Lot's of love in the comments for my conversation with @emmasouthon.bsky.social all about the lives of Roman slaves, and you don't want to miss.... The Prologue! youtube.com/watch?v=39iI...
I am lucky enough to have six nephews aged between 4 and 24 and today three of them were at an anti fascist rally and a fourth was running an inclusive event for young immigrants. I genuinely think that the kids are alright.
Of the other two, one has moderate learning disabilities that give him a finctioning age of 8 and the other is literally 4 so they have a pass on fighting the good fight in person rn
As always Richard is right
Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital
This women's group wanted to raise £1,000 to help the victims of last night's attacks in Belfast. It's already at £56,000.
chuffed.org/project/1854...
I do think a lot of English-based analysis of what happened in Northern Ireland last night is missing the specifically loyalist aspect of the violence. These are groups with a long history of violently driving out "outsiders", turning their sights on a new vulnerable minority.
Really, really, really object to any news corporations labelling people setting fire to cars, houses and attacking police as 'protesters'