This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰

If you see this, post your bird art 🐦 #birds Mine is a poem, not an image. I'd forgotten all about it - wrote it as part of a 'celestial creatures' collection for children. But it is birds!

Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.

Access to green and blue spaces shouldn’t be a privilege reserved for the few. It should be something everyone can enjoy, explore, and connect with. Why do you support a Right to Roam, and what does it mean to you? Tell us here -> forms.gle/zCmuYkevUAov...

Spooky and glorious.

SO CLOSE. Who wouldn't want a book that holds Flanders inside its covers, with witches wandering from page to page doing witchy things?

"By turning men to stone, she prevented “the male gaze,” thus denying the possibility that women could be defined by men . . . Her snakes represent unintimidatable self-possession. Medusa symbolizes female potential.~ Ann Scales Art by Diane Goldie #Witchsky

This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media. Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Mdina, Malta's silent city, where the shadows are ghost realms, dispassionate and huge. #WeekSforShadows

The email has found me frantically anointing the bones - worn smooth as ice by time - with oils of cypress and myrrh as the hollow shrieking behind the iron doors to the lower crypt intensifies. I am the last of the team-building exercise left alive, Dom from HR has just been lost to the scarabs.

Gobsmacked. Never thought anyone would challenge Apple on this, yet here we are.

Books representing chosen families, in all their queerness and complexity (@josefindolsten.bsky.social)

second term our further education in war crimes #vss365 #senryu

Join me in calling on @RachelReevesMP to stop propping up declining oil and gas companies with £2.7 BILLION of tax breaks a year (🤯) and fund a jobs guarantee for workers instead: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

Let's live the lives we are meant to - joyful lives surrounded by community and nature, both of which we are part of and totally dependent upon.

I just binge-watched the tv series, and was very gently enchanted. Now I need to read it. (Normally I'd read the book first, but I was stranded all alone with a powerful need to watch something kind. I cracked under the pressure.)

This. And this is why Zack Polanski and the Green Party support legalising drugs.

The government spends £2.7 BILLION a year on TAX BREAKS for oil and gas companies Those companies pay billions to their shareholders And then lay off their workers Think that's unfair? Tell Rachel Reeves to stop propping up oil and gas companies and back workers instead…

Thank you so much to everyone who has backed The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders! 🖤 We are now 86% funded and so close! Consider helping us turn this dream project into a dark reality! 🖤🌙🖤 kck.st/492NqKt

I sold a few of these jolly miscreants (ht @ewacat.bsky.social) overnight so there are now only 5 left!

So true.

'Vibes' = media-speak for 'stuff we fear because we don't understand it, so let's try to make it sound like triviality.' And yet we know it's not trivial. It's the real deal, and Zack is the only one bringing it. People recognise that and it's powerful.

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Here's a phenomenal selkie for selkie-lovers everywhere! 🌊🦭🖤

So good.

It has been astonishing to experience first hand how badly the Home Office mismanages asylum seeker accommodation. Wealden District Council has written to the Minister to make clear our dissatisfaction. (1/2)

Gotta love Private Eye. Always cuts through the crap.

Oh Bridget. Tests don't help kids read. Fund libraries. Fund reading specialists. Help kids read for joy. Fund play-based nursery schools, where staff read aloud to/with kids. Read aloud to/with them always. Tests DEmotivate kids & teachers. Tests kill reading. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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#Sheffield peeps, please help our friends in Nether Edge/Sharrow Vale. Comment on plan for new MacDonalds that would threaten local business, public health, & much more.🤮 @sheffgreenparty.bsky.social @sheffcitycouncil.bsky.social @helpsheffield.co.uk planningapps.sheffield.gov.uk/online-appli...

This. Absolutely this.

This is, if we say so ourselves, an EXCELLENT (and cosmically unsettling) Halloween read ⬇️

The wind is hard from the west, a skein of voices in it, thin but clear as curlews’. Their song crests the brown moor, flies upstream as the water does. 'Kinder Downfall, 24 April 1932', from Rob Hindle's collection 'Sapo', available with £2 off until Sunday longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Here are the sculptures available on my shop : bisonrimant.fr You can greatly help me by sharing this post, if you want to ✌️

Last chance, #Tarot enthusiasts! 🖤

'Every debut author I’ve worked with, with the exception of celebrity authors, have all tried to write every kind of book that they could imagine writing in the first book that they’re about to get published.' Food for thought, if only to make me self-evaluate. Does age affect this? Fascinating.

Each morning, a mile up, we saw birds drifting in the frail sky, small as balloons let go from a fair: sunlit and miraculous. From Rob Hindle's collection 'Sapo', available with £2 off until Sunday longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Thank you so much to everyone who has supported our Kickstarter! We are 45% funded and have thirteen days left. It is daunting, but every message, every share, every person who believes in these forgotten stories means so much. There's a new witchy tale here: signe.substack.com/p/the-witch-...

I spent most of my teaching years offering experiential, student-centred, collaborative learning. Play for little ones. Then more play. Learning that matters, that gives kids real purpose & voice in what they do & how they do it. Choice, skill, purpose. Powerful stuff. Imagine if they all had that.

Adding alt text to your images is a small kindness you can extend into a very unkind world 💜

A female sex demon is called a succubus. A male sex demon is called an incubus. A non-binary sex demon is called an omnibus.

"To call her death merely a suicide misses the larger truth—no suicide happens in a vacuum. Policies designed to make life unlivable for transgender people bear responsibility too; every trans suicide is a murder by those in power." www.erininthemorning.com/p/every-tran...

The clairvoyant Independent says the Green Party has a higher membership than Labour. Truly ahead of its time - though maybe not by much. What a silly article. Ill-considered, lazy, relying on insults and tired old assumptions. Some of the comments actually have more insight.

Fascinating.

Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable NHS dental care. I’ve signed 38 Degrees’ petition demanding Keir Starmer properly funds NHS dentistry now, will you join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...

"New research finds an unexpected shift in heart biomarker to the affirmed gender, challenging long-held assumptions." www.medicalrepublic.com.au/g...

Listen to 🏳️‍⚧️ trans people. 84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people in a YouGov poll commissioned by @goodlawproject.org. 49% said they found it difficult to access appropriate toilets when out in public. This is a shameful human rights (and public health) emergency.