Rob Galpin

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 32% (=)
GRN: 17% (+2)
CON: 16% (-1)
LAB: 16% (=)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 2% (=)

Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 29 Oct.
Changes w/ 22 Oct.

Deer Lake I've been waiting to find my way back. I can not be the same person who watched the pine and oakwood age. Getting here I passed through blackthorn like mist. I do not mean I became the mist. In the café the girl is slowly sweeping the floor. The way back will be the test of it: the blackthorn, the red mass of haws - and the rain, its black towers over the lake.

Poem of change and renewal
#poem #poetry

The congregation. Masses of ne'er-do-wells not pictured.

Do we really expect five-year-olds to sit at desks? I want a school that understands play is learning | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett In England, young children go from glitter clay and building dens to classrooms a Victorian would recognise – and that system is failing many of them, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Reminder: it is the policy of @greenparty.org.uk that formal schooling start two years later, when children are ready.

Cyrrent system sets kids up to "fail": no they are not "school-ready". They are too young

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It is way past time for the UK government & the BBC to get off X & for Musk to be treated as a threat to national security.

The world's richest man is using his site to promote civil war, ethnic violence & the overthrow of an elected government.

You won't win him over with another conference on AI

That’s Elon Musk, Fellow of the Royal Society, I’ll have you know. Because the Royal Society can only seem to come up with throat-clearing noises as a response to these sorts of statements instead of actually throwing him out.

I will be listening to all seven unlabelled TDKs I got from Oxfam in Reading, from beginning to end. Even though two are D120s and the eighth one is labelled "Charles Wesley Hymn Choir 16 April 1994 Maidenhead"

Reform UK would seize control of civil servants just like Trump in US, says Kruger – UK politics live Former Conservative MP, who defected last month, sets out Reeform’s plan to change how government and civil service operate

American fascism is the Reform blueprint for Britain. Unlike the US we need to fight NOW so the grifters never get into power. Join/support the only political force taking on racist, fascist Reform without compromise: @greenparty.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social
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BBC: Jeremy Corbyn to make came in drag pantomime

I knew we would get to "british news outlets pretending not to know what panto is" eventually

...unless this is exactly what they want?

lovely, really tactile - love all the odd details

To this point, the top eight news stories served by Google News this morning, from six sources, are all about asylum seekers. To call the British news media unfit for purpose would be charitable.

Hey #promptcombo crew 👋🏼

Thanks to @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for hosting last week. This week's prompt is #DreamLogic.

Tag me & use the #. Replies will be a little sporadic initially, but I know the community will be out in force, supporting each other as ever ☺️

Unbelievable - almost have a feeling of desperation over what to do with them all!

An allotment garden on a chilly October afternoon. It's looking a bit rough round the edges but still lush and colourful. A gravel and brick path leads to a polytunnel. Red apples hang from a tree to the left and the grass is dotted with more.

The #autumn #allotment looking a bit bedraggled. Yet more apples to collect...
#AllotmentGardening #OrganicGardening #orchard

October Afterglow, 1885, painting by Leeds-born John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-93). #NorthernArt

I think I might have a new favourite poem... 🙂

'The artist known as Zack Polanski must be stopped, stopped from holding me in his big strong arms and kissing me on my forehead as he tucks me in for the night, his twinkling eyes promising happiness in the years to come'

The right have got a big ol' crush and it's making them get all Twilighty.

https://write.as/robgalpin/still-life-of-76-apples
Endless apples.
#poem #poetry #apples #orchard #allotment

Thanks so much Debra!

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Endless apples
#poem #poetry #apples #orchard #allotments

I know it, one of his best I think - I've got the 1988 LP, shame it hasn't had a reissue recently

Tarka and Bunting I’m not sure why I’ve never read  Tarka the Otter  before now. One of my favourite books as a kid was  The Little Grey Men   by ‘BB’ (publis...

Excellent thread. I wrote a bit about Tarka and Williamson's views a while back. I loved Tarka and was absolutely astonished when I found out. burnedge.blogspot.com/2020/12/tark...

‘I was contaminated’: study reveals how hard it is to avoid pesticide exposure Silicone wristbands worn by volunteers in the Netherlands captured 173 substances in one week

There is no escape on this #PoisonedPlanet.

"Pesticides are ubiquitous, not only in agricultural areas but also in environments far from crop fields".

And we're just starting to grasp implications for #PublicHealth

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...just one of those funny coincidences I guess, that it was this extremely high profile black migrant they accidentally let go, and not some random white dude. What are the chances eh?

Perfect! I'll get storyboarding now 😄

Ha, cheers Rachel! I'll have to start planning the sequel!

a pumpkin with a face carved into it is lit up ALT: a pumpkin with a face carved into it is lit up

Can you manage a plastic free Halloween?

Skip the balloons, they all end up in the woods and rivers around your home.

Skip the plastic trinkets and random bollocks, it’s all destined for landfill.

You’re never wearing that plastic costume again, and neither are your kids.

Make something real.

Thanks Karen!