Joanna Foster
@fabticfoster.bsky.social
Head of fabtic, working with children, young people and practitioners. Author of 'Children and Teenagers Who Set Fires'. Proud to be Valleys Welsh in England.
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Rest well Martin Parr . The most beautiful observational eye.
December 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Rest well Martin Parr . The most beautiful observational eye.
It’s my usual #SelfCareSunday post where yet again I can’t give #gratitude and thanks enough to @cerysmatthews.bsky.social for the joyous soundtrack she provides
It’s a real and rare talent that can bring out and connect the soul in everything: music, history, photography, nature, food and people
It’s a real and rare talent that can bring out and connect the soul in everything: music, history, photography, nature, food and people
December 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
It’s my usual #SelfCareSunday post where yet again I can’t give #gratitude and thanks enough to @cerysmatthews.bsky.social for the joyous soundtrack she provides
It’s a real and rare talent that can bring out and connect the soul in everything: music, history, photography, nature, food and people
It’s a real and rare talent that can bring out and connect the soul in everything: music, history, photography, nature, food and people
The UK’s only #BasqueCountry deli is in #Cambridgeshire
Following proudly in the footsteps of his shopkeeper father, deli owner Imanol works tirelessly to bring the very best #artisan foods from his homeland to here
Today the shop celebrates its 2nd anniversary in #StNeots
#MigrationIsBeautiful
Following proudly in the footsteps of his shopkeeper father, deli owner Imanol works tirelessly to bring the very best #artisan foods from his homeland to here
Today the shop celebrates its 2nd anniversary in #StNeots
#MigrationIsBeautiful
December 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
The UK’s only #BasqueCountry deli is in #Cambridgeshire
Following proudly in the footsteps of his shopkeeper father, deli owner Imanol works tirelessly to bring the very best #artisan foods from his homeland to here
Today the shop celebrates its 2nd anniversary in #StNeots
#MigrationIsBeautiful
Following proudly in the footsteps of his shopkeeper father, deli owner Imanol works tirelessly to bring the very best #artisan foods from his homeland to here
Today the shop celebrates its 2nd anniversary in #StNeots
#MigrationIsBeautiful
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Our grandparents didn’t vote for fascists… THEY SHOT THEM!
Gilbert & George: 21st Century Pictures at the Hayward Gallery
Gilbert & George: 21st Century Pictures at the Hayward Gallery
December 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Our grandparents didn’t vote for fascists… THEY SHOT THEM!
Gilbert & George: 21st Century Pictures at the Hayward Gallery
Gilbert & George: 21st Century Pictures at the Hayward Gallery
If you see this quote with your model of masculinity
December 6, 2025 at 12:09 AM
If you see this quote with your model of masculinity
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Morning all.
Photographer John Bulmer, Liverpool 1965.
Photographer John Bulmer, Liverpool 1965.
December 5, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Morning all.
Photographer John Bulmer, Liverpool 1965.
Photographer John Bulmer, Liverpool 1965.
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December's #FullMoon is known as the #ColdMoon. Artwork by Catherine Hyde, contemporary UK artist #womensart #ArtAdvent
December 4, 2025 at 5:21 AM
December's #FullMoon is known as the #ColdMoon. Artwork by Catherine Hyde, contemporary UK artist #womensart #ArtAdvent
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As per fucking usual. Cops lie. Press lie. MPs lie. Families campaign in pain and anger. The truth comes out and no one, NO ONE gets punished no cops go to jail. Again and again and again it’s the same story but what is wrong with the justice system? Too many jury trials.
December 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
As per fucking usual. Cops lie. Press lie. MPs lie. Families campaign in pain and anger. The truth comes out and no one, NO ONE gets punished no cops go to jail. Again and again and again it’s the same story but what is wrong with the justice system? Too many jury trials.
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This reminds me a lot of that Daily Express front page recently about migrants dancing to music. Clearly anyone who receives any state help, no matter how basic or insufficient, should just sit in silent misery.
The guy's literally got one leg, but that's apparently one too many for the DWP to consider him disabled www.mirror.co.uk/money/dwp-fi...
DWP demands £36k PIP back from one-legged dad filmed playing cricket
Shaun Rigby lost a leg when he was a child
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December 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
This reminds me a lot of that Daily Express front page recently about migrants dancing to music. Clearly anyone who receives any state help, no matter how basic or insufficient, should just sit in silent misery.
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Morning all.
Photographer John Bulmer, Woman in shop doorway, 1965
Photographer John Bulmer, Woman in shop doorway, 1965
December 2, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Morning all.
Photographer John Bulmer, Woman in shop doorway, 1965
Photographer John Bulmer, Woman in shop doorway, 1965
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Shirley Baker, UK photographer, best known for her street photography and street portraits in working class areas of Greater Manchester in the 1960s #WomensArt
December 1, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Shirley Baker, UK photographer, best known for her street photography and street portraits in working class areas of Greater Manchester in the 1960s #WomensArt
Grabbing a quiet #selfcare moment to myself away from the throng of the #StNeots #Christmas lights switch-on to enjoy a luxury hot #chocolate from Zooteek deli
Lovely to see so many people out and about supporting their local independent shops
#ShopLocal
#ShopIndie
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Lovely to see so many people out and about supporting their local independent shops
#ShopLocal
#ShopIndie
www.google.com/gasearch?q=z...
