Maria Farrell

yikes! rtft

My weekly post.

❤️💔❤️ What went down at MozFest and how the quick-thinking response of the absolute legend that is @schock.cc kicked off a very necessary unlearning there + the incredibly generous sharing of insights that flowed from it.

Bran is almost exclusively looked after by couples of ladies but I feel he could make a most honourable exception for you.

Just her name is a super-power.

ah! 🙏🤩

Still looking for a path to enlightenment? Author @champwongs.bsky.social considers life's greatest mysteries with a bit of background for his recent Reactor story "Where the Hell is Nirvana?"

www.champwongsatayanont.com/essays/where...

The extent to which companies like Amazon are not willing to invest in people hurts my heart.

I hope that moniker sticks. what a QUEEN

Useless as a recommendation, (ends tonight, sorry!) but I just saw Hamlet at the National (England) for 2nd time and

Francesca Mills is an Ophelia for the ages

I may never go again, honestly, after her

and (full disclosure, actor's a mate) Polonius as a <dad who just wants his kids to live> is 💔

An absolute scandal compounded in this case by failure of French government and EU institutions to forcefully react and sanction in turn those who have sanctioned ICC judges and prosecutors. Makes a total mockery of FR/EU's repeated commitment to the rule of law/ICC

www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

oh Lu!!! what a marvellous little lady.

I checked mine this morning and happily they were all still off. have to assume on some level they're scared of the law in non-US settings. It sucks that you have to keep doing this.

yes! those eyes

The word that kept coming to me while watching clips of Trump with Mamdani was ... "filial". Like this was the son he could never raise nor deserve yet realised at this late, late date he longed for.

(and of course he loves to shit-stir, and stardom-blinded, and all the other things)

Last night I was flying home from Cologne and as we went over the English Channel I looked down at the tiny lights below me and wondered if any of them represented a boat of people trying desperately, for some godforsaken reason, to get to this terrible island. And I wished them luck, and I wished them safety, and I wished them better than here.

Sometimes you start writing and then you realise it's all too sad.

Colour photo of a lurcher, Bran, who's grey-ish, and white and black, standing on sandy-coloured wood in a doorway indoors, with his fur spikey from rain, looking into the middle distance (toward a balcony out of shot) somewhat forelorn.

This past week brought a lightning trip to lovely Brussels where I brought my dog-nephew, Bam Bam, for a lovely, damp - ok actively rainy - walk, and he had feelings when we got home. I love and miss this emo-hound and his outsize feelings about weather.

Heronkind work so hard to survive.

Sometimes it's nice to just sit back and let someone else get the lunch in.

With each new episode I feel like I'm just laying down my first watch of the whole thing to rewatch later.

YES

thisthisthis Pluribus is doing something very different and it's not remotely possible to guess where it's going

Max. Head and tongue of a small white dog. Looking right at you. Left ear horizontal.

A small white dog in a more pensive, photogenic pose.

So much ear.

oh GORGEOUS!

This is a fantastic deep dive rebuttal to this widely lauded John Collison Op Ed.

Recommended reading.

Yep, it came up in our discussions today at @article19.bsky.social Conference

eek. hurt people hurt people. :-(

Reform UK’s former Wales leader jailed for more than 10 years for taking pro-Russia bribes Nathan Gill was paid thousands of pounds to give pro-Russian TV interviews and make speeches in EU Parliament, where he was an MEP

Gill is far from being the only Brexiteer who should have faced charges - including more than a few who should have been charged with treason -
Reform UK’s former Wales leader jailed for more than 10 years for taking pro-Russia bribes

www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202...

+1 each episode hits harder and harder and there's just no obviousness to where it's going.

Truth here.

almost makes me want to bring back slut shaming. some girls are just gonna patriarchy so let's patriarchy them right back.