Talis Kimberley🇪🇺
@taliskimberley.bsky.social
Songwriter/Performer/Wordsmith. Doggerel, Limericks. She/her. Folklore, yarncraft, pagan. Antifa, organ doner, European. Made of stories. No AI. www.talis.net & YouTube channel. Booking 2026 gigs: (Hey, bookshops & yarnshops!) Re-enchantment is resistance.
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Hello friends. I mostly share here things intended to bring solace & a little joy.
I’ll also talk about my work (contemporary story-songs & geek-folk, interfaith, history, folklore & nonsense).
I encourage you to seek out beauty, dwell in wonder, practice kindness & be thankful (& use alt-text!)
I’ll also talk about my work (contemporary story-songs & geek-folk, interfaith, history, folklore & nonsense).
I encourage you to seek out beauty, dwell in wonder, practice kindness & be thankful (& use alt-text!)
Time for adults horrified by current events to step up & say ‘if there isn’t a local group, who will start one with me?’ And/or fundraise and/or volunteer special skills etc.
I hope the Woodcraft grows and is able to give opportunities, fellowship & confidence to many more children #BeTheChange
I hope the Woodcraft grows and is able to give opportunities, fellowship & confidence to many more children #BeTheChange
December 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Time for adults horrified by current events to step up & say ‘if there isn’t a local group, who will start one with me?’ And/or fundraise and/or volunteer special skills etc.
I hope the Woodcraft grows and is able to give opportunities, fellowship & confidence to many more children #BeTheChange
I hope the Woodcraft grows and is able to give opportunities, fellowship & confidence to many more children #BeTheChange
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Funny how @zackpolanski.bsky.social suggesting a raft of policies to try and improve the lives of the vast majority is ‘fantasy economics’, but when Brexiteers were allowed to indulge their lunatic fantasies about leaving the EU it somehow became ‘The Will of the People’. 🦄🤔
December 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Funny how @zackpolanski.bsky.social suggesting a raft of policies to try and improve the lives of the vast majority is ‘fantasy economics’, but when Brexiteers were allowed to indulge their lunatic fantasies about leaving the EU it somehow became ‘The Will of the People’. 🦄🤔
Heartbroken for trans girls & transwomen, gutted by the Guides & WI.
Kind of want to throw open my kitchen for trans-priority yarn-crafting parties/baking sessions/whatever else is fun.
Food/crochet/sewing/making stuff is my wheelhouse. It’s what I’ve got. Feel a bit helpless else😔
#transrights
Kind of want to throw open my kitchen for trans-priority yarn-crafting parties/baking sessions/whatever else is fun.
Food/crochet/sewing/making stuff is my wheelhouse. It’s what I’ve got. Feel a bit helpless else😔
#transrights
December 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Heartbroken for trans girls & transwomen, gutted by the Guides & WI.
Kind of want to throw open my kitchen for trans-priority yarn-crafting parties/baking sessions/whatever else is fun.
Food/crochet/sewing/making stuff is my wheelhouse. It’s what I’ve got. Feel a bit helpless else😔
#transrights
Kind of want to throw open my kitchen for trans-priority yarn-crafting parties/baking sessions/whatever else is fun.
Food/crochet/sewing/making stuff is my wheelhouse. It’s what I’ve got. Feel a bit helpless else😔
#transrights
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For World AIDS Day, Green Party leader Zack Polanski spells out his party’s HIV agenda:
stopping transmissions by 2030
fighting stigma
making testing + PrEP accessible for all
Progress needs action ❤️🩹📣
stopping transmissions by 2030
fighting stigma
making testing + PrEP accessible for all
Progress needs action ❤️🩹📣
Green Party leader Zack Polanski: 'We need a society where HIV is met with openness, not stigma'
Philip Baldwin speaks with Green Party leader Zack Polanski for World AIDS Day about the party’s HIV priorities.
www.gaytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
For World AIDS Day, Green Party leader Zack Polanski spells out his party’s HIV agenda:
stopping transmissions by 2030
fighting stigma
making testing + PrEP accessible for all
Progress needs action ❤️🩹📣
stopping transmissions by 2030
fighting stigma
making testing + PrEP accessible for all
Progress needs action ❤️🩹📣
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FWIW, the Woodcraft Folk is open to kids of every gender and does very similar activities. Not that it makes the Guides having to do this any better but there are places where trans kids can learn to tie knots/camp/make fires etc if that's what they want. woodcraft.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
FWIW, the Woodcraft Folk is open to kids of every gender and does very similar activities. Not that it makes the Guides having to do this any better but there are places where trans kids can learn to tie knots/camp/make fires etc if that's what they want. woodcraft.org.uk
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the guides could do what the woodcraft folk do, and be inclusive to children of all genders and none
Trans children denied participation in society because of the Supreme Court and EHRC. To attack us adults is one thing but to attack children is another. The UK needs to lose its GANHRI A accreditation.
