@marjoriemorgan
Storyteller. I write. I research. I photograph. Archaeologist of hidden stories. Witness. Orchids. Available for commissions. Paypal.me/MarjorieHMorgan ko-fi.com/Marjorie Bylines: Art UK, gal-dem, Are We Europe, Corridor8, The Fourdrinier
The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent. www.wired.com/story/gramma...
When your child’s health suddenly deteriorates, everything changes.
The last thing on your mind is “I must try to influence policy change.”
But that is exactly why it matters that some of us do.
When you have been through it, you want to know that every child, regardless of where they live or
"Jews don't belong in American society."
Imagine a sitting member of Congress tweeting that. You can't. Thankfully, it'd never happen. And *if* it did, it'd be the end of their career and the biggest story in America.
But Ogles can say this about Muslims without any censure.
Did anybody else have to memorize the prologue to the Canterbury Tales? I was annoyed at the time, but darn if I don't think about it every springtime.
For anybody who hasn't read it, it basically says that when sweet spring showers come and the birds start singing, people want to travel (1/2)
A starling murmuration sweeping over Brighton’s shoreline at sunset.
A recent low tide sunset outing, when a murmuration of starlings swept over Brighton’s shoreline, drawing crowds to witness one of nature’s most breathtaking spectacles.
#ShareMondays2026
#FSPrintMonday
#Brighton
#starlings
Families.
Complex, messy, difficult, raw, annoying, and often loyal in times of need.
Where would we be without them?
Watch this cracking drama on BBC iPlayer now.
The Walsh Sisters.
#TheWalshSisters
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These are a couple of books that would be great to read on #WorldBookDay (or any day, really).
I have many more mentioned in #MarjoriesMusings #Newsletter
Hospitals still have high numbers of cases which pose a serious risk to patients and staff. We need to clean the air! Stop pretending this isn’t a problem we are all facing.
2018: Cambridge Analytica
2021: Instagram buries self harm safeguards
2024: Instagram enables child abuse
2026: Meta AI glasses spies on your naked spouse
Delete Facebook. Delete Instagram. Delete WhatsApp. Bankrupt these perverts. mashable.com/article/meta...
In a letter, seen by the Guardian, the politicians said they were "deeply concerned" that Drax may have been given "substantial billpayer subsidy" while the company "may have knowingly and consistently concealed information" about the green credentials of its wood sources. The FTSE 250 owner of the Drax power plant gets about £2m a day in renewable energy subsidies, paid by consumers, on the condition it generates electricity from biomass pellets made from waste or low-value wood from sustainable forests. Drax, Britain's single biggest source of carbon emissions, imports millions of tonnes of wood pellets from across the Atlantic every year and is projected to receive £11bn in subsidies by the end of 2027.
Govt: we can't afford to support all young people to have the education & care they need...
Also govt: bc we're spenning DOUBLE the SEND costs in the country's largest polluter, a commercial private business, built on money extracted from plantation slavery, that repeatedly lied about its sourcing
It sounds a little like this ...
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Shared because the birdsong window near me was only brief while the workers must have been having their lunch break.
For the first time in months I can hear the chorus of birds over the usual hum of building and construction works in my neighbourhood. What a joy it is. Nature is healing.
My husband @mjowen174.bsky.social is very down and it’s difficult to see.
He had a thriving writing business until AI came along but now he’s struggling to find work.
Please repost this far and wide in the hope that he can find some writing work.
www.mathew-owen.co.uk
The list of apologies is quite long; it's almost as if The Telegraph writes lies in bold headlines and then apologies as a matter of course in fine print.
Exquisite.
'A Friend of Dorothy'
Short Film.
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My thoughts on two very different - but equally memorable - books I've recently read: 'Butter' by Asako Yuzuki, and 'Raising Hare' by Chloe Dalton.
#Newsletter #MarjoriesMusings #Butter #RaisingHare #Books #Thoughts #Reviews
I feel like such a fool that for so long I failed to interrogate what I was taught at University: that the law exists to protect the weak from the strong. 54 is very late to arrive at Audre Lorde's immutable truth, that his Master's tools will never dismantle his Master's house.
![The second point to note is that deference to the judgment of the legislature cannot be taken too far in the context of equality and discrimination cases. As Lord Bingham observed in A v. SSHD, at [68], what needs to be justified in a discrimination case is the discrimination and not simply the underlying measure. Furthermore, it is an important function of the courts to protect minorities, in particular small and perhaps unpopular minorities, since their interests may sometimes be overlooked or perhaps even deliberately violated by the majority. As Lady Hale observed in Ghaidan v. Godin-Mendoza [2004] UKHL 30, [2004] 2 AC 557, at [132]: "democracy values everyone equally even if the majority does not". In other words, the concept of democracy which is inherent in the Convention system and the HRA is not a majoritarian view of democracy. The protection of the rights of minorities is built into the scheme of the Convention and the HRA.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xurjtu2wa2akyi64gab34ahg/bafkreigbzzbkjlan2b7pbn2wrdnvz4yndjemap4z32xejkaubyekpmnfom)
The second point to note is that deference to the judgment of the legislature cannot be taken too far in the context of equality and discrimination cases. As Lord Bingham observed in A v. SSHD, at [68], what needs to be justified in a discrimination case is the discrimination and not simply the underlying measure. Furthermore, it is an important function of the courts to protect minorities, in particular small and perhaps unpopular minorities, since their interests may sometimes be overlooked or perhaps even deliberately violated by the majority. As Lady Hale observed in Ghaidan v. Godin-Mendoza [2004] UKHL 30, [2004] 2 AC 557, at [132]: "democracy values everyone equally even if the majority does not". In other words, the concept of democracy which is inherent in the Convention system and the HRA is not a majoritarian view of democracy. The protection of the rights of minorities is built into the scheme of the Convention and the HRA.
"It is an important function of the courts to protect minorities, in particular small and perhaps unpopular minorities, since their interests may sometimes be... even deliberately violated by the majority."
Court of Appeal: discussing the structurally disadvantaged class of private school pupils.
#Artivism - phrase I first heard from Gina Belafonte.
Misan Harriman - Art is Resistance.
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I'm still not surprised at these unfolding events.
Sounds much like depth of thought put into the construction of the 1950s Shirley Card.
1/'Dirty Business' (Channel 4) is almost like a new 'Mr Bates vs The Post Office'.
It seems to take TV dramas to make legislative changes and bring justice to many parts of society.
Will 'Dirty Business' clean up the Environment Agency and the privatised water companies? I truly hope so.
#Powerful
#MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid 😷
This via @alphaville.ft.com is a staggering tale - a prelude to much more of this? www.themediastack.co.uk/p/the-ai-tha...
