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Talis Kimberley🇪🇺

@taliskimberley.bsky.social

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Songwriter, Performer, Wordsmith. Pen4hire: Doggerel, Limericks. She/her. Folklore/yarncraft/pagan. Organ donor NOT CURRENTLY ACCESSING DMs - email via www.talis.net Seek out beauty, dwell in wonder Re-enchantment is resistance We are all made of stories

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Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hello friends. I mostly share here things intended to bring solace & a little joy.

I’ll also talk about my work (contemporary story-songs & geek-folk, interfaith, history, folklore & nonsense).

I encourage you to seek out beauty, dwell in wonder, practice kindness & be thankful (& use alt-text!)

Looking straight up at a patch of pale sky surrounded by bare branched trees reaching towards each other.

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Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · 39m

That’s ready for me to figure out the panel, anyway.

3. Super Sekrit project I’m designing. First, I need to unpick while taking notes as to what I’ve done so far - I was making do with the wrong yarn, & now I have the right yarn. Pen & paper time, then!

Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · 1h

2. Let’s look at this denim skirt that wants fixing. As ever, the starting-point is taking the scissors to it - I need to add a panel. Not sure what of, yet. Maybe the starry denim offcut I have somewhere…

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Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · 1h

Sunday afternoon, time for another one-woman mending-&-craft party, gently and with cake & hot drinks. I have too many things on the go & some of them are things I want to be wearing, dammit

1. A bit of the current handknit sock to get started with. Love self-striping wool. Number 1, cuff-down.

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Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · 1h

They are fine, aren’t they?

I love the domestic, magical, & textural details that Thomas puts in every picture. I’m so enjoying telling stories about them with my little companion-rhymes. There is so much more I’d like to say about them!

Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · 1h

OH ZACK! 😆

Thank you for making me laugh out loud on a grey Sunday afternoon!

(It’s the bit at the end, but don’t skip the rest, it’s not very long 😊)

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 2h

"I'm not surprised the personal attacks have started. They've got loads of lines: about my teeth, about my history as an actor, about my name change... the right just don't actually have a line of attack against me that's political"

Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · 3h

He is indeed.

He very much enjoys his role as Senior Snuzee.

His young ginger-and-white apprentice is learning a lot from him.

Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · 3h

My song ‘The Ghosts of Bletchley Park’ celebrates Tommy Flowers and Billy Tutte.

So many quiet heroes!

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Republic @republiccampaign.bsky.social · 2d

Why should the monarchy be able to opt-out of laws when they want to? #NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy

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Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · 5h

Snuzz delivered to this dear old fellow.

#CatsSnuzzedToOrder
#SlotsAvailableNow

Full-face photo of a long-haired black and white cat with asymmetrical markings, his pink tongue blepping.

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Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · 5h

I absolutely will, Bob. I hope your aches reside quickly.

(Ginger or black and white, any preference?)

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Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · 6h

In the Greens, the leader doesn’t create policy, that’s voted on by members at conference. So there is already a full suite of practical ideas and plans that have been developed over years. Don’t worry, Zack’s not winging it 😊

Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · 6h

And which are voted on by members at conference. And with which Zack is aligned.

He’s saying what the Greens have always said, but perhaps louder and clearer and bolder. See his recent “Why is everything so shit?” video!

Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · 18h

One flu jab later, one set of mild aches & fever, as expected.

Zero crafting or mending done, but a bit of both garden & indoor clearing. Apples have been picked.

Soup & toast-and-marmalade have been consumed. The Addams Family has been watched. Cats have been snuzzed.

That sort of a Saturday🍏

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · 22h

Welcome to the Greens, Jess! 🍃

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 23h

Per the US National Institute for Health, over 40 *known* intersex variations exist. More are still being discovered. Genitalia, hormones, chromosomes –– even a person's cells can be female in one part of their body and male in another, and they may not even know it.

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Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · 1d

In Worcestershire, Reform are taking the Greens to court in hopes of overturning a Green Cllr win.

Court cases are expensive & the Greens are funded by our grassroots, not oligarchs.

I’ve chipped in a bit, can you? Bits add up. Thank you.

#TeamGreen

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Next week, the Green Party will defend Worcestershire Councillor Hannah Robson in the High Court.

The Reform UK candidate is hoping to overturn our election win!

Can you help us defend Hannah and democracy from this attack? Please donate if you can 🙏

donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk/make-sure-we...

Make sure we defend democracy in Worcestershire - Green Party

In the event that there is any money left over after the legal matters have been settled, including if we are able to recover some or all of our legal costs from other parties, then these remaining fu...

donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk

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Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · 1d

Done! Just a bit, but bits add up 🍃

Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · 1d

Peter! I would love to pick your brains about something. I can’t do dms here at the mo. My website has an email link though, and I’m on FB messenger. Any chance of a chat, please?🍃

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Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome, glad to meet you here! 🍃

Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome, Iris! 🍃

Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · 1d

“Together with care & courage”

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Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · 1d

Want to see something lovely? Want to feel hope grow in you?

Want to hear a politician speak with a clarity and warmth that you want to yell ‘Yes!’ and ‘How can I help?’

Here. It’s Zack.

Let’s go.

#BackZack #TeamGreen

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d

“Britain is a nation of neighbours, not strangers — and it’s time we built a politics of hope that reflects that.”

Zack Polanski with a message of unity and hope having been out door knocking Handsworth today.

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Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · 2d

I love that!

Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · 2d

Good advice! I try to. Thank you, my friend.