Rachel Baker
@bakersunday.bsky.social
Substrate for communication:Voice Speech and Language. Agroecology as activism. Forest as clinic. Land and health commons. Bring the AuDHD army.
“I don’t know what the majority of our artists at ActionSpace have got, Idon’t know any clinical diagnosis. And I don’t want to know, because they’re people.” Eventually the clinical healthcare approach will catch up to the arts approach…Eventually. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘Her need to make is off the scale’: why Nnena Kalu’s Turner prize nomination is a watershed moment for art
The Glasgow-born artist makes huge cocoon-like sculptures out of found fabric and videotape. We meet the team who helped her become the first learning-disabled person to make the award shortlist
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
“I don’t know what the majority of our artists at ActionSpace have got, Idon’t know any clinical diagnosis. And I don’t want to know, because they’re people.” Eventually the clinical healthcare approach will catch up to the arts approach…Eventually. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Biodiversity is *crucial* to our wellbeing.
We need to stop treating it as expendable.
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We need to stop treating it as expendable.
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How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health
In Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing
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November 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Biodiversity is *crucial* to our wellbeing.
We need to stop treating it as expendable.
share.google/pKw8odZguEG8...
We need to stop treating it as expendable.
share.google/pKw8odZguEG8...
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Read this.
It is absolutely cretinous that this ‘Labour’ Govt refuses to renationalise water. Millions of us are now at grave risk, when increasingly likely climate-extreme events are incoming.
www.ft.com/content/97e4...
It is absolutely cretinous that this ‘Labour’ Govt refuses to renationalise water. Millions of us are now at grave risk, when increasingly likely climate-extreme events are incoming.
www.ft.com/content/97e4...
Single fault at Thames Water works could imperil London’s supply
Coppermills plant, which serves up to 4mn people, underscores scale of the challenge for troubled utility
www.ft.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Read this.
It is absolutely cretinous that this ‘Labour’ Govt refuses to renationalise water. Millions of us are now at grave risk, when increasingly likely climate-extreme events are incoming.
www.ft.com/content/97e4...
It is absolutely cretinous that this ‘Labour’ Govt refuses to renationalise water. Millions of us are now at grave risk, when increasingly likely climate-extreme events are incoming.
www.ft.com/content/97e4...
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After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.
TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...
TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...
England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet
The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter
christinapagel.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.
TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...
TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...
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‘It is peculiar, to say the least, that Israel is being given, in a “peace deal”, land that it has not managed to capture militarily.’
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
Selma Dabbagh | Knowledge of the Relevant Facts
Israel has assassinated a record number of Palestinian journalists, refused to allow international reporters to enter...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
‘It is peculiar, to say the least, that Israel is being given, in a “peace deal”, land that it has not managed to capture militarily.’
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
Nature connection needs to be part of healthcare infrastructure.
'... parents no longer pass on an “orientation” towards the natural world ... "Nature [dis]connectedness is now accepted as a key root cause of the environmental crisis ...'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
'... a city may need to be 10 times greener to reverse declines in #nature connection.'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
'... a city may need to be 10 times greener to reverse declines in #nature connection.'
Human connection to nature has declined 60% in 200 years, study finds
Prof Miles Richardson says people risk ‘extinction of experience’ in the natural world without new policies
www.theguardian.com
August 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Nature connection needs to be part of healthcare infrastructure.
SLT Research idea - how can SLT’s design nature-based interventions via social prescribing? Oh wait, that was my dissertation… www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Better than medication’: prescribing nature works, project shows
Scheme helping people in England connect with nature led to better mental health, report finds
www.theguardian.com
July 31, 2025 at 12:56 PM
SLT Research idea - how can SLT’s design nature-based interventions via social prescribing? Oh wait, that was my dissertation… www.theguardian.com/environment/...
SLT dysphagia research idea - the effects of enforced starvation on the suck-swallow-breathe mechanism for infants and their mothers.
July 31, 2025 at 11:28 AM
SLT dysphagia research idea - the effects of enforced starvation on the suck-swallow-breathe mechanism for infants and their mothers.
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Family abolition is about asking why families are expected to do everything alone. Asking why housing, food, medical care, love, education and even basic safety, are things you earn through the “right” kind of family. Why family can be the pretense by which these things are denied to people.
July 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Family abolition is about asking why families are expected to do everything alone. Asking why housing, food, medical care, love, education and even basic safety, are things you earn through the “right” kind of family. Why family can be the pretense by which these things are denied to people.
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For climate activists, adaptation has been a dirty word.
In this piece today I ask whether a new UK-based proposal from the Climate Majority Project @climatemajority.bsky.social has legs.
@cityatlas.bsky.social @anne-urai.bsky.social
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
In this piece today I ask whether a new UK-based proposal from the Climate Majority Project @climatemajority.bsky.social has legs.
@cityatlas.bsky.social @anne-urai.bsky.social
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
Is it strategic to refocus towards climate adaptation?
As global heating accelerates and climate damages mount all around us, and as climate organizations and activists grow desperate about what to do, SAFER provides important new thinking. The challenge,...
www.resilience.org
July 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
For climate activists, adaptation has been a dirty word.
In this piece today I ask whether a new UK-based proposal from the Climate Majority Project @climatemajority.bsky.social has legs.
@cityatlas.bsky.social @anne-urai.bsky.social
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
In this piece today I ask whether a new UK-based proposal from the Climate Majority Project @climatemajority.bsky.social has legs.
