The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦

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So much institutional/societal 'accessibility' is performative and requires the disabled person to do *more*, and I'm so sick of it. People/places quite happy to tick a little box to say they're inclusive or accessible while clutching their pearls and looking outraged if they need to do something.

Small porcelain statuette of the Infant Jesus of Prague, set on a red base, posed on Thames Foreshore river steps. The statuette is white with gold accessories, the crowned head is broken and a hand is missing, though the other hand holds a globe with a cross.

The broken head of a small porcelain statuette of the Infant Jesus of Prague held in my hand on the Thames Foreshore. The head is crowned, the face is well defined with red lips.

Found on the Thames Foreshore yesterday, a small porcelain statuette of the Infant Jesus of Prague. The original hails from the C16th & is housed in the Church of Our Lady Victorious in Prague. Dressed in blinging robes that change according to the liturgical season. Head broken, hand missing 1/

Whatever happened to the principle of ‘no news is good news’? If I’m not happy, I’ll say, thanks. Otherwise, stop eating into my time. The very act of sending me a link to a survey undermines whatever level of satisfaction I was feeling.

Ah, got you. Thanks.

But what is it?

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Is it now a defining feature of British culture that every commercial or service interaction is followed by a customer satisfaction survey?

The GOAT goat?

I was looking at my mother’s family photos just yesterday. Loads of her uncles and aunts. One picture isn’t much. It’s very sad. ❤️‍🩹

That’s so sad.

They seem to have created a failing system. 😠

I’m thinking about that brand when our toaster dies … Good to know that it is energy efficient. 💙

Thank you. Nobody likes going to hospital, even as an outpatient, and it does add to the strain …

You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.

Waiting for patient transport. Ready two hours in advance (as instructed) and of course they’re late.

Your dynamism is an example to us all.

I'm in this!

An Easter lamb in Grand Frais Bergerac this morning
Not sure whether I like it … 🧐

Kathleen Lonsdale (1903 – 1971) was an Irish crystallographer, pacifist, and prison reform activist. During her career she attained several firsts for female scientists, including being one of the first two women elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1945. #CelebratingWomen

Do you have a favorite follow for stuff that's an antidote to the constant doom?

I just found @goodtrailcams.bsky.social, for non-stop animals caught on camera.

It's weirdly comforting when it's doom doom doom doom doom and all of a sudden MOOSE!

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Almost half of all five-year-olds are not being vaccinated against measles.

On BBC Radio 4 now, the rise of measles in the UK. Appalling that vaccination has become less convenient for patients.

#Vaccinate

'The droplet percolates. It swirls through the soil to the clay beneath, then rises again with the groundwater to become surface water; a cocktail of rainwater, river water, aquifer water ... bringing nutrients to what grows, liquid to a dry place.'

From Stephen Rutt's #TheWaterlands, out 26 March

I thought that it might be fun to continue the Portmeirion theme from yesterday! Here's "View near Portmeirion" by John Cooper from 1936. Cooper also painted "The Terrace, Portmeirion" in 1936 (sadly, not known to survive) along with several other views of that part of North Wales. #JohnCooper

It is! ❤️

Enter into the spirit of...

A photo of a toad I met while gardening a few summers ago. Look at his beautiful coppery eyes!

Bow down before your local toad today and respect his supreme leathery authority. There is no time to waste.

Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign

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Quite possibly. He seems quite bright. 🐦‍⬛