BabelBrunning

@ribblebabel

Antifascist, Librarian, European, Environmentalist, & as Woke as a Wokey thing. Dr of an argumentative persuasion who knows how to use an Oxford comma, rather than the useful, life-saving kind. Trying not to be so sweary but it's fking difficult. 🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸🇪🇺🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖤💚🏴‍☠️

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BabelBrunning@ribblebabel· Jun 28

I had to laugh reading your posts on this theme this afternoon, while sitting in a cottage on the Isle of Lewis with a pot of tea, a plate of scones, and a good book, with the wind howling its socks off outside. Shame it's the last day of my holiday, but spooky...

The green moors of Eileen Chalium Chille (Isle of St Colm) at Cromore, Isle of Lewis, across the horizon and rising to the right. The causeway is invisible beneath the incoming tide from the foreground to the right, and the seaweed covered rocks of the Lewis side of the crossing are to the left foreground.

BabelBrunning@ribblebabel· Apr 13

Trump posted this image on his TS before deleting it. There are no words 😳 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Trump's Truth Social post image depicting himself as Jesus.

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BabelBrunning@ribblebabel· Mar 22

Just sharing this photo I took in a neighbour's garden a few years back 😸

Cat curled up inside roofed bird table with eyes open awaiting unsuspecting feathered arrivals...

BabelBrunning@ribblebabel· Mar 22

Meanwhile, this week's #EscapePlan: a morning in bed reading The Big Steal, the latest fabulous book by the fabulous #CiamhMcDonnell.

Photo of book The Big Steal by Ciamh McDonnell lying on a cream quilt with a cup of coffee held at the side.

BabelBrunning@ribblebabel· Feb 13

THIS is Reform: ‘Handmaid’s Tale future’: Reform’s Matt Goodwin sparks outcry with fertility comments www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Image from The Handmaid's Tale: several women wearing red cloaks, red face coverings, and white cowl bonnets.

BabelBrunning@ribblebabel· Oct 17

Loving my @nethertonfoundry wok, hand-made using traditional methods and locally-sourced materials close to where my old cast-iron trivet commemorating the first Iron Bridge built at Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, UK, completed 1779, was also made! I knew that old trivet was waiting for something....

@NethertonFoundry wok hand-made using traditional methods and locally-sourced materials close to where my old cast-iron trivet commemorating the first Iron Bridge built at Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, UK, completed 1779, was also made.

BabelBrunning@ribblebabel· Sep 17

Well, if you're going to be laid up for a while with a fracture, you couldn't pick a better week to start (and have the time for a whole series re-read ❤️) as the perfect lead-in to enjoying the new #SlowHorses novel #mickherron : on to #LondonRules already ❤️

Latest Mick Herron Slow Horses book 'Clown Town' pictured alongside 4 of the preceding novels in the series.

BabelBrunning@ribblebabel· Aug 26

This:

Poster in support of remaining with the European Court of Human Rights: leaving would destroy our relationship with the EU, destabilise the UK, put us in Putin's camp, and take away protection for our human rights.

BabelBrunning@ribblebabel· May 7

Cartoon bunny with walkie-talkie saying "WTF, over".

BabelBrunning@ribblebabel· Apr 30

Yep.

Woman holding banner saying "Russia can stop the war anytime by leaving Ukrainian land."

BabelBrunning@ribblebabel· Apr 27

A happy little something (well, lots of little somethings) to brighten my day. I saved a Garden Spider last summer who was about to be inadvertently squished, and popped her in a good alternative spot in the garden where she made a huge web and thrived. Now look what she's left for us all:

Dozens of newly-hatched Garden Spiders (Araneus diadematus) sunning themselves and awaiting a good breeze in preparation for leaving the nest.

BabelBrunning@ribblebabel· Apr 27

Cute bunny cartoon holding walkie-talkie, and saying "WTF, over".

BabelBrunning@ribblebabel· Apr 26

Tilda Swinton blows a kiss while wearing the 'Protect the Dolls' pro-Trans t-shirt.

BabelBrunning@ribblebabel· Apr 5

Ramen gluten free noodles and Thai sauces from The Coconut Kitchen, Wales, UK

BabelBrunning@ribblebabel· Apr 4

#meanwhile one of the great pleasures in life: receiving your latest order of the incredibly, amazingly, fragrant and delicious herbs and spices from @seasonedpioneers.bsky.social . Not only guaranteed #glutenfree but really blooming marvelous!

