Rachel Whitehouse

SE Londoner originally now calls SW home. Likes food, travel, art, dance, yoga and most beings.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

She has filmed herself in the same place where she filmed herself 1 week before the flooding began in Valencia.

An example of how everything changes from one day to the next.

[YouGov @YouGov]

What do Britons say can be considered 'art'?

Memes: 23% can be considered 'art'
AI-generated images: 25%
Fan fiction: 33%
Advertising: 35%
Video games: 37%
TV shows: 41%
Stand-up comedy: 44%
Cooking: 49%
Fashion: 63%
Interior design: 64%
Movies: 65%
Comic books/graphic novels: 70%
Books/literature: 72%
Graffiti: 76%
Plays: 77%
Musical theatre: 78%
Tattoos: 78%
Animation: 78%
Opera: 78%
Poetry: 79%
Dance: 82%
Photography: 93%
Sculpture: 96%
Painting: 97%

https://t.co/BxvfaiNlwk

[Doug Parr @doug_parr]

In just over 50 years, nearly three quarters of the world's biodiversity has disappeared owing to climate change, habitat loss (esp to farming), pollution

https://t.co/rpwfKYM5Ca

[George the Mouse in a log pile house - Simon dell @simon_dell_tog]

little bramble mouse in the autumn leafs

[Dr Tom Montgomery @DrTOMontgomery]

#CCS

This research on 180 year old trees is of great importance as it substantiates the major role for mature temperate forests in climate change mitigation.

As a method of proven CCS, it calls for urgent increased protection for mature trees.

Source: https://t.co/UNifSiduZt

[L 🤎 @L_ren27]

Wholesome content on a Friday morning

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

A developer wants to destroy one of the last remaining riverside meadows beside the Roding in London. 11 acres of rapidly rewilding meadow, a haven for nature in an urban area, where kingfishers nest, kestrels & bats take flight & all manner of insects, butterflies & amphibians live, is proposed to be bulldozed to create a crazy golf course. This despite the fact that there are already *two* existing golf courses within a few hundred metres of this site!

The meadows used to be a publicly accessible playing field, but the person behind the development appears to have locked it up & allowed rubbish & flytipping to proliferate to make this site look ugly & unused; & thereby justify its destruction. I have been helping local residents to organise a campaign to ‘Save the Roding Meadows’ & they’ve done so much in a short space of time. Last weekend, they showed the power of community & organised a work day to do the landowners job for them and clean up the large amount of rubbish in the meadows.

You can help them in their efforts by taking a moment to share this post and sign and share their petition:

https://t.co/TgT2nK1Rk1

If you live anywhere locally (in LB Redbridge or along the Roding) any additional objections to the local authority would be really helpful. The application is below, & you can use this link to log objections via the portal. The deadline is this Friday (4th October):

https://t.co/x3Ya63ZC7G

Residents have compiled an example letter setting out the key objections at this link. Feel free to use, but personalised letters are preferable if at all possible:

https://t.co/kP1Nce4Gt1

Fingers crossed that the depth of care felt by local people for nature can save this irreplaceable meadow from destruction.

[Michael Hogan @michaelhogan]

Why aren’t all these articles about London’s worst mainline station headlined “Euston, we have a problem”?

[Nick Ballard @_NickBallard]

This photo from London in 1973 feels just as sadly relevant today.

Housing is a fundamental human right, not a commodity to be used for profit - yet the interests of wealthy speculators are time and again put ahead of our right to a place to call our home.

[Rachel Whitehouse @RacheWhitehouse]

@PeteMRCooper Thanks. I really hope you’re all successful. ☺️

[Rachel Whitehouse @RacheWhitehouse]

@PeteMRCooper Fantastic news! Are there wider initiatives nationally, do you know? 🐛

[Transparency International UK @TransparencyUK]

🗣️ “That we find multiple red flags in more than £15bn of contacts, amounting to a third of all such spending, points to more than coincidence or incompetence.”

Behind the Masks - our new report into COVID procurement featured this morning on BBC News.

https://t.co/uQGFmn88Jk

[Rachel Whitehouse @RacheWhitehouse]

@franquinn @Telegraph Definitely a misleading, insulting headline worth investigating @IpsoNews

[Simon Hannah @Simon_P_Hannah]

In 2021 I owed £61,586 on all my student loans. I am pleased to announce that 3 years later in 2024 I have managed to get that number down to...

£61,757.

Yes, after paying £300 out of my salary every month I now owe the @SLC_Repayment £200 more than I did 3 years ago.

[Nicolas Gonzalez (nicosgonzalez.bsky.social) @NicoSGonzalez]

Now *this* is an album cover

[Tim Birch @TimBirchWild]

This is what 10% #wildlife habitat on farmland in Wales looks like. Fantastic habitat behind coast in Pembrokeshire. Wider taller hedges, willow scrub, messy wilder scrubby habitat weaving across livestock fields. The Sustainable Farming Scheme must support farmers to do this.

[Refuge @RefugeCharity]

We know the England team losing the #EURO2024 is the worst outcome for some, for others however it's the reality of waiting for their partner to come home.
Football doesn't cause #DomesticAbuse, abusers do.
Share our helpline so women know they are not alone 👇🏼👇🏿

[David Challen @David_Challen]

As a child bereaved by fatal domestic abuse, headlines calling a man who killed three women a “nice guy” and “normal person” have felt personally traumatic.

The media called my father a “gentle man” and “nice chap”, which misrepresented the controlling reality that myself and my family experienced for years. It compounded our trauma.

Reporting like this causes so much damage – both to victims’ families, and to public understandings of coercive control. It has to stop. Now.

We need every single newsroom trained in how to report domestic abuse deaths, and to lobby the regulator for stronger rules. The press has the power to prevent further deaths and save women’s lives.

Please support this crowdfunder I’ve started to support @we_level_up’s crucial work to train journalists in their Dignity For Dead Women guidelines.

This takes all of us ➡️ https://t.co/iPJGFUs7Qn

[Olaf Falafel @OFalafel]

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[Campaign for the Arts @_CFTA]

We welcome the acknowledgement by the Education Secretary (@bphillipsonMP) about the lack of access to arts education in state schools & look forward to this critical issue being addressed.

Join us in campaigning until the arts are accessible to all: https://t.co/E5a2gX2Cky