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Don’t gift our work to AI billionaires: Mark Haddon, Michal Rosen and other creatives urge government

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Installation & drawing details by Cansu Çakar @ the Tate Gallery, St Ives #art #drawings #installation

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Let it glow: fireflies illuminating Japanese woodlands – in pictures l The Guardian www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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Queen Anthurium #plantphotography #kewgardens #blackandwhite #monochrome #anthurium #bw #bwphoto

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“The gardener digs in another time, without past or future, beginning or end… Here is the Amen beyond the prayer.” On Derek Jarman's birthday, his timeless meditation on gardening

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Examining the shifting “wild clocks” of spruce saplings in Norway’s Future Library, Sami reindeer herds in Scandinavia, and oyster colonies in Scotland’s Firth of Forth, David Farrier seeks ways to renew the rhythms by which we live. Read this week's essay, “Wild Clocks.” https://buff.ly/4aqhxdF

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NEW: Waterwheels are BACK, baby! For my latest article, I looked at some innovative electricity-generating projects using waterwheels. But will this form of renewable energy ever enjoy mass adoption again?? www.thereengineer.pro/p/spin-up-wa...

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“Poems are gifts we give to the wind.” -- Dorothy Lesky

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Orchid, Kew #Kewgardens #plantphotography #monochrome #blackandwhite #flora #bw

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"Every language," wrote Wade Davis, "is an old-growth forest of the mind." Languages that hold not only the living histories, memories and relationships of entire cultures but that tell of other ways of being in the world. Each lost language is a felled forest. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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I knew plants were smart but I had no idea just how intelligent they are until I talked with Zoe Schlanger, author of the amazing book “The Light Eaters.” www.ttbook.org/show/plant-i...

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UK creatives who hate AI - read this please! The government is doing an open consultation on copyright and AI, which will inform how it goes about integrating AI (or not) into various plans to 'grow the economy'. You can respond online, please take a look and share this. www.gov.uk/government/c...

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Winter trees, filigree branches #blackandwhitephotography #wintertree #bnw #monochrome #hibernation

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Vegetation #plantsinfocus #photography #blackandwhite #monochrome #plants #bnw #landscape #volcanicsoil

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On visions, vomiting and enchantment, for @londonreview.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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"By travelling freely across cultures those in search of the human essence may find a space for all to sit. . . . where identity is open onto plurality, not a fort or a trench" ~ Mahmoud Darwish, Tibaq [from Elegy for Edward Said] Via @asiyamiya.bsky.social.

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For more than a decade, the photographer Bryan Schutmaat traveled across the American West, photographing the environment and the “road dogs” he met along the way. His portraits challenge the region’s mythology, @andrewaoyama.bsky.social writes:

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I would like you, please, to sign this petition to ban driven grouse shooting. The first under a Labour government. 10k signatures gets a government response, 100k a debate in Westminster parliament. UK residents & UK citizens living abroad can sign. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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Patches of wildflowers in cities can be just as good for insects as natural meadows – study

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Meet the Italian ‘Fruit Detective’ Who Investigates Centuries-Old Paintings for Clues About Produce That Has Disappeared From the Kitchen Table. 🌱🌿 #TheOutpost www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...

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Bird sculptures - Brownsea Island #art #sculpture #monochrome

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“Trust that a poem isn’t always what happens in the words but is the trace that the words leave inside you as it vanishes.” -- Alice Oswald

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‘We’ve become distrustful of each other’: Braiding Sweetgrass author Robin Wall Kimmerer on Trump, rural America and resistance

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Weeping branch #flueggeasuffruticosa #plantsinfocus #blackandwhite #monochrome

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How do you face fascism? I like Orwell's version: ground yourself in direct and immediate experience, trust your senses, find some joy, turn back to face the fascists and tell truths to combat the lies.

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