Mary K Gilbert
@marykenvyn.bsky.social
Reader, Cook, Feminist, European, Francophile. Lover of Breton music and dancing. Dwi'n siarad Cymraeg a Llydaweg ( tamm bihan)
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A decade ago, my photographer niece, Alys tomlinson, took an award-winning picture of a Belarusian nun. They stayed in touch and over several years, Alys co-directed a barely-funded, yet rich and extraordinary documentary about Vera -and today it’s been BAFTA longlisted!.
January 9, 2026 at 4:38 PM
A decade ago, my photographer niece, Alys tomlinson, took an award-winning picture of a Belarusian nun. They stayed in touch and over several years, Alys co-directed a barely-funded, yet rich and extraordinary documentary about Vera -and today it’s been BAFTA longlisted!.
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Venezuela: How it unfolded
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
January 7, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Venezuela: How it unfolded
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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The US attack on Venezuela is an illegal act of aggression against a sovereign country (with lots of oil). Venezuela has become a more deeply repressive dictatorship & urgently needs democratic solution but this is unjustified & unjustifiable. Look forward to seeing swift UK Government condemnation.
January 3, 2026 at 11:12 AM
The US attack on Venezuela is an illegal act of aggression against a sovereign country (with lots of oil). Venezuela has become a more deeply repressive dictatorship & urgently needs democratic solution but this is unjustified & unjustifiable. Look forward to seeing swift UK Government condemnation.
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‘January’ (Shell Guide, Flowers of the Countryside, 1955)
Artists: Edith and Rowland Hilder
Artists: Edith and Rowland Hilder
January 1, 2026 at 8:23 AM
‘January’ (Shell Guide, Flowers of the Countryside, 1955)
Artists: Edith and Rowland Hilder
Artists: Edith and Rowland Hilder
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I’d like this moron to explain why blokes who choose to be trans don’t got the whole mile and demand a salary cut to be even more convincing women. Nobody has ever answered this.
December 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I’d like this moron to explain why blokes who choose to be trans don’t got the whole mile and demand a salary cut to be even more convincing women. Nobody has ever answered this.
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Well, I imagine the children of Southampton were in therapy for a good few years after attending this particular panto…
December 30, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Well, I imagine the children of Southampton were in therapy for a good few years after attending this particular panto…
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Irony & hyperbole overload.
Translation
1. Men (however they identify) can't use women's toilets & changing rooms
2. Gender identitarians can't hold academia to ransom, hijacking women's studies, dictating the curriculum & gatekeeping academic publishing.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/trans-s...
Translation
1. Men (however they identify) can't use women's toilets & changing rooms
2. Gender identitarians can't hold academia to ransom, hijacking women's studies, dictating the curriculum & gatekeeping academic publishing.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/trans-s...
Trans scholars being ‘pushed out of academia’, researchers warn
Universities ‘afraid to be trans inclusive’ after Supreme Court ruling and OfS Sussex fine, leaving staff fearing ‘hostile environment’
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Irony & hyperbole overload.
Translation
1. Men (however they identify) can't use women's toilets & changing rooms
2. Gender identitarians can't hold academia to ransom, hijacking women's studies, dictating the curriculum & gatekeeping academic publishing.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/trans-s...
Translation
1. Men (however they identify) can't use women's toilets & changing rooms
2. Gender identitarians can't hold academia to ransom, hijacking women's studies, dictating the curriculum & gatekeeping academic publishing.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/trans-s...
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Impossible to pass this road without having a *moment*…
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Impossible to pass this road without having a *moment*…
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My little girls (now big girls!), adopted from foster care, arrived with few possessions - but each had been given a box of books by @booktrust.org.uk. These books, read together, became our first shared memories.
Spread the joy of reading with a donation:
donate.booktrust.org.uk/Xmas3/~my-do...
Spread the joy of reading with a donation:
donate.booktrust.org.uk/Xmas3/~my-do...
