Margaret Fowler

Observer of life. @dreamboating.bsky.social @[email protected] just in case.

[David Milner @DaveMilbo]

We broke significant national news this week and not a single mainstream media outlet wanted to cover it or follow up.

It isn't surprising, but it is illustrative.

Put simply, they're all owned and operated by Zionist billionaires.

This is why indie media needs to exist.

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

My good mate @aaronsmith wrote this stunning piece about his week as a temp political staffer in Canberra. 👇🏽

Australians become inured to reading about Canberra and federal politics through the mainstream lens, but Aaron walks us through it warts and all.

Apart from his illuminating insights, I think it's one of the most beautiful pieces of political writing, in fact, beautiful pieces of writing, that I have ever read - seriously.

Aaron crafts a tale of a tumultuous week in Australian politics, a tale of Parliament House and its operatives and inhabitants, like only a master storyteller can.

Congratulations Aaron, this piece will go into my very special book of writing that I will read again and again. I hope everybody does. We need to savour and cherish voices like yours, not just now, but forever.

https://t.co/7qUsGBvpG7

[Kevin McLeod @bannon1975]

The librarian who hand-sells a book, who says I think you specifically will love this one, is doing something that an algorithm cannot replicate.
They have read the book.
They have read the child.
And they have made a considered judgement that these two things belong together. When that judgement is right, it can change everything. We thank all the librarians out there who take the time to make that difference.

[Margaret Fowler @dreamboating]

@London_W4 Great job!!!

[Adam Karpiak @Adam_Karpiak]

Honest Cover Letter:

I’m interested in this job because it’s available. I feel I’m a match because I, too, am available.

You also list a “competitive salary,” which aligns with my passion for food and shelter.

I look forward to discussing this further with your AI screener.

[Anne Louise Avery @AnneLouiseAvery]

Would you like some toast before bed, asked Old Fox. Yes, please, said Pine Marten. Old Fox buttered several rounds & brewed a pot of lemon balm tea & they sat out in the garden under the lilac, watching the dark clouds over Pooksdown Hill. Storm's coming, said Old Fox, not long now.

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

Other work of the Ladybird artists
‘Welsh Hill Farm’

CF Tunnicliffe (1949)

[Dr Desirée Kozlowski @Pleasure_Lab]

On this winter day, I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage.
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage

[Stephen Keeler @stephenkeeler]

Just in case you didn’t already know (they’re being very modest about it), our gorgeous new @toppingsyork bookshop opens tomorrow (Friday).

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

I’ve long suspected those weren’t the actual words used.

Artist: Martin Aitchison (1966)

[Dr David Vernon @DrDavidVernon]

i’d forgotten this line, 11 pages into 1984…

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

Every morning you wake up to a new piece of Trump stupidity, vulgarity, mendacity, or just plain psychopathic aggression. The Ugly American, writ large.

[🌹 Imogen 🌹 @twtrrr]

#RaiseTheRate Leaving people who we knew were already in poverty years ago, in far worse poverty now isn’t helping these with the cost of living crisis. Poverty encourages exploitation and abuse and untimely, preventable deaths. #auspol

[Greta Berlin @Truegreta]

I stood at this pool, at both monuments and saw both reflections…
He’s a God damn idiot, as are the fools that support him. The “Reflection Pool” wasn’t designed by American architect Henry Bacon a hundred years ago to look like a swimming pool. It’s designed to have a darkened characteristics that has reflective qualities to reflect the monuments.
That way, the Washington Monument is reflective to you when at the Lincoln Memorial, and when at the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial is reflective to you.
It’s designed to enhance the grandeur of monuments, create an illusion of reflection, and inclusion of expansive space of unity.
He’s a tacky vulgar person that vulgarizes everything he touches. America isn’t becoming great, it’s becoming vulgar.

Credit - Mathew Reed

[Phillip Adams @PhillipAdams_1]

Pauline awarded life membership of DENSA - my MENSA for dills

[Alex & Books 📚 @AlexAndBooks_]

Just a friendly reminder that libraries are free.

Not “free trial” free.
Not “free with ads” free.
Not “free if you give us all of your data” free.

But free free.

[Margaret Fowler @dreamboating]

@xskinn How will we cope??😱

[Liza Adamczewski or the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski]

My father died when he was only 65. My grief taught me how precious time is. I left London to live in the countryside with my children. To give them space and foster a relationship with their environment. We grew lots of our own food. I turned my hands to many things out of necessity, like making my own tiles. Baking decent bread & cooking the international cuisine that I missed from my London life. It has been a rich life full of ups and downs but I wouldn’t ever want to return to the city to live. Sleeping with the windows open at night listening to the owls & the sounds of the air moving through the trees. Planting the vegetables, painting pictures these are the things that bring me contentment. Walking my dog on the beach or in our woods and fields. It’s taken time to get to where I wanted to be but I’m there now. My father loved the countryside, he was happier there than anywhere else. I miss him still after 30 years but I know he would have loved this place as much as we do

[Toilet Paper Australia @toiletpaperaus1]

Just a reminder: when Barnaby Joyce joined One Nation, Pauline Hanson received a $100,000, 42.5% pay rise, due to One Nation getting enough MPs to be classified as a minor party.

Yesterday, she stated that she would not support a 6% raise to the minimum wage.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Trump’s never-ending Iran peace negotiations have @jonstewart wondering: Is the president really the master negotiator he says he is?