Surely one of the greatest headlines ever written.

SciFi Saturday! Until I get bored of it I'm going to do a twitter thread every Saturday about a science fiction novel or series that resonated with and influenced me. Week 1 is the Uplift cycle by David Brin. amazon.com/Startide-Risin… 1/1

✅ Green councillors help to keep Labour accountable. ✅ We are a truly independent, hard-working voice for local communities in London’s one-party states. ✅ Greens are the team who will stand up for your area. Make your votes count: VOTE GREEN for your local council on 5 May

In Justice Alito’s draft opinion reversing Roe, he writes about “an unbroken tradition of prohibiting abortion on pain of criminal punishment,” up until Roe in 1973. He cites, as historical authority, Sir Matthew Hale. Let me tell you about Hale & his views toward women. THREAD

9/ But that wasn’t Hale’s only legacy. In 1662, at Bury St. Edmunds, Hale presided at the trial of two women accused of witchcraft. Hale instructed the jury that witches were real, saying Scripture affirmed as much.

10/ The jury convicted Amy Denny and Rose Cullender, after which Hale sentenced both women to hang. Thirty years later, Hale’s handling of this trial, preserved in written record, served as model in Salem, Massachusetts, in the infamous witch trials of 1692.

Worse than coal Utter madness EU/UK is deforesting Southern USA of its forests and calling it Green, fueling even more #climate change and warming Today, biomass energy provides nearly 60% of the EU’s renewable power generation capacity Remember Enviva aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/3/…

Sign at a Camden polling station this morning.

Shoutout to all the Moms who have to work on Mother's Day...

Johnson will be remembered as the PM who first destroyed the UK before dismantling it #StopTheRot

After shooting Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh dead, Israeli snipers continued to fire on other journalists and people trying to rescue her from the scene. Barbarism on a level that one would only expect from the Israeli military. x.com/i/status/15243…

Lee Anderson MP, who today said poor people forced to use foodbanks 'cannot cook or budget properly' claimed £222,000 in expenses in 2020/21 - including £4,100 on travel and 'subsistence'

You’d be forgiven for thinking this is some crackpot fascist dictator bringing in yet more draconian powers and yet, this is the Home Secretary of the United Kingdom. It’s a fucking travesty.

I have no confidence in Boris Johnson as prime minister or as an MP. RT, then Copy and paste.

MJ Nuff

📢Free trees available!🌳 We're partnering with @WoodlandTrust again to deliver free tree packs to student groups. You can order up to 420 native British trees to plant in the Spring of 2023. Students for Trees will also be sharing a range of resources to help you plant! (1/2)

#thicktrunktuesday - #Richmond Park’s Royal Oak enduring the frost earlier this week. I wonder how many frosts it has endured.

Yawning Beech or Beech needs coffee. #ThickTrunkTuedsday #ForestWalk #Fungus

Two-part For The Wild podcast from 2015 if you missed it: Stephen Harrod Buhner on Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm forthewild.world/listen/stephen… forthewild.world/listen/stephen…

The Science for Public Good Fund is back! Apply for funds up to $1500 for your science advocacy project through Jan 6. Here are some initiatives that received the funds for the 2021 version of the award. Check them out! Apply here: act.ucsusa.org/3G9PEsB