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Mark Williamson @markrwilliamson.bsky.social · 8h

In a culture that glorifies endless consumption, saying 'I’m happy with what I have’ is revolutionary

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Plaid Cymru @plaidcymru.bsky.social · 1d

Shwmae! 👋 It’s #ShwmaeSumae Day - a celebration of our beautiful language 💚

💬 What’s your favourite #Welsh word?

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Diwrnod Shwmae Su'mae Hapus! Heddiw, rydyn ni'n ddathlu a rhannu'r iaith Gymraeg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

💬 Beth yw eich hoff air #Cymraeg chi?

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Caroline Churcher @newforestchild.bsky.social · 23h

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Joanna Foster @fabticfoster.bsky.social · 19h

I received mine by joining up for the #HopeNotHate weekend of action

They may still be available that way or you can print off your own copies via this link

Thank you for spreading the word

secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/176747/...

@hopenothate.org.uk

Put HOPE in your window

Print and display a free Hold on to HOPE poster in your window. Together we can show that Britain's real strength is looking out for each other.

secure.hopenothate.org.uk

Joanna Foster @fabticfoster.bsky.social · 1d

They’re here

My posters have arrived ready to share #hope this weekend of action

#HopeNotHate

Posters in white, yellow and black with the words “Hold on to hope”.

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Joanna Foster @fabticfoster.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, do you have my book and painting? Thanks, Mammy, that’s really exciting although I’m not sure I can sit on my hands until November!

I can’t wait to see them @jonpountney1.bsky.social

a woman sitting next to another woman with the words " i 'm very bad at waiting " above her

Alt: A woman dressed in a shirt, tie and waistcoat sat talking to another woman and saying, “I’m very bad at waiting”.

media.tenor.com

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 1d

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 2d

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3d

BBC News, "In this world of rubble, they're finding many more dead Palestinians in areas the Israelis left"

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 3d

Morning all.

Photograph by Geoff Howard, West Yorks 1980s.

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Joanna Foster @fabticfoster.bsky.social · 4d

Does #radio get any more joyful than @cerysmatthews.bsky.social speaking with Hamza Yassin about the beauty of the natural world and the power of music to unite

Or should that be the power of the natural world and the beauty of music to unite?

#SelfCareSunday

#WildAboutNature

#hope

Wooden digital radio displaying on its screen BBC Radio 6 Music and the track ‘Isla’ by Beluga Lagoon.

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Joanna Foster @fabticfoster.bsky.social · 4d

What a photo.

Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman?

Show me a time when it hasn’t been, especially for working class women.

Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 4d

Morning all.

Photograph by Bruce Davidson, Wales 1965.

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 5d

"Why aren't the Free Palestine people cheering about the ceasefire?"

If you saw a man beating a child into a coma, would you cheer after the beating stopped? No, your first reaction would be horror at what happened and your second would be fear that he'll attack the kid again.

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 5d

Morning all.

Jacques Henri Lartigu, Bretagne, 1960.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 6d

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 7d

Morning all.

Photograph by Martin Parr, Isle of Rhum in the background, Isle of Eigg, Scotland, 1998.

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 7d

You don’t get to bankroll a genocide…

Embolden and cheer on the perpetrators

…and then call yourself a hero for pulling the plug.

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Joanna Foster @fabticfoster.bsky.social · 7d

“We are far more united and have far more in common than that which divides us."

~ Jo Cox

Image by Ben Jennings

Image of a Jewish man and a Muslim man sat on a bench overlooking a city shadowed in smoke. Both are holding a coffee cup. The Muslim man says,”I’m so sick of people thinking all this violence is done in my name.” The Jewish man replies, “Tell me about it.”

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Joanna Foster @fabticfoster.bsky.social · 7d

Another fabulous signed, first edition #book from the Cleeve Bookshop

My father is going to be delighted when he opens this on Christmas Day

#ShopIndie

thecleevebookshop.co.uk

Hardback copy of the book ‘Cat: On the road to find out’ by Yusuf/Cat Stevens.

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Joanna Foster @fabticfoster.bsky.social · 8d

What. A. Man.

Brave, brilliant and beautiful in every way.

TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 9d

Love this man. #Hero

#Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

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Joanna Foster @fabticfoster.bsky.social · 8d

Really fortunate to see #Punch at the West End tonight

Of even greater privilege was to be in the audience for a post-performance discussion on masculinity

Actor Tony Hirst walked the walk of allyship as he called out male privilege and the falsehood that the far right are acting to protect women

‘Post Show Q&A’ poster featuring a panel with Tony Hirst, Nico Concha, Dr Kenny Imafidon and Gethin Jones discussing masculinity.

Programme for the play ‘Punch’ at the Apollo Theatre. The orange fronted cover features the photograph of a young man in a white shirt and jeans who is breathing out a cloud of dust/light particles.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 9d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.