Kate Willis
@katewillis.bsky.social
Dance artist, craniosacral therapist, community nurse, dogsitter. Passionate about books and nature.
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This petition calling on the Government NOT to make cruel cuts to benefits that will force more people into poverty now has almost 65,000 signatures.
Let’s make it 100,000 this weekend. It only takes a moment to sign🙏
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/no-cruel...
Let’s make it 100,000 this weekend. It only takes a moment to sign🙏
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/no-cruel...
NO cruel cuts to benefits
The Government is planning “catastrophic” cuts that experts say will force disabled people into poverty. Don’t think that’s right? Add your name now.
act.38degrees.org.uk
March 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
This petition calling on the Government NOT to make cruel cuts to benefits that will force more people into poverty now has almost 65,000 signatures.
Let’s make it 100,000 this weekend. It only takes a moment to sign🙏
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/no-cruel...
Let’s make it 100,000 this weekend. It only takes a moment to sign🙏
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/no-cruel...
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Such times. What can lyric poetry do? My new North Sea Poets Substack piece.
Such times. What can lyric poetry do? My new North Sea Poets Substack piece.
Is there a place for lyric poetry in a post-lyric world?
Kathleen Jamie
northseapoets.substack.com
March 9, 2025 at 10:50 AM
northseapoets.substack.com/p/is-there-a...
Such times. What can lyric poetry do? My new North Sea Poets Substack piece.
Such times. What can lyric poetry do? My new North Sea Poets Substack piece.
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Information is always a good thing.
March 8, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Information is always a good thing.
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Nesting time for a pair of dippers in @theguardian.com country diary by Susie White today.
#countrydiary #naturewriting
#countrydiary #naturewriting
Country diary: Dancing dippers share the secret of their riverbank nest | Susie White
Allendale, Northumberland: After catching the male’s courtship display, I spy their home – only a metre above the water
www.theguardian.com
March 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Nesting time for a pair of dippers in @theguardian.com country diary by Susie White today.
#countrydiary #naturewriting
#countrydiary #naturewriting
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“Just as an oak tree crowds out its own saplings from the light, making them stunted dwarf trees, so too can humans shrink their children’s spirits if they overshadow them and deny them experiences that allow them to grow.” @herdyshepherd.bsky.social
Passing On the Farm to My Daughter
A record-breaking bull showed that my eighteen-year-old is ready to start taking my place.
www.plough.com
March 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
“Just as an oak tree crowds out its own saplings from the light, making them stunted dwarf trees, so too can humans shrink their children’s spirits if they overshadow them and deny them experiences that allow them to grow.” @herdyshepherd.bsky.social
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#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur
Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…
Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…
February 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur
Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…
Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…
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A dancing protest at the Kennedy Centre as Trump takes over as chair and fires board. Dancers perform the Nelken Line, a promenade in unison. www.npr.org/2025/02/18/n...
As Trump takes over leadership at Kennedy Center, some protest through dance
President Trump and his appointees are now solely in charge of the Kennedy Center. Performers protested by dancing.
www.npr.org
February 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
A dancing protest at the Kennedy Centre as Trump takes over as chair and fires board. Dancers perform the Nelken Line, a promenade in unison. www.npr.org/2025/02/18/n...
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This from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social and @chenoweth.bsky.social is a 2nd urgent read for the assignment we all must now undertake: learning about authoritarianism & effective strategies for its defeat. A must-read for this weekend. #PeoplePower meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/the-nature-o...
The Nature of Our Power: A Conversation with Political Scientist Erica Chenoweth
"The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democr...
meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io
February 9, 2025 at 3:15 AM
This from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social and @chenoweth.bsky.social is a 2nd urgent read for the assignment we all must now undertake: learning about authoritarianism & effective strategies for its defeat. A must-read for this weekend. #PeoplePower meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/the-nature-o...
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Ice, gorges and epiphytic ferns in today's @theguardian.com country diary by Susie White.
#countrydiary #naturewriting
#countrydiary #naturewriting
Country diary: A shivering walk with a dramatic climax | Susie White
Garrigill, Cumbria: The further we walk along the South Tyne river, the grander the gorges – till we reach a sweeping amphitheatre
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Ice, gorges and epiphytic ferns in today's @theguardian.com country diary by Susie White.
#countrydiary #naturewriting
#countrydiary #naturewriting
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Public Service Announcement.
January 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Public Service Announcement.
Remembering Michael Longley who died yesterday poetryarchive.org/poem/leveret/
The Leveret - Poetry Archive
for my grandson, Benjamin This is your first night in Carrigskeewaun The Owennadornaun is so full of rain You arrived in Paddy Morrison’s tractor, A bumpy approach in your father’s arms To the cottage...
poetryarchive.org
January 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Remembering Michael Longley who died yesterday poetryarchive.org/poem/leveret/
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It ys okaye if festivitye ys not thy thing. It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye to have tinye plans that still seem exhausting. It ys okaye to just be. Be kynde to thyself. Be extra kynde. We are all straungeres heere doing our best. Thou art amazinge.
