Kathleen 🌲
@mossgatherer.bsky.social
Botanist, photographer, weaver
Talking about nature, politics, education, photography, writing, ethnobotany, weaving, interdisciplinary things. Just chaos tbh.
MSc RGB Kew, MA U of T
Dual 🇬🇧🇨🇦
📍New Forest National Park
Talking about nature, politics, education, photography, writing, ethnobotany, weaving, interdisciplinary things. Just chaos tbh.
MSc RGB Kew, MA U of T
Dual 🇬🇧🇨🇦
📍New Forest National Park
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Kathleen 🌲
@mossgatherer.bsky.social
· Nov 24
Weaving away, an ornate twill (my design), hand dyed (by me) tussah silk (my yarn company) on my 8 shft jack loom.
#weaving
#weaving
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Rachel Reeves says this Labour Governments decisions are "necessary."
Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%?
When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?
Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%?
When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?
November 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Rachel Reeves says this Labour Governments decisions are "necessary."
Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%?
When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?
Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%?
When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?
Ngl I find Threads even worse than Twitter
*posting on twitter* is this platform still massively against any woman experiencing joy or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Ngl I find Threads even worse than Twitter
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Professor of Climate Change Tim Lenton @exeter.ac.uk describes tipping points cascades.
Coral reefs appear to be doomed.
AMOC collapse will both freeze and superheat UK, and halve wheat and maize globally.
Positive tipping points, eg death of oil & gas from policy are essential for survival.
Coral reefs appear to be doomed.
AMOC collapse will both freeze and superheat UK, and halve wheat and maize globally.
Positive tipping points, eg death of oil & gas from policy are essential for survival.
November 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Professor of Climate Change Tim Lenton @exeter.ac.uk describes tipping points cascades.
Coral reefs appear to be doomed.
AMOC collapse will both freeze and superheat UK, and halve wheat and maize globally.
Positive tipping points, eg death of oil & gas from policy are essential for survival.
Coral reefs appear to be doomed.
AMOC collapse will both freeze and superheat UK, and halve wheat and maize globally.
Positive tipping points, eg death of oil & gas from policy are essential for survival.
This virtually all because of Green pressure. There are 59 Labour MPs in London out of 75 MPs. The Greens are now polling as the number 1 party in London, and above Labour nationally with under 50s. The Greens have been vocal and untiring on this issue, and Labour knows their vote has collapsed.
The two child benefit cap is the biggest single driver of child poverty.
It imposes hardship on kids, ignores changing family circumstances - and as the research shows, has no impact on family size.
Labour were forced to drop it - because people fought for it.
Pressure works!
It imposes hardship on kids, ignores changing family circumstances - and as the research shows, has no impact on family size.
Labour were forced to drop it - because people fought for it.
Pressure works!
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This virtually all because of Green pressure. There are 59 Labour MPs in London out of 75 MPs. The Greens are now polling as the number 1 party in London, and above Labour nationally with under 50s. The Greens have been vocal and untiring on this issue, and Labour knows their vote has collapsed.
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Today we’ll get latest net immigration figures - They’ll show immigration for work is plummeting.
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
November 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Today we’ll get latest net immigration figures - They’ll show immigration for work is plummeting.
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
Idk, I'm not convinced by this mansion tax. Tax combined property value, multiple properties, landlords, corporate owned, or adjust for area. Heavily tax sales when these are converted to assets. BlackRock is going to own everything.
pe-insights.com/record-1-5bn...
pe-insights.com/record-1-5bn...
Record £1.5bn invested in UK rental market by private equity firms – Private Equity Insights
pe-insights.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Idk, I'm not convinced by this mansion tax. Tax combined property value, multiple properties, landlords, corporate owned, or adjust for area. Heavily tax sales when these are converted to assets. BlackRock is going to own everything.
pe-insights.com/record-1-5bn...
pe-insights.com/record-1-5bn...
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Onobrychis sp.
seed & pod
Iran, June
seed & pod
Iran, June
November 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Onobrychis sp.
seed & pod
Iran, June
seed & pod
Iran, June
If I see one more video how about how winter in the UK is colder than Canada (it's obviously not, by any measure) I will screeeeam 😅 I promise nowhere in the UK is anything like that time I got frostbite on my wrists because my there was a gap between my gloves and my coat!
November 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM
If I see one more video how about how winter in the UK is colder than Canada (it's obviously not, by any measure) I will screeeeam 😅 I promise nowhere in the UK is anything like that time I got frostbite on my wrists because my there was a gap between my gloves and my coat!
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"Some of the world’s best-known chocolate, from Mars to KitKat, is likely linked to deforestation in Liberia’s rainforest, despite many brands’ claims of sustainability." 🌎 www.jamaicaobserver.com/2025/11/24/n...
