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Paul S. Williams
@pswsustain.bsky.social
Sustainable development activist. Currently completing my MSc in Sustainable Development at SOAS (@soasuni.bsky.social), University of London
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@IEMA student member. #sustainability #tibet #rewilding #vegan #fungi #amphibians
Saw this today while hiking in #Wallonia. Nothing much to add really.
#photography #nature #hiking #belgium #sdg15 #brabantwallon
March 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
#Losar chez moi 🎉
March 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
ད་ལྟ་ནི་མཉམ་ལས་མི་བྱེད་པ་དང་ཞི་བའི་དམངས་ཁྲོད་གསར་བརྗེའི་དུས་སྐབས་ཤིག་རེད།
February 23, 2025 at 10:35 AM
The UK Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, has summed up Europe's security predicament better than I ever could:

"I don’t think we should be in any doubt whatsoever that the front line in Ukraine is the front line for Europe and the front line for Britain’s security too."

#UK #Europe #Ukraine #One
February 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Sadly, that's patently untrue.

That's how it has been in the recent past, but it's not how it is now.

Even if it were true, the supreme court is just another branch of the current administration's government.

At the moment, the US is a worse and more frightening interpretation of #Deadwood.
February 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM
On my desk this morning...

#Succulent in bloom and a hand-painted tealight #scent diffuser from #Thailand .

It's actually my dining table. I'm just using it as a desk. #Masquerade!

#photography #cactus #flora #patchouli #artisan #pottery #monday #morning #photo #pixel
February 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
I got a small packet of spruce tree seeds for Christmas. I never expected them to germinate and grow. But look!

#spruce #tree #seedling #germination #biodiversity #conservation #rewilding #reforestation #gardening #garden #forest #wild
February 9, 2025 at 7:51 AM
They said it was over. We thought it was over. It's not over.

Close your eyes and imagine 16th century Europe...

... now try and work your way back to present day USA.

Along the journey of your mind's eye, how much was there you didn't know? Therein lies the rub.

#ignorance #slavery #bigotry
February 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
This week, of all weeks, is an auspicious time to post success stories. We shall overcome, despite the onslaught of vulgarity, criminality, bible-bashing, #book-burning infamy and #ignorance.

I present you with the yellow-bellied #toad. A success in #Wallonia.

www.pairidaiza.eu/en/together-...
January 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A frost-rimed trail through the forest.

#nature #forest #belgium #grezdoiceau #bbs #frost #trails #sdg15 #solitude #walk
January 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I just wanted to give a big shout out to any BlueSkiers with bipolar disorder that are having a difficult time right now.

Hang in there!

#bipolar #disorder #bipolardisorder #hope #mood #anxiety #lighthouse #youarenotalone
January 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
#Musk is dangerous. He has real power and answers to no one.

He has become increasingly radicalized.

He must be stopped.

We can do this step-wise.

Step 1: reduce the dollar value of the X platform to zero. Download your X data and delete your account(s).

Hashtag: #KillX
January 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
#Ethanol is toxic to humans.

Ethanol marketing is even more #toxic; and insidious.

Everything from the #Mediterranean diet its #heart benefits, the social benefits of #drinking with friends, the cachet of tasting the world's finest Grands Crus Classés, #champagne to celebrate. Ya booze, ya lose.
January 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Yesterday evening, I took the ferry back from the #UK to mainland #Europe. ⛴️

I attempted to #photograph the #moon and #Venus using my old #Pixel phone. The results are, frankly, disappointing.
Something tells me I need to (finally) fork out for a proper #SLR camera... 🧐
January 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Will do my best. You too.
December 31, 2024 at 8:04 PM
I went to the market hall in Chester, UK, today.

I was happily surprised to see this notice on the public restroom door.

#DisabledAndProud #HiddenDisabilities #Stigma #MentalHealth #sdg3 #sdg10 #accessibility #BipolarDisorder #ableism
December 30, 2024 at 9:41 PM
Cluck?
December 27, 2024 at 11:03 PM
“One of the things that baffles me … is how there can be so much lingering stigma with regards to mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder. In my opinion, living with manic depression takes a tremendous amount of balls.”

#bipolar #bipolardisorder #mentalhealth #stopthestigma #sdg3 #sdg10
December 26, 2024 at 6:14 PM
This week, I rescued an old library book. It's about railway lines around the world.
It contains a map of the Asian rail network in 1948. The map clearly shows Tibet as an autonomous entity. The book is about trains. The writer had no axe to grind about Asian geopolitics.
#tibet @freetibet.org
December 26, 2024 at 1:08 PM
This is sheer insanity. I have about 75% of these books on my shelf and have read them many times over.
No human can hope to reach adulthood without turning these timeless pages over one by one. I'm surprised Animal Farm has escaped the censor.
#censorship #power #hiddenagenda #fascism #nazi
December 12, 2024 at 5:45 PM
New #Zealand's government is passing a bill to end #greyhound #racing. The curtain comes down on one of the cruelest forms of legal "entertainment". UK, US, Australia, and the US please take note.
Now let's take down all #horse "sports".
Animals did not evolve to entertain us. #veganism #greyhounds
December 10, 2024 at 9:08 AM
Today's citation comes from the International Campaign for Tibet, December 5th 2024 @savetibet.bsky.social - see the image snip.
Although this article relates specifically to the environmental catastrophe of damming in Tibet, its message is universally applicable to all sustainable development.
December 9, 2024 at 5:55 PM
The UN has 17 Sustainable Development Goals. These must be attained by 2030, with some exceptions.
As an MSc student of sustainable development, I'm concerned that climate change and biodiversity dominate the debate to the disadvantage of the other 15. Does anyone else feel the same way? #sdgs
December 8, 2024 at 10:55 PM
My cats feign indifference to Mariah Carey.

#cats #christmas #catrescue #noise
December 7, 2024 at 4:15 PM
I built a worm farm in my garden as part of my home re-wilding project. 🪱
The farm is open at the bottom so the worms form new colonies elsewhere, all the time converting compost and leaves into the highest quality soil there is! 🌱
On #WorldSoilDay just let nature do what it's supposed to do!
December 6, 2024 at 1:43 PM