Each generation gets the Julian of Norwich it deserves.

Metro North Capital@metronorthcapital.bsky.social · 2d ago

What?

Pigeon sat in the middle of the pavement with a wonky wing letting me get really close. Rang my mum - she couldn’t come to help me get it to the vet. Put the phone down thinking who else I could ring… pigeon flew away. Just a wonky lil weirdo. 🤷🏻‍♀️

DinoNephew requested “red dinosaur cake” for his birthday this year. I think I did alright. In fact, I know I did alright cos DinoNephew kept trying to lean over the table and lick the whole cake. The true mark of success.

TRAIN PEOPLE! I call on thee! My TrainNephew is young and loves train. We know this because one of his favourite sentences is “I love train!” Good non-fiction train books for toddlers/young folk? Viaducts a bonus. (I have to start Christmas shopping soon cos there are too many children.)

This is almost certainly true, and the UK fails women refugees in multiple ways, including by refusing safe routes to come here, wrongly rejecting asylum claims, barring family reunion & not recognising trafficking victims promptly or at all. If only Mahmood had the power to do something about this

Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana Mahmood

Home secretary warns people traffickers will exploit asylum seekers because they decide who comes to the UK

theguardian.com

Not in my family but best name I’ve found in a record: Patience Cocking.

Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine@wdytyamagazine.bsky.social · 4d ago

What's the weirdest name in your family tree? From Aguilla Wood's baptism in 1711 to Janadab Holden in the 1891 census, we pick some of the strangest names in family history records: www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...

It’s too early to be awake but something woke me up and now I can just hear the cat jingling round the house doing whatever she does in the early morning. Which is quite nice.

The reduction of politics to voting is part of the 50 year neoliberal project whose foremost goal is to make you think of yourself as an atomized individual and not as a member of a polity.

🏆 This week's Weekly Reads features ‘Gwedrow-Mires’ by Lianne Wilson, winner of the Holyer an Gof award for Books in Cornish for Adults and the Kowethas an Yeth Kernewek Cup. Thirty original Cornish-language poems reflecting on language, childhood, technology and politics. #nationalpoetryday 📖

a righteous act

Newsweek@newsweek.com · last wk.

A Michigan nurse is accused of helping an injured immigration detainee escape from a hospital while in federal custody.

Today is Andy Burnham’s first party conference speech as PM. We’ve taken your messages from the mass lobby on tour to Labour conference in Liverpool, with our friends at @transactualuk.bsky.social and @scottishtrans.bsky.social We aren’t going anywhere.

“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?

Is it me, or does Michaelmas start earlier every year?

Just seen someone posting (elsewhere) about 'developing teacher agency' while making their teachers use a set of specific steps in class based on a very narrow view of learning. The term 'checking for understanding' has become a proxy for compliance imho.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic, known as manikomycin, that may be a bulwark in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. By attacking the ribosome in a never-before-seen way, manikomycin can evade the existing mechanisms pathogens have developed to resist antibiotics.

What happens if you have legitimate concerns about someone else’s legitimate concerns? You’d probably need to have some sort of system to represent that this stuff is complicated. Maybe a debating chamber and votes. Perhaps different voices and views could be represented there.

Best of luck to @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social members going on strike for over a month. Nobody does this willingly - it’s a last resort, unlike that enormously rich university’s slash and burn tactics.

It’s far too early to speculate what’s going on down there, but it’s obviously posh kids, a dog, and lashings of ginger beer.

Look at this absurdly well-behaved collie I met today. Looks like a book jacket author photo.

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

Came out to the new Cowgirls restaurant in Redruth having really liked their food at the buttermarket… AI menus. So disappointing when a place does this, they’re so much better than this and Cornwall is full of artists and graphic designers - there’s even a uni that specialises in it!

"Pity no one turned up" - G. K. Chesterton at the annual Postman's Ball.

FUCK ME

Emma Yeomans@yeomans.bsky.social · 2w ago

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

If your boat is too small to require/have an EPIRB please consider a personal locator beacon to make it easier for you to be located should your boat sink out of harbour.

Ian Fraser@ianfraser.bsky.social · 2w ago

A boat purchased by far-right activist Daniel Thomas (aka “Danny Tommo”) to interfere with Border Force operations in the English Channel has sunk.

I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.

“Mother, turn off the big outside shower!”

The army has repeatedly had to issue leaflets telling its men not to rape. Strange that there was no outcry from Piddington residents when it was an army barracks.

I want people to be taken care of and left alone. I want people to not have to worry about where their next meal is coming from, that they may lose the roof other their head, or if they can receive medical care when they need it, and so long as they’re not hurting anyone, left alone to live.

re: Piddlington. I actually also think it’s the wrong location for an asylum centre, it’s the middle of nowhere on a deadly road and no safe way to walk to Bicester, let alone get to oxford, an asylum centre should be right in town with access to resources like drs and dentists and help centres.

Middle England today