Reposted by @jemm8.bsky.socialLarry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 31/01/2025January has been a hell of a year 975630804
Reposted by @jemm8.bsky.socialJoseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 25/12/2024On this Christmas Day, I think of this poem written by a 13-year-old child with the help of The Magic Words. If we can keep listening to people, especially children, keep helping people speak up, sing out, we just might have a real chance at change. 🕯️ 402137284
Reposted by @jemm8.bsky.socialRhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 24/12/2024This is a very handy cut-out-and-keep guide to #duvetknowitschristmas and its multi-faceted nature, which I would have thought of myself if I'd been a better human being 133250
Reposted by @jemm8.bsky.socialPhilippa Perry @pperry.bsky.social · 15/12/2024When we’re young or middle-aged so much is about DOING as we age we need to learn more about BEING without so much of the doing. This week’s column: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...theguardian.comI’m nearly 80 and there’s a void in my life that hobbies can’t fillIt’s about facing the freedom you have now, not as an overwhelming burden but as an opportunity 45010
Reposted by @jemm8.bsky.socialMax Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Why Bristol should have a statue of Blackbeard. This is great from @tristancorkpost.bsky.social www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...bristolpost.co.ukForget Colston, Blackbeard is the hero Bristol needs a statue of"It’s not a box-ticking exercise, but if Blackbeard was filling out a modern day socio-political diversity form, he would pass with flying colours." 0114
Reposted by @jemm8.bsky.socialDr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 25/11/2024In the week that MPs vote on assisted dying, please - please - can we all agree & act on the fact that the time to end the woeful underfunding of NHS palliative care is now? If we truly cared about dying people, we wouldn’t neglect their final days. Over to you, @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social 21772230
Reposted by @jemm8.bsky.socialChopsy Bristol @chopsybristol.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Aldi has welcomed the Christmas Easter egg 021
Reposted by @jemm8.bsky.socialPope Francis @pontifexeng.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Each of us is called to oppose any form of violence against women and girls. We must work together to ensure that the human rights and dignity of every person are recognized. 512327
Reposted by @jemm8.bsky.socialAnonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 24/11/2024It has been 1,164 days since the Taliban barred Afghan girls from attending school, robbing 1.4 million girls of their right to education. This is not only a tragedy but a global failure. #LetHerLearn 1133012638
Reposted by @jemm8.bsky.socialDan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Today in 1859 Charles Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species' was published. He wrote it in this chair, in this room in Down House in Kent. It’s possibly the most influential book published in the last 200 years. 937540
Reposted by @jemm8.bsky.socialLarry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 17/11/2024People in the UK checking the weather forecast tonightmedia.tenor.coma man with a beard is looking at another man and saying `` winter is coming . ''ALT: a man with a beard is looking at another man and saying `` winter is coming . '' 522147166
Reposted by @jemm8.bsky.socialSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024A meme made for us GenXers if I ever saw one 631612135
Reposted by @jemm8.bsky.socialDr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024There's nothing quite like a good visualisation. This one beats a line on a chart. 02414
Reposted by @jemm8.bsky.socialSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024I learned some stuff about Bluesky I did not know by reading this. Maybe worth passing it on to others so we can all start getting the full benefit of the 🦋.theverge.comHere’s some cool stuff you can do with BlueskyIt’s not just an Alf pics repository. 1540159137541
Reposted by @jemm8.bsky.socialAndrew Haley @aph13.bsky.social · 16/11/2024"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation." Douglas Adams, 1978. 2313
