Elinor Elliot
@elinorelliot
"One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds."
Yesterday I recorded a temperature of 45.1 C in my garden, in the sun. In the shade it got to about 39 C. Every cell in our bodies knows this is an emergency, even as the billionaire media/fossil fuel lobbies continue their vested-interest denials. It's not even July yet.
Your regular reminder that Nigel Farage stood in front of this poster on the morning of the day Jo Cox MP was murdered by a far-right extremist. This is who he is. It's who he's always been.
He's crouching over her like a vampire about to sink his teeth into her neck. These people are fucking demonic.
Rainer Maria Rilke's "The Man Watching" for those who need to read it today.
Too late! He's already here. Satan isn't called the Prince of Lies for nothing
A glimmering piece of Americana was lost today. Maybe it was only ever a surface glamour, but it was potent, and beguiling to believe in. Redford was how America liked to see itself.
I mean, why go for the fake fascist when you can have the genuine article? That's what Starmer and Cooper need to get through their thick skulls. People crave a powerful, resonant moral alternative, and a powerfully made case for that alternative. Stop circling the drain with the other dregs.
I saved up and bought a 19th c. wooden Winterhalder & Hofmeier chiming clock. Bringing it home felt like adopting a rescue pet. It sits on my mantel chiming the quarter hours in its strange little voice. It just rang 12 times for 6 o'clock; like all beautiful things, this relationship may take work.
Either you're as illiterate as the rest of the MAGA bots or Trump has more Irish in him than I thought
COP has been captured by genocidal petrostates. They must be stopped.