'Taking the air' is a very lovely thing to do. Time well spent for you all. Have a good one π
01.11.2025 09:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0@nomudnolotus.bsky.social
Thinking critically about trauma and social justice based on lived experience. Partly retired trauma therapist, trainer and author. Buddhism, nature, words and images.
'Taking the air' is a very lovely thing to do. Time well spent for you all. Have a good one π
01.11.2025 09:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Indigenous voices βindispensableβ to avoid climate catastrophe, UN secretary-general tells SumaΓΊma in world exclusive.
AntΓ³nio Guterres says humanity must change course because 1.5C overshoot is now βinevitableβ. And with that comes βdevastating consequences.β
sumauma.com/en/secretari...
Farage: epic grifter
27.10.2025 12:45 β π 7384 π 4102 π¬ 205 π 370Thank you, from one born mid-1950s. Keep on pushing.
26.10.2025 16:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Same dog, without the wig.
22.10.2025 14:22 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0To be absolutely clear, it is impossible to vote for a party that cannot bring itself to unequivocally defend the rights of people living and working legally in this country. Because arbitrary removal of legal rights, or sudden varying of terms, for some is ultimately a threat to everyone.
21.10.2025 10:13 β π 433 π 113 π¬ 7 π 5CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
I can relate to this!
19.10.2025 07:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Three *men* have been charged with rape. That's all. The poor woman, just imagine.
17.10.2025 12:06 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0They just don't want migrants. Everything else is obfuscation.
17.10.2025 11:00 β π 237 π 72 π¬ 17 π 2Oh yes, absolutely. It's a vulnerability that makes you human.
16.10.2025 21:17 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District & wild places could be bulldozed for development. Once gone, they're gone forever. Join in the fight to protect them... 38d.gs/rezg
15.10.2025 11:53 β π 11 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0I agree absolutely. This is what I teach. I think we all have parts (complex multi-faceted personalities) just not always dissociated ones.
14.10.2025 07:03 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I come across this in my work, and truly it's often awful, abusive stuff. I wish I knew how to stop it but yes, the courts must recognise and handle it better.
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14.10.2025 06:34 β π 32 π 17 π¬ 0 π 0To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent β persistence β is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
14.10.2025 06:40 β π 1104 π 487 π¬ 47 π 28In any normally functioning democracy, Farageβs political career would now be over. You would have to invoke unbelievable levels of naivety and stupidity for Farage to dodge this one - and sadly for him such qualities are not on the person specification for the job of Prime Minister.
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Really worth listening to this discussion about Gestalt therapy which is little understood, but, I think plays an important role in relational therapy especially in trauma.
13.10.2025 08:34 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0He didn't lose anything because it wasn't a competition.
10.10.2025 15:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0And atmospheric! I'm fen too, your image is very recognisable.
10.10.2025 15:12 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0That is perfectly Fen.
10.10.2025 12:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0My GP practice has had an online access system called AskMyGP for some years. It works brilliantly. Generally get some sort of response in an hour or so, to arrange whatever consultation is needed, often on the same day. Why can't all practices do this?
10.10.2025 07:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Exactly - me too!
09.10.2025 16:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Unforgivable.
08.10.2025 07:51 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Dadβs books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending itβs their own fault. So I hope Kemiβs taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
07.10.2025 12:46 β π 7819 π 1986 π¬ 141 π 38She was arrested for holding a sign reading:
βI do not support the proscription of Palestine Actionβ
How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law theyβve been forced to enforce.
Here is a thing that I hear from *almost every British Jew I know* but have barely heard expressed in any of these programmes: No single person has done more to make Jewish people globally less safe than Benjamin Netanyahu.
05.10.2025 09:33 β π 1035 π 250 π¬ 38 π 13This is truly chilling, and goes waaaay beyond immigration. When you have political parties saying that you don't need lawyers, courts, judges etc because the government cannot make mistakes absolutely everyone should be worrying. What starts with one group tends to expand to others.
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