This Spring I'm documenting the awakening of Pembroke College gardens in Cambridge, UK. Posts will touch on flowering plants, bushes and trees, and their visitors – largely bees, wasps, flies and butterflies, but also all other critters I happen to stumble upon. Aiming at one post per week.

Posts will appear here:
https://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news/all

First post: "The return of the queens" https://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news/return-queens (March 13th, 2025).

Second post, today: "Magnificent magnolia" https://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news/magnificient-magnolia

#Pembroke1347 #UK #CambridgeUK

The return of the queens | Pembroke

Pembroke gardens are once again full of flowers, signalling the arrival of a new season: Spring. While our calendars tell us that the equinox lays still 8 days away, the days have grown longer and, at this latitude, altitude, and very peculiar geogra…

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Apple Pulls iCloud Encryption Feature Following UK Government Demands

The company said it was "gravely disappointed" to no longer be able to offer Advanced Data Protection to iPhone users in the UK.

And So the Next Round Of Lost Privacy in the UK Begins

#News #Computing #Apple #Iphone #Encryption #Privacy #UK #EU #USA

Apple Pulls iCloud Encryption Feature Following UK Government Demands

^{Katie Collins (CNET)}

UK demands access to Apple users' encrypted data

The UK government has demanded to be able to access encrypted data stored by Apple users worldwide in its cloud service. Currently only the Apple account holder can access data stored in this way - the tech giant itself cannot view it. The demand has been served by the Home Office under the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA), which compels firms to provide information to law enforcement agencies.

No Matter Who Is At The Top The UK Government Is Still Authoritarian...and wants a Permanent Back Door

#News #UK #Apple #DataEncryption #PrivacyLaws #IPA #BigBrotherWatch #FascismRising #BBC

UK government demands access to Apple users' encrypted data

The Home Office served the notice to the tech giant under the Investigatory Powers Act.

^{Zoe Kleinman (BBC News)}

How I read the headline:
Apple finally bends over (to get fucked hard and screw over it's users for profits) for the UK Government, in order to further do business in the UK. 😅

Just another nail to the coffin for Apple in terms of claiming to be best in class for privacy of it's users data. 🙄

#Apple #UK #Government #Privacy #Security #Backdoor
@IzzyOnDroid

Wishing everyone peaceful and happy holidays! Thank you so much for following along for what has been an incredible year (I'll reflect more on 2024 in another post). For now, here are 4 new winter images from Scotland's Ancient Caledonian Forest. Enjoy 😀

#scotland #landscapephotography #forest #woodland #woodlandphotography #trees #winter #uk #unitedkingdom #happyholidays

The incredible (and often overlooked) mountain landscape of the Isle of Harris, Scotland. This place is rugged and unvisited, partly because the beaches of the island steal away attention and partly because of its unforgiving character. Many of these areas are fairly unexplored in terms of photography and I'm excited to spend a bit more time doing just that over the coming years.

#landscapephotography #landscape #nature #naturephotography #scotland #uk #photography

Urgent call to action! 🌍 #UK's heavy use of #palmoil #soy & #beef fuels global #deforestation. Demand stricter regulations & transparency. Make every purchase count and #Boycottmeat #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife, learn more:

http://palmoildetectives.com/2024/02/04/the-uks-hunger-for-palm-oil-soy-and-beef-putting-huge-pressure-on-worlds-forests/

UK Pressuring Forests For Palm Oil and Beef

Urgent call to action! 🌍 #UK’s heavy use of #palmoil #soy & #beef fuels global #deforestation. Demand stricter regulations & transparency. Make every purchase count and #Boycottmeat #…

^{Palm Oil Detectives}

Any folks in #Oxford interested in electronic and/or computer music?

We're doing another event at #EOF tonight!

