The Major Oak has died 😕🌳 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clye…

"It is time to act. Thames Water customers have been paying for their own exploitation."

Terrible news. First David Hockey, a great painter of trees, and then my favourite tree in the world. I’m very sad … theguardian.com/environment/…

Yup

The flag at school in Bradford is flying half-mast. The place was full of Hockney juvenalia when my brother and I were growing up. The theatre there bears his name. The 6th Form art class once got to visit him at his home in Los Angeles! An inspiration to many of us, whether artists or not. Rest in colour, David.

82% of people in England want our water in public ownership All the experts are clear that privatisation of water has failed So why is the government holding on to it? Maybe this is why @CatHobbs

This wren is only about 4” (100mm) long, yet bathes us in beautiful song. How much greater and impact we can make… to bring peace and joy to the spaces around us.

Heseltine: It’s time to reverse Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage’s ‘heinous crime’ of Brexit Exclusive: In a stinging attack on Brexiteers, Michael Heseltine says the British public had been conned independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…

🚨 Michael Heseltine, “We must create a kind of United States of Europe. ⏰ This is an important historical reminder, Churchill’s vision after WW2 was that European nations had to find ways to bind themselves together so that nationalism, rivalry and the cycles of war that devastated the continent would not return. Heseltine is right, Brexit is a reversal of that post-war understanding: a retreat from collective European strength at a moment when the world is once again becoming more dangerous. “Project Fear has become Project Here.” The warnings about trade friction, reduced investment, barriers with our largest market and economic costs were dismissed as “scaremongering”, but those concerns are now reality pulling Britain into decline. On political accountability, Heseltine asks: where are the people who promised the benefits of Brexit now celebrating its success? If the promises had been fulfilled: lower migration, stronger growth, less bureaucracy, a more powerful Britain, one might expect the architects of the project to be loudly claiming victory. His final point: democracy is not a single frozen moment in 2016. The generations who will live longest with the consequences have the same democratic right to assess the outcome and decide their future direction. Whatever one’s view of Brexit, how can a medium-sized European country maintain prosperity, influence and security in a world increasingly shaped by continental-sized powers and geopolitical competition.

Today’s @independent front page Brexit has been a disaster – it’s time the guilty men felt some shame

Nobody wants a city on Mars. Nobody wants AI in every app. Nobody wants a robot butler. Nobody wants data centers everywhere. Nobody wants flying cars or humanoid robots. We want clean water, we want bees to survive, and we want a habitable planet.

“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature.” — Hubert Reeves

It’s done! Trump’s name has been YEETED from the Kennedy Center like the failed grifter he is. No more pretending he belongs anywhere near JFK’s legacy. Bye, Donnie. Don’t let the tarp hit your ass on the way out. 🇺🇸

“When our genes could not store all the information necessary for survival, we slowly invented brains. But then the time came, perhaps ten thousand years ago, when we needed to know more than could conveniently be contained in brains. So we learned to stockpile enormous quantities of information outside our bodies. We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of that memory is called the library. A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called ‘leaves’) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.” — Carl Sagan

The Sydney Opera House illuminated with Gustav Klimt's The Tree of Life.

David Hockney, Early Morning, Sainte-Maxime

Remembering David Hockney, he was kind and always had a sparkle in his eye. He never stopped experimenting and is one of the finest painters of our generation.

I live now. It’s always now.. #DavidHockney #RIP #heartbroken 💔

“I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money – I think that can be a burden…I can find excitement, I admit, in raindrops falling on a puddle and a lot of people wouldn’t. I intend to have it exciting until the day I fall over.” RIP David Hockney

Trump is desperately trying to get this video removed from social media! You know what to do! 🤣🤣🤣