Again there is no money for a postal service that works, for railways, buses, for libraries, for housing, for your collapsing council, for care, for paying civil servants, for the NHS. There are billions for tech firms for a OPTIONAL ID card for British Citizens.

Mabon blessings to those who celebrate

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It was only a matter of time 🤦‍♀️

Hey @roystonmuseum.bsky.social, I have a professional question for you (or anyone who can help): This has been in storage for 10 years, do you have any suggestions for how to dust it? Is there a particular kind of brush I can use? I’m assuming that anything with fibres will get stuck in it

I feel this in my bones. We recently left town to live between villages in a tiny farm cottage. I can feel the stories in every tree, crepuscular ray, drop of rain, and gust of wind that dances around the house. I’m now learning to make corn dollies and looking for my hag stones.

“And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.” ― Oscar Wilde. Art by Maggie Vandewalle 🍂

Every museum everywhere. 👇

Further to playing this for the Rat a week ago. She’s become obsessed. We watched the film with Keira Knightley, and we’re 2 deep into the BBC series now. I am loving every minute.

In having an intimate knowledge of the paths she treads, the witch not only knows where and when to gather herbs, she develops a profound relationship with their ecosystem of spirits. Around this bend wild strawberries, in this stretch the Wood Sprite called Whipfast. – #EmilyCBanting 1981 #WitchSky

Oh no. It definitely makes me weirder #goals

I went full @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social, and look how happy it made me! St Andrew’s Walberswick

The trouble I’m in now. I played this at bedtime, so the Rat and I were giggling like idiots, and when Daddy came in and yelled at us, she starting singing SexyBack, and I SHRIEKED.

Lads the HONK I just honked

It's worth making this point explicitly: this is how people respond to transphobia when they can't be threatened with endless billionaire-funded legal attacks, or by government organisations insisting their employers punish them or face colossal fines.

Sacha Coward - Pronoun Wanker Carve it into my gravestone x 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

I love Sasha’s dedication and passion, as a result Fred and George have been torturing her via the archives. This is a lovely article about a fascinating pair, treat yourself and read it

Profound intimacy? What?

One for @skullsandsheets.bsky.social

The witch walks green ways. The witch walks wild ways. She navigates by tree-whispered mysteries and seeks to become entangled in the promise of the wood's magics. Every path she takes becomes a conversation with the land itself. Her relationships are her power. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Stares at @sashagoblin.bsky.social Thankfully I don’t do research, and so I only get emotionally involved with fictional characters. Blaming Sasha for that too, after the trauma of reading In Memoriam by Alice Winn. No regrets though, that book is amazing.

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you joy and happiness

Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.

Said to the Rat that we should take some photos on the giant weetabix opposite the house. She jumped up and yelled I AM THE WICKERMAN

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Hey @roystonmuseum.bsky.social, look! I came home to Whydale clouds

Live scenes of me wfh today

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It's @askanarchaeologist.bsky.social day and today we have at the Palace: Conservators Archaeological chemists Experimental archaeologists Finds specialists Field archaeologists Geophysicists Ecologists Marine archaeologists It's almost like we planned it. Ask away!!

Ozzy going out after raising $190 million for sick kids and a Parkinson’s cure is metal AF.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

I’ve just seen this so now I have to repost it. I don’t make the rules. You are welcome

This is a fascinating and horrific part of English history and is covered in plenty of accessible books and TV shows, so I’d argue not a niche area of study. So completely accessible to someone who *checks notes* studied History at Edinburgh and Oxford, having been educated at Eton. FFS.

do these people not realise that even using the disabled toilet has random ass strangers asking you what your disability is. people are one hundred percent gonna side eye any person using a ‘gender neutral’ toilet

A couple of months ago we were given notice and so moved in a hurry, and though it was an intense nightmare, crippling financially and physically - sometimes I have to pinch myself because the views from our weird and wonky cottage are beautiful. And then a spitfire flies over us.

Sometimes it’s hard to find joy, but I found some tonight. Music I love, with people I love, in a venue I love. It was incredibly special to see Ben play, and given his incomparable talent, of course his friends are stupidly good too. Thanks to the Friends of Royston Musuem for making it happen ❤️

Cannot sleep so alternating between gazing at the moon as it rises above the enormous field opposite my house, and watching Valtteri Bottas videos on YouTube. Both wholesome, both healing

Thank you to @roystonmuseum.bsky.social for a wonderful day - I’m only sorry that people can be so awful

"The most important lesson emerging from this awful episode is not about Glastonbury or the BBC. It is about the moral test that our society faces." The Chief Rabbi is right. His endorsement of Israel's ongoing atrocities shows he's already failed that test. Up to the rest of us. archive.ph/Oz7ME

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“Transphobia is not f**cking feminist” Kate Nash's powerful speech during her performance at Glastonbury.

Movie you’ve watched more than 6x using a gif (no Disney, no Star Wars, no LOTR, no Star Trek).

I had so many feelings about this, I nearly threw my phone across the room when I saw it. So painfully accurate, and today isn’t a good day, so I do mean literal physical pain. But solidarity does help ❤️ And I’m getting GP help and support so there’s some light at the end of the tunnel.

This post and the comments underneath bring me joy

I’ve reached a milestone and I’m a bit emotional about it. Looking to @theduncanmackay.bsky.social for solidarity. I asked the Rat what she wanted to do in Norwich next weekend and she didn’t say museum 😖 she said Primark 😭 Why doesn’t want to be Boudicca in the chariot anymore?

This sounds fabulous! I’ve been a fan of Ben since the 90s and Mr Crow has had the privilege of performing with him. *immediately texts MIL to see if she’ll have The Rat for a sleepover*

Going straight on my wishlist

The Germans on the pub crawl: "WHY do you do pints??? It makes no sense!" Me: "We don't, usually. Everything is measured in liters and millilitres, unless it's milk, beer, or blood. Then it's pints." The Germans on the pub crawl: "What the fuck??!!? Why??? Me: "...I dunno... vibes?"