The Girl With The Cat Earring

Bridget Hangs Out With The Hunters In The Snow

Bridget Meets The Beatles On Abbey Road

Bridget Does Edward Hopper

THREAD. When my parents' cat Bridget went missing, my dad, to try to ease his worry, painted her on a variety of historical ventures. Soon, these numbered in the dozens.

After much nagging, my dad has had some postcards printed of this brilliant series: michaelcoxmoredaysthansausages.bigcartel.com

This is a new image from #JWST.

The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else is a galaxy.

Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

Oh i would so like to have been the chris wallace who authored Hidden photons with Kaluza-Klein towers but I have to disappoint Academia.edu yet again.

During WWII, four brothers from the same Jewish family signed up to fight against the Nazis. Only one of the four brothers survived.

His grandson is the current President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky.

Slava Ukraine! Heroyam Slava! 💙💛

Wouldn't it have been wonderful if European leaders had stood up as one and told him that he must somehow have got into the wrong room,that they were there to discuss the future security of Europe and had no time to listen to this blatant hypocrisy and trail of trivial ultra-right grievances?

I love how Trump, Vance and Musk style themselves defenders of free speech, while simultaneously banning government agencies from mentioning climate change or diversity (inc biodiversity!), equity and inclusion, or even possessing maps which show the Gulf of Mexico.
Torquemadas the lot of them.

The tree arriving on platform 2

We should really really copy Paris.

Replacing lost biodiversity: a missed opportunity for local offsetting When developers cannot meet their obligation to replace habitat lost within their development site, plus at least 10%, they may buy habitat units to offset this lost habitat. These habitat units ar…

Is the opportunity for local offsetting of BNG being lost? bristoltreeforum.org/2025/01/25/r...

𝗦𝗮𝗺 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱, 𝟵𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲́𝗲 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗲

🏁This Saturday at 1403 hrs UTC, @GoodchildSam crossed the finish line in Les Sables d'Olonne, completing his very first Vendée Globe after 76 days, 02 hours, and 01 minute of racing. A remarkable achievement for the British

The Power of Supercitizens Lurking among us are anonymous heroes who quietly amplify social cohesion. Here's what we can learn from them.

In a world gone mad, the most powerful acts of resistance don’t involve posting on social media, but engaging in your community. Here’s my piece from last summer on the value of Supercitizens, who don’t just provide the glue that keeps us together, but also live longer because of it.

An arched stone entrance framing a tree behind it

A beautiful arched entrance that enhances & heightens the beauty of the tree

However, the tree could be felled IN AN INSTANT, and with no penalty whatsoever to the axeman. Yet the arched entrance is protected BY LAW

I value the archway, but the tree is priceless

Photo of Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde.

This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.

Dr @kierachapman.bsky.social's talk at our recent conference outlined how botanical training she received via our #Identiplant course helped her carry out the fieldwork which led to this important report: theconversation.com/property-dev...
Watch Kiera's talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-t1...

In an effort to ignore the hideous reality we are all facing, here's a picture of me as a cowboy for no apparent reason. 🤠

The chronicle of a fire foretold | Rebecca Solnit The current fires in Los Angeles are reminders of the costs of forgetting

I wrote a thing, because these fires are in the increasingly common category of shocking but not surprising. Neither unprecedented nor unforeseen by those who study the subjects.....
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The 2025 Annual Tree Giveaway – free saplings available for planting Since 2020, Bristol Tree Forum has given away well over 10,000 tree saplings for tree lovers to plant around Bristol…. and beyond! Here is your chance to help us plant still more.

Bristol Tree Forum's 2025 Tree Giveway is on! Order yours using the form in the article bristoltreeforum.org/2025/01/09/t...

Old oak tree with twisted branches in autumn woodland of ancient oaks

A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳

One of my favourite things about this time of year:

Working to restore the East London tidal marshes, amongst the frosty reeds, as the lower winter sun goes down in a blazing ball of red & gold, framed by the incongruous contrast of the soaring concrete overpass of the North Circular

It took me a while but I finally finished to recode the 300 programs of Jean-Paul Delahaye’s book "Nouveaux dessins géométriques et artistiques" with p5js. The book was published in 1985 and features classic generative algorithms.

github.com/v3ga/nouveau...

Johannes Vermeer would like this, I think!A fire alarm made beautiful on an industrial brick wall in quirky Bristol 😊

Cast iron bridge over the Kennet and Avon canal at Sydney Gardens, Bath

1800 cast iron bridge over the Kennet and Avon canal in Bath - love the design, reminiscent of an Appolonian Gasket. historicbridges.org/bridges/brow...

Desert Island Discs - Mark-Anthony Turnage, composer - BBC Sounds Mark-Anthony Turnage, composer, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne.

Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Desert Island Discs this morning was such a beautiful listen - gorgeous music and very moving - with @laurenlaverne.bsky.social interviewing so kindly.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

In fact, Eunice foot first made the connection between atmospheric carbon dioxide and global climate in 1856 www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

2025 tree planting started today… a new fully funded street tree scheme in Horfield then a new grant funded scheme in Hillfields Park. Lovely day…
#Bristol #BristolTrees #Trees

We support Baroness Young, who is sponsoring a private member's bill to protect our heritage trees - bills.parliament.uk/publications... - which are defined as 'a tree in England listed as such by Natural England on grounds of exceptional historic, landscape, cultural or ecological importance.'

2024 saw the launch of our revamped toolkit! Thanks to amazing Toolkit Maintainers and Guardians, you can find a database full of useful free-to-access tools. Complete with complexity ratings and clear descriptions, the toolkit is a one-stop shop for investigations. bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit

We don’t talk enough about the importance of standard components in a greener economy. Engineers always say “but *our* design for battery/connector/module is 2% better than a standard one”, missing the point that it’s far worse for repair, reuse, recycling & minimising extra “stuff”. It’s maddening.