Talis Kimberley🇪🇺
@taliskimberley.bsky.social
Songwriter/Performer/Wordsmith. Doggerel, Limericks. She/her. Folklore, yarncraft, pagan. Antifa, organ doner, European. Made of stories. No AI. www.talis.net & YouTube channel. Booking 2026 gigs: (Hey, bookshops & yarnshops!) Re-enchantment is resistance.
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Hello friends. I mostly share here things intended to bring solace & a little joy.
I’ll also talk about my work (contemporary story-songs & geek-folk, interfaith, history, folklore & nonsense).
I encourage you to seek out beauty, dwell in wonder, practice kindness & be thankful (& use alt-text!)
I’ll also talk about my work (contemporary story-songs & geek-folk, interfaith, history, folklore & nonsense).
I encourage you to seek out beauty, dwell in wonder, practice kindness & be thankful (& use alt-text!)
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Finally now our priority should be, better bloody late than never:
We need INDEPENDENCE from the USA.
That means security independence, economic independence, digital independence.
It isn’t easy but we have no choice.
That should be our number 1 goal.
We need INDEPENDENCE from the USA.
That means security independence, economic independence, digital independence.
It isn’t easy but we have no choice.
That should be our number 1 goal.
January 5, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Finally now our priority should be, better bloody late than never:
We need INDEPENDENCE from the USA.
That means security independence, economic independence, digital independence.
It isn’t easy but we have no choice.
That should be our number 1 goal.
We need INDEPENDENCE from the USA.
That means security independence, economic independence, digital independence.
It isn’t easy but we have no choice.
That should be our number 1 goal.
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European consumers: ditch your Google accounts, ditch your Amazon accounts, ditch Microsoft, ditch WhatsApp, Facebook, X.
Inconvenient perhaps, necessary for sure.
Go European: european-alternatives.eu
Inconvenient perhaps, necessary for sure.
Go European: european-alternatives.eu
European Alternatives
We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.
european-alternatives.eu
January 5, 2026 at 1:57 PM
European consumers: ditch your Google accounts, ditch your Amazon accounts, ditch Microsoft, ditch WhatsApp, Facebook, X.
Inconvenient perhaps, necessary for sure.
Go European: european-alternatives.eu
Inconvenient perhaps, necessary for sure.
Go European: european-alternatives.eu
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On BBC News today: striking that it’s the two old establishment parties - Labour and the Conservatives - refusing to condemn the US breaking international law and doing what it wants.
Feels like politics stuck in the past, while the public has clearly moved on.
Feels like politics stuck in the past, while the public has clearly moved on.
January 5, 2026 at 12:43 PM
On BBC News today: striking that it’s the two old establishment parties - Labour and the Conservatives - refusing to condemn the US breaking international law and doing what it wants.
Feels like politics stuck in the past, while the public has clearly moved on.
Feels like politics stuck in the past, while the public has clearly moved on.
Farewell, Eclectic Bethlehem;
Epiphany is near
It’s time to pack you safe away
Till Advent-Tide is here
We will find a kindly place
Fresh joyfulness to build
And recreate your tiny streets
With new & old friends filled”
#folklore #FoundRitual #MagicEverywhere
Epiphany is near
It’s time to pack you safe away
Till Advent-Tide is here
We will find a kindly place
Fresh joyfulness to build
And recreate your tiny streets
With new & old friends filled”
#folklore #FoundRitual #MagicEverywhere
January 5, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Farewell, Eclectic Bethlehem;
Epiphany is near
It’s time to pack you safe away
Till Advent-Tide is here
We will find a kindly place
Fresh joyfulness to build
And recreate your tiny streets
With new & old friends filled”
#folklore #FoundRitual #MagicEverywhere
Epiphany is near
It’s time to pack you safe away
Till Advent-Tide is here
We will find a kindly place
Fresh joyfulness to build
And recreate your tiny streets
With new & old friends filled”
#folklore #FoundRitual #MagicEverywhere
In film after film, book after book I see humankind yearning for big, visible, consistent, controllable magic.
That’s not how this pagan rolls. I’m currently wrestling with ways to succinctly express something about chaos magic / animism / individually experienced spirituality. I’ll return to this.
That’s not how this pagan rolls. I’m currently wrestling with ways to succinctly express something about chaos magic / animism / individually experienced spirituality. I’ll return to this.
January 5, 2026 at 12:26 PM
In film after film, book after book I see humankind yearning for big, visible, consistent, controllable magic.
That’s not how this pagan rolls. I’m currently wrestling with ways to succinctly express something about chaos magic / animism / individually experienced spirituality. I’ll return to this.
That’s not how this pagan rolls. I’m currently wrestling with ways to succinctly express something about chaos magic / animism / individually experienced spirituality. I’ll return to this.
Read a bit of ‘The Golden Mole’ last night.
Was ridiculously delighted by the sentence:
“Even the spiders could not console Ivan”
It made sense in context…
Was ridiculously delighted by the sentence:
“Even the spiders could not console Ivan”
It made sense in context…
January 5, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Read a bit of ‘The Golden Mole’ last night.
Was ridiculously delighted by the sentence:
“Even the spiders could not console Ivan”
It made sense in context…
Was ridiculously delighted by the sentence:
“Even the spiders could not console Ivan”
It made sense in context…
Reposted by Talis Kimberley🇪🇺
The salutation "Happy New year" has been trashed and we are only five days in.
I sincerely urge anyone looking for hope, looking to change things and wanting to be part of something more than what we're currently experiencing.
Join the greens, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain 💚
I sincerely urge anyone looking for hope, looking to change things and wanting to be part of something more than what we're currently experiencing.
Join the greens, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain 💚
January 5, 2026 at 11:16 AM
The salutation "Happy New year" has been trashed and we are only five days in.
I sincerely urge anyone looking for hope, looking to change things and wanting to be part of something more than what we're currently experiencing.
Join the greens, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain 💚
I sincerely urge anyone looking for hope, looking to change things and wanting to be part of something more than what we're currently experiencing.
Join the greens, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain 💚
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It’s time for Starmer to find some backbone. We can’t tiptoe around hoping to be spared, Under Trump, the US is not reliable ally, friend or partner. Where Congress won’t act, other world leaders have duty to call out Trump’s behavior for what it is. Many Americans will also appreciate such clarity.
He’s utterly unhinged and out of control. Congress could stop this in an instant, but its ruling party, the GOP, has become equally untethered from principle or reality. Too many Americans still cheering this on without any comprehension of the disastrous consequences, for themselves or the world.
President Trump suggested on Sunday that the U.S. could take action against other countries after its attack on Venezuela. He threatened Colombia and its president, described Cuba as “ready to fall” and reasserted his desire to take control of Greenland.
January 5, 2026 at 10:45 AM
It’s time for Starmer to find some backbone. We can’t tiptoe around hoping to be spared, Under Trump, the US is not reliable ally, friend or partner. Where Congress won’t act, other world leaders have duty to call out Trump’s behavior for what it is. Many Americans will also appreciate such clarity.
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Will the real Neville Chamberlain please stand up
Keir Starmer: "I constantly remind myself that 24/7 our defence, our security & our intelligent relationship with the US matters probably more than any other relationship we've got in the world and it would not be in our national interest to weaken that in any way"
January 4, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Will the real Neville Chamberlain please stand up
Rob Newman’s genius performance piece ‘A Brief History of Oil’ (on YT, iirc) refers.
The US attack on Venezuela is NOT about oil - as I had reckoned - *it’s about the petro-dollar*
The US attack on Venezuela is NOT about oil - as I had reckoned - *it’s about the petro-dollar*
A very long and important THREAD -
The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.
And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.
Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/
The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.
And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.
Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/
January 4, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Rob Newman’s genius performance piece ‘A Brief History of Oil’ (on YT, iirc) refers.
The US attack on Venezuela is NOT about oil - as I had reckoned - *it’s about the petro-dollar*
The US attack on Venezuela is NOT about oil - as I had reckoned - *it’s about the petro-dollar*
January 4, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Got a bit sweary there. Not sorry.
Anyway. Cat on lap, drink poured ready for toasting The Professor at 9pm. Going to crochet for a bit.
Still the bread rises and the blackthorn blooms, as my song says.
Anyway. Cat on lap, drink poured ready for toasting The Professor at 9pm. Going to crochet for a bit.
Still the bread rises and the blackthorn blooms, as my song says.
January 3, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Got a bit sweary there. Not sorry.
Anyway. Cat on lap, drink poured ready for toasting The Professor at 9pm. Going to crochet for a bit.
Still the bread rises and the blackthorn blooms, as my song says.
Anyway. Cat on lap, drink poured ready for toasting The Professor at 9pm. Going to crochet for a bit.
Still the bread rises and the blackthorn blooms, as my song says.
NOT IN MY FUCKING NAME
BLOODY HELL
The warmongering terrorist is not our friend.
Oi Labour people ffs do something!
BLOODY HELL
The warmongering terrorist is not our friend.
Oi Labour people ffs do something!
Keir Starmer explicitly backs Trump's attack on Venezuela.
Says he has "long supported" getting rid of Maduro, who is an "illegitimate President" and "we shed no tears about the end of his regime".
Says he has "long supported" getting rid of Maduro, who is an "illegitimate President" and "we shed no tears about the end of his regime".
January 3, 2026 at 8:08 PM
NOT IN MY FUCKING NAME
BLOODY HELL
The warmongering terrorist is not our friend.
Oi Labour people ffs do something!
BLOODY HELL
The warmongering terrorist is not our friend.
Oi Labour people ffs do something!
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Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.
January 3, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.
Reposted by Talis Kimberley🇪🇺
China Miéville wrote a beautiful, powerful fiction centred on Surrealists VS nazis. I expect you will love it. Also, oh so very timely. hazlitt.net/feature/we-c...
'We Can Only Do Our Poetry Because We Are Also Fighting Back': An Interview with China Miéville | Hazlitt
Talking to the author of The Last Days of New Paris about applying a video game sensibility to fiction, redeeming and finding inspiration in the politics of the Surrealists, and when to add demons.
hazlitt.net
January 3, 2026 at 3:05 PM
China Miéville wrote a beautiful, powerful fiction centred on Surrealists VS nazis. I expect you will love it. Also, oh so very timely. hazlitt.net/feature/we-c...
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The US attack on Venezuela is an illegal act of aggression against a sovereign country (with lots of oil). Venezuela has become a more deeply repressive dictatorship & urgently needs democratic solution but this is unjustified & unjustifiable. Look forward to seeing swift UK Government condemnation.
January 3, 2026 at 11:12 AM
The US attack on Venezuela is an illegal act of aggression against a sovereign country (with lots of oil). Venezuela has become a more deeply repressive dictatorship & urgently needs democratic solution but this is unjustified & unjustifiable. Look forward to seeing swift UK Government condemnation.
This is a bad time for the UK - or anyone - to be led by weak, appeasing leaders.
This is a good time for the Green Party to be led by Zack, & a good time to make the Greens the Party you join & support.
Stand up to fascists!
No appeasement!
This is a good time for the Green Party to be led by Zack, & a good time to make the Greens the Party you join & support.
Stand up to fascists!
No appeasement!
The PM and Foreign Secretary should be condemning this illegal strike and breach of international human rights law.
After years of arming a genocide and worshipping the “special relationship”, Trump now believes he can act with impunity.
After years of arming a genocide and worshipping the “special relationship”, Trump now believes he can act with impunity.
Trump just kidnapped President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela
January 3, 2026 at 11:44 AM
This is a bad time for the UK - or anyone - to be led by weak, appeasing leaders.
This is a good time for the Green Party to be led by Zack, & a good time to make the Greens the Party you join & support.
Stand up to fascists!
No appeasement!
This is a good time for the Green Party to be led by Zack, & a good time to make the Greens the Party you join & support.
Stand up to fascists!
No appeasement!
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Again.
Remember the role of Surrealists in fighting fascism.
Feed your soul.
Remember the role of Surrealists in fighting fascism.
Feed your soul.
January 3, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Again.
Remember the role of Surrealists in fighting fascism.
Feed your soul.
Remember the role of Surrealists in fighting fascism.
Feed your soul.
Days like this, I need a list.
Selfcare: fix own oxygen mask
Celebrate beauty: Tolkien’s birthday
Art = resistance: make & support it
Stop supporting US: cancel Netflix
Be kind, but do not tolerate the intolerant. Punch up
Prepare to share: shelter/space, £ skills
#GoodThingsMrFrodo
Selfcare: fix own oxygen mask
Celebrate beauty: Tolkien’s birthday
Art = resistance: make & support it
Stop supporting US: cancel Netflix
Be kind, but do not tolerate the intolerant. Punch up
Prepare to share: shelter/space, £ skills
#GoodThingsMrFrodo
January 3, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Days like this, I need a list.
Selfcare: fix own oxygen mask
Celebrate beauty: Tolkien’s birthday
Art = resistance: make & support it
Stop supporting US: cancel Netflix
Be kind, but do not tolerate the intolerant. Punch up
Prepare to share: shelter/space, £ skills
#GoodThingsMrFrodo
Selfcare: fix own oxygen mask
Celebrate beauty: Tolkien’s birthday
Art = resistance: make & support it
Stop supporting US: cancel Netflix
Be kind, but do not tolerate the intolerant. Punch up
Prepare to share: shelter/space, £ skills
#GoodThingsMrFrodo
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Please put the US under sanctions. Cancel the LA Olympics. No international conferences.
January 3, 2026 at 7:19 AM
Please put the US under sanctions. Cancel the LA Olympics. No international conferences.
I have twelve tasks I need to try to complete this afternoon. Wish me luck. Any and all cheerleading welcome. I am fuelled by chicken ramen and a strong desire to do some crochet while watching a ghost story or cosy murder mystery.
Twelve. Here I go.
Twelve. Here I go.
January 2, 2026 at 3:08 PM
I have twelve tasks I need to try to complete this afternoon. Wish me luck. Any and all cheerleading welcome. I am fuelled by chicken ramen and a strong desire to do some crochet while watching a ghost story or cosy murder mystery.
Twelve. Here I go.
Twelve. Here I go.
Oh, this is what I needed to hear!
I’m for discovering all possible ways to save the world.
Take heart. Embrace songs.
In the words of Jason Isbell.
#singing #stitchsky #quiltsky #artquilt
Take heart. Embrace songs.
In the words of Jason Isbell.
#singing #stitchsky #quiltsky #artquilt
January 2, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Oh, this is what I needed to hear!
…imaginary Klingon murder mystery series ‘Bloodwine & Llamas’, read by warriors under patchwork quilts…
Library fun, new book caught my eye, my librarian friend dreamed me going there today, her jumper & glasses matched… reduced lemon muffins… busy Jackdaws
#SmallJoys = #MagicEverywhere
Library fun, new book caught my eye, my librarian friend dreamed me going there today, her jumper & glasses matched… reduced lemon muffins… busy Jackdaws
#SmallJoys = #MagicEverywhere
January 2, 2026 at 12:31 PM
…imaginary Klingon murder mystery series ‘Bloodwine & Llamas’, read by warriors under patchwork quilts…
Library fun, new book caught my eye, my librarian friend dreamed me going there today, her jumper & glasses matched… reduced lemon muffins… busy Jackdaws
#SmallJoys = #MagicEverywhere
Library fun, new book caught my eye, my librarian friend dreamed me going there today, her jumper & glasses matched… reduced lemon muffins… busy Jackdaws
#SmallJoys = #MagicEverywhere
I highly recommend laughing yourself silly doing impressions of these and adding voices.
TIL that Japan has a museum called the Chinsekikan, which translates to “Hall of Curious Rocks”, that displays hundreds of naturally formed stones resembling human faces. ⚒️ #Geology
japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/features/jap...
japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/features/jap...
January 1, 2026 at 11:29 PM
I highly recommend laughing yourself silly doing impressions of these and adding voices.
And with a nod to @bobfry.bsky.social with whom I have been discussing spoons today!
#NewTraditions #folklore #MagicEverywhere #Moonlight
#NewTraditions #folklore #MagicEverywhere #Moonlight
"Here's a drop for the Bone Horse
And here's to the Absent Tree
By light of Moon with shining spoon
I raise my cup to thee."
Words by & with @taliskimberley.bsky.social
Following a @hookland.bsky.social tradition.
And here's to the Absent Tree
By light of Moon with shining spoon
I raise my cup to thee."
Words by & with @taliskimberley.bsky.social
Following a @hookland.bsky.social tradition.
January 1, 2026 at 6:52 PM
And with a nod to @bobfry.bsky.social with whom I have been discussing spoons today!
#NewTraditions #folklore #MagicEverywhere #Moonlight
#NewTraditions #folklore #MagicEverywhere #Moonlight