Osbert Lancaster

@osbert.org

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So what do we need to do so that people and the rest of nature can thrive, now and whatever the polycrisis brings next? Also improv - not entirely unrelated. https://thrivablescotland.com 📍Edinburgh

Expanse of grass with trees, a few golfers in the distance. In the foreground, a homemade sign reading “please take care golf being played”
Rear of van with sign writing: Fat Boy Skim plastering services
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Bee on purple flower among long grass
Frontage of pub
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Table showing fundamental human needs - link to web page in next post
Cartoon of a man in a ragged suit and three childen in ragged clothes sitting around a campfire witih a obsured background of devastated city scape. Man is saying: "Yes, the planet got destroyed, but for a beautiful moment of time we created a lot of value for shareholders."
Man sitting in a car holding a fake flyer offering free pee nus enlargements on the NHS to men driving large SUVs in the city.
Red tail fin of a 60s? American car. Ry Cooder and Manuel Galban, Mambo Sinuendo.
Blue rucksack with a black mesh pocket, in which, a vacuum packed haggis.
Silhouette of Edinburgh Castle in the distance, rocky hill in front, grassy bank in foreground. Rosehips on bush at front left.
Sun in a mainly clear blue sky over a hill with rocks long grass and a path and gorse bushes and a dog.
Dog in an orange fleece lying at the front of the scene in long grass. In the foreground a thermos and a hand holding a cup of coffee. The main scene is a big grassy field with a view into the hills in the distance with trees all around.
Graphic with a photo of the poster and the words: Love long form improv? Work for people & planet? Live in Edinburgh? Ask me about joining our team!
A mordernist? metal and panelled building being demolished.
A middle aged man, Tim Brooke Taylor, dressed in a dark suit with a Union Jack waistcoat.
A natural pool of Stillwater with some leaves on the surface reflects lush trees and vegetation below a blue sky
Black and tan brindle lurcher climbs gingerly down a large barnacle covered rock on a beach at low tide
A group of unclothed men stand waist and chest deep in the grey sea in the drizzle. Beach in the foreground.
Oak leaves and acorns, the acorns have strange growths looking a bit like green walnuts.
Hey, large rock on a beach at low water, covered with barnacles and short green seaweed. A black lurcher is climbing down the rock.
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Photo of two people and a dog walking on a beach, plus some people in a rowing boat. Text over the image reads: For purpose driven professionals, Learn from peer experiences, build meaningful connections, recharge in nature.
Below a mist filled sky, a modern building with a circular roof, is seen through long grass and tall flowers, the flowers pale blue and bell shaped.
Video of a small burn running over brown rocks under trees with green leaves through which sunlight is filtering and lighting up the clear water.
Looking back from the shore up a sandy beach the scene is divided diagonally by a wooden groyne. Four black crows are sitting on the groyne. In the background Victorian houses, a church spire and a grey sky.
A photograph of a wide still brown coloured river running through green lush banks with trees over the river and a blue sky behind. The location is the River Esk at Musselburgh, near Edinburgh.
A couple sitting on a sandy beach with lots of gulls around them.
A park with grass, trees, path and bench on a grey day.
Photo of park with grass and trees, titled "Netwalking at the Meadows Edinburgh for purpose driven professiobals, Wed, Jul 9, 3:15pm. With text overlay: Adaptation, B Corporations, biodiversity, circularity, cities, collaboration, communities, climate justice, CSR, decarbonisation, decent work, digital inclusion, diversity, empowerment, energy, engagement, environment, employees, ESG, ethical marketing, equality, health & wellbeing, food security, fuel poverty, governance, greentech, green finance, health, human rights, innovation, just transition, leadership, natural capital, peace, policy, regeneration, renewables, resilience, social innovation, supply chain ethics, sustainability, strategy, tech for good, transformation, transparency & more…
Hillside with long grass and young trees under dark skies
Rocky hill with figures on the summit.
Hillside with grass, heather, gorse and a black dog. Lurcher type.
Foreground long grass with yellowish seed heads, mid ground green rocky hill, in the distance sea and dark sky.
Green hillside with a scattering of young trees. Dark skies behind.
Pink flower in green grass.
Picture of people walking on a grassy hill, with a small tree behind them. At the top, the text "Realise Earth Netwalkers", centre "Adaptation, B Corporations, biodiversity, circularity, cities, collaboration, communities, climate justice, CSR, decarbonisation, decent work, digital inclusion, diversity, empowerment, energy, engagement, environment, employees, ESG, ethical marketing, equality, health & wellbeing, food security, fuel poverty, governance, greentech, green finance, health, human rights, innovation, just transition, natural capital, peace, policy, regeneration, renewables, resilience, social innovation, supply chain ethics, sustainability, tech for good, transformation & more…" below: "Connect with other purpose-driven professionals helping people and nature to flourish."
Satellite image of Inch Park.
Path through mature trees, rough grass on either side.
Violets in short grass in the foreground, trees in the distance.
Picture of people walking on a grassy hill, with a small tree behind them. At the top, the text "Realise Earth Netwalkers", centre "Adaptation, B Corporations, biodiversity, circularity, cities, collaboration, communities, climate justice, CSR, decarbonisation, decent work, digital inclusion, diversity, empowerment, energy, engagement, environment, employees, ESG, ethical marketing, equality, health & wellbeing, food security, fuel poverty, governance, greentech, green finance, health, human rights, innovation, just transition, natural capital, peace, policy, regeneration, renewables, resilience, social innovation, supply chain ethics, sustainability, tech for good, transformation & more…" below: "Connect with other purpose-driven professionals helping people and nature to flourish."
Sandstone walls carved from solid bedrock, to create a miniature harbour. Long narrow boat being rowed through the entrance.
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A screenshot of a pdf of a scan of a printed journal article. Sorry, I can't extract the text from it!
Satellite imagery of a residential neighbourhood, oblique view. On the right, houses are shown 3D, on the left, just a flat image of roofs and roads.
Page of the book showing a map of North America with the caption: “Territorial change in the US-Mexican War of 1846-8, superimposed on a map of the modern United States. The war saw the US capture territory that would form nearly six more states.” Paragraph concluding the chapter “The American Invasion of Mexico” reading: “And so, today, something like 60 million Americans live on land conquered from Mexico by military force." And where Americans once crossed the border in search of economic opportunities, now the US builds a wall in an attempt to stop Mexicans from doing the same. It hasn't worked. But still.” And a footnote: “A fun bonus fact! In the early 1930s, the government of President Herbert Hoover attempted to blame Mexicans for the Great Depression and deported somewhere between 335,000 and 2 million of them to Mexico. At least half of them were US citizens. This almost certainly meets the definition of ethnic cleansing, too!”