Sophie Agrell
chalcedonyvark.bsky.social
Sophie Agrell
@chalcedonyvark.bsky.social
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Smallholder, mediaevalist, occasional poet, goat keeper, dog lover, insatiable reader.
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I think so. It looks good, you clearly feel good in it. This is rare enough to make a second one a good investment.
Congratulations for your knitting success. Yesterday’s march was a horror. As a not white British person, seeing 150,000 at that march makes me afraid as well as heartbroken.
I am so very sorry for your loss. Such people as he clearly was light up life.
It’s the first official day of autumn and right on cue Delphine asked for her duvet for the first time in weeks. #sighthound
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A busy and successful weekend for a glorious and elegant sighthound.
How very kind of you to ask! Yes, I am okay, just so busy that I am checking social media less and have less bandwidth to write posts. How are you?
As a sighthound, she has doubtless delegated such activities to her staff.
London is likely but Glasgow is also possible. They have offices and distribution in both.
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Big-eyed dragon in the margin among the psalms

Bodleian Library MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.371v @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
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Clive Lewis Labour MP speaks out in @bylinetimes.bsky.social

‘A consultation saw 88% of 28,000 respondents back public water ownership

Yet, these voices have been systematically marginalised by a Govt determined to operate within narrowly enforced ideological boundaries’
'Keir Starmer's Timid Refusal to Nationalise Failing Water Companies is a Symptom of a Government Cast Adrift'
Starmer's administration is proving itself to be "devoid of moral compass or political courage", argues Labour MP Clive Lewis
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This absolute icon at Canterbury Pride 🩷🤍🩵
A few years ago, I watched a friend’s teenage son and his two friends eat four loaves of bread, an entire large pack of cheese and six packets of ham as “a snack”. Start the savings account now?
I can see Arran from my gate but have never visited - it’s hard to leave a smallholding. Your photos are encouraging me to visit soon.
Happy gotcha day, Dave. You have had a year full of new things since Saffy approved you as her companion. I hope the next year is even better for you.
That is a beautiful piece, Electra. You capture the small, casual intimacies and dailyness that are the bedrock of closeness and which are so sorely missed.
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Something to emphasize--as muddled and contradictory as the Supreme Court decision is, it does not actually mandate that institutions must ban trans people from single-sex spaces.

Public figures who have been alleging this are spreading misinformation in order to further a climate of hostility.
(a) This is not in any sense 'defying the Supreme Court', unless there's a gender quota for the Board of Toilets.
(b) Good. Glad to see teachers telling bigots that they will continue to support their trans colleagues. More please.
"BRITAIN’S largest teaching union has voted to defy the Supreme Court, insisting trans women in schools must be allowed to use ladies’ toilets." [Mail]
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1. "I left as fast as I could. I didn’t wait for pain control. Is this the future for trans people in hospitals now?"

My incredible friend Jamie Hale - writer, director, head of @cripticarts.bsky.social - was in hospital today, and this was their experience. They've given me permission to share.
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80 years ago, 30 April 1945…
Emhoff has great dignity, unlike the current administration.
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Seattle Times: Satellite photos show the Port of Seattle empty, with just one Chinese ship headed its way. After that, no more. The Port says that in years past, it annually supported over 121,000 jobs and generated $38 Billion in business revenue. Trump’s tariffs destroyed all that in 6 weeks.
Cascade is bad. Last week I excised the verb “to surface” and eight instances of “procurement landscape” from a document.