My friends 16 yr old autistic daughter faced years of mental ill health thru being failed by school & other services. She now has a chance of being paired with an assistance dog which would change her life. Please follow link, donate/share 🙏🏼 #ActuallyAutistic www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

"We constantly hear there’s no money left,” Polanski said, “but actually there is a lot of wealth in this country… but we are taxing people who are working really hard far more than we’re taxing wealth.” He added: “that’s totally the wrong way round!” www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-...

@chrisgpackham.bsky.social if you’re able to share it would mean the world to Skye, thank you 🐕

My friends 16 yr old autistic daughter faced years of mental ill health thru being failed by school & other services. She now has a chance of being paired with an assistance dog which would change her life. Please follow link, donate/share 🙏🏼 #ActuallyAutistic www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Look at these! Creative conversations, including today with Professor Emeritus, Dennis Atkinson 🦋 www.ticketsource.co.uk/cccibathspa

Loving this. Let's go! #GreenParty "A party that will confront fascism, and that will call a genocide exactly what it is."

I had a right old rant about Tony Blair's ignorant, self-interested statement on The Jeremy Vine Show today. I mentioned that he has worked as a lobbyist for PetroSaudi, earning Tony Blair Associates £41,000/month, plus 2% of any deal he brokered. Starts 9 minutes in: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Tomorrow! 💚

Just over a week to go and I’m very excited about the first Art of Rewilding workshop (Thursday 8th May 10am-3pm) at this gorgeous Wiltshire Rewilding site. . Why not join us? We’ll be using visual art processes to learn about and record the animals that live on site. www.foundoutdoors.org/events

Please donate if you can - my very dear friends Becky & Jeremy in Brighton, UK are raising money to get their daughter the assistance dog she desperately needs. Times are hard but anything you can give would be much appreciated 🙏🏼 #actuallyautistic #DogsForAutism www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Since the Supreme Court seems to think same sex parents don’t exist, today seems like a good day to post my family’s Easter picture.

A little taster of the first Art of Rewilding workshop at the Found Outdoors #rewilding site in central Wiltshire, UK next month. Full info on all three one-day art & ecology workshops here - www.foundoutdoors.org/events youtube.com/shorts/ioB25...

Please donate if you can - my very dear friends Becky & Jeremy in Brighton, UK are raising money to get their daughter the assistance dog she desperately needs. Times are hard but anything you can give would be much appreciated 🙏🏼 #actuallyautistic #DogsForAutism www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Great response here to the government's Land Use Framework consultation by Rewilding Britain. Consultation closes on April 25th. Please make your views known. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity.

To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.

A little taster of the first Art of Rewilding workshop at the Found Outdoors #rewilding site in central Wiltshire, UK next month. Full info on all three one-day art & ecology workshops here - www.foundoutdoors.org/events youtube.com/shorts/ioB25...

Please take a look - a new post on applying #NeuroqueerEcologies research to an exploration of human/beaver relationships & river restoration - funding suggestions also v welcome! 🙏🏼 queerriver.com/2025/04/02/n...

Sharing this crowdfunder on behalf of inspirational Artist Robyn Woolston. Pls read/share/donate 🙏🏼 ‘I'm seeking funding to create an Artists Bookwork that explores my personal experience of a life-altering diagnosis within the global framework of rising tides...’ www.indiegogo.com/projects/swe...

A much needed book in current climate - proud to be invited to contribute to A Year of Pride & Joy by @simonjamesgreen.bsky.social illustrated by @ruthburrows.bsky.social & published by @magiccatpublishing.bsky.social - 52 LGBTQ+ people sharing their passions abramsandchronicle.co.uk/products/978...

Well knock me down with a feather. bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...

This country is awash with money. The very rich are rich beyond imagination. So when Starmer wants to stay within his arbitrary fiscal rules, who does he decide to take money from? The very rich? No, from people with disabilities who depend on benefits for the bare minimum of a decent life.

I’m excited to share info on three art & ecology workshops I’m running this year with Found Outdoors (Wiltshire, UK). Each day will focus on a different aspect of the land to record and share the plant/animal life found living there. #ArtOfRewilding www.ticketsource.co.uk/found-outdoors

Really looking forward to sharing my arts practice and emerging #NeuroqueerEcologies research at this free online event with Bath Spa University next month: 12pm GMT - Tuesday 29th April 2025 More info and bookings 👇🏼 www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/onl...

