Kaspa (they/them)
@kaspalita.bsky.social
Buddhist Minister, IFS Psychotherapist, writing at http://Kaspa.substack.com
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If you're in Glasgow this Friday afternoon, I'm giving a talk. It's free and all are welcome:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-talk-by-...
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A talk by George Monbiot: Capitalism, Power and Environmental Justice
George Monbiot will discuss some surprising histories of exploitation, and explore what a new radical politics might look like.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
If you're in Glasgow this Friday afternoon, I'm giving a talk. It's free and all are welcome:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-talk-by-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-talk-by-...
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Did you know a "jiffy" is a real unit of time? Physicists define it as the time it takes light to travel a distance of one femtometre, which is a millionth of a millionth of a millimetre. This was my co-author's favourite fact she learned from working on "About Time". Read more in this interview:
About Time by Alom Shaha and Rebecca Struthers
We welcome co-authors Alom Shaha and Rebecca Struthers to the blog in an interview style format! Gain some insight into their work on About Time. Rebecca
fcbg.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Did you know a "jiffy" is a real unit of time? Physicists define it as the time it takes light to travel a distance of one femtometre, which is a millionth of a millionth of a millimetre. This was my co-author's favourite fact she learned from working on "About Time". Read more in this interview:
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The 25th of November is St Catherine's feast day.
"This isn't about God,
the stained-glass legends of broken wheels, the barrowload
of miracles, or the dinner-plate halo they will nail to your head.
Under the gospel,
the truth of it: woman answers back, ends up dead."
- Rosie Garland
"This isn't about God,
the stained-glass legends of broken wheels, the barrowload
of miracles, or the dinner-plate halo they will nail to your head.
Under the gospel,
the truth of it: woman answers back, ends up dead."
- Rosie Garland
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The 25th of November is St Catherine's feast day.
"This isn't about God,
the stained-glass legends of broken wheels, the barrowload
of miracles, or the dinner-plate halo they will nail to your head.
Under the gospel,
the truth of it: woman answers back, ends up dead."
- Rosie Garland
"This isn't about God,
the stained-glass legends of broken wheels, the barrowload
of miracles, or the dinner-plate halo they will nail to your head.
Under the gospel,
the truth of it: woman answers back, ends up dead."
- Rosie Garland
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I wrote about our interview with Roblox's CEO and how platforms got too big to feel shame www.platformer.news/roblox-ceo-i...
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I wrote about our interview with Roblox's CEO and how platforms got too big to feel shame www.platformer.news/roblox-ceo-i...
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Japanese printmaker Ayomi Yoshida, woodblock print, the Tokyo-based artist explores the medium's roots in Buddhism #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
November 23, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Japanese printmaker Ayomi Yoshida, woodblock print, the Tokyo-based artist explores the medium's roots in Buddhism #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
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I'm sorry. Is this "The Conversation" or "The Onion"?
November 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I'm sorry. Is this "The Conversation" or "The Onion"?
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November 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Working on my website. Still not 100% there - but the whole look is more unified and I re-wrote the therapy page which I'm now much happier with.
www.kaspathompson.co.uk
#counselling #therapy #psychotherapy #MentalHealth #InternalFamilySystems
www.kaspathompson.co.uk
#counselling #therapy #psychotherapy #MentalHealth #InternalFamilySystems
Kaspa Thompson
IFS Psychotherapist, Supervisor & Buddhist Minister
www.kaspathompson.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Working on my website. Still not 100% there - but the whole look is more unified and I re-wrote the therapy page which I'm now much happier with.
www.kaspathompson.co.uk
#counselling #therapy #psychotherapy #MentalHealth #InternalFamilySystems
www.kaspathompson.co.uk
#counselling #therapy #psychotherapy #MentalHealth #InternalFamilySystems
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Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”
November 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”
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Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Trans people have literally always been here; every time I see someone sneering "oh but there were no trans people when I was in high school," well. I dated a trans girl in high school, and was close friends with a trans guy.
November 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Trans people have literally always been here; every time I see someone sneering "oh but there were no trans people when I was in high school," well. I dated a trans girl in high school, and was close friends with a trans guy.
It's a terrible advertising model. I'm a good therapist but a bad business person. Anyway, I do actually have space for a new client at the moment...
#counselling #psychotherapy #InternalFamilySystems #IFS
#counselling #psychotherapy #InternalFamilySystems #IFS
November 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
It's a terrible advertising model. I'm a good therapist but a bad business person. Anyway, I do actually have space for a new client at the moment...
#counselling #psychotherapy #InternalFamilySystems #IFS
#counselling #psychotherapy #InternalFamilySystems #IFS
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Tranquility at dawn. This morning at the base of Glastonbury Tor about 40 minutes before sunrise.
November 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Tranquility at dawn. This morning at the base of Glastonbury Tor about 40 minutes before sunrise.
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Great to see that the National Estate for Nature Group - whose members own c.10% of England - have agreed to "publish estate management plans by April 2026", setting out how each of them are contributing to 30x30 & Environment Act targets.
Thread 1/
defraenvironment.blog.gov.uk/2025/11/18/l...
Thread 1/
defraenvironment.blog.gov.uk/2025/11/18/l...
Leading the way: National Estate for Nature agrees shared objectives to accelerate nature recovery
The National Estate for Nature group has taken an important step forward in its mission to drive nature recovery across England’s major estates. Read this post to find out more.
defraenvironment.blog.gov.uk
November 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Great to see that the National Estate for Nature Group - whose members own c.10% of England - have agreed to "publish estate management plans by April 2026", setting out how each of them are contributing to 30x30 & Environment Act targets.
