Seven daisies
@sevendaisies.bsky.social
Old folklore says if you can put your foot on seven daisies at once, it is summer.
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Knesset Speaker A. Ohana:"Any deliberate attack on civilians is of course a war crime. This attack is a particularly serious war crime" (First time in months that Israeli spokesmen say something that is true and remembers the countless war crimes that have been committed in Gaza)
June 19, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Knesset Speaker A. Ohana:"Any deliberate attack on civilians is of course a war crime. This attack is a particularly serious war crime" (First time in months that Israeli spokesmen say something that is true and remembers the countless war crimes that have been committed in Gaza)
I just in general oppose people killing other people. Fellow humans, please stop doing it.
I strongly oppose Israel’s attacks against Iran and Iran’s attacks against Israel. Both endanger civilians and risk all-out war.
If you’re like my opponents and only condemning one side, I hope you find a spine and some moral clarity.
If you’re like my opponents and only condemning one side, I hope you find a spine and some moral clarity.
June 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I just in general oppose people killing other people. Fellow humans, please stop doing it.
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Maybe it's because I'm a third child, but I find this argument bizarre.
Who knows how well off they'll be in 15 years? Maybe you'll lose your job. Maybe a parent will need care. Maybe Liz Truss will double your mortgage costs.
And maybe you'll make bad choices. But that's hardly the child's fault.
Who knows how well off they'll be in 15 years? Maybe you'll lose your job. Maybe a parent will need care. Maybe Liz Truss will double your mortgage costs.
And maybe you'll make bad choices. But that's hardly the child's fault.
June 2, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Maybe it's because I'm a third child, but I find this argument bizarre.
Who knows how well off they'll be in 15 years? Maybe you'll lose your job. Maybe a parent will need care. Maybe Liz Truss will double your mortgage costs.
And maybe you'll make bad choices. But that's hardly the child's fault.
Who knows how well off they'll be in 15 years? Maybe you'll lose your job. Maybe a parent will need care. Maybe Liz Truss will double your mortgage costs.
And maybe you'll make bad choices. But that's hardly the child's fault.
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My Etsy shop's now open for a v. limited print run of half calendars of my tiny posy & botanical photos.
I design my photos using recent neuroscientific research so that looking at them alleviates stress & lift mood.
Each calendar=6 very high quality frameable prints:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
I design my photos using recent neuroscientific research so that looking at them alleviates stress & lift mood.
Each calendar=6 very high quality frameable prints:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
June 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
My Etsy shop's now open for a v. limited print run of half calendars of my tiny posy & botanical photos.
I design my photos using recent neuroscientific research so that looking at them alleviates stress & lift mood.
Each calendar=6 very high quality frameable prints:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
I design my photos using recent neuroscientific research so that looking at them alleviates stress & lift mood.
Each calendar=6 very high quality frameable prints:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
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Rita's argument was always a formidable and persuasive one that could be admired without reservation, even despite being sure it was ultimately mistaken. Dorothy's reply, as always, captures that perfectly.
May 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Rita's argument was always a formidable and persuasive one that could be admired without reservation, even despite being sure it was ultimately mistaken. Dorothy's reply, as always, captures that perfectly.
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Just read 'Which Child'. It simultaneously closes the debate forever and opens it forever by showing more clearly than I've ever seen before what Dunnett intended and then arguing that authorial intentions don't matter.
May 29, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Just read 'Which Child'. It simultaneously closes the debate forever and opens it forever by showing more clearly than I've ever seen before what Dunnett intended and then arguing that authorial intentions don't matter.
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#dunnett
#dunnettcontent
#historicalfiction
#earlymodern
Our weekly #dunnettquote is dining with the Knights in the Auberge de France in Birgu.
#dunnettcontent
#historicalfiction
#earlymodern
Our weekly #dunnettquote is dining with the Knights in the Auberge de France in Birgu.
May 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
#dunnett
#dunnettcontent
#historicalfiction
#earlymodern
Our weekly #dunnettquote is dining with the Knights in the Auberge de France in Birgu.
#dunnettcontent
#historicalfiction
#earlymodern
Our weekly #dunnettquote is dining with the Knights in the Auberge de France in Birgu.
And people tell me O'Keefe's paintings are just about shells and flowers...
