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🚨 Oxfam and over 100+ humanitarian organizations, incl.
@savethechildren.org, @amnesty.org, @msfincanada.bsky.social & @careintuk.bsky.social, sound the alarm: let aid into #Gaza.

Read our joint statement👉 oxf.am/4o2lY4J

Read Letter from the Genocide, by Haidar Al-Ghazali.

إقرأ رسالة من الإبادة للكاتب حيدر الغزالي.

www.palfest.org/haidar-ghaza...

Over 100 days. That is how long Israel has blocked all but a trickle of aid into Gaza.

Now, fuel is rapidly running out. And no fuel is being allowed into Gaza.

This is not politics. This is survival.

Israeli authorities must urgently lift the siege & ensure #FuelForGaza.

Esther Marfo, tailor extraordinaire

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London people! My talented tailor friend Ester Blessed is offering some terrific discounts next week in her Greenwich Market stall!

Gorgeous waparound skirts between £20-30, dressing gowns £40 & lots more bargains 💛 Please share!

Next Tues, Thurs, Sat 10-5:30 🧵🪡

Israel has crossed red line after red line against the people of #Gaza. And now, an entire population is facing erasure. In our masses, let's build our own red line and demand our government takes action now. Start by tapping SHARE

#RedLineForGaza

People holding a banner that reads "SPEAK UP FOR PALESTINE" and the Oxfam International logo.

🔴 110,000 people formed a red line in Brussels, because in #Gaza, all red lines have long been crossed.

We urge the EU to:

🕊️ Demand a permanent ceasefire
🚑 Ensure full humanitarian access
📉 Suspend the EU-Israel Agreement

The red line is clear. Now the EU must act.

@oxfam.be @11.be @cncd.be

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Appreciate the love and support as always, can’t wait to see what yous think of this book when it drops next month.
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Small hollow terracotta rabbits designed to sit on poles in the garden and lure earwigs into the cool dried grass stuffed into their interior.

Rabbit earwig catchers have lost one ear each - Earwigs' revenge perhaps? #ceramics #rabbits #earwigcatchers

You can hear our lime tree buzz, there are so many bees visiting it.

Two sphere-like white ceramic pots with black lines radiating from a small off centre black ringed opening. White raku glaze with black crackle markings. Each intended for a single flower.

I'm chuffed with my raku pots.

Small, coffee cup with no handle, an elongated pinch pot, with bluey green background and white outlines of jellyfish and air bubbles scratched into the white clay body.

Waving a tentacle (leg? Arm? Dangly thing) at you from a garden in France.

This 5,200-year-old pottery bowl from Shahr-e Sukhteh, Iran may be the oldest cartoon—its images of a wild goat leaping toward a tree create animation of the goat moving when spun.

#art #Ceramics #Pottery

Thank you. My son has now asked for a jellyfish toast/waffle rack so the sea theme will continue!

The kraken is after my cornflakes! #kraken #ceramics

🚨Join the Global Week of Action (GWA) against the French multinational retailer @carrefour.bsky.social
from May 21-28. Demand Carrefour ends its complicity with Israel’s genocidal and apartheid against Palestinians.

Take action now! ➡️ loom.ly/B18T4cU

#BoycottCarrefour

This week, the UK government will appear in court, for continuing to licence arms to Israel. Over 240,000 of you have signed our petition with Global Justice Now.

Add your name, there’s still time #StopArmingIsrael bit.ly/Add_your_name

REACTION: The @theipcinfo.bsky.social finds the risk of famine "increasingly likely" in #Gaza.

Gaza’s starvation is not incidental—it is deliberate, entirely engineered, and has now created the largest population facing starvation in the world.

👉Our full reaction oxf.am/3SwvfDr

Gaza has endured over 18 months of Israeli bombs, many dropped from fighter jets that the UK is supplying parts for. Over 52,000 people have been killed. The UK government are complicit in these atrocities. This has to stop. Now.
#StopArmingIsrael

White bowls with blue tentacles legs creeping into the inside of the bowl.

White bowls with blue tentacles legs creeping into the inside of the bowl. View of the inner.

Octopus or Kraken? Bowls awaiting final glazing #octopus #pottery #kraken

Netanyahu — wanted by the ICC for war crimes — has declared plans to ethnically cleanse Palestinians and annex Gaza.

This follows 64 days of starving a besieged population by blocking food and aid.

The UK must implement a full arms embargo and expel the Israeli Ambassador NOW.

Israel has dropped more bombs in Gaza than fell on London, Dresden & Hamburg combined during WWII [𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘈𝘧𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴].

Read that & consider that Gaza is, on average, only 5 miles wide & 25 miles in length.

Life expectancy has dropped from 75.5 years in 2023 to 40.6 years now [𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘵].

Genocide.

Slightly wobbly pottery handleless mugs decorated with scraffitto jellyfish.

Jellyfish tumblers. #ceramics

“Now we are back into the cycle of death and famine.” – Mohammed, Oxfam in Gaza
Israel has resumed its airstrikes on Gaza, breaching the ceasefire agreement. Mohammed reflects on the impact of this on his family.
Call for a permanent ceasefire now: bit.ly/4hmgn5z

YouTube video by vlogbrothers What's at Stake

I don't know much about helicopters or stars. But I know a lot about one thing. youtu.be/PBjQgizWRBA?...

60 years ago, a girl called Caroline posed for the illustrations in ‘Levers, Pulleys and Engines’ (1963)
It was important to the editor that boy and girls should be equal participants in the experiments. Caroline was his daughter

International Day of Women In Science

Trump has now asked Elon Musk to examine US defence spending. Elon Musk’s companies have multi billion dollar contracts with the Department of Defense and are seeking more. The BBC’s Today Programme just reported the first part, without mentioning the second. Unacceptable

If an Israeli - or British or American etc - woman who was eight months pregnant was shot dead by any other military, the whole world would know her name. Her name was Sondos Jamal Muhammad Shalabi. She was 23.

Photograph of a warehouse in Kinshasa where unboxed tuberculosis medications are going undistributed due to the stop work order by the Trump Administration.

Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order.
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

The image has a three-line sentence on a white background. The text reads, "Lie about your birthday," with emojis scattered around, including a monkey covering its mouth, a smiling face doing the same, a party popper, and a cake with candles.

Our designer is out of office but here’s your daily privacy reminder 🫶
themarkup.org/gentle-janua...