Velvet Selkie

If Farage isn’t forced to resign over 17 counts of financial misconduct, the UK Government is not doing its job.

We know what happens when corruption is normalised. He needs to go.

Nigel Farage failed to declare ‘£380,000 external earnings’ on time https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-standards-breaches-investigation-parliament-reform-b2904518.html

#ukpol

This is how I want my country to respond.

This is how I want us to *live* - with compassion, bravery and a global view of collaboration. Because the alternative is that we all just hand over our countries and watch our future wither and die.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18CwRuUVFE/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Duolingo, are you OK? Human legs and a wig on an owl? And… are those eyelashes… and a garter?

This looks like what happens when a bunch of dudes sitting in a boardroom decide they need to ‘include women’. 😱🤯😬

Edited still from @jedayal ’s footage of the peaceful protests in #portland Oregon.
Trump: Dept of Defense sounds weak. Call it Department of WAR!
Trump: Portland & #Chicago are WAR ZONES!!!
Trump: I’ll set troops on our citizens - cos we’re at WAR!
Trump: Block me or protest & I’ll arrest you under the Insurrection Act.

Yet again, the problem is not trans people or immigrants or women wanting bodily autonomy. It’s mostly white men. It’s billionaires. It’s sociopaths.

A representative curriculum is not optional enrichment but a matter of historical accuracy and a fair education. Without it, we are not just ignoring half of the population, we are teaching a false version of the past.
- Debbie Brazil

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/sep/24/school-history-lessons-minimise-the-role-of-women-report-finds?CMP=share_btn_url

Now they recognise it? Now, when over 30% of deaths in this #GazaGenocide have been children? Now, when there is almost nothing left to recognise?

We need a formal recognition from @ukgovofficial of Israel’s #genocide and a promise to stop arms deals with Netanyahu.

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2025/9/21/uk-pm-starmer-to-recognise-palestinian-statehood-before-unga-meeting

Why is it that I can barely remember what happened yesterday, but I can recall random facts from school like ‘Rowland Hill and the Penny Post, 1840’?

A double helping of #FeministFringe at #EdBookFest tonight, with Deborah Frances White and Laura Bates.

Both events examined the risks for women and children in navigating poorly-regulated online social spaces and highlighted the failures of both providers to make their products safe and governments to legislate for better standards.

Social media fosters extremism, making the world less safe so that a few billionaires can get richer.

We all deserve better than this.

So this song from the 80s just popped into my mind for the first time in a few decades. Still love the piano in it 💖🎶🎹

https://youtu.be/9ZfM8ZYTt0o?feature=shared

Chur, Switzerland. Manu Chao covers on a Saturday night? Don’t mind if I do

Just remembering that time I was in a cafe in The Netherlands and an old man walked in, dressed in black and with one of those black leather doctor bags from days of yore.

Muttering obscenities, which my dutch friends kindly translated for me (& they were pretty specific), he opened the bag and proceeded to hand small bars of soap and a glare to all the women, then left.

I have no explanation

Lazing in the park with ice cream vs doomscrolling?

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Zebras 🦓 are reactionaries
Antelopes are missionaries

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