A heart warming (no pun intended) story…

Quite

By all accounts this was a wonderful event in Bangor Cathedral on Thursday, marking 25 years since the death of RS Thomas. It included talks, art and photography, beautiful music and of course poetry reading. Here’s a link to a recording of the event: www.youtube.com/live/RbFUoWF...

Well worth a read and reminder of the foreign dealings of these ‘patriots’.

ICE stormtrooper violently pushes brown woman to the ground. This is how people of color are treated in Trump's Nazi America. Like and share so it goes viral and everyone sees this. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. www.fascism.link/p/ice-stormt...

Cool cool. So perhaps you'd like to stand in front of a moving vehicle. Or is that kind of science magically settled somehow?

Claudia Cardinale made so many interesting movies. I love GIRL WITH THE SUITCASE (1961) and will rewatch THE DAY OF THE OWL (1968) tonight. She will be missed. 💔

RIP Claudia Cardinale, co-star of two of my favourite films, The Leopard and Once Upon a Time in the West. Didn’t realise her accent (influenced by growing up in then French-controlled Tunisia with Sicilian parents) was dubbed in some Italian films!

PHOTO OF THE DAY: The 2 people used in American Gothic by Grant Wood stand next to the iconic painting. They were Wood’s sister, Nan Graham, and his dentist, Dr. Byron McKeeby (1942). 📷 Cedar Rapids Museum of Art Archives

They’ve done it again…

"Hurty music"

‘Evening’ - #RSThomas (No Truce with the Furies, @BloodaxeBooks)

Charlie Kirk was killed for saying things "that used to be simple common sense," says Boris Johnson. Here's a few of those things

A little bit of perspective on Angela Rayner: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...

This is a huge story. Don't let him get away with it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Jamie Raskin dubs Farage a "Putin loving free speech imposter and Trump sycophant" m.youtube.com/watch?v=mpBA...

Douglas Carswell has skirted the line and now he's crossed it. This is disgusting racism from a former MP who now demonstrates who and what he is.

Timeline cleanse: The Boogie Woogie Twins - Dr. John & Jools Holland's legendary duet from NBC's Night Music show, 1988. (It's now on Jools Holland's album Pianola: Piano & Friends)

And the Self-Awareness Award goes to… 😂

‘Kneeling’ - #RSThomas (Not That He Brought Flowers - Rupert Hart-Davis)

‘To a Young Poet’ - #RSThomas (The Bread of Truth, Rupert Hart-Davis)

A detail worth remembering…

Arnie says: “Man up, Orange Boy!”

Trump looked every inch, the real estate agent, showing an uninterested billionaire client around a property in the desperate hope of getting his 3%. And in a sense, that's what just happened.

A legend of children's television has passed. Biddy Baxter was editor of BBC TV's Blue Peter for 23 years. She made it her own and millions of kids (me included) used to tune in. Here's my musical tribute to a pioneering TV producer.

the lack of crispness in the detailing of this is so funny to me. truly Temu level shit Pic 1: Oval Office Pics 2, 3, and 4: Hôtel de la Marine

The sentiment yes but the image too.

Another first class pod from David Runcima’s @ppfideas on the legal cases that made and ruined Parnell. Tiny quibble: it’s FEEnian, not FAYnian for Fenian!

Overheard, a kid’s review of a show: ‘the play was pretty silly. They just pretended loads of stuff happened.’

Reproduction Print Catalogue - Final Edition. 12 x 8 in Sized (or 12x 12 inches for square) Professionally Printed on Museum Rag Fine Art Paper www.ianrpearsall.co.uk/product-page...

Hey @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social have you and RS Thomas fans clocked this piece on the Observer website…?

Oh, I expect they’re lowering the flag to half mast in Abuja…. 🥱

United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero - Two years ago, we invited all 100 senators to work in the fields. Only two of them accepted: Alex Padilla and Cory Booker.

As tin eared as Truss: most people don’t know who da f. Milei even is; those who do ain’t likely to vote for his UK reincarnation.

Recommend this article on the need to teach speaking (conversation not elocution) in schools. And why maths, for all its undoubted benefits, may be over promoted.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

I’m going to ask Chat GPT when was the last time an issue of Murdoch’s Times didn’t feature a BBC story detailing the sort of behaviour you might imagine happens in his organisation.

Gov. Gavin Newsom: “80% of Californians pay about average taxes. 40% of Californians pay lower taxes than they do in Texas and Florida. Texas and Florida tax their lowest wage earners more than we do our highest wage earners. So who’s the high tax state? Is it California or is it Texas?”

Based on 400+ research articles, the researchers developed two new seed mixtures, which they evaluated both on the number of insects that visited them, and on their aesthetic appeal to humans. 😍

Pop yourselves over to ‘The Mother Town’ Burslem #StokeOnTrent to view a collaborative exhibition with @philshallcross.bsky.social - a body of work I call ‘SuperImpositions’ .. an ongoing creative adventure on the wall at www.barewall.co.uk/collections/... #Stoke100 #SoT100

Still got your minerals lads? 🤡 🤡

Two days after the deadly Texas floods, FEMA struggled to answer calls from survivors to its disaster assistance line. Why? Because hundreds of employees who answered phones were fired after Kristi Noem didn't approve new contracts. "Efficiency."

FFS, two of the ‘teens’ are 19; ie just months younger than her. Where law is concerned, the division is 18; above it, you are adult in legal terms. Simultaneously, elsewhere you find 15/16year olds referred to as ‘young women/men’. Consistency needed by BBC and others?