🌱TillyFrye 🐾 🌿 📖 🚶 🧪

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[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

On Wednesday evening at 8pm UK time I’ll be listing a collection of one off necklaces I’ve made using Victorian & Edwardian chatelaine stamp holders, an acorn thimble holder, lockets (incl 1940s scallop & clock lockets) & oak leaves I’ve cast in silver. My shop is here: https://t.co/iRLlvlVA0X

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[🌱TillyFrye 🐾 🌿 📖 🚶 🧪 @terri12f]

Please support this GoFundMe by donating or sharing – every bit of help makes a difference. https://t.co/3cT0XZy9tF

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

If you've ever saved one of my photos to your phone/other device that's OK but please could you buy me a coffee (box of teabags) over on ko-fi as it's the equivalent of buying one of my screensavers (£3) & you wouldn't take a greetings card from an artist's stall at a handmade fair. Many thanks. Please RT 🌿
https://t.co/VdhAlbFkLi

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

I create my photos using recent research so they alleviate stress & are likely to lift mood when you look at them. If you'd like to own paper or electronic versions & support me at the same time I have high res screensaver sets or you can buy me a coffee (click 'tip') here:
https://t.co/CMSwzSvwfo
...or there are my 2026 calendars, sets of 6 greetings cards & individual limited edition signed mounted prints here:
https://t.co/iRLlvlVA0X
Every single RT & screensaver you buy helps hugely as I've been very unwell (with a full breakdown) in the last year. Thankyou so much x🌿

[🌱TillyFrye 🐾 🌿 📖 🚶 🧪 @terri12f]

@rob_northern If it was me you'd already have the job 😁

[Stefan Moore ★ @2StefanMoore]

A final piece of advice from Holly Butcher - written the day before she passed away from cancer at just 27:

“It’s a strange thing knowing you’re going to die young.

At 26, I thought I had time…
To fall in love.
Start a family.
Grow old.

But cancer doesn’t care about plans.

Now, I understand how fragile life really is. Every single day is a gift, not a guarantee.

I’m not writing this to scare you. I’m writing to remind you: really live.

Stop stressing over little things. Be kind to your body- move it, nourish it, stop criticizing it. One day you’ll wish you had appreciated it.

Go outside.
Look at the sky.
Feel the sun.
Just be.

Spend less time chasing “stuff” - more time making memories. Don’t skip moments with people you love.

Laugh more.
Write a note.
Tell someone you love them.

Complain less.
Give more.
Helping others brings more joy than anything you can buy.

Be present.
Put your phone down.
Show up - really show up.

You don’t need to have it all figured out. You don’t need a perfect body, or a perfect life.

Just follow what makes your heart light up. Say no to what drains you. Make changes when you need to.

And please - donate blood. I wouldn’t have had that extra year without it. And that year gave me memories I’ll hold close… forever.

Thank you for reading this.
Live your life well.

And maybe… we’ll meet again someday.”

Holly 🩷

Repost & share Holly’s important advice. ❤️

[🌱TillyFrye 🐾 🌿 📖 🚶 🧪 @terri12f]

@silverpebble I have a campervan called Oaky 🌰 😁

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

My Etsy shop is now open for my 5 sets of greetings cards: spring, summer, autumn, nature/botanical collections & tiny posies. I post to the US now too.
I create each of my photos using recent neuroscientific research so that looking at them shifts your brain away from fight or flight. A great way to support me:
https://t.co/iRLlvlW7Qv

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

I'm now able to send parcels to the US again (phew) & I'm absorbing the extra tariff costs so at 8pm this evening my Etsy shop will open with my new seasonal collections of greetings cards (summer, autumn along with spring, tiny posies, botanical collections etc).
I create each of my photos using recent neuroscientific research so that looking at them alters brain biochemistry & moves your thoughts away from fight or flight. My cards are affordable art that improves mental health & they can be framed.
https://t.co/iRLlvlVA0X

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

If you miss Trouteyes on here (yep me too I’d often look at his twits when I was sad & they’d always help) he’s now on Bluesky, a place with fewer billionaires, right wing gits & ne’er do wells.
Here he is-RIGHLY HECOMMENDED if you’re in need of silliness dopamine (we all are surely). He also writes flipping smashing books for younger readers:
https://t.co/Uxi47Ryphb

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

Met a STUPENDOUS illustrator on IG & bc I’m trying to be More Brave & stop agreeing with the things not-kind-humans have said about my value &…differences, I talked to them, they *didn’t* tell me I was talking or messaging too much (👀) & we may well collaborate on some really good things.
Do go & follow Hannah Bluish on IG: https://t.co/unrjGLtgDP

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

These👇🏼180-125 yo Victorian ink bottles are still available as posy-making kits in my Etsy shop. Each kit is designed to improve mental health & includes a booklet about the neuroscience with how-tos, a posy of dried flowers (also in photo below), stationery extras & a hand-printed box:
https://t.co/iRLlvlVA0X

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

My Victorian ink bottle posy kits are now listed in my Etsy shop-link below
They include:
✒️an antique ink bottle - you can choose your design
💐a tiny posy of dried flowers
🧠a booklet explaining the neuroscience of how & why this kit can improve mental health, how to create tiny posies & a brief history of Victorian ink bottles
📔stationery extras
If you're in the US I'm prioritising your shipping to avoid new tariffs introduced by-we all know who👎
https://t.co/iRLlvlVA0X

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

10 of these kits have now been reserved (thankyou SO much for your RTs & support) but I'll be listing the remainder of my Victorian ink bottle posy kits this evening at 8pm UK time.
Will include beautiful cobalt blues, greens, juicy aquas, number 9 which is full of tiny bubbles, a Boots the chemist medicine bottle, a pyramidal ink bottle (increasingly rare) & number 18, which has a little lion on it...all made between 1840 & 1900🖋️

[Joe Tracini @joetracini]

Hi, I need some help please xx

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

Reports Govt may partially U-turn on the Winter Fuel Payment cut by raising the effective eligibility threshold from £11,500.

That'd be welcome but still doesn't fix the worst underlying problem... the means testing mechanism (ie to get it you must claim Pension Credit) is flawed.

Around 700,000 of the most vulnerable pensioners, already earning under £11,500, don't get Winter Fuel Payments because they don't go through the overly arduous process of claiming Pension Credit. Thus they miss out in both the important support that brings and on Winter Fuel Payments. That needs to change.

None of this is new. Many of us have been shouting it until we're blue in the face. If a fix is to come, let it be a proper one, not just an electoral sticking plaster.

[🌱TillyFrye 🐾 🌿 📖 🚶 🧪 @terri12f]

@fesshole Oh my days, I'm going to start doing this 🐕😍

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

It would be so so helpful if you could retweet my May botanical illustration & mental health workshop in my previous tweet if you have a few seconds. I've been unable to work since December due to a breakdown (not remotely proud of this) and I'm trying to get back on my feet so if you could RT it would help enormously. I so love teaching people how to draw & how it changes brain biochemistry resulting in better mental health 🌿

[🌱TillyFrye 🐾 🌿 📖 🚶 🧪 @terri12f]

I just supported a cause that brings hope to young athletes and raises cancer awareness. Every little bit helps! Please consider donating or sharing this to make a difference. https://t.co/cuutMa6dqk