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Is this river alive? Robert Macfarlane on the lives, deaths and rights of our rivers

submitted 12 hours ago • 6 comments

Ways to accept a cup of tea 1. “Only if you're having one” 2. <check watch> “Go on then” 3. “I wouldn’t say no” 4. “Ooh yes please” 5. “I’m gasping” 6. “You read my mind” 7. Respond to “tea?” by saying “tea” 8. “I’ll make it” 9. “Best idea you’ve had all day” 10. Stating milk/sugar preference

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

Not content with screwing farmers over Brexit, Nigel Farage would like to do it again by importing cheap US chicken, washed in chlorine to kill all the bacteria caused by the awful conditions they are reared in.

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

Reform UK Easter reading: "I was hungry and you said I could make a meal for 30p, I was a stranger and you told me to fuck off back where I came from, I was sick and you said we need an insurance based healthcare system..."

submitted 9 days ago • 20 comments

UK government report calls for taskforce to save England’s historic trees

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

1/ The cure for TB—roughly half a year on antibiotics—has existed since the 1950s. It works for most patients. Yet, in the decades since, more than 100 million people have died of TB because the drugs are not widely available in many parts of the world. Gift link.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

The resurrection circus keeps clowning, but make no mistake, Dire wolves remain very extinct. An angry, sweary piece by a frustrated geneticist. arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...

submitted 18 days ago • 24 comments

Susan Brubaker Knapp, contemporary expert quilter, as well as an artist and author (Via J.Cannel FB) #WomensArt

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Britain is home to almost half of the world’s bluebells, found in ancient or semi-natural woodlands, flowering in April and May. 'Bluebell woods' by contemporary UK painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt

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“Tax our wealth” – that’s the message from millionaires across the UK whose campaign is hitting the road ahead of the government’s spring statement...

submitted 37 days ago • 36 comments

look at this absolute unit

submitted 39 days ago • 137 comments

It’s the perfect day to disappear into a quaint bookstore, never to be seen again.

submitted 40 days ago • 13 comments

1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism? Here is an answer: Good Things. Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine. Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it. The more we build community, the less it can take root. 🧵

submitted 47 days ago • 81 comments

Yes, it’s eerie how alike they both look.

submitted 47 days ago • 36 comments

There are 1,000 grotesque memes of JD Vance – and they’re all more likable than the real thing | Marina Hyde

submitted 50 days ago • 53 comments

Those were the days.

submitted 51 days ago • 6 comments

1️⃣ A microscope pic of a piece of eggshell found at the Palace in the 1960s. 2️⃣ A perforated potsherd form the Palace, probably used for straining milk. 3️⃣ A piece of quern, that once would have ground flour. *PROOF* that the Romans ate PANCAKES!

submitted 53 days ago • 8 comments

🎵It’s pancake day Yes it’s pancake day Yes it’s p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-pancake day🎵 Happy Tony Robinson Day, to all who celebrate! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj_a...

submitted 54 days ago • 13 comments

We can still show we stand with Ukraine stoptrump.org.uk/petition-can...

submitted 57 days ago • 31 comments

Want to play a game?

submitted 59 days ago • 10 comments

"Daylighting" is the practice in urban design of restoring buried rivers to the surface. The River Sheaf been unburied in Sheffield city centre, after 100 yrs in the dark. Fabulous. A small light in the great gloom. “It is starting to make its own meandering path…” www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 59 days ago • 7 comments

Yosemite National Park workers hang distress flag to protest Trump and Musk coming for their jobs.

submitted 62 days ago • 236 comments