Reposted by WithywindleAssociation for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 17/06/2025Brown burn water dropping Between the grey stones, The lapse and the murmur, The bright overtones Of cuckoo and curlew… —Dorothy Margaret Paulin (1904–1982) from Springtime by Loch Ken, & other poems (J.H. Maxwell Ltd., 1963) #poem #poetry www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/gallowa... 065
Reposted by WithywindleThe Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 11/06/2025A groundbreaking documentary on ME/CFS is now available to international audiences German investigative documentary on ME/CFS, Chronically Ill – Chronically Ignored, is now available for international audiences online. www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...thecanary.coA groundbreaking documentary on ME/CFS is now available to international audiencesGerman investigative documentary on ME/CFS, Chronically Ill – Chronically Ignored, is now available for international audiences online. 05733
Reposted by WithywindleThe Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 09/06/2025A young disabled person just shamed Treasury secretary Darren Jones over DWP PIP cuts Gigi, a resident of Treasury secretary Darren Jones's Bristol constituency, just took him to task over calling DWP PIP 'pocket money' www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...thecanary.coA young disabled person just shamed Treasury secretary Darren Jones over DWP PIP cutsA young, disabled resident of Treasury secretary Darren Jones's Bristol constituency just took him to task over calling DWP PIP 'pocket money' 06931
Reposted by WithywindleDutchscientist (the real one) @dutchscientist.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Publish more of this transphobic garbage from this bigoted "journalist" and keep on wondering why you have to keep begging for money on every webpage. 0241
Reposted by WithywindleDr. Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran @csmaccath.com · 31/05/2025Free to download from the publisher until June 13th. Grab it while you can, #AcademicSky!cambridge.orgNatural and Supernatural in Early Medieval EnglandCambridge Core - European Studies - Natural and Supernatural in Early Medieval England 33416
Reposted by WithywindleDr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵 First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle. 33884431885
Reposted by WithywindleEuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 26/05/2025BlackRock’s corporate creep just hit a new low. They’re suing UnitedHealth in the US for giving “too much care” to patients after the CEO’s murder—because it hurt their profits. Thread 413494
Reposted by WithywindleStop Funding Heat @stopfundingheat.bsky.social · 24/05/2025This week it was announced that the UK's Daily Telegraph - which is notorious for publishing climate science denial & climate misinformation - will be sold to Redbird Capital, a company which has invested millions in fossil fuels... www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m... /1theguardian.comConsortium led by RedBird Capital agrees to buy Telegraph for £500mDeal with US private equity company will end two years of uncertainty over future of titles 55343
Reposted by WithywindleLorna @florilegia.bsky.social · 24/05/2025I’ve just finished @goingmedieval.bsky.social’s excellent The Once and Future Sex, and I’m here to recommend it to you all: it’s engaging, interesting, and the final chapter is a call to recognise and challenge the patriarchal structures around us. This passage particularly resonated with me: 39217
Reposted by WithywindleMark Pickens @airshipwriter.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Trying to make it illegal to stop fracking, and therefore our environment will continue to degrade, oh and don’t forget the water crisis that fracking causes. Oppose this bill. Sign and share resist.bot/petitions/PT...resist.botVote NO on H.R. 26Text SIGN PTBXLE to 50409 to send this to your officials. 012
Reposted by WithywindleClive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 19/05/20251/2 Cuts to support for disabled and long-term sick people would be devastating and are absolutely wrong on their own terms. But their effect is more pernicious than that, as I explain in this excerpt from a speech I gave to an anti-disability benefits cuts demo in Norwich recently. 312444
Reposted by WithywindleThe Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 15/05/2025BREAKING: new DWP figures show PIP fraud is still virtually zero Liz Kendall thinks people are 'taking the mickey' out of the DWP - but once again, her own figures on PIP show this is a lie. @rachelcdailey.bsky.social has the story www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...thecanary.coBREAKING: new DWP figures show PIP fraud is still virtually zeroLiz Kendall thinks people are 'taking the mickey' out of the DWP - but once again, her own figures on PIP show this is a lie 713699
