Rebecca Cottrell
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small steps towards utopia
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One of the reasons i love tolkien is the theme that despair is an enemy
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
You can be as terrified or nonplussed or unperturbed as you like; the sun will still rise tomorrow & the rent will still be due on the 31st. The world has no romantic narratives for its fate except those we invent, because the world does not die. That is our privilege.
I said it elsewhere, but it’s weirdly exhilarating and addictive to be terrified all the time, and the people addicted to it, when they say this, may as well be saying “I can stop at any time, it’s just the world doing this *to* me.”
December 31, 2023 at 3:23 AM
One of the reasons i love tolkien is the theme that despair is an enemy
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
"A rustic, ordinary-looking English garden hut"
sorry but ordinary-looking ?
sorry but ordinary-looking ?
Garden shed of vaccine pioneer Edward Jenner added to heritage at risk register
Garden shed of vaccine pioneer Edward Jenner added to heritage at risk register
Hut where father of immunology trialled first smallpox vaccine among 138 additions to Historic England list
A rustic, ordinary-looking English garden hut regarded as the birthplace of immunology – revolutionising global public health and saving countless lives – has been added to the nation’s heritage at risk register.
The hut belonged to Edward Jenner (1749-1823, regarded as someone who has saved more lives than any other human. It was there that he first trialled a vaccine for smallpox in the late 18th century. Continue reading...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:27 AM
"A rustic, ordinary-looking English garden hut"
sorry but ordinary-looking ?
sorry but ordinary-looking ?
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📈 Since the election of our new leadership team, our membership has doubled, now sitting at more than 140,000.
And this is just the beginning: join.greenparty.org.uk
📈 Since the election of our new leadership team, our membership has doubled, now sitting at more than 140,000.
And this is just the beginning: join.greenparty.org.uk
October 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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‘We need to avoid having cult figures in the vegan community and to acknowledge the work of women’
Flashback to 2019: Zack Polanski is a BardoBurner Everyday Vegan Before stepping into national leadership, London Assembly member Zack Polanski shared his commitment to sustainability in his daily …
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October 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Hell yes to Zack Polanski bardoburner.com/2025/10/12/w...
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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
The children’s names below appear on a list of victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, maintained by health authorities in the territory. As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 were under 18s. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims
As of the end of July there were 18,457 children named on the long official list of Palestinian victims of Israel’s war in Gaza. Over almost two years, that is equivalent to bombs, bullets and shells killing a boy or girl every hour of every day.
In reality the deaths are not spaced out so evenly. Siblings, cousins and playmates are often killed together, by an airstrike or artillery shell. Even children shot by snipers or quadcopters are sometimes brought into hospitals in groups, doctors say. Continue reading...
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October 8, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
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Moderate voices in the US, particularly in the UK, need to recognise you can decry political violence, “offer sympathies” whilst also recognise that Kirk was a despicable person who touted extremist views and profited off the fear of minorities.
It is possible to express these concurrent thoughts.
It is possible to express these concurrent thoughts.
September 11, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Moderate voices in the US, particularly in the UK, need to recognise you can decry political violence, “offer sympathies” whilst also recognise that Kirk was a despicable person who touted extremist views and profited off the fear of minorities.
It is possible to express these concurrent thoughts.
It is possible to express these concurrent thoughts.