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an acrylic painting of various flowers in a glass vase. the flowers vary in shape and color such as pinks, blues, yellows and reds. it's all set on a moody, dark brown background.

My loose study of "Still Life: Flowers and Fruit" by Severin Roesen.

acrylic on canvas board.

this was a gift for my wife and also is my first ever acrylic painting i've actually finished. most of the time i stop at some point.

feeling pretty good about it!

‘Too small to matter’ is the laziest-possible excuse in climate debate At a time of crisis, co-operation is the only way to resolve the climate collective-action problem

If Ireland's emissions are "too small to matter" then I might as well evade my taxes and eat doughnuts for lunch.

Read my latest column about the laziest excuse in the climate debate:

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D-Notice. Australia seeks UK defence advice on censoring 'servile' media - Michael West Documents in UK investigation show Australia's A-G Dreyfus in discussion with secret British committee controlling 'submissive' media

Documents obtained by #Greyzone show Australia’s Attorney-General in discussion with secret UK body on controlling ‘submissive’ mainstream media.
#whatsthescam #auspol
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But when does he stop talking and start doing ?

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable.
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Are you shopping Amazon, Target, or Home Depot today? Read this first. We’re joining a nationwide Cyber Monday boycott. Here’s why we’re skipping Amazon, Target, and Home Depot and what to do instead.

Are you shopping Amazon, Target, or Home Depot today? Read this first.
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Tetra Pak launches integrated heat pump system to electrify pasteurization and cut energy use by up to 77% Tetra Pak announces the expansion of its Factory Sustainable Solutions portfolio with its new Tetra Pak Integrated Heat Pump system for pasteurizers, designed t

Tetra Pak just launched a heat-pump-based pasteurization system that can cut energy use by up to 77%.

Electrification + heat recovery = massive efficiency gains. This is the kind of behind-the-scenes innovation that quietly transforms entire sectors.

www.foodtechbiz.com/business-upd...

It's one way 9f bringing the unemployment rate down....

8. A lift being broken (lying unfixed for weeks because no engineer can be found/afforded), meaning that a disabled witness cannot attend a trial.

7. The ancient court plumbing giving up, meaning no running water or flushing toilets, meaning everybody is sent home.

6. The nationwide breakdown of the Crown Court Digital Case System and/or Common Platform.

Happens pretty much weekly. All cases are now digital. When the abysmal infrastructure (which has been in Beta for years) freezes or breaks, everything grinds to a standstill.

5. The Crown Prosecution Service failing to serve key evidence or critical disclosure until the day of trial, giving insufficient time for the defence to consider it, and causing the trial to be adjourned.

4. Judge having extra hearings shoved into their courtrooms during a trial, meaning that the trial overruns. Or, if the trial cannot overrun - because jurors or the judge have immovable commitments - the trial collapses and is adjourned for a year or two

3. The Witness Care Unit forgetting to tell witnesses to attend trial. Meaning the whole trial has to be adjourned.

2. The court forgetting to book an interpreter for a defendant.

Another perennial. Every day in every court building.

See also: the court booking an interpreter, and the interpreter just not turning up.

1. The defendant not being produced at court from prison. 🚚

A classic. It happens due to the private contractors simply not bothering, knowing that the contracts negotiated by government include no meaningful penalty for failure.

Trials every day in every court are affected.

Today the news will be about the government's proposals for juries.

Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.

…and yes, I was part of the Epstein crowd.🔻

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5 years ago today, in the midst of lockdown, the person I love most in the world suffered a life-threatening illness. A cancer that overwhelmingly escapes detection & required urgent intervention. We were incredibly fortunate it was seen in time, that there's surgery, & that our doctors were trained in it. The operation was in question nevertheless, because hospitals in general, & specifically ICUs were needed for Covid patients. After an anxious wait, an ICU bed became available & they were rushed to surgery. A procedure that tied up an entire team for a whole day. And this, too, is why we get vaccinated, why we wear masks, stay at home when ill, stay informed, considerate, with science: Because it does not just protect ourselves, it protects everyone in need of medical care, it protects our health services & their staff. It protects you, the people you know, & those you don't. It protects families, friends, colleagues. Your self-care, your choice protects others. In this case, it saved a life. ***

This morning, from me to you, a personal message.

#GoodMorning, everyone.

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Painting of a barn in a field in deep snow the barn has different coloured panels, a bare tree is behind the barn, the sky is white and the landscape bleak and wintery

'Snowdrift barn' by contemporary British painter Kate Evans #WomensArt ##December2nd #ArtAdvent 🎄

Kids Can Press company logo and logo and image of Franklin character with statement text,”Franklin the Turtle is a beloved Canadian icon who has inspired generations of children and stands for kindness, empathy, and inclusivity. We strongly condemn any denigrating, violent, or unauthorized use of Franklin’s name or image, which directly contradicts these values.”

Some might say, hacking billboards is noble work. 😉

A bleak and chilly scene of a flat landscape under a hard frost as a pale sun behind thin cloud gives the sky a brown tinge

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 2

No one does bleak-but-beautiful-winter like
artist Rowland Hilder

Even at the time, Johnson’s wild weekend in Umbria felt somewhat suspicious. With this new information, you can understand why some are now calling it outright treasonous

So, to recap:

Washington Post story breaks on Hegseth.

Pentagon says fake news.

White House confirms the story roughly 12 hours later - and defends it.

Press Sec confirms that Hegseth personally ordered the execution of the two stranded men.

This isn’t going well.

"I had a completely different vid planned for today. But life changed last week, and I thought U should know about it."
"If we lived in a rational world, the presentations given would have been priority live streamed on every network news channel" #NationalEmergencyBriefing

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YouTube video by Just Have a Think This is not the video I had planned to make.

Watch and weep.
This is 2 little, 2 late
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