Lindsey Talbott
@lindseytalbott.bsky.social
I am a therapist & writer, & rescue chickens. I love the natural world, birds, books & our fireside. I appreciate kindness, presence & wisdom.
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"One of my teachers at Columbia was Joseph Brodsky...and he said 'look,' he said, 'you Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language.'"
Inbox: [Sen. Tom] Cotton Introduces Legislation to Eliminate Federal Use of the Term “West Bank”
December 5, 2024 at 10:27 PM
"One of my teachers at Columbia was Joseph Brodsky...and he said 'look,' he said, 'you Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language.'"
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At the start of my walk yesterday…
December 3, 2024 at 10:07 AM
At the start of my walk yesterday…
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"What is distinctive about our time is that its monsters consist not only of political extremists of all kinds, but also of weather events that could not have been conceived of in Gramsci’s lifetime: supercharged storms, megadroughts, catastrophic rain-bombs and the like."
“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 6:23 PM
"What is distinctive about our time is that its monsters consist not only of political extremists of all kinds, but also of weather events that could not have been conceived of in Gramsci’s lifetime: supercharged storms, megadroughts, catastrophic rain-bombs and the like."
You know that feeling of dread deep in the body, over something important undone? You do the thing, & it goes away. I feel this continually about what humans are doing to other life, the land, air, water. That feeling, on a vast scale. I do my bit of the thing. It’s so tiny. Powerless grief & rage.
thing.so
December 2, 2024 at 7:39 AM
You know that feeling of dread deep in the body, over something important undone? You do the thing, & it goes away. I feel this continually about what humans are doing to other life, the land, air, water. That feeling, on a vast scale. I do my bit of the thing. It’s so tiny. Powerless grief & rage.
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Morning glory from Norway…
Captured this one in the hurry just before hiking back to the van, that « red carpet » was too good of a foreground to not click the button..
Segla mountain, Senja Island
#photography #bluesky #nature #landscape #mountains #landscapephotography #naturephotography
Captured this one in the hurry just before hiking back to the van, that « red carpet » was too good of a foreground to not click the button..
Segla mountain, Senja Island
#photography #bluesky #nature #landscape #mountains #landscapephotography #naturephotography
December 1, 2024 at 10:28 AM
Morning glory from Norway…
Captured this one in the hurry just before hiking back to the van, that « red carpet » was too good of a foreground to not click the button..
Segla mountain, Senja Island
#photography #bluesky #nature #landscape #mountains #landscapephotography #naturephotography
Captured this one in the hurry just before hiking back to the van, that « red carpet » was too good of a foreground to not click the button..
Segla mountain, Senja Island
#photography #bluesky #nature #landscape #mountains #landscapephotography #naturephotography
We love a dunnock. There are many who visit the feeders here and bring up their families in the trees.
November 29, 2024 at 7:38 AM
We love a dunnock. There are many who visit the feeders here and bring up their families in the trees.
The chickens and I greet another fair dawn. The relief after the storm is strong.
November 26, 2024 at 7:11 AM
The chickens and I greet another fair dawn. The relief after the storm is strong.
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Today is the inaugural #FestiveDailyRobin day, where I’ll be sharing a robin each day between now and Christmas &
asking another photographer you might not have met to share theirs. 1st up
@aintright.bsky.social
asking another photographer you might not have met to share theirs. 1st up
@aintright.bsky.social
November 25, 2024 at 7:31 AM
Today is the inaugural #FestiveDailyRobin day, where I’ll be sharing a robin each day between now and Christmas &
asking another photographer you might not have met to share theirs. 1st up
@aintright.bsky.social
asking another photographer you might not have met to share theirs. 1st up
@aintright.bsky.social
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Was looking for Swanee River on YouTube this morning and found this exuberant version by the polymathic Hugh Laurie. Quite a delight.
youtu.be/8LPiCTBTwUs?...
youtu.be/8LPiCTBTwUs?...
Swanee River
YouTube video by Hugh Laurie - Topic
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November 23, 2024 at 10:01 AM
Was looking for Swanee River on YouTube this morning and found this exuberant version by the polymathic Hugh Laurie. Quite a delight.
youtu.be/8LPiCTBTwUs?...
youtu.be/8LPiCTBTwUs?...
A gentle, tender version of the song my husband is currently playing to the chickens, once they are in bed (a family tradition for years now).
youtu.be/KBKaEvEoqGM?...
youtu.be/KBKaEvEoqGM?...
Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)
YouTube video by Enoggera Ensemble
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November 23, 2024 at 11:09 AM
A gentle, tender version of the song my husband is currently playing to the chickens, once they are in bed (a family tradition for years now).
youtu.be/KBKaEvEoqGM?...
youtu.be/KBKaEvEoqGM?...
