#WednesdayWisdom

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Morning all.

“Women chatting on a street corner, Byker, 1974"
Photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen.

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Gone fishing

#SelfCare

Morning all.

Photographer Tony Ray-Jones.
Weymouth 1968.

#SelfCareSunday

Local Boys in Bradford, 1972, photo by Don McCullin.

Monochrome photograph featuring the upper half of a Black woman holding an open umbrella

Dorothea Lange,
Girl with an umbrella,
Louisiana,
1937
#WomensArt

A mum comforts her little boy on the bus. He is crying about something. She says, ‘It’s ok. Have a good cry.’ Man nearby: Well done. We’re so bad at letting boys just feel sad.

Morning all.

Photographer Robin Weaver. Pensioners on a day trip to Aberavon beach 1970s.

The Zooteek delicatessen menu for a ‘Wines and Pintxos’ evening featuring all vegetarian dishes.

What a beautiful evening of #BasqueCountry foods, wines and culture

Who would expect #StNeots in Cambridgeshire to be host to the only #Basque #delicatessen in the UK?

I think I’ve found a rival to match the burnt Basque cheesecake of @jayrayner1.bsky.social

Challenge set?

#MigrationIsBeautiful

Don’t vote Reform, ever.

This sounds wonderful

I would have signed up in a heartbeat as I’m on leave next week

However, there’s also a tube strike that day, meaning navigating the transport network via train and bike, which would have been doable if not needing to be in south and west London later the same day

Next time

“Hate? Nah, it’s not for us”

What a gloriously hopeful email and powerful message from Refuge

Hope

Always #hope

#HopeNotHate

#MillionActsOfHope

millionactsofhope.org

Morning all.

Belfast, Northern Ireland 1978.
Photograph by Chris Steele-Perkins.

In the 1930s, Oswald Mosley claimed to be a patriot, while his British Union of Fascists was secretly funded by the Italian government. We are just beginning to grasp how much of the far right in the UK today has been funded by Viktor Orbán and Russian oil money.
Their "patriotism" is always a con.

Morning all.

Photographer Trevor Ermel.
Carville Road,Byker, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
30th December 1974.

If evangelicals think Pope Leo is too”woke” just wait until
they hear about this fellow called Jesus.

Black and white photograph where a young girl stands with a raised fist next to a wooden trough painted with the words, “A woman’s place is in the revolution”.

#MondayMotivation

Thank you Hungary.

A series of misshaped rainbows in pale brown colours, each with a statement of self forgiveness and compassion e.g “It’s okay if you said something you didn’t mean”.

#SelfCareSunday

A fox. Without doubt.

Photo featuring the bust of a female head with eyes closed, in stone, bluish white in colour, on a square plinth against a white background

Fiona Gibson, contemporary sculptor based in Llandeilo, West Wales. Her work is based on local mythology #WomensArt

Different patterned purple patches sewn together as part of the community quilt project.

A plan showing the concrete walls of the Southbank being created in the patchwork community quilt.

A group of women and children sat at tables in the Clore Ballroom of the Royal Festival Hall creating the community quilt.

Decorated names of the community quilters written and drawn on square pieces of green cloth.

Amazing to be part of the #community quilting project hosted by @southbankcentre.bsky.social and led by textile #artist Natasha Shah

Took me over an hour and a half to sew one patch and I ran out of time to make an ornate name plate but joyful all the same

www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/com...

A duck in front of a food van that appears to be looking at itself in the reflection of the van.

“Look at yourself in the mirror and don't be afraid to notice how beautiful you are.”

~ Yoko Ono

#MotherNature in the city

#SaturdayVibes

That’s made my mind up for tonight’s dinner!

Chippy tea lads?

Manchester 1976. Photographer Iain SP Reid.

I've used m-dashes in my work for years and years. I've also liberally used metaphors and similes. And I will continue to do so. I'm not going to let AI decide what I write, any more than I would ask a drunk squirrel what to say. And that would probably provide a more interesting opinion to be fair.