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Robyn Woolston
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Artist <> Filmmaker: Public Realm / Social Engagement / Site Specific / Environment / Mental Health / Interdisciplinary - The views expressed are my own. #Neurodiverse https://linktr.ee/RobynWoolston
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Built-in #microplastics
I was thinking last night about the old domestic paint with a high VOC content and nasty chemicals. When we switched to more acrylic low VOC paint we’re basically covering stuff in a thin coat of flaky plastic, surely that’s worse in terms of creating microplastics.
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The only thing that will stop Trump is a grassroots movement using diverse tactics.

(not just protests! We need boycotts, strikes, slowdowns, guerrilla art, disruptions, gumming the works from the inside, etc) from a cross-section of society.

It’s on us.

A few skeets here with resources: 1/x
On Organizing
time to level up / an early draft of a playbook
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
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View down the lower level of the Dom Luís I Bridge (Ponte de Dom Luís I) - Porto, Portugal

#DomLuisBridge #bridge #DomLuis #porto #shadow #stunday #classicMono
@immersiveartsuk.bsky.social … I’ve still not got a response other than yours 😵‍💫… is the portal not open for applications at the moment?
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“To have all the work we’ve done for the last two decades [...] disregarded to allow full-force development is crazy to consider,” said Rosemary Ahtuangaruak, an activist in Nuiqsut, Alaska.

White House moves to open Arctic reserve to oil and gas drilling

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Erasure of years of work’: outcry as White House moves to open Arctic reserve to oil and gas drilling
US Bureau of Land management is working to rapidly strip protections to largest tract of land in the US
www.theguardian.com
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It's quite rare & refreshing to see someone in UK politics
not using immigrants & migrants as a punching ball & challenging the politics of the extreme Right which seem to have mesmerised the Labour leadership .
⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.

🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
Take it steady, one day, hour, moment at a time. Draw, doodle, hug a jellycat, listen to music, walk in nature, stay connected 🪩
Horrifying…..
Toxic Pfas above proposed safety limits in almost all English waters tested

Exclusive: 110 of 117 bodies of water tested by Environment Agency would fail standards, with levels in fish 322 times the planned limit
Toxic Pfas above proposed safety limits in almost all English waters tested
Exclusive: 110 of 117 bodies of water tested by Environment Agency would fail standards, with levels in fish 322 times the planned limit
www.theguardian.com
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The Agnes Denes exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest is great.
What a complicated publishing mess. Reminds me so vividly of this…
Meanwhile…
“We never talked about men or clothes. It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl's talk.” -

Nina Simone, singer, musician and civil rights activist #WomensArt
1984
The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.
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…that colour palette 🧡
Tsukasa Yoshida ~
1949 -

Wind - 1975

Woodblock print.
Mmmmmmm #restanddigest 🌿🌸
Seeing the fractal patterns of plants (even on a screen) shifts our brain activity from fight or flight to rest & digest due to ancient foraging pathways that are still very active in modern humans.
Here's your daily bunch of lovely twigs for your noggin-
late June floral snapshot from the garden🌿🧠:
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NEW: The President of the United States wants a reporter fired and “thrown out like a dog” for reporting a document produced by his own administration and verified by the Pentagon.

Never normalise the insanity.
"Our results suggest that substantial anthropogenic influence on biodiversity started millions of years earlier than currently assumed…the impact of our lineage on nature has been far greater & longer-lasting than we ever could ever imagine" www.bbc.co.uk/news/science...
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SOS! the volunteers on 'Madleen' have been kidnapped by Israeli forces.

Greta Thunberg is a Swedish citizen.

Pressure the foreign ministries and help us keep Greta safe!

Web: government.se/contacts/

X : @SweMFA

FB : @SweMFA

IG : swedishmfa

#AllEyesOnMadleen