Studies show that watching a beaver eating cabbage lowers stress levels by 15% so enjoy 😊
Claire James
@claire-james.bsky.social
Looking for some nice content to break up the doomscrolling. Londoner. Climate campaigner (see @campaigncc.bsky.social)
I was just going to the beach dressed head to toe in black with my traditional seaside balaclava and - what would you know - several hundred of my mates had exactly the same idea! What a way to spend a hot summer day 🤗
Well, happy 29th anniversary to the greatest ‘reverse ferret’ ever issued by a media outlet
I wouldn't call myself a cartoonist, but I had the vision and just needed it to be on paper to the best of my ability.
Good retro - seeing the teenagers dressing like I did in the early 90s. Bad retro - zombie projects that should have died decades ago. @crisortunity.bsky.social
Claire James@claire-james.bsky.social · 2mo ago2008, I am a newbie climate campaigner, campaigning against Heathrow 3rd runway 2018, I am campaigning against a Heathrow 3rd runway. Again. 2026, England is drought stricken and there are wildfires everywhere. I am campaigning against a Heathrow 3rd runway. FFS let's kill this thing off finally.
2008, I am a newbie climate campaigner, campaigning against Heathrow 3rd runway 2018, I am campaigning against a Heathrow 3rd runway. Again. 2026, England is drought stricken and there are wildfires everywhere. I am campaigning against a Heathrow 3rd runway. FFS let's kill this thing off finally.
Take action: Heathrow third runway consultation, deadline 1st September | Campaign against Climate Change
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campaigncc.org
This obituary headline for the climate-denying ExxonMobil CEO deserves an award.
Lee Raymond, 311 ppm – 421 ppm
The former ExxonMobil CEO left his legacy both on the Earth and in the sky.
heatmap.news
So that's four Reform councillors elected last week and already kicked out. Will the newly elected councillors beat their teal comrades elected in 2025, of whom at least 73 have quit or been sacked in the past year? www.markpack.org.uk/175342/how-m...
How many councillors has Reform UK lost since the May 2026 elections?
A list of all the Reform local authority councillors elected on or after 7 May 2026 who the party has already shed.
markpack.org.uk
If you can't be bothered voting, be sure the Reform voters will show up. Trump and others like him get elected in part due to those that know how bad they are but don't bother to vote. Just find the party most aligned to you. None of them are perfect. Just please vote. Ta.
Had some time to kill near Notting Hill Gate station. New photography theme: “my CAR is bigger than my HOUSE”.
Timeline cleanse - a simple story about bravery and kindness.
Man who talked down hospital bomber says would-be attacker asked for a cuddle
Nathan Newby set to receive George Medal for stopping a potential atrocity with an act of kindness
theguardian.com
Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."
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Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
Here's a list of all the books in Marilyn Monroe's personal library. It's a fantastic list. nothingintherulebook.com/2020/02/06/b...
Book obsessed: the 430 books of Marilyn Monroe’s personal library
To Marilyn Monroe, books were “a refuge and a companion” – and she collected over 400 volumes in her lifetime.
nothingintherulebook.com
This is interesting. Sad to see no other posts under #medievalstorytime, I would like more medieval stories...
Elise Wang@elisewang.bsky.social · 9mo agoIn case we thought that ecological disasters were a special talent of modernity, let’s talk about how the 13th-century peat trade of Norfolk made it permanently vulnerable to flooding, including 3 catastrophic floods just since 2013. #medievalstorytime
Trump's immigration human-rights nightmare isn't pulling back. It's about to get much worse A planned op this week in Springfield, Ohio targeting hard-working Haitians who came here the right way is nothing less than an ethnic cleansing on U.S. soil My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
A not-‘toned down’ Trump regime prepares for ethnic cleansing in Ohio
A plan for immigration raids this week on thousands of Haitians in Springfield, Ohio shows that nothing has changed.
inquirer.com
In case you thought the news from the US wasn’t disturbing enough, ICE is purchasing massive warehouses to hold those they abduct. Entirely unrelated: a brief history of concentration camps around the world www.lbi.org/exhibitions/...
ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US
Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.
bloomberg.com
Truly horrific mass murder by Iran's regime - systematic killing of likely around 30,000 protesters. "The injuries we observed demonstrate a brutality without limit – both in scale and in method," including bodies of people shot in the head while hospitalised.
Disappeared bodies, mass burials and ‘30,000 dead’: what is the truth of Iran’s death toll?
Testimony from medics, morgue and graveyard staff reveals huge state effort to conceal systematic killing of protesters
theguardian.com
81 years ago today, Auschwitz was liberated. More than ever, we must remember. Remembrance is a responsibility. On Holocaust Memorial Day, we remember the victims, honour the survivors, and reflect on what happens when good people do nothing. #HMD26
More forensic than anything else I've seen on Trump's dementia.
The President is Losing his Marbles
It's time for the 25th Amendment—even if it puts JD Vance in office.
claireberlinski.substack.com
This is amazing - a mushroom that if not cooked properly gives people a very specific hallucination: "visions of pint-sized, elf-like figures marching under doors, crawling up walls and clinging to furniture."
'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans
Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.
bbc.co.uk
Affectionately known as the ‘graffiti grannies of Lisbon', Lata65 is a Portuguese org that runs workshops in street art for the over-65s. The oldest participant is 90 years old #womensart
Trump administration deporting Iranians back to face death.
Trump administration plans to deport 40 Iranians days after mass killings in Iran
Two of the deportees are gay and are terrified of returning to a country where homosexuality is punishable by death, their lawyer says.
ms.now