@cityatlas.bsky.social @anne-urai.bsky.social
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
After decades of tension between Dartmoor sheep farmers and environmentalists, a legal challenge seems the only way through deadlock. Headage payments + £32m in HLS schemes haven’t changed practices. Commoners have shown they are ideologically entrenched in not changing. The hubris of inheritance?
July 16, 2025 at 10:04 AM
After decades of tension between Dartmoor sheep farmers and environmentalists, a legal challenge seems the only way through deadlock. Headage payments + £32m in HLS schemes haven’t changed practices. Commoners have shown they are ideologically entrenched in not changing. The hubris of inheritance?
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I just signed a @stopburningtrees.bsky.social petition: Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...
Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax
Drax, the University of York and the North Yorkshire Combined Authority have just submitted a bid to host an AI data centre at Drax, powered by burning millions of trees.
The Government recently de...
actionnetwork.org
July 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I just signed a @stopburningtrees.bsky.social petition: Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...
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‘Criminal laws exist that can and have been brought against its actions. But it is this very course of justice that the proscription aims to impede.’
Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action, from the next issue:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action, from the next issue:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Huw Lemmey · Short Cuts: Who’s afraid of Palestine Action?
I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with the...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
‘Criminal laws exist that can and have been brought against its actions. But it is this very course of justice that the proscription aims to impede.’
Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action, from the next issue:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action, from the next issue:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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All the right people are crying over Zohran’s victory. They’re going to monster him and all the billionaire money will be used to oppose him in the general but this is a moment of real hope in dark times
June 25, 2025 at 5:18 AM
All the right people are crying over Zohran’s victory. They’re going to monster him and all the billionaire money will be used to oppose him in the general but this is a moment of real hope in dark times
“The devaluation of Aboriginal graphic writing systems reflects a broader colonial bias that equates written language exclusively with alphabetic systems.” theconversation.com/aboriginal-m...
Aboriginal message sticks are a fascinating insight into a complex system of written communication
Aboriginal message sticks are hand-carved wooden objects traditionally used to send messages across long distances, complemented by oral messages.
theconversation.com
May 23, 2025 at 6:51 AM
“The devaluation of Aboriginal graphic writing systems reflects a broader colonial bias that equates written language exclusively with alphabetic systems.” theconversation.com/aboriginal-m...
THANK YOU 🙏 ❤️ Very familiar and well-articulated. And necessary, like many personal AuDHD testimonies. The more the better, I say, bring an army of them. Also need more from working class/non-white perspectives. P.S the tyranny of the linguistic and the verbal will be defeated from within.
"If you don't think autism is a disability why do you say autistic people are disabled?"
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
This playlist is tough for me to share because it is so personal. It answers the question above.
There are 10 films, all around the 2min mark, they include topics such as:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
This playlist is tough for me to share because it is so personal. It answers the question above.
There are 10 films, all around the 2min mark, they include topics such as:
Autism / Disability - YouTube
In May 2024 I was shortlisted for the Shaw Trust Disability Power List that recognises the 100 most influential disabled people in the UK. I am autistic. Whe...
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April 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
THANK YOU 🙏 ❤️ Very familiar and well-articulated. And necessary, like many personal AuDHD testimonies. The more the better, I say, bring an army of them. Also need more from working class/non-white perspectives. P.S the tyranny of the linguistic and the verbal will be defeated from within.
Pope Francis appreciating multimodal communication and the freedom of a non-verbal child #SLT moment
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Moment a little boy gatecrashed the Pope's weekly address
www.bbc.co.uk
April 21, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Pope Francis appreciating multimodal communication and the freedom of a non-verbal child #SLT moment
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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"almost every night since Oct 2023, even during his hospitalization, Pope Francis made a daily phone call to the only Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip to check on their safety and offer words of prayer and support. His last public act, the day before he died, was to call for a ceasefire in Gaza."
BREAKING: Pope Francis Dies at 88. Here's How He Should Be Remembered
The late pontiff was a progressive pope who was outspoken on Trump, Gaza, the climate, and more.
zeteo.com
April 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"almost every night since Oct 2023, even during his hospitalization, Pope Francis made a daily phone call to the only Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip to check on their safety and offer words of prayer and support. His last public act, the day before he died, was to call for a ceasefire in Gaza."
Thankyou for standing up for wildlife @craigbennett3.bsky.social against the gov+developer obtuseness.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
UK housebuilders ‘very bad’ at building houses, says wildlife charity CEO
Land speculation to blame for lack of progress amid Labour drive to build 1.5m new homes, says Wildlife Trusts head
www.theguardian.com
April 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Thankyou for standing up for wildlife @craigbennett3.bsky.social against the gov+developer obtuseness.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Every week, every year. Total impunity, no accountability. Backed by the police, backed by the army, backed by the state. Ultimately -- backed by the US and backed by us. An ongoing, never-ending, moral disgrace.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested
No Other Land director Hamdan Ballal attacked by armed settlers in West Bank before being handed to Israeli military, witnesses say
www.theguardian.com
March 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Every week, every year. Total impunity, no accountability. Backed by the police, backed by the army, backed by the state. Ultimately -- backed by the US and backed by us. An ongoing, never-ending, moral disgrace.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Restricting car use prevents diseases (and reduces ecological threat)
Dramatic fall in London’s levels of deadly pollutants after Ulez expansion
People in capital breathing much cleaner air, with significant improvements in capital’s most deprived areas
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
People in capital breathing much cleaner air, with significant improvements in capital’s most deprived areas
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Dramatic fall in London’s levels of deadly pollutants after Ulez expansion
People in capital breathing much cleaner air, with significant improvements in capital’s most deprived areas
www.theguardian.com
March 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Restricting car use prevents diseases (and reduces ecological threat)