Becca Thorne
@beccathorne.bsky.social
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!
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There's a big bunch of fantastic art in this week's newsletter! You can check out the whole thing over at www.hireillo.com/Srx
Art by Sue Todd · @kalakal.bsky.social · @beccathorne.bsky.social · @kristinagehrmann.bsky.social · @johnwtomac.com · Julia Allum · Chris B. Murray
Art by Sue Todd · @kalakal.bsky.social · @beccathorne.bsky.social · @kristinagehrmann.bsky.social · @johnwtomac.com · Julia Allum · Chris B. Murray
January 15, 2026 at 1:02 PM
There's a big bunch of fantastic art in this week's newsletter! You can check out the whole thing over at www.hireillo.com/Srx
Art by Sue Todd · @kalakal.bsky.social · @beccathorne.bsky.social · @kristinagehrmann.bsky.social · @johnwtomac.com · Julia Allum · Chris B. Murray
Art by Sue Todd · @kalakal.bsky.social · @beccathorne.bsky.social · @kristinagehrmann.bsky.social · @johnwtomac.com · Julia Allum · Chris B. Murray
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Looks like the Green bandwagon is really rolling , especially with young voters
"New YouGov polling shows that Brits think Zack Polanski would make a better PM than Nigel Farage, narrowly beating the Reform leader by a point on 28"
and
"This is a poll result just for Starmer's seat alone."
"New YouGov polling shows that Brits think Zack Polanski would make a better PM than Nigel Farage, narrowly beating the Reform leader by a point on 28"
and
"This is a poll result just for Starmer's seat alone."
January 14, 2026 at 8:12 AM
Looks like the Green bandwagon is really rolling , especially with young voters
"New YouGov polling shows that Brits think Zack Polanski would make a better PM than Nigel Farage, narrowly beating the Reform leader by a point on 28"
and
"This is a poll result just for Starmer's seat alone."
"New YouGov polling shows that Brits think Zack Polanski would make a better PM than Nigel Farage, narrowly beating the Reform leader by a point on 28"
and
"This is a poll result just for Starmer's seat alone."
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Excellent news! Top work, France 🇫🇷👏👏👏👏👏
France announces ban on 10 British anti-migrant activists
French interior ministry issues ‘territorial bans’ after reports of anti-migrant activities by members of Raise the Colours movement
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
France announces ban on 10 British anti-migrant activists
French interior ministry issues ‘territorial bans’ after reports of anti-migrant activities by members of Raise the Colours movement
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
France announces ban on 10 British anti-migrant activists
French interior ministry issues ‘territorial bans’ after reports of anti-migrant activities by members of Raise the Colours movement
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Excellent news! Top work, France 🇫🇷👏👏👏👏👏
France announces ban on 10 British anti-migrant activists
French interior ministry issues ‘territorial bans’ after reports of anti-migrant activities by members of Raise the Colours movement
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
France announces ban on 10 British anti-migrant activists
French interior ministry issues ‘territorial bans’ after reports of anti-migrant activities by members of Raise the Colours movement
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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📢 The Global Climate Highlights report is OUT 📢
climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
🌡️ 2025 was 3rd warmest year on record and the warmest La Niña year on record
📈 2023-2025 is the first three year period above 1.5ºC (according to ERA5)
#dataviz #dataviz4climate
climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
🌡️ 2025 was 3rd warmest year on record and the warmest La Niña year on record
📈 2023-2025 is the first three year period above 1.5ºC (according to ERA5)
#dataviz #dataviz4climate
January 14, 2026 at 8:00 AM
📢 The Global Climate Highlights report is OUT 📢
climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
🌡️ 2025 was 3rd warmest year on record and the warmest La Niña year on record
📈 2023-2025 is the first three year period above 1.5ºC (according to ERA5)
#dataviz #dataviz4climate
climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
🌡️ 2025 was 3rd warmest year on record and the warmest La Niña year on record
📈 2023-2025 is the first three year period above 1.5ºC (according to ERA5)
#dataviz #dataviz4climate
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Most 2025 global temperatures are now out (degrees C above 1850-1900 baseline)
1.41 HadCRUT5
1.44 Berkeley
1.46 JRA-3Q
1.47 Copernicus
1.53 DCENT-I
NOAA and NASA GISS values will be public at 2pm UK time and but based on already public Jan-Nov data they will likely be between 1.3 and 1.4 degC.
