"There are great powers, outside the government and in it, trying to legislate the return of darkness. We are not great powers. But we are the light. Nobody can put us out. May all of you shine very bright and steady, today and always." From “The Princess,” 1982, by Ursula K. Le Guin
I just started reading FUEL and am loving it - it’s such a brilliant idea to have an anthology of prize winning flash fiction (and navigable by a list of first lines!), and even better that profits go to fuel poverty charities - check it out! 👇✨
“Good shit takes time. Extend time, bend time, crip time.”
RIP Alice Wong - Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life
still my favourite game of all time! Always hoped for Machinarium 2 wherever they land in their escape craft! Maybe where the girl robot is the lead adventurer 🙂
as soon as I ever solve my geographical/health obstacles I’ll be there!
oh man these look good, miss coming over for food at yours!
Oh that’s so kind, thank you! 🙂 and yes, celebrating everyone who’s finding readers for their words!
Do give @thebrokenspine.co.uk a follow here too, they create such a great gathering space for words and ideas and people on here.
I’m so happy (and a bit shy) to share that my first ever selected poems are in this collection from @thebrokenspine.co.uk Thank you so much to editors David Hanlon and Katie Jenkins, and I can’t wait to read all the work.
I have loved being co-chair of Unlimited and learned so much - and after 5 years it’s time to step back and invite new folk into the role. If you’d like to contribute to making positive change in the culture sector, check out our info pack and please share widely!
A big thank you to Hannah, the artist we commissioned to paint this, and did such a beautiful job - check out her insta www.instagram.com/paperwallssi...
Feeling despair about all the shit going on in the world lately and particularly in response to all the flags near us, we decided to paint hope all over our house.
It’s so lovely to come home to and also to hear kids chanting ‘hope’ as they go past on the way to school.
The Decode ME study is such a big deal for people living with ME/CFS. We’ve spent decades being dismissed by docs and now there is finally a glimmer of hope for better understanding, even pathways to treatment in the long term….just need more funded research and the gov to pay attention….
The Met Office is currently looking for people to suggest up to 5 names for storms...
It would be great if thousands all suggested the same 5 names (in alphabetical order as that's how storm names appear):
BigOil, BP, Equinor, Exxon, Shell.
www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...
Oh thank you, don’t know how I managed to mess up the link!
Meantime, if you don’t have the spoons to respond to the very long Green Paper with the damaging proposals for cutting disability welfare support, you can sign a very quick petition here petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Some rare good news just now. The repairing of the harm their ‘guidance’ has caused will be hard however.
And a reminder that @goodlawproject.org are a great organisation to support.
I think they need smaller dedicated car parks still for disabled visitors who are not able to easily wheel and use public transport (which is pretty bad for access)
Yes, it's another request to sign and share an open letter. These are the times we live in... Disabled people are being cut out of working life, contrary to what the government say they are doing...if you're in the culture sector, please read, sign, share.
www.tinyurl.com/AtWLetter
Wow, look at this: the carbon intensity of UK electricity is currently only 32g/kWh and 86.5% of our electricity right now is coming from renewables.
Come on world, this IS possible!
And it will only get better (meaning: cleaner, healthier, less intrusive) 🎉
(graphic from grid.iamkate.com )
Open this image up fully.
Look to the top right.
That's Phobos, one of the moons of Mars.
And that bright point of light?
Earth.
Gutted to read this - I have posted here previously about the proposed cuts to PIP and meantime we’re seeing damaging and life changing cuts to Access to Work that are happening right now… particularly to those I know working in the arts
Honorable mention to Sonny Stores in Bristol who are not only super delicious but have always been open and understanding about booking outside seats. Everyone should be more like Sonny Stores. ✨
You’re losing good custom. There’s loads of us with this access need and dammit we’re hungry, we’ve been waiting all winter for the chance to eat outside! I don’t have the spare energy to chance it rolling around all the restaurants to see if your walk-up outside tables are available. Let me book!
Dear Restaurants…especially all the cool small ones in Bristol, I’m looking at you - it is time to update your approach to access and to stop telling folk who are immune compromised/vulnerable to illness, that it’s not possible to book your outside tables. Of course it’s possible!
I am planning an event @wshed.bsky.social for the culture sector around our collective role in building togetherness to combat the rise of the far right. I am talking with Hope not Hate and imagining a mix of talk and workshop covering. Is this something you would be interested to attend?
Doing some reading around Time - and am loving @emergencemagazine.bsky.social’s Volume 5 on Time. In particular this piece - the best big picture poetic writing on Earth’s geology I’ve come across emergencemagazine.org/essay/wrinkl...
Aha! I think it might be a particularly red Mint Moth! (Not far from some mint in our garden in fact) I think my initial online search threw me off because it looks like they are often more orangey brown…sorted thanks to the excellent identifier on @savebutterflies.bsky.social website!
Bug folk! Who is this lovely and very tiny winged visitor to our garden? Is it a butterfly or a moth? This is is a daisy head that’s about 1.5cm diameter….I’ve never seen a butterfly this tiny - they emerge from a chrysalis full sized right, or do you get baby butterflies?!
An open letter to the Equality and Human Rights Commission from the Culture Sector, in solidarity with Trans, Nonbinary and Intersex communities. Sign your name here: tinyurl.com/ehrcletter Please share widely, and if you are not able to sign for your organisation, please share with someone who can