December 24, 2024 at 6:39 PM
It ys okaye if festivitye ys not thy thing. It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye to have tinye plans that still seem exhausting. It ys okaye to just be. Be kynde to thyself. Be extra kynde. We are all straungeres heere doing our best. Thou art amazinge.
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"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"
The story of a 40 year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
And about goblins and Christmas; the perils of ChatGPT; and the real value of librarians and so on
Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twel...
The story of a 40 year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
And about goblins and Christmas; the perils of ChatGPT; and the real value of librarians and so on
Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twel...
December 20, 2024 at 10:30 AM
"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"
The story of a 40 year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
And about goblins and Christmas; the perils of ChatGPT; and the real value of librarians and so on
Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twel...
The story of a 40 year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
And about goblins and Christmas; the perils of ChatGPT; and the real value of librarians and so on
Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twel...
Bell ringing friend has forwarded this to me.
Ringing of the Bells | Muppet Music Video | The Muppets
YouTube video by The Muppets
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December 19, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Bell ringing friend has forwarded this to me.
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Reforms of NHS don’t stand a chance unless recruitment is fixed, say top nurses
Reforms of NHS don’t stand a chance unless recruitment is fixed, say top nurses
Number of registered nurses at record high in UK but workforce is ‘increasingly inexperienced’
Top nurses have said that planned government reforms for the health service “stand no chance” if issues with recruitment and retention in the profession are…
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2024 at 12:13 AM
Reforms of NHS don’t stand a chance unless recruitment is fixed, say top nurses
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Industrial farming is choking our planet . Yet at a time when we should be supporting farmers to invest in restoring nature and transitioning away from destructive animal ag , the news that government have slashed wildlife-friendly budgets even further is just plain insanity .
#Peston
#Peston
November 30, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Industrial farming is choking our planet . Yet at a time when we should be supporting farmers to invest in restoring nature and transitioning away from destructive animal ag , the news that government have slashed wildlife-friendly budgets even further is just plain insanity .
#Peston
#Peston
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“Wildfires & rain-bombs are deeply political creatures: the by-products of historical processes that have hugely benefited a small minority of human beings at the expense of the great majority.”
From @amitav.bsky.social’s magnificent Erasmus Prize acceptance speech.
erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates...
From @amitav.bsky.social’s magnificent Erasmus Prize acceptance speech.
erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates...
Erasmusprijswinnaars - Praemium Erasmianum Foundation
It takes only a glance at a newspaper nowadays to see that much of what we once took for granted is either being cast aside or turned on its head. Indeed, with floods sweeping away entire cities, and ...
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November 30, 2024 at 6:00 PM
“Wildfires & rain-bombs are deeply political creatures: the by-products of historical processes that have hugely benefited a small minority of human beings at the expense of the great majority.”
From @amitav.bsky.social’s magnificent Erasmus Prize acceptance speech.
erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates...
From @amitav.bsky.social’s magnificent Erasmus Prize acceptance speech.
erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates...
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My direct appeal to @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
& Keir_Starmer in the light of yesterday's vote on AD.
If they sincerely care about dying people, surely now they will publicly & urgently commit to properly funding our threadbare, neglected palliative care?
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
& Keir_Starmer in the light of yesterday's vote on AD.
If they sincerely care about dying people, surely now they will publicly & urgently commit to properly funding our threadbare, neglected palliative care?
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Good palliative care can alleviate the pain of dying – this bill means Labour must fund it | Rachel Clarke
Making dying easier is not the solution when NHS, social and palliative care are simply not there for patients
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2024 at 8:32 AM
My direct appeal to @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
& Keir_Starmer in the light of yesterday's vote on AD.
If they sincerely care about dying people, surely now they will publicly & urgently commit to properly funding our threadbare, neglected palliative care?
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
& Keir_Starmer in the light of yesterday's vote on AD.
If they sincerely care about dying people, surely now they will publicly & urgently commit to properly funding our threadbare, neglected palliative care?
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
This is an extraordinary film.
November 16, 2024 at 1:41 PM
This is an extraordinary film.
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Morning all. I like it when people write well and carefully about very small things, and this is one of those (also a reminder to the new people: with less algorithmic boosting here, you gotta repost what you like or people don't find it)
I wrote about going gentler in a world that favours the aggressive.
The truth about living gently
Go soft or go home.
theguyliner.substack.com
November 13, 2024 at 8:53 AM
Morning all. I like it when people write well and carefully about very small things, and this is one of those (also a reminder to the new people: with less algorithmic boosting here, you gotta repost what you like or people don't find it)
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11pm, November 5, 2024
They want you to feel powerless and to surrender and to let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I.
They want you to feel powerless and to surrender and to let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I.
November 12, 2024 at 2:33 AM
11pm, November 5, 2024
They want you to feel powerless and to surrender and to let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I.
They want you to feel powerless and to surrender and to let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I.
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How Musk broke Twitter and helped elect Trump
(Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX3v...
(Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX3v...
TESLA = TRUMP
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
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November 9, 2024 at 10:39 AM
How Musk broke Twitter and helped elect Trump
(Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX3v...
(Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX3v...