Post of links and music

[dolorosa_12]

Rather than share each item individually, I'm just going to link to goodbyebird's mostly good news links roundup. There's some fantastic environmental and sociopolitical news there.

I'll add to all this with the news that you can now walk around the entire coastline of England. It's worth reading the article in full, because this undertaking is extremely impressive and future-focused.

Another good news story, via 2022 Ukrainian Nobel laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk: the tropical plants in the greenhouse of Kyiv's Hryshko Botanical Garden survived Russia's winter bombardment of energy facilities, thanks to the concerted efforts of staff and ordinary Kyivan citizens.

And I just find this latest batch of artistry from wisdm, in which he styles the celestial bodies of the solar system in high fashion clothing, to be breathtakingly good.

I've basically been immersively living in these two songs for the past week:

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Comments

[yarnofariadne]

So delightful to see so much good news!

[dolorosa_12]

Isn't it just? goodbyebird's post made me so happy.

[chestnut_pod]

one day I would LOVE to walk around the entire coastline of England!

[dolorosa_12]

I've already done a lot of individual bits of this on various hiking trips with my mum (mainly in Devon and Cornwall), but it's so cool that the whole coast is now connected and open to the public. I think it would take something like two years to walk the whole thing.

[merit]

Oh exciting! I love reading about the right to roam (which is less existent in Australia) though I do keep my roaming rather contained.

[dolorosa_12]

It's such a cool thing — I've done so many walks in the UK (and in other parts of Europe) that run through farmers' private land. We're really lucky to have it, even in the somewhat curtailed form in which it exists in England.