Sprill 🌻
@sprillian.bsky.social
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Oh that will not be a problem
July 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Oh that will not be a problem
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Amazon are fucking scum.
Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:
April 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Amazon are fucking scum.
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What follows if we imagine rivers as having lives, deaths––& even rights?
I wrote this essay about water & hope; imagining rivers “otherwise”; nature’s rights; grammars of animacy; & how our fate flows with that of rivers—& always has.
It’s from Is A River Alive?
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
I wrote this essay about water & hope; imagining rivers “otherwise”; nature’s rights; grammars of animacy; & how our fate flows with that of rivers—& always has.
It’s from Is A River Alive?
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Is this river alive? Robert Macfarlane on the lives, deaths and rights of our rivers
As pollution levels hit record highs and fresh water becomes ‘the new oil’, is it time to radically reimagine our relationship to the natural world?
www.theguardian.com
April 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
What follows if we imagine rivers as having lives, deaths––& even rights?
I wrote this essay about water & hope; imagining rivers “otherwise”; nature’s rights; grammars of animacy; & how our fate flows with that of rivers—& always has.
It’s from Is A River Alive?
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
I wrote this essay about water & hope; imagining rivers “otherwise”; nature’s rights; grammars of animacy; & how our fate flows with that of rivers—& always has.
It’s from Is A River Alive?
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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A 450-yo oak is felled without permission by a Toby Carvery (don’t eat there), who falsely claimed it was "dead".
A tree alive when The Gunpowder Plot was hatched, which supports a web of 2000+ species, is in pieces.
Legal protection for heritage trees needed.
enfielddispatch.co.uk/toby-carvery...
A tree alive when The Gunpowder Plot was hatched, which supports a web of 2000+ species, is in pieces.
Legal protection for heritage trees needed.
enfielddispatch.co.uk/toby-carvery...
Toby Carvery admits felling ancient Whitewebbs oak tree
The owner of the pub chain falsely claimed the tree was dead as justification for the felling which has shocked local people and prompted outrage from conservationists across the country
enfielddispatch.co.uk
April 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
A 450-yo oak is felled without permission by a Toby Carvery (don’t eat there), who falsely claimed it was "dead".
A tree alive when The Gunpowder Plot was hatched, which supports a web of 2000+ species, is in pieces.
Legal protection for heritage trees needed.
enfielddispatch.co.uk/toby-carvery...
A tree alive when The Gunpowder Plot was hatched, which supports a web of 2000+ species, is in pieces.
Legal protection for heritage trees needed.
enfielddispatch.co.uk/toby-carvery...
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Just out: figures for sewage dumping in England for 2024.
* 3.61 million hrs of sewage released.
* That's c. 412 years of sewage.
* First yr all 15,000 CSOs were monitored.
£85bn paid out to shareholders since privatisation = underfunded, collapsing infrastructure.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
* 3.61 million hrs of sewage released.
* That's c. 412 years of sewage.
* First yr all 15,000 CSOs were monitored.
£85bn paid out to shareholders since privatisation = underfunded, collapsing infrastructure.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sewage spilled into England's rivers and seas for record 3.6m hours last year - BBC News
Sewage spilled into England's waterways for a record number of hours last year, the Environmental Agency says.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Just out: figures for sewage dumping in England for 2024.
* 3.61 million hrs of sewage released.
* That's c. 412 years of sewage.
* First yr all 15,000 CSOs were monitored.
£85bn paid out to shareholders since privatisation = underfunded, collapsing infrastructure.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
* 3.61 million hrs of sewage released.
* That's c. 412 years of sewage.
* First yr all 15,000 CSOs were monitored.
£85bn paid out to shareholders since privatisation = underfunded, collapsing infrastructure.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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this is what it now feels like to catch up on the news when you've been offline for like three hours
March 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
this is what it now feels like to catch up on the news when you've been offline for like three hours
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You can make a change 📢 Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training by signing this open letter ✒️ authr.uk/sp40 #MakeitFair #MetaBookThieves #DoTheWriteThing
March 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
You can make a change 📢 Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training by signing this open letter ✒️ authr.uk/sp40 #MakeitFair #MetaBookThieves #DoTheWriteThing
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look at this absolute unit
March 18, 2025 at 10:31 AM
look at this absolute unit
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'Labour was never merely a party that supported people in work. It was a party of workers – an important distinction. It was not just about wage labour as an abstract good but about those who perform it, their dignity, security and place in society.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on Labour’s semantic shift: it’s the party of work, not workers | Editorial
Editorial: Sir Keir Starmer’s rhetoric frames cutting welfare for sick and disabled people not as a punitive act, but a compassionate nudge toward productivity
www.theguardian.com
March 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
'Labour was never merely a party that supported people in work. It was a party of workers – an important distinction. It was not just about wage labour as an abstract good but about those who perform it, their dignity, security and place in society.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Ribblesdale, Yorkshire Dales - linocut print by another of my favourite artists, @michellehughes.bsky.social
More of this artist's fabulous landscapes, here: www.michellehughesdesign.com
#art #Yorkshireartist #linocut #printmaker #Yorkshire
More of this artist's fabulous landscapes, here: www.michellehughesdesign.com
#art #Yorkshireartist #linocut #printmaker #Yorkshire
March 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Ribblesdale, Yorkshire Dales - linocut print by another of my favourite artists, @michellehughes.bsky.social
More of this artist's fabulous landscapes, here: www.michellehughesdesign.com
#art #Yorkshireartist #linocut #printmaker #Yorkshire
More of this artist's fabulous landscapes, here: www.michellehughesdesign.com
#art #Yorkshireartist #linocut #printmaker #Yorkshire
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Darkly funny that Republicans spent four years insisting that Biden was a senile puppet of [insert right-wing bogeyman here] and the second they returned to power the entire party very publicly handed over the keys to the federal government to an unelected fascist billionaire
February 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Darkly funny that Republicans spent four years insisting that Biden was a senile puppet of [insert right-wing bogeyman here] and the second they returned to power the entire party very publicly handed over the keys to the federal government to an unelected fascist billionaire