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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · Aug 16

What Wood Pigeons are saying:
“No, YOU make the tea”

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 5h

This book is beautiful, a true work of art, and would make a lovely winter gift 📚 🎁
(for oneself?)
- there is a list of independent bookshop stockists on Jackie’s website and also here www.instagram.com/p/DN8gvqgAq32/

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 17h

Will do :)

Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 17h

orange and shocking pink! The 1970s🧡🩷

Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 17h

Thank you Jacqui, just had this recommended by best book recommending friend. She says’s it’s quiet but fascinating. It sounds great and I’ve reserved it at the library - have not read right to the end of your review (I know you won’t include spoilers) as I’ve read enough to be tempted!

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 18h

Hi Valarie 👋

Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 18h

You’re right. These things seem to take such a long time

Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 18h

So our favourite places this week are *Denmark, and Portland?

(*also dumped microsoft)

Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 4d

Denmark Bans Pesticides Containing Problematic PFAS Ingredients...

www.food-safety.com/articles/105...

Denmark Bans Pesticides Containing Problematic PFAS Ingredients

Denmark has banned 23 pesticides containing six active ingredients known to break down into trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), a toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) that easily contaminates water...

www.food-safety.com

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 19h

#WildflowerHour one last hogweed, standing not very tall, and flowering in the field. There was a late hay cut, and this has come up since then.

Dark green divided leaves, Hairy stem, flower a group of white umbels. A rather short hogweed plant growing in short grass

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 19h

#WildflowerHour

Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 19h

Creeping thistle, such an unlikely sugary pink colour flower, just a few left in the field

Pink thistle flowers on a prickly looking plant growing in short grass

Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 19h

Just an ordinary meadow buttercup – so bright!

A couple of bright golden flowers, a few buttercup leaves, lots of short grass

Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 19h

Creeping thistle, such an unlikely sugary pink colour flower, just a few left in the field

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🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 1d

Forgot to close polytunnel

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mandascott.bsky.social @mandascott.bsky.social · 1d

UK people- this is happening on 27th November and it would be really useful if more MPs were to go. You can write to yours w the form provided.

@greenparty.org.uk
@yourpartyuk.bsky.social

www.nebriefing.org

National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature

An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...

www.nebriefing.org

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 1d

Open the window to let the mobile internet in!

Oh god it’s in here now with all its cat memes and weirdness

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 6d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 1d

In home education circles it’s very noticeable how both reading & writing ‘click’ for different kids at different ages. Anything between 3 and 10. how possible would it be for schools/the curriculum to be even a little more adaptable towards this, towards accommodating children‘s own learning path?

Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 1d

💯 this, thank you

Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 1d

she spoke at Hay Festival earlier this year - on the book tour I guess. Wide ranging and positive, as is the book.

Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 1d

Yep I thought exactly this, sitting reading in some timeless cottage window with passing peddlers and acquaintances bringing you weird shit to read.
(The spellcheck is having trouble with ‘peddlars‘ or ‘pedlers’ idk has it never experienced medieval travelling salesmen carrying packs of wares?)

Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 2d

Beautiful!

Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 2d

They’ve got one of these, or something like it, at The wonderful seed company Real Seeds: something very satisfying about how it sounds:
youtu.be/Hv2q4UGXmgw

Real Seeds Ballard Brown Bag Seed Packing Machine in action

YouTube video by Real Seeds Youtube

youtu.be

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 2d

Isn’t it? Kropotkin and David Graeber in the Aunties essay 👋🧡

Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 2d

#NowReading Rebecca Solnit's essay collection "No Straight Road Takes You There"

Rebecca Solnit, No Straight Road Takes You There, Essays for Uneven Terrain

This book's title, No Straight Road Takes You There, is an evocation and a declaration. Highways tend to be built across the easy routes and the flat places; or the landscape is cleared away for them - logged, graded, levelled, tunnelled through. But to stick to these roads is to miss what else is out there. In her writing and activism, Rebecca Solnit has sought the pathless places in order to celebrate indirect and unpredictable consequences, and to embrace slowness, imperfection and uncertainty which, she argues, are key to understanding the possibilities of
change. In this collection of her best recent essays, the award-winning writer explores responses to the climate crisis, as well as reflections on women's rights, the fight for democracy, the trends in masculinity, and the rise of the far right in the West. Incantatory and poetic, positive and engaging, these essays argue for the long-term view and the power of collective action, making a case for seeding change wherever possible, and offering us all a path out of the wilderness.

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 3d

"It is deeply unhelpful for politicians to make such comments and I encourage you to think about how your rhetoric might contribute towards unity rather than stoking division."

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth