Worth listening to (13.5 mins in)…citizen science will help to bring changes to how this precious life force is treated.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

This too…

Dacht even dat het De Speld was....

Nice essay from Kareem Abdul Jabbar about how the flu can make you realize "how fragile 'strong' really is," and an appreciation of "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold." Gesundheit, everybody.

This is a lovely story in the Guardian about the potential wildlife corridor across Northumberland….check out the map that shows Ashington (my home town) 👏🥳 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... interactive.guim.co.uk/uploader/emb...

Happy Christmas to all…may peace and love go with you today and every day. 💞

A massive, dangerous and disgusting scandal, of which far too few people are yet aware. At @fightingdirty.bsky.social we'll keep pushing to stop it. Congrats to @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social for continuing to shine the light: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Late afternoon…seedheads

Another interesting post shared by RS….all I ever read was that young men were weakened by WW1 but this explains much more.

"A significant biological explanation for high mortality among young adults in 1918 involves a “cytokine storm.” This occurs when the body’s immune system, in its effort to combat a pathogen, mounts an excessively strong and uncontrolled inflammatory response."

Lovely post…everything in perspective from RS, as usual

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

What to do when you get up in the morning…

Wonderful to see my friends @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social and @sunaura.bsky.social in the same paragraph in this essay drawing from both their recent books.....

1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵 www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...

An energy revolution is underway in this century, though it’s unfolded in ways slow enough and technical enough for most people not to notice (and I assume it’s nowhere near finished). It is astonishing – a powerful solution to the climate crisis... [Wrote it a while ago; came out yesterday.]

….and everything else is hope youtu.be/7yngZU-W2zk?...

A walk up the coast…

World’s highest court delivers historic protection for our world’s future

First they rewrite the past. Then they sell off the future. The NHS is next From The Bear

Written this morning. I once noted, "Dante had Beatrice. Orwell had Stalin." Negative muses are a thing. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/cynicism-is-...

What he said, and amen to it.

The government's Crime and Policing Bill is at Report Stage in the House of Commons. Yet scarcely anyone is alert to the implications of Sections 114 & 115, which (as everywhere's close to a place of worship), greatly increase police powers to shut down protest. Please tell MPs and friendly peers.

A problem we don’t even know we have! @georgemonbiot.bluesky.social

The magic of moss and what attention to it teaches us about the art of attentiveness to life itself www.themarginalian.org/2015/05/13/g...

Family day out….

If you sea this post a beach photo from your phone

everyone's said pretty much all there is to be said on the 'island of strangers'/'incalculable damage' stuff, so just sharing this by a migrant care worker on how it feels to hear yourself discussed like this while looking after people's loved ones www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

The most interesting guided visited to the beaver enclosure and the Hartburn, a tributary of the Wansbeck, by Heather from Wild Intrigue #robertmacfarlane

Congrats to @theguardian.com for co-launching the #89PercentProject - reminding us yet again that vast majority of world’s people want climate action. The climate denial of the populist right is the minority. The media needs to reflect this & governments urgently need to show far greater leadership

One of the most powerful forces in politics is the urge to destroy that from which you are excluded. This is why, in the highly unequal US, support for Trump holds up even as he trashes everything that makes a good society. Equality is key to preventing fascism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Two unqualified-for-their-job freeloaders call Europe a freeloader. From Jonathan Goldberg of the Atlantic's story about their massive incompetent infodump.

Yes, my dear friend. It’s been a beautiful week here…we are all blessed…and are keeping in touch.

This is an abysmal, brutally reverse-engineered instance of mega-corp fossil-fuel lawfare waged against Greenpeace. It’s a strategic takedown of a deep-rooted, rare-growing force for good on Earth. A(nother) desperate day for justice and the planet.

Latest essay, on inviting in and not selling out. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/stand-your-g...

There’ll always be rainbows…

Memories of a seasoned traveller….of no more (free to good homes)

I’m sharing what’s good in the world…

Morning folks….which path today! Choices choices…

This essay, mentioned by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social in his latest article, is chillingly relevant. Written in 2017, it is the warning we all downplayed back then. An unbearable depiction of the hatred for nature, vulnerability & femininity that has taken over in the US aeon.co/essays/the-m...

America….you can win ❤️ #@rebeccasolnit www.youtube.com/live/QlrQKv1...

They used to say war is how Americans learn geography. This civil war as Team Trump lays waste to most federal institutions is how Americans are going to learn what their federal government did.....

Repost with the first album you bought with your own money.

The moment before I completely overpaint it….

When maximum sentence for chaining yourself to railings is over twice maximum sentence for racially aggravated assault, anyone who cares about justice should be appalled. This is a dangerous, undemocratic & disproportionate attack on longstanding right to peaceful protest in UK #DefendOurJuries

Huge victory for common sense. There can be no new oil and gas developments if we are to stay within safe climate limits - govt must now refuse consent for the 13 other oil and gas drilling projects licensed by the previous govt www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What else…have your haggis and eat it!