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I have been making macrame Christmas gnomes, and today I held my first gnome making workshop! It went so well. My students are the best. Aren’t they fab 😊💕

Macrame Christmas gnome decorations with woolly bobble hats and beards or hair braids. Various colours including green and red, gold ribbons, and white snowy beards.

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Mads Chawner @madschawner.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Oh good grief. He is a fine one to be calling others poisoners. He is an expert poisoner of people’s minds and his poison gets spread far and wide. Unreal.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 03/10/2025

DLMayfield: "Here’s my pep talk after studying authoritarianism: They never truly expect a long-term resistance movement because they think people are a collection of trauma triggers who are easily controlled through terror. The best way to resist fascism is to not let them terrorize you."

Here’s my pep talk after studying authoritarianism:

1). They never truly expect a long-term resistance movement bc they think people are a collection of trauma triggers who are easily controlled thru terror

2). If they can’t terrorize you 24/7 in your mind, they have already lost the war

3). The single best way you can resist fascism is to not let them terrorize you constantly. Protect your mental health to ensure you are not constantly in a terrorized state

4). Keep connecting to who you are at your core. Your values, preferences, ethics, and beliefs. Build up capacity to resist

5). Remember they are like abusive parents: they only see us extensions of them. They have no clue how powerful joy and community and self-expression can be. We can use this to our advantage — we can be the strong-willed child they never saw coming.

Spending time connecting to your true self is not selfish in these times — it’s intricately connected to a resistance movement that is tied to honoring our bodies, our communities, and to the land. We have to build capacity to resist by being exactly who we are!

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Mads Chawner @madschawner.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

What is so deeply upsetting is how society seems to be on a nonstop nosedive with literally no ending in sight. How can we be so destructive of everything our parents and grandparents fought so hard for? It’s heartbreaking. We need people who have studied Humanities. We need positive energy.

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 19/09/2025

It’s time for women and allies to speak up. To say ‘not in our name’ to the discrimination and exclusion of trans people. Are you with us? ✍️ If you are a woman and agree please sign @nionwomen.bsky.social 's open letter goodlaw.social/wu1u

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Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name

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Mads Chawner @madschawner.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Holy f. How on earth is any student going to learn and improve from this?

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Tom @alas-not-me.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

For #TolkienTrewsday and pirates I can offer only Hildefons Took, who went off on a journey and never returned, but (I like to imagine) he took little brother, Isengar, with him. Isengar, 'tis said, went to sea in his youth. Together, for a time, they became the dread pirate hobbits.

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Mads Chawner @madschawner.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

The Lord of the Rings. It changed my life as a 12 year old book devourer and has been a mainstay ever since. Utterly brilliant book

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Mads Chawner @madschawner.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Maybe they will replace him by someone who actually allows the guests to respond to a question- especially when the guests are women

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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Here is my main opinion on AI, in every capacity: What is the point of technology? Is it to make our lives better and easier, or is it to make a very small percentage of people richer? The latter is what AI is doing. The people actually doing the coding are making themselves redundant.

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Mads Chawner @madschawner.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I love that place. It’s fabulous

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Mads Chawner @madschawner.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Oh my goodness. One of the highlights of my childhood 🥰

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Miriam IRL @miriam.blacksky.app · 10/08/2025

In the UK people can wave a swastika and throw Nazi salutes at far-right rallies but a pensioner holding a “Palestine Action” sign is where the law draws the line

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

"The Met said the total of 474 was the most arrests it had made related to a single operation in at least the past decade. It had drawn officers from other forces to help form a “significant policing presence”. It was anticipated the event would result in large numbers of people being detained."

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Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London

Number of arrests was highest recorded in relation to single operation in at least past decade, according to Met police

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Mads Chawner @madschawner.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Sir Christopher Lee 😊Both of them utterly epic 💕

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 08/08/2025

Just a reminder that this is still very much accurate and relevant. Even when the EHRC publish the Code of Practice, which does not change the actual law.

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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I wrote to M&S about the stupid lingerie department story - confirms nobody offered a bra fitting to a teenage girl. The Telegraph and JK can (always) do one.

Screenshot of an email: Hi Rachel,

Thank you for contacting us about the article you’ve seen.

We want our stores to be inclusive and welcoming places for our colleagues and customers. We have written to this customer and explained that our colleagues typically work across all departments in our stores and customers can always ask to speak to the colleague they feel most comfortable with.

We also explained that our colleague was asking a customer if they needed help; they were not working on bra fit or offering this.

Thank you again for getting in touch.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 01/08/2025

There's so much to unpack with Kamala's interview: 1. The People & The System have a broken relationship. 2. By running for a system nobody trusts, nobody trusts her. 3. The way to fix a broken system is to build reform from the bottom up. 4. It starts with The People believing in themselves.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

You kan not run educacioun lyke a businesse. A businesse ys ther to make a profit. Educacioun ys ther to make the future.

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Mads Chawner @madschawner.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Yes indeed. Support your local community 💕

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Mads Chawner @madschawner.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Absolutely right. Every single time there is more richness to glean

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Oxfam GB @oxfamgb.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

We have all watched in horror as Israel crosses red line after red line in Gaza. If you agree please share this post on, help us send this message across social media, then contribute a picture to our powerful visual at bit.ly/3HW2ePI Let’s speak out, in our masses, right now. #RedLineForGaza #Gaza

Black background with red lines. White text reads; "Targeting children, killing civilians, starving people, killing the hungry, targeting medics, killing aid workers. Too many red lines continue to be crossed. #RedLineForGaza".

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Mads Chawner @madschawner.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Absolutely right. I fell in love with the love of my life when we spent the night together for the first time, and after a while he asked if I was hungry, and brought me homemade plum pie and cream in bed. Perfection 😊

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Mads Chawner @madschawner.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I am British and never heard of the two spaces thing until social media 😂

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Mads Chawner @madschawner.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Oh my goodness. Perfection 😊

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