Thread 1/
defraenvironment.blog.gov.uk/2025/11/18/l...
Thread 1/
defraenvironment.blog.gov.uk/2025/11/18/l...
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"The 'reduction in enthusiasm' [for climate action] among rich nations didn’t happen by accident.
It’s the product of a deliberate and systematic assault on knowledge by some of the richest people on Earth.
Preventing climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies."
It’s the product of a deliberate and systematic assault on knowledge by some of the richest people on Earth.
Preventing climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies."
Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
"The 'reduction in enthusiasm' [for climate action] among rich nations didn’t happen by accident.
It’s the product of a deliberate and systematic assault on knowledge by some of the richest people on Earth.
Preventing climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies."
It’s the product of a deliberate and systematic assault on knowledge by some of the richest people on Earth.
Preventing climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies."
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Here's one from Teesdale in England. Also the remains of a temperate rain forest.
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Here's one from Teesdale in England. Also the remains of a temperate rain forest.
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PSA: Pulp have done the Tiny Desk Concert and it's great with really interesting arrangements
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_Kl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_Kl...
Pulp: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
PSA: Pulp have done the Tiny Desk Concert and it's great with really interesting arrangements
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_Kl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_Kl...
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The EHRC guidance is unworkable for business.
Signatories include Ben & Jerry's, Lush, Lucy & Yak and hundreds of large and small businesses across the country
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Signatories include Ben & Jerry's, Lush, Lucy & Yak and hundreds of large and small businesses across the country
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Hundreds of firms warn new draft guidance on single sex spaces is ‘unworkable’
Exclusive: More than 650 organisations have urged Bridget Phillipson to ‘take immediate action to prevent these proposals from moving forward’
www.independent.co.uk
September 16, 2025 at 8:28 AM
The EHRC guidance is unworkable for business.
Signatories include Ben & Jerry's, Lush, Lucy & Yak and hundreds of large and small businesses across the country
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Signatories include Ben & Jerry's, Lush, Lucy & Yak and hundreds of large and small businesses across the country
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Being observed . . . Thank you @27rufus for today's #FoxOfTheDay
September 16, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Being observed . . . Thank you @27rufus for today's #FoxOfTheDay
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If the legacy media had reported honestly the scale of the Trans Pride demonstration, they would not now be able to represent the Far Right demonstration as a sign of imminent democratic collapse and civil war.
September 15, 2025 at 8:31 AM
If the legacy media had reported honestly the scale of the Trans Pride demonstration, they would not now be able to represent the Far Right demonstration as a sign of imminent democratic collapse and civil war.
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Labour should be fighting this dangerous reversal of rights, not signing it off.
I wrote to the Women and Equalities Minister last week urging her to reject guidance like this.
bsky.app/profile/nadi...
I wrote to the Women and Equalities Minister last week urging her to reject guidance like this.
bsky.app/profile/nadi...
Forthcoming statutory guidance could have a profound impact on trans people's lives.
I've written to the Women and Equalities Minister to urge her to reject anything that undermines trans people's rights, inclusion, privacy or safety, and for Parliament to have proper oversight.
I've written to the Women and Equalities Minister to urge her to reject anything that undermines trans people's rights, inclusion, privacy or safety, and for Parliament to have proper oversight.
September 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Labour should be fighting this dangerous reversal of rights, not signing it off.
I wrote to the Women and Equalities Minister last week urging her to reject guidance like this.
bsky.app/profile/nadi...
I wrote to the Women and Equalities Minister last week urging her to reject guidance like this.
bsky.app/profile/nadi...
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BREAKING 🚨
The updated EHRC Code of Practice has now been sent to the Government. The Code is just as bad as we feared.
It would mean a mandatory trans bathroom ban, and trans people's exclusion from public life. The impact would be devastating.
But politicians still have time to stop this.
The updated EHRC Code of Practice has now been sent to the Government. The Code is just as bad as we feared.
It would mean a mandatory trans bathroom ban, and trans people's exclusion from public life. The impact would be devastating.
But politicians still have time to stop this.
September 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
BREAKING 🚨
The updated EHRC Code of Practice has now been sent to the Government. The Code is just as bad as we feared.
It would mean a mandatory trans bathroom ban, and trans people's exclusion from public life. The impact would be devastating.
But politicians still have time to stop this.
The updated EHRC Code of Practice has now been sent to the Government. The Code is just as bad as we feared.
It would mean a mandatory trans bathroom ban, and trans people's exclusion from public life. The impact would be devastating.
But politicians still have time to stop this.
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On what would have been Freddie Mercury's 79th birthday here is an example of his genius....when creating the Barcelona album he recorded a demo for Montserrat Caballé that he would later put lyrics to.
This is that demo x
This is that demo x
September 5, 2025 at 7:19 AM
On what would have been Freddie Mercury's 79th birthday here is an example of his genius....when creating the Barcelona album he recorded a demo for Montserrat Caballé that he would later put lyrics to.
This is that demo x
This is that demo x
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I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators.
Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!
Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!
September 4, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators.
Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!
Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!
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If they think online activity should not be the purview of law enforcement then I look forward to the release of both climate and pro-Palestine activists who are currently facing prison or already there because of Zoom meetings.
September 3, 2025 at 8:53 AM
If they think online activity should not be the purview of law enforcement then I look forward to the release of both climate and pro-Palestine activists who are currently facing prison or already there because of Zoom meetings.