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𝖄𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖌 𝕭𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖎𝖓 @skoisirius.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Radiohead just randomly started streaming live performances and random songs from their catalogue yesterday, and it's still going..................... 👀👀👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6ga...

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Jody Day (Gateway Women) @gatewaywomen.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

With 100+ comments, my essay on what a small group of us in a rural Irish location are doing to support each other as people ageing without children is getting a LOT of attention! jodyday.substack.com/p/whos-going...

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Who's going to be there for me when I'm old?

Introducing Alterkin (Alternative Kinship Circles)

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Jody Day (Gateway Women) @gatewaywomen.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

What is your relationship to the concept of 'legacy' as someone without children? Mine is complex, and it's changed RADICALLY over time. Free to read: jodyday.substack.com/p/leaving-no...

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Leaving nothing behind

The liberation of no legacy

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Jody Day (Gateway Women) @gatewaywomen.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i... This podcast interview with me dropped today. I listened to it in the bath this morning- it's a goodie!

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Emma Palmer @bristolemma.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

‘Eldering in a Time of Collapse’, Sat 29 March 2025, 8pm GMT (Free, live & recorded). Looking forward to this conversation very much this Saturday - thx for inviting me back @gatewaywomen.bsky.social More info and registration below: gateway-women.com/collapse/

An advert for a Gateway Women event entitled ‘Eldering in a time of collapse’ this Saturday.

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Jody Day (Gateway Women) @gatewaywomen.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

"As our world's natural and social structures continue to unravel, steady hearts, minds and souls will be needed to hold us. This has always been one of the roles of Elders. But in a society that lionises youth and demonises aging, what does it mean...?" jodyday.substack.com/p/eldering-i...

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Eldering is a verb

Surviving your own bullshit

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

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Dr.DreadPirate @pnwdreadpirate.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

My wife shared this today. She is the best. #poetry

Don't Hesitate, by Mary Oliver.

If You suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. It. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happens better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that's often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don't be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.

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John Paul Newman @johnpaulnewman.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Winston Churchill visiting the White House in 1942. Not wearing a suit. #SlavaUkraïni 🇺🇦

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

In praise of complexity and beauty and all the times they're the same thing. Gate's poem is here. www.davidgatepoet.com/store/p/0vcw...

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F.L. Everett @fliceverett.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I COULD get in the top ten... if a few more people bought my lovely escapist book for 99p...That would be your good deed for the day, AND you'll get a really good read! 🙏 ❤️ 🙏 ❤️ geni.us/B0DMP344XWau...

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Don't think single people get enough credit for doing life alone. Rent/mortgage is double, household responsibility and life admin is down to one person, you're your own emotional support, holidays are more expensive, you've to trap and transport human sacrifices for the solstice bonfire solo, etc.

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Jody Day (Gateway Women) @gatewaywomen.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

For Valentine's Day, let's remember that LOVE is a liberatory energy. "Let’s liberate love, and each other, any and every way we can." Free to read at jodyday.substack.com/p/lets-flood...

Left - female Asian elephant. Right - Jody Day, author of the piece is stroking the elephant's mouth under her trunk. In the background are the mountains of northern Thailand. Photo taken at Doilim Elephant Sanctuary. Overlaid with the tittle of Substack essay "Let's flood the zone with love: liberate your heart this Valentine's Day" and the URL jodyday.substack.com

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Jody Day (Gateway Women) @gatewaywomen.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

So looking forward to my hard copy arriving in a few weeks. So much of this book has stayed with me, like a soft moss growing on my heart!

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Jody Day (Gateway Women) @gatewaywomen.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I'm away from Ireland right now, but would love to have heard the jaws dropping the floor for this segment!

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

This is good.

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Jody Day (Gateway Women) @gatewaywomen.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Have you had coaching at work around a 'CSI' - 'concealable stigmatised identity' such as sexual orientation, illness, disability, neurodiversity, hidden ethnicity, class, parental status, gender identity, religion, etc? Interviewees needed for PhD research. Email Sophia 18024638@brookes.ac.uk

An opportunity to participate in research about how coaching can help individuals with concealable
stigmatised identities navigate inclusivity issues in the workplace.
“Concealable stigmatised identity” (CSI) is a term used in literature to describe a part of a person' s identity which can be kept hidden from others, and which is socially stigmatized, devalued and negatively stereotyped.
Examples include sexual orientation, illness, disability, neurodiversity, hidden ethnicity, class, parental status,
gender identity, religion. The research will use the term ‘CSI’ because it is used in the literature, it is not intended to label individuals.
Concealing information to avoid stigma can interfere with a person’s ability to authentically be themselves, contrasting with rhetoric about bringing one’s whole self to work. Coaching for diversity has focused on visible characteristics, and the aim of this research is to explore how coaching can help people with CSIs navigate inclusivity challenges they may face in the workplace.
This research hopes to add to professional practice by providing coaches and coach educators with insights, in
this under-researched area, on how to work with individuals with CSIs in the workplace, and on a broader level potentially contribute to workplace inclusivity.

You may be internal or external to the organisation. The coaching did not have to be specifically for an individual’s CSI, but your coachee would have discussed their CSI and its workplace impact with you.
What does taking part involve?