November 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
My little girls (now big girls!), adopted from foster care, arrived with few possessions - but each had been given a box of books by @booktrust.org.uk. These books, read together, became our first shared memories.
Spread the joy of reading with a donation:
donate.booktrust.org.uk/Xmas3/~my-do...
Spread the joy of reading with a donation:
donate.booktrust.org.uk/Xmas3/~my-do...
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Brilliant - and so well deserved.
For Women Scotland wins Public Campaign or Campaigner of the Year at The Herald Scottish Politician of the Year Awards 2025, in association with ScottishPower
www.heraldscotland.com/news...
#politicianawards25
www.heraldscotland.com/news...
#politicianawards25
November 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Brilliant - and so well deserved.
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😁😊
Read @lissakevans.bsky.social's "Small Bomb at Dimperley". Read this as slowly as I could to savour it, as after enjoying the previous four novels over the past year I knew I would soon have no new ones left. Loved the evocative nature of the period language and references - pi-jaw, halma, 1/5
November 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
😁😊
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Get to know the amazing, brave Mary Bruce, ABC journalist, directly confronting both a sexual abuser and murderer to their faces. #PiggyPOTUS 47 is vile, evil, disgusting. You can judge him by the company he keeps. 🐷💩🤬🤮
We need more journalists like Mary. We need fewer pigs masquerading as humans.
We need more journalists like Mary. We need fewer pigs masquerading as humans.
November 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Get to know the amazing, brave Mary Bruce, ABC journalist, directly confronting both a sexual abuser and murderer to their faces. #PiggyPOTUS 47 is vile, evil, disgusting. You can judge him by the company he keeps. 🐷💩🤬🤮
We need more journalists like Mary. We need fewer pigs masquerading as humans.
We need more journalists like Mary. We need fewer pigs masquerading as humans.
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“Quiet, piggy.”
What an asshole…
What an asshole…
November 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
“Quiet, piggy.”
What an asshole…
What an asshole…
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I hope that the 115th anniversary of Black Friday is a suitable day to say how much I am enjoying reading my third book by @lissakevans.bsky.social.
November 18, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I hope that the 115th anniversary of Black Friday is a suitable day to say how much I am enjoying reading my third book by @lissakevans.bsky.social.
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Smashed windows and graffiti at the FiLiA conference.
FiliA aims to amplify the voices of women, particularly those who are silenced or unheard, and to defend women's human rights. But clearly, they shouldn't be allowed to discuss anything at all without the prior approval of trans activists.
FiliA aims to amplify the voices of women, particularly those who are silenced or unheard, and to defend women's human rights. But clearly, they shouldn't be allowed to discuss anything at all without the prior approval of trans activists.
BREAKING: BASH BACK TARGET FiLiA ANTI-TRANS CONFERENCE
The conference, whose alumni include J.K. Rowling, this year hosts hate groups LGBAlliance and Transgender Trend, along with the director of Scottish Lesbians, one of the groups responsible for April's segregationist Supreme Court ruling.
The conference, whose alumni include J.K. Rowling, this year hosts hate groups LGBAlliance and Transgender Trend, along with the director of Scottish Lesbians, one of the groups responsible for April's segregationist Supreme Court ruling.
October 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Smashed windows and graffiti at the FiLiA conference.
FiliA aims to amplify the voices of women, particularly those who are silenced or unheard, and to defend women's human rights. But clearly, they shouldn't be allowed to discuss anything at all without the prior approval of trans activists.
FiliA aims to amplify the voices of women, particularly those who are silenced or unheard, and to defend women's human rights. But clearly, they shouldn't be allowed to discuss anything at all without the prior approval of trans activists.
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Cambridge students launch single-sex Society for Women:
“We’re now at a point where I no longer can see inaction as just inaction. I now see a lot of it as just cowardice, and I’m not interested in it anymore.” – Maeve Halligan, CUSW President and Co-Founder.
genderblog.net/cambridge-st...
