Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Local #Hitchin & District #RNLI had a VERY good fundraising day by all accounts. 😥 Didn't make it because we; Hitchin Quakers; were holding a peace vigil in our grounds on Payne's park. Both events were successful in thier own way🙂 011
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 30/08/2026🤣"the GB News source said: “He won’t make much money out of it here, he appeals entirely to an American audience. It’s a bigger country and you have a bigger pool of fruit loops.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.com‘GB News wouldn’t touch him’: Milo Yiannopoulos will struggle to fit in with UK right wing‘Alt-right’ agitator and former Trump backer deported from US is said also to be too extreme for Reform 000
Reposted by Mary K Marshall Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social · 30/08/2026New Humanifesto. Drones and the road of death in Ukraine, Colombia earthquake, floods in Nepal. Humanitarians under attack. Plus Odyssey, Hansard and culture change. And much more. 👇 www.linkedin.com/pulse/humani...linkedin.comHUMANIFESTO – EDITION 35Istanbul, 28 August 2026 I am not a fan of the proliferation of “International Day of x”. But the one that really matters is World Humanitarian Day. 044
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 22/08/2026🤔For some "privilege" is having a normal working class childhood. The one where mum takes you to visit grandma who has baked a chocolate cake just because you are visiting and you are allowed to eat two pieces 😋 😥Not everyone has a "normal" childhood. 000
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 17/08/2026🤔A new concept "identitarian" politics placing identity-based narratives above truth "those who value identity-based theories derived from postmodern thought which favour politically and emotionally resonant narratives over objective truth!" Via open.substack.com/pub/helenplu...open.substack.comJason Arday: A Story Too Good to QuestionCambridge, academic standards and the danger of placing identity-based narratives above truth 000
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Oh the irony! Of having to open a package containing a thing to open it! Small paper knife in the shape of a mini sword 🙄 From york armoury yorkarmoury.com/knives/lette... 000
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026🤔now I know why we dunk biscuits in tea and coffee... TEETH! If you don't have them or you are having major dental work it's the only way you can eat biscuits 😋 000
Reposted by Mary K Marshall The Left Bible @theleftbible.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Why aren't Britain's colonial history and the Balfour Declaration taught in schools? William Dalrymple joins Zack Polanski to explain thedailybritain.co.uk/polanski-dal...thedailybritain.co.ukWhy aren't Britain's colonial history and the Balfour Declaration taught in schools? William Dalrymple joins Zack Polanski to explainHistorian William Dalrymple joins Zack Polanski on Bold Politics to explain how one corporation conquered India, how Britain created the conditions for the Nakba - and why none of it is on the school ... 917271
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Over on Twitter (x) How can a nation traumatised it's youth like that? This is going to be a running sore which won't heal properly & will determine 🇮🇱 behaviour for at least a century. We say "never forget" about the losses from the 1st & 2nd WW's. How is 🇮🇱 going to deal with such 😫 000
Reposted by Mary K Marshall William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Incredibly powerful first hand account of Israeli prisons & the abuse of prisoners by my fearless friend, Noa Avishag Schnall www.newstatesman.com/world/middle...newstatesman.comUnder siege on the Gaza flotillaAn account of Israel's capture and abuse of hundreds onboard a human rights mission to Gaza 08651
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Argh! 😫 Teeth! In the process of having implants. Suffering temporary bridges from hell digging into, rubbing and harassing my gums like a group of antisocial teens! 000
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I fill in @yougov.co.uk surveys. Today I had a conversation with an AI which was right up my street 🙂 Made me think 🤔 deference whether to cultural, political or religious leader actually creeps me out! Respect ✅ politiness ✅ active listing ✅ kowtowing not so much. Worship? DEFINITELY NOT! 000
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Just a bit of @bylinetimes.bsky.social guerilla zine repositioning in my local Waitrose. 🙂They don't seem to notice for 1 to 2 weeks 4559
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Am expecting a tradie .. the field at the end is being prepped for housing so of course a different tradie parks outside my home🙄 and walks to the site.... 000
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 11/07/2026A bit of tidying at Hitchin Friends (Quaker) Meeting House. A dead pigeon 😢 had to be dealt with. 1/2🧵 100
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 11/07/2026If you came from another planet you would probably feel right at home in #Hitchin today! Comicon & Iron maiden fans abound. I was only there because someone I knew had written a book 🙂 Which I have a personalised signed copy of🙂 000
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 10/07/2026😟 I wonder what Jesus Lane Meeting thinks & feels... 000
