I’ve met rock stars, movie stars, millionaires, academics, models, surgeons. None of them have impressed me more than people who have been kind. Kindness trumps all talents, status and attributes. Kindness is love in action. #kindness #BeKind ❤️

🪪"You will now need to show your papers just to go onto a social media site." A social media ban will "incur an enormous privacy intrusion for the British public." @silkiecarlo reacts to Starmer's social media ban announcement, on BBC News⤵️

Defra Trail Hunting Consultation 🦊 If you do one thing for wildlife today, please do this NOW Please share this post and encourage your friends, family and colleagues to take part before the consultation closes on 18th June. Together, we can make a difference for Britain's wildlife. Have your say here: consult.defra.gov.uk/.../tra… Save Me Trust Link savemetrust.co.uk/our-work/a…

“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

Just over a week to go until you can capture this song for yourself! It’s the first song I’ve written that started as a dream. It’s in honour of Marc Bolan- the Silver Dreamer- I saw blissfully travelling through the Cosmos in my dream. He seemed completely free of all earthly concerns. I long to feel that free. It’s hard being a human with all the heaviness of this planet. And at the same time there is beauty if we look and the promise of even more beyond that…. We just have to carry on, not give up, keep being curious about life, ourselves and each other. Sending you all love. ❤️ #cinematicfolk #indiemusic #cornwall #marcbolan

Swift has been waiting over 450 days to find his forever family. At 15 years old, all he wants to do is enjoy his home comforts and recieve the love he deserves. Thanks to our supporters, we will continue to be there for him whilst he waits to be adopted.

“Uma estudante perguntou uma vez à antropóloga Margaret Mead qual considerava o primeiro sinal de civilização em uma cultura. A estudante esperava que a antropóloga falasse de anzóis, bacias de barro ou pedras para amolar, mas não. Mead disse que o primeiro sinal de civilização numa cultura antiga é a prova de uma pessoa com um fêmur quebrado e curado. Mead explicou que no resto do reino animal, se você quebrar a perna, você morre. Você não pode fugir do perigo, ir para o rio beber água ou caçar para se alimentar. Você se torna carne fresca para predadores. Nenhum animal sobrevive a uma perna quebrada o tempo suficiente para que o osso cure. Um fêmur quebrado que se curou é a prova de que alguém tirou o tempo para ficar com o que caiu, curou a lesão, colocou a pessoa em segurança e cuidou dele até que ele se recuperasse. ′′Ajudar alguém a passar pela dificuldade é o ponto de partida da civilização ", explicou Mead. “A civilização é uma ajuda comunitária."

Here are some photos from my evening walk. Let’s keep our beautiful planet free of data centres. And please can we get rid of the ones already built. And can we please get rid of AI altogether. Also, here’s a clip of my Marc Bolan inspired song, Silver Dreamer, which is out on June 21st. #DataCentres #AI #CinematicFolk

Whilst we were distracted, the groundwork for our AI control grid has slowly been growing. The map below shows Data Centers in Britain. Each one of these data centres use up to 5 million gallons of water per day and enough energy to supply 50,000 homes.

Silver Dreamer June 21st. Can’t wait to share this song with you! #cinematicfolk #folk #MarcBolan #indiemusic

I saw Marc Bolan in a dream. He was wearing a silver sequinned jumpsuit and dancing in the night sky and through the universe. He was completely, blissfully free and at one with the cosmos. In the song I ask him if we all get to feel like this someday. Silver Dreamer is on June 21st. #cinematicfolk #indiemusic #folk #cornwall

AI oligarchs have stolen the creative work of millions of people — writers, artists, musicians, journalists, teachers, scientists and ordinary citizens. It’s time for us to reclaim it.

Val McDermid turns 71 today. In February, the Scottish crime writer warned that writers are facing a 'massive threat' from artificial intelligence. She said: "AI can produce a certain kind of book and it is learning all the time. The only reason it can produce any books at all is because it's stolen out of all of our texts. All of our texts have been scraped. “They have taken 150 pieces of my work, for which I've had no recompense, they’ve not asked my permission and I have no say in what they do. “There are court cases on the way now, but it's tip of the iceberg stuff. “There was never any point when they sought a partnership with creatives. They just stole our work and ripped us off." The author said she was confident that writers would always have a way of writing in a way “that cannot be replicated by a machine.” She added: “A machine can pretend to have feelings, but it doesn't have feelings and it doesn’t understand emotions at the deep level that we do that. “Sometimes when you are reading a book and an event happens you expect the characters to behave in a particular way, but they don't. “They respond in a different way because they are human because they have a range of possibilities. “I think the human writer will always have a head-start on the machines for that.” 👇

My friend, @KatGeissler has created a magazine and community that celebrates beauty in the everyday, peaceful moments, gentleness, and all the things that help us to slow down and appreciate what is good in life! Please help bring the third issue of Heiter into being! #Heiter #Community #Health #Wellbeing #Beauty #Nature #Creativity I just backed Together we will bring heiter print magazine 3 to life! on @Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/hei…

Officially 1 month since I switched to a flip phone. - Everyone is more severely addicted to their smartphones than I thought. Once you have a dumbphone, you'll frequently find yourself as the only person in the room not on their phone. It's not just teenagers, it's parents and adults of all ages. It's like everyone is stuck in a trance. 75 year olds might be the only exception. - All the objections I previously had for getting a dumbphone have turned out to be overblown and/or solvable. My iPhone addiction had fed my brain excuses to not do this earlier. If you really want to make the switch, you can. - I've felt embarrassed to pull out my flip phone in public at times, for fear of being different or drawing too much attention to myself. But I have learned to just own up to it. Most people end up saying something like "Oh, I probably should do that too." - I am using my brain more. Even though my flip phone has Waze, I find myself memorizing maps and roads. I'm more bored and get lost in my thoughts. I'm using paper and pen more. Increased desire for tangible things > digital things. Overall, it has been a great experience and I plan on never going back.

For those who would like to help, this appears to be a true story/campaign: gofundme.com/f/help-an-elder…

This is heart breaking. A progressive society takes care of its people.

We are now in a weird era where a guy gets publicly shamed for running his sprinklers on a Tuesday, while a data center the size of a Costco quietly drains a reservoir so AI can generate a picture of your cat as a medieval knight. And the data center gets a tax incentive for it.

The moustache as work of art. This is strangely compelling and a maybe a little revolting!

Still trying to find the beautiful, marvel-worthy, wonderous and delightful amongst the wasteland of lost hope, cynicism, gossip and terror in the twitter world. #hope #beauty #wonder #delight

I am very pleased to announce that my bug colour wheel has been accepted into this year’s Royal Academy summer exhibition. This is my sixth time. Have a look it opens on the 16th of June. @royalacademy