Slightly Open Clam Shell, 1926, Georgia O'Keeffe #WomensArt
May 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
And people tell me O'Keefe's paintings are just about shells and flowers...
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Slightly Open Clam Shell, 1926, Georgia O'Keeffe #WomensArt
May 21, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Slightly Open Clam Shell, 1926, Georgia O'Keeffe #WomensArt
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UK-Israeli relations plunge to worst state for decades after foreign secretary David Lammy suspends trade talks, criticising Israeli calls to “purify Gaza” by expelling Palestinians 👇🏼
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
UK suspends trade talks with Israel and attacks ‘repellant’ extremism
Foreign secretary, David Lammy, condemns blocking of aid trucks and calls by Israeli ministers to ‘purify Gaza’
www.theguardian.com
May 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
UK-Israeli relations plunge to worst state for decades after foreign secretary David Lammy suspends trade talks, criticising Israeli calls to “purify Gaza” by expelling Palestinians 👇🏼
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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When a friend calls you and your first thought is ‘oh God, he’s about to tell me his whole family are dead’ you have to respond.
See today’s Guardian for the full story about Mohammed’s family in Jabalia, Gaza. Our Government can and must do more.
See today’s Guardian for the full story about Mohammed’s family in Jabalia, Gaza. Our Government can and must do more.
Layla Moran urges more action on Israel and warns of ‘cruel destitution’ in Gaza
Lib Dem MP says UK’s recent tone is tougher but ‘in terms of concrete actions, not much has changed’
buff.ly
May 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
When a friend calls you and your first thought is ‘oh God, he’s about to tell me his whole family are dead’ you have to respond.
See today’s Guardian for the full story about Mohammed’s family in Jabalia, Gaza. Our Government can and must do more.
See today’s Guardian for the full story about Mohammed’s family in Jabalia, Gaza. Our Government can and must do more.
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‘Home time’,
(Talkabout Starting School, 1977)
Artist: Harry Wingfield
(Talkabout Starting School, 1977)
Artist: Harry Wingfield
May 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
‘Home time’,
(Talkabout Starting School, 1977)
Artist: Harry Wingfield
(Talkabout Starting School, 1977)
Artist: Harry Wingfield
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This Johnsonian waste of space lives in West London and is (tragically my) MP for the deeply rural (/s) constituency of Beaconsfield, the bit between the M25, M40, M4, and A404(M). On my many walks in Beaconsfield’s shrinking share of greenbelt I’ve never seen a solar farm.
Meanwhile, the Conservatives' recent minister for Net Zero, Joy Morrissey is in the House of Commons labelling solar farms "an attack on the English rural way of life"
May 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
This Johnsonian waste of space lives in West London and is (tragically my) MP for the deeply rural (/s) constituency of Beaconsfield, the bit between the M25, M40, M4, and A404(M). On my many walks in Beaconsfield’s shrinking share of greenbelt I’ve never seen a solar farm.
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What a daft waste of money. An AI response is not a response, so just save the £40m and don’t respond to complaints at all.
May 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM
What a daft waste of money. An AI response is not a response, so just save the £40m and don’t respond to complaints at all.
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Right. If you want to know what's really going on, we're going to have stop falling for the spin & asking better questions.
What on earth was Palantir's top UK dude doing anywhere near this? And why has neither govt revealed the sweetheart tech deal?
broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-secret-u...
What on earth was Palantir's top UK dude doing anywhere near this? And why has neither govt revealed the sweetheart tech deal?
broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-secret-u...
A secret US-UK sweetheart tech deal?
What's really going on? And what's *Palantir* got to do with it??
broligarchy.substack.com
May 12, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Right. If you want to know what's really going on, we're going to have stop falling for the spin & asking better questions.
What on earth was Palantir's top UK dude doing anywhere near this? And why has neither govt revealed the sweetheart tech deal?
broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-secret-u...
What on earth was Palantir's top UK dude doing anywhere near this? And why has neither govt revealed the sweetheart tech deal?
broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-secret-u...
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“Around 200 Israeli citizens living in the UK have written to the British government demanding it suspend its trade relations with Israel until the country lifts its total siege on Gaza.”