1.41 HadCRUT5
1.44 Berkeley
1.46 JRA-3Q
1.47 Copernicus
1.53 DCENT-I
NOAA and NASA GISS values will be public at 2pm UK time and but based on already public Jan-Nov data they will likely be between 1.3 and 1.4 degC.
January 14, 2026 at 10:03 AM
Most 2025 global temperatures are now out (degrees C above 1850-1900 baseline)
1.41 HadCRUT5
1.44 Berkeley
1.46 JRA-3Q
1.47 Copernicus
1.53 DCENT-I
NOAA and NASA GISS values will be public at 2pm UK time and but based on already public Jan-Nov data they will likely be between 1.3 and 1.4 degC.
1.41 HadCRUT5
1.44 Berkeley
1.46 JRA-3Q
1.47 Copernicus
1.53 DCENT-I
NOAA and NASA GISS values will be public at 2pm UK time and but based on already public Jan-Nov data they will likely be between 1.3 and 1.4 degC.
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This is grim
Africans recruited by Russia are referred to as “can openers”. Here’s a photo of one with a land mine strapped to him designed for detonating in a bid to "open" the 🇺🇦 bunker
Some “recruited“ as shop assistants/jobs in a shampoo factory find themselves at the front - cannon fodder
Africans recruited by Russia are referred to as “can openers”. Here’s a photo of one with a land mine strapped to him designed for detonating in a bid to "open" the 🇺🇦 bunker
Some “recruited“ as shop assistants/jobs in a shampoo factory find themselves at the front - cannon fodder
January 13, 2026 at 9:23 AM
This is grim
Africans recruited by Russia are referred to as “can openers”. Here’s a photo of one with a land mine strapped to him designed for detonating in a bid to "open" the 🇺🇦 bunker
Some “recruited“ as shop assistants/jobs in a shampoo factory find themselves at the front - cannon fodder
Africans recruited by Russia are referred to as “can openers”. Here’s a photo of one with a land mine strapped to him designed for detonating in a bid to "open" the 🇺🇦 bunker
Some “recruited“ as shop assistants/jobs in a shampoo factory find themselves at the front - cannon fodder
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Avanti at Blea Moor. 2 January 2026. #railway #photography
January 13, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Avanti at Blea Moor. 2 January 2026. #railway #photography
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NEW: A federal judge today struck down a stop work order Trump issued before Christmas on a big New England offshore wind project under construction
It’s a huge ruling and suggests other stop work orders against offshore wind farms in progress may very soon fail too
It’s a huge ruling and suggests other stop work orders against offshore wind farms in progress may very soon fail too
How Trump’s Case Against Revolution Wind Fell Apart (Again)
A federal court has once again allowed Orsted to resume construction on its offshore wind project.
heatmap.news
January 12, 2026 at 10:01 PM
NEW: A federal judge today struck down a stop work order Trump issued before Christmas on a big New England offshore wind project under construction
It’s a huge ruling and suggests other stop work orders against offshore wind farms in progress may very soon fail too
It’s a huge ruling and suggests other stop work orders against offshore wind farms in progress may very soon fail too
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I'm not a math person. I loved science in school. I thought I wouldn't have to deal with that kind of math again... not noooo. Now I have to try to teach my kid how to do the equations. Save me! 😅😭😂
January 13, 2026 at 3:20 AM
I'm not a math person. I loved science in school. I thought I wouldn't have to deal with that kind of math again... not noooo. Now I have to try to teach my kid how to do the equations. Save me! 😅😭😂
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I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
January 13, 2026 at 6:06 PM
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
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A Minnesota family is fighting to keep their loved one in the state after he was detained by ICE, saying his rare genetic disease puts his health at serious risk.
kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
January 13, 2026 at 6:07 AM
A Minnesota family is fighting to keep their loved one in the state after he was detained by ICE, saying his rare genetic disease puts his health at serious risk.
kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
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Kristi Noem’s podium at DHS is just a straight up Nazi slogan
"One of ours, all of yours" was a Nazi policy made when an SS officer was killed in a Czech Village and then the Nazis killed every single resident of that village in response…..but don’t you dare call them Nazis….not even hiding it
"One of ours, all of yours" was a Nazi policy made when an SS officer was killed in a Czech Village and then the Nazis killed every single resident of that village in response…..but don’t you dare call them Nazis….not even hiding it
January 13, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Kristi Noem’s podium at DHS is just a straight up Nazi slogan
"One of ours, all of yours" was a Nazi policy made when an SS officer was killed in a Czech Village and then the Nazis killed every single resident of that village in response…..but don’t you dare call them Nazis….not even hiding it
"One of ours, all of yours" was a Nazi policy made when an SS officer was killed in a Czech Village and then the Nazis killed every single resident of that village in response…..but don’t you dare call them Nazis….not even hiding it
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AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
January 13, 2026 at 1:20 AM
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
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About to start on the final edits to the Rubha Hunish wood engraving, aiming for a proof print before day's end.
In the meantime, to take your mind off the madness of the human world, here's Sgùrr nan Gillean in the Cuillin of Skye, in a winter snowstorm. In watercolour and wood engraving.
In the meantime, to take your mind off the madness of the human world, here's Sgùrr nan Gillean in the Cuillin of Skye, in a winter snowstorm. In watercolour and wood engraving.
January 13, 2026 at 10:54 AM
About to start on the final edits to the Rubha Hunish wood engraving, aiming for a proof print before day's end.
In the meantime, to take your mind off the madness of the human world, here's Sgùrr nan Gillean in the Cuillin of Skye, in a winter snowstorm. In watercolour and wood engraving.
In the meantime, to take your mind off the madness of the human world, here's Sgùrr nan Gillean in the Cuillin of Skye, in a winter snowstorm. In watercolour and wood engraving.
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Hi everyone.. I need a big favour please! ❤️
Could you please complete this survey for my daughter's psychology dissertation. 🙏
I've done it, it's easy, multiple choice answers & click submit at the end! 😊
It only takes a couple of minutes.
Here;
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/plymouth/d...
Could you please complete this survey for my daughter's psychology dissertation. 🙏
I've done it, it's easy, multiple choice answers & click submit at the end! 😊
It only takes a couple of minutes.
Here;
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/plymouth/d...
January 12, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Hi everyone.. I need a big favour please! ❤️
Could you please complete this survey for my daughter's psychology dissertation. 🙏
I've done it, it's easy, multiple choice answers & click submit at the end! 😊
It only takes a couple of minutes.
Here;
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/plymouth/d...
Could you please complete this survey for my daughter's psychology dissertation. 🙏
I've done it, it's easy, multiple choice answers & click submit at the end! 😊
It only takes a couple of minutes.
Here;
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/plymouth/d...
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Orville and Clown
January 12, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Orville and Clown
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Following the full house in Oxford, the next stop for the tour of my show 'Getting Through It' is Edinburgh.
I'm on at the Lyceum -
@lyceumedinburgh
On Jan 29.
I hope to see you there.
I'm on at the Lyceum -
@lyceumedinburgh
On Jan 29.
I hope to see you there.
January 12, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Following the full house in Oxford, the next stop for the tour of my show 'Getting Through It' is Edinburgh.
I'm on at the Lyceum -
@lyceumedinburgh
On Jan 29.
I hope to see you there.
I'm on at the Lyceum -
@lyceumedinburgh
On Jan 29.
I hope to see you there.
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January 12, 2026 at 5:13 AM
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This has bugged me for years but I only just now finally got around to writing about it. I guess resistance is futile.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/no-you-wer...
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badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/no-you-wer...
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No, you weren’t hit by 50,000 volts
A rant about the misuse of scientific units
badastronomy.beehiiv.com
January 12, 2026 at 6:53 PM
This has bugged me for years but I only just now finally got around to writing about it. I guess resistance is futile.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/no-you-wer...
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badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/no-you-wer...
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January 12, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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