Frances Hinton

There may be green blood running through my veins. Lover of wild places, mountains, plants. Entangled in webs of words, webs of nature.

[National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing]

“Hope comes from honesty.” Our screenings show this: 87% of survey respondents leave more motivated to act.

Prime Minister, will you join a screening of the People’s Emergency Briefing to see what trusting the public with the full picture can achieve?
https://t.co/APDlNZ74Il

[Frances Hinton @1parkner]

@JohnSimpsonNews @keanerthanever1 I admire your steadfast work, John

[Frances Hinton @1parkner]

I hope to reincarnate as a dragonfly

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Dragonflies fun facts

- Just one dragonfly can consume over 100 mosquitos in a day
- Dragonflies can fly backwards
- They have nearly 360° vision
- Their wings inhibit bacterial growth due to their natural structures
- They're actually beautiful

[Media Tell The Truth XR @TTTMediaXR]

2⃣ Recent observations.

Satellite data from CERES reveal the Earth is absorbing much more energy than models predicted. That means the planet is heating faster than we realised.

[Media Tell The Truth XR @TTTMediaXR]

His conclusion rests on 3 lines of evidence:

1⃣ “Paleoclimate data”, which is evidence from Earth’s past: ice cores, sediments, fossils.

They show that relatively small changes in greenhouse gases once caused huge swings in climate.

[Media Tell The Truth XR @TTTMediaXR]

What does Hansen now believe?

CO₂ has a bigger impact than many scientists thought.

Heating will be on the high end of expectations, threatening organised global society.

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

5 years after Brexit, it’s shamefully clear that UK is being left behind on environment policy. With few exceptions Govt has *deliberately* chosen not to keep up with standards of EU. Worse, in some areas, it actively plans to go backwards @euromove ⁦⁦ https://t.co/Mf4ABzCgtj

[James Owen @owensweden]

One of three Camberwell Beauties/Mourning Cloaks seen today. Emerging here later than usual this summer, the creamy hems to their wings will have blanched to white when we see them again in spring

[Newcastle Green Party @NCLGreenParty]

Fantastic turn out for Dr Sarah Peters’ South Jesmond by-election campaign launch tonight. Lots of excitement about our authentic, passionate, hard working candidate who lives in the heart of Sandyford. DM us to get involved!

#SouthJesmond
#RealHopeRealChange

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

Reform UK has uncovered the scandal of a “wasteful” £350m contract.

Small problem: it’s not a contract. Or £350m. Or a scandal.

Here’s how they got it completely wrong.
👇👇

https://t.co/nq7F1vA8X7

[Frances Hinton @1parkner]

"Vibrant artifical grass"...a contradiction in terms!!

[Shit Lawns @Shitlawns]

We bring your vision to life? Where's the life or am I missing something?

[Ban Plastic Turf @BanPlasticTurf]

“Seabirds have become so full of plastic they crackle and crunch.”

Yet we go on producing endless volumes of plastic products.

How much plastic do we really need?

Where do we think the plastic bits that don’t get burned or corralled will end up???

https://t.co/27A0vFHgqU

[Frances Hinton @1parkner]

Liberty enhanced. Great news

[Liberty @libertyhq]

🚨BREAKING🚨

WE’VE WON OUR CASE TO #DefendDemocracy

The Court of Appeal has ruled that anti-protest laws which completely ignored the will of Parliament are unlawful

[Jenny Jones @GreenJennyJones]

Happy St George's Day!
England's national day, when we celebrate our patron saint, a Turkish officer in the Roman army who died in Palestine and never visited Britain.
And, he didn't kill a dragon.

[Frances Hinton @1parkner]

@Shitlawns

[Ban Plastic Turf @BanPlasticTurf]

“PFAS have been linked to serious health effects,

& while artificial turf is by no means the only source of them,

it is one we can avoid.”

-a Climate Reality Project chair

#BanPlasticTurf

https://t.co/SpWaZDPyCo

[Frances Hinton @1parkner]

Straighten out this reporting on steel, @bbcnickrobinson, please

[Jess Ralston @jessralston2]

🚨Some major errors & misleading claims from @bbcnickrobinson on @BBCr4today this morning, when discussing British Steel with Treasury Minister James Murray

I hope these are corrected on tomorrow's programme.

Here's what he got wrong... 🧵

https://t.co/7EF11CUQmF

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?"

Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response:

"A few things spring to mind.

Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.

For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.

So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever.

I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.

But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.

And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.

Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.

Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.

And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.

Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.

He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.

He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.

That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.

There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
* You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.

After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.

He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.

In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:

'My God… what… have… I… created?

If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."

[Frances Hinton @1parkner]

@JustineBaumann1 @Shitlawns Not necessary to have #shitlawntenniscourt

[Cormac's Coast @cormac_mcginley]

A Septarian nodule (A fossilized mud bubble) over 300 million years in the making.
County Clare, Ireland.

[Frances Hinton @1parkner]

@TonyJuniper @curlewcalls I wish there had been one 50 years ago! We did have Nature Tables st primary school. At last, a GCSE