Totally respect the hard work put in by @walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social - not easy to find new language to express our ambitions. The results often feel clumsy at first, but it's a worthy effort.

Why does #BlackHistoryMonth even exist? Surely it's because of the words & actions of #racists / #nationalists on the #extremeright. Sobering, isn't it? The #hate you give out today will have a lasting impact you really don't want. #racism #nationalism #farright en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_H...

Bicycles Deliver the Freedom that Auto Ads Promise.

Three more nights left to see Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at www.cotswoldplayhouse.co.uk in #Stroud. Stunning production, a real treat.

Every now and then #Bikeability delivers a sweet moment. I call this "The #bicycle of M.C. Escher's Daughter"

A frightening example of how we have undermined our planetary resilience. If #nature is forced to retreat to reserves there is nowhere to go when disaster strikes. This could easily have been started by lightning. The issue is #resilience. #climateemergency #biodiversity.

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I mean, everyone knows, don't they? So is this a real mistake or another example of the cyber world disconnecting us from #nature?

I find a combination of butter, peanut butter and choc spread on toast helps with all kinds of IT issues.

Something is happening across professions, a critical movement in which practitioners see the need for reform of their practice. 1/

I'm never ashamed of being #English or #British or #male or #white or anything else. It's up to me to define these things. Part of that is celebrating what other people are.

Loads of people seem to be into one or two things. Am I the only one who is into almost everything? Is this a sign of the possibly-fictitious #ADHD?

#Parkrun is so popular. It's only a matter of time before the burger vans start turning up for it.

Interesting experience: I just got slapped down by disabled person for not patronizing them enough.

When in history has genocide ever worked? If you have an enemy, your best course of action is to build schools and surgeries with them and celebrate each other's culture. Neither of you is going to disappear. Stop being afraid.

Imagine if motor vehicles were required to have their exhaust pipe in such a position that the driver had to see it at all times.

Let's not pretend that we should try to keep hostile people on side now in case they get into power in the future. They will smile and lap it up and betray us anyway. We have to stop them. That's it.

Still digesting the first #WildSummit Not much naming of the powers and no engaging the powers @georgemonbiot.bsky.social but maybe stuff behind the scenes? Time to reflect before next year...

I have never understood why the British football season begins at the very time of year when you want to move indoors.

Are you here at the Wild Summit @georgemonbiot.bsky.social ?

On my way to the #WildSummit in Bristol. I'm wondering what it will be like and hoping there's something I can contribute.

Natural processes/ecology underpin everything we do, and are fundamental to human wellbeing, but this imperative is on a collision course with the imperatives of the flawed theories of economics. It is economics that has to change.

🚨 The EU is trying to quietly weaken nature laws during summer break. We have 10 days to stop this. Don't let them destroy our forests, rivers & wildlife in silence. #HandsOffNature handsoffnature.eu/take-action/...

I've just had the freshest apple from a tree I grafted at a workshop about a decade ago. It's the first really excellent apple that tree has given us. Grafting is a wonderful experience. If there's a workshop near you I heartily recommend making time for it.

The calendar changed at the start of 1752, putting the date forward by 11 days. #GilbertWhite was 31 years old. So when we give his bith date as 18 July 1720, is that according to the old style or the new? Is there a convention? #history

Isn't it/she/they/he outrageous? I'm so angry I'm going to quote at length all the things I'm opposed to so it gets maximum exposure. That'll teach them.

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Why do people think swearing reinforces their argument? It never convinces me. When people start f-ing all I see is someone who doesn't trust the force of their own position.

Washington, D.C., September 6, 1980: Bicycle activists protested the rule banning bikes on the D.C. Metro by carrying a full-sized cardboard cutout of a bicycle onto a Metro car to show how easily bikes could be wheeled into the cars.

One of my enduring regrets is that I never simply walked off the football pitch at school. What could they have done if I had said; "School is for learning and I'm learning nothing valuable here"?

This looks like a great read, a book that calls for the kind of journey that can begin by reading my book, The Lives Around Us.

It's rare for an artist to capture so powerfully this experience almost all of us can relate to. For me it speaks of the way in which we have disconnected ourselves from nature, which is trying to reach us with ever increasing urgency.

Rather late in life I've worked out that, to get things changed it's usually necessary to find an indirect route. This usually means avoiding the obvious route that is set out. Who among us, for example, has achieved anything by writing to their MP? Or even their kids' school?

My son's new school requires him to wear a tie, a ridiculous, pointless, archaic item worn by people who lie to you to get your money, your vote or both.

I have a collection of #flags. I am now thinking how I can display the England one without being misunderstood. Perhaps alongside others. The flag of #England does not belong to one section of society alone. Anyway, there is a #climateemergency. We have one world. We are one species. #BiggerPicture

Europe is feeling the heat. This year, countries across the continent grappled with heatwaves including four in the UK. In a natural climate, this kind of summer would happen every 340 years instead of every 5, as is expected in our current climate. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Sad to see some of the traits of Twitter being reproduced here now.

Likes in social media could be described as a Weak Force. The problem for most ordinary, yet active, citizens seems to be in finding a strong one, a way to properly influence policy.

Apparently 89% of us want our governments to take bolder climate action. Then I read headlines like this, & it’s clear the failures of our politics, our media, & our culture has led to cognitive dissonance on such a scale that we’re headed for widespread mental health collapse.

I used to love finding out where people are from. Now I realise I was also categorising them. I realise they get asked all the time. I don't ask any more. I'd love to talk about where they are from, so many interesting places, but it wouldn't be kind.

I'm a bit blown away today by the number of people who are increasing the airtime of someone they can't stand by complaining about the airtime that person gets. Talk about what you love.

Is "sat" a completely unique verb form? It bugs me when people say "I was sat." They wouldn't say, "I was ate my lunch," "I was broke a box," "I was talked to my Dad," "I was rode my bike," "I was enjoyed the OP...." So what makes "sat" different?

I have this dream (not my fault MLK got this line in first) that Trump, Putin, Musk, Zuckerberg, the Taliban and all of them walk on stage and we all laugh and laugh. In the dream they start laughing too, and come down off the stage.

It isn't rude to feed ducks a whole bag of white bread, but it is rude to ask someone to stop.

It never occurred to me before how #stackingrocks, far from being a benign, artistic way of connecting with #nature, can actually be damaging. I have done it myself in a few places. I hope I didn't do damage. I won't do it any more. #rockstacking #nature #art #environment #ecosystems #coasts

I just watched #AmericanPie. In my fifties, I never realised what a good film it is. There are genuinely beautiful moments. Now totally in love with #AlysonHannigan all over again.

Happy anniversary to all young people! Today, in 2018, #GretaThunberg began her first #SchoolStrike for #Climate, changing the script for the #climateemergency