Reposted by WithywindleThe Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Labour MP raises the epidemic of male suicide. Here's how Finland halved its rate. 75% of UK people who die by suicide are men. But in Finland, the country halved its suicide rate through a national strategy www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...thecanary.coLabour MP raises the epidemic of male suicide. Here's how Finland halved its rate.75% of UK people who die by suicide are men. But in Finland, the country halved its suicide rate through a national strategy 0157
Reposted by Withywindlemonaco @blandsoft.net · 14/05/2025pretty cheeky to try to conflate the Labour Party with the labour movement, which hasn't been meaningfully represented by the party in a long, long time 0142
Withywindle @withywindle.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Their obsession with this tactic fascinates me. I'm in a left-leaning constituency and in 2019 I got an "Only Labour can stop the SNP" leaflet through the door, when a week earlier I'd got the SNP leaflet that - unlike Labour's - promised an opposition to austerity. Why would I want to stop that? 130
Reposted by WithywindleBabs 🩵🐝⌛️🦋🔻 @babs05.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Labour Right sabotaged every general election since Miliband. They didn't want to be in government. That's partly why we had Tories for 14 years. When Cameron won again in 2015, he was really surprised. He quit soon after the Brexit vote. 0192
Reposted by WithywindleOwen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 13/05/2025A few years ago, Keir Starmer suggested Jeremy Corbyn wasn't pro-immigration enough. Now Starmer sounds like Enoch Powell. The most dishonest frontline politician in UK democratic history 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/starmers-e...owenjones.newsStarmer's Enoch Powell impression shows he's the most dishonest politician in our historyCompare to what Keir Starmer was saying just a few years ago 521004272
Reposted by WithywindleBabs 🩵🐝⌛️🦋🔻 @babs05.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Whoa! Starmer has lost the centrists! Ian Dunt has turned on Starmer! 😮 We need an official investigation. Everything, money, influence, media. How did Mr People's Vote become no rejoin? How did Mr Socialist I Support Corbyn become Mr Fascist I Will Compete With Tories for Reform voters? 341
Reposted by WithywindleRose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Finally got around to writing to my mp 33734105
Reposted by WithywindleStop Propaganda/Hype News - Redress the Balance @stoppropagandahype.bsky.social · 09/05/2025In the early 80s the SDP Liberal Alliance was at 50% in the polls. But the media didn’t spend day after day saying Roy Jenkins or David Steel were certain to walk into no.10. That’s the difference now. Propaganda on an industrial scale. Sign the petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...petition.parliament.ukPetition: Ensure plurality of political coverage across UK broadcast media at all timesWe want to ensure that a plurality of views from all political parties in Westminster are represented and the nations parliaments are heard all year round, not just election times. The rules for cover... 36741
Reposted by WithywindleDr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Are you a scientist or other relevant academically qualified expert? Please join other experts & sign this letter confirming the fact that sex is not binary, to the UK Minister for Women & Equalities ▪️Please repost so everyone is aware & share with any expert you know:docs.google.comBiology is not binary: a letter from biologists, doctors, and other experts to Bridget Phillipson, Minister for Women and Equalities 24721
Reposted by WithywindleAmy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Oh! And another neat tool I love to share is Kiln Share. If you don't have your own kiln you can locate individuals in your area who rent them outkilnshare.comKiln Share – Kiln Rental Near Me 2499
Reposted by WithywindleOwen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Keir Starmer is primarily known for two things - kicking pensioners and disabled people. Absent of any vision for the country, he's paving the way for Nigel Farage to end up in No. 10. New post: www.owenjones.news/p/labour-hea... 70655154
