MountainBec

Critical reflection alone is like painting only in red — and then judging people by how well they paint in red. When we add compassionate, appreciative and creative reflection - we get the whole palette. More ways of seeing, understanding and imagining what could be different.

It takes somewhere between 3 & 6 weeks for a new habit to start to "take" & feel natural-- including habits of self-talk & mental focus. CPTSD is betting on you giving up in that time & falling back into your old trauma conditioning. Ride it out. Stay on target.

I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

To be honest I dislike wearing masks, but I dislike being sick even more. I wear a mask because I want to avoid illness, and in the event that I do get sick, I don’t want to spread it to anyone else. Wearing a mask can reduce your chances of catching Covid, Flu, #COVID19 #covid #mask #kids

This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.

Realistically managing & reducing our "fawn" reflex is going to involve tolerating the discomfort of others not liking or approving of us-- & that will scare the hell out of our inner child. Meet that terror w/ compassion, patience, & realism. There's nothing shameful about it

The dazzlingly bright, practically full Hunter's Moon this evening, with Saturn sidekick #phonescoped

The wonderful Amaze Sussex support families with Disabled children in Sussex, and have teamed up with Wild in Art for a beautiful trail of Book Benches across Brighton decorated by local groups. Find all the sculptures and support Amaze's work for families amazesussex.org.uk/thestorytrail/

Good work from Tom. @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Very happy that bluesky is filling up with birders. Not sure I'd ever be a twitcher though. However, lovely nutcrackers clearly are. Kestrels, linnets, crows, rooks on my patch. Just beautiful out.

My question is this..why do any of the Guradian blind daters think a healthy relationship starts with anything except friendship? Why is that not considered a healthy norm? Surely that's what dating is? Creating a friendship first.

Turnstile at the Washington Monument today, a benefit show raising money for humanitarian aid in Palestine, Sudan, and Lebanon

Spreading the word about Buy the Supply around Brighton! I've been leaving copies of my Zine, which will help you make the case for buying as well as building council homes, in libraries and organisations across the city. Print one out! 👇https://www.sianberry.org.uk/buy-the-supply-evidence/

#HaikuSaturday #Haikus Blustering winds speak Of approaching shorter days Raindrops reflect greys

The eyes of the world are on Brazil right now.

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#FOTW Daily Post 20 As well as the atmosphere and oceans, a changing climate can wake the solid Earth When ice melted after the last ice age, the pressure release triggered quakes and eruptions. The ground responds to what we do to the sky Pls share + tag 2 #FateOfTheWorld

6 Purple Sandpipers dodging the waves, lapping on the sand, near the Heugh pier this afternoon. Quite a few Goldcrest around with a few Eider and a Red Throated Diver out at sea. @teesbirds.bsky.social

Very pleased that Beth Dobbin has written to the PM asking for more funding for ME/CFS research AND that the BBC is reporting it: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athlet... Letter to Andy Burnham: www.instagram.com/p/DewbBEtCE1E/

The good news is I have a favourite pair of shoes, they've so far lasted 8 years. The bad news is Claudia wore them tonight on #CelebrityTraitors

Day four on the Immigration and Asylum Bill Committee. Today I am opposing the utterly cruel proposal for a ‘Refugee Tax’ for the poorest refugees to pay back support they received, while they were banned from working, to the Home Office.

Our open letter to UK infection control leads went today. Patients can be asked to remove their FFP2 or FFP3 mask, or swap it for a surgical one, while staff can now choose a respirator if treating a patient with respiratory symptoms. clinicallyvulnerable.org/letters/right-to-mask #RightToMask

Just talked to a close freind thats come down with the latest variant. Sounded like death warmed up. His partner is in a bad way too. Mask up folks, these are people in their 50s not elderly. It can and will fuck you up. Protect yourself, protect others, please mask up indoors. Thanks 😷✊✌️

The Govt claiming we must drill more fossil fuels so we can use the tax revenues to fund the green transition is about as logical as a doctor telling you to smoke 2 packs a day to raise the money for your lung transplant You don’t put out a fire by pouring on more fuel 🔥#Jackdaw

Tomorrow officially begins "spooky season" around here! I have 31 creepy adventures to share with you all month long - one per day. Please follow along! Tonight I share a picture from the fall display last year at the Indianapolis Zoo in Indiana.

The Inquiry explicitly rejects the claim that a “protective ring” was thrown around care homes “right from the start”. It says that claim did not accurately reflect the lack of action in March and the first half of April 2020. 3/10

More than 43,000 deaths involving Covid were recorded in UK care homes between March 2020 and July 2022. 2/10

The Covid Inquiry’s Module 6 report is devastating. Its central conclusion: adult social care was treated as “something of an afterthought”, while “protecting the NHS” sometimes came at the expense of people receiving and providing care. 1/10

Much of the media isn’t picking up on the ITV investigation into Reform UK (WONDER WHY???). Anyway, I wrote about it for LBC Views and more specifically how if we tolerate this we will become the United States - www.lbc.co.uk/article/refo...

Tumble weed across legacy media about ITV's exposé of Reform. Can you imagine the hysteria if an SNP councillor advocated for concentration camps or a Muslim Labour candidate said he wants to shoot MPs he considers traitors? The Mail front pages, Telegraph thinkpieces, and somber Today interviews?

Continuing my theme of "Why would a bat weighing 6g do this??" look what Mike did last night. 👀 (yellow highlight). At 18.40, he was holidaying in Prestatin. By half past midnight he was in Cardiff. In a straight line that's 130 miles in under 6 hours. #bats #wildlife #movementecology

www.theguardian.com/society/2026... @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social also start letting people know the extremely high difference viral mitigations will make. Including respirator but not surgical masks, but at the very least open windows in school classrooms.

Beautiful walk with the constant soundtrack of maybe a thousand Pink-footed Geese. Also Ravens, Sparrowhawk, Kestrels, Buzzards, Kingfisher, Cetti's. Heron, Mistle Thrush, Redwings, Siskins, Cetti's, Great Crested Grebes, Cormorants, Great Spotted Woodpeckers.

📻 Full interview with @binitakane.bsky.social on BBC Radio 5 Excellent discussion on ME & Beth Dobbin that looks at: 🔹why ME has been dismissed 🔹 why it's seen as psychological 🔹 the sickest patients have no NHS care. #pwME #longcovid #medsky

My thoughts about the film Complicated, with children who have EDS/hEDS, where they and their families are not being take seriously. With child protective services as a result. Medicine needs to do better! www.facebook.com/share/p/1XDf... #EDS #hEDS #pwme #myalgicE #millionsmissing

Seems some people know how to be allies not bystanders. And not the labour government. How short our memories are on how facism spreads that she shpuld be investigated or her husband fear for his job. @andyburnham.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...