Twisting oaks in woodland #Dartmoor #Devon

Wee reminder to my trans & NB siblings: You live rent free in the heads of some seemingly very angry and unhappy folk … Don’t let them live rent free in yours. Get on and live your life and feel the joy …

There's an exceptionalist belief that the UK's immune to the worst political extremes. In reality, we were lucky not to get a fascist government in the 1930s. Now that the world's richest man supports our most extreme political party, we need more than luck. We need to get the money out of politics.

'Tis the season for regretting renting a top floor flat in an oldish (Georgian) building. 🥵

📍 West Kennet Long Barrow Swallows everywhere (as they were nesting inside the barrow), a gentle breeze and a faint smell of incense. And I had the place to myself for a while. Gloriously atmospheric.

Cheese rolling event followed by impromptu fondue

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This is fake history. This castle is only 25 years old... it's a bit wacky, peculiar... maybe even silly... but... I... I think I kind of like it anyway. www.knightfrank.co.uk/properties/r...

Details from one of the millennium windows by Thomas Denny at Great Malvern Priory, for Pentecost. 🕊🔥 (They are actually based on imagery from Psalm 36, but also feel appropriate for today.) #CofE

Today's walk: ladybird on a cow parsley seedhead.

Château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg is absolutely breathtaking.

Coppery Eyebrook sunset

How fancy is the 5-star accommodation?! @gloucestercathedral.org.uk #CofE

Coming to terms with late #AuDHD diagnoses is such a strange experience. Grief, relief, frustration and validation all very much in the mix. And the sense of being simultaneously far too much and nowhere near enough.

What's the likelihood my childhood camera, which has lurked in various cupboards for ~ 20 years, still works okay? 🤔 I fancy playing around with some film photography for a change.

You’re not alone. Our trained LGBTQIA+ volunteers are here to listen to any concerns you may have as a result of the revised EHRC guidance being laid before parliament. We’ve supported the community through trials and tribulations for over 50 years, and we’re here for you today.

The EHRC’S new code has been published. We’ll have a detailed analysis out shortly. The guidance has been toned down from the previous draft – but it still treats trans people like they’re a third sex. This pushes trans people out of public life and violates their human rights.

The UK has gone to a very bleak place today.

Whenever there's news like this, remember: bigots want your fear to do their work for them. They want you to remove yourself from public life to save them the trouble of forcing you out (and to protect them from the possibility of being called out as they do). So don't give them the satisfaction.

Is this much sunshine on a bank holiday Monday actually legal?!

"It’s not just about being poor. It’s about the environment punishing you for being poor." www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

I think BBC News should write another story on this! Very rare to get the third (and fourth) rainbows on film. www.bbc.co.uk/news/science...

2.5 rainbows? Hard to capture, but a second band of colour appeared in the main arc as the separate bow above started to fade... #rainbow 🌈

These three gorgeously coloured panels of 15thC glass are the remains of a much larger window at St Mary's, Temple Guiting. A further nine were sold in the early 19thC and are now part of a window in the Met in New York. The text in the hems of the robes is a lovely detail. #StainedGlassSunday

Radical. 🥔

Can confirm. I started my current job in January 2021, during the third UK lockdown. I didn't meet most of my team in person until April/May of that year. Sure enough, they were all centaurs.

Younger daughter & I found these fossilised crinoid rock stars (segments of the ‘stem’ of Jurassic feather stars/sea lilies, related to starfish & sea urchins) in the gravel on the edge of a lake nr Peterborough UK. She used them to make an ammonite:

I’m sitting near the Dnipro River. Rescuers are trying to find people under the rubble. Already, five people are dead in Kyiv. A 12-year-old girl is among them. I’m looking at the water. It doesn’t know.

Italy welcomes 72 Palestinian students from Gaza to study in Italian universities.

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Heath spotted orchids beginning to appear #Dartmoor #Devon #orchids

Slightly increase a band: Rock Paper Scissor Sisters

Weekend puzzling - excellent choice from my work Secret Santa last Christmas! 🧩🌑🌸 (The artwork is 'Moonflower' by Katie Daisy.) #JigsawPuzzle

10 May 1939 | A Duch Jewish girl Clara Miriam van Moppes was born in Amsterdam. In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after selection. --- ▶ Video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

A donation to this link will help the cause. www.justgiving.com/page/dan-kas...

"Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world." (James 1.27) Helpful 🧵 about homelessness & the UK's hostile environment policies. www.justgiving.com/page/dan-kas... #CofE #interfaith

I still want to know which horrible person decided that this was a good idea.

Great to be back to singing - my first concert in ages! #choral

Visited Long Compton Church earlier on - the place made famous by the rhyme at the Rollright Stones. Lots of incredible Marian marks and some octograms on the back of the main door along with a shoe outline. Some very good concentric circles inside too. www.apotropaios.co.uk

Israeli airstrikes continue in southern #Lebanon despite the #ceasefire. Medical teams are working around the clock to treat people injured in the attacks. Read our response: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/lebanon-people-still-being-killed-by-israeli-forces-in-the-south-despite-ceasefire/#Lebanon

The thing about Reform's success is this: whatever their political future, whether they have peaked or not, it is hard to express just how unpleasant the resurgence of their sentiments actually is. I grew up in Greater London in the 1990s, and a lot o that time was very grim. And it's back.

I wish I could say I was surprised, but... Still. Urgh.

Lego changing the age limit from 99 to 100+ in celebration of David Attenborough’s birthday is kinda wholesome.

Happy birthday to Sir David Attenborough. Hero, legend, world’s worst Wordler.

If I could not wake up to a Reform landslide that would be wonderful, please and thank you...

Another thought-provoking 🧵 from @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social #CofE

Good people of Wales, please do go out and vote! This is both encouraging and very frightening.

Homemade aubergine, chickpea, red pepper and sweet potato tagine for dinner (another of those "accidentally vegan" recipes) 😋 nurserykitchen.co.uk/wp-content/u... #TinyJoys #WhatsCooking #vegan

I've seen a few people here denying that antisemitic hate crimes are still a major or widespread problem in this country. This denial does no one any favours. We must be rock-solid against all hate and prejudice.