Something extraordinary – yet predictable – has happened over recent days on Facebook.

Fake accounts that usually post anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim content generated using AI to fuel division and hate in UK are now pushing out AI-gen content asking:

"Should the UK produce its own fuel again?"

I couldn't resist having another go at painting a barn owl hunting at night.....

Happy Tuesday x

#watercolour #barnowl #atmosphere #flight #birds

I love how there are random signs for "ESSO" everywhere in the background – and then, suddenly, "she" is even wearing an ESSO-branded top...

Je suis nulle en géographie mais le détroit d'Hormuz qu'on ouvre qu'on ferme qu'on rouvre qu'on referme, ça vaudrait pas le coup d'installer une chatière ?

Blue badge holders: how are you treated by other members of the public when out? Have you experienced reactions from other people when using your blue badge? We’d like to hear from you

**CALL OUT** I’m looking to gather experiences of disabled people who have been criticised or harassed by the public about their Blue Badge or Motability car etc when out.

Click on link to fill in our form. Please do share to reach as many people as possible. www.the-guardian.com/world/2026/a...

Thirty-three to thousands —
red crown lifts above the marsh,
Hokkaidō breathes.

Japan’s red-crowned crane, once limited to just 33 individuals in the Kushiro Wetland in Hokkaidō, is rebounding after decades of conservation and volunteer feeding efforts.

news.fixthenews.com/NQ3WB7E

Another informative piece of research from Skeptical Science, a team of volunteers who have worked very hard to debunk climate misinformation for well over a decade now. Very grateful for their contributions and work.

Climate change link to hysterectomy crisis among Indian sugar workers Exploitative conditions penalise workers for taking breaks, leaving women a grim choice to solve the ‘problem’ of menstruation

Another example of how marginalised groups pay a higher price in times of crisis.

www.iied.org/climate-chan...

Lots of No Kings posts are saying, find your protest and march. There are lots of reasons why marching with a crowd is just not happening for some of us from disabilities, enochlophobia (fear of crowds) to child issues. I would love to join in Austin but I just can't. Thanks to SUFS, I can join here

1973 board game Alaska Pipeline: The Energy Crisis Game was blatant pro-pipeline propaganda that mocked environmental concerns. Pipeline objections are given by a nosy, old woman & countered with "fact" cards. Exxon Valdez oilspill was 37 years ago today. #alaska #alaskahistory

World Cup kit prices: Has cost of jerseys gone too far? BBC Sport explores the rise in the cost of kits for the 2026 World Cup, with insights from experts and fans.

I'm assuming this is a rhetorical question.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Beautiful pattern and knitting.

Adam Smith said it was not benevolence that ensured he got his dinner.

Yet it was his mother who cooked it for him all through her life. Perhaps the invisible hand of benevolence was simply too hard for him — and for today’s mainstream economics — to see.

#Economics #MothersDay

JESSICA BACKHAUS. SHADOWS MIGHT DANCE

Form, colour, and light are the defining elements of the visual cosmos of the internationally acclaimed photographer. A comprehensive exhibition in Frankfurt offers an exceptional insight into Backhaus’s artistic evolution.

🎥 ©radke
www.fffrankfurt.com

Rectangular wooden sculpture with rectangular stained glass inlay in rainbow colours, the artwork is sited on a beach on wet sand which reflects the colours of the glass

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

My maddening battle with chronic fatigue syndrome: ‘On my worst days, it feels almost demonic’ The long read: I suffered with my mystery illness for decades before gaining a diagnosis. Could retraining my brain be the answer?

My maddening battle with chronic fatigue syndrome: ‘On my worst days, it feels almost demonic’

Fossil fuel pollution’s effect on oceans comes with huge costs » Yale Climate Connections A new study details the vast price society is paying for burning coal, oil, and gas.

A new paper led by @bbastien.bsky.social estimates that accounting for climate pollution's impact on the oceans via the one-two punch of warming & acidification nearly doubles the social cost of carbon (which the Trump EPA thinks is $0). My new @climateconnections.bsky.social article & 🧵 (1/8):

Dirty Business review – if this doesn’t incite righteous anger over our filthy water then nothing will Based on the true story of amateur sleuths appalled at the dumping of sewage in our rivers, this drama starring David Thewlis is a blast of controlled fury – and could become the next Mr Bates vs the ...

'If this doesn’t [move the needle], perhaps nothing will: this is a fist in the face, a blast of controlled fury that mounts an unanswerable case for the prosecution.'

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Back to the Alphabet, P is for Polar Bears

Happy Sunday x

#watercolour #polarbears #indigo #wildlife #art

A new all-electric double-decker Climate Stripes bus has started taking passengers around Reading today.

The bus shows the warming stripes for Reading back to the 1860s and will hopefully help start climate conversations amongst passengers.

#ShowYourStripes

I would trust him with my case

It was a tough decision, lots of really good submissions. I’m mostly very happy with where we landed. Enjoy! - & tell me if you think I have terrible taste.

I’m pleased to share my latest article in @uk.theconversation.com

It asks what overheated apartments, flooded rice fields, & invisible policy failures have in common, & how preventable harm becomes the slow violence of necropolitics in the Chthulucene.

Here's a short thread on some key points 🧵

The death of medical care for Afghan women | Letter Letter: Dr Carol Mann says the world is silent while women in Afghanistan face a bleak future, in response to an article on the Taliban’s birth control ban

Gender genocide in Afghanistan: "after the demise of the present generation of female doctors, midwives, surgeons and nurses who are still permitted to work, women will receive no medical aid whatsoever."

HHS will allow pharmacies to boycott lifesaving drugs used in medication abortion Misoprostol and methotrexate do more than end pregnancies—but anti-abortion pharmacists can now refuse to offer them and still get federal funds.

The Trump administration formally withdrew federal guidance that required pharmacies to dispense methotrexate. Chronically ill people may face more challenges in getting this drug for their health. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Tears of joy! SCOTLAND HAS JUST PASSED SWIFT BRICKS INTO LAW unanimously!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE ⁦‪ MARK RUSKELL MSP‬⁩ ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿by emailing PlanningPolicyConsultation@communities.gov.uk now!WOOP!

We are just starting to grasp the wide range of disastrous impacts we are having on the lives of other animals

#Biodiversity
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Un scientifique est attaqué, le service public est attaqué : le Trumpisme est déjà bien présent en France. Plus inquiétant encore, le manque de soutien des institutions publiques et politiques. Ce n'est pas en fermant les yeux ou en se taisant que l'extrême-droite sera stoppée.

January provides a time for me to try new ideas and experiment....

The darkest nights produce the brightest stars." – John Green.

Happy Friday x

#watercolour #night #badgers #wildlife #Devon

Wintry conditions over the UK today, stay safe everyone

Happy Friday x

#watercolour #snow #fox #winter #art