A (quite personal) essay from me about reclaiming rewilding in Wales, out in @inkcapjournal.bsky.social today.
I was born, raised and still live in rural Wales. My ancestral farmhouse is a ruin surrounded by conifer trees. I understand the fears.
But it's the loss of nature I fear far more.
In light of the BBC claiming that asylum seekers are falsely claiming to be gay in order to gain asylum, here is an article about the difficulties and humiliations LGBT asylum seekers have experienced trying to prove their identities.
www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
However incompetent you think the Home Office are, there is always another level that they can reach.
The Chronicles of Whetherwhy by Anna James - really enjoying it so far!
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Hello.
I just found out that a death metal band has covered John Cage’s 4’33”, and now I need you lot to know that a death metal band has covered John Cage’s 4’33”.
youtu.be/voqCQSDAcn8
The emperor penguin has been declared an endangered species as climate change pushes the icon of Antarctica a step closer to extinction, the global authority on threatened wildlife has announced.
a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate
I’m at a major Christian conference with a group from church. Not a big fan of these things but trying to be open minded. Unfortunately the speaker this morning made it clear my LGBTQIA+ friends wouldn’t be welcome here, so I walked out and am now sat on the beach reading trauma theology instead!
It is a very strange feeling heading to bed and thinking that if we wake up tomorrow to find that the President of the United States hasn't committed genocide or started a nuclear war it will be something of a positive, rather than just what you would think would be normal.
Trump warns a ‘whole civilization will die tonight’ if a deal with Iran isn’t reached
Escalating war crimes to genocide?
This is insane. Anybody defending or supporting Trump right now risks being complicit in crimes against humanity.
In 1953 Iran had a functioning democracy. A free press. Seven political parties. Women in universities. Women granted voting rights in municipal councils in 1952. A secular prime minister named Mosaddegh who believed Iran's oil belonged to Iran. The US and Britain decided he had to go.
Ali Ghamsari absolutely knows that US-Israel will not hesitate to kill him and destroy the power plant.
That is the point of the action. To die for justice.
ICE has kept a disabled double amputee prisoner for over 14 months.
Rodney Taylor has been denied access to his prosthetic legs.
Forced to crawl across dirty floors to access food.
Placed in solitary.
Denied medical accommodations.
They’re killing him & he needs the community to make noise!
America not being a signatory to a number of treaties does not mean that international law does not exist. The US is conducting clear war crimes, and boasting about it. They should be treated as a pariah state. They definitely shouldn't be getting a Royal visit.
Having run out of vulnerable humans to harm, Labour turn their gaze toward animals...
Happy #TransDayofVisibility. It does feel like some don't understand what that means. They claim trans and non-binary individuals being seen mean others aren't. For the most part, most of us just want to be recognised as existing, and not face hate for doing so, and even that seems too much for some
‘A cruel penalty’: hundreds of thousands of disabled people will have their benefit cut if their conditions are deemed not to be lifelong.
My report in today’s paper: www.theguardian.com/politics/202... 1/5
"Watering down" Labour's hostile anti-immigration policies is akin to someone saying they removed most of the rat poison from a cake mix so it is fine to eat. When policies are so thoroughly toxic they need scrapping and the Home Secretary who pushed them needs firing.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
People don't tend to think "hey I will use this overly complex and expensive student route specifically so I can reach the UK to seek asylum". It tends to be "I am studying in the UK and now cannot return because someone will kill me because I studied in the UK". 8/
Tweet from JK Rowling: Today's ruling by the IOC means a welcome return to fair sport for women and girls, but I'll never forget the scandal of Paris 2024, when people who consider themselves supremely virtuous and progressive publicly cheered on men punching women.
Been thinking about it since I saw JK Rowling posted this yesterday about the IOC's new policy, calling Imane Khelif a man.
Imane Khelif was born female. She was raised as a girl. Her original birth certificate says female. She's always been a woman.
But sure. "Men punching women."
Anti-trans policies invariably harm women as well as trans and non-binary individuals. The IOC's decision plays straight into the hands of those stereotyping women. It leads to exclusion and discrimination against women who don't conform as much as trans people.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m...
As a cis woman it is hard to find the words to articulate how I feel about my safety being used as a pretence for this egregious bullying of children
We want to preserve the Christian heritage of our great nation.
Jesus: Then feed the poor, heal the sick, comfort the prisoner, welcome strangers and …
So you’re saying stir up hate against minorities.
Jesus: What? No, I’m saying…
Yeah got it, make people scared of foreigners, no need to keep on
CCA greeted new Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, on her pilgrimage to her installation. Beautiful that our Rev Sue Parfitt, one of the first women to be ordained priest in the CofE asked the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury for a blessing for CCA’s work, and gave her a blessing in turn.
the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes
This is utterly jaw-dropping.
A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils.
www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...
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Israel's recent attacks on Lebanon have killed over 1,000 people - including 118 children and 40 medical workers.
Bombing has destroyed civilian structures such as apartment buildings and bridges, and over a million people have been displaced.
Halt arms sales. End the impunity.
Just remember: the hateful claims made against Muslims today were previously made against Jews (and often still are). Sometimes word-for-word. Same hate, different targets. We all stand together against hatred, or we will be picked off one by one.
Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim.
