Multi-tasking. Preparing @abundancelondon.bsky.social posters for #AppleDay while reading about Parisian art.

Two colour-co-ordinated local influencers at today's @cheesemarket.bsky.social #lucycufflin and #bridgetosborne

21 July 1895 | A German Jewish woman, Grete Liebreich, was born in Wattenscheid. In February 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

@holland-tom.bsky.social chiswickcalendar.co.uk/hedgehog-hom...

So much of interest in the #V&A magazine, as opposed to the #Tate mag.

Just read this gripping, moving book. See you in #Chiswick in September. Will raise you grandmothers named Erna Borger, Studentenfutter & Viennese Nazis @julianborger.bsky.social @torindouglas.bsky.social @mliebreich.bsky.social

I won a prize for science @pintofscience.uk! This is unheard of. I can't tell you how chuffed I am with my engraved beer glass.

1/ The Trump admin may be about to greenlight the export of advanced AI chips to the Gulf. If it does so, it will place the most important technology of the 21st C at the whims of autocrats with expanding ties to China and interests very far from those of the US.

Don't take it from me. Take it from the government's own assessment: Everything Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have said about nature protection blocking house building is big fat shining lie. A lie now being locked into legislation before Parliament. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Turns out the newts didn’t do it

... @kareninagarden.bsky.social (Chiswick Flower Market) whom we have worked with on a number of projects tells the tale of Ginkgo Corner in our latest blog here www.createstreets.com/ginkgo-corne...

Organising a brainful of ideas. Art book, public art project, apple book, guerrilla gardens...

London street scene with moon.

Norway ski touring.

Planted a stunning flowering dogwood tree on the High Road today. #Chiswick #GinkgoCorner @chiswickflowers.bsky.social

A host of daffodils in an #AbundanceLondon garden. And a dumped cutlery stacker. Go figure?

Turnham Green Terrace piazza, created by #abundancelondon. Flowers + benches + art = music

Acton Green crocus wave @abundancelondon.bsky.social

Ask Bertrand Russell "How does fascism begin?" He replied: First, they fascinate the fools. Then they muzzle the intelligent.

Not only is it unlikely to happen but it throws out any belief in Labour caring about the environment. Spaffing political & environmental credibility for zero gain.

In the wake of DeepSeek's market-jolting release, @carnegieendowment.org's Matt Sheehan and I explain why export controls almost certainly still matter, how the Chinese govt is likely to respond, and what this means for the U.S.-China AI race more broadly carnegieendowment.org/posts/2025/0...

ChatGPT complaining that its work has been stolen to train DeepSeek #AI. Understand how it feels now? @societyofauthors.bsky.social

Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.

How widely should the US share its #AI technologies? Amid growing competition with #China, the Trump admin will have to grapple with this question as it reviews the Biden-era diffusion rule, writes @samwl.bsky.social. www.justsecurity.org/106545/the-f...

Tuesday - checking out a potential new @abundancelondon.bsky.social garden. And finally getting back down to The Book!

Saturday night, willow workshop. 57 people, aged 14 to 78 wove 10 obelisks for our guerrilla gardens around the area.

If I was on FB still I'd share this tree planting event to a list of local friends and know that a couple of dozen people would see it. I miss that. Not worth promoting disinformation and hate speech by staying there though. Please do share though, if I heard correctly there are lots to plant!

An icy day in London.

an excellent and very timely article Karen. the Second Reading of the Government’s new “Better Buses Bill” takes place in the House of Lords today. www.parliament.uk/business/new...

Are London's buses safe? www.the-londoner.co.uk/londons-buse... @londonermag.bsky.social @comadad.bsky.social @mliebreich.bsky.social @jeremyvine.bsky.social

What happens when techno-optimism meets energy system realism? My latest for @BloombergNEF is a long read on AI, called The Power and the Glory. So that's Boxing Day sorted! about.bnef.com/blog/liebrei...

Beehives in winter.

Stocking up on logs at the local #Carrefour

The French take their cheese seriously - a Beaufort vending machine at the railway station.

A window with a view. (A minimalist room of one's own.)

Happy Xmas / Chanukah / holiday season.

Elon Musk incite à ne pas donner à "Wokipédia" qui ose financer diversité, équité et inclusion. Si ce message du milliardaire d'extrême droite n'est pas une belle raison de plus de soutenir ce projet unique qu'est Wikipédia...

Calling green belt grey belt just so you can build on it (in this case unnecessary warehouses) is not the answer. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12... @hounslowcouncil @shantanurajawat

The devastation on its way is unimaginable - like nothing humanity has ever witnessed before - and everyone will wish they had been climate activists and ‘hysterics’ when they had the chance. We are in a moment of unprecedented stupidity

Turns out #Lewes in Sussex not only has the best bonfires but an amazing sparkly tractor parade. A hundred John Deeres, Massey Fergusons etc poured through the town, lit up, honking & playing music. Stunning.

Grimsby and Cleethorpe are not Chiswick.

Don’t forget Valencia, Spain. Don’t forget those who insisted that actions needed to avoid the #ClimateCrisis were “too expensive.” Don’t forget all the record-breaking, historic or “100 year” events we’ve seen lately. They’re not the “new normal. It’s going to keep getting exponentially worse.

I was on Radio 4's #StarttheWeek in 2005 for the publication of my book about paedophile priests in the 17th century. #BobGeldof was launching a new Africa appeal & I asked whether white men should be doing this. It was brave, cos he was St Bob. I got shot down. Good it's finally being questioned.

Wet Flower Market today. All done now til February!