It's utterly mad. These people are the opposite of terrorists. THEY WANT PEACE. The police know they're not terrorists. The government knows they're not terrorists. Yet, on the Home Secretary's orders, they're being arrested under the Terrorism Act. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

BREAKING: Protestors outside Truro Cathedral in Cornwall, hold signs which say: "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action." Similar protests are also taking place today in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol and Derry.

The Freedom Flotilla sailing toward Gaza is not just carrying life-saving aid. It is carrying solidarity, hope and our shared humanity.

Live tracker of the Madleen freedom flotilla: freedomflotilla.org/ffc-tracker/

Kneecap's Mo Chara is the latest example of how terrorism arrests no longer bear any relationship whatsoever to any actual threat to the British public (and certainly not the audience at the O2 Forum in Kentish Town). Instead they've become the end product of contrived rightwing outrage

WE WON! The Supreme Court has upheld the right to wild camp on Dartmoor. This is a huge win for access to nature. But we're just getting started. It was never just about Dartmoor. We’re fighting to extend the right to roam, swim, and sleep under the stars - across all of England.

Here’s a drawing I did in my sketchbook of an AI data center burning. Pen and ink on paper.

The Supreme Court, most UK institutions, have been captured by the campaign of stochastic terrorism waged by the media and the fascists against our Trans comrades, now defining them out of the Equality Act, as Streeting removes what little there is of trans healthcare in this country. Social murder.

Vigil outside #Cornwall Council to remember more than 17,400 children murdered by Israeli forces in #Gaza. We spoke the names of 100s of dead children. Last year Cornwall Council appointed the director of an Israeli-owned military equipment company to chair its Economic Forum.

Politics is spoken of as if it has no impact on our bodies, as if backs don’t bend and feet don’t bleed and stomachs don’t grumble and heads don’t spin with every decision made at the seat of power. Hunger and pain is spoken of as bad economies. www.planetcritical.com/p/we-have-th...

🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨 This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️ 👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Currently reading Omar El Akkad’s book ‘One Day, everyone will have always been against this’. It’s everything I’m feeling and coming to terms with.

After 14 years of Conservative rule, we were told that austerity was over. That was a lie. A statement from The Independent Alliance on the Chancellor's decision to abandon those in need.

Falmouth and Cornwall folk, come watch a documentary about Dartmoor and listen to Charlotte Bill, @lewis-winks.bsky.social and I have a yap about land rights. The Poly, 2nd of April, 7.30pm. Tickets here: thepoly.org/whats-on/eve...

A stand-off this morning in Falmouth between residents, police and contractors over the felling of healthy lime trees. Cornwall Council refusing to release the report as to why the trees are being felled. Postponed again due to two protesters climbing the trees after police threatened arrest.

An early start in Falmouth this morning, as I joined dozens of local residents to support them in their battle to stop the destruction of their three beloved lime trees by the philistines at Cornwall County Council & their henchmen at Devon & Cornwall Police

Yesterday was a bit of a whirlwind as I found myself in the midst of London Book Fair for the launch of the book Yussef Rafik and I worked on, How to be an Eco Explorer, as well as the imprint @moonandbirdbooks.bsky.social. Loved meeting so many people I’ve been working with for the past year!

If you're near Falmouth, there's a screening of Dartmoor Calling on the 2nd April -charting the radical history of the national park, from Syliva Sayer to modern campaigns for access and nature. Q&A with @hollyastle.bsky.social and I included! @righttoroam.bsky.social thepoly.org/whats-on/eve...

This isn’t allowing access to wind spaces, it is extending the rule of enclosure to those with money to pay for this access. It’s an exclusivity model that continues to separate people from the land. Right to roam means a right to roam for all.

An illustration of rockpooling with @alex-thornton.bsky.social

Tomato plant watercolour sketch 🍅

Scarcity isn’t real.

There's a reason that AI is so beloved by fascists right now—like fascism, it tempts us to abandon the complexity of the world for the simplicity of power, & to give up the need to do the difficult but necessary work to understand the world by allowing some authority to impose its own understanding

“No amount of normalisation and ‘validation’, however, can alter the fact that AI imagery looks like shit. But that, I want to argue, is its main draw to the right. If AI was capable of producing art that was formally competent, surprising, soulful, then they wouldn’t want it.”

Scapegoating refugees has always been a deliberate ploy by governments to distract from their own domestic failures. Pandering to Reform UK will backfire — and vulnerable people will pay the price. End dangerous crossings by opening safe routes for fellow human beings instead.

