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A Galloway Burn in June Dorothy Margaret Paulin Brown burn water dropping Between the grey stones, The lapse and the murmur, The bright overtones Of cuckoo and curlew And faraway trill Of a lark; great blue shadows Stride over the hill: Breeze and bird-call are blended With murmur of bees; Sun and wind stroke the grasses And finger the trees. Is it sunlight or greenlight? This shimmer of leaves; Is it seeing or dreaming, The dapple that weaves Across the brown water That murmurs and spills Through the grey stones forever Among the green hills?

Brown burn water dropping
Between the grey stones,
The lapse and the murmur,
The bright overtones
Of cuckoo and curlew…

—Dorothy Margaret Paulin (1904–1982)
from Springtime by Loch Ken, & other poems (J.H. Maxwell Ltd., 1963)
#poem #poetry
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/gallowa...

A groundbreaking documentary on ME/CFS is now available to international audiences German investigative documentary on ME/CFS, Chronically Ill – Chronically Ignored, is now available for international audiences online.

A groundbreaking documentary on ME/CFS is now available to international audiences

German investigative documentary on ME/CFS, Chronically Ill – Chronically Ignored, is now available for international audiences online.
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

A young disabled person just shamed Treasury secretary Darren Jones over DWP PIP cuts A young, disabled resident of Treasury secretary Darren Jones's Bristol constituency just took him to task over calling DWP PIP 'pocket money'

A young disabled person just shamed Treasury secretary Darren Jones over DWP PIP cuts

Gigi, a resident of Treasury secretary Darren Jones's Bristol constituency, just took him to task over calling DWP PIP 'pocket money'
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

Publish more of this transphobic garbage from this bigoted "journalist" and keep on wondering why you have to keep begging for money on every webpage.

Natural and Supernatural in Early Medieval England Cambridge Core - European Studies - Natural and Supernatural in Early Medieval England

Free to download from the publisher until June 13th. Grab it while you can, #AcademicSky!

A set of eight rectangular cookies arranged on a square white plate against a dark wooden background. Each cookie is inspired by a wallpaper design by Morris & Co. The patterns represented feature different floral and leaf shapes in shades of baby blue, soft pink, leafy green, mustard yellow, cream, and dark grey.

Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵

First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.

BlackRock’s corporate creep just hit a new low. They’re suing UnitedHealth in the US for giving “too much care” to patients after the CEO’s murder—because it hurt their profits.
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If anyone's looking for evidence they can look at Scotland.

Scotland's wealthy were *constantly* threatening to move to England if taxed more, possibly the easiest move anyone could do to avoid tax.

Even the Scottish Government's own estimates of how many would actually do so were far too high.

A painting of a bird next to the words "did you think I would just forget about all that shit you did?"

Consortium led by RedBird Capital agrees to buy Telegraph for £500m Deal with US private equity company will end two years of uncertainty over future of titles

This week it was announced that the UK's Daily Telegraph - which is notorious for publishing climate science denial & climate misinformation - will be sold to Redbird Capital, a company which has invested millions in fossil fuels...

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m... /1

I’ve just finished @goingmedieval.bsky.social’s excellent The Once and Future Sex, and I’m here to recommend it to you all: it’s engaging, interesting, and the final chapter is a call to recognise and challenge the patriarchal structures around us. This passage particularly resonated with me:

Vote NO on H.R. 26 Text SIGN PTBXLE to 50409 to send this to your officials.

Trying to make it illegal to stop fracking, and therefore our environment will continue to degrade, oh and don’t forget the water crisis that fracking causes.

Oppose this bill. Sign and share

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1/2 Cuts to support for disabled and long-term sick people would be devastating and are absolutely wrong on their own terms. But their effect is more pernicious than that, as I explain in this excerpt from a speech I gave to an anti-disability benefits cuts demo in Norwich recently.

BREAKING: new DWP figures show PIP fraud is still virtually zero Liz Kendall thinks people are 'taking the mickey' out of the DWP - but once again, her own figures on PIP show this is a lie

BREAKING: new DWP figures show PIP fraud is still virtually zero

Liz Kendall thinks people are 'taking the mickey' out of the DWP - but once again, her own figures on PIP show this is a lie. @rachelcdailey.bsky.social has the story
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Labour MP raises the epidemic of male suicide. Here's how Finland halved its rate. 75% of UK people who die by suicide are men. But in Finland, the country halved its suicide rate through a national strategy

Labour MP raises the epidemic of male suicide. Here's how Finland halved its rate.

75% of UK people who die by suicide are men. But in Finland, the country halved its suicide rate through a national strategy
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

pretty cheeky to try to conflate the Labour Party with the labour movement, which hasn't been meaningfully represented by the party in a long, long time

Get your useless leader to sort his principles out then or get rid of him.
If your party decides we do not have rights then expect a reply from trans people.
Labour was founded to stand up for the have nots in society. It needs to return to those principles or they're finished.

If this had been in a centrist-/right-voting constituency I'd have understood, but given it wasn't it was just bizarre.

Their obsession with this tactic fascinates me.

I'm in a left-leaning constituency and in 2019 I got an "Only Labour can stop the SNP" leaflet through the door, when a week earlier I'd got the SNP leaflet that - unlike Labour's - promised an opposition to austerity. Why would I want to stop that?

Labour Right sabotaged every general election since Miliband. They didn't want to be in government. That's partly why we had Tories for 14 years. When Cameron won again in 2015, he was really surprised. He quit soon after the Brexit vote.

Starmer's Enoch Powell impression shows he's the most dishonest politician in our history Compare to what Keir Starmer was saying just a few years ago

A few years ago, Keir Starmer suggested Jeremy Corbyn wasn't pro-immigration enough.

Now Starmer sounds like Enoch Powell.

The most dishonest frontline politician in UK democratic history 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/starmers-e...

Whoa! Starmer has lost the centrists! Ian Dunt has turned on Starmer! 😮

We need an official investigation. Everything, money, influence, media.

How did Mr People's Vote become no rejoin?
How did Mr Socialist I Support Corbyn become Mr Fascist I Will Compete With Tories for Reform voters?

Finally got around to writing to my mp

Petition: Ensure plurality of political coverage across UK broadcast media at all times We want to ensure that a plurality of views from all political parties in Westminster are represented and the nations parliaments are heard all year round, not just election times. The rules for cover...

In the early 80s the SDP Liberal Alliance was at 50% in the polls. But the media didn’t spend day after day saying Roy Jenkins or David Steel were certain to walk into no.10. That’s the difference now. Propaganda on an industrial scale. Sign the petition
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Are you a scientist or other relevant academically qualified expert?

Please join other experts & sign this letter confirming the fact that sex is not binary, to the UK Minister for Women & Equalities

▪️Please repost so everyone is aware & share with any expert you know:

Oh! And another neat tool I love to share is Kiln Share. If you don't have your own kiln you can locate individuals in your area who rent them out

Keir Starmer is primarily known for two things - kicking pensioners and disabled people.

Absent of any vision for the country, he's paving the way for Nigel Farage to end up in No. 10.

New post:

www.owenjones.news/p/labour-hea...

Petition: Stop "gender critical beliefs" being protected under the Equality Act We think removing the protection of the Equality Act for "gender critical beliefs" could better protect trans, non-binary and gender diverse people. It could support organisations to properly protect ...

Please sign petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

David and Robin are joined by the very insightful and entertaining @justinleeanderson.com to discuss his wealth of experience of the publishing industry, providing great insight on various topics, in particular treatments of Politics and Religion in SFF

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This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic

www.crabmuseum.org/visit

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