Jeffy 🌿

The sweet williams from @nkdgardener.bsky.social are coming back for round 2! They survived the storm, so I guess they're eager to try a Scottish winter?

The Government™ has made an ad about all these protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

Today marks the start of Ace Week. This year we will be amplifying the voices of our co-chair @kathrynbristow.uk who is ace:

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Astonished to see so many people actively defending more north sea gas licences from Burnham. "oh we need the gas though" "oh but china is worse" "oh but heat pumps are expensive" I want to scream.

I am so, so incredibly tired of Andy fucking Burnham. What an absolute cunt.

Fungal grotto in a tree stump. I see these shrooms (or ones like them) a lot around here and I really like them. Isn't brown supposed to be a boring colour? Stuff like this makes me disagree 🙂

We’re out here at Tennyson Fall Fest in Denver with our Spooky Season Collection! Its a beautiful day to take home some pottery ☕️ 🎃

Labour is building a segregation state. Bigotry is protected by law. Andy Burnham could have prevented all of this. He has chosen not to. This is fascism. It makes him a fascist.

I found this little weirdo on a strip of cut grass by the beach. Then the sun came out and all the grass lit up with a nice deep green, so I had to snap a pic. I'm never sure if I'm seeing something new or not; they change so much in just 24 hours.

The NHS's revised guidance on single-sex wards is cruel, unworkable and LGBTIQA+ Greens calls on Labour to withdraw it and reform the Equality Act.

@nkdgardener.bsky.social MacDuff Aldis is quite nice! There wasn't much reduced veg though so I expect you'd dock a few points for that.

'jk rowling is just protecting women and girls from trannies' is functionally no different from 'tommy robinson is just protecting women and girls from immigrants' it presupposes that trans ppl, or immigrants, are inherent dangers to women and girls and neither demographic actually is it's bigotry

These toadstools appeared overnight and were gone two days later. They're so bizarre. I know the important parts live in the soil itself, so I'm hopeful this means my raised bed has a healthy fungal component to go with all the humus and wee beasties 😁

I didn't plant any tomatoes this year. Last year's tomatoes took issue with that choice, and so here we are.

Another one of my "leave it and see" pots has produced more wild cabbage type things. I think it's a bit late in the year for them to come to much, but they're always nice to see.

big evil guy: "ɪ ᴀᴍ ᴜʟᴛʀᴀᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴍᴇɢᴀᴋɪɴɢ, ᴀɴᴅ ɪ ᴡɪʟʟ ᴅᴇᴠᴏᴜʀ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ ꜱᴏᴜʟ ᴏɴ ᴛʜɪꜱ ꜱᴛᴀʀ" hydaelyn, whispering from a tiny mote of light: "...𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨, 𝘮𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘳. 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘨𝘪𝘧𝘵, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦..." looks like we're on our own again lads

A great example of how private companies will do literally anything for profit, no matter how damaging or evil. Honestly. Spreading diluted landfill leachate on farmland, for money. I just don't have the words for how much that makes me despair.

If I was a Pokémon Gym Leader, my type of choice would be: Water 💧 and these would be my realistic, non-legendary picks: 1. Wartortle 2. Corsola 3. Castform 🌧 4. Lumineon 5. Lanturn 6. Pyukumuku (Probably should be Blastoise but I like Wartortle the most 🙂)

There is no such thing as a "Center-Right". There is no fascism light. These people are all the same once you pull the mask off. They'll hand power to open fascists if the alternative is helping the poor and marginalized and possibly inconveniencing the wealthy. Every single time.

It's October! Post your team of spooky 👻 Pokémon

This is going to blow up so badly, but it is the right thing to do. It's like transphobia in the party. We must clearly state that embracing trans liberation does not make cis people less safe. Quite the opposite. Likewise, condemning Zionism is not condemning Jews. Ethnostates harm everybody.

It's amazing where you can find chickweed if you look. Thriving at the top of an old tree trunk! A good place to disperse seeds I suppose. It's the big sort that goes all angular when it seeds. I should probably learn the proper names at some point. 😅

Breaking News: Green party conference just passed LM08 which calls to unfreeze the surgery ban in Wales.

*taps the sign"

Earlier in the year I started putting the weeds from my gardening in a big old tub of water. I thought that it'd help kill off the roots and seeds before I put it all on the compost heap. Today was the Day of Emptying. The SMELL. 😂 It looked good for the heap though!

A juicy glorpulent fungus and a leathery crunchulent fungus. Lots of different sorts out at the moment.

It's not easy to snap a picture of frogs moving at maximum speed. This is the best I managed 😅

No concession to bigots will satisfy them. Every regressive step made paves the way to the next one.

If immigration is a problem, as politicians have told us for decades it is, why don't they ever stop it? The answer is; it not a problem it's vital. But it's a very useful shiny bauble to distract you racist mugs with, while politicians sell off your nurseries and hospitals to their donors.

Here we go again. Labour can get tae fuck.

My wild strawberry plant is now a sprawling morass of wild strawberry plants, but not a single flower or fruit all year. There's apparently a 'barren' species, but that flowers without fruits. So I don't think that's the issue here. Maybe next year? Not that it matters too much, it's still nice. 🙂

I plopped a spare sunflower seedling here earlier in the year and kept forgetting about it. Now it's produced the world's tiniest sunflower. My mood has been arse recently and I keep feeling really bad for neglecting it, even though it obviously doesn't care. Maybe I need my meds checked again. 😟

Getting started on next year's carrot seeds 🙂 It'll be interesting to see if these grow into bizarre mutant shapes like the last batch. That was fun.

I'm basically a soothsayer. Comic from 2007 which was NOT 9 years ago turns out

me: hello youtube, please show me the thing. YT: 𝘐𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘞𝘖𝘒𝘌? 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘙𝘌𝘈𝘊𝘛 me: no youtube i just need to see the thing YT: 𝘐𝘴 𝘎𝘦𝘯 𝘡 𝘋𝘌𝘚𝘛𝘙𝘖𝘠𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘵??? me: no, youtube, the thing. the actual thing itself. i would like to see it. YT: 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘛𝘙𝘜𝘔𝘗 𝘚𝘜𝘌 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨???? urgh

All these internet blowhards are mad at me for selling out an oppressed minority group, no matter how many times I explain CALMLY that it was convent for me to do so!

Another photo taken by holding binoculars in front of my phone 😂 Pretty cool to see a sailing ship doing what sailing ships do. It was blowing a hooley though so I expect even that little sail at the front was doing some work.

When they say we can't afford the state pension or the NHS or any other unversal service, what they mean is they want to hoard even more wealth to add to their mountains of gold, and they're willing to let us die in the gutter rather than enjoy a retirement, to get it.

I remember outrage about Just Stop Oil blocking a street, just in case an ambulance had to drive down it. Not because an ambulance was prevented from doing so, you understand. Just the abstract idea that one might have to.