Selina Beety (she/her)

@a-stitch-in-time.bsky.social

Reader, writer, Border Collie walker. Not loving these interesting times. 🕊️♾️ ☮️ 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇩🇰 🇿🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🛑 Please no DMs unless you are Hozier 🛑 Not looking for love 🛑 or cryptocurrency

While fires rage in large parts of Europe incl UK, farmers face crop failure and livestock loss, every RefUK or Tory politician on the news must be challenged on their "let's do away with costly net zero nonsense" stance, side-by-side with live images of the cost of inaction. Expose the charlatans.

And not one reservoir built since privatisation. Not one. It's state sanctioned theft. However much it will cost us to clean up our rivers,repair leaks & update the infrastructure, it will cost us a lot more if we pay out shareholder dividends on top of that.

Thinking of Spain and France this evening. Hard to believe that fires of the century are ripping through the villages, towns and cities of my beautiful neighbors. This is apocalyptic. We have to face the reality of climate change before it’s too late

French and Spanish flags crossed

-Parked at store. - Left the car in gear and the handbrake off (only noticed both later). -Went into shop. -Put shopping though the check out then had to go back to the car to find my purse. -Got the purse but left the car door hanging open. In summary: I can’t take this heat!

Drawing of a woman in red tshirt. Hot sun above her. She is sweating and looks miserable - just like I feel in this heat!

Friendly reminder that these things aren't impacted by closing the Strait of Hormuz so maybe, just maybe, we should implement them to avoid being impacted by future conflicts: -Solar panels -Wind turbines -Battery storage -Electric vehicles -Bicycles -Natural fertilizers -Electric heat pumps

If data centers must be built then they should be covered in a skin of solar paneling & all of the waste heat they produced should be used to freely heat local homes. I doubt that they can be stopped but people power could force companies to them as energy efficient & community minded as possible

India just generated 50% of its electricity from clean sources. For 15 minutes. Sounds trivial? That's how every record starts: first minutes, then a day, then a month, then a whole year. Some states are already there: Karnataka crossed 60% clean power last year.

We are roasting over here in Europe. Our crops are not likely to do well this year. Meanwhile Ukraine (the bread basket) is still under attack. I care a lot more about the fertilizer that won’t pass through Hormuz than I do about the oil. Please Americans, do something about your dotard leader

Middle East Eye (Unofficial)@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 4w ago

Oil prices jump 5 percent after Trump says Iran ceasefire over - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/oil-prices-jump-5-percent-after-trump-says-iran-ceasefire-over

40C+ again in Europe in the next two weeks. Again, a reminder that El Niño has barely got started & is not contributing to this. Things will get more unpredictable & extreme. Societal derailment looks set to define the coming years.

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Crows mate for life. 2 pairs visit my garden. They take food politely and without bothering the small birds. Today, in the blazing heat, one lined fat balls up in the water dish, moving them about gently then carried them off one by one. He used them to soak up water for his chicks!

Two large black crows sitting together