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Charlie Alice Raya
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This is our world. We messed it up. Let’s rethink & reshape it. Let’s restore our planet, create thriving communities & empowering economies. Let’s reconnect to ourselves, each other & our planet. #resist #strongertogether

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Let’s be bold
and restore our lands, forests, oceans.

Let’s be clever
and rethink & reshape our global economic & political systems.

Let’s be defiant
and refuse to be complicit
in the idiocies of warmongers, oligarchs & wannabe kings.

#resist #nokings #generalstrike #boycott #photography #sea
Waves rolling onto the beach.
November 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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DAY 1
DO YOU WANT A FUTURE?
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- Visions
- Shaping together
- Daring
- We have no time to lose!
- What’s the plan?

Contributions by scientists & activists are welcome.

#days-7-1 #photography #stilllife #nature #moss #frost
Still life: moss, frost, seeds
November 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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DAY 2
EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED
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- The squishy brain
- Rivers and more rivers

#days-7-1 #photography #stilllife #nature #moss #autumn
Autumn leaves on mossy tree trunk.
November 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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DAY 3
REWILDING
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- Digesting
- THE END OF ALL WARS

Contributions are welcome!

#days-7-1 #photography #stilllife #nature #moss #birch #autumn #rewilding
Bark peeled of a fallen birch, plus moss & autumn leaves.
November 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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DAY 4
Politics fail us
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- Rethinking democracy
- How can we get things done?
- What’s up for debate? What isn’t?

#days-7-1 #photography #stilllife #nature #moss
Still life of moss & frost.
November 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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DAY 5
ECONOMICS RETHOUGHT
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- What is an economy for?
- Introducing new approaches for businesses which have the potential to transform the global economy
- Switching from destruction to balance

#days-7-1 #photography #stilllife #nature #moss #econsky
Still life of moss & leaves with frost.
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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DAY 6
COMMUNITY
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- heroes, stories
- competition
- predator & prey
- In the dark
- Towns & cities
- Tax the rich

Highlights will include references to Robert Reich, Brent Toderian, George Monbiot.

#days-7-1 #photography #lichen #nature #moss
Trumpet cup lichen on forest floor & moss.
November 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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DAY 7
BODY & SEXUALITY
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- The body and nature’s destruction
- Nudity & THE END OF ALL WARS
- MIHS The body is key
- Gender
- The Penis Trauma
- Traumatic run-ins with women
- Abuse
- Body & religion

#days-7-1 #photography #stilllife #nature #grass
Grass with frost.
November 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Max, the dog, got himself some fern decoration :-)

#dogsky #forest #ferns #photography
Labrador with brown fern leaf on his back.
November 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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NATURE’S ART

Forest spirit
Nov, 2025

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I don’t know how these shapes come about, but some parts are fungi.
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In my eyes it’s a lovely, mystic face. Though the backside suggests a different story. See🧵

#forest #beech #fungifriends #sculpture #spirit #fairies #photography #nature #ClimateAction
November 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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There are moments when you’re glad that you already knew that things you thought you knew might only be part of what’s possible to know.

Take this tree.
I knew that trees have roots at the bottom.
But I’d never heard of or seen a tree with roots inside the trunk.

#roots #forest #photography
Tree cut open, revealing soil and roots inside the trunk.
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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CELEBRATING NATURE

This is a find I still can’t wrap my head around.

Picture an old, big rotting tree trunk. On one side, not far from the ground and covering large parts of the trunk is a fungus which, in parts, seems to have merged with the trunk.

More photos in 🧵

#fungifriends #photography
November 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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LICHEN or MUSHROOMS?

I found these on a very old dead tree with a whole collection of different kinds of mushrooms. But with these small ones, I don’t know whether these might be lichen.

#lichen #fungifriends #photography #nature #forest #deadwood #treetrunks #oldtrees #restore #ClimateAction
These are very small, sort of round, white dots on the dry decaying wood. These are round, too, but larger and have a darker colour, sort of light brown.
November 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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NATURE’S ART

Phoenix
Nov, 2025

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I found this on the same trunk and near the previous graphic. I love the energy of the lines.

