I gave a talk recently about re-enchant as resistance. I didn't put enough mention of the cultural dislocation so many of us feel at the moment or enough mention the things that help resolve that. We are living through a period of engineered disorientation and it damn well needs opposing.

We cannot be friends with, we cannot be the allies of and we ure as fuck cannot sell arms to a country that commits genocide and kidnaps our MPs.

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 2d ago

🚨 Israel has detained an SNP MP and a Greens MSP who were trying to enter Palestine 👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

“It has been said that Socialism is about Equality. If you ask for an equivalent short had description of Liberalism I should say that it is about Freedom and Participation.” Jo Grimond

Are they sure this is a sarcophagus? It looks to me like a loaf of wholemeal. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Mystery of Roman sarcophagus unearthed at Westminster Abbey solved at last, expert says

Archaeologist says skeleton inside coffin inscribed to Valerius Amandinus is likely to be remains of 11th-century abbot

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"UK approves Jackdaw gasfield in North Sea". Bollocks

Just a regular reminder to please support your local bookstore, café, theatre, bakery, and library. Without us, they can't survive. Without them, neither can we.

Keep seeing other press organisations describing the ITV Reform expose as “shocking”. Given how open Reform are with their abhorrent views, I can only assume the thing that shocked them was watching some fellow journalists actually doing journalism, instead of unhinged op-eds about trans people.

we can create the culture we *want* to live in by choosing to act different! shit does not have to be this way!

"Can we just all just take a minute to absorb this: we are now talking about the how and when not the if" of rejoining the EU. @pimlicat.bsky.social Emotional moment. Continued thanks to all for the hard work to get this far.

We actually do know how to reduce rape. We do it the same way we disincentivize other behaviors: we punish it severely and consistently. The issue is not that we don’t know the solution, but that we lack the will to carry it out.

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 2w ago

So the question isn't "What can universities do about rape culture at fraternities", it's "How are universities benefiting from rape culture"

Telegraph asked me to comment on 4,102 babies with the surname Smith and 3,772 with the surname Khan being among 558, 988 babies born in England."These new Smiths and Khans will all go to school together in a few years, alongside children with many other surnames" www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10...

Her illness started with Covid, and despite her incredible, international-competition level fitness at the time. I don’t know who exactly would have to get this for healthy people to understand that when they get Covid, which they will continue to get, they are spinning a chamber and firing the gun.

Long Covid Advocacy@longcovidadvoc.com · 2w ago

Olympic sprinter Beth Dobbin advocates brilliantly in this article: 🔹strongly rejects CFS label 🔹states there is no specialist NHS service 🔹conveys the severity of the disease 🔹raises the issue of how athletes are more 'believed' www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athlet...

Maybe one day I'll write about the fallout of all of this, but it's still too raw: the compromises, the terrible medical care, the abandonment by long-term friends, the ableism, the prejudice, the endless additional admin and assessments, the deliberateness of the systems to grind you down to ash.

So much of this is really familiar to me. It hits seemingly out of nowhere with zero answers, and by the time you start to get some you've already done untold amounts of damage by trying to continue as you were. There's no support for you and you're left with a hollowed out life.

Beth Dobbin: British Olympic sprinter in bed for 22 hours a day after ME diagnosis

Beth Dobbin ran for Great Britain at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. Five years on, she is largely bedbound after being diagnosed with ME, a devastating illness for which there is no cure.

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Without hope, people won't work together and uplift others around them. In times of instability it can feel tempting to strip everything back and focus on only the absolute survival essentials, but investing in things like art and culture are key to preserving positivity in our communities.

Ringmer review A reader writes Andrew Eliopulos: The Fascinators: teenagers Sam, James and Delia negotiate small town life in Georgia, USA, and their personal relationships with magic getting in the way.

More relevant today than ever. “Our liberalism means we stand up to bullies, everywhere.” Conrad Russell

Ringmer review Dorothy the Ringmer megalodon writes: Sharon Blackie: Foxfire, Wolfskin and other stories of shapeshifting women As a shapeshifting woman myself, I really appreciate these stories. Fascinating tales exposing mischief, magic and our mythological roots.

Reminder that "biological sex" is not a thing that exists. It is a legal fiction in every place that refers to it. In the UK, in the equality act, it means "the sex that was written on your original birth certificate." Incidentally, it doesn't matter if that's due to a clerical error.

‘We were horrified’: parents heartbroken as baby girl registered as male

Parents told Nottinghamshire registrar’s error on birth certificate cannot be changed

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Soup, books and jigsaws available on Saturday. 12 noon – 2 pm at the village hall. The soup dragon would approve. (If you don’t know the soup dragon, see here: www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/sho...)

Oh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI...

Moliere said “I live on good soup, not on fine words.” At Ringmer Library we live on both. And good soup, fine words, and great pictures (sawn up into little bits) are available on Saturday. 12 noon – 2 pm at the village hall.

Another day, another dog abused by hunts

“A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.” Abraham Maslow And we have both, if you define a painting as a jigsaw. Soup, books and jigsaws available on Saturday. 12 noon – 2 pm at the village hall.

Missing Eva Marie Saint a lot more than I'm missing Jeffrey Archer.

“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.” Ludwig van Beethoven Find out that this is so on Saturday at Ringmer Library’s soup, book and jigsaw sale. 12 noon – 2 pm in the village hall.

Soupercalifragilisticexpialidocious!! Soup, and books, and jigsaw sale this Saturday 10th Oct 12 noon – 2 pm at the village hall all in aid of Ringmer Library

@netflix.com Hey Netflix, your new interface was designed by AI wasn't it? That's all I'm saying.

This is a fight for the future of our country. For liberty, equality and community. For the values we hold dear. This is the fight of our lives. And we are going to win it.

Wey hey!! Two cheers. Hurrah! I’m almost, but not, quite, mildly excited that something might not be ruled out in a few years time. Way to go, Andy. Bold, bravely ambivalent, solidly ambiguous, resolutely vague leadership, at last. 🙄🙄🙄 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Andy Burnham does not rule out Brexit reversal being in next Labour manifesto

PM says immediate focus is on rebuilding bridges with EU as he prepares for first meeting with Ursula von der Leyen

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