Coruscate Counselling

I'm always a bit perplexed when pet folk get defensive about their furry housemates having an environmental impact. I love my two rescue menaces, but I know they are a climate cost. Plastic packaging, meat demand, tonnage of poo & litter. Being aware means I can try to minimise/source alternatives.

One thing I enjoy about doing The Big Plastic Count every year is seeing the improvements each time. It frustrates me as well, as I can't see it reaching zero. The main thing that always gets me is the cat food sachets. It's really hard to get tinned cat food now (that they'd even eat, prob).

💯. It's such bad faith bullshit as well. By this point it's overwhelmingly obvious to everyone that he, and folk like him, aren't going to change their minds now. So the 'question' is pure bait.

I like this one a lot!

Can the #naturewriting hivemind recommend any nonfictional writing on gardens and/or plants by Black British authors? (I'm aware of Marchelle Farrell's and Elizabeth-Jane Burnett's work.) 🙏

My first thought was Jamaica Kincaid also, as someone else in the comments has mentioned. And yes, Marchelle Farrell is the other one that comes to mind. Maybe Hamza Yassin, and Noreen Massud, both write more about place and nature generally, but might work?

Cardinals! What a gorgeous colour they are!

Also this thread, which provides excellent detail on the research design and on some of the key studies intentionally excluded.

This whole thread is well worth reading. It outlines clearly how the study was constrained and manipulated to achieve the intended aim.

This is not robust research practice and should not be the basis of policy - particularly when used to target a specific, and vulnerable, demographic.

Yeah, I saw that on their Instagram. I basically survive on their medium roasts, so put in my next order a bit early! 💜

Perfect age for it! 💜

Penguins
Sloths
Pangolins

Play with them!

Quite an image on the BBC live page (www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...; no photographer credited).

Sounds as if they've saved the station and the hotel, and more importantly, without loss of life.

Citizens; heroes.

🚨 UPDATE: Our office is closed today due to the fire in Glasgow city centre last night. Please don’t attempt to visit the building. We are working remotely and our Helpline is open as usual

They have a roastery in the Edinburgh branch, so there's that at least, but I think a lot of their operations are based in Glasgow.

Gads. That's an intense amount of chaos. Hope the driver is ok, and that you make it to your hotel safely.

Love to Glasgow tonight ❤️ please dig out some decent ffp2 masks if you're going to be in the centre for the next week (if you're not already masking). That amount of smoke will be causing breathing problems in healthy people, as well as babies, older people and those with respiratory conditions.

I know what you mean.

I'm not hyper mobile (that I know of), but I do get RSI & arthritis, & struggled with thumb joint pain for a bit. I switched to using an ergonomic keyboard & vertical mouse, with support pads, which helped some. And try to be mindful of smartphone size & use etc. Not sure if any of that is helpful?

I know this will sound overly dramatic, but it's genuinely gut-wrenching seeing buildings gutted and coming down in the fire at Central Station. It's yet another devastating loss in a city centre that has been absolutely ravaged in the last few decades.

Londoners maybe don't understand how huge this is because they've got so many stations.

Glasgow has two and they're not set up to be easily interchangeable - Central goes everywhere south, Queen Street everywhere north.

The fire at Glasgow central station is utterly devastating. Shops, homes and our transport link to England are being wiped out.
I am amazed by the limited news coverage.

It really is. It's terrifying how quickly this has spread.

It really is. I keep thinking that too, then second guessing myself. This is going to have a huge impact.

Wise decision.

Yeah, my best mate is over Kings Park way and can see the smoke from her window.

Shit. So there is.

LIVE updates as fire near Glasgow's Central Station worsens The fire took hold on Union Street this afternoon. Glasgow Central is closed and a nearby hotel has been evacuated.

The fire at Central is horrific. The BBC Scotland page only has a small byline with a photo from earlier today, but it's still hugely out of control, has taken down a building and looks like it's now right up to the corner. This is huge. 😱

www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2591832...