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Contently Jackie
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Comms consultant, copywriter & strategist. Stone circle botherer. Tree hugger. Bookish. Likes spreadsheets. Ex X.
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garius.bsky.social
Tolkien fought in the Battle of the Somme. He saw the horrors of war, and the moments of bravery and fear within it up close.

And after all that. ALL that. He wrote Lord of the Rings. He declared true bravery and masculinity to be love, friendship and humbleness.

Musk is everything he hated.
October 29, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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hilaryagro.com
A writer tried dating alt-right men as an experiment to learn about them. There is so much going on here I don't even know where to start

www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...
I told him that I was born in Russia and was a writer. He showed me a list he’d written of his favourite desserts in the city. It was a sober hobby he’d started during the pandemic, going to restaurants by himself, sampling sweets. He made a lot of lists, he said, most of them food-related. I asked what other kinds he made. “Lists of lies liberal white women tell about Donald Trump,” he replied. Suddenly, his leg was shaking. He grabbed the edges of the table and raised his voice: “White, liberal women are a plague on our society.” He proceeded to drink 11 iced coffees.
October 29, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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noethematt.bsky.social
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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mandascott.bsky.social
Still rather pleased that the #Boudica books come up in such stalwart company

fivebooks.com/best-books/b...

#Books
#BooksofBlueSky
#WritersofBlueSky
Boudica
Best books on Boudica, the Iron Age Briton who led a revolt against the Roman imperial power, recommended by archaeologist Richard Hingley
fivebooks.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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sacwriter.bsky.social
It’s a word definition box: Hiraeth: N. (Welsh) A spiritual longing for a home which maybe never was. Nostalgia for ancient places to which we cannot return.. It is the echo of the lost places of our soul’s past and our grief for them. It is the wind, and the rocks, and the waves. It is nowhere and it is everywhere.
October 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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keithwdickinson.bsky.social
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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kathyburke.bsky.social
Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown
October 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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girlsreallyrule.bsky.social
Jane Goodall, the famed primatologist, anthropologist and conservationist, has died, according to the institute she founded. She was 91 years old.

This is such a loss everyone and everything on this earth. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
Jane Goodall, famed primatologist and conservationist, dies at 91
Jane Goodall, the most prolific primatologist of a generation, has died. She was 91 years old.
abcnews.go.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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thatelizabeth.bsky.social
Creeping up on 2.5 million
Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards
We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.
petition.parliament.uk
September 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM
contentlyjackie.bsky.social
1,695,502 now.
September 27, 2025 at 7:20 AM
contentlyjackie.bsky.social
IDK about you, but I could weep with relief that there's a grown-up in the room. Joining now.
zackpolanski.bsky.social Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · Sep 21
The Green Party now has 78,000 members.

Thats 10,000+ new members this month alone who want to draw the line.

I know there are so many more people who want to take a stand.

Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
September 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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southerngayteacher.bsky.social
Carol Ann Duffy writes ‘bombsite’ poem about Trump’s UK state visit
Exclusive: Former poet laureate has reader contrasting pomp and ceremony of banquet with ruins left by war. Guardian September 17, 2025
STATE/BANQUET How it glitters and shines, The Grand Service, among the rocks and the rubble, laid out on a breezeblock horseshoe table, six crystal glasses per setting. It took eight servants three weeks to polish - silver coated in a thin layer of gold - even the concrete dust in the air seems glamourised and the ruins are decked in the uplifting flags of democracy. To start, fillet of Dover sole filled with salmon mousse, served on a bed of leeks with white wine sauce. Poached Sandringham venison with truffles to follow, then Key Lime Pie, and among the wines, Chateau Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande, 1990. Yum-yum. Let the trumpets sound on the bombsite as the great and the good pick their way through, and a famished child peers through a bullet-hole in a wall.
September 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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josephfasano.bsky.social
In a time of dangerous divisiveness, I invite you to join this conversation:
In a time of increasingly dangerous divisiveness, what we need are leaders who are genuinely interested in healing the wounded soul. Tragically, most of our "leaders" are only interested in dividing us further, because that is how they perpetuate the narratives that put them in power. There is, quite simply, no "adult" in the room right now, neither in high public office nor in our media spaces, and it shows in how the infantile parts of the masses are acting. In the absence of healers on a national level, the solution is to become healers on a community level. Tellingly, this has now become almost impossible to imagine, but it would look something like this: —organizing discussion groups that educate people about how to identify misinformation —encouraging ourselves, and especially our children, to spend considerable time offline, having *actual* conversations with peers, neighbors, and others —fostering literacy and communication skills that empower people to speak up *and* to listen —creating communities and resources that help people express themselves creatively, cultivate the capacity to look inward, and understand the lives of others (hint: fund the arts) —using social media platforms to spread material that pushes back against the algorithm of hate And that's just a beginning... Grassroots healing—that's the only way forward. It won't immediately appeal to those who are addicted to strife, it won't be amplified by the social media algorithms that run on divisive engagement, and it won't be front-page news, but it will be a start. If this sounds like a naïve dream, that's only because our media and false leaders want us to believe it's impossible. It isn't. Are there extremists whose words and actions only cause more pain, people and groups whose hate and danger aren't welcome in your life? Absolutely. But we're talking here about moving beyond the amplified extremes and connecting with others, and with ourselves, in a new-media age that threatens to tear us apart. My own humble work has been to offer free workshops and resources that foster communication, contemplation, creativity, and community-building. It never feels like enough, but maybe that's the point: each of us doing what seems small will add up to something larger. We have to want this, and we have to work for it—even if that work sometimes 'just' looks like genuine introspection, time with ourselves and others, and restoring connection with a power higher than ourselves and our false leaders—a power that wants to guide us for our benefit, not just its own. We're addicted to doom. We're unconsciously driven toward destruction and self-destruction by our spiritual frustrations. We're living in the broken psyches of those who claim to lead us. But it doesn't have to be this way. Let's have these conversations. What do you think? What's something we could do together—or as individuals? Is grassroots healing something we could give to our children and ourselves? —Joseph Fasano
September 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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drbjjcarpenter.bsky.social
You leave her the fuck alone
politico.eu POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · Sep 9
The world order is fracturing and the European Union must turn to outer space in its search for raw materials.

