The established parties using the abuse of women and girls to whip up hatred of migrants has made my heart sick If you only care about the skin colour of the perpetrator then you never cared about the victims at all If you're local to Plymouth, please consider joining 💛
Reading is reading. During a long dry spell I picked up two bizarre sci-fi unicorn novels at work Reading is reading
My fan collection is proving to be very handy during our second summer heatwave
Went up into my parents attic and found this handmade treasure My grandad was an amazing man ❤️
Grateful to AFK Journey for being my first gatcha game that actually caters to my taste in men. Nom.
Modbury swallows catching a drink in a river Watched them for ages, so gorgeous how they move
An absolutely wonderful day was had at the Green Man festival at Mount Edgecombe! @nationaltrust.org.uk
Polite reminder that even far right cartoonist Ben Garrison managed to stop himself from using racist imagery even as he blamed Barack Obama for everything (see below) Shame on The Times. That's not @zackpolanski.bsky.social , that's the happy merchant (anti-Semitic propaganda)
Can't find the article but this account of hers is very telling. I too slid sideways into stoicism in order to cope but it's not the same as real self knowledge.
Eh, I get it but I've also had 30 years of this kind of stuff down in Cornwall:
I honestly assumed it was both. She's a real piece of work and being sex trafficked probably didn't help. When someone can "bring you girls" there's so much work behind the scenes. Evil work Catch and kill from Ronan Farrow was illuminating, currently reading Very important people by Ashley Mears
My favourite bit about Blue Eye Samurai is that in the ending you see England and I honestly did not notice the clearly ominous weather Like... I live here. I know what it's like. Took me the second watch to realise it's intended to reinforce the dread, not just be factual.
I can't decide if this section of the BBC news story about Melania Trump is an important reminder of presidential norms or just the BBC showing how it cannot even cope with this Whitehouse