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Seeing the fractal patterns of plants (even on a screen) shifts our brain activity from fight or flight to rest & digest due to ancient foraging pathways that are still very active in modern humans. Here's your daily bunch of lovely twigs for your noggin- late June floral snapshot from the garden🌿🧠:

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The illegal killing of Hen Harriers has hit a devastating new high. ⚠️ A new RSPB report reveals 102 incidents in just five years - with the majority on, or near, grouse moors. A thread…

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The BBC’s Glastonbury coverage up to this point should just be Ray Mears and Stacey Solomon interviewing people putting up their tents.

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Every time a Mamdani wins a primary or a Jonathan Ashworth loses his seat in a Labour landslide or an AOC beats an old establishment dinosaur it can feel like an anomaly for progressives. But young people vote progressively. They just do. And more and more of them are voting every year.

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We have deep concerns about government plans to designate Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. Nonviolent protest, and even acts of vandalism, should not be labelled as terrorism. Civil disobedience has been a powerful force for positive social change. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

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Love is hate War is peace No is yes We’re all free

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Cuckoo chicks hatch early and throw out the competition...literally. Raised alone by unwitting foster parents, they grow fast - rapidly dwarfing their much smaller hosts. Like this little Reed Warbler, just doing its best. 👇 #SpringStories

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The United States never has enough money to keep people alive at home but always has enough money to kill people overseas.

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This is amazing! ❤️

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"A culture is no better than its woods." - WH Auden

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If this flag offends you, you’re on the wrong side of history. #Pride #LGBWithTheTQ+

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Mummy thinks this is a swindle.

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I designed a horseshoe crab sweater and published it on Ravelry on National horseshoe crab day! If you ever thought to yourself “man, I really want a hand knit sweater with horseshoe crabs on it” boy do I have great news for ya www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

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A very happy summer solstice to you all from Stone Club ✨🌳🪨💫

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What an incredible photo. On Sunday, astro-photographer Andrew McCarthy captured the moment the International Space Station passed across our sun.

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Would be fascinated to meet the person who thinks Iran is in Norfolk.

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Look, I don't even think about cars but I read this in the voice of breathless discovery that only teenage girls possess. It's beautiful and a hymn to the brilliance of growing up delightfully weird.

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

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UPDATE: It gets worse. The updated legislative language makes over 250 MILLION ACRES of public land available for sell-off.

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This is a brilliant book about a febrile few months beyond ladybird plagues and Radio 1 roadshows.

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There is a heart on the wall for every person who died of covid in this country, whether or not it has writing on it. We will never forget them. ❤️ #Monday

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During WWI, Marie Curie created a vehicle that contained a hospital bed, a generator, an X-ray machine and photographic darkroom equipment. These “petite Curies" (below) could be driven right up to the Front. Curie also helped train 150 women as radiology technicians.

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This is the second time this woman (“Britain’s strictest headteacher”) has claimed there’s a secret school in London she won’t name that has replaced Shakespeare with me. It’s complete bullshit of course but why’s she so obsessed with me

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here are a couple more photographs of the pathetic trump supporter who was hopelessly shouting "you are the minority!" all by himself from within the vegetation

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(taps microphone) hello BBC?

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No Kings in Seattle! Beautiful! #seattle #nokings

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🧵BAT SIGNAL 🦇🏳️‍🌈 A friend of mine has tried to book accommodation in Blackpool for her and her wife. Wilshaw Suites, Blackpool asked her to ‘confirm your relationship’ and told her they ‘don’t allow same sexes’

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One of my favorite signs of the day.

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