Taking part involves participating in a 60-90 minute interview by Zoom with Sophia Andeh between January and
September 2024. All information shared within this research will be kept strictly confidential (subject to legal limitations).
If you have any questions, or to obtain a participant information sheet, please email Sophia at 18024638@brookes.ac.uk

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Jody Day (Gateway Women) @gatewaywomen.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

What a lovely surprise to see my book popping up here! You have cheered me no end!

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TruBlu 🌊🌊🌊 @trublu268.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

In honor of black inventors. #BlackHistoryMonth

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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 17/11/2024

Loads of #literary #magazines are coming to Bluesky, here is a great list to follow! PLEASE SHARE TO HELP THEM LEAVE TWITTER! #litmags #writer #writingcommunity go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j

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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/02/2025

Guy On Doomed Planet Mostly Concerned With Skin Color Of People In Movies theonion.com/guy-on-...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

from Meditations in an Emergency, my new newsletter, day three: But I do not believe the people of this country will submit to the destruction and the attempts at dictatorship. We are not submitting now. meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/we-are-not-w...

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 26/01/2025

Words To Live By Number 173

Mock up of Penguin classic with the title ‘Thou shall not be a cunt’.

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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Literally every company now youtube.com/shorts/hL9pl...

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Literally every company now

YouTube video by Eleanor Morton

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Changed my life. Probably led to me writing the weird shit I write today. Thank you, David Lynch. Enjoy messing up the afterlife.

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WowItsWarm 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @das1215.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Love this article from the BBC's @georginarannard.bsky.social So Women holding the power in Ancient Times was widespead! We knew the misogynists were gas lighting us.

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For the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Be the person your cat thinks you are.

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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

15 brilliant short books to get you back in the habit of reading. From Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan to Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, a classic doesn’t have to be 500 pages long. Darragh Geraghty recommends some personal favourites www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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15 brilliant short books to get you back in the habit of reading

Whether a powerful meditation or a gripping detective story, a classic doesn’t have to be 500 pages long

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Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 @nativeredcloud3rd.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” ~ Cherokee,

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The looters I want to talk about are the ones who stole our safe and stable climate from us. Millennia of planetary harm for individuals' profit. They set the fires.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 10/01/2025

my latest @teenvogue.bsky.social my heart broke watching Pasadena, Octavia Butler's hometown, where her middle school is named for her, burn. 5 schools have been damaged. "Octavia knew"—so did Mike Davis—from studying history. denialism and targeting libraries got us here. what will we do?

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Black Sci-Fi Writer Octavia Butler Predicted The Dystopia of the LA Fires By Studying History

This week, her hometown of Pasadena has seen at least 5 killed, and 5 schools burned to ash.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Would be nice to live through fewer of the main episodes of history for a while and more of the ad breaks

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🌴✨🦋 Kathryn 🦋✨🌴 @kathrynkatiekwrites.substack.com · 08/01/2025

Instead of "I apologize for the delay," write "thank you for your patience." In lieu of "sorry for the oversight," write "if you're so perfect, why don't you fu*king do it, Marsha." Follow me for more etiquette tips. 😁

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

They give us unconditional love, devotion & loyalty. They are a reliable source of peace, joy & contentment. That they have made this a better world is an undisputed FACT. 👁️❤️🐶🐕

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Jody Day (Gateway Women) @gatewaywomen.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

January's Gateway Women newsletter just gone out. Been writing it for 14 years now! Sadly features an RIP for my darling Parsnip who left us yesterday. Lots more than that of interest to childless/free folks around the world. bit.ly/gw-jan25

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Carole (Ducky) (IrPsych) @caroleducky.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

😂 ‘Ireland Buried in Snow.’ - Garron Noone. #Sneachta #SpeirGorm youtube.com/shorts/GwssD...

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Ireland Buried in Snow

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Jody Day (Gateway Women) @gatewaywomen.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

"It’s not just my old age that is unimaginable, it’s the fact that everything I imagined was immutable, isn’t. Not just the cities, but the landscapes, the trees, the birds, the insects, the seas, the libraries, the poems, the certainties. And of course, the very me-ness of me too will pass."

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Personal archeology

Living in a time of endings

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Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year Just 7h30mins of daylight in Ireland. By Summer Solstice on 21 June it will be 17 hours

Sunlight in passage at Newgrange, Ireland

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 18/12/2024

Residency for a writer at any stage of their career who is writing a new piece of work for theatre, with private studio, on-site accommodation, and a weekly stipend of £350. DunsPlayFest will stage a scratch reading or rehearsed reading as part of PlayFest 2025. Other awards also. Please share

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Hugo Burge Foundation Submission Manager

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Jody Day (Gateway Women) @gatewaywomen.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Starts in 1-hour! Free, live & recorded webinar: Fireside Wisdom with Childless Elderwomen on 'Solo Elderhood'. Whatever your partnership or reproductive identity you are very welcome! bit.ly/gwe-solo #AWOC #AgeingWithoutChildren

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 11/12/2024

Please share

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Jody Day (Gateway Women) @gatewaywomen.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Yay! This is the feminist menopause book we need! Go Stella! x

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Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 25/11/2024

let’s go to wistman’s wood and put our hand softly at the center

moss on rocks and twigs in a forest, a swirl rune can be seen in the moss on one of the larger rocks

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