Jasper Sharp

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

Epping hotel protesters jailed for violent disorder The three men were

Three men admit violent disorder outside the Essex asylum hotel in July, and are jailed.

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

And coming to London's Nickel Cinema next week on 16th Oct. @thenickelcinema.bsky.social thenickel.co.uk

FACTCHECK: What the Climate Change Act actually means for the UK – and what is a load of old nonsense

Really enjoyed putting this together with colleagues, inc learning new things about the fascinating backstory to the Act

Feat. OG authors of the Act & more

www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...

Hello from the Pordenone Silent Film Festival! We loved seeing Japanese paper films projected onto the Teatro Verdi theatre to promote our screening. Props to Phoebe for b-roll of Yoko, Hikaru, & Eric capturing the moment! A big THANK YOU to the Yanai Initiative for supporting our screening here.

Sign the Petition Bring back Eurostar train services to Kent

Please sign - Bring back Eurostar train services to Kent. - with Eurostar signalling then end of various ferry services, such as Ramsgate/Ostend, it's unbelievable to think it is now more difficult to get across the channel than it was 30 years ago. chng.it/fqVCnKQxdb

Remember it well from the Iraq War years. Authoritarianism is the word. I’m already getting misguidedly nostalgic for Tory incompetence.

The Battle of Cable Street.

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On this day in 1936, the East End of London rose up against fascism. The Battle of Cable Street.

#TheyShallNotPass #NoPasaran

BREAKING: Over a thousand people gather in Trafalgar Square to oppose genocide and the Palestine Action ban.

Police have already started arresting peaceful protestors under the Terrorism Act for silently holding signs which say "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

An illustration of three Agaricus muscarius.

From Illustrations of British mycology, Anna Maria Hussey.

He's just head and shoulders above every other politician we have at the moment.

Too ill today to participate alas, but had a very fruitful day out finding and photographing on Thursday.

Anyone i know got Ghost of Yotei yet? been playing Borderlands 4 with my beloved these past few weeks. I’d forgotten how annoying these games are!

Listening to Any Questions on catchup now and @georgemonbiot.bsky.social is absolutely slaying it. Very rare I listen to Radio 4 these days and find my head nodding in agreement.

This one and The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes are two Brakhage films I’ve never been able to make it through!

Apparently they've wound up their company, and its £600,000 assets aren't enough to cover the money they took from the government.

Currently mixing my new commentary I did with @blondekwaidan.bsky.social and I must say, if this doesnt get any noms in end of year polls, I'll be most peeved.

Delta Magna .3

YouTube video by phospheneca Mothlight by Stan Brakhage 1963

I used to show Stan Brakhage's Mothlight as an introduction to the possibilities and definitions of cinema back during my short stint teaching film studies to university students over 10 years ago now. No wonder I didn't last long in the academic industry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt3n...

Does it have a name?

Labour are doing a few things right.

Delta Magna?

can do. end of month ok? will email for more details.

I don’t think so. Just rotting away a fallen branch and returning it to nature

I can certainly do that. Have beautiful photos just let me know what you want in terms of word count.

Fellow creatures: the new GCSE in natural history The new GCSE in natural history is a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world

🔥 Britain is about to launch a new GCSE in natural history – a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world.

She'd lost all credibility even before she "wrote" her book The Women Who Made Modern Economics plagiarised from wikipedia.

Tiny ascos found on a fallen oak leaf, but beautiful with macro photography. I've found these before, so recognised them immediately as Incrucipulum ciliare, confirmed by microscopy - long narrow spores and septate crystal tipped hairs.