them if you walk on the coast this winter! 🌊​🔭 #histodons #mammals

Happy #SaveTheEaglesDay!
Where I live now, eagles seem impossibly mythic birds, but according to my research, just 250-500 years ago White-tailed Eagles (or Sea Eagles) were widespread around the coasts of Britain and Ireland. The last native White-tailed Eagle was only shot in 1918! 🌬
But this is not the end of the story. The eagles are reintroduced on Mull, Wester Ross and Fife in Scotland, Killarney NP in Co Kerry and now the Isle of Wight in England. Please post pics if you see one! 🦅💚

Stormont brake

Not to be pulled except in an emergency

New post, free to read:

https://rozenberg.substack.com/p/stormont-brake

10 Symptoms of the #Woke Mind Virus

Keir Starmer calls for a windfall tax on the record-breaking profits on energy companies.

Rishi Sunak says the Tories did that last year.

Starmer says the Tories introduced a tax on Shell and they haven't paid.

#PMQs

Keir Starmer points out that the economic crisis is the responsibility of the Tory Party and Liz Truss's 55 Tufton Street car crash of a budget last year.

Rishi Sunak says Keir Starmer should stand up to the trade unions.

#PMQs

I've added some new notebooks to the updated #Trove unpublished (aka diaries, letters, archives) section of the #GLAMWorkbench. They all relate to finding, using, & analysing the NLA's digitised manuscript finding aids (which are somewhat submerged beneath other content).

One notebook, finds the finding aids, another one gathers some summary information about all 2,337 finding aids, and a third helps you reconstruct the hierarchy from the HTML of a single finding aid & saves the content as JSON.

There's also a couple of new datasets – the list of finding aid urls, and the summary data from all of them.

See: https://glam-workbench.net/trove-unpublished/

#GLAM #archives #histodons @histodons #ozHist

How commercial platforms fuel the climate crisis. Malte Rödl and I write on algorithmically embodied emissions: "By reinforcing high-carbon practices, algorithmic information systems contribute to climate change". Part 2 in Data & Society's series on algorithmic harm. https://points.datasociety.net/algorithmically-embodied-emissions-algorithmic-harm-and-climate-change-e2617eb4770d @datasociety #ClimateCrisis #sts #google #algorithmicharms #infrastructurestudies

Overheard: “Not all heroes wear capes. Or tops, it seems.”

The Arctic blast in the northeastern U.S.& Canada reminded me of this #ClimateChange comic from nearly a decade ago by @rosemarymosco of Bird and Moon Comics. https://rosemarymosco.com/ #weather

This isn't a cost of living crisis. This is an excess profit crisis.

Our climate, energy and economic crisis is caused by the extreme greed of the richest 1%.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/shell-makes-record-40-billion-annual-profit-2023-02-02/

"Society isn’t changing fast enough to stop climate change" by Saul Elbein for @thehill: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3839348-society-isnt-changing-fast-enough-to-stop-climate-change-study/

RT @Haggis_UK@twitter.com

Alastair Campbell: "For Sunak to say nothing to see here... while Zahawi kept changing his story... frankly lying, a straightforward breach of the ministerial code... & the public do care... they care that this lot are utterly incapable of doing anything, b/c they're dishonest.."

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1617943543460548609

RT @TheGreenParty@twitter.com

🥀 Labour's plans will do nothing to fix the damage being done by Brexit and they ignore strong public support for a closer relationship with the EU.

💚 Only the Green Party will create closer ties with the EU and rejoin when the political conditions are right.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TheGreenParty/status/1617949478115282948

Getting our economics right really matters https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/01/25/getting-our-economics-right-really-matters/.We are in an economic ness precisely because we are not adequately funding state services - contrary to what the government and conventional economics says

RT @Britain_People@twitter.com

🔴Now it transpires Zahawi lived ILLEGALLY in his mansion for a decade

But Local Authority failed to take action against him

Zahawis granted immunity from enforcement action after 10yr time limit elapsed on such breaches under planning legislation.👇

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11672143/Nadhim-Zahawis-family-lived-Cotswolds-mansion-breach-planning-conditions.html

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Britain_People/status/1618048784474472448

last night I was listening to a file on 4 prog about a primarily school in a deprived area: school provided laundry, cooked Xmas dinners, breakfasts, spare clothes. Can’t afford heating bill & roof dodgy.
And I thought of greedy rich Tories like #johnson #zahawi and #sunak #PMQs

RT @torydemolition@twitter.com

Sunak has a tough time pretending to give a shit about Nadhim Zahawi avoiding £3million in tax when his own wife avoided £20million.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/torydemolition/status/1615986678543388672

RT @MarkGComedyUK@twitter.com

If you don’t understand how recent the radicalisation of people to have complete toxicity towards trans people really is, in 2017, Theresa May’s Conservative Party were pro-self ID. That’s how quickly the bigots have taken charge of this country, and political discourse.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MarkGComedyUK/status/1615636378062131201