Reposted by Mary K Marshall The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 08/07/2026Clacton is about to be dominated by Count Binface, and Farage’s great bombshell has rather magnificently exploded in his own face. This is going to be a very, very interesting few weeks, and I am going to be absolutely insufferable about it.bearlypolitics.co.ukThe Clacton By-Election Has Entered Peak BinfaceWith no major parties standing, a standards investigation paused, and Count Binface waiting in Clacton, Farage’s grand reckoning is quickly something much funnier and much dodgier. 4145387
Reposted by Mary K Marshall FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 08/07/2026"Quakers, one of the 1st abolitionists, renew their call for resistance as America turns 250." 👏Led by @afsc-org.bsky.social, a new Proclamation of Resistance calls out + condemns the Trump admin's mass deportation policies and surging U.S. militarism around the globe. ⬇️buff.lyQuakers, one of the 1st abolitionists, renew their call for resistance as America turns 250Members of the religious group have been outspoken about the Trump administration's anti-immigration tactics. 0125
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 08/07/2026🤣sounds like the kind of game I would have tried IF I had been a rich kid... We did play space hopper football..... 010
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I have written a bit of stuff for my local Quaker Meetings tiny quarterly zine. 🤔 Probably time to put them all together on my Substack. They are a bit scattered all over the place. I'm not very prolific so shouldn't take long... 010
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Went to @waterstones.bsky.social to pick up a book I ordered and Snoopy came home too😉 I was a huge peanuts fan in my teens... Had loads of stickers on my bedroom door. 🙁No plushies. Another addition to my home office 💗 000
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Sometimes I worry about odd things. One of these taking up space lurking in my head has been "check your privilege". I wasn't sure what it was all about.... 💡Then I realised, yes, I do, all the time because of qfp.quaker.org.uk/chapter/1/qfp.quaker.org.ukAdvices and queries | Quaker faith & practice 000
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 21/06/2026My feet 👣ache 😢 The only time they don't is when I'm asleep or I take weight completely off them. I don't have any idea why. Different shoes don't help, physio doesn't help, doctors clueless 😢 000
Reposted by Mary K Marshall Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 19/06/2026📌 ICYMI — ‘Burnham is a Giant Step Backwards to a Better Sort of British Politics’ — Peter Oborne Makerfield’s new MP will face deep challenges if he makes it to Downing Street – but he can succeed where others haven't been able…bylinetimes.com‘Burnham is a Giant Step Backwards to a Better Sort of British Politics’Makerfield’s new MP will face deep challenges if he makes it to Downing Street – but he can succeed where others haven't been able… 23717
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Since a cataract op seeing out of my left eye has been like trying to look out of a dirty window. After 9 months on the waiting list I had my hospital appointment today. I was seen by an amazing respectful consultant who hadn't been at my local hospital long. SHE was proudly Nigerian & wonderful🙂 110
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 06/05/2026This is a more likely explanation for why our Meeting House insurers think peaceful activist planning meetings are too risky! 🤔May not be about the police raid on Westminster meeting after all... 000
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 17/04/2026A work colleague did this.... I WAS having a bit of a trying time and he was trying to be amusing! One certainly wasn't! It's good though 🤔 decided to keep it.... I think perhaps I ow him a coffee🙂 020
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Today the 2nd and fourth items arrived 🙂. All for my OH, he gets through walking/working boots VERY quickly. You can't enjoy a good retirement gardening unless you have happy dry feet 🙂 🤔Now, to kidnap the old boots and take them to be resoled 🤫 000
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 15/04/2026😯even more podcasts on the way then 🙂 www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...theguardian.comBBC to cut up to 2,000 jobs in biggest downsize in 15 yearsAnnouncement comes before Matt Brittin replaces Tim Davie as director general next month 000
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Banning crypto and foreign donations is probably all you really need to do! because most of these organisations use 🇬🇧£ only. I don't be stupid and leave us open to far left or far right authoritarian rule without means to protest! www.theguardian.com/society/2026...theguardian.comQuakers among charities warning new regulator powers could stifle advocacyExclusive: Civil society groups sign letter urging ministers to consult on Charity Commission measures meant to tackle extremism 000
Reposted by Mary K Marshall Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 14/04/2026🔴The British Tax Havens Shielding Big Oil’s Iran War Windfall As Shell and BP prepare to pocket billions from Trump’s war in Iran, a Byline Times investigation reveals how British jurisdictions are quietly doing the work of protecting them bylinetimes.com/2026/04/14/t...bylinetimes.comThe British Tax Havens Shielding Big Oil’s Iran War WindfallAs Shell and BP prepare to pocket billions from Trump's war in Iran, a Byline Times investigation reveals how British jurisdictions are quietly doing the work of protecting them 17147