Reposted by WithywindleBritish Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 02/05/2025David and Robin are joined by the very insightful and entertaining @justinleeanderson.com to discuss his wealth of experience of the publishing industry, providing great insight on various topics, in particular treatments of Politics and Religion in SFF longstoryshortbfs.podbean.com/e/long-story...longstoryshortbfs.podbean.comLong Story Short Ep-3: Politics & Religion in SFF with Justin Lee Anderson | Long Story Short: The Official Podcast of The British Fantasy SocietyDavid and Robin are joined by the very insightful and entertaining Justin Lee Anderson - author of the Eidyn Saga - to discuss his wealth of experience of the publishing industry, providing great insi... 0125
Reposted by WithywindleKaty Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 22/04/2025This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀 152126445251
Reposted by WithywindleRhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 21/04/2025There are loads of great items from genre creators to bid on. And the auction is organised by the wonderful @laurenbeukes.com and @ngjeannette.bsky.social. Please get bidding! www.32auctions.com/genrefortran...32auctions.comGenre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and SASilent auction 'Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and SA' hosted online at 32auctions. 120478
Reposted by WithywindleUngagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 20/04/2025"Local" Facebook Pages are not always as local as they pretend... some are set up by actors with goals further afield- goals that need angry locals all over Scotland and beyond. Eilidh McIntosh investigates one such page in Clackmannanshire... leftungagged.org/2025/04/19/c...leftungagged.orgA Transparent Attempt to Undermine Public TrustEilidh McIntosh - I do this sort of thing in my spare time, but it’s usually far-right botnets originating in Russia or the United States. 21611
Reposted by WithywindleFrances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025“Disabled women are seen as statistics and stereotypes – reduced entirely to our disabilities, or robbed of the dignity of being believed we have one.” I wrote about Britain’s growing cohort of disabled women and why we need to change the narrative. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe face of British disability is increasingly young and female. It's time to hear from them | Frances RyanMy book about disabled women grew in relevance as I wrote it, exposing the heartlessness of proposed harsh benefit cuts, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan 09929
Reposted by WithywindleSane Lunatic @sanelunatic.bsky.social · 17/04/2025"Let other secret societies take the skilled, the hopeful, the self-confident. He'd take the whining resentful ones, the ones with a bellyful of spite and bile, the ones in which venom and vindictiveness were dammed up behind thin walls of ineptitude and paranoia." - Terry Pratchett: "Guards Guards" 162
Reposted by WithywindleThe Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 17/04/2025The DWP PIP survey on how people spend their money is being sent out. Here's what's in it. For once the rumours are actually true: the DWP survey on how people spend their PIP is arriving in the post. In short: tell them to Fuck Off. www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...thecanary.coThe DWP PIP survey on how people spend their money is being sent out. Here's what's in it.For once the rumours are actually true: the DWP survey on how people spend their PIP is arriving in the post. In short: tell them to F Off. 83830
Reposted by WithywindleKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Stop making those little AI image generator memes of yourself as a Barbie or a Ghibli character you are enriching evil companies and destroying the planet and this is like one of the easiest things you can just not do 2143051110
Reposted by WithywindleMatt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 15/04/2025Coming this June... Inspired by British 1970s TV horror, Sapphire & Steel, A Ghost Story for Christmas, and creepy Doctor Who stories of the era. The Residents of James Hotel is my latest spine-tingling novelette. 🌈🖤🩶🤍💜 demi rep 🌈📚💙📚👀📢📚😱🩸📚 0116
Reposted by WithywindleLong Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 15/04/2025📚Suzanne O'Sullivan in her new book 'The Age of Diagnosis' has claimed that Long Covid is psychosomatic There has been ALOT of media attention on this 👉Our contribution on the tropes, techniques & tricks used... www.longcovidadvoc.com/post/the-suz...longcovidadvoc.comThe Suzanne O'Sullivan Show:The Age of Celebrity: Sickeness, Health and Why Doctors Have Gone Too FarThey will tell you that it’s progressive, groundbreaking, science pioneering into unventured territory... 42910
