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Great news!!!
Fish Doorbell is back and CC people will especially love it! 😷
Check it out and save a fish or two! 🐟 🐠
guinesspig.ghost.io/something-fi...
I'd consider applying to this if it includes free tickets to all the LRB podcast conversations (and if I lived in London)
If that's a paid-for AI they've used for the picture they should get their money back
If anyone is up for boosting, Bandcamp is holding a fundraiser for the Trans Continental Pipeline to help trans people escape from Kansas!
I think we should have a pig in a tree on the signs (a la Ella Mary Leather)
And they are furry!
More than 1200 people have been killed across Iran, with many more injured and hospitals under attack.
No nation should be able to break intl law with impunity - civilians and healthcare facilities must be protected and those responsible for illegal attacks held to account.
If you agree, join our friends at @weareyoungroots.bsky.social and write to your MP asking them to urge the Government to make the 56 day trial a permanent policy.
The decision is expected within the next few weeks, so please act now!
🖊️ action.youngroots.org.uk/en/make-56-d... 3/3
The 28 day move-on period is not enough time for people to access financial support, secure work, and to find somewhere to live.
Unless this changes, people will continue to be forced into homelessness by the cruel asylum system.
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When people are granted refugee status, they are given just 28 days to find somewhere new to live.
‼️This isn't enough time for anyone.
Recently, the Government extended this period to 56 days as a trial.
We need this to be permanent!
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Excellent summary by George Monbiot. If you're not aware of this history, can I recommend the comprehensive series @empirepoduk.bsky.social
"For years now, immigration and asylum policy has been more about political game-playing than practicality or legal process." If this alone doesn't break your heart, then I might wonder whether you have one?
This government is hideous. It doesn't need any analysis or deep dives to know that this is a fundamentally cruel and inhumane policy idea and no different to that pushed by the likes of Reform or Trump.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Meanwhile, the domestic policy focus is on improving policy re. children and young people, schools reform, youth hubs, etc, so needed, so important, heartbreaking that this is happening alongside, undermines the moral integrity of the good stuff
Is this why the Government has resisted and delayed incorporation of the UNCRC (a manifesto pledge)?
When I shifted to part-time in my 40s to do an art degree a lot of people asked me what job it would qualify me for, as if that were the only reason they could think of for undertaking further study, so sad
depressingly, I think you're probably right, based on my Gen X life experience. I think a lot of the Gen X guys too
Q: What do you call a Mercian king who has reduced his prices?
A: Special Offa
CPD and 'personal development' are allowed though - I think that's to do with a special kind of anti-snobbery that promotes a narrow, technocratic mindset
Shabana Mahmood standing up for Palestine, 12 years ago ✊
Shabana Mahmood on the right to seek sanctuary, 11 years ago:
write to your MP today and ask them to sign this Early Day Motion
That is next level patience & commitment, you could work with David Attenborough
this makes Sara Pritchard's new history of light pollution (out this July) all the more welcome and timely:
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
Nostalgia... but very N America, so no memories of recording onto cassette the code broadcast on #R4 after the shipping forecast, to load onto your bbc micro next day after school. Those were the days
Though as it's in Wales I see why it's not in an English Heritage book! But why not Dungeness though?
My favourite Magnox reactor, the only UK power station built in a national park (Snowdonia, now Eryri), currently in the process of being decommissioned.
tomorrow is the 220th birthday of Elizabeth Barrett Browning; to celebrate, 16 poets (including me!) will read new works responding to her Sonnets from the Portuguese at a final event for Ledbury Poetry in its current home: ledburypoetry.org.uk/home/whats-on
