Who doesn't love a bit of gossip?

So apparently we aren't even allowed to use our own language any more Reform can fuck off

There should be no political interference in public libraries. Essex Libraries staff have the professional skills to run our libraries. Please sign our petition ➡️ you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/li... ⬅️ #LibrariesforAll

Summer solstice patterns in the #WheelOfTheYear stitchalong. I am so happy with how they have turned out. 😀 Join the stitchalong here: payhip.com/b/6Sls9 #StitchSky

As wildfires rage, Andy Burnham still won't rule out airport expansion. He still hasn't commited to ending new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea. The incoming Prime Minister can't say the climate crisis is an emergency whilst backing policies that make it worse.

PSA.

How do I know the murderer wasn’t a person of colour without needing to read the story? It’s not the only news story. It’s not dominating X. There are no debates about the inherent humanity of the murderer in the press. No debates about the crisis of white male violence in the UK.

I like when I need a recipe for something and I have already written one. And it does not require reading 2176 words about someone's perfect autumn Sunday. 😁 #Vegan 🌱 www.carinascraftblog.com/2026/05/20/r...

I could not care less about football so I am off to bed. Heia Norge! 🇳🇴 😁

We're watching The Sheep Detectives. I'm finding it difficult to see why it is getting good reviews... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Finally finished the Summer Solstice embroideries in my #WheelOfTheYear project. 😀 #HandStitching A little sneak peek:

This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.

Dear humanity, please stop with the balloons. @nautiluslive.org ROVLittle Hercules is nearly 6000m deep on abyssal plain seafloor far from land. The 3rd item they zoomed on was this balloon 😩😢 nautiluslive.org #NoBalloons

Watching Le Tour on a French TV channel, it is cool to see how a lot of the ads, during the broadcast, are Tour flavoured. 😀

Fuck everyone who is making this country so threatening to the LGBTQ+ community www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

These amazing quilts were made by Rebecca Davis, America, about 1846. Via The Met. Will post links in comments.

Tour de France watching: can't find a free option to cast to the TV but have found a French live stream. My French is not perfect but much better than my ability to understand commentary in Dutch. 😂

Mentioning this tip again because I just did it in my work room and the effect was immediate. Stick foil blankets on windows. It reduces the heat by a tangible amount but still lets in some light. Cheap and reusable. #Heatwave

A Danish comedian once got elected to the Danish parliament by promising tailwind in bike lanes. I am hoping that a man with a bin on his head, promising £1 croissants, will be elected MP for Clacton.

Love living in the a country with one of the world's leading music industries where the politicians are too cowardly to embrace the realities of our economy. Very normal, nothing gender about this at all.

One neighbour's cat is currently in our house. Don't know where. She is very skittish so I can't get close to her and get her back outside. Once I figure out where she is hiding... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

My hack to watching Le Tour now it's not free to watch in the UK. Husband found a free stream from the Netherlands, via vpn. Since my Dutch is limited, I'm watching it on mute with Danish radio commentary. Wasn't sure it would sync but it does. It's kinda nice to have commentary mixed with music.😁

Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.

Serious questions should be asked as to how the supposedly non-biased BBC can justify airing a broadcast completely operated by Reform UK themselves. Nigel Farage should not been given complete editorial control of what is being aired on our national public service broadcaster.

Evergreen photo from February 2017 👇 #Farridge #NigelFarage

'Before the move, the library was surveyed shelf by shelf in Milan, with the position of every volume, thematic groupings and connections between authors and disciplines carefully documented, so that the new premises in Bologna could reproduce Eco's original arrangement exactly'. Echoing Eco.

Another finished quilt. Two in one week, that's a record for me! 😁 This is a gift for a friend. I hope she likes it. I love making wonky log cabin quilts. 😀 #QuiltSky #CarinaMakesQuilts

How do I find out whether these two are friends or frenemies? 😀

Watching #LeTour on S4C and the Welsh commentators are very good at pronouncing the names of the Danish riders. 😀🇩🇰 I just wish I understood more than three words in Welsh. 😁

This is not our cat. 😂 #QuiltSky

Since the machine was already set up for quilting, I figured I might as well quilt this one as well. This is a surprise gift for a friend so I hope I got the colours right. Scrappy, wonky log cabin blocks. Mostly greens, but with other colours too. 😀💚 #QuiltSky

A couple more photos of the FoQ quilt, because why not? 😀 By the way, I had to give the quilt a title for the submission so I called it "I Don't Want AI Everywhere". That's the polite version of the title I really want to use. 😁 #QuiltSky #FestivalOfQuilts

Something you don't see everyday... #LookUp

Hi hi hi my bestie Toby is funding his top surgery this autumn and I am his PR manager for it, please make it look like I did a good job gofund.me/0a3785b56

The finished quilt I'm sending to Festival of Quilts. Mostly made from scraps, and blocks I had already made before I decided to make a quilt for this year's festival. 😀 I hope the scrappiness works with the message. It's an object made by a human, wonkiness and all. ☺️ #QuiltSky #FestivalOfQuilts

Behind our house is an empty block of flats. I spotted two boys (11-12yrs) bashing in the glass in the street door. That wasn't enough vandalism, so they set fire to an old blanket by the door, adding dry grass. 😡 I called the fire brigade and thankfully it didn't develop into a serious fire. 😯

The finished quilt I'm sending to Festival of Quilts. Mostly made from scraps, and blocks I had already made before I decided to make a quilt for this year's festival. 😀 I hope the scrappiness works with the message. It's an object made by a human, wonkiness and all. ☺️ #QuiltSky #FestivalOfQuilts

Still drawing the same teapot. Using all the colours. 😀 #Sketchbook

Re-read Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. Once again struck by how she can succinctly describe the recent history of Iran (and the wider swana area) in just a few panels. And the black and white artwork is striking. Worth a read! 📚❤️ #BookSky

The quilt is done! 😀 I quilted it in the ditch. I don't think I have done that before. I worried that it might look a bit boring but I think it has worked well for this particular quilt. Time to add the hanging sleeve so I can get the quilt ready to send to FoQ. 😀 #QuiltSky

Dudes! My book Write Through It is just $2.99 in ebook form on all retailers! Take it to the beach and be ready to tackle your book in the Fall!

How about we tax billionaires? Refugees aren’t even allowed to work.

I wrote some embroidery books. 🤩 Just thought I'd manifest into the Universe that I would like to write another one. 😀 #StitchSky #Embroidery uk.bookshop.org/lists/hey-i-...

The fourth and final part of #Draculae is out. The whole series I’ve wondered whether the Powers of Darkness stories are fan fiction - if not, why not? @elizabethminkel.bsky.social of fansplaining.com discusses what makes fan fiction fan fiction. Listen/read via theallusionist.org/transformation

Of all the idiotic and irresponsible ideas this government has come up with this must take the cake. A self selecting group of people massively undertrained and under prepared to evaluate what are often nuanced and complex situations for asylum appeals. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

10 years ago, the air outside Aldgate School didn’t meet legal limits. Children were breathing polluted air every day. I made it my mission to change that. Here’s the difference our bold policies have made ⬇️

Instagram just showed me post about paints that I might be interested in. I was. It was text on images. And the text kept confusing me until I realised that the person was using 'aka' where they should have used 'eg'. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