.@robertlargan as my MP, please oppose measures in the #PublicOrderBill that:
Ban named people from protesting
Electronically tag protesters
Expand stop and search
Criminalise ‘locking on’
Please vote to protect the right to protest
Tina Modotti's photograph of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with members of the Artists' Union, on the May Day March, Mexico City, 1929 #womensart#MayDay
"BJ's claim that a lack of knowledge about the asymptomatic transmission of Covid-19 put care homes at risk has been further undermined after it emerged he openly discussed the potential scale of symptom-free transmission."
It was live on national TV.
https://t.co/PP8EH911vt
Cicely Mary Barker (1895-1973), English illustrator best known for an early 20thc series of fantasy illustrations depicting fairies and flowers such as #bluebells#WomensArt
Situations don't make you unhappy. They may cause you physical pain, but they don't make you unhappy. Your thoughts make you unhappy. Your interpretations, the stories you tell yourself make you unhappy.
When your own inner sense of identity changes from being “the separate individual” to being “what the entire cosmos is doing at this place,” you become not a puppet, but more truly and more expressively an individual than ever.
When we get to thinking of everything in terms of survival and profit value—as we do—then the shapes of scratches on the floor cease to have magic. And most things, in fact, cease to have magic.
"If we told you, under three years ago, that Boris Johnson's new government would go on to have an awkward relationship with the law not one, not two, not three... but seven times, you would surely think we were joking." https://t.co/vguyVGPXZ7
The UK government has today ripped up the Refugee Convention - a longstanding international agreement. Priti Patel's racist Nationality and Borders Bill drags the UK's reputation through the mud.
https://t.co/WntIc78P1g
With the #PolicingBill in Parliament this week, we stand with Gypsy and Traveller communities in the UK who soon face the biggest squeeze on the travelling way of life since the 1990s. #WeRoamWithYou
Octopus Teapot by Japanese ceramic artist Keiko Masumoto. The Akkorokamui is a gigantic octopus creature in Japanese Ainu folklore, believed to have powers to heal and the ability to bestow knowledge #FolkloreThursday#NationalTeaDay
(1/2) I’m happy that as a faith community @UKUnitarians have voted in support of the self-recognition model for a Gender Recognition Certificate at #UnitarianAnnualMeetings2022
It tells our trans and gender diverse siblings you matter, and that we care
#TransRightsAreHumanRights