Ah, Tracy as a low income author of non-fiction pop science books a shot in the head feels a bit extreme to deal with my sorrows, but if I could have been in one your named cities a photo would have lovely. I still live in hope of a sales boost but not posthumously.

Tracy King@tracyking.bsky.social · 2d ago

Back when I had Twitter I used to offer free headshots for low-income authors, not sure I have much reach here but the offer is still there. London or Birmingham (although I’m in Glasgow and Edinburgh at the end of Aug and can fit in a session. Will have lights so can be indoors).

Earth is now warming faster than at any point in recorded geological history - around 10 times faster than the extreme warming event 56 million years ago and 20 times faster than at the end of the last ice age. We are almost certainly in a new extinction event.

“Hosepipe ban exemptions for golf courses & private school sports pitches symbolise everything wrong with our water system. How can it be right that a private school can use [so much] water to keep the grass green in the middle of the summer holidays, but children cannot play in paddling pools?"

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 6d ago

‘It’s alright for them’: private schools and golf courses stay green despite England’s hosepipe bans

Photo taken today on the roadside edge of King's Forest, a section of Thetford Forest located northwest of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, established in 1935 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary.

The UK's prolonged hot, sunny and dry weather is visible from space 🛰️ Comparing satellite images from late May and now, much of the landscape has turned from green to brown ☀️ Farmers and gardeners are feeling the strain, with wildfire risk elevated as a third heatwave continues🌡️

The majority of Farage supporters don't know that he wants to do away with the NHS & replace it with a US-style insurance based system. Nor do they know that the £5m from Christopher Harborne is only the tip of the iceberg.Harborne has donated £12m to Reform &, if we include the Brexit Party,£27m.

"Civilisation still rests upon very old foundations: water, temperature, food and the limits of the human body... Countries like Britain may discover that the climate crisis is not only about weather, but about movement – the slow rearranging of where human beings can comfortably live on Earth."

Bylines Network@bylinesnetwork.co.uk · last mo.

The geography of survival Where will human beings comfortably live on Earth? | Mick Channon

From today my book "Science and Sensibilty: From the Heavens Above to the Earth Below" is being published by Boydell & Brewer under the Lutterworth Press imprint. A must read for all those interested in the natural sciences! (says the author 😀). @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social

Now available from our online shop, the inside story of William Wordsworth’s house at Rydal Mount, where he lived for most of his life gritstonecoop.co.uk/product/ryda... @westwoodbooks.bsky.social @showcasecumbria.bsky.social @poetrydaily.bsky.social

Things I did during the first covid lockdown and just discovered buried beneath a pile of things to be filed or thrown away: painting I did of a schematic topographic map of Norwich. OMG, I've just found several more! I must have been desperate for things to do.

And while we're here why not treat yourself to reading "Science and Sensibilty" with its chapter on geology's pioneers including the remarkable Mary Anning! 😀

David Howe@davidprf.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Mary Anning looking east from Lyme Regis at her beloved Jurassic cliffs.

Mary Anning looking east from Lyme Regis at her beloved Jurassic cliffs.

Scarborough, yesterday. *credit Fred Brown.

Rainbow over Lyme Regis last Thursday 11 June late afternoon. #LymeRegis

Iris, thank you so much for your kind words!

Exciting day! gritstonecoop.co.uk/product/ryda... @gritstonebooks.bsky.social

Well, vanity compels me to mention the 5 short chapters in my 2025 book "Science and Sensibility" (Lutterworth Press, Cambridge) that consider the origins and development of modern chemical theory. 😀

Wow. Love this. This makes total sense to me!

Rae Radford@raeradford.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Absolutely! #BookSky #WritingCommunity

This was was a fast turnaround. Like modern British PMs ... here's a musical parody view of #Starmer's and #Labour's crisis through the lens of Rodgers & Hammerstein's "The Farmer and the Cowman" (Oklahoma!) 🎶 youtu.be/WbT2yTxOMvY

"Keir Starmer Wonderin' How" - Marsh Family parody of "The Farmer and the Cowman" from Oklahoma

YouTube video by Marsh Family

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St Mary's Church, Stoke Newington with the City skyscrapers and Shard in the distance viewed from Woodberry Wetlands, Hackney.

With much focus today on the warming rate in Europe, it might be important to also pay attention to the "cold blob" - that area in blue to the northwest of Ireland/British Isles, with a persistent cooling anomaly. It's linked to a slowing down of the AMOC = potential big climate upheaval.

While we are transfixed by the antics of our supposed "leaders", a catastrophe of astonishing proportions has been creeping up on us. Climate scientists now believe it is more likely than not to happen, and soon. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A catastrophic climate event is upon us. Here is why you’ve heard so little about it | George Monbiot

Scientists say a crucial Atlantic system is set to collapse. But the billionaire death cult that steers humanity’s destiny just doesn’t do existential crises, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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The UK right wing media - which is most media including BBC- is really doing their best (worst) to find some dirt on the greens. Wonder why Farage wasn't exposed to same ferocious investigations 🤔😁

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This is why Daily Mail journalists are going after my family now. The right wing propaganda machine will not work on the Green Party. We're ready to end Rip off Britain, end the cost of living crisis and make hope normal again.

#RemoveTrumpNow

The untamed bit of the garden (of which there is rather a lot, what with me not being much of a gardener) has been taken over by primroses

82% of Labour voters said they supported "Britain rejoining the European Union". Just 12% were against. - Labour needs to stop chasing Reform voters! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sir John Curtice: Why Labour's Brexit focus has shifted from Leavers to Remainers

Will the pursuit of a closer relationship with the EU risk courting electoral disaster by alienating Brexit-backing voters?

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Rydal Mount saved. Excellent news and a big thank you to the Save Rydal Mount team who write:"After many months of thought and discussion we are thrilled to confirm that Rydal Mount has been acquired by the Wordsworth Trust in partnership with The Julia Rausing Trust and the Charlotte Aitken Trust."