Array of various gluten free spices and herbs from Seasoned Pioneers, just unpacked and lined up for deciding which to use first!

BabelBrunning@ribblebabel· Mar 30

#HappyMother'sDay to my mum, who I still miss. (1/) We had a challenging relationship ("You could be so pretty if you made an effort/wore a dress/had your hair done" being fairly typical refrains) but she fought to keep myself and my brother...

Small curly-haired child with her mother in a garden, 1960s.

BabelBrunning@ribblebabel· Mar 30

#meanwhile Sunday morning and Mother's Day - I've been saving this one especially as words really are my one true love: Guilty by Definition @susiedent.com, and, so far, every bit as good as I was hoping ...

Book 'Guilty by Definition' by Susie Dent lying on a bed, suggesting a lounging morning reading a good book for pleasure.

BabelBrunning@ribblebabel· Mar 26

Yes please!

UK flag, but all in blue and white, with circle of EU stars in the centre.

BabelBrunning@ribblebabel· Mar 18

Remembering a beautiful soul 💜 who would have celebrated his birthday today, and determined to fight for other young people struggling with mental health, not least against failing MH Services and an awful disability benefits system looking to cause other beautiful souls even more anguish.

Stickle Tarn and Pavey Ark in the Langdales, Cumbria.

BabelBrunning@ribblebabel· Mar 15

A leisurely paddle on Coniston Water in the "Mad Mango" today. Bliss.

View down Coniston Water from a kayak; still water perfectly reflecting the clouds and peeps of blue sky.

BabelBrunning@ribblebabel· Mar 14

And said hello to several fab trees along the way.

Tall pine or fir tree with a long bare trunk and a lot of top growth.

Very blasted old tree which has lost its top half (which is lying down to the tree's left) and looks like an Ent.

Tall pine tree with huge roots growing either side of a large slate boulder.

BabelBrunning@ribblebabel· Mar 14

Another Grand Day Out in Cumbria, walking a long clockwise "loop" from Skelwith to Knipe Fold to Tarn Hows to Oxen Fell to High Park to Skelwith Force (not so much of the force today) then up Spy Glass Hill (not sure if it's actually called that but cracking view of the Langdales from the top).

Spanning across left to right: Wetherlam, I think Crinkle Crags, Pike o' Blisco, and Bow Fell.

Small pool leading in to the tarn at Tarn Hows.

BabelBrunning@ribblebabel· Mar 13

Resist. Buy lots of copies of banned books to share.

Front cover of Ray Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451'

Front cover of Markus Zusak's 'The Book Thief'.

BabelBrunning@ribblebabel· Mar 13

Grand walk over Loughrigg Fell today.

Craggy view of Loughrigg Fell above Lake Windermere, with blue sky and white clouds.

BabelBrunning@ribblebabel· Mar 9

Not a Democrat blue-wish but ongoing 🟠🤡👹 plans: Trump dreams of a Maga empire – but he’s more likely to leave us a nuclear hellscape | Alexander Hurst www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Screenshot from "End Wokeness" X account showing map of US as also owning Canada, Greenland, Iceland, and a multitude of other islands and archipelagos in the Western Hemisphere.

BabelBrunning@ribblebabel· Mar 6

Oh US citizens, if you please, do not let the Orange Onceler moron anywhere near your trees!

BabelBrunning@ribblebabel· Mar 6

#meanwhile Happy World Book Day! 📚 What book are you currently reading (when you can tear your eyes away from the news and Bluesky)? I'm re-reading Mick Herron's entire and utterly fantastic Slough House series, currently on "The Secret Hours".

Front cover shot of Mick Herron's Slough House book "The Secret Hours", showing two figures in silhouette meeting on a rainy bridge.

BabelBrunning@ribblebabel· Mar 4

Well, you're not giving the whole of Europe any other choice. Vanker.

Quotes from Vance following on from his disrespectful comments about Europe's ability to help Ukraine after the US withdraw military support.

BabelBrunning@ribblebabel· Mar 1

Man looks relieved to be meeting sane contemporary, unlikely to rage and shout incoherent lies into his face at the drop of a hat whilst holding him and his country to ransom. (And thanks for giving him the promised hug, Keir. My god, I bet he needed that.) 💙🇺🇦💛