Please come by and/or boost!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oxford-generative-music-exchange-tickets-766396260847?aff=calendar #Oxford #UK #Music

(please pardon the title of the event, we're not focusing on generative music in specific but the title of the event hasn't been updated)

Oxford Generative Music Exchange

A jam of enthusiastic manipulators of sound signals. Exchange knowledge about algorithmic music, pattern generators, eurorack and more.

^Eventbrite

#Beef, #soy and #PalmOil products linked to #deforestation still imported into #UK | Deforestation | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/06/beef-soy-palm-oil-products-deforestation-imported-uk-climate

#Environment #Biodiversity #Conservation

Beef, soy and palm oil products linked to deforestation still imported into UK

Campaigners accuse government of failing to stick to promises made at Cop26 climate summit in 2021

^{Helena Horton (The Guardian)}

#Beef, #soy and #PalmOil products linked to #deforestation still imported into #UK

Campaigners accuse government of failing to stick to promises made at #Cop26 climate summit in 2021
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/06/beef-soy-palm-oil-products-deforestation-imported-uk-climate
#ClimateCrisis #ToryPoliciesInAction #DontLookUp #ToryFailure

Beef, soy and palm oil products linked to deforestation still imported into UK

Campaigners accuse government of failing to stick to promises made at Cop26 climate summit in 2021

^{Helena Horton (The Guardian)}

Beef, soy and palm oil products linked to deforestation still imported into UK #AnimalRights #AnimalAgriculture #meat #beef #soy #PalmOil #environment #deforestation #UnitedKingdom #UK https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/06/beef-soy-palm-oil-products-deforestation-imported-uk-climate

And let's not forget that most of the soy is fed to animals to make meat and milk..

Beef, soy and palm oil products linked to deforestation still imported into UK

Campaigners accuse government of failing to stick to promises made at Cop26 climate summit in 2021

^{Helena Horton (The Guardian)}

Twas a week ago exactly that we discovered our instance will be shut down due to a lack of funds. The activism instance has been operating for years and helping activists.

Please help your fellow activists if you can, especially, if you live in the #UK or Europe and can donate more anonymously.

Ten dollars of $250 raised so far.

@witchescauldron

Apparently, the #DailyMail has just launched "Woke Watch", where red faced pillocks send in angry e-mails, complaining about transgender asylum seekers giving their house prices pronoun cancer, or something.

Anyway, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should one e-mail wokewatch@dailymail.co.uk to #Troll, #Shitpost or just plain take the piss. No, that would be WRONG. Oh, for shame!

#News #UK #Media

Woke up super early and hopped on a train from London to Kent, thought I should try Gravesend market for about 200 of my handmade jewellery. It's very empty and I'm yet to make enough to cover the cost of travel here.. anyone in Kent? Anyone who knows anyone in Kent? Come say hi ❤️
My Etsy shop:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/GenderlessBySkaly

#UK #Kent #England #london #unitedkingdom #saturday #caturday #jewellery

#handmade #art #artist #artists

In an eerily similar #SwampSunday #News story, a girl was rescued from a "pond and swamp area" in #FernhillHeath, near #Worcester, in the #UK.

https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/23635806.fernhill-heath-girl-stuck-swamp/

Tarn Hows is always a good bet for a lovely summer evening's walk.

It's all looking a bit dry now though.

More photos are ready for you here -> https://www.iancylkowski.com/blog/2023/6/8/tarn-hows-lake-district-summer 👍

#landscape #nature #travel #summer #photo #photographie #photography #lakedistrict #cumbria #uk #britain #england

Content warning: murder, transphobia, ukpol Reveal/hide

i don't even know what to say about this. the uk times btw

#trans #uk #transphobia #briannaghey

Ukraine: Boris Johnson says Putin threatened him with missile strike

Ukraine: Boris Johnson says Putin threatened him with missile strike

Boris Johnson says he had an "extraordinary" call with President Putin before the Ukraine invasion.

^{By James Landale, diplomatic correspondent, & William McLennan (BBC News)}