🔗 Some thoughts on International Women’s Day

"Speaking truth to the power of the patriarchy is unimaginably difficult, even as I live a life of relative privilege. In the past, I’ve experienced deep levels of discomfort at writing one small truth because there’s the worry that I’ll be branded a troublemaker, a man hater, a difficult woman to work with. All of which heightens my respect for those women across global history who’ve had to fight like lions for the barest modicum of political and/or cultural change."

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/03/08/some-thoughts-on-international-womens-day/

Currently reading: Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay 📚

https://micro.blog/books/9780571362929

🔗 Outrage Farming

"Sunak leads a government that has introduced the most draconian anti-protest laws in our democratic history. These laws are deployed exclusively against official enemies: environmental campaigners, republicans, feminists, Muslims. If you belong to one of these groups and you block a road, you might go to prison. If you are a farmer and you block a road, the prime minister might join you.

The protest the prime minister attended displayed the banners of No Farmers, No Food, a group convened by a notorious conspiracy theorist, James Melville."

https://www.monbiot.com/2024/02/29/outrage-farming/

🔗 The Long Wait

"Implement a genuine progress index in place of GDP

At the moment, every attempt to create a greener and fairer country is hampered by the way we measure progress. So my third big policy is to dethrone our use of GDP as a general indicator of how well we are doing, and replace it with more appropriate measures."

https://www.monbiot.com/2024/02/28/the-long-wait/

🔗 Outrage Farming by George Monbiot

https://www.monbiot.com/2024/02/29/outrage-farming/

Microbrewery 🍺

Lunch at the Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd 🍺

The Hunger Games, 2012 - ★★★½ https://thedimpau.se/2024/03/03/the-hunger-games.html

🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm:

Nadine Shah (16 plays)

Brittany Howard (12)

Portishead (12)

Christy Moore (10)

The Passions (10)

https://www.last.fm/user/nntk

Location check in 🗺 — Hay Distillery, sampling gins

https://maps.apple.com/?q=52.075092,-3.124546&ll=52.075092,-3.124546

Staying at The Old Black Lion, Hay-on-Wye. They do excellent Wye Valley Smokery kippers for breakfast.

Starter

Main course

Dessert

(I got distracted midway 😊)

Captain on deck 🫡

(A little upset that AI alt text generator didn’t recognise Kirk or Picard 😆🖖)

Retro 🖖

Someone spent much time sorting books by spine colour 😡📚

I don’t know why … 🤷🏼‍♂️ 🐈

Now listening to Nadine Shah’s new album Filthy Underneath. It’s very good 🎵

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https://embed.music.apple.com/gb/album/filthy-underneath/1711033057

Woke up at quarter to seven to hear Bashir take 2 wickets in 2 balls. Will now be glued to the radio for as long as it lasts 🇮🇳 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏏

Oppenheimer, 2023 - ★★★★★ https://thedimpau.se/2024/02/25/oppenheimer.html

Dramatic and slightly disappointing morning of cricket. Hoping for more drama in the final half an hour. Wicket needed 🇮🇳 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏏