Steve is trying to remain positive at work today.

There are so many fucked up things with the current administration that it's hard to focus on one but this recent move is basically a death sentence for the planet. I've been involved with more boots on the ground actions over the years than I can count and this really bums me out.

🙄🇬🇧🙄🇬🇧🙄🇬🇧🙄🇬🇧 Love this! We are inundated with potholes!

After decades of recovery, southern right whales are showing signs of a climate-driven decline in breeding rates, which scientists say is a “warning signal” about changes in the Southern Ocean. #climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The intriguing tales of sky beings called Wandjinas who are believed to be the creators of the land and people. curioustuff.com/the-mysterio... #aliens #ancientaliens #ancientastronauts #ancienthistory #UFOs #ufosightings #UAPs #Ufology #ufolovers #extraterrestrials #mysteries

May you flow through life #nature #water #Devon

Art of July 2025 You can see and buy my stuff here by the way, just FYI and Bee Tee Dubs: www.chloecumming.com

Huh?!

Ireland, Day 1056 of The Rain. Everything is saturated to the grey of the sky. Moss covers every surface. The outdoors sounds like constant static. The entire staff of Met Éireann is on mental health leave. I’ve forgotten what dry clothes feel like. It is still a yellow weather alert. #SpeirGorm

Raskin: "I want the whole country to look at this. This is the attorney general of the US whose job is law enforcement. We've never had a witness who has misunderstood our rules and been unable to conform his or her conduct to our rules before. Excuse me."

Lucian Freud: Drawing Into Painting is at the National Portrait Gallery, London #art www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Very nice

More than half of the world’s new electric cars are now plugging into Chinese sockets instead of lining up at gas stations. By 2024, it is estimated that China’s EV sales were growing about 40% year on year, even as some Western markets stumbled. www.ecoticias.com/en/china-sol...

I'm over the moon to say that this one has sold. I'm so very grateful for the support 🙂

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Reporter details life for children and families detained in Texas migrant facility www.pbs.org/video/inside...

#WhenBeastsSpoke #LovelyDay #Bear

I've been to some countries where people live under military rule or autocracy. And without fail, one of the questions I get when they ask about life in the U.S. is whether it's true that Americans just let homeless people die on the street.

Cafe window view, Cockermouth. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFramed #ClassicMono 📷 #photography

My latest painting: Oil on panel, 70 x 100cm artachart.com #oilpainting #landscape #seascape #coast #irishart

well i'm not sure how to do that, but here's mine.

Robin and Cuckoo Chick Copic Markers and colored pencil on Fabriano paper 8.3″ x 11.8″ (21 x 30 cm) #birdart #birddrawing #animalart

“They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation,” said one attorney. Superb, deeply reported story, via @charpentier.bsky.social

My latest painting: Oil on panel, 70 x 100cm artachart.com #oilpainting #landscape #seascape #coast #irishart

Newly released Epstein files include a draft statement attributed to federal prosecutors that is dated the day before Jeffrey Epstein was found dead. www.thedailybeast.com/epstein-file...

Just sharing some of my unposted work. I hope you all had a wonderful week! #watercolor #smartist #sundayfringe #art #nature #axolotl

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

Septima Poinsette Clark (1898–1987) was an American educator and civil rights leader whose innovative literacy and citizenship programs empowered thousands of African Americans to vote and participate in democracy. #GirlPower #RadicalWomen #BlackHistoryMonth

Painting day today. Working on these. Noodling away. No idea.

Recently added birds to my Birds Shop. (Most of the other birds are doves, but that makes for a peaceful atmosphere) www.chloecumming.com/birds Please share and support my stuff x (if you like)

A look at the Coolglass ruling with input from @orlakelleher.bsky.social @lnbdublin.bsky.social @oisincoghlan.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Deliberative mini-publics (DMPs) bring randomly selected citizens together to learn, deliberate, and advise on sustainability policy. In this new article in Sustainability Science, we discuss how DMPs could improve relations between science, publics and politics. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

February's fossil of the month is now on display. Found by one of our wardens during a lunchbreak wander, this slab of limestone was hiding a mass of 200-million-year old crinoid heads and tendrils all entwined and laying over each other! #FossilFriday (1/2)

Nature Based Solutions are not tree hugging responses to the climate crisis. Serious people are persuading companies and utilities to spend serious money on green (grass) rather than grey (concrete) flood prevention. Rob Gardner CEO @rebalanceearth.bsky.social Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

“You don’t treat a flood where it ends up, you treat it where it starts. Upstream at the top of the catchment” How to use the land more cleverly to adapt to changing weather and future floods. #RTECountrywide #SpeirGorm Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Why the weather wobbled? Dr Jennifer Francis is one of the best #climate science communicators anywhere. She simplifies the incredibly complex forces degrading the Jet Stream to explain why our weather is increasingly getting stuck. #RTECountrywide #SpeirGorm Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

🗓️ Webinar alert! 🔔 A new study from @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social and @mason4c.bsky.social finds that Americans care about climate change more than you think. RSVP to join the conversation on Feb 10 at 12pm ET:

Four paintings from tne 'Bush flowers' series, by Raelene Stevens, contemporary Australian Indigenous artist from the Tweed Valley area of NSW #WomensArt

China’s #solar capacity set to overtake coal in ‘historic’ shift. #Wind and solar combined are projected to account for about half of #China’s total installed power capacity. www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

Meet the Co-Chairs Leading AMOC in Focus Introducing Hans Pörtner and Gerard McCarthy as the Co-Chairs of the newly launched Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) Report—AMOC in Focus, a joint assessment by JPI Climate and JPI Oceans. www.linkedin.com/posts/jpi-oc...

First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA! www.ciaraioch.com/artprints

Great, incredibly fast work here from the WasItUs team at ICARUS Maynooth @clairebergin.bsky.social and @lionel-swan.bsky.social looking at flooding from storm Chandra. www.rte.ie/news/environ...

Portrait of a handsome Lurcher, painted in 2015. Soft pastels on archival quality paper measuring 37.5 x 55cm 😊

Not sure whether the two boys have yet twigged this means a whole week of benign parenting in their future … 🤣

Uh oh www.theguardian.com/business/202...

A completely unexpected piece of news! I’m overwhelmed and enormously excited. Such a privilege and I’m so very grateful to astonishing artist Frances Bell & www.workshopsinyorkshire.com for giving me such an extraordinary opportunity.

#acrylic #painting #artyear #seaseascape #scape #art