Strawberries & Garlic enjoying the sun

Time to read this if you haven't already substack.com/@helensaxby/not… #r4today #AssistedDyingBill

Users of Bluesky celebrate children still being able to access their site.

"The truth is, the only ‘unworkable’ thing about the EHRC’s guidance is the most entitled men in the world refuse to take women’s ‘NO’ for an answer." archive.ph/xAzEy

Domestic abuse charity to close in funding crisis bbc.in/4xuPSmS

Sheffield Council "sleepwalking into another street tree scandal" say protesters trib.al/3mgT3HL

Why should our flora and fauna have their homes destroyed ! it makes more sense that we as a nation preserve our ancient woodlands, and areas that are unique like Penrhos! How many parts of the uk have trees meeting the shoreline, red squirrels , little egrets, mistle thrush , viola odorata in one area ? So why was penrhos sold like it was just a bit of wasteland? Why was planning given ? Oh right jobs… well in 15 yrs it hasn’t created a single job yet! But if we as a community buy Penrhos we could conserve,protect ,enhance and ensure penrhos was safe in perpetuity. Join our fight for Nature #SavePenrhos #AchubPenrhos 📸Shirley Blease

A yellowjacket in June is a fairly docile pest controller. A yellowjacket in late August wants to fight you for a soda. Same insect, but the colony has changed. All summer, the workers hunt protein. Caterpillars, flies, and other garden pests get chewed up and fed to the larvae back in the nest. In return, the larvae provide the adults with a sugary secretion that fuels the workers. So all season those workers are out killing the bugs eating your tomatoes because that's how they feed the babies that feed them. A single colony removes thousands of pest insects. Then late summer arrives. The colony reaches peak population. The queen shifts from producing mostly workers to producing males and next year's queens. Fewer larvae remain, and as those larvae pupate, the workers lose much of their built-in sugar supply. Now you have a huge population of aging wasps searching for carbs wherever they can find them. Fallen fruit, hummingbird feeders, your picnic, your soda, anything sweet. They're not suddenly mean. They're just hungry, unemployed, and nearing the end of their lives. You'd be itching to fight for a piece of candy too. By winter, the old queen, workers, and males are dead. Only newly mated queens survive to start fresh colonies the following spring, and old nests are almost never reused. A nest tucked away in a field corner or high in a tree is doing free pest control for a few more weeks, then it's gone. The nests worth dealing with are the ones in doorways, walls, or places where people, especially anyone with a severe allergy, could be at risk.

Just like every friend group is full of unique personalities, every physical body is wonderfully different! My Body is Me! celebrates those differences and helps children build a healthy foundation for self-acceptance alongside their peers. mybodyisme.com/product/my-bo…

Well done @FT Mahvash’s Sabet’s book “Open Wide The Doors” is out soon. And it is absolutely extraordinary. Three books are reviewed here in the about “the familiar question of whether the Islamic republic is about to fall by asking why Iranian society has again and again generated movements of defiance against its rulers.” But the final word goes to the book that “shifts the centre of Iranian history away from rulers and revolutions and towards the people who endure the consequences. That is why Sabet’s memoir makes such a fitting final word. Against the scale of Iran’s past, her testimony reinforces the power of individual conscience and endurance as the only way forward.” Couldn’t have said it better myself. A must read. archive.vn/wZwPt

Children of Transitioners believe lawmakers/police will seek also to criminalise family members (esp wives & daughters) who don't submit to male sexual fetishes & fantasies/ domestic abuse/ coercion from men like our dads -due to examples to date: childrenoftransitioners.org/…

Review of the Week: 8-14 June 2026 The Western Reef Heron delighted crowds before departing, rare terns were found, the quail influx continued and there were hints of another hot seabird summer ahead. Ed Stubbs reports: bit.ly/4vSNsNp

Absolutely, remember non-hijabi Muslim women, but it’s worse than that. Non-Muslim women like this who pander to misogynistic modesty codes normalise the hijab and make non-hijabis invisible or liable to be mistaken for Sikhs or Hindus. The hijab is not mandated in the Koran.

“Five years in and it is getting worse. It is a stain on our world,” Doucet says. “But the courage of Afghan women is extraordinary.”

Normalising the voluntary removal of your breasts because you hate your body so much that you’ve been convinced you can change sex, is not and never will be body positivity.

The Stephen Ireland case was a crime waiting to happen, enabled by authorities who should be protecting children: the council, schools, the police. It will happen again unless society is prepared to notice the red flags of a movement that targets children. transgendertrend.com/lgbtq-p…

If you understand the mechanics of grooming, it is so clear what is being done to children through 'gender affirmation'. This is essential reading 👇

Important report on trans ideology in children's books and the state of the children's publishing industry due this week! Through the Looking Glass is published by @SEENPublishing, with @biologyinmed and us, and we'll be hosting the report on our website on Wednesday.

Mainstream children's publishing has a shameful record of promoting harmful ideas about being 'born in the wrong body.' They're an important link in the school to clinic pipeline. Read our blog about trans books targeted at the under 10s. 3/ transgendertrend.com/trans-p…

Scientists stunned by massive brown ribbon stretching across Atlantic from Africa A 37.5 million tons of pelagic sargassum, a species of brown seaweed, forming an unbroken band from the coast of West Africa to Gulf of Mexico. This Atlantic Great Sargassum Belt simply did not exist 15 years ago. futura-sciences.com/en/scien…

Charity set to close after 30 years helping Sheffield domestic abuse survivors trib.al/sWdWz4m