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Researching Educational Isolation to understand impact on schools. Education, social justice, disability, ME/CFS, neurodiversity, LGBTQ, books, medieval history, all things Nordic. She/her. Views mine. [banner photo: candle burnt down, looks like a crown]
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Today's post: a photo taken by my partner on one of his walks. I really like this one, especially the contrast in the colours and the peeling paint.

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See the problem here?

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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

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As much as I’m not sure about the food, me as historian and former English teacher loves this!

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Today's art: A cartoon by Adam Zyglis for 'The Buffalo News'. We should show support for those who don't comply in advance, like Harvard & Princeton. But we *shouldn't forget other universities deserve credit*, perhaps more so because they have less power & money, making them more vulnerable.

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Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies. Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.

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Today's art: 'Oxford' by W.H. Auden: born2snooze.blogspot.com/2008/12/oxfo.... If you click on George Monbiot's post below, you can read his article about colonialism. I, too, am drawn to the line about Oxford, 'Knowledge is conceived in the hot womb of Violence' as I read RF Kuang's 'Babel'.

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Today's art: 'Formation' - the song and the video - by Beyonce. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDZJ...

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It still surprises me when people see patterns in behaviour and think 'this time they'll do this other thing instead'. I know the psychology behind it, but it still baffles me how people can see someone do something over and over and over and over and then think 'nah, they won't do that'.

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Missed #Caturday yesterday but this is a huge moment so sharing anyway. Huckleberry finally caved and let his little brother snuggle.

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“Whenever people keep being given a platform to say they have no platform, or whenever people speak endlessly about being silenced, you not only have a performative contradiction; you are witnessing a mechanism of power.” You won’t be able to unsee this www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/anti...

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Today’s art: learned a new term today - mirror propaganda: doing to your enemy that which you falsely accuse them of doing to you. Seems relevant to recent UK Supreme Court case re: definition of a woman, where trans voices were apparently excluded from evidence. Yet transphobes claim to be silenced

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Today's art: 'Peepo!' by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. My sons loved this book. We'd read it over and over again in their first 2 years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_3b...

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Today's art: the film 'Pan's Labyrinth'. I see something new every time I watch this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVZR...

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Today's art: 'Ghost in this House', written by Hugh Prestwood and covered in this pared-down version by Alison Krauss (originally sung by Shenandoah). Just because I love this song, and her voice is so beautiful and emotive. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

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This is the daily fate of those who live with a cat.

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Imagine just half the energy campaigning against trans rights had been put into - Fighting the underfunding of women’s refuges - Fighting for single mums - Fighting for low-paid women Compared to fighting trans rights, which would have had most impact on women’s lives?

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Here's an alternate fantasy author who isn't an absolute cunt: Ursula K Le Guin

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Absolutely this. How have so many people fallen for the capitalist ideology that a person’s worth (including their own) is inextricably linked to their financial productivity? How have we lost sight of our collective humanity?

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Today's art: 'The Knife of Never Letting Go', by Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social. Such a powerful novel. I chose it for my secondary English PGCE interview in part bc it uses written imagery to show how chaotic, contradictory, painful & random our thoughts can be, often simultaneously.

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Today’s art: cartoon by David Horsey, published in ‘The Seattle Times’.

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Many products sold in the U.S. are made in El Salvador. In response to the El Salvador president’s statements today, we’re calling for an immediate boycott of all Salvadoran-made goods. Please help by listing any products or brands made in El Salvador in the comments below.

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Today's art: a Sesame Street song (and Sesame Street itself, too). I feel like some of those in power might be better people if they'd watched this tv show and understood this song when they were children. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYXJ...

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Today's art: by Donia Lilly @ethyricalartist.bsky.social, a disabled artist losing her home. Friends are trying to secure her a permanent place to live bc moving is too physically, mentally & emotionally stressful & draining. Please buy her art if you can or donate to her gofundme. donialilly.com

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This.

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We don’t say ‘post HIV’ or ‘post Ebola’, so why are people saying ‘post COVID’? COVID is running rampant due to apathy, ignorance and complacency on the part of governments, public health and healthcare systems www.bmj.com/content/388/...

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Today's art: Please take a little time to look at this art by patients with ME/CFS. Life is challenging when you have ME, for the patient but also for their caregiver(s). This art provides some insight into what it's like.

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