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Becca Thorne
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Parent of 2 wonderful autistic boys, accidental artist, occasional writer & mountain-lover (Afraid of heights). #cPTSD https://artachart.com/
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Becca Thorne @beccathorne.bsky.social · Feb 28
An updated image of some recent work, with me for scale!
A photo of the artist (needing a hair cut) with a collection of recent paintings!
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The finished piece: oil on panel, 100 x 70cm. Portrait of my late father, from an old photo. I wanted to created a sense of transience, but simultaneously make him part of that place, rooted into the landscape. #portrait #grief #Mawddachestuary #Wales
Portrait of a man sitting on the ground facing the viewer, with his back to an estuary and mountain range beyond. He has his legs stretched out in front of him and hands resting on a walking stick, a pipe in his mouth. The palette is muted: almost entirely French raw umber, dark olive and warm white, with touches of Payne’s grey & ochre. One side is illuminated, whilst the other is heavily shadowed. The idea is to create a sense of transience and stillness (Wyeth was a master of this). The man’s clothes are almost transparent in places, whilst his legs and feet resemble a photographic negative.
January 3, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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Bafflingly there are still people out there in the world who think being passionate about nature is “kind of weird”. or “a niche interest”. These people have it all wrong. Nature isn’t some quirky sideline to the main business. It IS the main business. Nature is us.
A lovely fluffy buff-tailed bumblebee I photographed a few summers ago.
January 2, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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More information here www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-stagge...
The staggering scale of human CO2 emissions
We've emitted more CO2 than all living biomass and human-made mass combined.
www.theclimatebrink.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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Humans have emitted 2750 gigatons of CO2 since the industrial revolution from burning fossil fuels and land use change. To put this in perspective, this is more than the (dry) mass of all living things on earth and everything humans have ever built combined
January 3, 2026 at 7:59 AM
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Visualising the massive scale of human C02 emissions- Humans have emitted 2750 gigatons of CO2 since the industrial revolution from burning fossil fuels and land use change. To put this in perspective, this is more than the (dry) mass of all living things on earth and everything humans have ever built combined
January 3, 2026 at 7:59 AM
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A winter’s moment ❄️🌲📸
#winter #snow #Scotland
A drop of water at the end of a branch. You can see an inverted landscape of snow and trees in the droplet
January 2, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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Don’t you see their beauty? 😍Can’t you see their innocence? Why are you still looking away? Why support the evil killings. Why pay for needless suffering? #StopYourKillings #LiveVegan just live in peace ☮️
January 2, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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We're challenging this terrible Labour Government.

And we're ready to take on Reform.

I spoke with the Guardian:

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘We were missing in the conversation’: how Zack Polanski hit on plan to beat Reform at their own game
This time last year Polanski was barely known outside the party. Now he’s hoping for success at May’s local elections – by taking a page from Nigel Farage’s playbook
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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There are now just 4 spaces left on my botanical illustration & mental health zoom workshop,10 Jan.
I teach you:
🌿how to draw plants
🧠how creative activity improves mental health
I trained as a molecular cell biologist & am also a professional illustrator: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bota...
Cornflowers, nigella, sweet peas & Russian sage on the left hand page of a brown paper sketch book and my pen and ink illustrations on the right hand page with the cartridge pen I used to make the illustrations nearby Four winter flowering species and pink snowberry arranged on sketch book paper with my hand lettered labels for them and pen illustrations alongside. The pen I used to make the illustrations is also nearby Spring flowers and a series of nature finds with my illustrations of them alongside and my watercolour palette in the corner of the image
January 2, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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New year, no reset.

A short essay on continuation, constraint, and why ‘fresh starts’ don’t work for everyone.

kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/on-not-beg...

#Scotland #Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Books #UK
A colour photograph of a frost covered field in the foreground, edged by a wire fence and gate. Beyond it, Dunkeld Cathedral rises among dense evergreen trees, its stone tower and clock partially framed by bare winter branches under a pale, cold sky.
January 2, 2026 at 10:41 AM
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Made some homemade Chili Oil Wontons. If you want a good Chinese cookbook “The Woks of Life” is top notch! (Recipe in comments.)
January 2, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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Scientists are supposed to be happy when their predictions are skillful, right?

Why do I not feel happy?
Time series of global temperature anomalies from 1980 to present with predictions for 2025 (made in Dec 2024), and 2026, along with the YTD estimate for the 2025 (with only one month to go).
December 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.”

In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
January 1, 2026 at 11:43 AM
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Said the wave to the one behind
'There is an end to the sea'
'Impossible,' said the wave behind
'Nothing can stop me'
(Lemn Sissay)

#letthelightpourin

(Painting: The Sea, The Sea)
Dramatic oil painting of waves in a stormy sea: Blues, olive greens and ochres, mixed with warm white in lines and swirls of dark and light. A sky of dark clouds and bright light above it.
January 1, 2026 at 8:49 AM
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Painting showing a group of the giant marine reptile, Ichtyotitan. Like the modern but unrelated whales they rivaled in size, these animals likely migrated to the same shallow seas over millenia to give birth, and there are fossil beds of close relatives that also support this behavior! #paleosky
Side view of a group of the giant ichtyosaur, Ichtyotitan severnensis. The group consists of mothers and the newborns that were the reason for their migration to the shallow waters where this scene takes place.
August 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Bonne année 2026 happy new year
January 1, 2026 at 7:35 AM
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Said the wave to the one behind
'There is an end to the sea'
'Impossible,' said the wave behind
'Nothing can stop me'
(Lemn Sissay)

#letthelightpourin

(Painting: The Sea, The Sea)
Dramatic oil painting of waves in a stormy sea: Blues, olive greens and ochres, mixed with warm white in lines and swirls of dark and light. A sky of dark clouds and bright light above it.
January 1, 2026 at 8:49 AM
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Highlights from Jack Smith deposition.
December 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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At midnight, the ACA tax credits are going to expire and millions will start the new year not being able to afford their health care.

Congress needs to act.
December 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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I thought the slogan for RFK Jr’s movement was Make America Healthy Again?
December 31, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Elgol, Skye, photo by Fiona Campbell, Highlands-based photographer.
December 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Thank you all for liking, engaging with, & sharing my posts. My final poetic gift of 2025 is the 1st poem from Jo Bell’s brilliant book ‘52- Write a Poem a Week’

Imagine finishing 2026 with 52 brand new poems, enough for a collection!

Have a great 2026

#poetry
#poemoftheday
#amwriting
#amreading
December 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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As is traditional on this day: Samuel Beckett’s thoughts via telegram on the coming New Year of 1984
EDITOR THE TIMES NEW PRINTING HOUSE SQUARE GRAYS INN ROAD LONDON/WC1 RESOLUTIONS COLON ZERO STOP PERIOD HOPES COLON ZERO STOP BECKETT
December 31, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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“I cannot remember any of the things that were on my list of things to do. I will just have to sit here and do nothing,” said Toad.
December 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Cornelius Eady, a National Book Award finalist, will read an original poem at Zohran Mamdani’s swearing-in as mayor of New York City on Thursday. Read an excerpt from “Proof,” the poem he wrote for the ceremony. trib.al/i0Uhwxr
Cornelius Eady sits in front of a red bookcase. A headline reads: “Cornelius Eady, Acclaimed Poet, to Honor Mamdani With Inaugural Poem.” Photo credit: James Estrin/The New York Times
December 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM