The insect community Has no immunity To a well cut lawn Where they cannot spawn A natural garden is always best To welcome in our insect guest When planting seeds For butterflies and bees Sunflowers empower Alyssum and Delphinium Should have dominion Foxglove they love

"Erasing women and women-specific language and needs based on their sex is not only wrong, but also demeaning, regressive and constitutes one of the worst forms of violence that women and girls can experience," Reem Alsalem UNSR Violence Against Women and Girls Reem Alsalem told the United Nations Human Rights Council. #HRC59

Even a small increase in the Earth’s average temperature can shift heat extremes to much higher levels. Via Mark Poynting

"The truth is, this bill is an absolute shambles, it's immoral, it's being rewritten on the fly. Policies affecting millions and millions of disabled lives are being made up as we go within this chamber in the last couple of hours". - Ian Byrne MP (Lab) #WelfareBill

It's obvious the bill must be pulled, no idea why ministers are clinging on. It's perfectly ok to say, "we're going to consult more before we proceed." #WelfareBill

Chaos. "I am not sure all colleagues understand what they voted for." - Paula Barker MP (Lab) #WelfareBill

It's too hot today...

Starmer still not answering questions, still trying to shift blame to a party that hasn't been in power for a year. #pmqs

Rachel Reeves is facing an impossible situation because of Starmer's incompetence. It's not fair on her or the country. Britain leads proper leadership, not this shambles. #PMQs

Starmer's going to sack Reeves to try and save his premiership isn't he? Pinning the blame on everybody else appears to be the Keir playbook, sadly. #pmqs

Watching Rachel Reeves, a serving chancellor, crying at PMQs was one of the worst things I've seen in the Commons. Reeves isn't to blame, yesterday's vote was a result of poor leadership by Keir Starmer. He needs to take responsibility and not shift the blame.

The very first AI images were these weird, dreamlike hallucinations. This AI video also has a dreamlike quality, but the evolution to this standard in just a few short years is incredible. The fact that it was posted as a real video too.

'The Prince and the Pack.' (1912) Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, often known simply as Amadeo, was one of the few pioneers of Portuguese Modernism at the turn of the 20thC. He trained in Paris around 1906 and later exhibited with Braque, Picasso, Duchamp, Matisse, Kandinsky, and Léger.

Spitting Image is back! A new series of short-form vodcast episodes 'The Rest Is Bullshit', produced by Avalon. The title parodies Gary Lineker’s Goalhanger family of podcasts, The Rest Is History, The Rest Is Politics, etc. It looks pretty good so far. youtu.be/sFcmjqIRjb4?si…

One of the Neolithic (8,000 year-old) cave paintings of El Pla de Petracos, Spain. The area is thought to have been a meeting and worship place for fertility and fecundity and the agricultural cycle. The paintings are seen as an invocation for the success of crops and the

Since Trump was inaugurated, the size of Russia's missile and drone attacks on the people of Ukraine have grown by 5x.

Come and see the darker side of rivers. Every single dive session i undertake in England's rivers results in filming pollution now. In some cases i film more pollution related footage than fish. Join myself and many inspiring people at Morden hall, 8th July 2025

South West Water won't pay £24m fine for sewage dumping. Instead will invest £20m to reduce dumping, £2m in sewer repairs, £2m in environmental improvements, which it should do anyway. The deal boosts its balance sheet. There is no penalty for abuses. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

“Whether it’s a dog or a human being, in the end, it’s a soul. And we will do the impossible to get it out from under the rubble.” This Palestinian Civil Defense worker rescued a dog while searching the rubble after an Israeli airstrike.