#GoodNews #SlowTheFlow #Flooding Escaping from failed 20th-century ideas of land management www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not weaving nature recovery into farming will cost us all so dear. SFI was making a difference. It could have been improved on, but cancelling it with no replacement is nuts. Doing so with no warning is cruel. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

DAO are looking for someone with digital design expertise and lived experience of disability to come up with a ‘concept building’ for our new online gallery's homepage. Closing - 30 Apr Location - UK ££ - £1.5k-£3K Fee disabilityarts.online/opportunity-...

I begin a Pop-up Studio residency at John Hansard Gallery next week, alongside Emma Critchley’s Soundings exhib. For research I took a walk with Artist & previous Pop-up Studio resident Alys Scott-Hawkins, exploring Southampton’s blue spaces & animals. #QueerRiver queerriver.com/2025/03/06/w...

This week we’re highlighting Wessex Museums and the impact of our partnership as we search for a new Partnership Manager. Follow along! @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social, Lydiard House, @poolemuseum.bsky.social, STEAM, Museum & Art Swindon, @salisburymuseum.bsky.social and @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social

"The central idea of post-growth is to replace the goal of increasing GDP with the goal of improving human wellbeing within planetary boundaries". It seems pretty obvious, yet no country has yet adopted a degrowth path to reduce its environmental footprint. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Palestine too please! 🇵🇸

Play is central to children's lives, wellbeing & quality of life Play is a fundamental right of all children Normative assumptions often used to describe autistic play Need autistic understanding of play from autistic players themselves journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... youtu.be/62mVZ-VCoPw?...

I’m excited to share info on three art & ecology workshops I’m running this year with Found Outdoors (Wiltshire, UK). Each day will focus on a different aspect of the land to record and share the plant/animal life found living there. #ArtOfRewilding www.ticketsource.co.uk/found-outdoors

Yes, the West is guilty of totally disgusting double standards in (rightly) condemning Russian atrocities in Ukraine, while ignoring genocide in Gaza. But with both Israel and the US now actively *supporting* Putin, surely it must be obvious to everyone that it's the exact same fascist supremacism?

Beyond belief. Is this really the man we’re going to fawn over with a State Visit? It’s time for our PM to pick a side

"Art that is grounded in listening and witnessing, that allows us to slow down, open up and accept our place within vast interconnected systems, can change our way of seeing the world…" What a wonderful website @jamesaldridgeart.bsky.social #neuroqueerecologies queerriver.com?blogid=18209...

One more way the new US regime is a threat to us all. #PublicHealth

Hard to believe its finally going to happen… www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I'm looking to see if the cuts & chaos at CDC and NIH have affected any clinical trials or research for drugs for the treatment of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, or other serious diseases. If you know anything, please contact me at DavidCorn.99 at Signal. Or if you have any other good stories.

Some positive news

Heading to Birmingham tomorrow for this! Excited to speak more on how "queering" can be a necessary mechanism of the reimagination of our relationships and interactions with ecology and nature, especially through a queer theoretical, critical and decolonial lens...

Congratulations to the Queer in Wiltshire project team at @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social on receiving a £16,574 grant from @tnlcomfund.bsky.social for their LGBTQIA+ community project! We’re proud Wessex Museums supported the pilot phase through our Connecting with Communities programme.

How long until the Library of Congress faces a purge? Should historians be getting what resources they can now? I'm imagining anything related to the civil rights movement, anti-fascism, and even public health could be gone soon.

Top tip. Don’t have insomnia in the middle of a coup. An executive order has now given DOGE oversight of all government departments. It’s a complete takeover of the federal government by Musk. A Musk ‘team lead’ will now make all hiring decisions according to a ‘data-driven’ model

We're delighted to see the evidence coming together on natural flood management - including the critical role that beavers can play in storing water 🧪 More to come from us very soon on the economic benefits that these schemes can bring... #NFM #adapt #beavers www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

'Restoring Ghost Pingos' - a new advisory booklet about realising the biodiversity potential of backfilled periglacial ponds - norfolkwildlifetrust.org.uk/LostPonds. 🌍 🧵

We think they should be powerful enough to afford principles. They think they have a lot to lose (and they lost their "don't be evil" motto a long time ago). Google, you coward, you quisling.

We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

As an immigrant who chose to make my home in the UK—but also as someone who is a migration historian and researches the impact of dog-whistle politics—there is no way for me to overstate how wrong and disgusting these ads by the UK Labour Party are. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...