Haven Tenerife

One outlying part of Portugal turns all its lights off for days to help these chicks. In Tenerife we have tourists instead so the birds need every bit of extra help we can offer. Do have a read of the article and my earlier post below. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Just Sulu and the Captain left now, may they live very long and prosper. The Csar of all the Russias among the stars now. RIP Chekov - funny, warm and really quite sexy, especially the accent! 😍 🖤

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Agent Orange not having the best of days, in both the larger part of Sudamérica and Europe ...

It's shit or bust now. And it's the future of the young that's been trashed. They're rightly taking control in trying to make the softest landing for the collapse they'll inherit as adults. Serbian students. Wow. ✊🙌❤️

Hunter's moon, just a few hours off full. 💙

Fantasyland, in other words, and we all have to live in it. The only choice we have, the only one, is how we do so. We'll have to learn how to achieve our own great simplifications, and those behind the curve, perhaps still in denial, will struggle most. I'm glad to be, and be among, like minds.

God, what a metaphor of our time.

And when martial law is declared because we're protesting their greed, or the need to share a tiny fraction of their trillions, or because everything we had has been swept or blown away or burnt down, we'll be the ones they're "shepherding" ...

Maybe she was given as "onsite protection" but if she can't realise the optics of *appearing on TV wearing it* ... One positive is the number who ware instinctively gobsmacked. It's too late to stop climate collapse but our later days can be ameliorated. And people clearly are starting to see it.

Women and birders, contributing their grano de arena. Of course men decided long ago that "for the birds" meant a worthless waste of time, but we'll carry on being worthless while the men are doing all the manly things ... like god, war, oil, tech, business, growing, progressing (ha!), winning ...

Stabbing birds, chicks in a nest. Either sick bastards or for rich bastards to kill even more birds. And they wonder why decent people are beginning even to contemplate eating the rich. I'll settle for a guillotine. Prefer that to a guillemot in some senses these days. Knitting needles are ready.

Ukraine are like the Spartans, not Tory idiots but the real deal. At Thermopylae, betrayed while holding the narrow pass to their whole world, broken spears, fighting to the last man's hands, fingernails, teeth ... to buy time for the other city states to prepare a last stand. History rhymes again.

Anyone who doesn't recognise that the young see right through our shite ... It's a new world, and it's entirely up for grabs. The old oligarchs and money men versus the generation that knows it's shit or bust now.

After everything, what I find shocking is anyone being shocked. They've shown us repeatedly what they are. Fantasyland, money, the individual right to everything including killing anyone who gets in your way, rejection of anything for anyone else ... For such, Trump is a perfect representation.

Yes but yes but ... we live from tourism, don't we? Without tourism there'd be poverty, wouldn't there? ... Tourism benefits my ****. This is enrichment of disingenuous greedy bastards at the expense of ~99% of the rest of us all ...

It's wacka wacka time again. As the nights draw in, the chicks get confused by our outdoor lights ... Do them a favour. 💚

This, and again and again. 👇

Well hell it made me laugh out loud, and then more to realise I don't even need to say who ...

It's wonderful, warm, clever, funny, and it made Hugh Jackman cry 20 or so pages into reading the script, apparently, so he said yes even before finishing it! And it's quite the metaphor ... We all need a bit of heart healing right now. It's glorious, treat yourself. youtube.com/watch?v=pyZI...

Reminds me of an old man wielding a crutch, braying supporters, attacking a woman ... UK Tories ... Scum, the lot of them, all cut from the same vulgar uncultured rough and hard cloth. The dregs of what we once thought was society. We thought wrong. Thatcher wasn't right, she was prophetic.

Spain's social housing problems 👇 Does not matter how left wing the storks are, the right wing vultures will scavenge everything they can from as many as they can ... and the idea that person x or person y will be safe, and that includes most of us, is for the birds ... especially the vultures.

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Tropical cyclone in the Mediterranean. Not a "Medicane" nor a mini-hurricane but the real thing. And it's not finished yet. In the Med.

Yes, we hold the most exceptional hostage to the ordinary. I suggest Rubio looks up the meaning of those words to help him understand why humans have tended to hold more in respect than just exceptions. Or we did, until Americans came along. As to lecturing Athens on democracy, I just can't ...

It's not that hard to understand. The poorest are a drain on "our" resources. "We" being "society" and "the poorest" being "outside society", I.e. not the rentier class. Until we accept social collapse has really started and that systemic change is inevitable and imperative, the tougher it will be.

Someone tell Hegsy we've found his missing testosterone. It's patrolling British streets, beating up brown people instead of women, for once ...

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Broken record ... few realise how young the nation state is. We're tribal by nature and instinct. It's hard enough to maintain cohesion in a single tribe let alone a jamboree of several. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see some current countries fail to survive let alone new ones form.

Only spreading within the Russisphere but where are all those passengers flying onto? Or driving, or going by train or bus ... Did I imagine covid? I know I must have imagined humans have a brain that can actually learn something. Neurotypical humans, anyway.

A weekend of protests throughout the Canaries ... "your air BnB was my home". They have a vote on 29 November. As Sánchez says, "the time has come to decide what type of future you want".

Scrap the environment agency, scrap affordable homes ... good to see the Tories have their fingers firmly on the pulse of public opinion. Or do they? Spain might find out first if the public really will vote en masse for the tigers who were always going to eat their faces to eat them now please.

An election specifically because the right want to shaft the poorfor inconceivable personal riches. Sánchez had no choice. Over to the people. It's always going to come down now to how much the public will really fight. True everywhere. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

The Right have voted down Spain's socialist housing reforms to protect the rentier class that they represent but the Madrid protests are not just ongoing, they're spreading. In the Canaries now too, this from Santa Cruz. 👇 This is social collapse and its effects. What comes next ... ? 🫤

Not so much Friedrich's Wanderer above the sea of fog as the actual fog itself. Maybe he could try AI-ing van Gogh next, or even better David ...

Even the fish have had enough of us. Nowhere particularly exotic, just the Mediterranean ...

Margaret Atwood increasingly a documentary maker rather than a prophetess.

It's laughable, not dangerous. A loudmouth with no facts waxing lyrical with complete confidence. Bullshit in other words. And oh look, it's an American. What a surprise. And we're way ahead of you, bud, in knowing who the unreliable "ally" is ...

Absolutely the future for any of us wanting to face the future head on, with eyes open, mind not closed, and with a backbone providing courage and morality. If we're going to hell in a basket, let's fight every inch of the way, and hold our heads up high. 👇

Marvellous. America being left behind on all fronts. And once the break is made, it's likely to be maintained. UN itself next please. (And no, spellchecker, "marvellous" does have a double L in proper English. It's only in improper English it's single.)

For anyone who doesn't want to keep their head in the sand. 👋