Kathleen 🌲
@mossgatherer.bsky.social
Botanist, photographer, weaver
Talking about nature, politics, education, photography, writing, ethnobotany, weaving, interdisciplinary things. Just chaos tbh.
MSc RGB Kew, MA U of T
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📍New Forest National Park
Talking about nature, politics, education, photography, writing, ethnobotany, weaving, interdisciplinary things. Just chaos tbh.
MSc RGB Kew, MA U of T
Dual 🇬🇧🇨🇦
📍New Forest National Park
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Kathleen 🌲
@mossgatherer.bsky.social
· Nov 24
Weaving away, an ornate twill (my design), hand dyed (by me) tussah silk (my yarn company) on my 8 shft jack loom.
#weaving
#weaving
Edition number 3627285857 of where are the "Labour will stop acting like Reform the moment they're elected and you better vote for them or I'll unleash a tsunami of attacks on you" people???!!! Come back, I just want to talk!
Maybe they were just Reform all along!
Maybe they were just Reform all along!
The Home Office hopes the deportation of UK-born children will be seamless', a minister has said
Labour minister wants 'seamless' deportation of UK-born children
www.thenational.scot
December 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Edition number 3627285857 of where are the "Labour will stop acting like Reform the moment they're elected and you better vote for them or I'll unleash a tsunami of attacks on you" people???!!! Come back, I just want to talk!
Maybe they were just Reform all along!
Maybe they were just Reform all along!
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The United States is now a country that promotes white supremacy and nationalism worldwide.
via @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
via @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
December 5, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The United States is now a country that promotes white supremacy and nationalism worldwide.
via @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
via @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I’m proud to mark the launch of the Orbit Clipper - the UK’s first fully electric cross-river passenger ferry.
This is a great new transport option for Londoners: cleaner and greener than its predecessor, providing more accessible journeys across the river for far more people.
This is a great new transport option for Londoners: cleaner and greener than its predecessor, providing more accessible journeys across the river for far more people.
December 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I’m proud to mark the launch of the Orbit Clipper - the UK’s first fully electric cross-river passenger ferry.
This is a great new transport option for Londoners: cleaner and greener than its predecessor, providing more accessible journeys across the river for far more people.
This is a great new transport option for Londoners: cleaner and greener than its predecessor, providing more accessible journeys across the river for far more people.
Finally watching Celebrity Traitors! I can't wait!
December 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Finally watching Celebrity Traitors! I can't wait!
I understand that mailing lists are an important way to build up business but I can't help people understand that I literally do not need 8-15 emails per week from the box company about buying boxes.
December 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I understand that mailing lists are an important way to build up business but I can't help people understand that I literally do not need 8-15 emails per week from the box company about buying boxes.
Perusing art prints to add to my wall and it makes me so sad how much is AI.
December 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Perusing art prints to add to my wall and it makes me so sad how much is AI.
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Most probably don’t realise that before Thatcher 42% of people lived in council housing - now it’s only 6%. There is a housing crisis and over 300,000 are homeless as a result of her policies. The damage she did to this country is immense and irreversible yet she is viewed by so many as an icon.
I’ve never understood the adulation people have for Thatcher. She was a heartless monster who asset-stripped an entire country and squandered the money to buy votes. The idea that she was some sort of economic genius is farcical and the terrible state of the country today is her legacy.
December 3, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Most probably don’t realise that before Thatcher 42% of people lived in council housing - now it’s only 6%. There is a housing crisis and over 300,000 are homeless as a result of her policies. The damage she did to this country is immense and irreversible yet she is viewed by so many as an icon.
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Sithean Bhealaich Chumhaing, Isle of Skye. Pic: IG/russell_davies
December 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Sithean Bhealaich Chumhaing, Isle of Skye. Pic: IG/russell_davies
One after another. Girl Guiding was just before this. The only answer is the membershiip leaving, imo.
December 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
One after another. Girl Guiding was just before this. The only answer is the membershiip leaving, imo.
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Raxhel Wright, artist who works with textiles, free machine embroidery over cut and pieced fabrics #WomensArt
December 3, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Raxhel Wright, artist who works with textiles, free machine embroidery over cut and pieced fabrics #WomensArt
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Check out our latest advice for helping amphibians this Winter, and a complete guide to garden pond maintenance ❄️🎄
A Tale of Frogs and Ice: https://ow.ly/2aB450XzX7Y
Creating Garden Ponds for Wildlife: https://ow.ly/nqxV50XzX7Z
A Tale of Frogs and Ice: https://ow.ly/2aB450XzX7Y
Creating Garden Ponds for Wildlife: https://ow.ly/nqxV50XzX7Z
December 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Check out our latest advice for helping amphibians this Winter, and a complete guide to garden pond maintenance ❄️🎄
A Tale of Frogs and Ice: https://ow.ly/2aB450XzX7Y
Creating Garden Ponds for Wildlife: https://ow.ly/nqxV50XzX7Z
A Tale of Frogs and Ice: https://ow.ly/2aB450XzX7Y
Creating Garden Ponds for Wildlife: https://ow.ly/nqxV50XzX7Z
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Please do chip into the National Trust’s crowdfunder to help manage the land around the Cerne Giant for chalk wildflowers and butterfly species like Duke of Burgundy here: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/support-us/a...
Donate to the Cerne Abbas Nature Appeal
Donate to the Cerne Abbas Appeal so together, we can help restore the land, habitats and species that live there.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Please do chip into the National Trust’s crowdfunder to help manage the land around the Cerne Giant for chalk wildflowers and butterfly species like Duke of Burgundy here: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/support-us/a...
He's (falsely) accused Canada of the same. Starmer still went on the record and said that the US is his top priority and not Canada. I'm glad that Canada is forging closer relations with the EU.
Trump, the War Machine. Tonight he signalled a major shift in US policy: land strikes will target cartels and any nation tied to drug trafficking.
"Anybody that's doing that and selling it into our country is subject to attack... not just Venezuela."
"Anybody that's doing that and selling it into our country is subject to attack... not just Venezuela."
December 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
He's (falsely) accused Canada of the same. Starmer still went on the record and said that the US is his top priority and not Canada. I'm glad that Canada is forging closer relations with the EU.
The breathtaking malicious, petty cruelty of this. Shame on them, shame on the person harassing them with legal action, shame on every bad faith actor who has contributed to this now years-long obsession with trans women and girls. Shame on them all.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Trans girls banned from joining Girlguiding
Girls’ adventure charity says it made decision after seeking legal advice in wake of supreme court ruling on gender
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The breathtaking malicious, petty cruelty of this. Shame on them, shame on the person harassing them with legal action, shame on every bad faith actor who has contributed to this now years-long obsession with trans women and girls. Shame on them all.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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As I have noted before, almost half of everyone ever born died in childhood. There are people alive today who were already alive when this stopped being true for everyone born in the future.
All of pre-20th-century history is an emotional foreign country, for this reason alone.
All of pre-20th-century history is an emotional foreign country, for this reason alone.
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
As I have noted before, almost half of everyone ever born died in childhood. There are people alive today who were already alive when this stopped being true for everyone born in the future.
All of pre-20th-century history is an emotional foreign country, for this reason alone.
All of pre-20th-century history is an emotional foreign country, for this reason alone.
Many fascinating comments in the thread too
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Many fascinating comments in the thread too
This reminds me that just last week the BBC had a whole piece on how the mild and temperate UK feels colder than Canada (it obviously doesn't). Drama about relatively bland UK weather, yes the whole UK, is so funny.
Ellen DeGeneres left Trump's America. Will the British weather force her to return? | Arwa Mahdawi
Ellen DeGeneres left Trump's America. Will the British weather force her to return? | Arwa Mahdawi
She’s far from the only celebrity to have declared her intention to live outside the US. As with many others though, it looks like a reverse ferret could be in the works, writes Arwa Mahdawi
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This reminds me that just last week the BBC had a whole piece on how the mild and temperate UK feels colder than Canada (it obviously doesn't). Drama about relatively bland UK weather, yes the whole UK, is so funny.
Completely agree
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Completely agree
I'm an excellent cook, a mediocre baker, and an incompetent bread maker.
So there's nowhere to go but up! Today I start practicing and trying not to suck. First up: dodgy crumpets
#baking
So there's nowhere to go but up! Today I start practicing and trying not to suck. First up: dodgy crumpets
#baking
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I'm an excellent cook, a mediocre baker, and an incompetent bread maker.
So there's nowhere to go but up! Today I start practicing and trying not to suck. First up: dodgy crumpets
#baking
So there's nowhere to go but up! Today I start practicing and trying not to suck. First up: dodgy crumpets
#baking
Our dog thinks he's supposed to protect us or something so he does bark when someone he doesn't know comes to the door. But sometimes he's too lazy to get so while he's belly up with his tongue dangling he says woof? Woof? Then goes back to sleep.
December 2, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Our dog thinks he's supposed to protect us or something so he does bark when someone he doesn't know comes to the door. But sometimes he's too lazy to get so while he's belly up with his tongue dangling he says woof? Woof? Then goes back to sleep.
I looked up symptoms of dementia in cats and the entire list was just how my cat has acted her entire life
December 1, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I looked up symptoms of dementia in cats and the entire list was just how my cat has acted her entire life
Movies and premium tv today are suffering because everyone insists on shooting everything wide open. Give us some deep focus! We beg!
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Movies and premium tv today are suffering because everyone insists on shooting everything wide open. Give us some deep focus! We beg!
What if this was always propaganda though
December 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
What if this was always propaganda though