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Get the song here! Pay what you can! palebird.bandcamp.com/track/poison...

Some herbaria/pressed flower collections I've made.
I'm basically an Edwardian lady botanist.
Take a moment to look at the botanical details in my photos-research shows that looking at eg. my cowslips means you'll recover from stress more quickly today due to the positive effect on your brain...🌿

PSA for UK viewers:
THE STRAIGHT STORY is on Film 4 at 4.10pm tomorrow afternoon (Sunday 2nd Feb). #FilmSky #DavidLynch

One in four children in England need social care services by 18, study reveals New research shows scale of crisis, sparking fears over impact of poverty and funding cuts on young people

My new research with Matt Jay shows 1 in 4 of all children require services because they do not achieve a basi level of wellbeing
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Trump is a dumb, vicious racist

The major media is utterly failing to simply state that Trump is a vicious racist, who blames everything on presumed racial or ethnic minorities. How hard can it be to just say “In shockingly racist remarks Trump refuses to accept responsibility and blames deadly plane crash on minorities”

Hi, I’d really like to do the course but can’t do those times. Can I book on the course & follow the zoom recording afterwards? Thanks

Every word of this thread!

Wonderful story. Deservedly on the front page.

Martin Fishback on the Musk salute.

Like boiled frogs, we're inured to modern-day house prices. Looking at 1980 document of my uncle, a bank porter, where on a salary of €2,500 a year, he had a house worth €8,000. That house adjusted for inflation should be worth €35,000. A similar one on the same crescent sold last year for €900K.

Has the Times sacked its Media Correspondent? Scrolling through its news list and it’s missed a huge story involving the monarchy, journalist ethics and a billion pound cover up at a hugely powerful media organisation. Surely more important than whether dogs suffer from January blues?

Silver pieces made by beginners in my workshops-casts of various nature finds including acorns and shells

Cornflowers, Nigella, Russian sage and sweet peas on a sketch book with my illustrations of them alongside with the fountain pen I used to draw them

One of my nature diaries with various named botanical specimens and my drawings of them alongside on a sketchbook, with my fountain pen and other drawing materials alongside

Silver pieces made by beginners in my workshops-casts of various nature finds including shepherd's purse, fresh leylandii, acorns and shells

2 new creative online classes are now live on my site-

🌿my sell-out botanical illustration & mental health w'shop (15 Mar);you'll learn to draw plants in detail & how creative activity improves mental health

🌸my full-length course on casting flowers,shells etc in silver:

workshops.emmamitchell.uk

It really baffles me why some think it's okay to be shitty to a generation of young people who gave up THE MOST to protect their elders, have had THE CRUELLEST possible transition to adulthood, are getting THE LEAST amount of state help, and are facing THE WORST future prospects.

A better world is possible

A tiny lid with two tiny flowers in it

Inspired by your book & posts I made my first tiny posy today collected on my dog walk. I wouldn’t have noticed these without your input & they brought me joy, so thank you. Hope you’re doing ok today x

My dudes, turn this shit off. On iOS it's under Settings > Apps > Photos > scroll all the way down.

You know the Thick-Of-It style moment in Succession when Kendal is backstage at a big media event, but can’t work out what his product launch should be, so finds himself improvising, and pitching, basically, eternal life, because it would be cool?

That’s where we are in big tech’s mad collapse.

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It's the 🎉 18th birthday of #AnswerMeThis today... and we have SOME NEWS
@helenzaltzman.bsky.social | @martinaustwick.bsky.social

Delightful news! Thanks guys, genuinely made my day!

The BBC needs to have a debate about whether Musk's outbursts should keep leading the news.

This isn't about censoring or suppressing his views; it's about whether to amplify them.

Most Brits aren't on X, they don't follow Musk & not every raving from a foreign plutocrat should set the news agenda

It’s inspired me to buy the book so it was worth it! 😊

A List of Predictions Made in 1925 About 2025

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Pleased to see that 2025 is the International Year of Helping Someone with Parkinson's by Buying Their Memoir and Actually It's A Decent Read.

Can’t stop thinking about Marcus Fakana - stuck in jail in Dubai for a holiday romance. The absolutely horrible decision by the girl’s mother to report him to the police. The sense that racism and classism are at play - if he had been a white middle class boy I suspect things would be different.

I have a goal for y’all this coming year that I wish I had before my brother died: Take videos of the people you love. Silly ones, serious ones, candid ones, short ones.

You’ll be very happy you have these little snippets if you ever have to live without them ❤️

I want to thank Elon Musk for attacking Wikipedia for being a part of the internet he can't currently control. It reminded me to donate to support Wikipedia, the best remaining thing about the internet. You can donate here: donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...