ECCC was fun and I had a wonderful time.
But there was a storm cloud. When I complained about Trump with my white straight cis friends, we were all sincere and concerned.
But I talked with many Trans friends, and it’s so much worse. They are in fear for their lives.
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Absolutely thrilled to have 2 poems in the gorgeous Dream Catcher magazine edited by Hannah Stone. Many thanks! Remember when I was breaking all those bones (hip, foot, toe), here’s my poem Wreck.
A home office. Blue walls. To the left a small shrine with a decent size Buddha on it. Next to that, a bookcase. In front of the bookcase a blue office chair. There is a PC on a desk to the right. Guanyin mantra is open on YouTube.
Chanting the Guanyin mantra this morning.
Folio 12: Red Carnation (Dianthus sp.) with a blue, orange and yellow butterfly, illustration.
From Book of Flower Studies, Master of Claude de France, c.1510–1515.
Hello—here’s the official trailer for UNDERLAND, based on my book of the same name, dir. by Rob Petit, with a haunting, glittering score by @hannahpeel.bsky.social, & the ‘Storyteller’ voiced by Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall, The Zone of Interest). Hope you like it.
In UK/Irish cinemas 27 March.
Landscape ecological restoration. It can be done but we need to get a move on. This is Carrifran where the sheep were removed to allow this native woodland to take over.
The main reason UK energy prices are so high is not net zero but the fact the price of gas still sets the price of electricity. Breaking that link should be the priority.
Photo of me as a young almost monk (night before ordination) in today's newsletter : open.substack.com/pub/kaspa/p/...
This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen
Photo of a rainbow over Aberdovey
Sunday photo
Rainbow over Aberdovey
"White bread was European; the creative use of its leftovers, making the discarded delicious, was a local innovation of necessity."
on the evils of the Dutch, gold daggers, Delftware, tin mining and a damn good breakfast sandwich:
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Stay Curious, Let Go of Expectations, Love What Is
A manifesto for therapy, art, life...
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Today is the start of LGBT+ History Month in the UK. I joined some cool people a while ago to reflect on why queer and trans histories are rich and powerful. Our histories can illuminate the possibilities of activism and politics, as we work to build a better world.
Keep the conversation going.
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Mayan effigy incense burner known as the Scribe of Mayapán, Yucatán, 1200 and 1450 CE. It is a deity related to the monkey-man scribe, a sacred figure in Mayan culture considered a bearer of wisdom and knowledge. Its left hand holds a snail-shaped ink holder, its right arm is a knotted serpent.
Everyone of these posts is superb, but this one is a masterpiece in the uses of detail and subtle emphasis.
I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.
I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion
People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it
Pedestrians on Broadway, West 44th Street, New York. November 1976 Bright neon signs everywhere as traffic blurs past
James Wolcott, Times Square Night, 1976
do you know what would help!!!!!!!! living in a society that lets people experiment with their gender without treating it like the most important thing in the world!!!!!!! letting people get it right or wrong without politicising their decisions!!!!!!! just being chilled about gender!!!!!! aaahhhhhh
BBC not saying it's climate change - not surprising, but still disappointing. Especially as I can see the anti-climate change messaging getting louder again in the right wing press....
They're both me.
Amazing thread. No notes.
Cover for our new book. It's cream, and there are four moons in different phases in shiny gold. Over the moons are four pictures: a galloping hare, a hawthorn bough, Stonehenge and the deer's head from the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance. The Book is called The Ritual Year: A New Calendar of Britain's Feasts, Festivals and Folklore. It's by Kiera Chapman, Lulah Ellender and Rebecca Warren.
I am squeeing with delight at the cover for our new book! It's SO SHINY!
Out in August.
The picture shows a necklace made of glass beads. The beads are of different size, shape and colour. Some are patterned, others monochrome.
In the early medieval period, colorful glass beads were a mark of prestige and fashion. This striking necklace, comprising over 60 beads in vibrant reds, blues, yellows, and intricate patterns, was discovered in the burial of a woman at Bissingen, southwest Germany, dating 7th century. 🧵1/2
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Bought a new webcam - but forgot to have it on the wide setting so when I cropped this video for YouTube shorts my face was still massive!
#IFSTherapy #wellbeing #mentalhealth
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Just me talking about #perfectionism
#IFStherapy #wellbeing #mentalhealth #InternalFamilySystems
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Why does it always rain on me?
Is it because I live on the west coast of an island bordering the Atlantic Ocean in a warming climate?
Why is every scandal existential for Starmer? Because he has actively worked to eradicate his own support base. And that, along with the Mandelson decision, can be laid at McSweeney's door iandunt.substack.com/p/starmers-m...
always knew he was the best character actor of his generation but this really is a remarkable transformation
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
