The Resolution Foundation is hiring! We are looking for an exceptional individual with a passion for improving living standards and the skills to lead a world-class research and policy organisation, to become a Director. Application pack here ⤵️ buff.ly/xcFddMf

From Tudors to taxidermy, lobsters to Liz Taylor - fancy finding out about all sorts of LGBTQIA+ history at Bristol Museum with me? A few spots left for this Sunday's tour! Book through link tree in bio.

🏮NEW EPISODE!🏮 Mabel Hampton was a performer and domestic worker who lived as an out lesbian in New York City from 1920 until her death in 1989. Her recorded oral histories offer a rare firsthand account of Black lesbian life during the Harlem Renaissance. #MakingGayHistory 🔊 bit.ly/mgh-hampton

Good things today: - Ran a lovely session at work on the wellbeing benefits of joining a book club - my 87 year-old mum got a clean bill of health at her check up 😮‍💨 - Went to the gym after work

Reminder that the ebook of Loss Protocol (‘an eco-thriller like no other’ — the Guardian) can still be yours for just 0.99 GBP on Kobo, Amazon etc

You must forgive me for not writing for so long, but I just wanted to be on my own for a couple of years or so.

We had an in-depth look at the misinformation targeting City of Sanctuary last summer. How it spread from the mainstream to the online far right, and how the charity was inundated with horrific threats. This is part of a worrying and growing trend. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

The #ARMA2027 call for topics is open, welcoming ideas from both ARMA members & the wider research management & administration community We want to hear what matters most to you! Submit by Sunday 12 July & help shape the programme: https://arma.ac.uk/call-for-topics-for-arma-2027-conference/

Closes 25 August. Please share with anyone who might be interested in applying.

‘We urge the Government to prioritise this issue. Should this situation continue unchecked, the damage to the health of higher education, research and innovation will be profound and have long-lasting consequences.’ www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/stateme...

Tonight's cooking soundtrack is 'Saltbreakers' by Laura Veirs.

Dinbych y Pysgod

*David Attenborough‘s voice* As the sun rises on this early July morning hundreds of medievalists begin their annual migration to Leeds. Scientists have not fully understood this ritual but it seems to be crucial for the survival of the whole species. Intensive days of medievaling will follow.

Contemporary painter Mary Pym, who was born in the Netherlands but who now lives in the UK #WomensArt

My brother-in-law's little folk music group unexpectedly won the All Britain Fleadh and are now fundraising to get the whole group to Belfast for the final! Any help much appreciated! Cheoilhttps://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/amairginthegael

Erika Lee Sears Orange Slice (2022) painting #WomensArt

I find the lack of treats disturbing

Let's be clear: emotional regulation is the hardest thing in MANY peoples' lives. There's no shame in it. These "emotion" things are powerful & often mysterious. We don't "choose" & can't avoid them. Realistically managing emotions is often not easy or obvious. You're not alone.

Atsuko Suwa (諏訪温子), contemporary Japanese painter specializing in Nihonga (traditional Japanese painting) #Womensart

More than 80 events celebrating wildlife and the natural world will take place across Wales as Wales Nature Week returns this July

This artwork is Paris Roofs by Russian impressionist artist Gleb Goloubetski, capturing a serene urban scene with a pink sky.

Tonight's cooking soundtrack is 'Forever, I've been being born' by Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter.

Hug your friends, peeps. Maybe text someone you haven’t spoken to in a while. Send a postcard, even!

Well, that was a fucking ride.

Pentref

A. just had to dash to the shop to buy a pair of tweezers because I got part of an earphone stuck in my ear

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World Premiere: 8/25/2026 Celebrate the life and career of Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Mary Oliver. Shaped by a solitary childhood and rising literary fame, Oliver publ >30 collections of poetry, essays on nature, beauty, & love www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

‘I have come,’ he said. ‘But I do not choose now to do what I came to do. I will not do this deed. The Ring is mine!’ ~ Frodo in LOTR, Tolkien. #BookWormSat 🖼️ Ted Nasmith

Hildy is judging you.

Gower

Michael Sheen will be sitting in on BBC Radio 2 The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe, on July 29 at 9pm (UK time) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Live and work in Wales? The NIHR PHIRST REACH Evaluation Team is looking for 5-8 members of the public to help shape research on a Whole Systems Approach to Healthy Weight in Wales. Email [email protected] to find out more. #PublicInvolvement #HealthResearch #Wales #NIHR

Please donate if you can.

This work is The Banquet by René Magritte, featuring a striking central red sun set against dark trees.The painting is a 1958 oil on canvas masterpiece housed at the Art Institute of Chicago.

1 July, 1972: On this day, the first official Pride march in the UK took place in London. Organised by the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) and the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE), around 700 people marched from Trafalgar Square to Hyde Park. 📷 Getty

Want to help ensure funding reaches LGBT+ organisations that are often closest to community need? We're looking for an LGBT+ Fund Grants Lead to support community-led grant-making across the UK. 1/2

This artwork is titled "Whooper Swans" (2001), created by the famous British wildlife artist and ornithologist Robert Gillmor. It is also widely recognized in the commercial world under the descriptive title "Swans Flying Over the Reeds".

The infrastructure we need is already being assembled. It lives in conversations, in journals, in prototypes, in pilots, in pop-ups, in retrofits, in necessity, in stubborn commitment, in wacky ideas, in people with shovels, in sea grass beds, in threads from the past.

The threads that were spun are gathered .... the weft crosses the warp .... the pattern is systematic.

Tonight's cooking soundtrack is 'Document' by R.E.M

They just don't look like what the teaching at the heart of empire told you a leader looked like.

The leaders we need are already leading. They are weaving, connecting, designing, prototyping, proof of concepting, sheltering, nurturing, feeding, peace building, land caring, library protecting, public art-making.

Lovely morning with volunteers from Cathays Wild Gardeners and Cardiff University identifying plants in a bit of urban grassland. So many!

I always like thinking about: what is the oldest object you regularly use, the oldest thing you're using in your normal everyday life

“Ford has admitted to rehiring hundreds of human workers after its aggressive AI adoption strategy backfired. “We had been relying more and more on automated quality systems and not getting the desired results,” said Kumar Galhotra, Ford’s chief operating officer.” This is very good

Morning.

Our soon to be Governor Deb Haaland, who made history as the first Native American to serve as a Cabinet secretary.

Tonight's cooking soundtrack is 'The Reminder' by Feist.

Emma Goldman — born #onthisday in 1869 — was a radical critic of capitalism, the state, patriarchy and colonialism during the fertile political years of the late 19th and early 20th century. More on her life and “anarchism without adjectives” here: publicdomainreview.org/essay/e... #otd