Becca Thorne

Swirling, black-and-white, intentional camera movement image of trees in a circular movement. Hopefully, the effect is almost abstract and painterly

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#photography #photo #photographer #art #nature #landscapephotography #naturephotography #landscape #thephotohour #naturelovers #beautiful #eastcoastkin #illustration #ThePhotoHour #scape #blackandwhitephotography #classicmono

Still Life Primitivo
24x36"
Acrylic painting
Gallery canvas

#acrylicpainting #bnw #semiabstract #blueskyart
#artist

A recipe for avoiding 15 million deaths a year and climate disaster is fixing food, scientists say Scientists are presenting new evidence that the worst effects of climate change can’t be avoided without a major transformation of food systems.

A reality check for me was working with students on an internal carbon accounting platform that Bon App our food provider uses. Beef was less than 5% of our purchases but around 50% of our food emissions even with international work to be plant forward.

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Strikes me as highly unlikely to be an accident. Gross negligence or wilful misinformation (aka disinformation). The Irish sun, @theirishtimestoday.bsky.social @irishexaminer.bsky.social all leading with an incorrect headline

Gas-Backed Front Group Spreads Misinformation About Costs of Electrification A group of natural gas companies and utilities in Colorado formed a front group to oppose the state’s push towards electrifying homes and businesses, spreading misinformation about the cost of electri...

Heat pumps have had high profile disinformation campaigns in the past. In the UK that @desmog.com reported on www.desmog.com/2022/02/10/g...
And other countries have it too. For three media outlets in Ireland to parallel misinform, in the same way and not online with the original press release …

This morning I read the article from @irishtimes.com and rang & wrote to them to ask for a correction. They corrected the headline, and the article author @conorpope.bsky.social wrote back to confirm that it had changed. I opened up the app this evening and it’s wrong again.

Will I be the first to suggest the carbon offsets worked exactly as planned: they delayed real action for another 25 years

Perfect cartoon.

This is an eye-watering tax cut that will go directly into the pockets of big chain restaurants. This tax cut would fund the equivalent of building Luas Finglas every year.

Impermanence #7
24x30"
Acrylic/oil pastel/ink
Corrugated board

#blueskyart #abstract #mixedmedia #painting #art

Mist developing over Gruinard Bay with Sail Mor in the distance in beautiful Wester Ross, NW highlands of Scotland
#landscapes #landscapephotography #scotland #highlands #sunset #mountains #etherial #hills

The End of the Universe After a magnificent* 13.8 billion years** astronomer Chris Lintott (Sky at Night) and Steve Pretty (Hackney Colliery Band) lead a funeral and wake for the universe, as it sadly heads into heat death. ...

🇬🇧 London friends! I will be in town later this week for a cool public event with @chrislintott.bsky.social (wegottickets.com/event/676292) and will be hanging out a few days. Come to the event and say hi if you can!

Much appreciated, thank you!

Thank you!

Hello Kat! You too! x

Mountain landscape in oils: outline of receding ridge lines, with waterlogged, grassy hills and cascading water. A more detailed depiction of rocks, vegetation and water in the foreground, reducing to just outlines beyond, and a simple sky in just 2 colours (buff and light grey-blue). Palette limited and dominated by ochre, raw umber and more of the grey-blue used for the sky.

New painting! Oil on panel, 40 x 50cm. Will be added to my website (see bio). #oilpainting #landscape #mountains #wicklowmountains #soggy #Ireland

Thank you! ❤️

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries

This is key for planetary and personal health: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Zack on Bold Politics podium

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

Sorting out stock in my PJs. Good monday morning job. All my tea towels (12 designs) are back in stock and on my website
www.charlottestrawbridge.co.uk/product-page...

A brief wet and wild visit to Elgol for #Sharemondays2025

#Scotland
#Photography
#LeicaQ343

Remember you can get last years winners book here
amzn.eu/d/cO3NtNL

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

I put that light on 🙏♥️

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The finished piece 🙂

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Biophony Finding your poetic beat in the soundscape.

Ting for the poetry mandem/gyal dem. MLE, isolated biophonies, the beat of walking and a sprinkle of the devil’s lettuce.

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