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Reuters: Pope Leo said on ‌Sunday that God rejects the prayers of leaders who start wars and have "hands full of blood", in unusually forceful remarks as the Iran war entered its second month. www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

#PalmSunday • Sul y Blodau 🌸 In Wales, villages trimmed and adorned the graves of their dead relatives on Palm Sunday. The sides of the graves were raised up with fresh turf, and fresh earth was placed on the surface; the stones were whitewashed, and women planted rosemary and rue🌷 #Wales

One stands alone, a singular light, Two makes a pair, holding the night. But three is a circle, a sturdy bond, A silent promise, a shared beyond.

“Out of character?” Yes Brian we’ve all noticed, but we just thought it was the scriptwriters!! #thearchers

TOMORROW: Be a part of history! Show the world that the majority of Americans oppose the most corrupt, inept, criminal, orange "president" in U.S. History. NO KINGS. Also: NO SERIAL LIARS/CONVICTED FELONS/ADJUDICATED RAPISTS & NO ILLEGAL WAR IN IRAN Be there. Make your voices heard! 🇺🇸 ✊ #NO_KINGS

#Thenakedweek pmsl!

I’m half way through editing and re-writing my #Enchantment chapter as an article for a #folklore audience. I’ve not really done adaptation before. I quite enjoy the ruthless cutting of swathes of theory, safe in the knowledge that they will still exist elsewhere!! #amwriting #amediting

Isn't it great. Just paid a years road tax, years MOT, a years breakdown cover and a years insurance on the campervan and now canna afford the diesel tae gaun anywhere because a pedophile starts a distraction war....

I did not know about this!

Having fun today converting a chapter from my thesis into an article for a #folklore audience. Entitled, “The Weaponisation of Wonder: Fairies and the Manipulation of Enchantment”, it explores discourses on #Enchantment, and how historically and currently the #fairies use it to overpower humans.

🧵And we're off, ladies and gentlemen! It's "they're banning the word EASTER" week. Regular as clockwork... So here comes a history lesson and media lesson all rolled into one thread! PS, I can't believe there's no easter egg emoji? This was the best I could do - 🗿🥚 🤣 I digress! 1/19

#eidmubarak, a blessed Eid to all.

@rhyskamjones.bsky.social just rewatched all of Breaking Bad, and deus ex machine gun notwithstanding it’s so fucking brilliant.

I’ve just started reading this on recommendation and I know she was widely discredited by everyone but especially our Lord Ronald Hutton. But, I don’t want to dismiss her out of hand and her intention seems to be scholarly according to the preface and introduction. Trying to stay open minded🤨

They’re giving Charles Collingwood quite the swan song! I shall miss him, it’s clear that Brian is for the knackers yard!! #TheArchers

What a missed opportunity is #theotherbennetsister who was self important, and thought herself better than her sisters. The joke is that reading ruined her eyesight but didn’t improve her mind. She’s forced to become more social and that is what improves her. That would have been worth a watch!

This is beautiful!

Attention BBC and Daily Mail newsdesks. It is being reliably reported that Reform UK MP Richard Tice dodged a £600,000 tax bill. Where's the media coverage?

#BBCradio4 start the week was fascinating about consciousness, but I would take issue with the fact that people didn’t look at themselves until the 18thC. Without mirrors, glass or metal, there was always water: puddles, ponds, rivers and streams and bowls. @fayboundalberti.bsky.social ?🤷🏻‍♀️

As spring is here, many of you will be thinking about getting your first early potatoes ready to plant soon. Don’t forget that the once popular variety “red Duke of York” is now known as “Potato Mountbatten-Windsor”

Grief is shit. Mum’s been dead for seven years. I’d made my peace with it or so I thought. We weren’t friends. But we spoke the day before she died and it was ok. I miss her so much but she made my life hell. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Got my Saturday reads!!

Lovely blossom in Myrtle Park Bingley, my erstwhile home town.🥹

Wot no drama??? #thearchers

Ten years without Terry Pratchett. #SpeakHisName

There's this trend on Ig about showing your artwork in just 7 images and I joined in ✨

GNU Terry Pratchett💔

After a fruitful discussion on here (love Bluesky!!) I now have a working title for my next article: Squaring the Circle: how modern paganism’s invented genealogies erase the lived experiences of Early Modern witchcraft victims. Off to Barrowford up the road, to the Heritage Centre!

#ExitMusic #MusicChallenge Day 12: Eliza Carthy - The Snow it Melts the Soonest (1998) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dre... One of the most beautiful of all trad songs, & @elizacarthy.bsky.social sings it heartbreakingly, with an utterly bereft coda. Where did he go? What did I do, why don’t I know? 💔

Ronald Hutton to the rescue. Apparently he wrote a book dismantling the Wiccan pseudo ancestry, called the Triumph of the Moon, so starting there with my research.

If we go round saying that the #Salem victims were witches (yes #Marvel I’m looking at you) we are maligning them and sustaining an oppressive persecuting religious elite. The same thing is happening near me in #Pendle. You’re not reclaiming any kind of lost spirituality, you’re victim blaming!!

Wow!

I think George will go for heritage, Joe if it’s a boy, possibly Susan (joes wife) if it’s a girl? #TheArchers

New walk added to website. The lovely Luddenden Valley in #Calderdale, #WestYorkshire. An easy 6 miler on clear tracks/lanes. Pretty views and a character full village. See www.happyhiker.co.uk/MyWalks/West... #Yorkshire

‘Daffodil, Narcissus, Tulip, Primula’ Garden Flowers, 1960 Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton

Early modern name of the day: Hieronymus Squarzaficus

These wars are, in part, climate wars, even if we're not calling them that yet

He’s coming out of this way better than anticipated; Trump will be gutted!

Can’t believe we’re having to give houseroom to #Blair again! He has nothing to say and nothing to contribute. I hope #Starmer will give him very short shrift!

#Trump doesn’t have any goals, he doesn’t have any plans. He just wants to be on TV in his fantasy Island clusterf*ck.

'That pussy, Jesus of Nazareth wanted to join us. We told him: Your woke, commie, un-Anerican rubbish about, "Love your enemy" and, "Blessed are the peacemakers" is nor welcome here. (And the President definitely doesn't want a man in a dress.)'

#tonyblair we haven’t forgotten what you did. Throwing your hat into the ring with Trump will not help us forget. You will always be on the wrong side of history never mind how many documentaries or board of ‘peace’ you sit on.

Thank god for #justaminute on #bbcradio4. Even sexist Giles Brandreth entertains.

World, shut your mouth!

On this day 8th March 1859 Kenneth Grahame, author of Wind in the Willows, was born in Edinburgh Artist: Martin Aitchison (1983)

“I can’t run no more with this godless crowd, when the killers in high places say their prayers out loud, but they’ve summoned a big thunder cloud, they’re gonna hear from me!” #LeonardCohen #anthem

Happy international woman's day today 🙂