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Avery Bowser
@averybowser.bsky.social
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Social Worker. Fostering Services Manager, Action for Children NI. BASW NI Committee. Co-author 'Social Work & Co-production' - ESSA shortlist 2022. 'If adoption is the answer, what was the question?' in The Future of Children's Social Care (eds Sen/Kerr)
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Great conference as always from my colleagues @voypic.bsky.social 'Thrive not just Survive'. A well deserved Happy 30th Birthday!!

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Alicia Toal, VOYPIC Chief Executive opens 'Thrive not just Survive' conference
October 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Portglenone Writers had launch tonight
Front cover of Making Words Work, Second Anthology of stories, prose and poetry from Portglenone Writers
September 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Calvin and Hobbes cartoon on the power of doing nothing
August 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Calvin and Hobbes cartoon about how machines and automation just makes us busier
August 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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A Calvin and Hobbes cartoon where the stillness of being outside in nature makes Calvin so nervous he thinks it is better to go in
August 7, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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A Calvin and Hobbes cartoon - enmity sells
July 4, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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As MPs prepare to vote on benefit cuts for disabled people remember that we are still...
Cover of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot with Godot crossed out and replaced by Labour
July 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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I raise you Captain Scarlet
A Captain Scarlet action figure
June 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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A Doonesbury cartoon about Newspeak from George Orwell's 1984 and MAGA
May 19, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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@ronsexsmith.bsky.social Listened to this gem on the drive home this afternoon.
The cover of the magnificent album Honey Wheat and Laughter by Anne Murray
May 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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@ralphmclean.bsky.social Cracked open an old favourite
Classic 4 CD Bob Marley retrospective Songs of Freedom
March 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Panel 1 Calvin 'Sometimes when I'm talking my words can't keep up with my thoughts'. Panel 2 Calvin 'I wonder why we think faster than we can speak'. Panel 3 Hobbes 'Probably so we can think twice'.
March 16, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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A brilliant evening at the Care Day Awards in Belfast. Big thanks to my colleagues and the young people at VOYPIC for putting on such a vibrant and uplifting event.
Children and young people's commissioner Chris Quinn announcing Social Action Champion awards at Care Day Awards in Belfast City Hall
February 21, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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It's ##CareDay25 Delighted to be joining VOYPIC tonight for the celebrations
Avery Bowser with ##CareDay25 written on his hand
February 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Calvin and Hobbes cartoon where Calvin and Hobbes agree to build snowmen shaking hands as a symbol of compromise but end up falling out and fighting over the design - they and their snowmen end up flattened in the snow
February 2, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Calvin and Hobbes cartoon strip where Calvin fancies being a talk radio host because it seems like a perfect job for a six year old
January 16, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Thought of Makka Pakka immediately
A picture of Makka Pakka from In The Night Garden
January 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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A cartoon strip of Calvin and Hobbes. Calvin has been put out of the house by his dad for sass. They are walking through trees in the snow. Calvin is unhappy that New Years' don't really see much change. Hobbes says 'The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present'.
December 29, 2024 at 11:43 AM
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It has become critical to get this across the line - a single child and family agency for NI is the key to unlocking the Review's recommendations and transforming services. Numbers in care will not reduce without it.

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Picture of front cover of briefing paper from The Reimagine Children's Collective (November 2024) 'Making the case for a single regional children and families organisation'.
November 21, 2024 at 9:54 PM
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Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. Both in bed. Calvin 'I wonder why man was put on Earth. What's our purpose? Why are we here?' Hobbes 'Tiger food'. Hobbes grins. Calvin turns over with an suspicious/worried look back at Hobbes.
November 8, 2024 at 8:37 AM
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Highly recommended. A very powerful piece of film making. Cillian Murphy has the trauma of a nation in his face and on his shoulders. A greater performance than Oppenheimer. Prepare to be very quiet as you leave the cinema.
Poster of Cillian Murphy for the movie Small Things Like These
November 7, 2024 at 9:46 PM