Susan Gardner

@susanrgardner.bsky.social

Interested in climate, politics, photography, science, cool stuff. Trying not to despair about the world.

Children loved to play with toys in ancient times too: some 1,600 years ago, a child in Athens was buried with a terracotta horse on wheels. It was certainly a much-loved which the child was also supposed to play with in the afterlife. 📷 me On display at Archaeological National Museum Athens

A terracotta horse figurine mounted on four  wheels, displayed in a museum case.

Talarico has Musk funding his opponent’s campaign and Putin funding social media slanders against him — Talarico must be something special to have the world’s two most powerful oligarchs lined up against him.

Our pollinators are disappearing. 40% of invertebrate pollinators (bees, butterflies) face extinction. 16% of vertebrate pollinators like bats and hummingbirds too. No pollinators = no food.

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I'm really fucking devastated right now so instead here's the picture Patrick Stewart posted nearly 13 years ago to the day with the caption "happy halloween" of him dressed as a giant lobster in a bathtub.

Patrick Stewart dressed as a lobster in a bathtub

1. The independent Taskforce — commissioned by NHS England, backed by government — concluded ADHD is under-diagnosed, under-recognised and under-treated in the UK. Not over. The press has reported the reverse of the finding www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

ADHD label ‘risks lifelong harm to children’ as diagnoses surge

Landmark government review warns of a ‘tipping point’ as figures show the proportion of youngsters with an autism diagnosis has risen 40-fold

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This administration stokes fear about immigrant crime. It made it harder for skilled workers to get visas. But a foreign politician running from a corruption probe? Your visa’s ready. We’ve become a haven for the world’s greatest criminals, in part because one’s in the White House.

Bad day for the far right and that includes Elon Musk who threw £400,000 in the pot for his defence team... and every single politician and pundit who has excused Tommy Robinson or sought to portray him as anything other than the grifting thug he is.

The vile attacks on Amy Acton need to be seen in the context of a party that *needs* people to believe women fabricating sexual assaults is common as rainwater. Because it’s pretty much the only way to evade the conclusion that the president is a rapist.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...