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Nicki Stephens
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Psychotherapist. Interested in: politics, psychology, philosophy and environmental issues. Cake lover

“ It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true “
Harriett Martineau
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On Holodomor Remembrance Day, Ukrainians light a candle at 4 pm
and place it on the windowsill to honor the millions who died in the 1932-1933 famine.

🕯️4 pm in Ukraine
November 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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As Ukraine marks Holodomor Remembrance Day, mourning millions of victims of Stalin's genocidal famine, it feels as though the Trump administration is happy to give Putin another chance to finish off what Stalin started. Europe should do everything in its power to help Ukraine & defeat Russia.
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Over 2,200 people have been arrested across the UK for silently and peacefully protesting the addition of Palestine Action to the list of proscribed terrorist organisations

The group accuses the Government of complicity in the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza.

www.pressenza.com/2025/11/over...
Over 2,000 People Already Detained for Denouncing UK Government's Complicity in Genocide in Palestine
Thousands of people are demanding that the ban on Palestine Action be lifted in a campaign unfolding across the country. Approximately 2,000 activists UK uses Terrorism Act 2000 to arrest peaceful pro...
www.pressenza.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Walkers at Ardvrek, Loch Assynt, ripped down a 500-year-old castle wall to make stepping stones across a large puddle. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ardvrek Castle wall 'ripped down' for use as stepping stones
Ardvrek Castle in Assynt is a 500-year-old former clan seat, and reputed to be haunted.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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All the supposed ‘big brains’ in the Labour Party/government have been plotting a grim course that isn’t even based on the feeling in the country. Politicians selling their souls for absolutely zip.
Why do people think England flags have been raised on lampposts?

White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%

Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%

yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Excellent listen about Trump trying to force Ukraine into this awful "peace" plan.
We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russia’s proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous.
(video)
snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
The Putin-Witkoff Plan Worsens the War
Five Reasons the US should not help Russia subjugate Ukraine
snyder.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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We need gender-sensitive mental health care

My medical education, more than 40 years ago, was centred around the male body as the normative human being. As the American feminist and legal activist Catherine Mackinnon wrote only a few years later in Difference and Dominance: on sex discrimination:…
We need gender-sensitive mental health care
My medical education, more than 40 years ago, was centred around the male body as the normative human being. As the American feminist and legal activist Catherine Mackinnon wrote only a few years later in Difference and Dominance: on sex discrimination: ‘A male body is the human body; all those extra things women have are studied in ob/gyn’. That was at a time when there was no imperative even to include women in randomised controlled trials of treatment, and they were excluded for many more years because the impact of their pesky hormonal fluctuations got in the way of standardising groups and making comparison between subjects.
lindagask.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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A reviewer spends two paragraphs saying why a book needn’t be so long …
November 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Eternal memory to all the victims of the 1932–1933 Holodomor genocide and the mass artificial famines of 1921–1923 and 1946–1947.

Zelenskyy: “We defended Ukraine, we defend it now, and we will always defend it. Because this is our only home. And in our home, Russia will never be the master.”
November 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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People should realize that adapting to climate change instead of mitigation means exactly that 👇
#talkcollapse:

" #Teheran muss verlegt werden, sagte Präsident Masoud Pezeshkian am Do.. Er warnte, dass Teheran aufgrund der starken ökologischen Belastung nicht mehr zu halten sei."

"Nicht mehr zu halten" wird der neue Refrain an immer mehr Orten, aus Bleibefreiheit wird Bleibeprivileg.
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
“ In the night the birches watch/you with their black, unblinking eyes … the birches still like churches.”
Robert Macfarlane
November 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Omar El Akkad spoke after winning the 2025 National Book Award for nonfiction for “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” his book on the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. He accepted the award at a gala in New York City this week.
November 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Leader of PFLP:

"...72-year-old Saadat had been brutally beaten by Israeli prison soldiers.. after being transferred from an isolation cell in Megiddo jail to another one in Janot jail...

...Saadat’s health sharply deteriorated with significant weight loss."

english.palinfo.com/news/2025/11...
Asra Media accuses IPS of torturing Ahmed Saadat in its jails
The Asra Media Office has strongly denounced the Israeli prison service (IPS) for repeatedly subjecting Palestinian prisoner Ahmed Saadat, a noted national figure, to physical and psychological tortur...
english.palinfo.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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“The people we love are built into us.”

May Sarton on the art of living alone www.themarginalian.org/2023/05/17/m...
May Sarton on the Art of Living Alone
“The people we love are built into us.”
www.themarginalian.org
November 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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‘Nite, peeps. Three cellos, braided into one heart-bruising ache.
Del Cinque (1700-1773) Sonata No. 15.
“…most prolific composer of cello music of all time, [yet] he remains virtually unknown today, even among cellists.”
Video recorded where the composer himself often performed.
#ClassicalMusic
DEL CINQUE // 'Sonata No. 15 for Three Cellos in C Major: I. Adagio'
YouTube video by Outhere Music
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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One of the most exciting possibilities of the Mamdani project was that he’d make room for organizers and activists to dream and create beyond the limits of his own political platform.

And by deflating the national bully a bit, I think he’s already delivering on this
November 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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The weird thing is with Donald Trump just said about Zohran Mandani is what every Democrat should’ve said about Zohran Mamdani the moment he secured the Democratic nomination.
November 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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"How do I define history? It's just one f**kin' thing after another."

📚 #OTD in #Film #History 21 Nov 2006, #NicholasHyner's "The History Boys," adapted by #AlanBennett from his own play, starring #RichardGriffiths, #FrancesDeLaTour, and #StephenCampbellMoore, hit 🇺🇸
November 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡

While Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was creating paintings for a French brothel, he learned that women who support themselves by catering to the sexual wants of men often seek genuine affection from one another.

"The Two Friends" (1895) is one of his most beautiful paintings.
November 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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"so how are you going to make sure he drinks the poison?"

"hehe don't worry - it's not my first Romeo"
November 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Only the loudest voices were acted on and the views of women ignored.
The English public school system in a nutshell.
#CovidInquiry
November 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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“We don’t deserve the trust of the nation if we’re unclear about the divisiveness of swastikas,” the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity due to a fear of reprisal.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Give the rampaging, imperialist, war criminal everything he wants. I'm sure that will stop him pushing his atrocities ever westward. 🙄
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
US and Russian officials draft new peace plan based on capitulation from Ukraine
Unclear if Trump administration backs deal that would mean Kyiv giving up territory and slashing size of military
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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When you don't read the profile details on Plenty of Fish

Love Story magazine
March 25, 1939
November 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM