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Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · Dec 18

I don't follow many folk, but I do use lists A Lot. I often add followers to lists I've created & keep all lists pinned to my home tab. I also use a 'followers' feed (also pinned) for folk that don't fit lists.

This gives me the best chance to see your posts & engage without feeling overwhelmed. 💜

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Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 14h

This is written in the context of the US, but honestly it feels relevant in a UK context too, with increasing fascism on multiple fronts. I resonated with so much of what the author describes here.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18h

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 18h

I'm giving away this signed 1st edition h/b of my new novel (it has a tiny jacket rip which means I wouldn't sell it) to one person who reposts this.

You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time

All shares much-appreciated.

Joe McLaren's fabulous cover for Everything Will Swallow You

A close up of the small tear on this first edition of Everything Will Swallow You

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Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 1d

Aaaw, I'm sorry to hear that. 💜

Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 1d

I know we all know this, but the language the BBC use about Palestine is infuriating! 6Music news just referenced 7th Oct as having "sparked the war in Gaza", & a minute later described the "subsequent war", as though nothing at all was happening prior to that. 🙄🤬 And they *know* they're doing it.

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Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 1d

That's how it's been for me. Got covid for first time in August, and have felt that lingering 'coming down with something' ever since. It feels like it stepped up a notch this week, so might actually be being a proper cold this week, but also still not *quite*. It's exhausting.

Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 2d

I really hear this. It's been bad in my local area as well, and it's daunting choosing to be visible when you know you could easily run into these folk on the street anytime. Sending solidarity. 💜

Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 2d

Our wee ‘Shelf Care’ Silent Book Club has been running for over 3 months already! Time flies when you have a good book and a cosy chair! Here’s what we were reading at our last meet-up on Tuesday 30th September! 💜

#BookSky #SilentBookClub #Reading #Books

Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 2d

I've never seen the Godfather films either. Not enough spaceships to lure me in! 🤣

Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 2d

Wait. What?

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 3d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 3d

Uk government reached the “harassing lawyers who win cases against us” stage of opression.

“Fahad is a senior solicitor specialising in cases involving national security and has a strong track record of holding the British government to account”

الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 3d

Please sign this by 4PM.
Fahad is coming under increasing harassment from the British authorities and we are circulating this Statement of Solidarity after he was stopped by Welsh police on 6th August with his family coming back to the UK after a holiday in Ireland.
docs.google.com/forms/d/1srI...

Statement of Solidarity with Fahad Ansari

DEADLINE FOR SIGNATURE: SUNDAY 5TH OCTOBER 2025, 4:00 PM We, the undersigned organisations and individuals, condemn the escalating campaign of harassment by the British authorities against Irish Musli...

docs.google.com

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Naomi L. Jacobs @naomijacobs.bsky.social · 6d

Solidarity with the Jewish community, especially in Manchester. The murder of two people at worship on the holiest day of the Jewish year is beyond reprehensible.

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Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 6d

Today is National Poetry Day in the UK, so I'm sharing this by @mosababutoha.bsky.social - a Palestinian poet who writes of his experiences growing up in Gaza. This is from his collection "Things You May Find Hidden In My Ear". (Full text is in alt text if image is hard to read) #NationalPoetryDay

A poem from the collection: 'Things You May Find Hidden In My Ear' by Mosab Abu Toha

"Leaving Childhood Behind"

When I left, I left my childhood in the drawer
and on the kitchen table. I left my toy horse
in its plastic bag.
I left without looking at the clock.
I forget whether it was noon or evening.

Our horse spent the night alone,
no water, no grains for dinner.
It must have thought we'd left to cook a meal
for late guests or to make a cake
for my sister's tenth birthday.

I walked with my sister, down our road with no end.
We sang a birthday song.
The warplanes echoed across the heavens.

My tired parents walked behind,
my father clutching to his chest
the keys to our house and to the stable.

We arrived at a rescue station.
News of the airstrikes roared on the radio.
I hated death, but I hated life, too,
when we had to walk to our drawn-out death,
reciting our never-ending ode.

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Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 7d

Hah! Totally! 🤣

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 7d

MW correctly reading the room

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 7d

Sending you all the virtual love. 💜🫂

Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 7d

The 'likes' are for solidarity and agreement. Getting covid three times in quick succession after avoiding it so long sounds... exhausting. 💜

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Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 7d

It's been a month now since I got covid for the first time (that I know of) and I genuinely haven't felt properly 'better' yet. I just constantly feel 'a wee bit under the weather' or like I'm 'coming down with something', but it doesn't actually progress into anything. 🙄

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 7d

my book_smoke & mirrors_ is out on oxford scholarship online. i have many feelings, mostly good! this was a difficult write for many reasons.

so i hope you find something useful in it if you read it.

Smoke & Mirrors: Discourses of Magic in Early Petrine Traditions

Abstract. Smoke & Mirrors: Discourses of Magic in Early Petrine Traditions is a book about how magic disappears from early Christian texts that feature

academic.oup.com

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Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 7d

Honestly, I would love it if our govt were 'inciting the radical left'. Believing we might actually have support to turn things around properly would be so much better than this naggingly hopeless feeling of pushing against a really heavy door.

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Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 8d

The pollution generated poetry workshop sounds excellent! Too far away for me alas, but hope it gets a good turnout!

Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 9d

Yes.

Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 9d

The way the second one (moss and tree roots) looks like an alligator though!

Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 9d

💯 this.

moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 9d

Even if you don't believe you have rights, as I didn't believe I did for many years: if you can't trust the therapist, then you can't build a therapeutic relationship and therapy is a waste of time

Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 9d

Safety Advice:

I keep seeing young trans people on social media talking about therapists disrespecting their pronouns and parents telling them that the therapist has a right to their beliefs.

I want to be clear: you have a right to the therapy room being a safe supportive space for YOUR growth.

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Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 9d

If your therapist is harming you in ANY way, please STOP (if you are able).

Therapy should be a collaboration, where you tell us when we're getting it wrong, because we will get things wrong sometimes.

But even 'good' therapists are capable of doing harm, and the impact can be devastating.

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