At nearly 60, I finally seem to have grown a rooted, branched sense of what life is for, & the purpose of the rest of my life is to practice living that more fully & deeply.
November 23, 2024 at 7:52 AM
At nearly 60, I finally seem to have grown a rooted, branched sense of what life is for, & the purpose of the rest of my life is to practice living that more fully & deeply.
Yes, I am not willing to act as if climate COP meetings are a real thing.
Please remember, the climate COP meetings are DESIGNED to fail. It is not a bug, but a feature.
Here's how they could be designed to succeed.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here's how they could be designed to succeed.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Cop28 is a farce rigged to fail, but there are other ways we can try to save the planet | George Monbiot
Inaction and self-interest are built into climate summits. Instead, we need a voting system that can’t be subverted by fossil fuel producers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:36 AM
Yes, I am not willing to act as if climate COP meetings are a real thing.
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The ICC’s arrest warrants are long overdue.
The Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary must immediately endorse this decision. That is the bare minimum.
Will the UK government now, finally, honour its international obligations to prevent genocide and end all arms sales to Israel?
The Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary must immediately endorse this decision. That is the bare minimum.
Will the UK government now, finally, honour its international obligations to prevent genocide and end all arms sales to Israel?
November 21, 2024 at 12:46 PM
The ICC’s arrest warrants are long overdue.
The Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary must immediately endorse this decision. That is the bare minimum.
Will the UK government now, finally, honour its international obligations to prevent genocide and end all arms sales to Israel?
The Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary must immediately endorse this decision. That is the bare minimum.
Will the UK government now, finally, honour its international obligations to prevent genocide and end all arms sales to Israel?
Another snowy dawn. The snow came very early yesterday, for the first time since we moved in six and a half years ago.
November 22, 2024 at 7:34 AM
Another snowy dawn. The snow came very early yesterday, for the first time since we moved in six and a half years ago.
The tournament and the demotion zone: the Scylla and Charybdis of the Duolingo diamond league.
November 20, 2024 at 8:29 AM
The tournament and the demotion zone: the Scylla and Charybdis of the Duolingo diamond league.
A cold dawn for me and the chickens, in Devon. The frost is glittering and crunchy; the eastern skyline fiery. The chickens are staying in bed.
November 20, 2024 at 6:59 AM
A cold dawn for me and the chickens, in Devon. The frost is glittering and crunchy; the eastern skyline fiery. The chickens are staying in bed.
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin
November 18, 2024 at 5:15 AM
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin
This is weighing on me. The last couple of months have been stressful/distressing & I notice how scrolling has become an anaesthesia. So today I am addressing that & putting some boundaries in place, alongside bringing in more nourishing alternatives.
You'll be shocked to hear I wrote a thing, and doubly shocked that it is not nice about Silicon Valley. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Turns out the zombie apocalypse isn’t as fun as they said it would be – Rebecca Solnit on our dangerously disconnected world
A population numbed, dazed, present-but-not-present – had it happened overnight it would be a sci-fi horror movie. And if you looked up from your phone for long enough, you might notice it’s started a...
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 7:34 AM
This is weighing on me. The last couple of months have been stressful/distressing & I notice how scrolling has become an anaesthesia. So today I am addressing that & putting some boundaries in place, alongside bringing in more nourishing alternatives.
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this always makes me cry.
November 15, 2024 at 3:23 PM
this always makes me cry.
It’s dawning on me that, since the US election, I feel hopeless about human beings & any chance of our extricating ourselves/other life from the mess we have made. I didn’t before, despite climate change, Gaza genocide & all the other horrors. Now I do.
November 16, 2024 at 3:04 PM
It’s dawning on me that, since the US election, I feel hopeless about human beings & any chance of our extricating ourselves/other life from the mess we have made. I didn’t before, despite climate change, Gaza genocide & all the other horrors. Now I do.
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‘At the last COP, fossil fuel lobbyists outnumbered representatives of scientific institutions, Indigenous communities and vulnerable nations’ C Figueres (ex UN) . We don’t have time for this corrupt and inept fiasco - we are being failed www.bbc.com/news/article...
COP29: UN climate talks 'no longer fit for purpose' say experts
Call for change comes after host country Azerbaijan's president calls oil and gas a 'gift of God'
www.bbc.com
November 15, 2024 at 7:29 AM
‘At the last COP, fossil fuel lobbyists outnumbered representatives of scientific institutions, Indigenous communities and vulnerable nations’ C Figueres (ex UN) . We don’t have time for this corrupt and inept fiasco - we are being failed www.bbc.com/news/article...