Dr Jane May Morrison

#OOTD
Bungo in the Bat Lanes

Organic cotton dress: Nobody's Child
Preloved ballet slippers: Depop
Choker: Free, clothes swap
Hair roses: DIYed with matches + leftover taffeta from my wedding dress
Eco tencel underthings: Stripe and Stare

#DarkAcademia #goth #ecogoth #ecofashion #preloved

Woman lying on floor in shaded garden completely covered by duvet with pillowcase over her face and sunglasses on top of pillowcase

Autistic sunbathing

#ICYMI

'The government needs to come up with a longer-term plan for providing deeper support in future for people who cannot afford a warm and healthy home.' Our Chief Executive welcomes the #WarmHomeDiscount expansion but warns some people needing support will still miss out.

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CAPITALISM THINKING IT CAN SURVIVE THE CLIMATE CRISIS INSURANCE COSTS

From @earthlyeducation.bsky.social on Insta:

Schrödinger's Motorist: simultaneously loves driving but gets absolutely furious if they have to drive for an extra second

Autistic writer upset they can’t submit second draft of conversation An autistic writer has reportedly been left “frustrated” that they are unable to submit the second draft of the very stupid thing they just said in casual conversation. Jay Chester, 48, who regularly ...

“Looking back over that second draft, I think where I went wrong was not recapping for my audience,” Chester added. “So I went back in, said ‘I was the one with big plans for my banana – but on second thoughts – no thanks.’ Anyway, now I’m banned from Tesco.”

When all your favourite boys are chilling on the sofa together

Graphic with a blue sky background and white clouds. Bold text in the centre reads: “More than 53,000 older, polluting vehicles removed from London’s roads.” Below, smaller text says: “Thanks to the London-wide ULEZ scrappage scheme.” At the bottom, a source link is provided: https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/ultra-low-emission-zone.

I’m proud that the ULEZ scrappage scheme, the biggest in the UK, has supported so many Londoners to switch to cleaner, greener forms of transport.

It has made a huge difference to our air quality.

A young #foxoftheday today , shared by @ChrisChalkPhoto , thank you Chris !

Despite so much UK electricity now coming from cheap renewables, household bills remain sky-high thanks to electricity prices being tied to volatile gas markets.

@michaelshanksmp.co.uk

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Most new build homes must be fitted with solar panels - Miliband The energy secretary says the move will cut energy bills, but house builders caution against burdensome regulations.

Kudos to Ed Miliband for making this happen 👏

Yes, it's long overdue, but the real culprit here was George Osborne who slashed the 2016 zero carbon homes target, followed by years of dithering by the Tories amid a flurry of donations from housebuilders.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

#OOTD
Working From Home? Well, That's Just Frilly

Waistcoat: M&S workwear
Pearl hairband: Free, inherited
Lace top: Charity shop
Skirt: Preloved from Lacemarket. com
Mitts: DIY handknitted acrylic

#gothicstyle #goth #prelovedclothes #prelovedfashion #secondhandstyle #ootdfashion #workwear

Monthly average electricity output from solar power in the UK from 2013 to 2025, megawatts. Source: Carbon Brief analysis of figures from the National Electricity System Operator (NESO).

NEW – Analysis: UK’s solar power surges 42% after sunniest spring on record | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org

Read here: buff.ly/8vCQc89

I'm giving a training session on survey design soon. I've got one or two examples of bad practice as illustration - anyone got any other really good zingers I might use?

Large-scale OCD study unlocks new genes linked to debilitating condition QIMR Berghofer researchers have found the genes linked to obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) for the first time, after identifying 30 regions in the human genome associated with this debilitating yet...

Big breakthrough in OCD research, woot! 🥳

The implicated OCD genes have been identified for the first time (and, unsurprisingly, they're similar to those seen in Tourette's, anxiety, and anorexia). Researchers can use the info to better target treatments.

medicalxpress.com/news/2025-05...

Five stars for this absolute banger of an anthology (though sad to see how troubled its publisher, Unbound press, is atm).

Some of the listed crowdfunders seem to have been having a laugh w/ aliases too... 😜

#amreading #booksky #weirdfiction #folkhorror #horrorbooks #gothicliterature

before and after today’s glacier collapse that buried 90% of blatten, switzerland

'This is a short fall from a great height.' Our Chief Executive Adam Scorer welcomes the 7% fall in the cost of energy bills but says that government needs to do more to provide deeper energy bill support and help people out of debt.

Photo of a striking black chicken with red comb and wattle.

Happy World Goth Day! It is a common misconception that chickens can't be goth, but Lavinia enjoys Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, and Victorian poems about beautiful women dying of consumption.

Eccentric dad has “no idea” where you got your autism from Your dad, the most singularly unique individual you’ve ever met, reportedly has no idea where you got your autism from. Perhaps best known for helping to bring you into the world, your father owns sev...

“It doesn’t make any sense. I’m not autistic, and neither were your grandparents. My mother used to scream if you disturbed her porcelain doll collection, and Dad acted out the entirety of The Maltese Falcon – verbatim – the Christmas our TV broke, but autism didn’t exist back then.”

Thank you! 😄 Tbh I was worried I'd been sprinkling them randomly over my writing (like irritating grit directly into my agent's eye...).

They're an endangered species of punctuation and we must preserve them!

Scored 10/10 on the semicolon usage quiz. MY WEEK IS MADE 🤩🤩🤩

Quite possibly the biggest climate story of the year (especially when we look back on this in a few years' time)

For the first time on record, China's emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand...

In the top left corner is The British Book Awards logo and in gold text reads: winner. In white text reads: Book of the Year Discover. The book sits on a table with the trophy

Our next winner is Len Pennie, taking home the Book of the Year: Discover award for poyums (Canongate) ✒️

“Reading this is an experience that transcends sexuality, race and gender,” said one judge #Nibbies #BritishBookAwards

There was an old tweet that stuck with me: "If you can easily walk to the coffee shop but your barista has a one hour commute, you don't live in a walkable 15 minute city; you live in a theme park"

💰KCB is one of 5 banks fuelling #EACOP. Now it’s silencing the people resisting it!

‼️This is what the #climatecrisis looks like: profit over people, finance over freedom, 🛢️ over life

But we are many & together we are powerful!

✊🏾 Solidarity with activists from @stopeacop.bsky.social

#StopEACOP

"I asked him for the definition of a gothic novel. He said, 'A young woman goes into an old house and has her pants scared off.'"

- Kurt Vonnegut

#BookWormSat #gothic #Vonnegut #booksky #fantasy #horror #horrorfiction #fantasyfiction #antiquarian #Victorian

IT ME

(but yes, seriously folks, engage in political and legislative solutions to eco-problems before you go wildly overboard on the individualistic we-can-all-do-our-little-bit front 👍👍👍)