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I know lots of clever people are on here, so can someone help me with my #tariffs question. Why don't journos and the like acknowledge tariffs as the regressive personal taxation they are? In the first year of tariffs being implemented the price of goods goes up to cover tariffs, ....

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East of the hilltop junction the church tower signalled devotion through the trees To the south the airport tower broke the horizon asserting technology's place #Beginning a new phase of life I squinted through the lens At friends doing what is no longer mine, and Smiled at this beginning. #vss365

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As well as poetry and writing, I do have a longing to be a photographer. It's something I experienced as a viewer for decades, despite growing up six miles from an art college with a truly great documentary photography course that I thought was not for the likes of me.

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Asexual People are at high risk of conversion therapy, especially by therapists who don't even realise their lack of training means they are practicing conversion therapy by stealth #asexualAwarenessday #Ace

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Obviously this will not be reported by mainstream media (which is at root responsible for this), a group of trans people were attacked for having a peaceful gathering in Manchester.

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#vss365 Was #time the ticking of the mechanism on the wall Or the flow of a river eroding fame and credit at one point then Depositing it elsewhere with no regard for merit. To be in the river's way was enough, like a seed of sand In an oyster, and Honour and fame would follow.

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“The time is ripe to rethink the coordinates of left trade politics.” Last September, n+1 senior editor Colin Vanderburg spoke with @mwpalen.bsky.social about his book “Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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It's officially my weekend and I've kicked it off listening to the wonderful Kaz Pollock talking about trauma via the narratives of #LOTR - listen to them here open.spotify.com/episode/2SWc...

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This powerful and insightful blog on the LRB website says more than I can about how wrong the Met Police's invasion of the Friends Meeting House in a bid to suppress climate activists was. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...?

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I think of working class masculinity as a Trunk full of childhood books and memories Checked into the left #luggage store at Paddington station and Never collected but still there with a clerk called Schrödinger, hoping I Never need it. #vss365

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Reading Wordsworth's poem above Tintern Abbey And remembering the #euphoria and the Glorious pleasures of one boyish evening Singing heavenly praises into the evening sky. Wordsworth had no knowledge of the thoughts His lines would provoke, but I hope he would smile At my memory. #vss365

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It does feel like this show has prompted various people to gather round and examine the top inch of a massive iceberg. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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"Rapid transformation destroys old coping mechanisms, old safety nets, while it creates a new set of demands, before new coping mechanisms are developed." @josephestiglitz.bsky.social in an introduction to Karl Polanyi's 'The Great Transformation'

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It's #TDOV2025 and here's the thought for the day - Trans people won;t go away even if Wes Streeting wishes they would - their need to be trans is real and fundamental to who they are - refusing to recognise that doesn't, in my eyes, change them.

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Yeah, it's always a sign you're on the right side of history when you attack the Quakers. Well done, Labour.

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I feel physically shaken by this oppressive intrusion by police in London. This is wicked and wrong.

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The day after the Chancellor Told a press conference that we must accept the #Insatiable rule of the markets My inner poet is crying. That is all. #Vss365

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This post has provoked some responses so let me explain what I was trying to say. Glueing cars together is not a bad idea. Doing it on the cheap in a company with a terrible organisational culture is a bad idea, as Tesla are busily proving, but it's the management.not the materials is the problem.

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this weeks Go not to the elves for counsel episode is a conversation with @coachingintheround.co.uk about authentic leadership in Tolkien and the wider world open.spotify.com/episode/73Uj... #tolkien #lordoftherings #lotr #therapysky #therapistsconnect

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I'm delighted to be part of a brilliant podcast series headed up by @karenpollock.bsky.social - follow the link below for a refreshing approach to #LOTR

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very excited that the first guest episode of Go Not to The Elves for Counsel comes out tomorrow, a conversation with @coachingintheround.co.uk about leadership in the legendarium open.spotify.com/show/7lRjl7S... ##lordoftherings #tolkien #lotr #bookthreads

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An American comment that feels remarkably relevant now.

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#vss365 Standing by the #weir and millrace Beneath the towers of Cuthberts resting place We talked about the past, and invented a future. More than a decade on the echoes of those words Secure me like the Wear embracing the castle and cathedral where the Dun cow led the pilgrims

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the self actualising tendency is at the core of person centered therapy, the belief that every person has the ability to grow towards the light This weeks podcast looks at Sam, who wonderfully demonstrates this open.spotify.com/episode/1rVh... #therapistsconnect #tolkien #lotr

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