Good morning! This week's theme is London Sunshine 🌞
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'London Cherry Tree in Sunlight' by Melissa Scott-Miller
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Working people must not pay the price for Trumpflation Prices are rising and working families face a Trump-made cost of living crisis. Signed this to show that working people refuse to pay the price for Trumpflation.

Prices are rising and working families face a Trump-made cost of living crisis. I've just signed this to show that working people refuse to pay the price for Trumpflation. Can you add your name too? actionnetwork.org/forms/workin...

Sign the Urgent Petition - End this rip-off People in the UK are struggling to get by while some corporations are set to announce record high profits on the back of the Iran war. Join the campaign to demand these war profiteers are taxed so we ...

The Iran war is making everything more expensive for us, but some companies are cashing in. Don't think that's right? Sign the petition now demanding they are taxed more on their record profits to help us all with the cost of living. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ra...

In Brussels yesterday, the UK and EU ratified the agreement to bring UK into Erasmus+ in 2027, with the British Council becoming the National Agency for Erasmus+ in the UK. With 100,000 people estimated to benefit from it in the first year alone, this is a huge advance for UK-EU relations.

wahoo! my despatch from Budapest on the Hungarian election is out! you can give it a read here, it's very jolly and - I hope! - fairly informative: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

'Islington Street at Night with Blossoming Cherry Trees' (2024) by Melissa Scott-Miller
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The sun starts to rise towards mid-archway now as we head towards Summer. The first one I have had this year as it was so quiet up there this morning. Taken in St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor.

Good afternoon! This week's theme is Spring 🌷
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'Islington Back Gardens, Early Spring' (2019) by Melissa Scott-Miller
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I've learned that a lot of guys visualize our social environment like this: [image of a graph with two points] good men / crazed evil men but it's actually closer to this: [image of a graph that is a spectrum with the following points] heroic men who will intervene well-meaning men who underestimate the issue men who think predation is an unfortunate fact of life men who think certain women deserve it( but aren't active predators ) men who passively enjoy/consume/encourage predation textbook predators we're all aware of monsters so cruel we can't even fathom them

its dawning on me how much this dynamic played out in a previous relationship and how common this way of mistreating girlfriends and wives must be, without it ever being called abuse

HOPE WINS @greenpartyhan.bsky.social

People-power has sailed the Greens to victory. This is proof that when we get organised, we win.

A vision of a world where everyone can thrive is more powerful than the far right’s hatred and division.

And far more popular.

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Write to your MP Ask your MP to act on the Nature Security Assessment’s findings and press for a meaningful response.

The breakdown of nature and ecosystems overseas threatens the UK's national security. I've written to my MP asking the #UKGov to debate the new Nature Security Assessment and publish their response. Will you join me? action.zerohour.uk/nsa

Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:

Stop oil and gas sponsorship at the Olympics The Olympics are allowing oil and gas companies to sponsor the Games – even as fossil fuels threaten the future of winter sports. Add your name and urge them to end fossil fuel sponsorship for good >>

The Olympics are allowing oil and gas companies to sponsor the Games – even as fossil fuels threaten the future of winter sports. Add your name and urge them to end fossil fuel sponsorship for good >>
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Stop the water stitch-up! Stop the stitch-up! The Government wants to push through water legislation, locking in a failed privatised system for decades without giving the public a say. I’ve signed the petition to stop this wa...

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Stop the water stitch-up!. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...

Scott-Miller = automatic reblog

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

Open letter: UK must not abstain on UN Venezuela vote Stop Trump Coalition

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Trump’s criminal attack on Venezuela Stop Trump Coalition

Stop Trump Coalition condemns the bombing of Venezuela and calls for the British government to finally condemn the US for its warmongering.
stoptrump.org.uk/trumps-crimi...

That first light as it hits the Syren's way marker at the base of Glastonbury Tor. You can ring the bell on your way up or down. Photograph taken this morning shortly after sunrise.

Illustration of figures from the Moomins book series sitting around a fire in a magical snowy forest

Illustration by Moomins author, Finnish artist Tove Jansson.
#December25th #ArtAdvent 🎄 ❄️ #ChristmasDay 🤍

Happy Winter Solstice. The mists returned to Avalon as we celebrated the return of the light on the shortest day. Tomorrow daylight hours begin to lengthen. It was a beautiful morning on Glastonbury Tor.

The World Travel and Tourism Council has announced it will move its HQ from London to Madrid because of Brexit.

More companies are moving away from the UK and closer to our European neighbours, due to increasing red tape and barriers to trade. The Government needs to recognise that we cannot afford to lose any more organisations, and repair our relationship with the continent.

Taking a turn around Jane Austen's England Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 750,000 artworks by over 70,000 artists.

British novelist Jane Austen was born #OnThisDay in 1775 🎈

There is only one confirmed portrait of her in existence, by Jane's sister Cassandra.

Explore Jane Austen's England in art 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto...

'Jane Austen' by Cassandra Austen (1773–1845) 📸 National Portrait Gallery

My favourite modern artist and this is the account that introduced me to her work (back on the bird app).

A movie you've watched more than six times

Bird of Peace. Photo taken this morning from St Michael's Tower on Glastonbury Tor at sunrise.

A happy little mushroom family

#mushrooms
#FungiFriends
#photography

Three oart sculture created with vertically sited pieces of driftwood inlaid with circles of coloured stained glass, placed on a riverbank against a gooden sky

'The 3 Graces' on the River Adur' stained glass and driftwood sculptures by UK artist Louise V Durham #WomensArt

'View from the old Middlesex Hospital', Goodge Street (2006) by Melissa Scott-Miller
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Madensky Square by Eva Ibbotson