Sylvia Woodcock
@ta-b3ntal3s.bsky.social
Often writing, drawing and painting in order to alleviate the obsession with reading absolutely everything, especially long and little-known novels by women.
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Australian Prime Minister Albanese announced plans for a national bravery award to recognize civilians and first responders who confronted “the worst of evil” during an antisemitic terror attack that left 15 dead.
👉🏼 Good 👍
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👉🏼 Good 👍
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Albanese announces bravery award for heroes of Bondi antisemitic attack
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a national bravery award to honor those who confronted an antisemitic terror attack.
apnews.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Australian Prime Minister Albanese announced plans for a national bravery award to recognize civilians and first responders who confronted “the worst of evil” during an antisemitic terror attack that left 15 dead.
👉🏼 Good 👍
apnews.com/article/aust...
👉🏼 Good 👍
apnews.com/article/aust...
looks quite interesting.
I wrote a book about Virginia Faulkner.
Virginia who?
Here's a little video that attempts to answer that question.
Coming 1 January 2026 from @univnebpress.bsky.social
Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts, by Brad Bigelow. A story worth telling.
Virginia who?
Here's a little video that attempts to answer that question.
Coming 1 January 2026 from @univnebpress.bsky.social
Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts, by Brad Bigelow. A story worth telling.
December 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
looks quite interesting.
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One shepherd has arrived early & peers around improbably elegant curtain at quiet Adoration. After Hieronymus Bosch.
December 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
One shepherd has arrived early & peers around improbably elegant curtain at quiet Adoration. After Hieronymus Bosch.
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“In the Cuchuillins, too, though exactly where must not be said, is a cave of gold. Unlike all other treasure caves, there are no barriers here between men and untold wealth…”
—from SKYE: the Island and Its Legends, by Otta F. Swire (OUP, 1952)
#WyrdWednesday #folklore #Skye #Hebrides
—from SKYE: the Island and Its Legends, by Otta F. Swire (OUP, 1952)
#WyrdWednesday #folklore #Skye #Hebrides
December 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
“In the Cuchuillins, too, though exactly where must not be said, is a cave of gold. Unlike all other treasure caves, there are no barriers here between men and untold wealth…”
—from SKYE: the Island and Its Legends, by Otta F. Swire (OUP, 1952)
#WyrdWednesday #folklore #Skye #Hebrides
—from SKYE: the Island and Its Legends, by Otta F. Swire (OUP, 1952)
#WyrdWednesday #folklore #Skye #Hebrides
Sixty dollars for a 900 lb bin!
"Andrea" sent us this video for McFarland CA where she is harvesting Mandarin oranges. "It is very tough work going up the ladder all day and moving the ladder in place, but this work feeds my family. We get paid $60 for each 900lb bin." #WeFeedYou
December 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Sixty dollars for a 900 lb bin!
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It’s actually not technically a leak. CBS News only operates in the US. A non-PSKY owned network Global TV has Canadian rights for 60 Minutes and aired it unedited since the call to pull the episode was made so late in the day. That broadcast was recorded and then shared across the internet.
December 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
It’s actually not technically a leak. CBS News only operates in the US. A non-PSKY owned network Global TV has Canadian rights for 60 Minutes and aired it unedited since the call to pull the episode was made so late in the day. That broadcast was recorded and then shared across the internet.
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December 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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“Eddie” catches his breath before resuming leek harvesting with December temperatures still reaching into the 80s in the Central Coast. #WeFeedYou
December 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“Eddie” catches his breath before resuming leek harvesting with December temperatures still reaching into the 80s in the Central Coast. #WeFeedYou
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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Good Dutch mother preparing bread & butter for her boy to take to school, conveniently located right across the street! By Pieter de Hooch, born OTD 1629.
December 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Good Dutch mother preparing bread & butter for her boy to take to school, conveniently located right across the street! By Pieter de Hooch, born OTD 1629.
Well that's discouraging.
The victory of the first openly Pinochet-admiring candidate has left many around the world asking why the country chose as its next leader a defender of a brutal regime under which an estimated 40,000 people were tortured and more than 3,000 killed.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Chile’s far-right president taps into support for Pinochet that never went away
Experts say José Antonio Kast able to ‘reactivate a dormant Pinochetism’ and warn more education needed on ‘horrors of dictatorship’
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Well that's discouraging.
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Despite tariffs, decoupling efforts, and supply-chain shifts, China’s surplus continues to widen.👇
December 19, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Despite tariffs, decoupling efforts, and supply-chain shifts, China’s surplus continues to widen.👇
Another interesting article.
