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Rectangular stained glass artwork featuring four grouped blue blossoms on long stems surrounded by a border in blue with thick black led lines creating rectangles

Deborah Lowe, Contemporary stained glass artist, UK #WomensArt

Oval shaped stone with a painting of a landscape with a lake and a hill over which many birds fly under a full moon

'Moonlight Murmuration' by artist Kerrie Ann Gardner, painting on stone #WomensArt #FullMoon #October

Photo of a mended white cup on three white saucers with four white saucers to the right partly shown, each saucer has writing on it with names of places and dates, all against a white background

Yoko Ono, Mended (tea) Cups (2015) on harrowing world events, healing and peace #WomensArt

I recently read Reframing Women Printmakers and can only describe it as essential reading, wish I’d had something like that as an undergrad

SmallBites (@smallbite) Rep. Thomas Massie just exposed a hidden Epstein list. He says the FBI has been sitting on files naming 20 more men tied to Epstein’s sex trafficking ring — including a high-profile U.S. official. And...

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Please see this. This is horrendous.

Nobel peace prize 2025: Norway fears repercussions if Donald Trump not honoured in ceremony US president has been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

Only one person deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, and that is Greta Thunberg. I acknowledge the work done by others, but only one person has the joined up moral and realistic vision.

I expect Greta is the least interested in it, which is why she deserves it.
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'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...

Alarming piece from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on Blair + Murdoch + Ellison + Ellison Jr + a touch of Musk and the new world order.

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Listen to 'Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring', with Carole Cadwalladr, Peter Jukes, Sergei Cristo & special guests - The Citizens A thriller featuring Carole Cadwalladr, Peter Jukes and Sergei Cristo that exposes an alleged secret spy ring operating at the very heart of the British establishment. Subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Ama...

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social and @peterjukes.bsky.social did the excellent the-citizens.com/2025/02/serg... podcast about Russian influence in British politics. I've not been able to finish it yet as it makes me incandescent with rage that a foreign power is basically able to operate openly like this

"Peter Mandelson lost his job for being friends with a paedophile. Donald Trump, who was friends with the same paedophile, was given a state banquet hosted by a King whose brother lost his job because he was friends with the same paedophile.“

Photo of Zack Polanski. Text: Natasha Walter: why young women are flocking to the Greens

‘It feels good – and quite strange – to think I could vote for what I believe in…’

@natashawalter.bsky.social reports on why young women are flocking to @greenparty.org.uk, won over by @zackpolanski.bsky.social’s stance on topics such as Palestine, refugee rights and economic injustice 🌱

The Pride" is a hybrid tea rose bred by NIRP International and introduced in 2018, known for its large, globular, lavender-purple blooms and strong citrusy, fruity fragrance. It has won several fragrance awards, including the Rome Fragrance Award in 2017, photo by The Avelon, what an incredible rose

Can’t believe I have to say this, but in Minnesota you will continue to have the freedom to get your COVID and flu shots.

Here’s a strange fungus #fungifriends, the Blushing Rosette, Abortiporus biennis. It has 2 growth forms, it can form an attractive rosette but more commonly exists as an amorphous mass which exudes red-brown liquid. Just look at those guttation droplets!!! 😍

Miles Davis’s trumpet solo on “Autumn Leaves” from the 1958 Cannonball Adderly album “Somethin’ Else” on Blue Note Records. This is my solo guitar interpretation this morning. It’s the first day of fall. A change is gonna come. 🍂

JZ 🩵SOS🇺🇸 (@jzacek)

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YouTube video by Bernie Sanders Trump is a Two-Bit Demagogue

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Such a pretty plant... have only seen it in Spring here... Have a good one, Donna! 💚

Every year in this local Hazelwood,there are early flowering Wood anemone. This only happens in a small area of the wood. #wildflowerhour

So that's it then. The biggest fish kill in the history of the State, and we're just going to move on, with no idea who or what caused it?

It would be better to label it a river kill.

Some major polluter is today breathing a sign of relief, while the river Blackwater remains half dead.

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Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’ - European Vegetarian Union Brussels, 8 October 2025 European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’: coalition calls decision misguided and counterproductive This Wednesday the Members of the E...

WOW! The European Parliament just voted to BAN the words 'burger' and 'sausage' when used in sustainable plant-based alternatives. HUGE win for the meat and dairy lobby in the EU, and lots more confusion for consumers if this goes through. Insane!
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It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

⚠️𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆.⚠️

Once again, this assault on environmental safeguards is being sold as “simplification.” It’s not simplification, it’s dismantling. And it’s a betrayal of both nature and farmers.

Marine mammals are dying in record numbers along the California coast — Los Angeles Times It's been a doozy of a year for marine mammals, who have been dying in record numbers along the California coast. Volunteer rescue crews are traumatized and fatigued, but refuse to give up.

Nearly 400 marine mammals have washed up sick or dead on California’s Central Coast since June. Leptospirosis, toxic algal blooms, food collapse. The ocean itself is becoming uninhabitable for the life it holds — and most deaths go unseen. #RacingToExtinction

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River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit Livestock and water companies are accused of “extensive” pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.

Campaigners + local businesses claim phosphates + nitrates from the collective poo of as many as 23million chickens packed into the Wye catchment from a growing number of intensive chicken farms are driving algal blooms, harming fish + wildlife.
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10 - Brown Roll-Rim | UK Fungus Day Home

🔟 Most commonly-encountered fungi in UK & Ireland - Number 10: Brown Roll-Rim (Paxillus involutus). Fascinating Fact: Once considered edible, this fungus has caused fatal haemolytic anaemia in humans, so is now classified as toxic 😱 #UKFungusDay www.ukfungusday.co.uk/10brownrollrim

Acorn Woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus): This brilliantly coloured 21cm (8.3in) woodpecker species is native to forested areas with oaks from south west USA to Colombia. Remarkable photo by Jay Spring taken in Orange, California, USA. For more of Jay's shots see: www.springphotos.net #woodpecker

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