Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

6. Imagine coming home & telling your partner that you felt like a demonised, worthless, and like a 2nd class citizen.

Imagine being treated like that, lied to by the centre and by default, the Home Office.

Imagine worrying about whether you've passed or not.

1. The Life in the UK test would be failed by many British people, myself included. The questions are abso-fcking-lutely ridiculous and have zero bearing on the ability to live in the UK.
I mean, 'when was Henry VIII born?'

WHO EVEN CARES? HE'S DEAD!

Which bit of this doesn't #Starmer get? #Brexit
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/keir-starmer-rules-out-a-return-to-freedom-of-movement-in-eu-9v5zdf09w

#England and #Wales now minority Christian countries, census reveals | #Census | The Guardian

The trend towards ditching ridiculous beliefs as a basis for morality continues.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/29/leicester-and-birmingham-are-uk-first-minority-majority-cities-census-reveals

#UK #Demographics

Save the planet in little ways # 1

Stop buying disposable ball point pens, they are clogging up our oceans and covering the earth. Use old fashioned pencils ( you can compost the sharpenings) or get yourself a fountain pen and a bottle of ink. Don't buy a cartridge pen, they just produce more plastic waste, buy a pen with a bladder!

#writing #pens #pencils #polution #LittleWays #SimpleLiving

Believe in Scotland is now on Mastodon

Many of our members thought it would be a good idea for Believe in Scotland to have a presence and put content out on Mastodon.

So, it's here https://mastodon.scot/@BelieveinScotland help us build our presence by giving us a follow and share!

You can also use the #BelieveinScotland hashtag on Mastodon too.

We are a university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Today, a little red bird finding shelter in a Tw* storm.

Ambulance workers in Wales won’t follow those in England out on strike over Christmas after the threshold for strike action was not met anywhere.

https://nation.cymru/news/ambulance-workers-in-wales-wont-follow-those-in-england-out-on-christmas-strike/

"Global multimillionaires have captured a disproportionate % of global wealth growth: the top 1% took 38% of all additional wealth accumulated since the mid-1990s, whereas the bottom 50% captured just 2% of it ... Since 1995, the share of global wealth possessed by billionaires has risen from 1% to over 3%. This increase was exacerbated during the COVID pandemic. In fact, 2020 marked the steepest increase in global billionaires’ share of wealth on record."

https://wir2022.wid.world/www-site/uploads/2022/03/0098-21_WIL_RIM_RAPPORT_A4.pdf @sociology

Jeff Bezos says he plans to give away the majority of his ~$117 billion net worth during his lifetime.

That’s nice, but can I let you in on a secret?

Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity. It’s PR to distract you from low wages and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.

The Scots Pine: one of our three native pine trees.

I am in the 750 acre Gregynog estate #Powys #cymru which was declared a National Nature Reserve, to protect the #AncientTrees and the rare lichens that grow on them, but also to ensure that many other habitats are conserved.
@CoedCadw are now working with the estate to map and record their many ancient #trees.
#photography

Big news! Two Finnish nature organisations Greenpeace Finland and The Finnish Association for Nature Conservation are taking the Finnish government to court because of insufficient climate measures. This will be Finland's first climate trial.

The organisations are seeking legal protection from the Supreme Administrative Court because Finland's carbon neutrality goal for 2035 is threatened to be unfulfilled, and the Government has not taken sufficient measures to fix the situation.

It was announced earlier this year that Finland's land use sector has changed from a carbon sink to a carbon source. The reason is estimated to be excessive felling and the slowing down of forest growth.

In Finland, logging is still increasing. This is pressured by, for example, new pulp mill projects that increase the demand for wood. It is coming more and more to light how terrible Finland's forestry sector is for people, climate and biodiversity.

The appeal demands the annual climate report be returned to preparation, and the government decides on the necessary additional measures to achieve carbon neutrality.

I personally think this is wonderful, I am glad Finland is being held accountable for its poor climate plans. Finland is portrayed to be one of the greenest countries in the world, but a lot of that is greenwashing. Now it is time to live up to their title.

#ClimateChange #Climate #Biodiversity #Carbonsink #Nature #Forest #Ilmasto

#GreatBarrierReef should be placed on #WorldHeritage ‘in danger’ list, UN-backed report says | Great Barrier Reef | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/28/great-barrier-reef-should-be-placed-on-world-heritage-in-danger-list-un-backed-report-says

#UN #UNESCO #Environment #Conservation #Ecology #Pollution #Australia #Queensland

Would the protests in China be illegal in the UK after the Police and Crime Bill have passed? If they were committing any public order offences then under the Online Safety Bill platforms would be legally required to censor that content. That should scare you deeply https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/online-safety-bill-will-the-upload-filter-ban-images-of-protest/

Here's something a little different today...

During the first Covid lockdown in 2020, I was really struggling creatively.

Rather than give up, I focused on being curious.

I slowed down and started looking for details that caught my eye. And they ideally had no correlation to the location they were photographed in.

I started seeing faces, crying eyes, and other things in the bark of the trunks in my local #woodland. This spawned a project called #tree textures.

#photomonday #photography