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
If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kΔkΔpΕ 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!
We had a great conversation about ministry, Quaker worship, touching on daffodils, testing, and curiosity.
school dining room as sensory assault
event Grytpype-Thynne is right twice a day
group discussion of magazines - with him?
queer autistic bossy nerdy poet
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feet up so the cubicle looks empty
trying to share, quotes go unrecognised
the joy he felt telling on teacher's pet
always look for ancient weirdos; they're there
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Connected Thinking
(a poem for @weirdpride.day)
reading cross-legged on the closed toilet
darkness: what ideal conditions for night
caught and reported doing the crossword
the bones of an Iron Age bean-eater
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INTRODUCING! Hannah Spencer The new Green MP for GORTON & DENTON Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
Introducing Hannah Spencer MP π
Playmobil Romans digging a marching camp in a garden border.
Feeling very spring-like in Norfolk today, & the bulbs are coming up, so my annual reminder to keep a vigilant eye out for these #GardenPests building marching camps, little gravel roads, fortified walls & villas in your borders. A Roman #PlaymobilInfestation can be difficult to control, butβ¦(1of2)
This yearβs LGBT+ History Month theme is scientists and innovators, so weβre highlighting disabled, fossil-hunting, school-starting βcottage ladyβ Anna Gurney (1795-1857). π«π π
queernorfolk.com/news/anna-gu...
From @unibirmingham.bsky.social, the story of Margery Fry (of the Quaker Fry family) and Rose Sidgwick.
www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2026/th...
A pair of eye inlays displayed against a gray background. The eyes are crafted from white material (calcite) with black circular pupils (obsidian) and outlined in a thin bronze frame.
Eye inlays from an Egyptian coffin π
The frame is made of bronze, the eye of calcite and obsidian. Dating ca 1500-1200 BC.
On display at Staatliches Museum fΓΌr Γgyptische Kunst.
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indoors and sleepy
slow shifting dark mornings do
not yet admit spring
#haikufeels
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good morning, #LangSky & #linguistics!
University of Essex staff are on day 2 of strike action to stop proposed cuts to 400 jobs across all departments (200 academics/2000 professional services staff)
our Language & Linguistics Department has been told to cut 50% of staff by the summer
Iβm dead serious, Judaism is the most #Autistic religion.
Judaism: Time to pray! Letβs wrap up tight in our prayer shawls & rock back & forth for a while! The prayer book tells you the appropriate times to fidget with your sacred fidget-tassels. #Jewish
Quaker worship involves spending an hour sitting still, in silence, waiting to see if anyone speaks. While daunting for some, Rhiannon Grant explores why it might be rewarding. Read more: https://www.quaker.org.uk/blog/scary-silence-3-ways-quaker-meeting-for-worship-is-both-easy-and-hard
Pssst! Enjoy beta reading? Looking for a beta reader? This promo image has a blue mechanical typewriter, a pretty floral notebook, and also a plant for ambiance.
Do you enjoy beta reading? Are you writing something & you'll be looking for beta readers this year?
DM me for info about a chill Discord server focused on asking for & offering beta reads!
It leans SFF and queer but isn't exclusively either. π
Reposts welcome.
#WritingCommunity
Your TBR pile is not there to be finished
You should never let your TBR pile fully deplete before buying more books.
Thatβs like waiting until your kitchen is empty to go to the supermarket. - Michael
Could you (or someone you know) be our next Peer Mediation Development Coordinator? You'd be joining our fantastic Peace Education team, taking the Peer Mediation programme into schools.
4 days/week
Based in London, Leeds or remotely
Applications by: Thurs 5 March
www.quaker.org.uk/our-organisa...
I've just finished reading The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, one of those books I saw around so much I eventually had to find out why! (Answer: because it's good.)
Next up, on interlibrary loan, Woodland in the Neolithic of Northern Europe by Gordon Noble.
In this flat, yes, always, because the alternative is climbing in through a window! Where I grew up (Hertfordshire), yes, usually, enough that as a caller at someone else's house I'd start there. When I lived in Leeds people occasionally called at the back/kitchen door instead.
We've just launched the Trans Unity Quilt Project, a campaign by and for trans people across the UK to bring joy and hope by making a quilt that will stretch over 50m long
π¨ Make your own patch π
goodlawproject.org/campaign/the...
Writing clear, basic, readable non fiction that demystifies and/or explains complex subjects that can reach and educate a widely varied lay audience is a precious skill.
Please.
If youβre disabled and canβt work, or are a stay-at-home parent, the proposed changes say you must work or else leave the country. Just one out of many impacts of these horrendous changes
Or it can be good to order through a bookshop - a local one in person or online, e.g. in the US: quakerbooks.org/search?q=rhi...
I'm sorry to hear that. It seems to be working for me - maybe try this link? www.collectiveinkbooks.com/christian-al... If not, I'll let them know.
The son of the owner is now a taxi driver. I know this because I happened to get in his taxi last year (to go from a conference centre to the station in a city where I no longer live), and he recognised me enough to ask if we had a connection, and we reminisced about the restaurant.
The vegan pizza place! (They did other things too, but that's what I ate.) I loved it for the really good vegan pizza - I ordered so often that when I moved house, and ordered from the new place for the first time, I opened the door and the delivery person startled and said, "Oh it's you!"
Researchers survey the ADHD coaching boom
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
1/2 Look at the absolute state of this article! *Again* a government minister is conflating out of work benefits with PIP (which it needs repeating is intended to help people with the additional costs of disability). These needs don't go away just because the government βοΈ support.
Sometimes I use the 'committee business' move, which I know can be excluding while allowing a bit of conversation on a topic which feels safe and useful. Sometimes I have something specific to say (eg 'thank you for your ministry'). I don't have an answer which works regularly and feels authentic.
