My mental health declined pretty badly last wk but some of you asked for more photos like the hunt-the-tiny-owl one I made & I wanted to try to make an advent calendar so:some lovely things that fell off trees & this time a tiny deer stag to find. Do let me know if you enjoy this & I'll make more 🦌

If you're going to read one article this weekend, make it this interview with the wonderful Zack Polanski. Share it widely. Honest answers to warm your heart fill you with hope. 💚

Perfect metaphor for how effective COP is at tackling climate change: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

That noise you can hear is probably me screaming in rage at this fucking incompetent, transphobic, racist, and ableist government. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We are in despair after the Home Secretary’s announcement yesterday. As an organisation helping couples and families survive the immigration system, we struggle to accept plans that make it easier to deport families and children. #FamiliesBelongTogether

Lately I've seen numerous stories about asylum seekers on the BBC News website. Without exception, every article has been headed with an image similar to the one below, regardless of whether small boats are even mentioned at all. That's real BBC bias for you. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Covid really is the gift that keeps on taking.

Big very scary announcement that I never thought I'd have to make so I put nice music and a relaxing nostalgic background on it for you.

I'm taking🌲etsy orders for just a few more days: 🌿Real flowers cast in silver+ tiny hand-sculpted silver wren necklaces 💐Victorian ink bottle kits to improve mental health 🗓️A very few calendars* 🪸Ltd ed'n art prints of my photos* *Looking at them's likely to ⬇️⬇️ anxiety: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

Crusading on social media, in small ways. Love to all the gay sheep, and penguins, and gulls, and goats, and humans…🏳️‍🌈❤️💪🏼xxx

Now if all the 20 million BlueSky users will re post this post it would be utterly marvellous. The counter is ready to start, so off you all go! Handmade prints available here> littleramstudio.etsy.com *sits with expectations of lots of noughts next to post* #art

Over 60K women have signed our letter standing with the trans community. We've had enough of anti-trans rhetoric claiming to speak for us. If you agree... 📰 Read their article here: tinyurl.com/NION-PN-60K ✍ Sign our letter: notinourname.org.uk 📣 Share widely #StrongerTogether #TransAwarenessWeek

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

The long term harm caused by #Covid is well-documented in hundreds of thousands of research papers and clinical reports. #longcovid @greenparty.org.uk @greensorganise.bsky.social

Coming soon to the UK if Niggle Outrage gets his way.

This chain is delightful. We need to do a UK version next time some deform twat starts claiming London is under Sharia law. Shakatak law, anybody?

Wrote a thing about why it’s probably time to ban X in the UK - substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Not Dragons Den doing something positive for disabled people?!

Fuck Graham Linehan

@dismoviepod.bsky.social hey, just wanted to say again how much I enjoyed the watch party today. How easy is to set up as a host on Hyperbeam? I'm wondering if I could set up a film club for my local ME and Long Covid charity.

What a delight to see that this news has caused a load of ignorant ableist fuckwits to pop up and boldly opine what they think disabled people should and should not have. I really missed that after all the PIP fuss died down.

Looks like I got green pilled

The pressure is working. Labour MPs calling for a rapid review of JCVI's Covid vaccine eligibility Write to your MP with CEV's easy template 👇 www.clinicallyvulnerable.org/post/labour-...

My Etsy's now open for pre-orders of my 2026 botanical & tiny posy calendars-40 calendars in this print run. I create my photos using recent research so looking at them dials down stress. Each calendar=12 high quality frameable 28cm square prints of my botanical photos: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

🗣 @zackpolanski.bsky.social, "I talk about lowering bills, about the public ownership of public services, and taxes on multi-millionaires and billionaires." Sound good? Join.greenparty.org.uk

Yet another terrible BBC News headline! There is no need to 'both sides' an argument when one of the sides has already been proved wrong.

Younger daughter and I have been working on prototypes for the small portable museums that will be in my Etsy shop soon. We’ll be making a wooden grid in each tin for the finds & a booklet about the neuroscience of how collecting & arranging your finds alleviates anxiety & lifts mood #mentalhealth

It is possible to both disagree with everything an individual stands for and, at the same time, to not incite or condone violence against that individual. Especially when the violence happens in front of their young children. We should not enable the creation of martyrs for the far right.

Most of the population has no protection from #Longcovid as most are not masking or vaccinating, mainly due to government restrictions, poor messaging & high cost/lack of availability of private vaccines (averaging £95 in my area). Covid vaccines were designed to reduce severity of infection, they🧵

Anyone of any health status can get it. As you can see from the table above, that busts the myth on it being just the clinically vulnerable. This is just another factor like failure to rest or being female or lower income.

You can’t fully recover from all of this: What is long COVID?

I'm always astounded when I hear people say "during COVID." We just finished our second week of class and I've already have 5 students of 50 out for COVID. We are still during COVID.

Will families be able to sue the government for withholding covid vaccines if they are hospitalised or bereaved this Winter? @goodlawproject.org petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

My Etsy shop's now open for my 5 sets of greetings cards:spring,summer,autumn,nature/botanical collections & tiny posies.I post to the US now too I create each of my photos using recent neuroscientific research-looking at them shifts your brain away from fight or flight: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

General comment: Asking people not to say "during covid" isn't policing language. Covid is still here and still a threat, so shouldn't be talked about in the past tense. If you're talking about a specific time then try these: - at the start of the pandemic - during lockdown - before the vaccines

Zack GETS IT!

Well done to these amazing performers, sounding the alarm on #Longcovid www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

As several have pointed out, this also applies to the massive (100,000 or so) Trans Pride event. Almost entirely blanked.

@nowthenmag.bsky.social I don't know if this is your usual sort of story, but it turns out that Paddington from Peru's human is originally a Sheffield lass.

Could someone please show Gavin Newsom how to turn off his caps lock? I'm only half-joking - from a sensory point of view it's actually quite hard to read posts like this.

If you are in need of an uplifting story I HIGHLY recommend you go to Insta for Paddington from Peru. It's a reminder that there are still lovely people (and animals) in this world. (Think #SophieFromRomania, but with significantly less hiding behind sofas.) www.instagram.com/reel/DJXaCW-...

We REALLY need to remember that the A in AI stands for Artificial.

Why is it we get told technology will take over the jobs no-one wants to do, yet in reality it takes over the jobs we really want to do? . . . . (Answer: £$¥€₩)

When they spout "facts" and "evidence" call them out on it. We'll soon see that it's all bluff and bluster. They have nothing but hate. Media and news outlets, take note of how it can easily it can be done. This needs to happen again and again.

Please sign and share this petition. I got covid while in hospital last year but had to wait until I got home to test as hospital staff seemed to think I was asking for the holy grail. I was on a respiratory ward, surrounded by extremely sick and vulnerable people. Covid is still a very real threat.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Please sign and share this petition. I got covid while in hospital last year but had to wait until I got home to test as hospital staff seemed to think I was asking for the holy grail. I was on a respiratory ward, surrounded by extremely sick and vulnerable people. Covid is still a very real threat.