I know this is against the positive tone here but I've just seen a blackbird get snatched by a neighbour's cat. Fine by the owners presumably, who I'm sure would say they care about animals. Never understand this doublethink.
‘Reconstruction plans imposed on Palestinians with the implicit aim of destroying Palestinian life in Gaza demonstrate the reason Lemkin reserved a place for architecture in his conception of the crime of genocide.’
Eyal Weizman on the destruction of Gaza.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Glen Baxter has died. His drawings of cowboy art critics and wimples were an absurdist joy. RIP
Hi. Does your frustration stay, or do you tune in to the phonetic spelling and read comfortably after a while? I wonder if standard spelling means accents get suppressed.
Also.
Nigel Farage has called Welsh people “Foreign speakers” in a Cameo video.
I hate to break it to you Mr Farage, but if you read a history book you would realise English is more foreign in the UK than Welsh.
Big credit to the Guardian for breaking this story: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...
I meant that journalists etc also get it wrong through not taking time to check - it is part of an undermining pattern and the response when it's flagged is often dismissive or hostile. Let's leave it there. Enjoy your Sunday.
Not all, because I also complimented your images, effort and enthusiasm. You gave a baseless insult in your first response and again later so go easy with the innocent tears. It might appear pedantic to you, but what I'm raising here is something that journalists, tourists, presenters do endlessly.
I thought you were ok with those two.
Or, we're here because you couldn't say yep, it would improve my audience's experience if I spent a few moments finding out the names of the places I visit, by asking someone there. Garbage person? Thought I'd been nice about the other aspects of your work. (Sorry, but it wasn't just Cennen).
I genuinely applaud your efforts and imperfection isn't the problem here. You keep demonstrating that you think the language of the places you visit has little significance, that moments spent checking pronunciation isn't worth your time and I must be a damned cheeky fellow for challenging you.
And you are conflating perfecting a language with checking how to say a handful of placenames before posting. So not infallibility, more courtesy. Can you explain why asking someone how to pronounce a word in another language isn't the obvious, natural thing to do, rather than making something up?
No, more that you seem to think the language of the place you go to is irrelevant. I was hoping for a more open response but you have shown that you get it wrong because you can't be bothered, which is a loss for you. Also, you know nothing about me but insult is easier than accepting criticism.
The images are great as is your enthusiasm. With all the effort that goes into creating your videos it's puzzling that you don't take much care with pronouncing place names. Carreg Sennen?
Siwr wedodd Llafur byse llywodraethu Caerdydd+Llundain o fudd i 🏴? 🤔Ofnadwy: Dim parch i’r Senedd na Llyw.Cymru,a ma Eluned Morgan yn gwbod hyn / Sure Labour said that governing in Cardiff+London would benefit 🏴? 🤔 Awful: No respect for the Senedd nor Welsh Govt,& Eluned Morgan knows it 🤯🤦🏻♂️ #Senedd26
I just had to disappear into the woods. It heals my heart.
Michael Sheen backs Plaid Cymru - the only party in the running with "the best interests of Wales at heart" 🏴
The choice this election is clear: hope and ambition with Plaid Cymru, or Reform dragging Wales backwards.
🗳 Vote Plaid Cymru on 7 May
“They were careless people… - they smashed up things… then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”
Yes Mandelson. But don’t ignore what Farage et al did (and still do) to help them.
Hope you're able to keep safe.
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm."
~ Aldous Huxley
The Tow Path at Argenteuil
🎨 Claude Monet (1875)
Sleep, rave, eat snails, repeat.
Sunlight struggling with mist and low cloud; blackbirds posturing in the goat willow.
I recognise those thoughts. Haven't managed to write them so well though.
Upon Reflection My oldest's wit is a razor wielded with neutral pronouns and shock dyed hair. My son' s smile is a light, shining from kind eyes and a staggering empathy. I have juggled morals, and trauma, and hard choices in hard places To make it to them. I would do it all again. They have their own roads ahead And I cringe at the climate for their journeys I can't save them from it all I can't take their heartaches I can't make the world safe for them As I would hope to All I can do is try, fight for them, teach them to fight for themselves And Make sure the burning world stops at my front door.
#vss365 #reflection #poetry
Thinking a lot about this, these days. There is never enough time, and days go by so fast.
"In her telling, racism and xenophobia seem not themselves objectively bad things that must be combatted, but a natural outcome that occurs when too many rights are given to immigrants and asylum seekers." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Farage’s Mate Took Russian Cash: Reform’s Nathan Gill Faces Jail TODAY!"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDUm...
We wake to mornings of cold magic. Exhale dragon-breath, crunch frost-frozen leaves as we walk. The year is dying. We feel it as rush of ghosts, a shivering that foretells the blade of ice upon its neck. No wonder this is the season where folklore burns bright. – #DAKilroy, 1982 #Folklore
