#ArtDD2025 Fly agaric From my archive, for the 5th Day of Christmas. @saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social

#SaxonSunday 10th C monumental #StoneworkSunday cross shaft w elaborate decoration: eg acanthus top rt rare in S England but has parallels 8th C Jerusalem. Found in East Stour Dorset chimney breast 1939 then used as garden ornament; BM acquired 1969. Faith Museum, Auckland Project, Bishop Auckland.

@saocousins.bsky.social 😢

Heat, drought and fire: how extreme weather pushed nature to its limits in 2025 UK National Trust says these are ‘alarm signals we cannot ignore’ #climate www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As requested ( by someone...sorry, not sure who..🤣).. some stages in the painting of my latest Dorset Holloway scene. #painting #landscape #Somerset #Dorset #trees #art

@drrjwarren.bsky.social @saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social @jayjewels70.bsky.social Feeling low,this morning so a restorative stormy amble around the local hill.. with a strategic pub stop! Sanity restored!

Realistm on #SMRs: "3/4 of world's uranium hails from small handful of countries, enrichment dominated by Russia & China. Several studies suggest SMRs will produce higher levels of nuclear waste than traditional plants" #NoNewNuclear www.ft.com/content/567a...

David Attenborough [whispering]: “Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”

So why can't we do this with detecting? Why not a license required to own a detector and an online test (to check knowledge of the law and Code of Practice) to be completed before license granted...? #Archaeology #Detecting 🏺 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Who saw that coming?

Our Director, Rachel Morley, visits one of our newest vesting: Coanwood Meeting House, Northumberland

This male Great Spotted Woodpecker has been coming to the #weedypond often recently. Lovely to see that striking scarlet nape, on these dull midwinter days. Birds continue to bathe even in the coldest of water. #UKwildlife #nature 🦉 #woodpeckers #birdsofbluesky

Bearded Tit at RSPB Leighton Moss earlier today. So difficult to get a good photo because it was deep within the reed bed with reeds swaying in the breeze. #Canon #CanonR6 #Photography #800mm #wildlife #wildlifephotography #birds #birdphotography

Our living planet is being relentlessly annihilated on a scale that's beyond any understanding. It is literally the apocalypse, in our time. Is that *all* we humans collectively amount to? I believe we have the power to change.

Small worlds.

@felicityhannah.bsky.social Here’s some fun😄

Tonight's fantastic murmuration - bonus shot - because it's just stunning.... #Nikon #photography #nature #UKbirds #birds #ukwildlife #ukbirding #wildlife #birdsinflight #murmuration #predators 1/3

#Nikon #photography #nature #UKbirds #birds #ukwildlife #ukbirding #wildlife #birdsinflight #murmuration #predators 3/3

#ArtDD2025 Northern cardinal For @roperlou.bsky.social, who shared the lovely 📷 by @jennyleeshee.bsky.social with me. Day 4 of the 12 Days of Xmas🦉 @saocousins.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social

Mark Zuckerberg settles $8bn lawsuit to avoid testifying under oath over Cambridge Analytica and walks away without public accountability This is surveillance capitalism in action: law-breaking treated as cost of doing business, executives shielded, power untouched. www.france24.com/en/americas/...

Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"

Reform are panicking about people pointing out that they want to replace the NHS. So please don't share this clip of Nigel Farage saying he'd rather healthcare was done through insurance companies.

Join us on 10 January to meet our 17th century grocers and discover the new foods that became fashionable in the 1650s, including Ice Cream, Pineapples and Coffee! More details at: www.cromwellmuseum.org/events/cromw...

Our chequerboard church. Over the past two centuries, St John the Baptist’s, Papworth St Agnes in Cambridgeshire has been on a journey of restoration, dereliction, and repair. 📷 St John the Baptist’s in the snow in 2013

#ArtDD2025 'Don't mess with me.' Gull from my archive. @saocousins.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social

THIS is what hope in action feels like. Here's to more wins like this in 2026, for people and planet 💚 🌍

Winter Landscape with Bullfinches - by Swedish artist, Bruno Liljefors (1860-1939) Imagine being able to paint like this... #art #birds #birdart #winter

As we come to the end of (probably) the UK’s hottest year on record, let’s keep pressure on the government

Snorri's 12 Days Of Christmas #dailydrawing On the 2 day of Christmas My true love sent to me: Two turtle doves... #LetThereBeDragons @drrjwarren.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @johnpleeds.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social

99% of what you need to understand about the relentless murder of our living planet, in one word: CAPITALISM

Save this, it's perfect.

#ArtDD2025 Mountain hare Hunkered down against the cold… (I have some sympathy with this hare.) Happy Boxing Day!

Snorri's 12 Days Of Christmas #dailydrawing #LetThereBeDragons #12DaysOfChristmas 😀 I realised I can do this one properly. Sorry for the repeat @drrjwarren.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @johnpleeds.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social

For Christmas Day an early medieval gold foil cross found in Andelfingen, dating 7th c. AD. Gold foil crosses were purpose-made for burials, they were sewn on the veil that covered the deceased. They are regarded as one of the earliest Christian symbols in southwestern Germany. MERRY CHRISTMAS🎄🎅

Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt

We have been bringing the festive cheer to our friends at Natural England and the NFU in London recently – highlighting the continued badger cull. 240,000 badgers dead and nothing to show for it. It must end. Sign up to our newsletter for updates → wildjustice.org/newsletter

#ArtDD2025 Yawning or laughing? My final painting (from my archive) for #ArtAdventCalendar Day 24 Happy Christmas friends, followers & passers-by🎄 @saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social

Snorri's #adventcalender № 23 #dailydrawing Änglaspel / angel chimes A traditional Swedish Christmas decoration #LetThereBeDragons #snorri #ink #food @drrjwarren.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @johnpleeds.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social

#ArtDD2025 Juvenile common gull For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 23 A very quick sketch of one of my favourite gulls, from a 📷 by @sbisson.bsky.social with thanks. @saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social

Purple Gallinule #birds

Grey ghost (male harrier) hunting in the Utah winter grasses. 🪶 #PhotographersofBluesky #PhotographersUnited

Little Blue Heron #bird #birds #wildlife #photography #audubon #nature #naturephotography #birdnerd #wildlife #natgeowild #bbcwildlife #bbcearth #birdsofbluesky #birdphotography #blueskyartshow #planetbirds #bestbirdshots #lynzieflynn #herons #wadingbirds

2025: Web pages vanished. Links broke. Public data disappeared. But the Internet Archive kept the receipts. From investigative reports to video features, these stories show why preserving the web became one of the year’s defining information battles. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/12/22/t... 🧵

Arrested for holding a sign. A SIGN. A sign that opposes GENOCIDE. No one was hurt by holding a sign. No damages were caused by holding a sign. But Reform rioters are let off? Get a grip, Labour.

Hubble has imaged the largest planet-forming disk ever seen! At 400 billion miles wide, it is roughly 40 times the diameter of our solar system. The disk is unexpectedly chaotic and turbulent, offering new insights into how planetary systems form: https://bit.ly/477sQ9b 🔭 🧪

These are the type of people that Reform want the electorate to vote for. The racist ethos comes from the top and infects the whole “party” or should I say company.

Our movement is building. And in 126 days in May - we're going to elect Greens right across England & Wales. Replacing Labour - and taking the fight to Reform. youtu.be/S5SB2mp0mss?...