If you see this, post a tree

In the tiny garden today 🌱

Farage uses Reforms new “Find My Councillor” app to try and locate some of the 70 plus Councillors they have lost since the May 2025 elections..

true story ..

Imagine removing the shock absorbers and brakes from a car, then driving faster in a storm. That's what we're doing by clearing forests. Indonesia's lost 1.2M ha of its natural "shock absorbers." The result? Unchecked floods. Every forest we destroy weakens our global resilience

As if you’d need more reasons not to use Amazon

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

🚨 BREAKING: half of people in the UK have lost access to community spaces - with families in the most deprived areas losing them fastest. Parks, libraries, leisure centres are essential for our mental and physical health. We all need places to connect. Especially when life is tough.

One city. 9 million people. All of us Londoners. We will never be divided.

Outrage generates clicks, which is why you'll have noticed a surge in online content talking London down. Be vigilant: so much of what we see online is far from real. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Still in recovery from norovirus but have done loads of laundry. Now ironing. Best spot of daylight is front window. Passers by often look twice. Nobody under 40 irons these days I know, but my cotton bedding is part of my recovery!

www.theguardian.com/business/202... My nearest supermarket is one of these and here's why I never use it

Nearly time for Britain's bent press to pretend that peaceful marches are hateful and hateful marches are peaceful. Careful wording and editing required to deny reality Little Tommeh ten names yobs will be snorting coke, boozing and pissing everywhere. MMS camera crews will somehow miss most of it.

For the first time in ages, my peace lily 🌱 is flowering! I hope it's a good sign ✌️ 🕊 🇵🇸

Elm seeds 🌳 #NatureWithin

Stay safe, everyone who is out today in London. This is going to be an absolute shitshow.

Wes Streeting isn’t the answer to anything, except possibly: “Which openly gay Labour MP has done the most to make LGBTQ+ people’s lives worse since he became part of the government in 2024?”

"It’s a bit of a sanctuary" This is Fallowlees Farm – a welcoming, safe space on the Wallington estate in Northumberland - is run by West End Women & Girls Centre. The farm gives 1300 women and girls from Newcastle’s West End space to grow, learn new skills and spend time outdoors.

Hard to believe I have the same virus/bug I had last month! Lost 36 hours. Recovery started today. 🤢

"I can't lie, dad. It's bad. We've run out of tea bags."

"Hit back" in the sense of "pointed out that the 'concerns' were racist trolling and obviously they have every right to live here, stand here, be elected here and serve here." That kind of hitting back.

The tale of every single last Reform-led council so far is them discovering that there is no secret Net Zero Department for Pronouns that accounts for 45% of council budgets, panicking, ordering an entire budget surplus worth of flags, and then falling apart in acrimony.

We need more of this.

This.

Happy 100th birthday to Sir David Attenborough. There may be other news today, but I do not care for it.

Impromptu batch cooking. Stuffed mushrooms, peppers and aubergine ready for the oven.

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We're back, and greeting the summer term of seminars with school meals. What's not to love? Well, maybe lumpy custard and inequality, among other things. Join us in person at the lovely Institute of Historical Research in Bloomsbury, or online on Zoom. Free and very open to the interested public.

Re-upping this admirable thread. Old-fashioned scholarship.

#WolffBites: The MET Gala: showcasing what gross inequality enables billionaires to do for one another (and for those sad, desperate hangers-on they attract). www.cnn.com/2026/05/01/s...

Enslaved Labor and the Confederacy: What We Gain by Looking Closer #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez won a historic sum of $375 million in a landmark child safety case against Meta earlier this year. The next stage of the fight begins today, and it could be even more consequential for Meta and the social media industry at large.

BP made $3.2 billion in the first three months of 2026, which was more than double its profit from the same period last year. It did not achieve this by finding new oil or selling more of it. It did it by trading oil contracts. In other words: by betting on war. And your energy bill paid for it.

Dogsitting a hypervigilant Maltipoo isn't as relaxing as I'd hoped! 1/2

Guess whether it includes “why Farage was personally given £5 million, why he didn’t declare it and what he’s doing in return”

We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Another for the Quelle Surprise folder.

Glasshouse envy? 🌱🇬🇧 Chelsea Physic Garden

Meanwhile I’m trying to be very Zen with the ‘pricking out’ but honestly, after a while, it’s just a rather monotonous job! 🌱

Enkianthus campanulatus ‘Pagode’ or as I call it Japanese Pagoda plant. Low maintenance with bells on! Planted it a few years ago. Done nothing except to admire it.

Iris sibirica. Technically a marginal. Seems happy enough sitting in my pond! 🌱

We chose this gorgeous Ravilious painting to go on the front cover our edition of Tom Tiddler's Ground by Ursula Orange with intro by Stacy Marking. blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

There's been a major change in advice for those with bird feeders in their garden, with the public now being urged not to feed birds between May and October. The change in advice is due to a disease called trichomoniasis, which impacts greenfinches and other finch species. jrnl.ie/7028601

1 May 1840: The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, was issued in the United Kingdom. #History #Victorian #Philately #UK

🌼 Supporting native-plant landscaping is essential for local #biodiversity. 🐝 🐞 🦗 🐌 🕷 🐛 🐦 🦔 But in reality, most gardens are becoming increasingly artificial in order to be maintenance-free. 👇 www.bbc.com/news/article... 🌱 #gardening #NativePlants #Rewilding #Pollinators

Can someone explain to me why we shouldn't police incitement to hatred against some groups but we should against others?

“£240 Billion of income that has disappeared” So far… And Farage wants to scrap Labour’s reset, scrap the Brexit deal altogether in fact… and go to a leave-the-ECHR-no-deal Brexit. Has the country completely lost its mind? When will this idiocy stop? Prejudice as policy is ruinous.

Simple but hugely impactful Banksy installation in Regent's Street. Make it permanent.

🚨 actually important 🚨 sertraline 100mg being recalled - please check your meds www.gov.uk/government/n...