#LeaveTransKidsAlone
www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
#LeaveTransKidsAlone
www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
Statement for members on our equality and diversity policy
An update on our equality and diversity policy following the Supreme Court decision of April 2025
www.girlguiding.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
the guides could do what the woodcraft folk do, and be inclusive to children of all genders and none
Thank you for this. Woodcraft Folk deserve all support and resourcing now more than ever.
I condemn in the strongest possible terms the exclusion of trans girls from Girl Guides.
So I want also to spread the word about Woodcraft Folk, who have never waivered in their support & inclusion of trans kids (& were founded in rejection of the patriarchal & imperialistic values of Scouts).
So I want also to spread the word about Woodcraft Folk, who have never waivered in their support & inclusion of trans kids (& were founded in rejection of the patriarchal & imperialistic values of Scouts).
December 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Thank you for this. Woodcraft Folk deserve all support and resourcing now more than ever.
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Lewis Chess Pieces, 12th Century CE
December 2, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Lewis Chess Pieces, 12th Century CE
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ODYSSEUS: wife I am home after 20 years
PENELOPE: oh shit I mean honey you are home how wonderful
ODYSSEUS: who are all these strange men
PENELOPE: well, I'll tell you what they're definitely not, which is a 300 person polycule ruling in your absence
PENELOPE: oh shit I mean honey you are home how wonderful
ODYSSEUS: who are all these strange men
PENELOPE: well, I'll tell you what they're definitely not, which is a 300 person polycule ruling in your absence
December 2, 2025 at 8:28 AM
ODYSSEUS: wife I am home after 20 years
PENELOPE: oh shit I mean honey you are home how wonderful
ODYSSEUS: who are all these strange men
PENELOPE: well, I'll tell you what they're definitely not, which is a 300 person polycule ruling in your absence
PENELOPE: oh shit I mean honey you are home how wonderful
ODYSSEUS: who are all these strange men
PENELOPE: well, I'll tell you what they're definitely not, which is a 300 person polycule ruling in your absence
🟩 Green Party Conference 🟩
🗳️ ✨ Reforming Trans Healthcare (a Trans positive motion) ✨
✅ Unanimously passed by @greenparty.org.uk members
✅ Every speaker in support
✅ Every vote in favour
The Green Party once again showing what true solidarity looks like
#GPC25
#TransRights
🗳️ ✨ Reforming Trans Healthcare (a Trans positive motion) ✨
✅ Unanimously passed by @greenparty.org.uk members
✅ Every speaker in support
✅ Every vote in favour
The Green Party once again showing what true solidarity looks like
#GPC25
#TransRights
December 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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They fear your divine spark
That’s why they push Al, to atrophy what makes you human
That’s why they push Al, to atrophy what makes you human
December 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
They fear your divine spark
That’s why they push Al, to atrophy what makes you human
That’s why they push Al, to atrophy what makes you human
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Quick sketch in biro from this morning. The way the ash trees have hung on to bundles of keys is quite striking this year.
December 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Quick sketch in biro from this morning. The way the ash trees have hung on to bundles of keys is quite striking this year.
Late Sunday afternoon and it’s crafting time for me.
1. Working in the ends on a project for a secret Santa. Done!
2. Sewing up and working in ends on a project for a little present for someone. In progress!
1. Working in the ends on a project for a secret Santa. Done!
2. Sewing up and working in ends on a project for a little present for someone. In progress!
November 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Late Sunday afternoon and it’s crafting time for me.
1. Working in the ends on a project for a secret Santa. Done!
2. Sewing up and working in ends on a project for a little present for someone. In progress!
1. Working in the ends on a project for a secret Santa. Done!
2. Sewing up and working in ends on a project for a little present for someone. In progress!
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So take this in. Straight from the NATO meeting after Russia’s attack Britain’s primary military town, Salisbury, Boris Johnson flew unofficially to party in Umbria with a former KGB officer working for the Kremlin.
Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten?
It is Profumo on stilts
Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten?
It is Profumo on stilts
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 AM
So take this in. Straight from the NATO meeting after Russia’s attack Britain’s primary military town, Salisbury, Boris Johnson flew unofficially to party in Umbria with a former KGB officer working for the Kremlin.
Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten?
It is Profumo on stilts
Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten?
It is Profumo on stilts
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You counter evil with real life.
June 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
You counter evil with real life.
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What is best in life? To connect with as much joy as needed to be able to share it with others; to gladly be the beacon for Gondor's aid; and to seek and destroy the reasons for lamentations caused by the cruel.