Efficiency doesn’t create more time, it just speeds up capital, so slow down and reject AI. Foster meaningful friendships with others in resistance who understand what we’re up against, and build those networks of trust.

I wrote this thing. It's far from perfect, but at least it's done. Feedback welcome, especially if you're actually doing something. jksteinberger.medium.com/a-few-points...

🚨 BREAKING - Road occupied at Strand outside the Royal Courts of Justice. Over 1,000 people are sat in the street holding a time-limited Exhibition in solidarity with the ‘Lord’ Walney 16. The People will not be deterred by extreme sentences of peaceful protestors. 🧵

I’ve received my advance copy of a book I worked on last year! ‘How to be an eco explorer’, published by new imprint Moon + Bird, and written by Yussef Rafik. This is one of my favourite spreads, I loved the challenge to incorporate lots of cold climate animals from around the world into one image.

🚨 BREAKING: DOCTOR IMPRISONED FOR 1 YEAR FOR TAKING NONVIOLENT ACTION TO PROTECT LIVES ⛓️ Dr Patrick Hart, a GP, has been sent to prison today after disabling petrol pumps in August 2022. 💸 He joins 19 other Just Stop Oil political prisoners. Sign the petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...

Ah yes automated killing machines that don’t have human responsibility for carrying out killings … what could go wrong

A little rock pool illustration for a magazine article.

Velvet shanks, my favourite winter mushroom. Capable of surviving through being frozen solid.

An oak gall ink drawing of Durgan, Cornwall

Some good news. Protection of 40,000 miles of footpaths and rights of way secured.

There’s no leader in a murmuration, but starlings on the outer edges of the group have a part to play in steering them, they are a complex adaptive system. It seems to me reflective of grass-roots organising, where change comes through the outer parts, to ripple through the rest of the community.

Today’s trespass was on the grounds of Avening Court, a property originally owned by Brictric, Saxon lord of Avening. William the conqueror and Queen Matilda later resided there after Matilda threw Brictic in a dungeon for not reciprocating her feelings.

Lovely shout out for our Kernow group in this! Great work guys 💚

Seven swans a swimming. Every year I illustrate a line from the twelve days of Christmas to see how my style has developed. 🦢❄️

Canada geese — one of four designs by @hollyastle.bsky.social for this year's Caught by the River winter cards. There are a few packs left in our Bandcamp shop: rivertones.bandcamp.com/merch/cbtr-x...

Britain leads the world in cracking down on climate activism, study finds - Research shows UK police arrest environmental and climate protesters at three times the average global rate Story by @damiengayle.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Cover reveal for a project I worked on earlier this year! Published by Moon and Bird imprint, and written by the talented Yussef Rafik, this has been such a fun book to illustrate! It’s available to pre-order now from various booksellers and is out next year 💚

Inspired by the nearly home trees, Kernow

Our @hollyastle.bsky.social seasonal cards are back from @print.work and looking lovely – printed on heavyweight recycled Perlino Cotton. Cards come in packs of 4 with recycled envelopes & minimal extra packaging. Pre-orders are going in the post this week! rivertones.bandcamp.com/merch/cbtr-x...

Today Right to Roam Kernow trespassed on Enys estate, which spans over 1000 acres and has been owned by the same family all the way back to the 13th century. Photos by @alex-thornton.bsky.social

Right to Roam kernow week is coming to an end and what an amazing time it’s been! Talks, films, workshops, music and more. Join us for the last day of the exhibition at @fishfactoryarts.bsky.social today, with music in the evening. With a trespass walk to end the week tomorrow!

Mên-an-Tol by Falmouth-based artist @hollyastle.bsky.social. One of four images made by Holly especially for this year's run of seasonal cards, due back from our lovely printers @print.work any day... rivertones.bandcamp.com/merch/cbtr-x... #ancientstones #cornwall

The @righttoroam.bsky.social exhibition that @hollyastle.bsky.social has curated at @fishfactoryarts.bsky.social is opening tomorrow from 10am. The exhibition will run until 5pm Friday with a massive line up of other events during the week.

A snowy design for one of Caught by the River’s seasonal cards this year. A bullfinch on a teasel.

For those that weren't able to be there for @wimcarton.bsky.social & Andreas Malm's excellent @gsiexeter.bsky.social Overshoot seminar, then fear not as the recording is now online. www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-PN...