No longer posting to this site & have deleted the apps. As with Facebook, my account remains active (for now) in case, but won’t be regularly checking here. To those that want to find me, I’m the same user name at the place for tooting & where the sky is blue. Bye bye bluebird!

From Rebecca Solnit: “They want you to feel powerless and to surrender and to let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving.  You may need to grieve or scream or take time off, but you have a role no matter what, and right now good friends and good principles are worth gathering in. Remember what you love. Remember what loves you. Remember in this tide of hate what love is. The pain you feel is because of what you love. The Wobblies used to say don't mourn, organize, but you can do both at once and you don't have to organize right away in this moment of furious mourning.
You can be heartbroken or furious or both at once; you can scream in your car or on a cliff; you can also get up tomorrow and water the flowerpots and call someone who's upset and check your equipment for going onward. A lot of us are going to come under direct attack, and a lot of us are going to resist by building solidarity and sanctuary. Gather up your resources, the metaphysical ones that are heart and soul and care, as well as the practical ones.
People kept the faith in the dictatorships of South America in the 1970s and 1980s, in the East Bloc countries and the USSR, women are protesting right now in Iran and people there are writing poetry. There is no alternative to persevering, and that does not require you to feel good. You can keep walking whether it's sunny or raining. Take care of yourself and remember that taking care of something else is an important part of taking care of yourself, because you are interwoven with the ten trillion things in this single garment of destiny that has been stained and torn, but is still being woven and mended and washed.”

RT @AlexSteffen: The most important point I'm making here is this: We're used to thinking of climate chaos as a problem that's far away, i…

Thousands of years of Humanity, and you are alive to witness the first photo of a Sunset on another World; Mars.

RIP to the legendary Mr Herbie Flowers, bass player extraordinaire ((1938 - 2024). 💔

RT @DrJeffMasters: Climate change will inevitably stop being a hazy future concern and will someday turn everyday life upside down. At the…

And thrilled to be providing that full parallel track of conference radio via @thursnight - programme coming together nicely now. #ALTc2024 #ALTcRadio

As well as first-class learning opportunities, #ALTC24 offers a wealth of opportunities for you to connect with your peers outside the classroom. You can look forward to a Drinks Reception, Gala Dinner & full parallel track of conference radio - buff.ly/3AdjThL #altc

Don’t you just hate it when work bricks your work laptop?

Get Daft Punk to make a comeback for the finale then they fly up the Eiffel Tower and one of them takes their helmet off and it’s Celine Dion and the other one takes their helmet off and it’s also Celine Dion

So whoever gets to be the next American President, they’ll have both the 2025 #Artemis Moon landing and the 2028 #OlympicGames on their watch. Blimey!

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To disable Grok you have to use Twitter/X on the web It doesn’t work on your mobile app Here’s what to do ⏬️

Mindful of next year’s #ReturnToTheMoon with the #Artemis programme, there’s a lot of logic to Harris putting @CaptMarkKelly on the ticket as Veep.

Well, the Republican Party have chosen a convicted felon and oldest candidate to ever run for President as their nominee and the Democratic Party are - for now - without a nominee at all, following Biden’s stepping down as theirs. 2024’s clearly not over by a long shot!

Too bad. 2024’s just one of those years. Every generation gets one.

BREAKING: This Kamala Harris ad from 2020 still goes hard. Retweet to ensure every American sees it. x.com/AdamJSmithGA/status/18…

Donald Trump is the oldest nominee for President in American history.

Good effort, lads. Never mind. #ENGSPA #EURO2024

England are through to the final of #EURO2024 The Tories have been voted out. I’d just like to suggest to the person with the magic lamp that they use their last wish very wisely.