Dr Rosemary Hannah

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Victorian historian, author of The Grand Designer, smallholder. Cis, bi. She/her/ them.

This week, I went over to Bluesky and asked people who'd left Mastodon why they left, and lots of people told me. I grabbed the replies and crunched them and wrote up a summary. I think it's really interesting and often kind of wrenching.

https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt

#meta

Mr Hare taking a breather at the Hellfire Club on a misty Wednesday morning.
#wildlife #WednesdayWildlife #goodmorning #sunrise

'The idea we do not have enough money to spend around £1billion to help hundreds of thousands of kids living in deprivation . . is ridiculous and no serious economist would support that, regardless of ideology'

#ukpolitics #LabourIsDead

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/starmer-labour-benefit-cap-u-turn-b2377390.html

Keir Starmer hits back at Labour critics of child benefit U-turn

‘Talk of no money left is the economics of the kindergarten’ says economist

The Independent
Labour in Scotland plan to undo socialist policies put in place by SNP
My shiny red cream separator has just set me onto the path of 10 oz of sweet (French style) butter. An added pleasure, the separator comes from Ukraine, near Zaporizhzhia.
I cannot but think that what the SNP suffer from worse is an absolute tidal wave of hostility from the millionaire media. I see the Telegraph is running with ‘deep cuts’ to fund ‘SNP pay rises’. That’s modest pay rises to public sector workers which have meant our services escaping weeks of strikes. Not pay rises to the SNP. And negotiated not ‘handed out’.
Finishing my cold roast lamb roll (bread making got delayed) and reminding myself to make more crab apple and hawthorn and crab apple and elderberry jelly this autumn. So delicious.
Viola’s kids are now a week old, full of energy and into EVERYTHING. It’s cuteness overload. Viola is producing far more milk than they can consume and so today I’ve made feta cheese for the first time since October. #AngloNubianGoats #goatsofmastadon
Well this morning Viola had her kids, two females which is fabulous. Unusually for an AN, one seems to be pure white, and the other a more usual chocolate brown. #goatsofmastodon #AngloNubian
A fence skipper #SheepOfMastadon #AlwaysOne In the hills here we don’t expect to lamb for another 2-3 weeks. It’s foul out. They are safely under cover.