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Of the four items I recently ordered online, the fish food pellets for the goldfish in the pond at our Quaker MH from @PetsatHome is going to arrive 1st🙂. 🤔 Matthew 20:16 “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”. I'm finding that just a tad weird! 000
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Amazingly relieved it's not dementia just a common cold virus + age! 😢When you are older you are just a bundle of symptoms! Working out which set belong to which affliction is HARD. I don't envy doctors Now THIS is where AI SHOULD be helping us! Better diagnosis when you have > 1 health issue! 000
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 12/04/2026If you are over 60 you start worrying about dementia particularly Alzheimer's... While helping someone we chatted about RSV & how it was bad if toddlers & babies caught it. This prompted me to look it up & NHS says, sweating & ..... "confusion in older adults"😯. EXACTLY the symptoms of her cold! 000
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 12/04/2026I'm helping someone who helped a neighbour of mine who had motor neurone disease. Last year she suffered a stroke. I took her to do shopping etc. Now housebound, due to viruses & loss of balance. BOY is she anxious! 😫 AND this is causing her to be forgetful! Now I 😫🧵 100
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Now there are so many online meetings at work & community etc. Then those podcasts where you can ask your question and my lighting is appalling. It doesn't help that the window is to my right. I've ordered this online. 🙏 It does the job 🤞 000
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 06/04/2026In Hitchin Quaker Meeting house Peace Garden/burial ground there may be a few primroses .... 😢my photo doesn't do it justice. People are even going out of their way to take a look. All we do is stop the cowparsley & dandelion invasion. These spread themselves naturally. 000
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 05/04/2026A friend of one of our band recorded us ringing before the service at St. Mary's in Hitchin 🙂 010
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 04/04/2026It's Easter, it feels as if the whole world is mentally & spiritually searching for a modern day Jesus to come and save them. All we are allowed by social media to see are the charlatans, chancers, washed up actors, liars, cheats & dirty money grabbers! Perhaps it was ever so.... 000
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Took Meetings Quakers for Peace banner to the Churches Together in Hitchin ecumenical Good Friday service in St Mary's this morning. It's usually in the Market Square but rain was forecast. . 000
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 01/04/2026This frames the recent police action at Westminster Meeting House in a whole new way! As well as the arresting of people carrying cardboard signs with certain words written on them. Is our government quietly doing the bidding of the mighty USA! www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...theguardian.com‘Raise our heads and resist’: how Europe’s civil society is fighting back against the far rightRightwing parties are using parliamentary queries, legal traps and policing to target NGOs and stifle dissent 000
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Today I was 1 of eight ringers for a wedding 🙂♥️ ringing for weddings. The ringing platform at the back of St. Marty's #Hitchin has a view of most of the church. There are always lovely flowers too. Then I took a neighbour's Rollator Walker to the repair Cafe. So that's fixed. 👍 030
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 20/03/2026All China has to do to rule the world is to sit tight and mind it's own business until everyone else has exhausted their treasure fighting wars. Classic! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...theguardian.comChina has been preparing for a global energy crisis for years. It is paying off nowAs other Asian economies race to conserve energy, China has huge reserves of oil and gas as well as alternative energy sources like wind and solar 000
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Weird twist on WWII nostalgia.... British Influence reduced to a single radio station.... 000
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Are GB News about to run out of money? I've seen they have started to get you to pay to read their SM content now. 🤔 I wonder if this war is hurting their owner in the wallet? 010
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 16/03/2026🙄 I've been helping someone who is having trouble getting about. The trouble is they talk incessantly😫 It drives me slightly round the bend & seriously trys my patience 😩 Now I need to calm down and get some peace & quiet. Luckily, my OH is a man of few words who makes tea☕♥️ 000
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Palestine Ecumenical Accompaniers are being recruited now: quaker.org.uk/action/pales...quaker.org.ukEAPPI get involvedWe believe that everyone can take action to help end the occupation and bring about a just peace for both Palestinians and Israelis. We need a movement of people who can take action for peace. Will yo... 011
Mary K Marshall @marykm.bsky.social · 25/02/2026I was finding this book harder to read than most because of the font/font size used to print it. So I compared it with an old 60 year old book and consulted my OH. YES it IS more difficult to read! Aesthetics are sometimes taken too far! 000