“there is something in this which refuses the sentimentality of most ghost stories”
Dr @anneelliot.bsky.social sees Margaret Oliphant’s “Old Lady Mary” as a Scottish #gothic response to Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol”
#PhantomsFriday #C19th
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Dr @anneelliot.bsky.social sees Margaret Oliphant’s “Old Lady Mary” as a Scottish #gothic response to Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol”
#PhantomsFriday #C19th
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Margaret Oliphant’s Old Lady Mary — a reply to Dickens’s Christmas Carol
From the first Christmas special in Downton Abbey, Maggie Smith as the Dowager Duchess, another old lady (from Downton Abbey, Christmas special closing Season 2, referred to below) Friends and read…
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December 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Another interesting article.
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"Moises" climbs up and down a ladder dozens of times a day carrying 60 pounds of pomegranates trying to fill a 900lb bin. He earns minimum wage for this hard work. #WeFeedYou
December 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"Moises" climbs up and down a ladder dozens of times a day carrying 60 pounds of pomegranates trying to fill a 900lb bin. He earns minimum wage for this hard work. #WeFeedYou
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December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Warnock: He's got a lot of nerve saying that I'm using faith to divide people. This is a man who literally had protesters gassed and beaten down so he could hold up a bible in front of a church.
December 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Warnock: He's got a lot of nerve saying that I'm using faith to divide people. This is a man who literally had protesters gassed and beaten down so he could hold up a bible in front of a church.
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Become ungovernable
December 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Become ungovernable
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"Raúl" was picking oranges in Visalia CA. "We fill 5 bins in a 6 hours and get paid $24 per bin. This work is hard on our bodies as we need to go up and down a 16 foot ladder while carrying 60 -80 lbs of oranges. But it's year round work that feeds our families." #WeFeedYou
December 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"Raúl" was picking oranges in Visalia CA. "We fill 5 bins in a 6 hours and get paid $24 per bin. This work is hard on our bodies as we need to go up and down a 16 foot ladder while carrying 60 -80 lbs of oranges. But it's year round work that feeds our families." #WeFeedYou
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“Winning” in America’s “golden age”🎪
December 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“Winning” in America’s “golden age”🎪
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Are we in a recession?👇
Are we in a recession?
Perhaps. Maybe. Hard to tell.
The Sahm Rule focuses on the 3-month average unemployment rate, and asking if it's risen half a point above its year-long low.
The low was 4.0% in January.
The latest (average of Sept & Nov, with Oct missing): 4.5%.
That's +0.5%.
Perhaps. Maybe. Hard to tell.
The Sahm Rule focuses on the 3-month average unemployment rate, and asking if it's risen half a point above its year-long low.
The low was 4.0% in January.
The latest (average of Sept & Nov, with Oct missing): 4.5%.
That's +0.5%.
December 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Are we in a recession?👇
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Amazing!! Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) is manufacturing their own abortion pills in order to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. They designed an eco-friendly combi-pack that's easier to mail discreetly and centred around women’s experiences and needs.
A Global Telehealth First: Women Help Women Begins Producing Abortion Pill Combipack
The feminist telehealth provider Women Help Women cuts out pharma middlemen to make its new mifepristone-misprostol abortion pill combo pack.
msmagazine.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Amazing!! Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) is manufacturing their own abortion pills in order to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. They designed an eco-friendly combi-pack that's easier to mail discreetly and centred around women’s experiences and needs.
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Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
December 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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Thoughts and prayers are boring, and importantly, they don’t work!! 🤷🏻♂️
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
December 15, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Thoughts and prayers are boring, and importantly, they don’t work!! 🤷🏻♂️
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday voiced readiness to drop his country’s bid to join NATO in exchange for Western security guarantees, but rejected the U.S. push for ceding territory to Russia.
👉🏼 He should stick with this position.
apnews.com/article/russ...
👉🏼 He should stick with this position.
apnews.com/article/russ...
Zelenskyy offers to drop NATO bid for security guarantees but rejects US push to cede territory
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed willingness to drop Ukraine's NATO bid in exchange for Western security guarantees.
apnews.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday voiced readiness to drop his country’s bid to join NATO in exchange for Western security guarantees, but rejected the U.S. push for ceding territory to Russia.
👉🏼 He should stick with this position.
apnews.com/article/russ...
👉🏼 He should stick with this position.
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