November 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Grabbing a quiet #selfcare moment to myself away from the throng of the #StNeots #Christmas lights switch-on to enjoy a luxury hot #chocolate from Zooteek deli
Lovely to see so many people out and about supporting their local independent shops
#ShopLocal
#ShopIndie
www.google.com/gasearch?q=z...
Lovely to see so many people out and about supporting their local independent shops
#ShopLocal
#ShopIndie
www.google.com/gasearch?q=z...
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“It’s part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there.”
Happy Saint Andrew’s day.
Happy Saint Andrew’s day.
November 30, 2025 at 8:53 AM
“It’s part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there.”
Happy Saint Andrew’s day.
Happy Saint Andrew’s day.
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Grate art ~ children not looking at the paintings at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1963 (photo: Herb Slodounik)
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November 29, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Grate art ~ children not looking at the paintings at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1963 (photo: Herb Slodounik)
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Giving thanks to those who really put food on our tables
November 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Giving thanks to those who really put food on our tables
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Morning all.
Photographer Robin Weaver, Portland Street, Pill, Newport, South Wales, 1974.
Photographer Robin Weaver, Portland Street, Pill, Newport, South Wales, 1974.
November 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Morning all.
Photographer Robin Weaver, Portland Street, Pill, Newport, South Wales, 1974.
Photographer Robin Weaver, Portland Street, Pill, Newport, South Wales, 1974.
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Y’know, believing there’s a kind of racism that isn’t hurtful or insulting is itself quite revealing.
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Y’know, believing there’s a kind of racism that isn’t hurtful or insulting is itself quite revealing.
Imagine this replicated in the north of Ireland, the whole of Wales, throughout Scotland and across England
#ShopLocal
#ShopIndie
#PeoplePower
Thanks to @philipoconnor.bsky.social for raising up small, independent businesses across Ireland and beyond
#ShopLocal
#ShopIndie
#PeoplePower
Thanks to @philipoconnor.bsky.social for raising up small, independent businesses across Ireland and beyond
November 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Imagine this replicated in the north of Ireland, the whole of Wales, throughout Scotland and across England
#ShopLocal
#ShopIndie
#PeoplePower
Thanks to @philipoconnor.bsky.social for raising up small, independent businesses across Ireland and beyond
#ShopLocal
#ShopIndie
#PeoplePower
Thanks to @philipoconnor.bsky.social for raising up small, independent businesses across Ireland and beyond
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2/2
We all know what we were like as youths, even if we can't remember the precise details.
We remember the sort of people we were, the beliefs we had at the time, many of the things we did and said, if not with precision, what we feel guilty about, and where our views have changed.
Farage knows.
We all know what we were like as youths, even if we can't remember the precise details.
We remember the sort of people we were, the beliefs we had at the time, many of the things we did and said, if not with precision, what we feel guilty about, and where our views have changed.
Farage knows.
November 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
2/2
We all know what we were like as youths, even if we can't remember the precise details.
We remember the sort of people we were, the beliefs we had at the time, many of the things we did and said, if not with precision, what we feel guilty about, and where our views have changed.
Farage knows.
We all know what we were like as youths, even if we can't remember the precise details.
We remember the sort of people we were, the beliefs we had at the time, many of the things we did and said, if not with precision, what we feel guilty about, and where our views have changed.
Farage knows.
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Shocking Pink (1980's) feminist zine by a collective of young women in London, predating riot grrrl era #womensart
November 26, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Shocking Pink (1980's) feminist zine by a collective of young women in London, predating riot grrrl era #womensart
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If multiple people can remember someone being horribly racist, even by the appalling low bar of the racist 1970s, that is entirely noteworthy.
As an adult Farage fanboyed Enoch Powell - the most infamous racist of the 1960s - and long cited him as his political hero.
And that's noteworthy too.
As an adult Farage fanboyed Enoch Powell - the most infamous racist of the 1960s - and long cited him as his political hero.
And that's noteworthy too.
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
If multiple people can remember someone being horribly racist, even by the appalling low bar of the racist 1970s, that is entirely noteworthy.
As an adult Farage fanboyed Enoch Powell - the most infamous racist of the 1960s - and long cited him as his political hero.
And that's noteworthy too.
As an adult Farage fanboyed Enoch Powell - the most infamous racist of the 1960s - and long cited him as his political hero.
And that's noteworthy too.
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'The Harp' by Augusta Savage, US sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Her sculpture was displayed at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City #womensart
November 25, 2025 at 5:49 AM
'The Harp' by Augusta Savage, US sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Her sculpture was displayed at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City #womensart
When the weight of the world on fire feels too heavy, I’m #grateful for #YogaWithAdriene to lighten the load
Especially ahead of bedtime
#SelfCare
Especially ahead of bedtime
#SelfCare
November 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
When the weight of the world on fire feels too heavy, I’m #grateful for #YogaWithAdriene to lighten the load
Especially ahead of bedtime
#SelfCare
Especially ahead of bedtime
#SelfCare
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Mahmood would rather soothe the racists than do the “hard work of confronting the economic failure… and cowardice that has enabled the rise of the far right.”
As if making life even worse for immigrants will make our country happier and better off.
It won’t.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As if making life even worse for immigrants will make our country happier and better off.
It won’t.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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November 24, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Mahmood would rather soothe the racists than do the “hard work of confronting the economic failure… and cowardice that has enabled the rise of the far right.”
As if making life even worse for immigrants will make our country happier and better off.
It won’t.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As if making life even worse for immigrants will make our country happier and better off.
It won’t.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...