"behind the violence in Minneapolis—captured in so many chilling photographs in recent weeks—is a different reality: a meticulous urban choreography of civic protest." from Robert worth, @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Minneapolis residents are risking their lives so that the world can see what is actually happening to their city, Charlie Warzel reports.

"The ‘abundance agenda’ shouts ‘build, baby, build’, but a country like the UK has enough vacant dwellings [1,627,550 in England & Wales in 2021] to solve its housing crisis – and no carbon budget for a construction frenzy… We must reimagine what housing is." fojournal.org/essay/the-re...

And so, it came to pass... news.un.org/en/story/202...

On Burns night..... While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit some attention.

The snow has begun to fall. Its very beautiful

What is happening now to people in America is traumatizing - profoundly upsetting. I needed to take a walk before the snow gets too deep. Its silent and beautiful.

More people were executed in 2025 than any year since 2009 — not because the death penalty is popular, but because a few state officials latched onto President’s Trump’s directive to embrace executions. We must abolish the death penalty once and for all.

More than 20 England council elections likely to be delayed until 2027

Leaving the doorstep to defrost the car this morning, in the cold dark, was actually a pleasure — for there was a robin in the shrub beside me, in full-throated singing mode! It's like the most mundane task can magically be elevated from the ordinary by the touch of nature.

Male Scaup at Cheddar Reservoir today

Evening Bluesky peeps. Some frosty #SmallBeauties from this weekends walk ❄️💙 #SmallBeautiesHour #BecauseofClem #ThreadofGold

Greenland losing 30 million tonnes of ice every hour, making access to oil and mineral mining more viable That is why Trump wants Greenland And all he has to do is ask Troops already there to walk into capital Nuuk and erect a US flag there and declare it as American land Europe does nothing

Cooper Hawk fans its feathers #bird #photography #birdoftheday #blueskybirds #birdsofbluesky #canonphotography #nature #wildlife

Well done to BBC for the Panorama about vet bills. I never used to worry about going to the vet but these days have vet anxiety due to the very high costs. When my cat passes on, I won't be having another pet. I live alone; my cat is a hugely important companion.

American Robin in a cherry plum tree turning his attention to the camera #photography #birdphotography #birds #AmericanRobin #robin #cherryplums #Ottawa #birdoftheday #wildlifephotography

#SmallBeautiesHour #BecauseOfClem #ThreadOfGold cold but sparkly

Knit going out #SmallBeautiesHour #BecauseOfClem #ThreadOfGold

Someone was excited about getting up early for work and it wasn’t me

A charm of youths, learning their trade.

I'm here to make your Monday great! 😁 Enjoy my beautiful bunny blackness!! 🖤🐰😘 #bunny #tabbit

A Willet playing with its food today near East Beach in #SantaBarbara. #Birds #Nature #Photography

Public Accounts Committee said: DWP "had failed to hit its target for new personal independence payment (Pip) claims being processed, and did not appear to have an “adequate plan” for reducing waits." #PIP #Poverty #Inequality #Disability www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/nationa...

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Fantastic to see this level of support from @green-alliance.org.uk to secure a ban on the sale of peat in horticulture, an easy win for the Government that the horticulture industry itself has been asking for over the last two decades

Fred Ingrams (British Artist, born 1964) "Snow Tracks", 2018. Oil on Canvas, 61 × 61 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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The Green Man is a pagan symbol of rebirth, representing the cycle of new growth each spring. Here we have a beautiful architectural depiction on one of Derby’s oldest coaching inns, Mr Jorrocks Public House, taken in 1988. #PhotoFriday #EYAReligion/Spirituality

The Fishing Wren - is this a common behaviour amongst Wrens I wonder? Certainly they are provided with plenty of access at the #weedypond - there are many twigs & inlets, which give the birds the opportunity to hunt prey along the margins. They are catching Gammarus - amphipod crustaceans. #wrens

Looked for a peer-reviewed piece of scientific research to back up this blanket claim that LTNs cause more pollution not less. In fact this is a typical hit piece from the Times, which looks at one LTN, that hasn't even started yet. The "analysis", done by The Times hacks, isn't worth a jot.

The Robin noticed that the Fieldfare had been distracted, chasing a Blackbird away from the appletrove. Better make the best of my chances thought the Robin, nervously... #Robins

Rail tracks…

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ShortBeaks, any bird with a short beak. Here we have the Reed Bunting, a visitor to the winter garden here. @robcrank68.bsky.social

Finches flock to the frosty fields in today's @theguardian.com country diary by Amanda Thomson. #countrydiary #naturewriting

All of us have our outlook shaped by experience. Here is me, aged about 9, with my foster sister , Olaitan, on my knee. My brother Peter behind, and my other sister, Foluka, to my right. This would have been 1967/8

🍄‍🟫 🍄 There’s a few still hanging on before the snow falls! ❄️ 📍 #Oregon #mushrooms #fungifriends #fungiphotography #naturephotography

Goblin mode

“Greenland, the largest island on Earth, possesses some of the richest stores of natural resources anywhere in the world. These include critical raw materials – resources such as lithium and rare earth elements (REEs) that are essential for green technologies” theconversation.com/greenland-is...

Hard to get! Northern Cardinal #Kennebunk #Maine 1/26 #Sony a6700 #Sigma 16-300 @ 450mm eq.fov Program #birds & wildlife mods #Photomator #nature #birdphotography #Point’nShootNature

What happened to America first? What happened to Trumps pledge to improve life for American people. His tariffs have made everything more expensive. He is alienating allies, bombing everywhere, canceled programs that helped people-assist for disabled kids is gone. Things are far more challenging

✊ DC!

“Fuck ICE!” chants & a brass band performing “Which side are you on?” as hundreds march in Manhattan, NYC against ICE and in solidarity with Minneapolis.

Ban peat: legislation shouldn’t be this hard www.jackwallington.com/legislation-... will this be the year Government stops harming the horticulture sector's economic growth by finally banning peat compost? @marycreagh.bsky.social

Vance says ICE is protected by absolute immunity. Immunity for murdering a U.S. citizen? WTF. Do all Americans now have absolute immunity to do whatever they want? That’s an absurd argument.

Avelo Airlines will cease flying Trump’s deportation flights after immense public backlash www.thedailybeast.com/airline-quit...

#Biodiversity and #CropDiversity have to be the foundation of a healthy future. Industrial monoculture - the plantationocene - threatens us all www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As Australia bakes through an extreme heatwave, even insects aren’t immune to its impact theconversation.com/as-australia...