Denise

Retired nursery school teacher. Feminist. Doting G’ma. Strongly believe in equality for all regardless of class, race or gender. Love live music of all kinds but folk & indie are big favourites. Art is the soul of all our existence. Keen on all creative textile work, especially knitting, embroidery & clothesmaking.

All we have to do is decide what to do with the time that is given to us...

Denise boosted:
2023-06-12

Search the phrase - “Tory party donor scandal” see what comes up, but yeah Labour are in the pocket of eco mob - you know that ‘mob’ who are trying save 6 billion people, and an entire planet. Once again the Mail proves what a piece of shit it is.
 #brexit #ToryLies #tory #tories #ToriesOut #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #Corruption #ToryCorruption #bbc #news #costofliving #rishisunak #SunakOut #EU #Sunak #boris #johnson #BorisJohnson #covid #COVID19 #CovidInquiry #boats #braverman #inflation

2023-06-11

I keep thinking about all that money us taxpayers had to shell out for Johnson’s defence fund. Everything about it stinks. His awful premiership, his constant lying & all the people who died because he couldn’t be arsed to turn up to a COBR meeting. #BorisJohnson

2023-06-11

This Is The Kit - Careful Of Your Keepers

Love this band & this new album is beautifully mellow. ❤️ #ThisIsTheKit #CarefulOfYourKeepers #NewMusic

Album cover - A figure standing on a shoreline
2023-05-29

@wiseman It was a few years ago now. I don’t think he wanted to tour anymore but I hate the idea of his gorgeous songs not being in the set & sung by him. Still love all their albums up to him leaving though. Such a great band!

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Michael :mastodon:mykd
2023-05-29

I try not to talk much here about the terrible effects that is continuing to have on the UK, but the imagery in this passage is far too powerful not to share, coming as it does directly after a listing of a succession of such blows:

"Brexit Britain is increasingly like a punch-drunk boxer. Once a world champion, age and booze and drugs have taken their toll. But he decides to enter the ring again..."

chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.c

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Andrew C.A. ElliottACAElliott@mstdn.social
2023-05-29

Hidden Symmetry. Uprooted tree stump. Winkworth Arboretum, May 2023.

The underside of the remaining stump of a tree which had been blown down. The root structure shows a degree of radial symmetry which I would not have expected.
2023-05-29

@wiseman I absolutely adore this album. The Gerard Love songs in particular are fabulous. I’m still sad about him leaving the band. 🙁

2023-05-29

Really enjoyed #StartTheWeek @BBCRadio4 just now. #NatalieHaynes #BarbaraKingsolver & #MichaelRosen all taking part from #hayfestival So good.😊

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Druid 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿druid@toot.wales
2023-05-28

A beautiful lilac coloured #Wisteria. #plant #flower #garden

A beautiful lilac coloured Wisteria.
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2023-05-25

Seems to me, Tina Turner was one of the first big name female artists (and please correct me if I am wrong) where people really knew the impacts of domestic abuse/violence against her personally and professionally. The first to really use her stage and voice, figuratively and literally, to raise up women facing the same. I will respect her most for that. And also, she was a damn good singer/songwriter.

Rest In Power, Tina Turner.

#riptinaturner #tinaturner #DomesticAbuse

An image of the front cover of Rolling Stone featuring Tina Turner in the 1980s in black leather leaning over a table and smiling into the camera with her massive 80s hair.
Denise boosted:
2023-05-25

Climate Scientists Leave Twitter For Mastodon

So, it is possible for a group to make the collective decision to leave Twitter. Scientists "suffering insults and mass-spam are abandoning Twitter," and setting up shop on Mastodon.

Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges >>> france24.com/en/live-news/2023

"Glaciologist @Ruth_Mottram had more than 10,000 followers on Twitter but left in February and joined an alternative scientists' forum powered by Mastodon."

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#twittermigration #climate

2023-05-25

The notion of a Twitter implosion continues. Outages, garbled audio: DeSantis’s 2024 launch marred by Twitter tech meltdown theguardian.com/us-news/2023/m
#TwitterMeltdown

2023-05-13

Nothing to do with their hateful, divisive, sewage-spreading policies then. 🤣🤣🤣

Priti Patel to blame local election losses on Tory leadership in speech theguardian.com/politics/2023/

2023-05-11

@ralf I’m so sorry to read this. I’ve had such a positive experience on #HomeSocial & I really hope it carries on. I have no tech skills myself but hope that sufficient people who do, offer to share the load & help you to keep going. Thank you for your good work so far.

2023-05-10

Looks as if home.social is about to be no more. So long & thanks for all the fish. 🐠 🐟 👋🏻

Denise boosted:
Rosemarie and Owen KellyKellys@mastodon.scot
2023-05-09

Edinburgh s big bash

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