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Three days on Harris. V.lucky with the weather #isleharris #scotland #travelphotography

Northton Beach #isleofharris

Low season #isleofskye

A toddler is intent in scribbling in green crayon over some scrap paper. Various other sheets of similar work are scattered around.

Monday again - busy, busy with all those important documents

Artist: Harry Wingfield (1971)

I've been thinking about this quote a lot lately...

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

― Frank Herbert, Dune

Rest in peace, Dr. Jane Goodall💚

"The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand."

- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot

I’m going to give it a try - thanks for sharing.

Looks delicious! Do you blend it to make the sauce? 🍅

Makes complete sense. Practicality is often valued over learning among such workers so they move on from education early. Not a criticism, but makes these areas vulnerable to populism.

Idle — The Wealth Race Can your hard work beat The Rich? Play and find out!

We need to tax wealth not work.

Why? Because usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets.

Someone made a game to show this:

therichdont.work

The donors are demanding their payback.

We can get trapped in cycles of thinking we can make people see how wrong they are to act certain ways.
We get lost in trying to punish the world for being ignorant.
The only thing we can do is walk the path, embody the light & show what can be achieved then teach the enthusiastically willing souls.

The power of renewables 🌞🌬️

Solutions ✨

Wealth taxes
Local community
Going offline
Renewable energy
Low consumption (reusing, repairing)
Being truly aware of natural world 🌱

Truths:

Most big brands are unethical
Tech giants want to control not help
Being online harms mental health
Constant consumption doesn’t satisfy
Caring for our planet is a priority 🌍

Met some great people on Instagram & built to a reasonable following but have decided to deactivate my account. WhatsApp already deleted. FB deletion imminent. I’m continuing with friendships via email, phone & here.

Controlling the small things makes a difference too. Keep going & sharing!

One of the Urtier stream waterfalls in Lillaz, Cogne - Aosta Valley, Italy. The water cascades from a rock face with layers of varying composition and color. In the foreground, the meadow where the photograph was taken.

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water
[Loren Eiseley, scientist and humanist]
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#WaterfallWednesday
#WaterWednesday #Alps

Who hurt you more today?

1. The homeless person living on the street, asking you for change?
2. The CEO who took the $1,000,000 in profit you helped generate and gave it himself as a bonus, instead of giving you a $2.00/hour raise?

Saxicolous (stone) lichens, in some places thought to live for 11,500 years, challenge basic concepts like species, and some consider them more akin to actual ecosystems.

Their symbiotic relationships can be viewed as metaphors for resistance, resilience, and interconnection.

Peace 💙

It’s also because a lot of the voices are bots!

We are restocking our DVD collection at charity shops. We’re getting in the habit of going offline at weekends & have been much more productive.

Help! There Are Bees in Our Meadows and we need you to count them

In the Scottish Highlands and wanting to do something once Big Butterfly Count comes to an end for the year? You could sign up to join in the Highland Big Pollinator Count! highlifehighlandranger.substack.com/p/help-there...

never underestimate your ability to shift the very fabric of reality a vintage sepia photo of a girl child and some kind of rainbow hued splash of color

start shifting

Everything is interconnected. Treat all life as part of your own self 🌱

YouTube video by Garys Economics How to convince your friends to back wealth taxes

How to convince your friends, family and networks to support wealth taxes. A step-by-step guide

This is your final week to make it count for butterflies! 🦋

Butterfly Conservation Vice President and wildlife presenter Mike Dilger is on the lookout for Marbled Whites, Ringlets and Gatekeepers.

What species are you hoping to see during your #BigButterflyCount? 👀

British electricity mix at 7pm on 4th Aug 2025

🔥Gas 11.7% Biomass 8.6%
🍃Wind 48.3% Solar 6.4% Hydro 1.6%
⚛️Nuclear 12.2%
➡️Imports 11.3% Other 0.0%
🪫Storage 0.0%

🔌Generation 30GW
🌍Carbon intensity 94 gCO2e/kWh
vs target of annual average 50-100 gCO2e/kWh by 2030