NGO links major chocolate brands to Liberia deforestation - Jamaica Observer
MONROVIA, Liberia (AFP) — Some of the world's best-known chocolate, from Mars to KitKat, is likely linked to deforestation in Liberia's rainforest despite many brands' claim...
www.jamaicaobserver.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:49 AM
"Some of the world’s best-known chocolate, from Mars to KitKat, is likely linked to deforestation in Liberia’s rainforest, despite many brands’ claims of sustainability." 🌎 www.jamaicaobserver.com/2025/11/24/n...
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"A new poll suggests nearly half of Britons think there are more migrants in the UK illegally than legally, but in reality just 7% arrive through irregular channels"
Charlie Angela on how sensationalist reporting in the right wing press is fuelling falsehoods and misconceptions
Charlie Angela on how sensationalist reporting in the right wing press is fuelling falsehoods and misconceptions
November 27, 2025 at 6:45 AM
"A new poll suggests nearly half of Britons think there are more migrants in the UK illegally than legally, but in reality just 7% arrive through irregular channels"
Charlie Angela on how sensationalist reporting in the right wing press is fuelling falsehoods and misconceptions
Charlie Angela on how sensationalist reporting in the right wing press is fuelling falsehoods and misconceptions
Why are so many people laughing at this?? You think that Karoline Leavitt cares that her brother's ex-fiancee is being detained by ICE? She doesn't. This poor woman was grabbed by police while driving to her child's school. This isn't a lol gotcha.
Immigrant with family ties to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is detained by ICE
Immigrant with family ties to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is detained by ICE
The former fiancé of the White House press secretary's brother remains in ICE custody two weeks after being arrested on her way to pick up their son.
www.thestar.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Why are so many people laughing at this?? You think that Karoline Leavitt cares that her brother's ex-fiancee is being detained by ICE? She doesn't. This poor woman was grabbed by police while driving to her child's school. This isn't a lol gotcha.
Hello bsky, I got you a magpie inkcap. You deserve soe fungi today. 🍄
November 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Hello bsky, I got you a magpie inkcap. You deserve soe fungi today. 🍄
First Christmas move of the year on now! The original Grinch cartoon🎄
November 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
First Christmas move of the year on now! The original Grinch cartoon🎄
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UPDATE - ARRESTS
Arrests are so slow so far that after two hours only a handful of around 150 peaceful sign-holders have been removed from the pavement.
Prepared for the long-haul, the foil blankets and chocolate biscuits have come out. #Terrorism
Arrests are so slow so far that after two hours only a handful of around 150 peaceful sign-holders have been removed from the pavement.
Prepared for the long-haul, the foil blankets and chocolate biscuits have come out. #Terrorism
November 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
UPDATE - ARRESTS
Arrests are so slow so far that after two hours only a handful of around 150 peaceful sign-holders have been removed from the pavement.
Prepared for the long-haul, the foil blankets and chocolate biscuits have come out. #Terrorism
Arrests are so slow so far that after two hours only a handful of around 150 peaceful sign-holders have been removed from the pavement.
Prepared for the long-haul, the foil blankets and chocolate biscuits have come out. #Terrorism
Hey while we're chatting about Rachel Reeves, remember that Bridget Philipson has repeatedly spoken for a right wing lobby group founded by arch-Tory Iain Duncan Smith.
www.bridgetphillipson.com/speeches/202...
www.bridgetphillipson.com/speeches/202...
Bridget Phillipson speaks at the Centre for Social Justice - Bridget Phillipson
***CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY*** Thank you, Andy, and all of you for being here today. It’s the start of term this week for so many of our children and young people, for their families, for the staff who ...
www.bridgetphillipson.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Hey while we're chatting about Rachel Reeves, remember that Bridget Philipson has repeatedly spoken for a right wing lobby group founded by arch-Tory Iain Duncan Smith.
www.bridgetphillipson.com/speeches/202...
www.bridgetphillipson.com/speeches/202...
All Labour has to offer is "nothing will ever get better, accept decay under us in place of rot from them." They nakedly have no motivation other than their own careers. They have no vision or values.
They offer no future and so they have no future.
They offer no future and so they have no future.
Honestly, I think some centre-left criticisms of Green policy are fair. But if Labour keeps alienating its natural supporters the Greens will become more viable, more progressive policy experts could start gravitating towards them, and their policy offer could gradually become more compelling.
tbh Polanski seems to have avoided most of the big MMT heffalump traps (allowing that "inflation doesn't go higher" was a misspeak), I'm relatively impressed at whoever's advising him.
November 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
All Labour has to offer is "nothing will ever get better, accept decay under us in place of rot from them." They nakedly have no motivation other than their own careers. They have no vision or values.
