Stew Smith

Don't believe what you're told. Read more than one source. Include a source that makes you uncomfortable to allow empathy. Learn and make friends with people who don't share your views. Don't be proud to call them enemies or point out their errors.

Until we relearn how to debate, negotiate, empathise and give ground, we're lost, but there's a generation growing up who've never been taught how to, thanks to targeted messaging on social media.

We seem to have a society that's unable to disagree without calling the other side radical and extremist in an attempt to engender fear against them.

Uneducated Brit here forgive my lack of knowledge. You have states where a husband has rights to decide what his wife can do to her body? Where women are chattel? In 2025? Wow.

Oh we're not signing up for that, sanity is overrated. Find a hobby, distracted yourself. I've been exploring cartography...

Yelled or posted? Yelled is when your wife finds out you've been washing carburettors in the dishwasher again, it's a more visceral experience than reading a post in bold text.

@christop73.bsky.social I'll be surprised if my childhood hero folk musician reached you in Indiana in the 80's, but follow bsky.app/profile/chur..., it'll help you through your next 4 years mate.

Rosie found a flock of small hedge sheep

Where I first kayaked and took many other scouts kayaking

The morning grumble from @rosiereviews.bsky.social

Obligatory #snowdogs post.

@rosiereviews.bsky.social
#GSD
#germanshepherd

@rosiereviews.bsky.social says hi.

You sure it's not a Huddersfield Martian?

Obedience club in County Durham with the spare hooman for @rosiereviews.bsky.social then crash on the sofa tonight.
#gsd
#germanshepherd

I didnt know it was operated by a Chinese state majority owned company till today's news. Maybe that's why it runs well.

The sleep of the not-so innocent Diva.
Don't be fooled.
@rosiereviews.bsky.social
#gsd
#germanshepherd

Good Morning Bluesky.
#Middridge
#GSD
#MentalHealth

Rosie is having a busy time at the moment. Keeping on top of @sue-smith.bsky.social recuperation exercise, and reducing my blood pressure by being a dog.

#gsd

My father, a handful of spoons and his journey into dementia Looking through old cutlery was a safe haven for my dad after he became lost in ‘dementia land’

This is the hardest, but most rewarding type of counselling for me work with, clients are caring for loved ones on a long and inevitable journey.
We work on the mental photo album to be left behind for the carer, taking each little win as a photo in the album.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I have got to start my bluesky posts with my two equally crazy reasons to exist.