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Laura Borealis 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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She / Her.
Queer stuff, anti-genocide, pro nature & music.
UK Yorkshire based. Queer parenting. Book club.
Fungi / Cephalopods / Moths / Buffering / Ologies / Fever Ray / UK Jazz / Arooj Aftab / Hip Hop / Fanny DiWanko.
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Personally I’m really glad that the police and government are finally acting on these shocking lyrics sung by Bob Dylan on stage at Glasto 1998
Lyrics from Bob Dylan’s ‘Masters of War’ which say “And I hope that you die And your death will come soon I'l follow your casket By the pale afternoon And I'll watch while you're lowered Down to your deathbed And I'll stand over your grave 'Til I'm sure that you're dead”
July 1, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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A graphic of a bomb falling down towards a small child. The black text is on a red background and says ‘ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAIST THIS’ The quote is the title Of a book by Omar El Akkad.
June 22, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Looks like giving people nothing, no hope, continued austerity, transphobia, genocide support, privatisation, sneering disdain for the left is not really working out for Labour. Oh well I’m sure they’ll learn from this and won’t just continue on the same cursed path 🤡
January 19, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Raucous versions of Ani DiFranco classics? in Todmorden? 23rd March 2025. #FannyDiWanko
A poster for a gig at The Golden Lion in Todmorden. There is a starry night, and a large full moon. A peach coloured moth flies over a white pub towards the moon. The text reads: Fanny DiWanko playing the songs of Ani DiFrando 1991-1998 at The Golden Lion. Sunday 23rd March 2025.
January 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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When I did this I made a card with a picture of the band, then printed the booking acknowledgment inside
A greeting card with a photo of the band Fever Ray performing onstage. Three singers & a percussionist are bathed in red and orange light. There is an old style street light glowing beside them, and a mist of dry ice above their heads.
December 5, 2024 at 9:42 PM
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November reads
A graphic from the app Storygraph showing 7 books read in November, including ‘forest of noise’ ‘babel’ and ‘hazardous spirits’
November 30, 2024 at 11:34 PM
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The new Work Money Death album is out & it absolutely slaps. Spiritual jazz vibes from Leeds. If you’re into Alice Coltrane & Pharaoh Sanders, don’t sleep on this one.
A blue album cover with white all-caps text at the top saying ‘WORK MONEY DEATH’ Underneath in small green letters, the album title is ‘PEOPLE OF THE FAST FLOWING RIVER’ The blue cover is striped like the ripples of a river, with some abstract stripes of black, red and green.
November 29, 2024 at 7:24 AM
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Managed to get into the library just before they closed in case of flooding. Hope all the people (& books) stay safe. 📚
A stack of library books in a pile. Titles include ‘The Lie of the land’ ‘forest of noise’ ‘martyr!’, ‘hazardous spirits’, ‘she’s always hungry’ and ‘the democracy of species’
November 23, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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The kids drew all the squash for our friend’s veg shop, & then we made pumpkin pie.
11 squashes (the vegetable) including butternut, delicata, spaghetti, turban. The squash are orange, green, yellow, & all different sizes. In the middle is an A4 sheet of paper with drawings of the squash done by children.
November 17, 2024 at 8:37 PM
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Celine Haidar, a player on the Lebanese women’s national team has been critically injured by an Israeli strike on Beirut. Football fans, women’s football fans should be united in calling for Israel to be banned from FIFA.
Photo shows a young woman playing football. She is in colour while the rest of the image is in black and white. She is wearing a blue football kit, with the number 70 on it. She is running with the ball.
November 17, 2024 at 8:40 AM
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Making the switch from Goodreads (owned by Amazon) to The Storygraph & it looks great. These were my October reads.
A screen grab from the app ‘Storygraph’ - a book tracking app. It shows that I read 4 books in October, totalling 1414 pages. The highest rated reads were ‘The Parisian’ and ‘Recognising the stranger’ by Isabella Hammad. The app generates charts and graphs showing the genre and format of books you read that month.
November 16, 2024 at 8:10 AM
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Super moon through the kid’s telescope last night
A photo of the full moon through a telescope.
November 15, 2024 at 7:25 AM
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Arooj Aftab was spellbinding at Project House in Leeds. What a voice. What a band.
The singer Arooj Aftab, onstage & dressed in black and wearing shades. The stage is bathed in red lights and you can see her guitarist and violinist in the background.
November 12, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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Such a special night at the Chemic on Saturday for the Fanny DiWanko reboot. So much love for everyone there. Raised £343 for Medical Aid for Palestinians.
A photo of the band Fanny DiWanko on stage - there is a trumpet player, drummer, singer, guitarist and bass player. The singer is wearing the vest that Grover from the muppets wears A panoramic shot of the audience at a gig, looking lovely A smiling man wearing a T-shirt of the band
November 12, 2024 at 1:02 PM
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Nice people made the best Nazis.
“Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than "politics." They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren't nice people? Resisters.” - Naomi Shulman
October 29, 2023 at 7:58 AM
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Big March for Palestine in Manchester yesterday
Photo shows a large crowd of people on the streets of Manchester with Palestinian flags flying, and green flare smoke A protest sign with the names and ages of murdered Palestinian children, and red hand prints A woman and her daughter at the March for Palestine
October 29, 2023 at 7:48 AM