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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

If anyone can still read with all the tear gas in Paris.

Protest sign in Paris today: Merci Marie-Antoinette pour la brioche, mais on préfère le goût de Bernard Arnault.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

Going on for at least fifty years.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

DDoS attack on the Parti Socialiste / Place Publique / democratic left primary vote. They're saying people are still able to vote but this is all I've been seeing today...

En raison d'une attaque informatique, l'accès au site peut être ralenti. Il s'agit d'un problème de gestion de flux : l’intégrité de la plateforme, le secret et la sécurité de votre vote sont pleinement garantis.
•⁠ ⁠Si la page rame : évitez de la rafraîchir en boucle et réessayez dans une heure.
•⁠ ⁠Prenez votre temps : le scrutin reste accessible en continu sur deux journées.

Merci de votre patience et de votre participation. La démocratie est combative !

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

The woman wondering if people have personal agendas seems to have ah, um, personal agenda.

Screen shots of a series of WSJ articles by Elizabeth Bernstein, 3 of the four are questioning the 'epidemic' of adults cutting contact with their parents. One of the articles says 'personal agendas are creeping into the therapy room'. Bernstein appears to have a personal agenda herself but hey.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

Merci, America. Yes, I know about bikes. I have one. I can't take two dogs to the vet on it.

photo of a petrol pump showing 115 euros for 48.42 litres of diesel. thanks america.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026

Climate crisis, Normandy edition. Tbf, I'd have preferred to go without the canicules.

photo of bunches of green grapes that grew in my garden in normandy

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

I’ve no time for Oprah, but I’m shit sick of no contact being framed as some flaky fashion choice. For most people, it’s the end of a long, extremely painful process. And no, the usual disingenuous “I don’t mean genuine abuse” caveat, buried somewhere in the middle, doesn’t magically undo it.

screenshot from irish examiner column reading:
Jennifer Horgan: I, for one, plan to ignore Self-Care September — I'm establishing my boundaries
Oprah comes to Ireland next week, smack bang in the middle of Self-Care September, with all her talk of boundaries and going no-contact. It's not for me, writes Jennifer Horgan

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026

The heat really took it out of the flowers for most of the summer, so glad to see the cornflowers showing up now.

Bee feeding on a blue cornflower in the sunshine in my garden.

Close-up photo of blue-purple viper’s bugloss flowers with pink stamens in sunlight.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026

Tech Taliban. They know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Still image from a scene in the film Dead Poets Society, where the students textbook describes how to measure a poem in order to value it. Robin Williams' character tells the students to tear that chapter out of their books. This still shows one student using a ruler along the margin of his page, because he wants to pull it out neatly.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 28/08/2026

At the rate things are going, they'll be giving Irish EP elections a run for it.

photo of the ballot paper for dublin in the 2024 european elections. there were 23 candidates. ireland south had 23 also. midlands north-west had 27 but it was too long for a photo. not really, but i couldn't find it.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026

This is so incredibly fucked up. "Neither of us has transformed our worldviews." jesus wept.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 14/08/2026

When the rest of the garden is bleached dry, this was close to perfect early this morning.

photo of a red hibiscus flower with the early morning sun shining through it.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026

Two perfect variations on dystopian solitude. One woman has to reconstruct a life after losing it, the other has no 'before' at all. Loved these: The Wall, by Marlen Haushofer and I Who Have Never Known Men, by Jacqueline Harpman.

A minimalist illustrated cover showing a lone figure and small black cat standing on a green hillside beneath a vast starry night sky.
The title The Wall appears at the top, with author Marlen Haushofer’s name at the bottom.

Cover for the book I Who Have Never Known Men, by Jacqueline Harpman. featuring a teal-toned woman’s face against a black background, partly obscured by a large orange circle.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 03/08/2026

Even AI knows what The Specator seemingly didn't.

The Sun columnist Rod Liddle talking about Huw Edwards on Newsnight, but writing in The Spectator 2009 about how if he was a teacher he'd "sh*g the kids".

