GreyShuck

@GreyShuck@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government will send a test Emergency Alert to mobile phones across the UK at around 15:00 on 7th September 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There have, evidently, been a few of these in the past. Neither my personal phone nor my work one has ever received one though. Nor has my SO’s if it comes to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How a £1.5bn ‘wildlife-boosting’ bypass became an environmental disaster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Edwards insisted that lessons had been learned and that in 2023 National Highways had carried out a full soil survey and a three-month tree analysis.

  This revealed they had planted the wrong species in the wrong place, and provided valuable lessons about the most appropriate season in the year to plant a tree, he said.

  As someone who has been involved in planting schemes, I can say that this is absolutely bog-standard basic stuff. There is no excuse for this at all. No-one employed as any kind of ecologist should have got this wrong. People should be sued for this at the very minimum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you read and understand this passage?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. Why do you ask?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elk could return to UK after 3,000 years in new rewilding plan⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ha, yes. They have now updated the photos. I imagine that there were quite a few people pointing this out to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elk could return to UK after 3,000 years in new rewilding plan⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The photos that the Independent are using at North American elk - Cervus canadensis. However, the species that they are actually looking to introduce are Aces alces - Eurasian elk, which are what North Americans know as moose.

  The Guardian did get this right a few days back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You must take a long road trip with Donald Trump and no one else in the car. Security is everywhere; no one is in danger. You drive and control the radio, but can only play music. What's the playlist?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Chumbawamba’s discography - or even just this one on repeat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 42 year old new hire at your job confesses to you that he has had 48 different jobs in his life. What is your opinion on that?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  By that age, I was into my third long-term job (> 5 years) and had had upwards of 16 short term ones - multiple part time ones at once, or some just for a few weeks or a couple of months here and there between the long-term ones etc.

  48 doesn’t seem that unlikely - nor even an indicator that they will not be staying put for any length of time unless your job is a shitty one with a high turnover anyway.