“We’re now at a point where I no longer can see inaction as just inaction. I now see a lot of it as just cowardice, and I’m not interested in it anymore.” – Maeve Halligan, CUSW President and Co-Founder.
genderblog.net/cambridge-st...
Cambridge students launch single-sex Society for Women
“We’re now at a point where I no longer can see inaction as just inaction. I now see a lot of it as just cowardice, and I’m not interested in it anymore.” – Maeve Hall…
genderblog.net
October 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Cambridge students launch single-sex Society for Women:
“We’re now at a point where I no longer can see inaction as just inaction. I now see a lot of it as just cowardice, and I’m not interested in it anymore.” – Maeve Halligan, CUSW President and Co-Founder.
genderblog.net/cambridge-st...
“We’re now at a point where I no longer can see inaction as just inaction. I now see a lot of it as just cowardice, and I’m not interested in it anymore.” – Maeve Halligan, CUSW President and Co-Founder.
genderblog.net/cambridge-st...
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As is traditional on October 31st, I present my greatest ever Halloween costume triumph: Watson as Cardinal Woofsley.
October 31, 2025 at 5:21 PM
As is traditional on October 31st, I present my greatest ever Halloween costume triumph: Watson as Cardinal Woofsley.
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The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
October 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
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I knew that Granny’s Flag - a picture book with a lovely rhyming text by Rachel Rooney and witty & detailed illustrations by Ros Asquith - would be a delight, but I didn’t expect that it would also bring tears to my eyes! ❤️❤️
October 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I knew that Granny’s Flag - a picture book with a lovely rhyming text by Rachel Rooney and witty & detailed illustrations by Ros Asquith - would be a delight, but I didn’t expect that it would also bring tears to my eyes! ❤️❤️
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Apologies for publishing self praise, but when I saw this piece by India Knight in today's @thetimes.com , I thought I might burst with happiness.
October 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Apologies for publishing self praise, but when I saw this piece by India Knight in today's @thetimes.com , I thought I might burst with happiness.
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Johann Frederick of Saxony, aka the Magnanimous, painted in 1509 at age 6 in totally fab outfit (especially the hat!) by Lucas Cranach the Elder. Whose day is today.
October 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Johann Frederick of Saxony, aka the Magnanimous, painted in 1509 at age 6 in totally fab outfit (especially the hat!) by Lucas Cranach the Elder. Whose day is today.
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Totally thrilled to be on the Gold Crown shortlist 😁😁😁
The HWA Crown Awards shortlists are revealed!
They’re in Historia now, at historiamag.com/hwa-crowns-shortlists-2025
See which six books have made it through to the last round of judging in each category – Gold, Non-fiction and Debut.
Good luck to all 18 authors!
#HWACrowns25
They’re in Historia now, at historiamag.com/hwa-crowns-shortlists-2025
See which six books have made it through to the last round of judging in each category – Gold, Non-fiction and Debut.
Good luck to all 18 authors!
#HWACrowns25
October 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Totally thrilled to be on the Gold Crown shortlist 😁😁😁
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Smashed windows and graffiti at the Brighton Conference Centre, where women have come from all over the world to talk about male violence and women's human rights. This is trans activism, and it's misogyny in action.
October 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Smashed windows and graffiti at the Brighton Conference Centre, where women have come from all over the world to talk about male violence and women's human rights. This is trans activism, and it's misogyny in action.
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Dean: The president is unhinged
Johnson: A lot of folks on your side are too. I don’t control him
Dean: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals.
Johnson: I didn’t see it.
Dean: Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing.
Johnson: A lot of folks on your side are too. I don’t control him
Dean: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals.
Johnson: I didn’t see it.
Dean: Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing.
October 2, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Dean: The president is unhinged
Johnson: A lot of folks on your side are too. I don’t control him
Dean: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals.
Johnson: I didn’t see it.
Dean: Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing.
Johnson: A lot of folks on your side are too. I don’t control him
Dean: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals.
Johnson: I didn’t see it.
Dean: Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing.