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Cat Frampton
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Dartmoor based artist and Farmer who believes land layering is possible - She/her - Team waxcap/dung beetle/nature - it’s always more complicated than that!
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Beautiful
And
Doomed

Loss in a landscape, Swift (3) - unfinished
Roofing slate and gold

Facing the idea of damage.
June 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Break stuff

And it stays broken.
June 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Smash things up and they remain smashed

No amount of offsetting damage can fully fix broken.
June 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Seems a fitting day to repost this.
Loss in a landscape
Swift (3)

Roofing slate with gold.

Unfinished because I now have to face smashing it so I can then hold its broken shards up to the light.

I don’t want to
It’s beautiful
But it needs to be destroyed…

Just like the uk government is doing to nature

Damage done needs facing.
November 5, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Old pasture grazed short in late summer and autumn for the win!

#waxcap #dartmoor @nffn.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 9:08 AM
God, #waxcaps are just fabulous aren’t they?

And if their grasslands get damaged they are gone. Like ‘20 years for partial recovery but maybe no coming back’ gone

Makes me both full of awe (that they still exist at all, let alone in number) and so bloody scared for their future
October 26, 2025 at 8:49 AM
I’ve written a thing again

This time about ‘nature’
Not the thing (whatever that is) but the word.

I propose we stop using it and get a bit sharper with what we are trying to say…

And yes, I know that’s unhinged.

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October 24, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Signs of recovery

These babies are from one of our hardest worked fields.
A field that may not have been intensified as fully as most but still was pumped up with fertilisers.

Four years ago we had one species of waxcaps, (Snowy One of the toughest) return

Then parrot and meadow
And now…
More!
October 9, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Here.
A small tirade against half-arsed language.

In which I propose we all stop using the woolly and indistinct word #nature and see how that changes how we think about our world

And yes, I know it’s not sensible, but… it’s maybe worth mulling over…

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October 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Time on #Dartmoor to be careful where you put your feet! Especially in short mossy grass. (Where the sheep graze in particular)

The change in weather has finally awoken the #waxcaps!
October 6, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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If you believe what BrewDog did at Kinrara was bad, don't wait to see what is coming - take the time to understand what Oxygen Conservation stands for and protest parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/10/04/o...
October 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Been away for a few days.
Been looking at the sea.

#sketchbook
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Seriously how hard is it to say “This is an outrageous attack on our friends and neighbours who are in this country legally and have followed all the rules to get settled status, who are valued members of our communities, get to fuck frog-face”?
Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”.

So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
September 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Sure signs of autumn on our place.
If you farm livestock in a very low impact way you get all kinds of good stuff*
All I need now is the waxcaps!! (Which are slow to show this year here)

*you may need to wait a few decades for the results but it’s worth it!
September 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Medics returning from Gaza say Israel deliberately targeting children with sniper, drone fire, Dutch newspaper reports.
Foreign doctors say Israel systematically targeting Gaza’s children: Report
Medics returning from Gaza say Israel deliberately targeting children with sniper, drone fire, Dutch newspaper reports.
bit.ly
September 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
In the least surprising news of the year…

… I have questions about peat.

If anyone here can answer them please do!!!

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September 13, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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We have published our AI generated slop and stand by it and have explained why it might be nonsense in the documentation no one will read, now kindly fuck off.
Peat map
The FINALE!

My final letter (apparently) in a long line of letters about the terrible peat map…

I’m drawing some pretty bleak conclusions about this

I used to believe that ‘the truth’ mattered in science and that if evidence was presented conclusions could be adjusted,

how foolish of me
August 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Peat map
The FINALE!

My final letter (apparently) in a long line of letters about the terrible peat map…

I’m drawing some pretty bleak conclusions about this

I used to believe that ‘the truth’ mattered in science and that if evidence was presented conclusions could be adjusted,

how foolish of me
August 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Made with rubbish

Graphite shavings and packing paper from a parcel
The desire to use my hands to shape the wings of the birds swept over me as I tidied the table. I’d sharpened a graphite pencil, its shavings tipped onto the waste paper. They felt under my fingers unmanageable
August 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
You know that thing where something low level petty happens and it raises a whole host of red flags?

Yeah
That

Fun* times in the world of carbon capture, big money and ecology…

(*And when I say ‘fun’ I mean ‘playground petty with an unpleasant edge’.)
August 16, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Yeah
That’s a very nice sight

The wood edged fields are worth their weight in gold in the summer, especially in a dry hot summer

For all the talk about how bad livestock is this is pretty much perfect

Land use layered

Food and nature, in the same place at the same time, complementing each other
August 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
*Cough*

@naturalengland.bsky.social the New England Peat Map…

*cough*
From my own academic research, even pre LLMs there was a huge danger of zombie factoids that begin in a respectable publication by mistake and then get reprinted for decades because no one is backtracing to the original source. Once bad info gets into the system it can take years to clear it out.
I've seen numerous examples of this in recent days - we're at a point where some reporters are using LLMs as a source and not even remotely properly factchecking, but also where LLM generated material is making its way into other material and being unknowingly reproduced by others.
July 31, 2025 at 9:35 AM
This was eleven days ago.
Has she found food?
Is she still alive?

Her face is haunting me.

Gaza is facing a human made, hate filled genocide. It’s obscene.

And yet people are floating plastic bottles into the Mediterranean Sea, filled with air, rice or lentils and hope they will find the hungry.
This displaced and starving Palestinian woman sheltering at Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital says she hasn’t eaten in five days, as Israel continues its suffocating blockade on Gaza.
July 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Peat map!

The reply to the reply to the reply to the query about why the map is SO RUBBISH

Apparently the map is good and also bad, fit for purpose yet also not, without robust surveys (by us? Unpaid?) my concerns will and also will not lead to the map being changed…

Help me
My Brain is melting!
July 28, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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This displaced and starving Palestinian woman sheltering at Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital says she hasn’t eaten in five days, as Israel continues its suffocating blockade on Gaza.
July 17, 2025 at 10:10 AM