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Book-lover, spinner, knitter, gardener. Aunt to many. Teacher. Trying to be self-sufficient in roses. Trying to get back to my studies on Anglo-Saxon Female Saints in Post-Conquest England. She/Her Ally and fighter for your right to be you.
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Reposting this because it’s consistently a thing that makes resistance feel like something that can be and in fact already is part of my everyday life.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Two of the Works of Mercy (based on Matthew's Gospel): welcoming the stranger and feeding the hungry, as represented in the medieval frescoes of the Baptistery in Parma. Some of the responsibilities of being born and baptized into, you know, a S-O-C-I-E-T-Y

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

No government can ever feasibly choose to ignore climate change or pandemics. You can't stop physics or biology by pretending that they don't exist. The only real choice governments make is how badly they and their people will suffer.

submitted 36 days ago • 15 comments

Trump’s anti-trans Executive Order is bad BUT it technically defines everyone as female. It states: “'Female' means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell." Since all fetuses "at conception" are female, Trump just defined EVERYONE as female.

submitted 36 days ago • 207 comments

So, I found @theradr.bsky.social in my early days here (some time late last year). She has been a great source of knowledge and learning, and this post is a calm, considered call to action. We need more than "thoughts and prayers" right now. www.lifeisasacredtext.com/inauguration/

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

My letter in today's @theguardian.com on the government's rampant enthusiasm for so-called AI. Many reasons for concern, from embedding our current failed systems to environmental impacts #Discrimination #Inequality #ClimateEmergency

submitted 38 days ago • 9 comments

It's a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history. Please share it as much as you can. #InducedDemand

submitted 39 days ago • 47 comments

There's probably some important life lesson about how much easier it is to plant things than to keep weeding and tidying existing plants. Yet the tended plants are the ones which yield fruit. Sponsored by ice tea, a newly-planted flowerbed, a harvest of peaches, and grass cutting.

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My hand-spun yarn got thoroughly tested by the Sisters of Chaos today. Picture the laser lights of a high-tech security system - crisscrossed over the living and dining rooms. I was only outside for half an hour!

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#ToitūTeTiriti Treaty Principles Bill submission extension

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

I wrote about why Mark Zuckerberg is spectacularly evil in a three-part series here - based in part on my experiences reporting in Myanmar in the early 2010s. little-flying-robots.ghost.io/facebook-des...

submitted 49 days ago • 39 comments

This lovely Hellenistic mosaic glass bowl looks so modern, yet it was made over 2,000 years ago! Ancient glassmakers created the tiny flower pattern using a technique now known as ‘millefiori’ (thousand flowers). A timeless design still made by glassmakers today! British Museum 📷 me #Archaeology

submitted 52 days ago • 7 comments

I find myself having to use the word "rapscallion" more often than usual these days. Meet Bianca (lighter) and Nyx (tabbier).

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Caspian, a.k.a Mr Helpful-pants, left us for a place with no suffering on Wednesday. He is now sleeping in the Roseary, wrapped in his favourite blanket. The world is an empty place.

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

Wow! This is the most interesting projection of the world which I've seen. Shows just how much land there isn't, compared to the ocean!

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

80s back in fashion

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

Good writing, by those who know more than Wiki-warriors.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Finally on top of reports, and starting to look ahead to next year's teaching. Also moved the Beefie Boys.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

The Hīkoi is 14 times the size of the 2022 anti-mandate protest, yet there has been only one arrest. Additionally, no one has bought a noose with them, and no one is calling for "Nuremberg trials" of politicians, or comparing David Seymour to Stalin

submitted 99 days ago • 14 comments

Today, I discovered that Gus (the Angus), and Lil' Red (the Jersey cross) really like skritches with the broom. #lifestyleblock #BeefieBoys

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

Widening the broadcast on this. Why is there a Hikoi happening in #NZ at the moment. www.tiktok.com/@rianatengah... #kiwi

submitted 102 days ago • 2 comments

Still feeling a bit lost, but getting to read about some great archaeology.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Tusiata Avia captures the moment in Parliament yesterday: (N.B. "The ACT party's poet laureate" is because ACT hate her.)

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Support the Hikoi - Kill the Bill!

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone else getting a serious LiveJournal-circa-2003 vibe here? Tell me it's not just me! Though I'm seriously proud of the number of web-friends I've had through multiple iterations of communities.

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

I'm here! Late as usual. I'm one of Caspian (aka Mr Helpful-pants)'s staff. Seriously, how are you supposed to punctuate that previous sentence?

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments