Alison Daykin
@alisonyule.bsky.social
A spinner, weaver and artist. Environmentally aware, hate Brexit.
Just thought I’d share some small woven tapestries I’ve been working on… the first 2 are inspired by the Ross of Mull and the second 2 by Namibia. #woventapestry #tapestryweaving #respondingtothelandscape
May 8, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Just thought I’d share some small woven tapestries I’ve been working on… the first 2 are inspired by the Ross of Mull and the second 2 by Namibia. #woventapestry #tapestryweaving #respondingtothelandscape
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One more day & my book can be found in bookstores in the UK. If you can't wait, you can read a big part of the first chapter here: www.theguardian.com/environment/... you miss out though why I chose to talk about the colonial-fossil narrative, instead of say the neo-liberal-patriarchial.
April 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
One more day & my book can be found in bookstores in the UK. If you can't wait, you can read a big part of the first chapter here: www.theguardian.com/environment/... you miss out though why I chose to talk about the colonial-fossil narrative, instead of say the neo-liberal-patriarchial.
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🚨 NEW: UK Government announces new funding for community-owned energy through GB Energy! ⚡
✅ Backing local power for communities across Britain
✅ Supporting green energy projects owned by you
✅ Cutting bills while profits stay in your community
✅ Backing local power for communities across Britain
✅ Supporting green energy projects owned by you
✅ Cutting bills while profits stay in your community
March 21, 2025 at 10:44 AM
🚨 NEW: UK Government announces new funding for community-owned energy through GB Energy! ⚡
✅ Backing local power for communities across Britain
✅ Supporting green energy projects owned by you
✅ Cutting bills while profits stay in your community
✅ Backing local power for communities across Britain
✅ Supporting green energy projects owned by you
✅ Cutting bills while profits stay in your community
March 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
March 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
A lovely evening with my daughters friends for tappanyaki… #tappanyaki #friendship #shogunluanda #luanda #angola
March 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
A lovely evening with my daughters friends for tappanyaki… #tappanyaki #friendship #shogunluanda #luanda #angola
March 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
March 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
More inspiration… #oldtiles #blueandwhite
March 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
More inspiration… #oldtiles #blueandwhite
Away visiting family and finding inspiration all around… #inspiration #flowers #architecture #insects
March 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Away visiting family and finding inspiration all around… #inspiration #flowers #architecture #insects
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/mi...
Stop supermarket bosses from using misleading British food labels
British supermarkets are accused of stamping Union Jacks and “Made in Britain” on food
grown abroad. DefraGovUKneeds to crack down on supermarket bosses. Agree? Sign the petition.
you.38degrees.org.uk
February 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/mi...
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BREAKING: We’ve WON a historic case against the Rosebank & Jackdaw oil & gas fields. 🎉
👏 NO NEW OIL AND GAS! 📣
This is GAME-CHANGING.
And it’s ONLY been possible thanks to YEARS of fighting by THOUSANDS of climate campaigners! Power to the people. ✊
👏 NO NEW OIL AND GAS! 📣
This is GAME-CHANGING.
And it’s ONLY been possible thanks to YEARS of fighting by THOUSANDS of climate campaigners! Power to the people. ✊
January 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
BREAKING: We’ve WON a historic case against the Rosebank & Jackdaw oil & gas fields. 🎉
👏 NO NEW OIL AND GAS! 📣
This is GAME-CHANGING.
And it’s ONLY been possible thanks to YEARS of fighting by THOUSANDS of climate campaigners! Power to the people. ✊
👏 NO NEW OIL AND GAS! 📣
This is GAME-CHANGING.
And it’s ONLY been possible thanks to YEARS of fighting by THOUSANDS of climate campaigners! Power to the people. ✊
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This burn is epic. 🔥
December 8, 2024 at 1:00 AM
This burn is epic. 🔥
I finished these wee cushions! And they came joint 3rd in our wool group competition. Not my finest work but they met the brief of using all the fibre with a garden theme. Delighted that each one went home with someone!
