Otter painting

Just gliding through 🦦

Went for a walk in my home town of Amstelveen a couple of weeks ago and found some herons.

The Next Frontier of Climate Accountability: Making Big Food Pay Its Ecological Bill The “polluter pays” principle is a cornerstone of environmental regulation. It raises billions of dollars each year and has been fundamental in pushing

"The environmental cost of meat is disproportionately high...
Calls to curb meat consumption are growing louder, yet meat intake is climbing with rising incomes in emerging economies, coupled with entrenched habits in wealthier nations...
Clean energy isn’t enough; clean food is next."

A group of young kestrels is startled by the presence of a butterfly. 🤣🤣🤣

Latest YouGov poll shows multi-party Britain breaking the voting system If there were a general election tomorrow, who would form the next government? It sounds like a simple question if you have access to the latest polls. But when the latest YouGov poll, r

"We should be able to look at a poll and have a reasonable sense of how the country’s votes would translate into seats."

In multi-party Britain our already rubbish voting system is getting ever more inappropriate.

electoral-reform.org.uk/latest-yougo...

The unconscious process that leads to creativity: how ‘incubation’ works The creativity process has been divided into four phases – including one where you need to let your unconscious do the work

The role of the unconscious in creativity. Nice read.

www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

Drawdown® Explorer We know what we need to do: stop climate change as quickly as possible. Now, with the Drawdown Explorer, we know how to do it.

What are the most effective climate change solutions? The Drawdown Explorer is a brilliant tool providing the answer to that question.

drawdown.org/explorer

A 'Secret Weapon' for Fighting Climate Change Comes Surging Back Capturing carbon 35 times faster than the Amazon, seagrasses have faced centuries of decline. Now restoration projects across North America are seeing their meadows quadruple in size.

reasonstobecheerful.world/seagrass-res...

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

PHENOMENAL dataviz howto thread with lots of lovely examples.

Found this on one of my feeds and have signed up to be a finisher.

Spreading for awareness for others who may like to sign up to finish fibre arts projects, or for people who have a project left unfinished by death or disability who would like to match with a finisher.

looseends.org/finisher

Psychologically, we're living in very hard times for all who care deeply about science, empathy, equity, nature, and rights for all citizens of the planet, human or otherwise.

Find strength, solace, and community in like-minded others, positive action, and in Mother Earth
🌎

The world in a dress: the project with 1.5 billion stitches Fourteen years, 380 embroiderers and an estimated billion and a half stitches: the Red Dress project allows people around the world to tell their stories through embroidery

The largest ever collaborative embroidery project is an absolute beauty 🤩

www.positive.news/society/the-...

The increasing intermittency of….nuclear power stations:

Source: Financial Times | “Heatwaves test Europe’s electricity system as air conditioning use soars” on.ft.com/4fsSclS

Tat’s enough: the No Crap Parties movement Charlotte Mason-Curl says the No Crap Parties movement has led to fewer awkward moments, less plastic tat – and more true connection

Love this. Similarly, in the last Secret Santa I took part in, the rule was the presents had to be either home-made or from a charity shop. All the presents were lovely and extremely well thought-out to suit the recipient - no tat in sight!

www.positive.news/society/tats...

if you damage something man-made we call it vandalism if you damage something made by nature we call it progress

Important birdfloof info.

bar plot with lots of clutter, including boxes, bold fonts, text redundancies etc.

cleaned bar plot

👇 Those two are the same graph 👇

...but the 2nd one focuses on the message &

follows @helenajambor.bsky.social's checklist for visualizing scientific data

(1/2)

A bowl of noodles in a brown broth topped with green beans, carrot, mushrooms, vegan cheddar and spring onions.

French onion ramen, an absurdly rude recipe from Tim Anderson's Vegan JapanEasy. We swapped out spinach, cabbage and bamboo shoots for what we had to hand - rocket, green beans and carrot. Also kept in the mushrooms from making the dashi.

Marvellous with a glass of red.

#WhatVegansEat

The power of visualisation. What jumped out at me was that almost all of these cities are in the same band of latitude - only London and Lagos are outliers. Which immediately suggest climate factors underlying cities being able to support large numbers of people. 📊

Two gannets flying against blue sea and sky.

Gannets at Bempton Cliffs, May 2023, for #SuperSeabirdSunday 🪶

I have a day off and I've started it by sitting next to a lake listening to some reed warblers. Something inside me is unknotting.

A stick library - open fronted wooden structure in a woodland setting, containing a dozen or so sticks of different sizes.

Cute.

#Dubois Challenge 2025: Economics Recap of the Du Bois Challenge 2025

I'm slow to the party but just discovered I got a mention in @ajstarks.bsky.social recap of #DuboisChallenge2025 - what a treat! 📊

Lots of beautiful work highlighted in this deck, worth a look.

speakerdeck.com/ajstarks/num...

Deeper and Deeper: India's Water Race to the Bottom Over exploitation of India’s groundwater for thirsty cash crops is endangering water supplies, leaching the soil and endangering the food security of all Indians, a Thibi data investigation reveals.

Incredibly in-depth work exploring India's groundwater crisis, linked to agricultural practices and policy.

Great data storytelling to highlight a critical issue, with links to more in-depth stories that make the issues tangible.

site.thibi.co/originals/in... 📊

Bicycles Built Based on People's Attempts to Draw Them From Memory In 2009 designer Gianluca Gimini started asking friends and strangers to draw a men's bicycle from memory. While some got …

www.booooooom.com/2016/05/09/b...

How Conservationists Are Preparing Nature for Tomorrow's Hotter World From connecting networks of ecosystems to building routes to higher altitudes, conservationists are working to ensure Earth’s biodiversity can carry onward.

I'm not sure this in fact made me cheerful, but it is heartening to know that people are out there taking this large-scale, forward looking approach to ecosystem resilience.

reasonstobecheerful.world/conservation...

How The Heck Do QR Codes Work? (An Interactive Exploration) Interactively dive into the layout and encoding of QR codes

Answered one of those questions I didn't realise I'd been asking myself...

perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...

Inclusive Pride flag.

17th May is the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia.
The date commemorates the World Health Organisation’s decision in 1990 to remove homosexuality from its classification of diseases.
We exist. We don’t need a cure.
#IDAHOBIT

Thank God for immigrants This week, of all weeks: Thank God they came here and chose to make it their home.

Struggling to find words to encourage you to read this piece that will do it justice. It's beautiful. It's necessary. Thanks Ian.

iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...