Winny May

Ten things I don’t like

1 Anthropocentrism
2 Exploitation & Discrimination
3 Climate Deniers
4 Weaponry
5 Stained cups
6 Overripe tomatoes
7 Shreddies
8 Brie
9 Flags
10 ‘Patriotic’ nut-jobs

The preacherman-o-sphere: the religious misogynists exploiting our charity sector - The Freethinker Last year, a video went viral on social media. It featured a young man explaining that a woman…

'Misogyny is undeniably present in too many religious charities—and is, in effect, being subsidised by public funds via tax breaks and sometimes Gift Aid,' says Megan Manson of the National Secular Society. @natsecsoc.bsky.social

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So much shite comes out of the BBC, they think they can broadcast anything and get away with it…Take Bruce & Kuenssberg for example

Whether Trump is successful or not I doubt if he will be, at least it might make the BBC think twice about what they are putting out.

That is my only comment

Aww love her, Downtown is the first song I can remember on the huge radio in our kitchen

On the face of it this looks perfectly harmless but on a deeper level the desire to hunt for entertainment (including fishing) displays the barbaric side of the human psyche. Unless it is specifically for food all forms of hunting should discouraged and in most cases banned

YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski Whether it's Zohran Mamdani or Claudia Sheinbaum, there is a progressive movement rejecting fascism

The best, succinct, and simplest statement about right and left politics. The right start with fear the Zack Polanski starts with hope, facts, and science. Every Reform supporter should watch this short, Zack makes it clear and simple.
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Millstone in Giverny - 1886
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110404

Here’s the cover to my forthcoming book—what do you think, friends?
Amazing to work with @parallax.org

The book is for anyone who cares about democracy and wants to do what they can to promote both inner and outer freedom.

Will keep you posted about upcoming events!

#mindfulness #democracy

This BBC kids tv advert from 1998 is still very impressive and very lovely

Something I saw today…
#photography

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Things I saw today…
#photography

The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of "independent existence." There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.
― Alfred North Whitehead

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Awww they are really pretty love spiders 🕷️

One of the boys called me over to look at something by saying ‘ere Double Decker look at this then looked over at my mum went red and said oops 😂 My mum looked at him sharply and said It’s all right Alan I know all about it…then we all had a good laugh

I would not say it was cool but when I was at secondary school some of the boys used to call me Double Decker because I was on the large side (I didn’t mind I used to call them a lot worse) one day we went on a school to the Cutty Sark and some of the mums went along to help out including mine 1/2

An oak tree shadow in bluebells

Shivelight & Shadowtackle

Fast changing shafts of sunlight filtering through the canopy of a wood

Words created by the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins

In the case of our oaks that would be ‘fast moving Ents running through the wood’ 🌳👀

Don’t knock it completely, AI will most likely be involved it the next evolutionary ‘Great Leap Forward’ we are well overdue, the last one was about 55,000 years ago

Deep concentration is required, she doesn’t want to lose the moment 😆

You'd think she'd look a bit happier.

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WASPI - least deserving campaign ever

A purple flower stretches upward, growing from a crack in the sidewalk concrete

Like a stubborn bloom
Living in cracks of concrete
You cannot kill hope.

#poetry #Haiku

Photo by Stockcake

On any given day, sometimes I see the bridge, but mostly I see the reflection 😊

I would not say I trusted him exactly, and I never felt the sense of anticipation and excitement that was around when Blair was elected in ‘97 but it feels at the moment that we are back in November 2021 with Cummings & Johnson and I did hope they would be above that

That must mean the Queen knew that in the very near future he was to be known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor so she made sure it would be hyphenated…or perhaps she was looking to the time the whole family will just be known as Mountbatten-Windsor 😂

Missed this on #ThickTrunkTuesday so I am calling it #WonderfulWednesday the texture and grain on that trunk absolutely beautiful 🌳🤗

I know art is subjective and I do love Monet, but whenever I see this I cannot make out what it is I am looking at..is it it the bridge through the sun and the mist or is it a reflection on the water. Wish I had a copy of it on my wall, I would spend hours looking at it trying to figure it out