Five minutes before the interview, Shadow was holding the ethernet cable hostage ("You know my price, lady: Dreamies or the cable gets it and no more radio interview") 😹 @georginagodwin.bsky.social
🎙️ This morning @charleshecker.bsky.social & I spoke to @georginagodwin.bsky.social on Monocle Radio's The Globalist about the Trump administration's suggestion that they might lift sanctions on Russian oil. The segment starts 3 minutes and 40 seconds into the recording
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Hegseth insistence on referring to U.S. service personnel only as "my brothers," guys, men, etc. is so incredibly disrespectful to all the women who have served and died in combat, including Sergeant First Class Nicole Amor, who was killed in Kuwait last week.
Two stress balls. One is a blue and red donkey shape, the other is a GOP red and blue elephant shape
Don't be jealous of my DC swag courtesy of my friend. It's two stress balls. Squeeze whoever is pissing me off more at the moment.
Harlech #Gwynedd #Cymru #Wales
Today, Ukrainian soldiers will go to the Mideast to help defend against Iranian drone attacks.
Considering how many expected us to quickly fall after the Russian full-scale invasion 4 years ago, this is quite a turnaround.
Ukraine didn't follow the rules: we changed the game.🂡
✊ “Hands off women’s rights” and “No sexism in the army,” protesters chanted at the Women’s March in Kyiv — the first since Russia’s full-scale invasion
Participants also spoke out against the new draft of Ukraine’s Civil Code.
In Kenya, families protested in Nairobi demanding the government bring home their sons duped into joining Russia's army for the Ukraine war. Many were lured with promises of decent jobs as drivers or guards, but ended up on the front lines. Over 1,000 Kenyans have been recruited
Anti-war feminists could be focusing on raising awareness about russian war crimes against Ukrainian women instead of posting performative nonsense that undermines support for Ukraine’s defence. Russia holds civilian women hostage and rarely agrees to exchange them: www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
Day 466 of daily, uninterrupted, nationwide protests in Georgia.
March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.
He belonged to a discussion group that I moderated some years ago about women and war, and was fascinated by Florence Nightingale. RIP
A golden cake in a loaf tin on a kitchen counter
A black cat sits on a windowsill next to a vase of spring flowers
Sunday afternoon baking while Shadow poses next to the spring flowers
"Just after starting on Cars 2, I was told by a superior that I would be uninvited from all weekly art department meetings because Lasseter 'has a hard time controlling himself' around young women... It was clear that the institution was working hard to protect him, at the expense of women like me."
Aerial image of Cricieth.
Photograph of Capel y Traeth.
On #InternationalWomensDay we remember Margaret Lloyd George (1864–1941), campaigner and community leader closely linked with Cricieth. Her family chapel, Capel y Traeth, reflects Wales’s rich Nonconformist heritage — celebrated today in our Capeli Cymru project. #IWD2026 #WomenInHistory
Writer Storm Jameson's archive reveals fascinating details about the lives and vital role of women workers in munitions factories during WW2. New blogpost @britishlibrary.bsky.social English and Drama www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
people in West Wales who like art: please go and see Annie Morgan Suganami at Canfas. just the most beautiful, humane, tender work canfas.co.uk/exhibitions/...
Black and white photo of a black cat posed next to a copy of the book "War Economy"
Mikey is beautiful. Shadow says hello to a fellow black cat literary model.
Got my hard copy of @prospectmagazine.co.uk with my Kyiv diary in it. You can read the piece online (link below), but if, like me--and Mikey, pictured here--you prefer the feel of a printed magazine, pick one up at your nearest newsagent.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...
Happy Stalin’s Death Day
Also, the assumption that someone who works in a care home or on a farm that grows crops "contributes less" than a higher earner is just bizarre - contributes less to what? 🤷♀️
well, today in floridly depressing news: the French helpline for female victims of male violence is facing "coordinated" attacks from men's rights activists, who keep calling up in the hope of making it harder for women to reach their services
If Donald asks Zelensky for anti drone systems, he better wear a suit, ask nicely and say thank you.
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A ginger and white cat snoozes on a human’s lap
Bruce demonstrating one of the uses of human staff: as a mattress. 😹
This was a lot of fun to do. Thanks so much to @gillianmurphy.bsky.social and @lselibrary.bsky.social for letting me co-curate this new exhibition celebrating 100 years of the Women's Library collection. Such an important resource
A country lane on a sunny spring day
The bank under a hedge covered with snowdrops.
Sunny and mild for a late after walk after a day of meetings.
Morale is always improved by the presence of a majestic cat (h/t @jsargentr.bsky.social)
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You tell them, Parkin. The staff are there to serve your needs, after all. 😹
