Sam 🍉 😷

People still think it was as simple as “Anna got sick, she went on disability, all is well.”

No, Anna got sick, had to leave her job she loved, lived both with crushing poverty and crushing physical symptoms, got treated like absolute human waste by her government, and still got no help.”

Thought for Oct from 'A Spell in the Wild' by Alice Tarbuck.
"We cannot work with the world as we wish it to be. We cannot do magic only when the air is clear, only on the tops of remote hills, only with the purest herbs.

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It’s almost crunch time. Next week Peers will vote for or against swift bricks. To help swifts, please email steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk & james.cleverly.mp@parliament.uk who are crucial to the decision. Ask them to SAVE OUR SWIFTS ‼️put SWIFT BRICKS in the subject line 🙏

Here’s food for thought, had Ahab time to think; but Ahab never thinks; he only feels, feels, feels

Sign the Petition Stop Eviction of Baschea Walsh

An important one for #Ghosts fans.

Liked the themes of home, safety, and found family in the wholesome BBC series?

Then maybe sign this petition to stop someone getting chucked out of her home over a cash grab around it: c.org/ZRk8DjCPJz

In old England the greatest lords think it great glory to be slapped by a queen

My time to shine

Pigeons aren’t pests and neither am I

Today’s affirmation:

And his minimisation of Gulf War Syndrome, obviously

Was thinking about Wessely's letter to the government about Camelford, his Spiked article about 9/11 first responders, and thinking "overdiagnosis" and stopping people getting "too much" help has basically been his entire career

Another foxy photo this evening ~ Bonus of a second fox in this capture and did not know it was there when taking the photo as the light had almost gone 🤩🦊 #ukwildlife #mammals #fox #wildlife #foxlove #redfox #foxlife #cutefox #bluesky #naturephotography #naturetherapy
@foxeveryhour.bsky.social

Splash
Linus Woods ~ Lakota, Ojibwe
n.d.

No one has yet invented a term that describes
how a person feels after a genocide ends,
after living through its events for exactly two years…
and surviving only with their soul.
The genocide is over,
and I don’t know how I feel.

We need preventative medicine back - which includes making covid boosters available freely to ANYONE who wants one - which means masking in healthcare at the very least, which means a focus on clean air in schools, hospitals, workplaces. You can't limit long covid without limiting covid infections.

YouTube video by Polly Atkin Companions of Nature: from sickbed consolations to mimic hootings

It's taken over 24 hours to get this uploaded with passable captions, but here's my talk from last night @cumbriauni.bsky.social with @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social on #TheCompanyOfOwls and #DorothyWordsworth. Including some terrible slights on robins, and blackbird impressions. youtu.be/goiC3hhlsx4

Attended two excellent conference presentations today about health misinformation, while also noticing about 5 other masks and lots of past tensing the pandemic while coughing, because 2025.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Greta doing what she's doing for Gaza really puts a spotlight on all the big climate scientists who've never once said 'genocide is bad for the environment.' The people who once shared stages with her now don't even retweet her. Bankrupt centrism

Was kind of enjoying The Hack then Alisdair Campbell, the man himself, turned up in it. Have people forgotten what a scumbag he is? You can't despise Blair and tolerate Campbell, just because one is more self aware than the other.

Patricia Routledge as Kitty in Victoria Wood's As Seen On TV. A middle aged woman sitting in an armchair in a sparkly peach dress with a glass of sherry and dishevelled hair is subtitled saying "If I was prime minister, and thank goodness I'm not,"

Dame Patricia Routledge, what a legend ❤

Everything Caitlin says, and to add: we’re basically living in the world of Covid while in denial about ever coming to terms with living in a world of Covid.

BBC news webpage. Headline reads "parents working from home affecting school attendance"

So it turns out this is anecdotes from one Monmouthshire councillor, so should at least be in quotes, if you would bother to publish an unverified story in the first place...

New work with words by Shakespeare. I really hope you like it.

Tonight! Online! Join us!

Available in the UK too

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I'm the receiver for Doaa's fundraiser, we chat almost every day. Doaa and her three children have just been displaced to Deir al Balah. As the situation grows more desperate each day any support you can provide helps, including sharing Doaa's posts! 🙏

The only information you can reliably glean from the words of politicians and pundits is what they want people to see them saying.

Update: Global Sumud Flotilla was attacked starting around midnight as it sailed south of Crete early Wednesday morning, with initial reports of 15 drones above Alma. At least 8 attacks and 6 explosions have been reported.

An unidentified chemical device was poured onto Yulara via a capsule that...

Alt text: Image is on a blue back ground there are striped colours on the left hand side and a speech bubble at the top In black text it says disability rebellion then online protest with a megaphone In white text it says on Monday 29th September from 12 noon Disability Rebellion is taking action online in solidarity with DPAC & other disabled people’s organisations who are protesting the Labour Party conference. This is our chance to show disabled people will not be silenced post as many times as you can about Disability Rights share how the cuts to benefits will affect you and your community. Use the # hashtags #GenocideAbroadDemocideAtHome #DisabilityRebellion #DPAC #WelfareNotWarfare #CareNotCuts Together online and offline we fight back At the bottom of the graphic is. A gold star with red hearts then a notice on white background in black text which says 29th September from 12 noon

#CareNotCuts

📢Join @disrebellion.bsky.social @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social & @crips-against-cuts.bsky.social
📢29.09.25 at 12 noon for an online protest against the Labour Party Conference which is taking place in Liverpool