To think that Israeli citizens themselves need to tell the UK govt this…
To think that Israeli citizens themselves need to tell the UK govt this…
Nearly 200 Israeli citizens in the UK call on government to suspend trade with Israel
The group, many of whom hold British citizenship, said that the prospect of mass starvation in Gaza is 'imminent and intolerable'
www.middleeasteye.net
May 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
“Around 200 Israeli citizens living in the UK have written to the British government demanding it suspend its trade relations with Israel until the country lifts its total siege on Gaza.”
To think that Israeli citizens themselves need to tell the UK govt this…
To think that Israeli citizens themselves need to tell the UK govt this…
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Making the most of an electric blue silk skirt with not one but two bodices, catering to all events from day to night. Many garments from the 1860s were constructed in this way to maximise wear, adaptability in action @jbrightcollection.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
May 7, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Making the most of an electric blue silk skirt with not one but two bodices, catering to all events from day to night. Many garments from the 1860s were constructed in this way to maximise wear, adaptability in action @jbrightcollection.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
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Happy St George's Day. My favourite St George- from Hugo van der Goes' spectacular Trinity Altarpiece in the National Gallery, Edinburgh - and the person I believe was his inspiration- Anselm Adornes, from his tomb effigy at the Jerusalem Chapel in Bruges.
April 23, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Happy St George's Day. My favourite St George- from Hugo van der Goes' spectacular Trinity Altarpiece in the National Gallery, Edinburgh - and the person I believe was his inspiration- Anselm Adornes, from his tomb effigy at the Jerusalem Chapel in Bruges.
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At Lanercost Priory en route for the Dorothy Dunnett Society Conference in Dumfries to chair the brilliant Sam Cohn's session on Art and Inequality in the Shadow of the Black Death: New Ideas, New Questions.
April 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
At Lanercost Priory en route for the Dorothy Dunnett Society Conference in Dumfries to chair the brilliant Sam Cohn's session on Art and Inequality in the Shadow of the Black Death: New Ideas, New Questions.
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A great Dorothy Dunnett conference thanks to the excellent speakers Profs. Sam Cohn, Charles West and Dr Perin Westerhof Nyman . Visited the Ruthwell Cross on the way home
April 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A great Dorothy Dunnett conference thanks to the excellent speakers Profs. Sam Cohn, Charles West and Dr Perin Westerhof Nyman . Visited the Ruthwell Cross on the way home
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Current projects:
Co-Editor - Reviving the Trinity: Networks and Materialities in Scotland and Europe, 1400 -1600
Anselm Adornes: Travel, Trade and Cultural Exchange, Intellectual Networks in Scotland, Bruges and Jerusalem
Jean Guild Award: Reviving the Trinity Stones project
Co-Editor - Reviving the Trinity: Networks and Materialities in Scotland and Europe, 1400 -1600
Anselm Adornes: Travel, Trade and Cultural Exchange, Intellectual Networks in Scotland, Bruges and Jerusalem
Jean Guild Award: Reviving the Trinity Stones project
March 3, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Current projects:
Co-Editor - Reviving the Trinity: Networks and Materialities in Scotland and Europe, 1400 -1600
Anselm Adornes: Travel, Trade and Cultural Exchange, Intellectual Networks in Scotland, Bruges and Jerusalem
Jean Guild Award: Reviving the Trinity Stones project
Co-Editor - Reviving the Trinity: Networks and Materialities in Scotland and Europe, 1400 -1600
Anselm Adornes: Travel, Trade and Cultural Exchange, Intellectual Networks in Scotland, Bruges and Jerusalem
Jean Guild Award: Reviving the Trinity Stones project
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My Etsy shop's now open for small & large limited ed'n fine art signed mounted prints & frameable greetings cards of my botanical collections.
I design my photos using recent research so that they dial down your fight or flight/stress response just by looking at them:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
I design my photos using recent research so that they dial down your fight or flight/stress response just by looking at them:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
May 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
My Etsy shop's now open for small & large limited ed'n fine art signed mounted prints & frameable greetings cards of my botanical collections.
I design my photos using recent research so that they dial down your fight or flight/stress response just by looking at them:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
I design my photos using recent research so that they dial down your fight or flight/stress response just by looking at them:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
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We are at the point in history where Germany is having to lecture the US on the need to fight fascism.
May 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
We are at the point in history where Germany is having to lecture the US on the need to fight fascism.
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PiF!!!! Augh
April 28, 2025 at 11:58 PM
PiF!!!! Augh