Why is this something anyone even considered doing?

We need nothing less than a profound humbling - a change of mindset and values, and a service relationship with Nature and each other if we are to survive. I don’t say this lightly. www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/the-...

🌎 #COP30 starts next week, and with the Paris Agreement’s 10-year anniversary approaching, this is a moment for delivery, not more targets; we need binding legislation. 🐝 It’s time for a joined-up climate and nature strategy. We need the Climate and Nature Bill. 👉 zerohour.uk/cop30 #CANBill

Well done Zohran! And of course the real victor of the day - typography.

Major revision of #GBRedList of plants published today shows 25% of our native & archaeophyte flora threatened with extinction. Many iconic widespread species classified as threatened for first time including Betony, Marsh Marigold, Devil’s-bit Scabious and Harebell. Another wake-up call for action!

A lesson in compassion and innovation from 1973

Well done all involved in years of data gathering, analysis, coordination & funding for this new GB red list. Dedicated work by top botanists. And thanks to the brilliant conservation orgs & land managers stemming the haemorrhaging of biodiversity too. Many declines but also some glimmers of hope

Mamdani's speech is SO GOOD: respectful, generous, sparkling.

Starting the day with a little dance of joy: this is great, and the bit about hands at the beginning is pure poetry:

I've joined the #CANBill campaign to demand the REAL change we need for our climate and nature. Join me and take action at action.zerohour.uk @zero-hour.bsky.social

everything is terrible! but at least there's always dog o'clock

"Oil field pollutants contain mercury levels that would make a thermometer blush" - oil fields in Marine 'Protected' Areas - puffins, seals, dolphins at risk if planned expansion goes ahead in the North Sea - poisoning spawning grounds for fish whose numbers are already plummeting

Hogweed still going strong, and being visited by insects, and Ivy-leaved Toadflax, Cymbalaria muralis in a warm spot at the foot of a wall #thewinter10 #Wildflowerhour

12/ The forth theme is focused on climate 'Solutions'. Kicking us off for this section is 'Tomorrow' (2015) by Cyril Dion and Mélanie Laurent that focuses on tracking down the solutions already being implemented all around us. mubi.com/en/my/films/...

@valarie.bsky.social Just looked at #Samhain and this is currently top of the thread:

Oop! #theWinter10 begins this weekend. Now where did I see that Herb Robert?

For the afternoon/evening crowd, here's an image of what I read in October - more info on the blog plus thoughts about November's reading! 😀

Would like to recommend Louie's regular Friday good news thread: kidlit and inclusiveness and everybody's good news of the week. lots of joy:

See, I told you this would be handy 😊 @backlisted.bsky.social listeners!

”the detour from grace”

TransActual have put together these handy FAQs to respond to MPs (or anyone else) who is still struggling to get their head round why the EHRC’s draft Code of Practice would be so devastating for the trans community. Feel free to share, download, print, whatever! transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...

"Our dreams of a better tomorrow may be similar to yours. We hope you will see us not as strangers, but as new neighbours who want to live in peace and grow together with you." A moving letter from Greater Manchester asylum-seeking hotel-residents. gmiau.org/assets/uploa... [3 page PDF]

Hallowe'en special up now. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, with guests Andrew Male and Laura Varnam in conversation with Una McCormack and Andy Miller. 🌬️🎃🧟 @andrewmale.bsky.social @drlauravarnam.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0Zde...

Ways to help: (Also: this is a climate justice issue)

We're so excited that #BookTrustStorytime is back in libraries for another year with five fantastic books to share with 0-5s! Based on librarians' feedback, this year we're sharing even more book-based activities & extra ideas to support #BookTrustStorytime. Find them here: https://bit.ly/3JjlF68

Literally one of the greatest soft power brands on planet earth driven into the ground by successive British governments that embrace failure, decline and irrelevance. on.ft.com/3Wq1XIT

A handy, simple refresher for anyone tackling a Brontë novel this weekend 📚🧡

A lovely listen for anyone who might happen to be reading a Brontë novel at the moment: From @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

If you were offered a portal, a way to step into the other-worlds, to reconnect with all that we have been and could be, would you take it? accidentalgods.life/let-the-wild #accidentalgods #podcast #spirituality #BooksofBlueSky #WritersofBlueSky #Books #Writers @tamsintheshed.bsky.social

Same Hogweed still going for this week's #WildflowerHour - three umbels of flowers waving in the wet windy field, as Autumn Colour begins in the distant woods:

Weaver of Dreams by Elfrida Vipont - the childhood of Charlotte Brontë and her siblings. Written as a children‘s book, vivid and memorable, and still on my shelves. Cover - a watercolour by Charlotte… /2

Lots more of this, please: youtu.be/YsMyrhBFJoM

Here’s another classic Pulp chorus

Copyediting some academic writing. Even my spellcheck doesn’t recognise the polycrisis

The fourth #AuthorInterview in our @womenwritersnet.bsky.social series takes place on Thur 23 Oct. Can’t wait to interview @brethertonwords.bsky.social about her new novel, The Fire In Their Eyes! Come and join us - you are welcome to ask the author your questions! @breakthroughbook.bsky.social

This book is beautiful, a true work of art, and would make a lovely winter gift 📚 🎁 (for oneself?) - there is a list of independent bookshop stockists on Jackie’s website and also here www.instagram.com/p/DN8gvqgAq32/

So our favourite places this week are *Denmark, and Portland? (*also dumped microsoft)

#WildflowerHour one last hogweed, standing not very tall, and flowering in the field. There was a late hay cut, and this has come up since then.

Just an ordinary meadow buttercup – so bright!

Creeping thistle, such an unlikely sugary pink colour flower, just a few left in the field

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

UK people- this is happening on 27th November and it would be really useful if more MPs were to go. You can write to yours w the form provided. @greenparty.org.uk @yourpartyuk.bsky.social www.nebriefing.org

Open the window to let the mobile internet in! Oh god it’s in here now with all its cat memes and weirdness

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment. An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action. A disinformation machine as our journalism fails. A bias machine as fascism takes root. A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

#NowReading Rebecca Solnit's essay collection "No Straight Road Takes You There"

"It is deeply unhelpful for politicians to make such comments and I encourage you to think about how your rhetoric might contribute towards unity rather than stoking division."