November 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
What is best in life? To connect with as much joy as needed to be able to share it with others; to gladly be the beacon for Gondor's aid; and to seek and destroy the reasons for lamentations caused by the cruel.
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I again suggest that the world shut down between Thanksgiving and the Epiphany. You cover many holidays that way and we all get a rest. Essential workers make double pay and we have lots of feasts. Neighborhoods celebrate together and we bring back wassailing and 12 days of Xmas. Elect me president.
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I again suggest that the world shut down between Thanksgiving and the Epiphany. You cover many holidays that way and we all get a rest. Essential workers make double pay and we have lots of feasts. Neighborhoods celebrate together and we bring back wassailing and 12 days of Xmas. Elect me president.
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Come and grab a final fix of folk horror this festive season, with DARKNESS IN THE FIELDS: MIDWINTER 2 running online over the weekend of 6th and 7th December! www.eventbrite.com/e/darkness-i... #folkhorror #folklore #winter #midwinter #writing #writers #fiction #authors
November 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Come and grab a final fix of folk horror this festive season, with DARKNESS IN THE FIELDS: MIDWINTER 2 running online over the weekend of 6th and 7th December! www.eventbrite.com/e/darkness-i... #folkhorror #folklore #winter #midwinter #writing #writers #fiction #authors
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Alongside many campaigners, the Green Party have absolutely dragged the Labour Government to finally end the child cap.
Labour politicians disgracefully defended it for far too long.
This shows why the Green Party membership rising and rising matters.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Labour politicians disgracefully defended it for far too long.
This shows why the Green Party membership rising and rising matters.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Alongside many campaigners, the Green Party have absolutely dragged the Labour Government to finally end the child cap.
Labour politicians disgracefully defended it for far too long.
This shows why the Green Party membership rising and rising matters.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Labour politicians disgracefully defended it for far too long.
This shows why the Green Party membership rising and rising matters.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
As the elected Leader of my chosen party says, and as our member-voted policies say:
Trans rights are human rights.
#HopeIsHere #TeamGreen #BackZack
Trans rights are human rights.
#HopeIsHere #TeamGreen #BackZack
Delighted to be speaking at this charity concert at Wembley in March.
Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday!
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday!
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Sugababes, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Wolf Alice and more to play all-star charity concert for trans rights
Organised by Olly Alexander and the Mighty Hoopla festival to ‘fight back against the politics of fear and exclusion’, Trans Mission will take place at Wembley Arena in March
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
As the elected Leader of my chosen party says, and as our member-voted policies say:
Trans rights are human rights.
#HopeIsHere #TeamGreen #BackZack
Trans rights are human rights.
#HopeIsHere #TeamGreen #BackZack
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Delighted to be speaking at this charity concert at Wembley in March.
Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday!
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday!
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Sugababes, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Wolf Alice and more to play all-star charity concert for trans rights
Organised by Olly Alexander and the Mighty Hoopla festival to ‘fight back against the politics of fear and exclusion’, Trans Mission will take place at Wembley Arena in March
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Delighted to be speaking at this charity concert at Wembley in March.
Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday!
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday!
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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The _other_ #BenefitCap is still keeping children in poverty
#Budget #ChildPoverty
policyinpractice.co.uk/blog/new-ana...
#Budget #ChildPoverty
policyinpractice.co.uk/blog/new-ana...
New analysis: Benefit cap blocks support for 1 in 5 families hit by two child limit | Policy in Practice
New analysis finds that 1 in 10 children hit by the two child limit won't benefit from its removal unless the Chancellor lifts the Benefit Cap too
policyinpractice.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The _other_ #BenefitCap is still keeping children in poverty
#Budget #ChildPoverty
policyinpractice.co.uk/blog/new-ana...
#Budget #ChildPoverty
policyinpractice.co.uk/blog/new-ana...
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
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When you hear what Rachel Reeves has in store in the Budget, remember that there were ALWAYS other choices.
Labour have deliberately and consciously chosen to ignore the fact that Brexit is draining up to £90 billion a year from the UK economy.
That's a gap no amount of taxation can fill.
Labour have deliberately and consciously chosen to ignore the fact that Brexit is draining up to £90 billion a year from the UK economy.
That's a gap no amount of taxation can fill.
November 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
When you hear what Rachel Reeves has in store in the Budget, remember that there were ALWAYS other choices.
Labour have deliberately and consciously chosen to ignore the fact that Brexit is draining up to £90 billion a year from the UK economy.
That's a gap no amount of taxation can fill.
Labour have deliberately and consciously chosen to ignore the fact that Brexit is draining up to £90 billion a year from the UK economy.
That's a gap no amount of taxation can fill.