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I *hate* that being anxious robs my personality

Read this headline 'Harry Styles review – Netflix concert is a communal love-in with some big pop moments' as 'Harry Styles review – Netflix concert is a communal love-in with some big poo moments'

So when you do fibre arts, I do worry about you!!!

Now, I can't do felting, or any fibre arts.

Like my breakdown during my PhD killed reading.

I'm scared the same will happen with drawing and painting

Fibre arts.

There's something about fibre arts that makes me super emotional lol.

I think it's because, during my mid 30s I got v poorly and had to leave a job I had, again, partially built my personality around. While poorly, I really got into felting. Like really into it

this might get scraped off, who knows

Oil painting of a landscape in shades of green and indigo, a moorland. With light in the sky

My sympathies 🥀

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Just seen a thing about our usernames being older than other social media users; my alias/Gmail is about 23 years old lol

What's your interpretation of pacifism? I'm a Quaker, a pacifist, but I do struggle with it as a concept. I've arrived at - I can't destroy life so don't expect anyone else to do it for me, but I don't judge those who are oppressed

Yeah, I would cry, and not know how to react lol

I would be devastated if someone behaved like that!!!

My confession I am a sinner doesn't make too much sense to me in terms of my sexual life or my disobedience towards my mother. It makes more sense to look on a world hunger map. Dorothee Solle

My confession I am a sinner doesn't make too much sense to me in terms of my sexual life or my disobedience towards my mother. It makes more sense to look on a world hunger map.

Dorothee Solle

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

Hands are hard, so I don't draw them 💃

Pencil sketch of someone crouching, in my sketchbook

Lil bit of life drawing

I hope to hold Quakers who facilitate lettings and manage buildings in prayer; Quakers do as well as say, and this work is an important part of that principle

Westminster Meeting House raided by Metropolitan Police again. Statement: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life. Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent. That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.” – Oliver Robertson, Head of Witness and Worship Quakers in Britain, 5 March 2026

Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists.

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I grew up somewhere with them (Lincolnshire), and the pressure pre 11 plus felt suffocating. The prospect of deciding your future then? Weird and terrifying

I LOVE them!!!

Kākāpō Cam: Live from the nest Watch Rakiura, a female kākāpō, live from her nest on Whenua Hou/Codfish Island, a small, predator free island in southern New Zealand.

OMG

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You know what gives me hope? Kākāpō chicks.

What a wonderful thing

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

7 books to start conversations about peace with children Reading is a great way to explore the world, including ways to build peace.

On #WorldBookDay, here are seven books to help start conversations about peace and justice with kids 📚🧒 https://www.quaker.org.uk/blog/7-books-to-start-conversations-about-peace

I was an archaeologist of sorts for like 7 years; I used to test materials by tapping them on my teeth (not recommended) hence the human leg bone Incident 😬

I knew I had seen a similar thing somewhere before

Labour is a far right party

😁

I'm tired.

Watching a rich person have revelations about life surrounded by Poor People™ makes me v cynical

Fucking hell.

Is this it? Is this where we are?