Lisa Cumming
@lisacumin.bsky.social
Works in & around conflict grappling. (Local peacebuilding • Nonviolence • Peace practice & thinking.)
Worries in the valley, dreams on the moors. Personal account.
Worries in the valley, dreams on the moors. Personal account.
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Or to put it another way, both Nigel Farage and Zack Polanski will have reasons to celebrate if Labour introduce an ultra-hardline asylum policy modelled on an unpopular Danish government which is allied with the centre-right. Polanski will get more Lab recruits, and that increases Farage's lead.
November 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Or to put it another way, both Nigel Farage and Zack Polanski will have reasons to celebrate if Labour introduce an ultra-hardline asylum policy modelled on an unpopular Danish government which is allied with the centre-right. Polanski will get more Lab recruits, and that increases Farage's lead.
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Beatrix Potter, Fungi; Flammulina velutipes
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Beatrix Potter, Fungi; Flammulina velutipes
Hmm...maybe we find different things ironically amusing. I found the following insightful if you've not read before (apologies if so).
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The trouble with AI art isn’t just lack of originality. It’s something far bigger | Eric Reinhart
When artwork is invented by a machine, it loses its most important power: to help people connect. In an already lonely era, that is particularly dangerous
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Hmm...maybe we find different things ironically amusing. I found the following insightful if you've not read before (apologies if so).
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I agree about the importance of radical & moral imagination. I'm also wondering about the choice to select an accompanying image generated by AI.
November 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I agree about the importance of radical & moral imagination. I'm also wondering about the choice to select an accompanying image generated by AI.
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there are basically not enough republican voters to create enough safe seats to withstand the kind of wave that, for example, turned virginia into a democratic supermajority state for the first time in the modern era of its politics
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 AM
there are basically not enough republican voters to create enough safe seats to withstand the kind of wave that, for example, turned virginia into a democratic supermajority state for the first time in the modern era of its politics