Otter painting
Just gliding through ๐ฆฆ
@danielegibney
She/her. Not Danielle, Daniela, or Daniel. Kneader of words and curator of colours. Afraid for the future. Proud NL/UK dual national. Climate, politics, dataviz, editing, craft, birds. Omni ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Views own. https://datayarns.wordpress.com/
Otter painting
Just gliding through ๐ฆฆ
Went for a walk in my home town of Amstelveen a couple of weeks ago and found some herons.
"The environmental cost of meat is disproportionately high...
Calls to curb meat consumption are growing louder, yet meat intake is climbing with rising incomes in emerging economies, coupled with entrenched habits in wealthier nations...
Clean energy isnโt enough; clean food is next."
A group of young kestrels is startled by the presence of a butterfly. ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
"We should be able to look at a poll and have a reasonable sense of how the countryโs votes would translate into seats."
In multi-party Britain our already rubbish voting system is getting ever more inappropriate.
electoral-reform.org.uk/latest-yougo...
The role of the unconscious in creativity. Nice read.
www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
What are the most effective climate change solutions? The Drawdown Explorer is a brilliant tool providing the answer to that question.
drawdown.org/explorer
Canโt decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead ๐
PHENOMENAL dataviz howto thread with lots of lovely examples.
Found this on one of my feeds and have signed up to be a finisher.
Spreading for awareness for others who may like to sign up to finish fibre arts projects, or for people who have a project left unfinished by death or disability who would like to match with a finisher.
looseends.org/finisher
Psychologically, we're living in very hard times for all who care deeply about science, empathy, equity, nature, and rights for all citizens of the planet, human or otherwise.
Find strength, solace, and community in like-minded others, positive action, and in Mother Earth
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The largest ever collaborative embroidery project is an absolute beauty ๐คฉ
www.positive.news/society/the-...
The increasing intermittency ofโฆ.nuclear power stations:
Source: Financial Times | โHeatwaves test Europeโs electricity system as air conditioning use soarsโ on.ft.com/4fsSclS
Love this. Similarly, in the last Secret Santa I took part in, the rule was the presents had to be either home-made or from a charity shop. All the presents were lovely and extremely well thought-out to suit the recipient - no tat in sight!
www.positive.news/society/tats...
if you damage something man-made we call it vandalism if you damage something made by nature we call it progress
Important birdfloof info.
bar plot with lots of clutter, including boxes, bold fonts, text redundancies etc.
cleaned bar plot
๐ Those two are the same graph ๐
...but the 2nd one focuses on the message &
follows @helenajambor.bsky.social's checklist for visualizing scientific data
(1/2)
A bowl of noodles in a brown broth topped with green beans, carrot, mushrooms, vegan cheddar and spring onions.
French onion ramen, an absurdly rude recipe from Tim Anderson's Vegan JapanEasy. We swapped out spinach, cabbage and bamboo shoots for what we had to hand - rocket, green beans and carrot. Also kept in the mushrooms from making the dashi.
Marvellous with a glass of red.
#WhatVegansEat
The power of visualisation. What jumped out at me was that almost all of these cities are in the same band of latitude - only London and Lagos are outliers. Which immediately suggest climate factors underlying cities being able to support large numbers of people. ๐
Two gannets flying against blue sea and sky.
Gannets at Bempton Cliffs, May 2023, for #SuperSeabirdSunday ๐ชถ
I have a day off and I've started it by sitting next to a lake listening to some reed warblers. Something inside me is unknotting.
A stick library - open fronted wooden structure in a woodland setting, containing a dozen or so sticks of different sizes.
Cute.
I'm slow to the party but just discovered I got a mention in @ajstarks.bsky.social recap of #DuboisChallenge2025 - what a treat! ๐
Lots of beautiful work highlighted in this deck, worth a look.
speakerdeck.com/ajstarks/num...
Incredibly in-depth work exploring India's groundwater crisis, linked to agricultural practices and policy.
Great data storytelling to highlight a critical issue, with links to more in-depth stories that make the issues tangible.
site.thibi.co/originals/in... ๐
I'm not sure this in fact made me cheerful, but it is heartening to know that people are out there taking this large-scale, forward looking approach to ecosystem resilience.
reasonstobecheerful.world/conservation...
Answered one of those questions I didn't realise I'd been asking myself...
perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...
Inclusive Pride flag.
17th May is the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia.
The date commemorates the World Health Organisationโs decision in 1990 to remove homosexuality from its classification of diseases.
We exist. We donโt need a cure.
#IDAHOBIT
Struggling to find words to encourage you to read this piece that will do it justice. It's beautiful. It's necessary. Thanks Ian.
iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...