What’s the most valuable skill for talking persuasively about climate change and helping stimulate people into action? It’s not the ability to debate or remember statistics. In fact it's got nothing to do with science at all I think it’s listening 🧵

Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.

Terry McGlynn@hormiga.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

Tuesday, 4 November dawning, from Okitu Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand. Big day across the globe, good luck @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️

Great resource for climate classes (and anyone worried about our warming world) 👇

Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥 There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️ They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬 Thread:🧵Plz RT

I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥 There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️ They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬 Thread:🧵Plz RT

The cutest elbows 🤗

Tyler, from the Internet@tylerfromtheinternet.com · 11mo ago

Excuse me: bb turtles

How the garden grows. 😍🌱 #gardensky

I preferred it when Prime Ministers believed things like every person deserved “someone to love, somewhere to live, something to do, and something to hope for”, and acted on those beliefs.

You know I watched this in fascination because I actually didn't know what Daniel Day Lewis sounds like. He's always so intensely doing accents & different characters that I legit had no idea what he spoke like.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Love this outfit on Daniel Day-Lewis. DDL has a reputation for being a real clothes nerd, having studied bespoke shoemaking under Stefano Bemer, knowing his way around Savile Row, and getting guernseys from little-known makers. He wears his own clothes to photoshoots. IG GQ

Spider pronouns be like: it/ze/bit/xe

At a candidates meeting last week an older male candidate said that the way to improve well-being of workers is to encourage investment so that the wealth trickled down. Aaron stood up & said he'd like to acknowledge the myth of trickle down economics & the crowd cheered. This is the way ☑️ #whakatu

I know everything's terrible but did you know Whittaker's has a recipe section on their website & everything looks amazing? Whatever the chocolate equivalent of doomscrolling is, this is where to do it. www.whittakers.co.nz/en_NZ/recipes

Recipes

Our delicious Whittaker's chocolate is perfect for creating your own treats. We've collected our favourite recipes to share with our fellow chocolate lovers.

whittakers.co.nz

Defying those who told him to "stick to football", Gary Lineker chooses to use his platform to speak up against Israel's genocide in Gaza and for the rights of refugees in the UK. Congratulations to Gary Lineker for winning Best TV Presenter at the National Television Awards.

My annual purple sprouting broccoli promotion. What a pleasing & delicious thing. 🥦😍 #bloomscrolling #gardensky

a lynch mob but it's just a bunch of people wearing david lynch masks asking where agent cooper is when you need him

Thomas Deininger uses plastic waste to create sculptures,or should I say,works of Genius!!!!!!

My job as a professor is not to create a serviceable worker. My job is to help foster thoughtful citizens or community members. If that sounds fanciful it’s bc corporate interests have spent decades framing how we talk about education so they don’t take the heat for immiserating labor conditions.

Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · last yr.

Do not accept the premise that education is to blame for abysmal jobs outcomes. “The fantasy economy's framing of economic inequality… focuses exclusively on education…deflects attention away from decades of public policies and changing business practices that have…contributed to stagnating wages”

Some wholesome Sunday content for you - while I’ve been housebound and spending a lot of time on the couch I’ve been painting rocks for hiding in parks and today I got a chance to release some into the world for others to find & rehide.

Here's what a no go zone in England *really* looks like.

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · last yr.

The village of Dean has entered a lockdown for the imminent arrival of US vice-president JD Vance. All entrances to the village (between Chipping Norton and Charlbury) are closed to non-residents, with police stationed at every road and even footpath.

It ain't going away, no it ain't going away....

Photo of the Day. Israel threatened reprisals if the press filmed Gaza from above during airdrops. This is why. A scene of destroyed & burnt out buildings in what is left of Gaza City, the pre-war home to 800,000 people. Credit to Post photographer Heidi Levine who defied the ban & took this.

Hot tip - if you tune into a show half way through, you can slide the timeline bar thingy back to the start and still hear the whole show. 🤘🏼 #6music

TFlott@tflott8.bsky.social · last yr.

Anyone wanting to listen to bbc6 radio follow the instructions below. It takes a minute but it’s worth it for the best music and shows anywhere especially @marcrileydj.bsky.social and @gidcoe.bsky.social nothing better for the mind body and soul.

Go for it. I don't even care any more.

Once again, a number of Voices for Freedom affiliated candidates are running for local government, this time they are hiding their more conspiratorial views and focusing on bland populist issues like rates and road cones www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

The quiet campaign: Inside the freedom movement’s bid for council influence

Voices for Freedom and like-minded groups are campaigning for council seats, changing their rhetoric from the pandemic to potholes.

thepress.co.nz

Please enjoy this turtle being given the gift of speed, and immediately using it to chase a kitty

So it turns out that the 'fast-track' to getting projects consented isn't so fast after all. This is backed up by a planner I know who's been working flat out on a fast track application for months & reckons it would have been consented by now under the usual RMA process. #nzpol

I applaud this post. But also, aren't elephants among the most wonderful things on the planet? Look at the size of its ears 🤗❤️🥰 Absolutely amazing that we get to share our planet with creatures like this. It will never fail to amaze me that they are here & we get to know about them. ❤️🐘🌏🥹

Mark Shaw@markshawtoronto.bsky.social · last yr.

Elephants are born weighing 250 lbs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for motorists when they see a bike lane