They offer no future and so they have no future.
They offer no future and so they have no future.
This was a set up by the Sun and now she's referring to it in Parliament. Because she's a Murdoch servant.
Where are the "they'll suddenly stop being right wing when we vote them in, which you're obligated to do" people! Come back! Tell me how you're justifying this
Where are the "they'll suddenly stop being right wing when we vote them in, which you're obligated to do" people! Come back! Tell me how you're justifying this
Watch as Rachel Reeves brands Greens leader Zack Polanski a 'keen hypnotherapist'
🗣️ 'The only things getting bigger under his approach would be the deficit and the rise of inflation'
🗣️ 'The only things getting bigger under his approach would be the deficit and the rise of inflation'
November 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
This was a set up by the Sun and now she's referring to it in Parliament. Because she's a Murdoch servant.
Where are the "they'll suddenly stop being right wing when we vote them in, which you're obligated to do" people! Come back! Tell me how you're justifying this
Where are the "they'll suddenly stop being right wing when we vote them in, which you're obligated to do" people! Come back! Tell me how you're justifying this
Lay down with dogs and then tell us to vote for them not the dogs, or whatever the saying is
"Around Europe, labor parties have alienated their base by forming grand coalitions with the center-right . In Denmark, Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have pursued this strategy with the same dismal results."
From my analysis Jacobin on the state of Danish politics after the local elections
From my analysis Jacobin on the state of Danish politics after the local elections
In Denmark, Social Democracy Is Failing
Around Europe, old labor parties have alienated their base by forming grand coalitions with center-right forces. In Denmark, Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have pursued this same strategy with t...
jacobin.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Lay down with dogs and then tell us to vote for them not the dogs, or whatever the saying is
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Today, Labour is going to announce a return to PFI for the NHS- which is a total disaster. But they’ve renamed it the “NHS neighbourhood rebuild”. Don’t be fooled 🚨
I’ve explained what’s going on in this piece I’ve just written- open.substack.com/pub/jujuliag...
I’ve explained what’s going on in this piece I’ve just written- open.substack.com/pub/jujuliag...
November 26, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Today, Labour is going to announce a return to PFI for the NHS- which is a total disaster. But they’ve renamed it the “NHS neighbourhood rebuild”. Don’t be fooled 🚨
I’ve explained what’s going on in this piece I’ve just written- open.substack.com/pub/jujuliag...
I’ve explained what’s going on in this piece I’ve just written- open.substack.com/pub/jujuliag...
Tonight I received a full page lecturing DM from a man I've never had any interaction with in our local nature group, intoning me me about photography. I hadn't replied to him, I didn't know who he was, yet he felt entitled to do that and 'educate' me (incorrectly of course). I'm so fed up of this.
November 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Tonight I received a full page lecturing DM from a man I've never had any interaction with in our local nature group, intoning me me about photography. I hadn't replied to him, I didn't know who he was, yet he felt entitled to do that and 'educate' me (incorrectly of course). I'm so fed up of this.
I have another group of Junior Botanists this week! Learning about moss, liverworts, water, and how to use hand lenses!
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I have another group of Junior Botanists this week! Learning about moss, liverworts, water, and how to use hand lenses!
Our youth deserve a better education than cutting out entire fields of knowledge while still legally children.
3 subjects at A-level for most students. Some take an extra qualification in maths or project work for an extra half a-level. Incredibly narrow.
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Our youth deserve a better education than cutting out entire fields of knowledge while still legally children.
My dog continues to give Jim Halpert looks across the room
November 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
My dog continues to give Jim Halpert looks across the room
She's vile as is every last barnacle clinging on to that sinking ship.
Rachel Reeves has removed Audi, BMW, Mercedes from the motability scheme because disabled people aren’t allowed nice things ignoring the better resale values and the fact cars like the Audi A1 and BMW 1-series are hardly limos www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/con...
UK's Motability scheme no longer includes premium brands such as Audi, BMW and Mercedes | Autocar
Announcement comes just weeks after chancellor Rachel Reeves vowed to axe luxury models from the programme
www.autocar.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
She's vile as is every last barnacle clinging on to that sinking ship.
Fascinating!
🌿Excited to share our new study in New Phytologist! 🌿
Polyploidy is a major force in plant evolution, but is understudied in the tropics. We find that polyploidy evolved multiple times in Inga, a characteristic Neotropical tree radiation (1/n) 🧵.
Full paper🔗: tinyurl.com/msnffhs8
Polyploidy is a major force in plant evolution, but is understudied in the tropics. We find that polyploidy evolved multiple times in Inga, a characteristic Neotropical tree radiation (1/n) 🧵.
Full paper🔗: tinyurl.com/msnffhs8
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Fascinating!