“A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.” ~Zen Shin ❤️🌱 #gardening #bloomscrolling #photography

Amazing sunset tonight at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach with a bit of a mackerel sky. #CAwx

One of the many big sky mornings from our adventure! #oregoncoast #beachhike #morningwalks #photography #travel #vacation #love

Note how there was a *GROWING* sea ice trend 2019-2022 (COP25-27). Arctic sea ice this week at 10.6 k km³. This week saw daily sea ice volume at 10.6, and its 9-year average was at 13.6. This was also an All-Time Low for the latter. The annual average just passed 13,000 km³.

Earth’s Polar Icecaps are now losing 2.8 Gt/d. That’s 2.8 km³ of ice every day annualised, or every day on average over the past year. This is the biggest loss so far this decade, not sure about the 2010s and earlier. Source: Grace-FO (NASA) + Piomas (UW)

Amazing meeting my hero Ella at a Nuuk restaurant tonight! #Arctic #Explorer #Greenland #circumnavigation

Antarctica now slated to lose *0 cm* thickness in 2025. Greenland is down to 5 cm. As April & May data arrives from GRACE-FO via NASA, 2025 estimates for Antarctica and Greenland are down from 1 cm loss to 0, and 6 to 5 cm, respectively.

Atlantifying the #SeaIce youtube.com/post/Ugkx5Dv... #Atlantification #Inversion #Arctic #Antarctica

Cultural Revolution Episode 🌎💚 open.substack.com/pub/extincti...

Why are there so many butterflies this year? The reason may be darker than you think. Sightings are up 83% this year, but that follows a steep decline as the habitats that are vital for Ireland’s insects are deteriorating or gone altogether. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Blue Mushroom (𝘔𝘺𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘢 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘤𝘺𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘢): Mycena is a large genus of small saprotrophic mushrooms that are rarely more than a few centimeters in width. This is a fascinating tiny fungi that has been discovered in the past couple of years by Eric Cho in Taoyuan, Taiwan. #fungi #nature #wildlife #taiwan

Why go through all the trouble to occupy DC when you can put people in concentration camps and have AI do all the surveillance for you?As we wake up in mind-controlled chicken factories, we’ll reminisce about George Orwell’s Animal Farm not with horror but nostalgia open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

Lovely place we stayed at Amish Country, PA many moons ago. #Skyline #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #Photography #LandscapePhotography

Pano at Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon #Skyline #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #OnlyBeautifulThings #Iceland #RingRoad #Photography #NaturePhotography #LandscapePhotography

Is this Mars? #Mystery #Skyline #BlueSkyArtShow #SensoryArt #EastCoastKin #Photography #NaturePhotography #LandscapePhotography

Good #BlueskyMonday morning! #Colors #SensoryArt #ColorADay #PinkMon #MagentaMonday #BloomScrolling #OnlyBeautifulThings #Flowers #DailyFlowers #TheLittleThings #EastCoastKin #MacroMonday #Macro #Photography #MobilePhotography #NYCPhotography

Happy #MossyMonday! #EastCoastKin #Photography #MobilePhotography

🎶 It’s a beautiful morning 🎶 #Stunday #EastCoastKin #Photography #MobilePhotography #NaturePhotography #LandscapePhotography

Not a bad night to chase aurora… happy 1st of June, Aotearoa! #solarstorms #aurorae

And the foredrop’s not bad either

💚🌹🌸🐕🥰 dogroses #WildFlowers 🫶🏼

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Dappled skies #photography #naturephotography #nature #art #sunset #sky #novascotia #bluesky #clouds #eastcoast #canada #landscape #womenphotographers #photographersofbluesky

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River Tavy at Creason woods today #Dartmoor #Devon #photography #river

Ithaca Falls today. Each waterfall in the area is more beautiful than the next. Goodness. #Exploring #NewYork

Kulik River break, Wednesday 🌿

A colourful rose from our garden this morning

Hello, World. Biting the bullet today and working on migrating my follows & followers from the other place.

Never truer words said. 👇

stoptrump.org.uk/petition-can... please sign this vital petition to Cancel Trump's UK state visit. Make your voice and signature count. Trump is NOT WELCOME IN THE UK, OR ANYWHERE ELSE. 🗣️📢🌍🗣️📢

People who dogmatically sided with Russia and against the US on all matters must be suffering from a certain amount of confusion at the moment.

I regret to say there has been a lot of foolishness on some sections the left about #Ukraine, echoing Russian and far-right talking points. (Just as shamefully, the same people supported Assad in Syria). Now is the time to put that foolishness aside. We should all stand with Ukraine.

Here's one of the warnings I gave in an article before the US election. It's devastating to see it all happening. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There's a common path in the development of authoritarian or totalitarian regimes, regardless of whether they are overseen by Catholic Inquisitors, Protestant enforcers, monarchists, fascists, Nazis, Stalinists, Maoists .... First they eliminate words. Then they eliminate people.

⚠️Read how Leaked documents show Govt took a £6 billion bet against my legal challenge to start building CCS 🤔After FT report, since been confirmed by the Energy department in a letter to the public accounts committee 💥Read more: open.substack.com/pub/marcusle... @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

We're thrilled to share that our new film The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism will be screening at the Sedona International Film Festival next week on Feb. 24th & 26th! Learn more about the film here: bit.ly/4b8MEL0 @peterhutchison.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/george...

1. European and UK ministers are still talking as if their biggest potential security problem is a withdrawal of US support. But that is not their biggest potential security problem. It’s that, under Trump, the US will back Putin not just diplomatically but also militarily. 🧵

They are deliberately crossing the red lines, in order to make the unacceptable commonplace and, eventually, acceptable again.

The UK's anti-protest laws pre-legitimise far right authoritarianism. Labour must repeal them now. My column today. www.theguardian.com/global/comme...

An impactful read from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social; the first book I’ve picked up in quite some time that I couldn’t put down. I’d put this high on the list of required reading for 2025 if we’re to cultivate a strong understanding of how we got here, and how we move forward. Some excerpts:

Perspectives. #art #photography #blueskyartshow #mountains #layers #goldenhour #sunset

This beautiful butterfly is the Belus Skipper. Seen a few years ago on the Riviera Maya in Mexico. #butterflies

Key going forward to end destruction is to have regulations in the financial sector as well as pollution pricing. Follow all of these.

Not the vast majority of them, no.

Nature's very own firework show - a beautiful and very active #Aurora for over an hour here in #Shetland this evening. #auroraborealis #northernlights @stormhour.bsky.social

Waxcap/hygrocybe photo day 32: I wanted to post my favorite photos of 2024 today but there are just too many, but this choice was easy because this is my absolutely favorite photo of any mushroom in 2024. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography

Jimmy Carter was the first president to take climate change seriously. He had solar panels built on the Whitehouse in the 1970s. He had a science degree. Legacy: a peacemaker, civil rights supporter, women's rights champion and he pardoned Vietnam draft evaders. www.npr.org/2024/12/29/1...