In which I write a short story about the many spies at work at Mar-a-Lago & how they keep tripping over each other
"The waitstaff had a Russian agent named Vladimir and a Ukrainian agent named Volodymyr and an older Polish agent, Włodzimierz."
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Go and get some pastels, or some paint, or something - anything. Go put some marks on paper. Move your arm across the page and watch the colour unfold as you do so. Follow in the footsteps of all of human history. Make your own cave paintings. Remember that impulse you had as a child. Let it out.
This is nothing but performative institutional cruelty.
parenthood is full of discoveries. for example, yesterday I got to experience what it feels like to be punched in the face by someone with a fistful of banana.
This is very important and a major pet peeve of mine. If you don’t know what you’re doing- and if you learned on the internet, then sorry, you don’t know what you’re doing- please leave old gravestones well enough alone.
So that’s that, right? We don’t have to put up with endless drivel about how expensive it is to save the planet abd ourselves ever again? Cool.
This 18-year-old Afghan girl had offers from York and Reading – thanks to Shabana Mahmood, she will now never escape the Taliban | The Independent www.independent.co.uk/news/people/...
I don't want to do a whole long rant on this, so I'll just say: the reason fossil fuels & other aligned incumbents don't want to transition to clean energy is that it will *damage their material interests*. And folks, they understand their own material interests. Really well!
oh cool, we're at the "I have this knot of anxiety in my chest which I can't do anything about because it's entirely due to the overall geopolitical situation" stage again, nice, happy Monday everyone
Your quoted out of context for the evening: "A girl has her limits and ARTHUR MILLER IS A HARD LIMIT."
Love is an active thing, you know?
A fat bee (maybe a queen? Idk bees) on some cardboard next to a metal spoon with sugar syrup
good morning everyone Tâf brought us a bee
We have a 4-year AHRC-funded PhD studentship on 'Rescue curation of space heritage' advertised!
Supervision by me, space scientist Lucie Green (@luciegreen.bsky.social), and curators of space and engineering at the Science Museum, Doug Millard and Ben Russell
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
my phone keeps trying to change people's surnames to their legal surnames which is bigoted against the ancient & sacred Welsh tradition of people being given surnames that refer to the name of their job, place of work, farm or car
May I suggest that next year, we all collectively agree to have World Book Day Discourse about a week in advance of World Book Day, so that I actually remember to plan a costume?
If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.
March is Pregnancy After Loss Awareness Month.
A time to recognise specific challenges during subsequent pregnancies for those who've experienced #PregnancyLoss and #BabyLoss.
It's a less well known area of bereavement and trauma, where taboos remain and practitioners should be better informed.
And THEY WILL NOT ACT AS A DETERRENT.
I didn’t vote Labour to get an even stupider migration policy than we had under the Tories.
My class analysis will be intersectional or it will be bullshit, to misquote Flavia Dzodan.
My recipe for my first #StainedGlassSunday contribution to BlueSky:
Begin with stained glass. Add sunlight, Lincoln Cathedral, and stir. Blend the material with the immaterial.
Today is St David’s Day: patron saint of Wales, of course, but also of vegetarians and poets. He was reputed to have helped introduce bees to Ireland. He is famously quoted as saying “Gwnewch y pethau bychain”, meaning “Do the little things”. Small changes and good choices matter, especially now.
Powis Castle stands talll on top of a hill, daffodils grow in the garden below
The house at Bodnant Garden viewed across a large expanse of grass with daffodils blooming
Dyfryn Gardens with the house and daffodils bathed in sunshine
A child is stood on top of hay bales with the Welsh flag placed in them
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus | Happy St David’s Day
Here’s to Cymru! The nation’s language, traditions, culture, and the heritage that connects us. From dragons to daffodils, Wales’ story is told through the places we look after.
Photos: Powis Castle, Bodnant Gardens, Dyffryn Gardens, Chirk Castle.
🎶"Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy, I've come home. I'm so cold. Let me in-a-your window"🎶
The acts of defiance can be big or small. Painting over a bigoted piece of graffiti. Running a youth club for refugees in an area that mostly loathes them. Wearing a rainbow flag in an anti-queer neighbourhood.
These acts all accumulate towards something better, I have seen that in action.
I know I keep pointing this out but: if you want immigrants to contribute to British society, integrate across community lines, become engaged civic actors, you actually *want* them to get citizenship, and as soon as possible in fact!
cannot stop thinking about the dead girls. fuck everyone enabling this.
If Reform had won, Labour's statement would be that this result is a stark reminder we need to listen and learn from voters who rightly feel betrayed by modern politics.
But the Greens won by a comfortable margin, so it's: these voters are stupid and also sinister and, ugh, Muslims
Very good to see Stella Creasy openly rebuking Shabana Mahmood's proposals '...because I am true Labour, not Blue Labour'.
This issue of @routesjournal.bsky.social features an editorial from my colleague Jasmine Roberts, introducing the fantastic work she is doing building networks for underrepresented geography students in the 'Geography for All' programme at @rgs.org - well worth a read ⬇️