December 4, 2024 at 6:40 PM
I finished these wee cushions! And they came joint 3rd in our wool group competition. Not my finest work but they met the brief of using all the fibre with a garden theme. Delighted that each one went home with someone!
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Silly, silly, silly. She is now, literally, damned if she does & damned if she doesn’t. Excellent explainer below.
Reeves said yesterday "I’m not coming back with more borrowing or more taxes" at the spending review. That implies big cuts relative to demand from April 2026 onwards for unprotected areas of spending like criminal justice and local govt. Expect further falls in performance if that happens
November 26, 2024 at 7:57 AM
Silly, silly, silly. She is now, literally, damned if she does & damned if she doesn’t. Excellent explainer below.
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Bluesky/Twitter-wise, it is extraordinary that a British, ahem, media figure couldn’t post simple condemnations of people comfortable with an adjudicated rapist, coup inciter & serial felon becoming Potus without drowning under sustained & vicious attack. I think that place boiled *all* our brains.
Prominent people in the U.K. still shilling for Trump: are they still high on the fumes inhaled when they kissed his ring or do they actually approve/not care of the sex offending, coup attempt & criminality? Or both, I suppose. I’m so naive/stupid I honestly thought they’d all abandon him on Jan 6…
BREAKING
Special Counsel Jack Smith is asking a federal judge to dismiss the election interference criminal case against President-elect Trump.
bit.ly/3Z47zJy
Special Counsel Jack Smith is asking a federal judge to dismiss the election interference criminal case against President-elect Trump.
bit.ly/3Z47zJy
November 25, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Bluesky/Twitter-wise, it is extraordinary that a British, ahem, media figure couldn’t post simple condemnations of people comfortable with an adjudicated rapist, coup inciter & serial felon becoming Potus without drowning under sustained & vicious attack. I think that place boiled *all* our brains.
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This is a key constituent of fascism & the very essence of ‘Muskism’: promoting bullshit, silencing truth-tellers & calling the whole grift ‘free speech’. Twitter as a rehearsal for the USA.
Trump has vowed to crack down on universities involved in misinformation research, or what he dubs the "censorship cartel" - e.g. by curbing funds to those that have "flagged content for removal”, or legal threats
“I'm pretty fucking scared," one professor tells me.
www.ft.com/content/bfb4...
“I'm pretty fucking scared," one professor tells me.
www.ft.com/content/bfb4...
Donald Trump’s return sends shivers through the anti-misinformation world
Vow to crack down on the ‘censorship cartel’ has researchers worried — and Big Tech is on notice
www.ft.com
November 26, 2024 at 8:29 AM
This is a key constituent of fascism & the very essence of ‘Muskism’: promoting bullshit, silencing truth-tellers & calling the whole grift ‘free speech’. Twitter as a rehearsal for the USA.
Why Not Scotland? | The Rewilding Nation documentary
YouTube video by The Scottish Rewilding Alliance
youtu.be
November 26, 2024 at 11:54 AM
A dear friend bought me a wreath making course for my birthday! Here is the result… ..my kids said it shouldn’t go on my door as no one would see it and to put it on my gate!
November 25, 2024 at 11:43 AM
A dear friend bought me a wreath making course for my birthday! Here is the result… ..my kids said it shouldn’t go on my door as no one would see it and to put it on my gate!
Snow in the Derbyshire Dales this evening…
November 18, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Snow in the Derbyshire Dales this evening…
November 16, 2024 at 9:41 PM
Peace and relaxation on the Isle of Mull at the beginning of September.
November 16, 2024 at 9:22 PM
Peace and relaxation on the Isle of Mull at the beginning of September.
November 16, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Loving the photography here! Adding one of my very amateur ones…
November 16, 2024 at 8:59 PM
Loving the photography here! Adding one of my very amateur ones…
I love working in sketchbooks in prepare for weaving or spinning…
November 16, 2024 at 7:15 PM
I love working in sketchbooks in prepare for weaving or spinning…