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President Piggy This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.

"The fact that many men believe they no longer even have to pretend to respect women in order to participate in public life makes it unlikely that anything will change anytime soon. The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

Bianca is testing the air.

I have purchased a scythe, and when it turns up, I plan to single-handedly mow our paddock and make hay the traditional way.

An open-faced pale pink rose with yellow stamen centered. Two roses facing away are dark pink on their backs. Grungey concrete backdrop.

Found the owl!! In return,have an image of a rose I need to plant this weekend:

A red and white Hereford cross beef beast stands half facing the camera, while a smaller red and white heifer browses the grass below.

Evening conversation with Beefies. The herd (of two) is now called Simply Red, as they can no longer be labled The Beefie Boys.

But where in the world would you go? The whole world is burning, in so many ways.

Deuteronomy's Liberation Theology how it can teach us to expand our vision for tomorrow

Another great read from @theradr.bsky.social Rabbj Ruttenberg: Deuteronomy’s Liberation Theology - and its lessons for us on creating a vision of wholeness for our own tomorrow www.lifeisasacredtext.com/p/11dade2c-6...

Today's poll offered "other living situation", which I chose. Next question was, "Do you have any grandchildren?" Seriously, are we still living in a society that defaults to offspring? Am I less real because I don't have kids? Less valid? /end_rant

I like filling in marketing surveys. I like giving curmudgeonly feedback on inane ads. I don't like when you get to the "And now about you" bit, and the option for household is "young couple, no kids" or (after all manner of options with kids) "older couple, no kids at home".

Golden coloured twigs against a blue sky and blurry green landscape. There are leaves starting to sprout.

I had the priviledge of watching our local family of paradise ducklings practise a fly-past this morning. Then they landed, and got feedback from their father, who marched up and down in front of the straight line of young'uns.

For every-day use, it has to be something round and with serifs. Garramond, Palatino Linotype, Bookman Old Stlye and Georgia are my go-tos.

This? This is my post! I have dug (am digging) the holes by hand because, well, why not? There's no hurry to get the gate in, I get exercise, and somewhat off-set my neighbour's incessant lawn mowing with his noisy ride-on. I'm thinking of taking up a scythe. #slow_living #slow_farming

Two blowsy pink roses (Damascene) against a green background.

A pearly pink bud against a bright blue sky.

A full rose blossom fading from a yellow centre to pink edges.

Spring is springing at Etheldredastowe, and I finally remembered I should post here. Expect a lot of garden talk.

I got 1. Only because I was never cool enough to own a boom box.

Don’t Just Do Nothing 🔥 Nov 24, 2024 - From Anarchist News - From It's Going Down Original title:

Reposting this because it’s consistently a thing that makes resistance feel like something that can be and in fact already is part of my everyday life.

Two of the Works of Mercy (based on Matthew's Gospel): welcoming the stranger and feeding the hungry, as represented in the medieval frescoes of the Baptistery in Parma.
Some of the responsibilities of being born and baptized into, you know, a S-O-C-I-E-T-Y

No government can ever feasibly choose to ignore climate change or pandemics. You can't stop physics or biology by pretending that they don't exist. The only real choice governments make is how badly they and their people will suffer.

Trump’s anti-trans Executive Order is bad BUT it technically defines everyone as female. It states:

“'Female' means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell."

Since all fetuses "at conception" are female, Trump just defined EVERYONE as female.

Feel. Then Do. our work in this new era

So, I found @theradr.bsky.social in my early days here (some time late last year). She has been a great source of knowledge and learning, and this post is a calm, considered call to action. We need more than "thoughts and prayers" right now.
www.lifeisasacredtext.com/inauguration/

My letter in today's @theguardian.com on the government's rampant enthusiasm for so-called AI.

Many reasons for concern, from embedding our current failed systems to environmental impacts

#Discrimination #Inequality #ClimateEmergency

Slide by @toderianUW.bsky.social saying “Adding car lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.“ – Lewis Mumford, 1955

It's a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history. Please share it as much as you can. #InducedDemand

Close up of a basket with approx 20 peaches.

View over the water tank of my legs, a glass of ice tea, green hills and blye sky.

There's probably some important life lesson about how much easier it is to plant things than to keep weeding and tidying existing plants. Yet the tended plants are the ones which yield fruit.
Sponsored by ice tea, a newly-planted flowerbed, a harvest of peaches, and grass cutting.

Two tabby kittens, one light and one dark, climbing a scratching post in seach of a toy mouse being dangled by a mostly off-screen human.

My hand-spun yarn got thoroughly tested by the Sisters of Chaos today. Picture the laser lights of a high-tech security system - crisscrossed over the living and dining rooms. I was only outside for half an hour!

Birthdays are hard. I really enjoyed talking with your brother the couple of times I met him. Sending hugs.

Facebook Destroys Everything: Part 1 In Southeast Asia in the early 2010s, I watched as Mark Zuckerberg's creation began to destroy Myanmar. Here's why I'm never using Threads.

I wrote about why Mark Zuckerberg is spectacularly evil in a three-part series here - based in part on my experiences reporting in Myanmar in the early 2010s.

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Hemispherical mosaic glass bowl viewed from above. It measures 13.2 cm in diameter and 7.5 cm in height. The glass is composed of sections of star patterned cane in blue, purple (looks black in my photo), and green, which appear as a floral pattern. The bowl has a black and white spiral rim. Made in the eastern Mediterranean about 200-100 BC. The bowl has been reconstructed and blue glass fragments which do not belong to this vessel have been used to fill missing areas.

This lovely Hellenistic mosaic glass bowl looks so modern, yet it was made over 2,000 years ago!

Ancient glassmakers created the tiny flower pattern using a technique now known as ‘millefiori’ (thousand flowers). A timeless design still made by glassmakers today!

British Museum 📷 me

#Archaeology

A classic Tabby in prime position on a blue chair, facing off a caramel tabby trying to assail her position.

I find myself having to use the word "rapscallion" more often than usual these days. Meet Bianca (lighter) and Nyx (tabbier).

Profile of a grey cat, nose and eats pointing up.

Caspian, a.k.a Mr Helpful-pants, left us for a place with no suffering on Wednesday. He is now sleeping in the Roseary, wrapped in his favourite blanket. The world is an empty place.

Sounds delicious! I'm going to try it this season.