Finally off to the Glynn Vivian this morning to see the #Swansea Open #art exhibition! I meant to go weeks back, but the whole broken wrist drama got in the way. I wonder if anything that catches my eye will still be for sale?

Yn mwynhau'r cymylau, https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/3540652134351505596, #blipfoto, @blipfoto, 2026-08-29

We had an unexpected visitor in our garden this morning! A Golden Ringed #dragonfly according to a quick search. Disappointingly common in #Wales apparently though I had never knowingly seen one before. They were not impressed with my miniature pond and soon flew away again!

Do you illustrate birds? We are seeking new artists to contribute frontispiece illustrations for The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, and would especially like to highlight artwork made by members of the WOS and our colleagues. Details here!

Call for Bird Illustrators for The Wilson Journal of Ornithology!

Do you illustrate birds? We are looking for frontispiece illustrators for our journal!

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Good to see groups calling out the Welsh Government's hypocrisy. We cannot claim to be a nation of peace whilst still encouraging arms fayres in #Cymru #Wales. https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/peace-and-solidarity-groups-call-welsh-government-cancel-its-upcoming-arms-fair #peace […]

Tim Hortons has a Harry Potter promo out for the 25th anniversary right now, and the royalties from it go to JK Rowling, who’s funded anti trans legislation in the UK. Someone has shared a genuinely useful toolkit for emailing Tim Hortons & their parent company about it, takes maybe 5 mins […]

One thing that doesn't seem to penetrate the brains of most cis people much in this discourse, but which every trans person is keenly aware of, is just how _long_ the process with hormones takes. You don't take estrogen and suddenly ka-girl! That's not how any of this works when you medically […]

Here is a #FeaturedServer for 🌎 Earth, 🦎 Earthlings, and their ⚖️ Advocates... https://earth.law/about Earth.Law is for: 📜 Environmental lawyers & policy-makers 🦋 Conservationists & ecologists 🔬 Scientists in related fields 📚 Educators and students of environmental studies 🎤 Activists & […]

#bostonWeekend Sun SWAP Clothing swap and mend 3-6 at #ArtisansAsylum in #Brighton https://xrboston.org/action/clothing-repair-swap-aug16/ #SolarPunk #extinctionRebellion #boston

Clothing Repair & Swap Party

Clothing Swap and Repair! The fast fashion industry traps many of us in a cycle of buying cheap but poor quality garments every year as people lack the skills to …

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What great big eyes you've got, Grandma. #Eclipse

MY DISCO BALL IN THE BEDROOM IS SHOWING ME THE ECLIPSE, HOW COOL IS THAT?!

Gormod o ganu dagith gi. https://metro.co.uk/2026/08/10/councillors-wind-reform-colleagues-singing-much-national-anthem-29340726/amp/

I just woke up from an hour long nap. I haven't had an afternoon nap in ages. They're great, aren't they? 😸

If you've ever wanted to try playing a ukulele and you're near Belfast next Sunday (16th August), the Belfast Ukulele Festival is trying to get a load of people together for their Big Uke Jam - what they hope will be 'the biggest gathering of ukulele players Belfast has ever seen!' The jam is […]

A sustainable future does not include widespread public car ownership. Our only hope is a shift back to public transport. But for that to work, public transport has to present a viable alternative to driving. One train a day in each direction isn't a viable alternative. Pretty much everyone who […]

There's a #history #lecture at #Swansea Museum at lunchtime today - Swansea's Bad Boys & Girls by Elizabeth Belcham "A fascinating insight into the history of some of Swansea's less than law abiding citizens!" Starting at 1pm. It's an RISW event, but all are welcome 🤗 #DigwyddiadauAbertawe […]

A few less widely known things about #Singapore on the occasion of its 61st birthday. 1. We have urban otters! They disappeared briefly but you can now see them lots of places. There are various families named for the location they’re from, almost like mafia family names. ‘Bishan otters’ and […]

Well considering all the precious fossils dragged back as loot by our colonizing ancestors, how terrible is it that the Abu Dhabi NHM snapped up an extensive Lyme Regis collection? […]

Our free Evolution poster has arrived this morning and it's gorgeous - plus massive! We're going to need to buy a bigger picture frame 🤣 We're really enjoying the tv series too. #OpenUniversity #Evolution

#BandcampFriday purchase here is Old Moll's brand new EP, Mothers of Mothers https://oldmoll.bandcamp.com/album/mothers-of-mothers I may have 'accidentally' let a t-shirt fall into my basket as well 🤣

Mothers of Mothers, by Old Moll

3 track album

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#BandcampFriday purchase here is Old Moll's brand new EP, Mothers of Mothers https://oldmoll.bandcamp.com/album/mothers-of-mothers I may have 'accidentally' let a t-shirt fall into my basket as well 🤣

Mothers of Mothers, by Old Moll

3 track album

oldmoll.bandcamp.com

Does anyone else here grow #microgreens and, if so, what method do you use? I'm seeing several ideas across numerous websites and am not sure if it's best to use jars and daily water rinsing or to plant the seeds in compost? I have vague memories of using wet paper (kitchen roll?) for growing […]

The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html! "On August 6, 1991, the first website was introduced to the world. [It] contained information about the World Wide Web Project […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]

Norfolk's beaver-style leaky dams are slowing floodwater, creating small wetland habitats and preparing a village for heavier downpours. It is a practical example of nature-based climate adaptation. Read more […]

My wonderful PhD adviser is hiring! He's searching for a PhD student to work on combining search algorithms and machine learning. He's at the department where I did my MSc research back in the day, and where I had an amazing time. https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60705642?lang=en […]

Hey, folks! Do you know of any unisex/open toilets? Add them here! I just went on and added my work building, which is fully open to the public during business hours, and has single-sex toilets on the ground floor, but two single-occupancy unisex rooms on the upper floors. (There's a space to […]

I fear we might see a new alignment between a radical right death cult and a rural revivalist "simplicity" drive, which views collapse and a return to "organic" communities as a solution to decadent urbanism. A century ago this convergence led to a very bad place. www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...

The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People

The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death

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Happy #EHRC guidance goes live day to all my disobedient #trans siblings here on #terfIsland. Citing reasonable concerns, hypotheticals and outliers, ‘gender critics’ used money, influence, and the courts to create a permission structure to exclude us from gendered spaces. The only people who […]

@welshpixie Hello 👋 My stickers and Tea Dragon print have arrived this morning and they're gorgeous 😍 Thank you so much 🤗

Read #Domination by Prof Alice Roberts this week just gone. A fascinating read in its own right, but especially with adding a sense of that underlying civilization collapse repeating itself right now, just as it was at the last gasps of the #Roman Empire 🤔 #Bookstodon #history