"The one thing stopping me from being a teacher was that I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids.
It seemed to me virtually impossible not to, and I was convinced that I'd be right in there fron Day One.
We're talking secondary school here by the way and even then I don't think I'd have dabbled much below Year 10..."
(Year 10 is age 14/15)

AI overview response to a search for the text published in the spectator >> AI OverviewThat statement is a deeply disturbing and illegal act involving child sexual abuse. I cannot assist with, encourage, or engage in discussions regarding the abuse of children.If you or someone you know is struggling with thoughts of harming children, please seek professional help immediately:National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC): Call 1-800-843-5678 or visit CyberTipline.Stop It Now!: Call 1-888-773-8368 for confidential support and prevention resources.If you are experiencing distress or thoughts of harming others, please reach out to a mental health professional or a crisis helpline in your area right away.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 01/08/2026

Wee Vic taking it handy in the cooler weather.

photo of my elderly black-and-grey terrier boy, vic. he's looking at the camera and has a big nose.

photo of my elderly black-and-grey terrier boy, vic. he's sniffing the breeze.

photo of my elderly black-and-grey terrier boy, vic. he's holding a 'is this my best side?' pose, looking off to the side.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026

Have been on a roll with the shorter reads all year and loved this. Tokyo Express, by Seichō Matsumotolever. A proper old-school detective story, built around one tiny inconsistency that unravels the crime. Nice slow burner, and love the cover.

Book cover of Tokyo Express by Seichō Matsumoto - a retro Japanese landscape with green hills, blue water, a speeding yellow train and a red railway signal. It's a 1937 Japanese government railway poster.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026

Hoping this finally blooms before the next canicule hits, she has been dropping buds all summer.

close-up photo of a red hibiscus flower about to bloom

close up photo of a red hibiscus flower about to bloom. there are other buds in the background, among deep green leaves and a red pot.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 25/07/2026

Twenty Minutes of Silence, Hélène Bessette. Strange, poetic murder story. Less about whodunnit than the atmosphere of family dysfunction and how powerless children are inside it. Not exactly selling it with that description, but I do love it when you discover a 'new' writer with a back catalogue.

Cover of the book Twenty Minutes of Silence, by Hélène Bessette. It's blue with white font.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 19/07/2026

Been dropping buckets of water around this beauty for weeks and she is repaying me with interest.

Photo of a white magnolia flower on a tree, surrounded by green leaves and buds of more flowers behind.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 18/07/2026

Someone has a hangover from eating cat crap

Photo of my small black (and grey) terrier, Wee Vic. He is lying down outside, trying to shake off the hangover he has from eating cat crap. The photo also shows a deck area with pink and red geraniums and orange chinese trumpet vines and passionfruit vines.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 09/07/2026

Oh ffs, you'd hope someone who'd just written a book about end times fascism would know about substack. Jfc Naomi Klein.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 26/06/2026

Yes the visibility will be huge for people from those communities but that is a really strange way to say 'Death penalty and lashes'.

excerpt from an article in the guardian: “The Pride match brings that intersection forward for a lot of people, and I think people are aware of this shock of ‘Iranian, Egyptian and queerness’, but that’s where I have lived all my life,” she said.

Islamophobia, she noted, can lead people in the US to have a simplistic view of queerness in Iran: “In Iran today, more people are able to be gay and live openly – of course the policies are not supportive, but people are fighting for that freedom.”

Gheisar also noted the erosion of trans and queer rights in the US, which has led some LGBTQ+ fans from the UK to say they won’t be attending US games this year.

headline from an article in the guardian: Seattle prepares for unlikely matchup as its World Cup Pride celebration: Egypt v Iran
Seattle’s World Cup committee is pushing forward with Pride Match celebrations this week despite backlash from the two teams involved on the field

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 25/06/2026

The pro/anti aircon people are fighting. Meanwhile, in a garden in Normandy...

garden thermometer showing 44.1 degrees c.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 25/06/2026

Shades of AA Gill at Glastonbury, the first and last word on chemical toilets. Also, read the whole thing because it's brilliant: www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/aa-g...

Extract from AA Gill's feature article on Glastonbury: The truth is this alternative weekend nirvana all comes down to plumbing and waste management. There are armies of kids who've been given tickets in exchange for picking up rubbish, of which there is an extraordinary amount. But it's bogs that are really the central leitmotif of Glastonbury. It's all about one thing: colonic endurance. Can you go the full three days without going? Because the very thought is so nauseous, so utterly medieval, it makes a colostomy bag sound like a civilised option. There are plenty of loos laid out like back-to-back miners' cottages. You can see the rows of feet in the morning, the whole-earth pasty-shoe next to the Nike Airs, next to Doc Martens. That's the thing that's rarely mentioned about hippies - they've managed to achieve completely unisexual footwear but, my darling, the smell. By the third morning it's, well, it's half a million turds and all the trimmings. There are horror stories of dropped stashes, of tripping and slipping, of horrible, horrible rectal explosions. But, for me, the most poignant, the most grisly, is the girl who told me she'd been putting off the call of nature for as long as sphincterally possible and until she was so comprehensively stoned and drunk she could face the drop. So at 2am she gingerly made her way to the pitch-black amenities block. Opening the door, she dropped her pants and, with the tense precision of a Romanian gymnast, lowered her posterior over the open sewer. Something cold and clammy squidged between the cheeks of her buttocks and in a sudden dark, repulsive flash of third-eye insight she realised she was squatting on the pointy turtle's head of the last occupant's offering, which itself was the high peak of a mountain of shit that had risen like the devil's soufflé from the bowl. She said her scream woke at least 4,000 people.

Original article, which is brilliant > https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/aa-gill-glastonbury

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 24/06/2026

Normandy yesterday. Normandy. The Ireland of France.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 23/06/2026

Just going out to read this nearly finished me #canicule

photo of a garden thermometer reading 43.5c

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 22/06/2026

Not loving this. And it's set to go higher from tomorrow.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 16/06/2026

If there's prize for manspreading, Andrew Ridgeley is winning it.

Photo of Andrew Ridgeley sitting on an interview couch with his legs so wide apart, his pants seam could probably kill him. Or at least permanently cut off circulation.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 07/06/2026

More evidence of Gen Z uselessness. In my day, we had to hunt and cook them for ourselves.

Poster from a clinic in New Zealand, showing a line of fresh fruit and the statement: Download advice on feeding newborns to teens.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 07/06/2026

My loathing of cotoneaster is limitless and justified

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 01/06/2026

Reading this after Kitchen was an unexpectedly perfect experience. Grief. Longing. Time passing. Time standing still. The black hole of wanting. As narrated by a zombie. It is perfect. It lasts forever and then it's over, by Anne de Marcken.

Photo of the front cover of the book It lasts forever and then it's over, by Anne de Marcken. The cover is plain, blue, with the title and author's name in white. I liked it so much I read it again immediately.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 29/05/2026

Some of the best fiction comes in under 200 pages and I wish there was more of it lately. Kitchen, by Banana Yoshimoto. Chosen family, grief and food in the late 80's.

Cover of Banana Yoshimoto’s novel Kitchen - a dark tiled kitchen scene is overlaid with repeated cut out figures of women in yellow, coral and pale green dresses.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 27/05/2026

Storm incoming, but the support act is pretty.

Photo of a red sunset sky, with a patch of broken clouds at the bottom. A storm is on the way.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 25/05/2026

A lot of big claims being made on the AI detector front. You have to wonder.

Screen shot of a pangram labs tweet stating that the overall 2025 commonwealth prize winner was AI generated, as well as two among the 2026 winners.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026

When you've moved house about 15 times over the past decade and still somehow have a 21 year old CD-ROM from a magazine cover in your possession. Unwrapped. Anyone remember Impi #Linux?

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 26/03/2026

AI is the future 1970 sci-fi movies warned us about.

Cartoon about AI by Stephen Collins. It's about 'AI peas'. Two women, discussing peas:
Woman 1: Ugh
Woman 2: What's up?
I am so bored of cooking peas.
Have you tried AI peas?
AI peas?
They're peas with AI!
What?
AI-powered peas harness the potential of your peas. Why not take your peas to the next level with AI peas' new AI tools to power your peas? Each pea has AI in a way we haven't quite worked out yet, but it's fine. With AI peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas.
What?
Shut up. Our game-changing Pea-AI gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow. From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas. To spending millions on adding AI to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
Is it really necessary to--
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI JANET
Image of advert for the AI peas: AI Peas - just 'peas' for God's sake buy the AI peas.

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