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‘The normal should be darkness’: why one Belgian national park is turning off ‘pointless’ streetlights The radical project is an attempt to preserve wildlife in one of Europe’s most light-polluted countries, but can they persuade local people they will still feel safe?

Safety is important, but in my experience, once I got used to places that are extremely safe despite having no streetlights (e.g. Sark and certain Danish "sommerhusbyer") I stopped equating safety with streetlights - and started enjoying natural darkness ✨ 1/3

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Salah Abdel Karim (Egyptian | 1925 - 1988). The Bull (1961, wood sculpture).

Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware

“Continued global heating could trigger climate tipping points, leading to a cascade of further tipping points and feedback loops. This would lock the world into a new and hellish “hothouse Earth” climate far worse than the 2-3C temperature rise the world is on track to reach. #ClimateCrisis

Here’s your daily remainder to make something.

Doesn’t have to be good. Doesn’t have to end up here. Just make something.

Regardless of your craft, to create is an act of love, acceptance and positivity - all things we need more of I think.

Also emotions with respect to fascists and more generally are a good thing. If pure rationality* has lead us to the brink of planetary and societal collapse perhaps we need some emotional input?

*of course it hasn’t. Greed is an emotional response to resource.

The perfect house would have a front door that opened to a 15-minute city and a back door that opened to a hiking trail

The Morning of the Beginning (2024)
Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...

Watercolour painting of some garden pots.
#art #watercolours #painting

Tottenham Hotspur men's team celebrating their Europa League win in 2025 with trophy, medals, confetti and plenty of smiles.

Despite everything, it was a good year. #coys

Happy New Year 🎉

Airplane mode for scattered souls The Serenity Social Club has nailed the blueprint for connecting by disconnecting in a bespoke little world free from WiFi.

In Nairobi, on the last Saturday of the month, three dozen people hand over their phones. It’s the first rule of the Serenity Social Club’s Disconnect event – a day of no screens or digital notifications. In their place are yoga, pottery, crocheting, conversations with strangers – or even just naps.

Mural of Sonny in Tottenham

Legend

AI is a climate issue. AI is a climate crisis.

Why women’s soccer is so important to queer people | CNN Someone dressed as Marge Simpson, complete with a gigantic blue wig and a lime green dress, belts out Hot to Go by lesbian pop icon Chappell Roan to a rapt audience gathered inside a marquee in the mi...

edition.cnn.com/2025/11/25/s... A story that I’ve been working on for the past few months, about why women’s football is so important to queer people, is published! I really loved writing this and it’s a story that’s very close to my heart. I would love it if you kind folks would give it a read 🤍

My interior design aesthetic is what I call ‘ancient Egyptian burial chamber’ and that’s where the purpose of every single room in my house is to surround me with enough of my favorite things to last me through the afterlife

Botanical illustration of fungi and lichen against olive green background.

🖼️ Katie Scott

Picture of multi-modal street

Here’s something that’s really important for everyone to understand.

If we design our cities just for cars, they fail everyone, including drivers.

If we design our cities with many great CHOICES in how to get around, they work better for everyone, including drivers.

Spread the word.

Feeling like I should start telling climate deniers that "You don't have to believe in climate change because climate change believes in you...."

4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...

Car Size

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Basic light pollution diagram showing four different streetlight set ups ranging from more light pollution on the left to less light pollution on the right. The most pollution option, labelled "very bad" is a street lamp with a round uncovered bulb on top, making a sphere of light in the air. The next option, labelled "bad" has a tiny cap on top, that limits the upward pollution a bit. The "better" option is mostly uncovered on top, limiting pollution above the streetlight. The final option, labelled "best" has a full shroud overtop, limiting the light to only below the streetlight, where it is needed for pedestrians and vehicles.

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"

guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

A six-panel comic. In panel 1, text says "People often wonder, why don't I see baby pigeons? Here's where they're hiding:" and there's an egg with an arrow pointing to a question mark, then an arrow pointing to an adult pigeon. Panel 2 says "Pigeons don't nest in trees. They nest in sheltered spaces on or in buildings. This keeps their babies safe from weather and predators." There's a pigeon nesting in a sheltered cavity in the side of a building. Panel 3 says "The hidden babies look like this: like moldy potatoes, but cute" and there are two baby pigeons looking, well, like moldy pink and gray potatoes with yellow fuzz. Panel 4 says "Older baby pigeons hide in plain sight. When they leave the nest, they're adult-sized, but they're still young and learning" and a fledgling pigeon is flying out of a building saying "aaaaaa". Panel 5 says "Here's how to identify these young pigeons" and shows a fledgling pigeon with arrows pointing to these features: eyes may be gray-brown, pale-edged feathers, smaller "nose" (cere), subdued hues, and looks worried. Panel 6 says "Scientifically speaking, though, all pigeons are sweet babies" and there are three very cute round pigeons, a gray, white, and red one, with arrows pointing to them to make things look scientific.

Baby pigeon mystery.
My pigeon book is here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...

Comic. [Person sitting at desk with laptop with machine labeled E-21 making “click click” noises on the floor behind] VOICE FROM LAPTOP: Hey all! Does your E-21 humidifier make an annoying clicking noise? Mine did, but I finally figured out that there’s an easy fix, so I made this video in case anyone else… PERSON AT DESK: Oh my god. Yes. *Yes.* [caption] I know there’s more important work in the world, but I feel like these people deserve, at minimum a statue.

Repair Video

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A hand holds a hardcover book, “Life After Cars”, inside a three-storey bike parking facility beneath Utrecht Centraal Station.

“You're not alone in wanting a better world, one in which cars are relegated to their proper use. Cars are tools that can be useful at certain times and places. They’re not gods. They’re not the foundation of our society. They should serve us. We should not serve them. There can be life after cars.”

Viggo Pedersen (Danish painter) 1854 - 1926
Sunny Winter Day at Carlsberg, Hillerød, s.d.

oil on canvas

53.98 x 83.23 cm. (21.25 x 33 in.)

signed lower left "Viggo Pedersen"

private collection

#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

COMING THROUGH

Vintage photo of woman in rocking chair on a porch sewing, she is wearing a witch’s hat.

Saturday plans:

loved

A digital illustration of a cityscape set in a cozy fall evening. We see girl in a bicycle with her corgi puppy. The city is surrounded by fall trees and is lit by the building windows. We see a distant mountain and gothic architecture in the background

Autumn Wind 🍂🧣 #art