Melanie Sims

Photographic artist and comms professional, sometime designer, interested in creativity in all its forms

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

[PJMoore & Co. @PJMooreAndCo]

Our Malcolm has a new project on the go. A band called Lacunas Music Society. Launch gig in Glasgow 14th Nov.
Here is a clip from one of their tracks.

[Simon Community Scotland @SimonCommScot]

Our Glasgow Access Hub before opening. Up to 100 people experiencing homelessness will walk through the door to a warm, friendly, safe and inclusive space offering emotional and practical support.

We see people, we hear people, we meet people and we stick with people.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

It's getting bigger and bigger ever hour of every day. The RSPB has joined the coalition of the concerned.

What are you going to do? Sign up today, March for Clean Water, Sat 26th Oct, Parliament Square.

https://t.co/U79uuJ1ik0 @MarchforWater

[Melanie Sims @MelanieJSims]

Check out this article: Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent – the artist and activist is celebrated at Whitechapel Gallery - https://t.co/6yxzQmt7Wm

[Jenny Jones @GreenJennyJones]

Just one of the outstandingly ignorant things Judge Hehir said to the defendants during the trial.
He refused to listen their reasons for their actions, he ignored climate scientists, and he gave harsh sentences.
I will speak on this in the Lords next Weds.

[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

[Dr Charlie Gardner (also on the blue place) @CharlieJGardner]

Trees live so long, and reproduce so slowly, that forests have no hope of adapting to the speed of climate change

I find it almost impossible to imagine how there could still be forests in a 3-degree world, and nothing scares me more

[Jamhot @Jamhot]

The team @intlinternation are hosting a great creative festival in Glasgow this Nov-Dec. Lots to see & do - tickets are available to grab now from their website. Get involved.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘absquatulize’ (19th century): to dismiss, send off, and put to flight.

[Melanie Sims @MelanieJSims]

Genius.

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

This is an incredible piece of work by @JonathanPieNews.

From the research, to the sequencing, to the performance.

You want to know why so many people are turning away from vapid MSM and looking to political comedy & alternative news? Look no further. 👇

[Melanie Sims @MelanieJSims]

Can't wait to see this.

[Musk_daily__news 🚀 📡 @Musk_DaiIy_news]

The bird based colour system that eventually became Pantone. An effort to describe the diversity of birds led to one of the first modern colour systems ….this is wonderful. ( well I think so)

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Italian painter Giovanna Garzoni (1600-1670), one of the first women artists to practice still life painting #WomensArt

[Melanie Sims @MelanieJSims]

Oooh, if only that would boost the @PJMooreAndCo When A Good Day Comes streams!

[Ken Sweeney @KenSweeney]

“The Blue Nile’s 1989 single “The Downtown Lights” rose from 3,000 streams from Apr. 12-15 to over 48,000 streams from Apr. 19-22 — a whopping 1,400% increase from one four-day tracking period to the next. – (New Taylor Swift Album Boosts Streams https://t.co/3zdRrsrp6S

[David Davies @DDaviesScribe10]

A terrific album that will hopefully see a spike in sales after the Swiftian endorsement. And maybe now would be a good time for a Blue Nile ‘Complete Studio Recordings’ box set?

[Positive News @PositiveNewsUK]

There’s growing hope that elm trees could return to UK landscapes after two amateur nature lovers bred a strain that’s resistant to Dutch elm disease.

Read more on this story, and find out what else went right this week: https://t.co/BExN199xqI

[PJMoore & Co. @PJMooreAndCo]

Another chance to see our 3rd video - 'Windows for Submarines' - a wonderful animation by Sam Wisternoff. CDs & LPs still available from https://t.co/058WuSqaML HMV in Scotland and local independent record stores.

[Melanie Sims @MelanieJSims]

Well, this is exciting. Maybe @taylorswift13 would like to listen to @PJMooreAndCo (ex Blue Nile) album and reference Halfway Crazy 😁
#TSTTPD

[The Herald @heraldscotland]

The Blue Nile given Taylor Swift shoutout on Tortured Poets Department

https://t.co/6W7NVsox86

[Melanie Sims @MelanieJSims]

One of my favourite books of 2023!