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This weekend's @theipaper.com cartoon
October 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Interested in responsible outdoor recreation?

Natural Resources Wales and Natural England have launched a stakeholder survey on the Countryside Code.

Particularly interested to hear from new audiences who aren't as familiar with the code.

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Countryside Code Stakeholder Survey 2025 - Natural Resources Wales Citizen Space - Citizen Space
Find and participate in consultations run by Natural Resources Wales
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September 12, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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My latest research looked at people’s relationship with nature since 1800, and created a model that accurately recreated that trend and looked forward to 2125 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
August 9, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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My first ever @theguardian.com Country Diary 🙂

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Country diary: A wildfire has killed off (nearly) everything wild | Eben Muse
Cilgwyn, Gwynedd: It stripped the hill of its heather, bilberry and bog mosses – and with them the inhabitants of so many nests and burrows
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May 15, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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"Pictures are famous for their humanness, not for their pictureness."

Kurt Vonnegut discussion of art in his 1997 novel Timequake offers one explanation why people might find AI creations unsatisfying.
I went on: "People capable of liking some paintings or prints or whatever can rarely do so without knowing something about the artist. Again, the situation is social rather than scientific. Any work of art is half of a conversation between two human beings, and it helps a lot to know who is talking at you. Does he or she have a reputation for seriousness, for religiosity, for suffering, for concupiscence, for rebellion, for sincerity, for jokes? "There are virtually no respected paintings made by persons about whom we know zilch. We can even surmise quite a bit about the lives of whoever did the paintings in the caverns underneath Lascaux, France. "I dare to suggest that no picture can attract serious attention without a particular sort of human being attached to it in the viewer's mind. If you are unwilling to claim credit for your pictures, and to say why you hoped others might find them worth examining, there goes the ball game. "Pictures are famous for their humanness, and not for their pictureness."
April 12, 2025 at 10:25 AM