Gillian Gower, PhD

ughhhhh

over and over they say it out loud: big ideas for the elite class, and only widget grunts for the working people.

ideas are for everybody. art is for everybody. education is for everybody.

The radical revival of the Welsh women’s hat Learn more about the traditional Welsh women's hat, a historic symbol of resistance.

If you are unfamiliar with het Gymreig, please enjoy

May your Welsh cakes be delicious and your Welsh hats be weird

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus to all who celebrate 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

In order to understand UK politics in 2026 you must realise that a plumber & plasterer doesn't represent the interests of the working class because she is left-wing but a wealthy broadcaster & former academic does represent the interests of the working class because he is right-wing. Hope this helps

Water your word documents once weekly, preferably with your tears

This image from 1588 shows a tree with big bound books grewing instead of fruits. This tree starts in a house organ that is played from a well-dressed woman and a man. The image of part of. abook praising the art of making books, you may find it here if you fancy: http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/uh-20/start.htm

Back in 1588, everyone still knew that book trees grow better when there's music around, and when you speak to them. Attention and house organ music were the key.

Yes in this particular moment the blame is 99.9% on Republicans. A dozen R’s in Congress could together end this presidency now

I understand what you’re getting at but with sincere respect, I don’t think this is the right time or place for you and I to talk about this

I try really hard to be empathetic to people who are frightened but the way some of you are willing to excuse the murder of other people’s children as long as they don’t look like yours is appalling

This goes for terrorist organizations, too. And while I’m covering my bases, I don’t think children forced or groomed into becoming soldiers deserve the death penalty, either.

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It is so fucking exhausting that if you ever say “maybe the party that I’ve voted for in every election at every level since I became a citizen 20 years ago COULD BETTER REFLECT MY WISHES,” legions of these stafferbots show up with “they don’t have they votes and I’ll bet YOU DIDNT EVEN VOTE.”

it turns out those of us that are politically engaged have opinions and those opinions don’t preclude us from voting for the best option available. wild shit, I know.

I wonder if a hard-line successor will assume power and further destabilize the region just like every other time this has happened

I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.

That’s how you do it.

It’s been terrifying to have almost every year in the past 20 years be a lesson in how many people with power make decisions about who lives and dies with little thought or care or even a clear idea as to why they’re doing anything, and it’s terrifying that it seems to be getting worse

I have no idea what I Posted about yesterday, let alone last month! I am not a PR firm! I do not have to issue a notes app statement every time I read something horrible in the virtual newspaper!

Yes, it is the natural order of the Discourse

As you know, I must first condemn this social media atrocity before I am permitted to discuss the rest of the atrocities

Newsflash: You are not legally or morally obligated to disavow all of the atrocities happening across the globe before getting angry about the atrocity the US government is currently doing

It’s bad that Iran bombed a civilian airport in Kuwait! Can I be angry that my own government started this now?

Oh my god, are we really doing “You can’t publicly criticize attacking Iran unless you also publicly criticized the Iranian government for murdering protesters”? Really???

Once again, you can think that a country’s government is very bad without also thinking that the children of that country deserve to die for their government’s sins.

Your opposition to war can just be that war is evil. it doesn’t have to be more complicated than that.

[John Oliver voice] Cool.

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