In short, it needs to mine the Moon.
EU wants to mine the Moon for clean energy resources
Geopolitical instability is forcing Europe to look to the heavens for its energy security.
www.politico.eu
September 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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mandascott.bsky.social
Old, but still well worth a read:

"In a time when so much of the discourse around the environment and human society is plagued by negativity framing, we need to be proponents of the optimistic possibility."

medium.com/disruptive-d...
Six Powerful insights from the creative shape shifter, R. Buckminster Fuller.
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.”
medium.com
August 31, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?
‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?
The long read: Churning quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at the rate we are going could lead the planet to another Great Dying
www.theguardian.com
August 19, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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mandascott.bsky.social
How can #Bioregionalism supplant the nation state as the natural unit of civilisation?

How do we dream with, live with, love with the earth as our teacher?

accidentalgods.life/sit-with-the

#AccidentalGods #Podcast with @joebrewer.bsky.social

of the Design School for #Regenerating #Earth
Sit with the River, Breathe Sacred Smoke, Love with the World: Building a Bioregional world with Joe Brewer
How can Bioregionalism supplant the nation state as the natural unit of civilisation? Joe Brewer is living, breathing and teaching the ways we can work together with each other and the natural flows o...
accidentalgods.life
August 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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susiedent.com
Sometimes the historical dictionary offers solace through the existence of an obsolete word that is sorely needed now. One of them is ‘respair’, recorded just once, in the 15th century. It means fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.
July 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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hardeepmatharu.bsky.social
"Addressing real psychological & sociological needs is something those false, misinformed beliefs are doing. We actually need to try to tackle the underlying social problems, like alienation, people are grappling with"

My in-depth essay with brilliant insights from LSE's Prof J McKenzie Alexander ⬇️
The Cost of Lies: Why We Identify With Deadly Misinformation
From Covid to climate change, understanding the role unevidenced conspiracy theories fulfil for individual and social identity in a shifting world can better help explain our ‘post-truth’ age
bylinetimes.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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annieleymarie.bsky.social
In pink, the very sweet and peaceful Anna, 80-year-old with serious health issues, well loved in our South East London community for her generosity and kindness, being arrested as a terrorist!
@elliereeves.bsky.social, my MP, what is your government doing??
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
Police arrest 55 protesters in London for holding signs supporting Palestine Action
The force has already arrested 70 people for taking part in similar protests in the past fortnight
www.independent.co.uk
July 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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The world is looking on in horror as Netanyahu's Government plots to lock Gaza's entire population into effectively a giant prison.

The Prime Minister should make it clear that the UK won't stand idly by, starting by sanctioning Netanyahu himself.
July 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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theguardian.com
Why is Labour so afraid to admit that we must tax the rich to help the poor? | Andy Beckett
Why is Labour so afraid to admit that we must tax the rich to help the poor? | Andy Beckett
There have been modest redistributive reforms, but the party still daren’t admit that Britain’s rampant inequality needs to be addressed, writes Guardian columnist Andy Beckett
www.theguardian.com
July 11, 2025 at 5:54 AM
contentlyjackie.bsky.social
Nidderdale: across the River Skell, betwixt Skelding and Dallow, by Grain Beck and Black Dike, where Church Lane reaches to Missies Lane across the moors and the drystone engineers stopped building walls... an ancestor offers gifts of lichen to the wind god #standingstonesunday
https://maps.app.goo.gl/SkgodWzNU1UpHFUU8?g_st=ac standing stone in Nidderdale looking across the moors towards Skelling and civilisation https://maps.app.goo.gl/SkgodWzNU1UpHFUU8?g_st=ac standing stone in Nidderdale by the roadside https://maps.app.goo.gl/SkgodWzNU1UpHFUU8?g_st=ac standing stone in Nidderdale with lichen
June 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Win a signed copy of the wonderful new book Stone Lands by Fiona Robertson. To enter please repost and like this post and follow us on here if you haven’t already. More… 1/
Win a signed copy of the wonderful new book Stone Lands by Fiona Robertson
June 19, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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garius.bsky.social
Scene from All the Presidents Men where the journos all stand looking disappointed
June 15, 2025 at 8:39 AM