Reposted by WithywindleThe Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 15/04/2025The DWP is facing a 'Disability Rebellion' - and it's starting online Disability Rebellion is a brand new inclusive online group gearing up to take on Labour's brutal disability benefit cuts www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...thecanary.coThe DWP is facing a 'Disability Rebellion' - and its starting onlineDisability Rebellion is a brand new inclusive online group gearing up to take on Labour's brutal disability DWP benefit cuts. 35030
Reposted by WithywindleEd Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 15/04/2025It's been confirmed (by their website) that they are trying to do this. So if you are a Green member please find out about your local candidates and support and ask others to support pro Trans rights candidates. 36027
Reposted by WithywindleScott Santens @scottsantens.com · 13/04/2025"There is strong evidence of a causal association between growing inequality and the rise of populist authoritarian movements... The one thing that can stop the rise of the far right is the one thing mainstream parties are currently not prepared to deliver: greater equality." TAX WEALTH. DO UBI.theguardian.comRightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George MonbiotEconomic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 1018968
Reposted by WithywindleGentle Wolf @gentlewolf81.bsky.social · 13/04/2025"The Left wanted to help vulnerable people, and we want to abuse those people." That's what I've seen from right wingers, in my lifetime. Everything else they claimed to stand for has been a lie. 241937
Reposted by WithywindleKaty Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 13/04/2025Also if the left allegedly going too far pushed you to support the right, how much further does the right have to go before they push you to the left, and why hasn't it happened yet? 171026226
Reposted by WithywindleAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 13/04/2025Al Jazeera English TikTok is nominated for Webby awards in the Social - News & Politics category. We need your help to win! Vote for us here ➡️ vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting... 114121
Reposted by WithywindleBabs 🩵🐝⌛️🦋🔻 @babs05.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Labour tried to push through #WelfareCuts bypassing consultation. So now it's going to court. Three firms of solicitors working with disabled people on possible benefit cuts legal cases www.disabilitynewsservice.com/three-firms-... via @johnpring.bsky.social on Twitter x.com/johnpringdns... 032
Reposted by WithywindleLyndsey @lyndseydoob.bsky.social · 10/04/2025UK petitione: Please sign to ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...petition.parliament.ukPetition: Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorshipAdvertisements encourage the use of products and sponsorship promotes a positive reputation & creates a social licence of trust & acceptability. In 2003 a ban on all tobacco advertising was introduced... 24226
Reposted by WithywindleCovid Action Scotland @covidactionscot.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Please sign and share this petition: campaigns.scope.org.uk/page/165719/...campaigns.scope.org.ukAdd your name 📢Cuts to disability benefits would be catastrophic 041
Reposted by WithywindleFolklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 09/04/20259th April #NationalUnicornDay The Lady and the Unicorn is a series of six tapestries, woven in Flanders, using designs created in Paris in 1500. Now on display in the Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris. Five of the tapestries are said to represent the senses–taste, hearing, sight, smell and touch. 0135
Reposted by WithywindleThe Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 09/04/2025A disabled person from Liz Kendall's constituency has launched a petition against her brutal DWP cuts Disabled people who cannot work should not have their DWP benefits cut - yet this is exactly what Labour is doing. So, PLEASE sign and share this petition. www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...thecanary.coA disabled person from Liz Kendall's constituency has launched a petition against her brutal DWP cutsDisabled people who cannot work should not have their DWP benefits cut - yet this is exactly what Labour is doing. So, sign the petition. 44628
Reposted by WithywindleBylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 08/04/2025The unkindest cut: what PIP changes mean for torture survivors Torture survivors seeking safety in the UK risk losing vital support due to government plans to restrict disability benefits By Jennie Kermode for @yorkshirebylines.co.ukyorkshirebylines.co.ukThe unkindest cut: what PIP changes mean for torture survivorsTorture survivors seeking safety in the UK risk losing vital support due to government plans to restrict disability benefits 25728