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💙 Isn't she lovely? I'm surprised every day to have been featured and published by such an amazing company. We have hardbacks, email delivery, the magazine & merch!
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The world may be quite turbulent at the moment, but I think we can all take at least some solace in the fact that libraries, cafés, bookstores, bakeries, museums, and Oxford commas exist.
Image from the books of the Edinburgh craft of Master Masons & Wrights. Image shows the names of roughlayers & plasterers, Beltane dues 1583. With permission from Dr Aaron Allen.
One of the joys of taking our theherbfarm.co.uk teas to Shap Farmers' & Makers' Market is being allocated a stall in the library... a good book with my cup of tea @groomb.bsky.social
Edgar Allan Poe: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the pit and the pendulum
Poe: it's about this guy who gets caught by the spanish inquisition
King: oh, i didn't expect that!
King: eh? eh? get it?
Joe Hill: no, dad
I've been reading through The Practical Guide for Healing Developmental Trauma (using the NARM to address ACEs and Resolve Complex Trauma by Heller & Kammer — and God are some statements so apprpos to the issues we see *all day, every day (please, go VOTE)* (1/-)
It REQUIRES individuals and societies to take accountability for their impact on others, which for some can be very challenging." It never ceases to amaze me that we have continuously been willing to turn away from the suffering of others, totally detached from the idea of a "greater good." (3/-)
I've been reading through The Practical Guide for Healing Developmental Trauma (using the NARM to address ACEs and Resolve Complex Trauma by Heller & Kammer — and God are some statements so apprpos to the issues we see *all day, every day (please, go VOTE)* (1/-)
"Being trauma informed means that we acknowledge what people to do other people. It can feel horrifying and overwhelming to acknowledge this reality. It also calls out larger relational and social dynamics that are rooted in objectification, subjugation, and interpersonal violence -- (2/-)
Read in Color brings diverse books to Little Free Library book-sharing boxes. Today 51% of children’s books depict non-white characters. We believe everyone should be able to see themselves in the pages of a book. Learn more: https://lflib.org/ric-video
‘If it wasn't for the Irish, the Americans and the Jamaicans, English literature wouldn't exist anymore’
We sat down for a quick chat with Marlon James, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2026 with The Disappearers.
There exists an obligation towards every human being for the sole reason that he or she is a human being, without any other condition requiring to be fulfilled, and even without any recognition of such obligation on the part of the individual concerned — The Need for Roots, Simone Weil
Remember.
No matter where you are in life or what twisting path you're traveling down, you're never too far away from a mossy haunted cottage waiting in the forest for a new sacrifice. I mean friend.
Just a regular reminder to please support your local bookstore, café, theatre, bakery, and library.
Without us, they can't survive. Without them, neither can we.
The DSM should update the Hoarding Disorders to include billionaires who accumulate vast unspendable quantities of wealth. It’s a psychological condition in need of treatment, a decluttering of their wealth. Money backs power and absolute power corrupts. They’ve got more money than God (3 billion 🇻🇦)
The horror of a book arriving by post covered in stickers. I'm scraping them off and screeching like Mommy Dearest and her WIRE HANGERS 💢
#AShortHorrorStory#UGH#Books#HalloweenCameEarly#BooksOfBluesky
We don't need flying cars.
We need peace, warmth, a government that functions for everyone, libraries in every neighborhood, and a haunted forest encircling every town, which we can explore at our leisure.