#naturesart #nature #art #photography #birdsky #treetrunks #forest #sketches #found #restore #magic #phoenix
Natural markings on tree trunk, shaped like the head of a bird of prey.
November 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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NATURE’S ART

The human
Nov, 2025

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Today was a great day for nature’s art. I found these markings on an old fallen tree. It looks like a character from a surreal comic, stomping around.

#naturesart #nature #art #photography #comics #treetrunks #forest #sketches #found #restore
Decaying tree trunk with black markings. This looks like a comic version of a person with overlong limbs stomping forward.
November 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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I revisited the slime :-) which might be a fungus. Frozen it offers even fewer clues, but it makes for an interesting picture.
I wonder what it will look like unfrozen.

#fungifriends #photography #nature #restore #forest
The frozen slime is wrapped around a dried fir needle, on deadwood.
November 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Today, I went to a forest where I wanted to revisit some previous finds, not expecting to find anything new.

But nature - nature always has something new in store like this mushroom with a layer of ice.

#fungifriends #photography #frost #moss #forests #restoration #ClimateAction #nature #actnow
mushroom with a layer of ice in moss
November 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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MAX, the dog
One of the reasons why I like to walk in the remoter parts of the forests is that Max can run free here.
Often he explores the area on his own. But when I take longer with photos, notes or posts, he finds a spot to keep watch, reminding me of his ancestors.

#dogsky #wolfs #photography
Max sits on an elevation in the forest, watching.
November 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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FUNGI
I used images of mushrooms & lichen for the preview of the final seven days because of the vital networks they create.

Everything is connected, and while each upcoming chapter will add dots, connecting dots is a major part of the project.

#days-7-1 #fungifriends #photography #ClimateAction
Large fungus, bigger than a plate on a tree.
November 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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PREVIEW DAY 1

‘Wow,’ Dennie (security) said. ‘Then what’s left for day one?’

Alice’s expression darkened. ‘We will ask, loud and clearly: DO YOU WANT A FUTURE?’

#days-7-1 #photography #fungifriends #forest #ClimateAction #nature #cop30 #OurFuture #trees
Tree mushrooms in a desolate looking spot, earth, roots, dead leaves, walls.
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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PREVIEW DAY 2
EVERYTHING IS #CONNECTED

And Zoila, Connections Campaign, said: ‘And as we rewild, we discover that everything is connected.’

‘And that’s why day two will highlight all the connections we unearthed and created during the rewilding day.’

#days-7-1 #photography #fungifriends
Not sure what I found. It’s a kind of mushroom which seems to have partly merged with the old fallen tree. Plus autumn leaves & frost.
November 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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PREVIEW DAY 3
#rewilding

‘Day three: rewilding.’
Elio, Longevity Campaign, punched the air. ‘YES! And you won’t just make it about landscapes, oceans, forests, peatlands, mountains!’ 🧵

#days-7-1 #photography #fungifriends #ClimateAction #nature #mushrooms
Fomes fungus on birch.
November 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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PREVIEW DAYS 5&4

CHALLENGING OUR ECONOMIC & POLITICAL SYSTEMS 🧵

If we still don’t have any assurances by then, I’d like us to challenge both the political and the economic system in the UK.’ ‘You want to attack?’

#days-7-1 #photography #fungifriends #econsky #ClimateAction #politics #greensky
Fungi squeezed together in a crack on a tree stump.
November 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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PREVIEW DAY 6

‘Day six, we dive straight from the individual into the community. What makes a community, what does it need to be alive, kicking and dancing?’

#days-7-1 #photography #fungifriends #community #ClimateAction #nature
November 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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PREVIEW DAY 7

‘I want to start the week with a Body and Sexuality Day to emphasise that change starts with every single one of us, and connecting to ourselves is the strongest basis for connecting to each other and to nature.’

#days-7-1 #photography #fungifriends #lichen #ClimateAction #nature
Once again I visited this beautiful fomes fungus which reminds me of the sculpture of an ancient head.
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM