Jérôme Brillaud

Lovely picture 😍

Dismay as Derbyshire council removes Pride flag after Christians complain LGBTQ+ emblem disappears from above Matlock Christian bookshop as manager says they are ‘not happy with the gay rights situation’ The spa town of Matlock in the Peak District is known for the joyful flags adorning its historical high street. The St George’s Cross, the union flag, the Derbyshire county flag and the Pride flag flutter brightly above the town’s many independent businesses. That was until a row erupted that has divided the town, after the mysterious disappearance of a Pride flag turned out to be the work of the very council that had installed it. Continue reading...

Dismay as Derbyshire council removes Pride flag after Christians complain

Congratulations!

Looking forward to reading this book 👇

We All Need to Be Talking About the Murder of Jonathan Joss This Pride and Beyond The actor, who was Comanche and White Mountain Apache, was shot in a targeted hate crime while protecting his husband.

Wrote this piece for Harpers Bazaar about the life, legacy, and hate-induced murder of Jonathan Joss through the eyes of being a Two-Spirit Native person this Pride.

I hope you take a read. For Him. For all of us. 🪶

Botanical Architecture An original call to reorient architecture around our relationship to plants.   When we look at trees, we see a form of natural architecture, and yet we have seemingly always exploited trees to make ne...

Botanical Architecture: Plants, Buildings and Us is a new book by @pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social "...this book asks what might be required to design with plants and for us to become more attuned to vegetal life in our structure." Publisher @reaktionbooks.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Glad you are okay.

Amazing!

Amen… same here.

I hope both are ok. Come on over to the Peak District and spend time with a Shire!

Gay Venezuelan stylist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report Now a contractor for ICE, the officer was on a list of disgraced cops in Milwaukee. His report helped send a man to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

I’M GOING TO KEEP POSTING THIS STORY UNTIL ANDRY IS FREED: Gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report

Andry Hernandez Romero sought shelter in the U.S. because he was persecuted as a gay man, one of the "particular social groups" allowed to claim asylum.

Ok, will do. To me he is Mr D.

Thanks! He is at a farm 2 minutes from my house. Can see him from my home office! He has a few other horse friends with him. He is huge, goofy, all legs, best decision I made, love him. His name is Mr Dutton.

Thank you! He is settling in well. He is such a baby though! All legs!

A little video of my horse to cheer up… 😊

My big Shire boy stretching his legs this morning…😍❤️

Still very leggy!

Waffles for lunch, & some beer. And a small mountain of butter! Fine menu selection from Georg Flegel, d. OTD 1638.

🍃 Le simple, le juste et le vrai, selon Sorj Chalandon. ⁠
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Projects make some of the best companions, speaking from experience.
Getting my new horse on Monday! A 2yo Shire gelding. He is a baby, only 16hh, will make 18+hh.

Bareback is the best. Do you ride bitless as well?

Other Worlds, Other Persons? Theological Encounters with Extraterrestrials in Early Modern Fiction by Parker Cotton

In today's think piece, Parker Cotton discusses how utopian fiction of the extra-terrestrial influenced emergent ideas of tolerance in the early modern era.

Merry voyage to you! Nice way to end the term. See you in July.

Congratulations!

Congratulations! Will you be presenting it at a CIDRAL book launch?

yes, please

Modern languages departments are neither colonial nor obsolete Advanced linguistic and cultural skills remain essential for deep insight into how people see themselves in the world, say five modern languages academics

'We must not let advanced linguistic and cultural skills slip away out of a misinformed sense that technology will solve all our problems or that colonialism’s legacy will always fatally undermine efforts to promote better transnational understanding'

Early Career Lecturer in Early Modern French St. John’s College invites applications for a fixed-term 1.0 FTE Early Career Lectureship in Early Modern French. The aim of this post is to offer the individual postholder career development and inte...

this is a really great starter job in early modern French - in a wonderful place to work in that field. please circulate! www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/vac...

A coloured depiction of Trump where is looks like the painting has all been smeared down the way. His mouth looks like it has sharper, small teeth and his face looks smeared with blood as it blends into his red tie. It has an evil zombie look to it as though Trump is a figure from hell. Credit to artist WeFail

Many caricatures capture Trump the moron. Few capture his evil as brilliantly as this.

This has been shared a lot recently, but mostly without crediting the artist.

The artist goes by the name of WeFail. Based in Manchester, UK, here’s a link to his incredible work
👉 wefail.art

Endangered plants face a new threat: the limits of botanic gardens Botanic gardens have evolved from medicinal gardens to scientific institutions, Now, they must become conservation leaders on a global scale

The world's botanic gardens have evolved from medicinal gardens to scientific institutions. They hold 41% of all cultivated plant species – but that’s not enough to stop extinctions. It’s time for a smarter approach | Prof Samuel Brockington

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