Happy International Women's Day to all the strong, inspiring, bold, imaginative change makers. To the women who are proof that strength and kindness can coexist. To the women who nourish everyone around them. To the women who bring love and reciprocity into all their work 💚 #IWD

Here are a few reflections from team members @tayaziz.bsky.social, @athlynck.bsky.social and Riannan on which principles resonate with them most, and how they serve as a lens through which to sense-check and reflect on our work.

I've given Bluesky a proper go but social media just doesn't feel good for me anymore. It's so isolating and random and useless. This year I will be focusing much more on joining real life community groups where I can (and understand I am hugely privileged to have this as an option)

I'd love to join more real life community groups this year, particularly ones focused around global majority groups in nature, hiking, gardening, swimming and similar. Can anyone recommend groups like this in Bristol?

‘Get on my land’: the farmers who want strangers wandering their fields

‘Get on my land’: the farmers who want strangers wandering their fields

A growing number of landholders are joining forces with right-to-roam campaigners to boost public access to the countryside When Debra and Tom Willoughby first arrived at their tenant farm in Nottinghamshire, they tried to reroute a bridleway that runs…

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I remain deeply concerned about the ongoing detention of Imran Khan. His disgraceful treatment is an affront to the democratic rights of the people of Pakistan. We must continue to speak up for the release of all political prisoners everywhere.

Now that the cold and dark has rolled in, I've been really enjoying experimenting with all the dye flowers I grew this year 🏵 here are some prints on coreopsis and marigold dyed paper 🥭 Nothing says 'I love you' more than your mom handing over a plate of sliced fruit or a cup of chai 🍵

If you discover a hibernating bumblebee while digging in your garden or allotment this winter, try to avoid disturbing her, and loosely re-cover her so she can hit the snooze button until spring. More advice from @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social at www.bumblebeeconservation.org #gardening #SaveTheBees 🐝

The planning system desperately needs reform. While £100m for councils & 300 new planning officers is welcome, top-down targets alone won't deliver 1.5m homes. Read our latest report to learn how community-powered development can transform housebuilding. www.newlocal.org.uk/publications...

Constructing Consensus: The case for community-powered development and regeneration - New Local

How can community power unlock our fraught planning system?

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We’ve been working hard to expose the influence of dark money and corruption on our democracy. But it’s one thing to expose it. It’s time people were held to criminal account. Hodge and Labour have the power to turn the screw. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Margaret Hodge appointed UK anti-corruption champion to tackle flow of ‘dirty money’

Labour peer says she will combat ‘corruption and the illicit finance that flows from it, both at home and abroad’

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the feminine urged to run a little seaside coffee shop that used to be a lighthouse where i can lure unsuspecting men to their deaths as i slowly turn into the sea witch i was always meant to be.

It's amazing how you can learn to communicate with a loved one when they can't speak anymore, I understand every little eye movement and hand gesture and the specific way she twitches her eyebrows to ask: what day is it? How's everyone at home? What did you do today?

Man I am so sick of these self-assessment reminder emails, I DON'T NEED ONE EVERYDAY

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Force is the only language they understand. Learn to speak it fluently.

My mum's illness recently has given me an appreciation of life that is so deep, I know it's cliche but have you ever thought about how you can sit yourself up in bed, go downstairs, make yourself breakfast and do things like put your shoes on? Never taking that for granted again ‼️

The real flex is a supportive community 🤝🏽🫂

Also hoarding sauce packets and mini butter/margerine, canned food, rice, flour, reusing tin foil, saving wrapping paper, wearing my shoes till they fall apart... Got that tin of creamed spinach in my cupboard that's been there for years. Will I ever eat it? No. Will I ever throw it away? Never 🤣

My mum was due to be taken off her ventilator today and we were told to prepare for the worst as she might not make it through. But she is a FIGHTER and she's awake and breathing on her own for the first time in weeks 🥹🥹🤍

Doctors, teachers, journalists, athletes, chefs... 🇮🇱 Israel targets anyone doing good for the people of 🇵🇸 Palestine, especially if their work is visible to the world. The 🇬🇧 UK, 🇺🇸 US, 🇩🇪 Germany and other Western govts are complicit in this genocide via money, weapons and political protection. STOP.

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"Targeted & Assassinated": Gaza Soup Kitchen Chef Mahmoud Almadhoun Killed by Israeli Drone

My mum has been ill after a stroke last month, and we've been told we only have a few more days with her. I feel lucky that we get to say goodbye because I know not everyone has that, but it's still so hard and painful. I'm especially thinking of all the children in Gaza who have lost their mums 💔

With all the coverage of last week’s COP29 in Azerbaijan, it might feel like there’s nothing new to be said. But Caroline Lucas, former leader of the Green Party, thinks it’s time for the cultural community to get their voices heard. https://www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/feature/culture-and-t…

Culture and the arts: The missing element of climate action - Arts Professional

With all the coverage of last week’s COP29 in Azerbaijan, it might feel like there’s nothing new to be said. But Caroline Lucas, former leader of the Green Party, thinks it’s time for the cultural...

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Laser cutting some of our @wecanmake.bsky.social mini retrofit kits 🏡🪑📚 Loading: a mini chair, sharing library, hedgehog house and table. Laser cut on ply and just like the full size versions, fit together with no tools - just friction fit!

"I think we can get a bit lost in some of the language of community wealth building – is it inclusive economy? Is it inclusive growth? Forget it. It is about trying to make prosperity local." How #CommunityWealthBuilding touches the lives of people in Islington 👇

How We Did It: Community Wealth Building - using council power for communities - New Local

Islington Borough Council's Caroline Wilson explains how the council’s approach to community wealth building has emerged and deepened.

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I swear rain/ wet and cold weather makes sciatica worse? Please tell me I'm not just imagining it 😭

1 like = 1 piece of Tay lore Loving seeing everyone's stories!

Sam Langford@samsighs.bsky.social · 2y ago

1 like = 1 piece of Sam lore I have some weird stories to share

In a world that seeks to colonize, incarcerate, and destroy Black, Indigenous, Asian, and Brown trans people, the communities we build and the art we create brim with endless possibilities of resistance. A better world will bloom from our scars, joy, violence, and collective action. #TDOR

Post you from a different era. 📍Family farm, Chakswari, Kashmir (L - R) my mum, dad, older brother Nabil and me 🌱 The farm was owned by my late grandad, who moved to the UK as a political refugee after being targeted by General Zia-Ul-Haq's military coup. We followed him a few years later! ✈️

Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️♾️@alexmorss.bsky.social · 2y ago

Post you from a different era.