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$150 OVERDUE ELECTRIC BILL B4 SHUTOFF URGENT!
Then ~$650 rest of rent, utilities, food, meds, hygiene, bills.
(Also $40 gas for side gigs RN.)

Disabled. Queer. Trans wife too disabled to work. Full time but it only covers rent. 84 ppl $10 each.

Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2025

$60 FOOD RN URGENT B/C THEY'RE OUT.
$315 TOTAL TO GO AUGUST FOOD, MEDS, HYGIENE.

Disabled. Chronically ill. Can't drive. Lesbian. Only supportive family member died last year. 6 ppl $10 each is good. Any combo ppl x $$ = $315 is better.

Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2025

Free Palestine graffiti

Marrakesh
South central Medina

I was interested to see (via Kew Gardens) that Palestine produced 75% of the world's medicinal and culinary poppy seeds in 2022. What price opioid pain relief and poppy bread now?

If I lived nearby, I would be fucking furious.

#BookTour #AuthorEvents #TomCox #EverythingWillSwallowYou #Booksky💙📚

Will you let me know, please?

Financer la licence de Batool Abu Akleen, poétesse gazaouie Batool Abu Akleen est une poétesse palestinienne de 20 ans vivant à Gaza. Elle a été acceptée en troisième année de licence au sein du Département de Cinéma de la Sorbonne Nouvelle à partir de septemb...

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Check out my state of the art greywater recycling system! Cost: £3 from Screwfix.

Now I can reuse the water from my washing machine and kitchen sink in the garden during the hosepipe ban. (Obviously I'll be using ecofriendly detergents to try to protect the soil and plants as much as I can).

Come and visit our pop-up library!

Open from 2pm to 4pm today, we have plenty of books for children, teen and young adult readers to borrow, as well as a summer reading challenge 📚

Bearing in mind the importance of Wikipedia as a fact checking resource this is a bad mistake.
Rewrite the legislation please @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

#AnimalLovers 2026 Calendars to support the sanctuary - that's a win-win.

~$25 USD per calendar. Shipping is ~$20 USD for one, ~$30 USD for multiples.

Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2025

Such a brutal underscoring: anemone coronaria is identified as the national flower of both Palestine and israel.

The hot, dry weather hastens every bloom.

Do you mean the poppy anemone, Anemone coronaria? These are from Peter Nyssen. (They should be neonic free, I think.) ❤️

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For anyone else who might need it today, a story from #OldFox'sCottage by @annelouiseavery.bsky.social.

Like Wolf, we can lose sight of it all too easily, and every day is a good day to be reminded,

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
~ Helen Keller

Gleaners Coming Home (1904)
🎨 George Clausen

What ARE we doing?

Children. So far into starvation they need medical care as well as food.

Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2025

Poor Dorset! I wish the firefighters safety and success.
#HoltHeath

There are roses which are 'fast of their scent,' requiring to be held to the nose; and others which generously spread themselves upon the summer air. #gardening
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Souvenir du Docteur Jamain is an old Hybrid Perpetual [1865] I am rather proud of having rescued from extinction. I found him growing against the office wall of an old nursery; no one knew what he was; no one seemed to care; #gardening
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They said I could have the old plant if I liked to risk moving it. I risked it; it bore the move, and has turned out to be Souvenir du Docteur Jamain, a climbing hybrid perpetual almost lost to cultivation. It strikes easily from cuttings. #gardening
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Docteur Jamain is a deep red, not very large flowers, but so sweetly and sentimentally scented. #gardening
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I think Docteur Jamain should not be planted in too sunny a place. He burns. A south-west aspect suits him better than full-south. #gardening
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Some writers would call it nostalgically scented, meaning everything that burying one’s nose into the heart of a rose meant in one’s childhood or in one’s adolescence when one first discovered poetry, or the first time one fell in love. #gardening

We used to have some in the garden. It's delightful.