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Noel Akers
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theguardian.com
I tried to save your young life in a Gaza hospital. Now your face haunts me | Seema Jilani
I tried to save your young life in a Gaza hospital. Now your face haunts me | Seema Jilani
The first time you came into my hospital, shards of glass shredding your tiny body, I saved you. The second time I failed As news of the ceasefire ripples my way, my memory mocks me. Your face glides into focus from my mind’s abyss, where I had buried…
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January 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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altyellonatpark.org
The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ?
So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky

If you could, please help us regain our following
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Together we can change the world.
January 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Arguably the most beautiful jali screen in the world: Sidi Saiyyed Mosque, 1573-3, Ahmedabad
December 8, 2024 at 11:17 AM
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roadscholar.bsky.social
Does HS2 have a future?

And why does that question hinge on an unseen government document and a sugar mill in Nottinghamshire?
December 7, 2024 at 10:48 AM
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roadscholar.bsky.social
Last time I wrote about HS2, I mentioned there was a government document that had turned my sense of what to do with HS2 on its head

Time to stop teasing. Here it is
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/u...

And this is what it says, in a picture (plus my thoughts)

But you need context
December 7, 2024 at 10:48 AM
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brianbilston.bsky.social
Today’s poem is called ‘First Date’.
First Date    We’d so much in common, that was clear from the start:  a marriage of souls, like de Beauvoir and Sartre.  The connection was instant, almost irrational:  simply simpatico, fully compatible.    You confessed you loved winter, north Yorkshire, and cats.  ‘Me, too!’ I responded. ‘How amazing is that?’   You were wild about Wharton: you loved Ethan Frome.  ‘His best,’ I said, thinking I’d read him when home.     You praised a revival of Pinter’s Dumb Waiter.  I nodded along. I should google that later.  The discussion then turned to things that you hated:  Pulp Fiction, you thought, was quite over-rated.    ‘You make some good points,’ I eventually said.  I could always hide that poster under my bed.   You spoke of a loathing of poetry that rhymed  and I said yes,  that stuff’s awful.  Brian Bilston
November 22, 2024 at 9:06 AM
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lissakevans.bsky.social
My girls, adopted from foster care, arrived with few possessions, apart from a box of books they'd each been given by @Booktrust. These books, read together, became our first shared memories. Spread the joy of reading by donating this Christmas:
www.booktrust.org.uk/xmas
An illustration from 'Where the Wild Things Are' by Maurice Sendak, showing the Wild Things swinging through the trees. Two little girls, swinging from a bar, like Wild Things!
November 20, 2024 at 10:48 AM