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Devotion
Saw this news and I had to make a rough sketch about it. š„¹ We humans always underestimate the empathy and care of other animals..
Paul McGann Youtube Masterlist, newly updated and alphabetised!
(I kept editing and reblogging the original post which was getting messy so decided to make a new one)
A Motherās Son (Added 16/04)
Absence
Afraid of the Dark
Always Crashing In The Same Car
Annual Seamus Heaney Lecture 2023Ā (With poetry readings by Paul)
The Biographer
Collision (McGann Cut)
Day of the Sun Dog
Dealers
Did Adolf Hitler Live in Liverpool?
Doctor Who:
Night of the DoctorĀ +Ā The SurpriseĀ (BTS)
Power of the DoctorĀ (Guardians of the Edge)
Behind the Scenes of the TV Movie- SciFi Channel 1996Ā
Downtime
Drowning in the Shallow End
Fables of Forgotten Things
Festival of History 2023: The Weimar Years
Forgotten (Episode One) (Episode Two) (Episode Three)
Ghosts of HeathrowĀ (Audio)
Ghosts of the Underground
GypoĀ (Not available in the UK)
Hidden Paintings of the North West
Hornblower
Hotel!
If I Had You
The Importance of Being Earnest
Jackanory - The Whipping BoyĀ (clips)
Kidnapped (McGann Cut)
Listening
Living the Life (Part OneĀ Part TwoĀ Making Of)
McCartney and McGann Talk A Hard Dayās Night (Slapstick Festival 2023)
The Merchant of VeniceĀ (Poor Quality)
Mia and the Dragon Princess (McGann Cut)
The Minister of ChanceĀ (OuttakesĀ BTS)
The Monk (Added 16/04)
The Monocled Mutineer Debate - Liverpool John Mooreās University
Moving On: Blood Ties
Moving On: Passengers (Directed by Paul)
Moving On: Zero (Directed by Paul)
The One That Got Away
Perplexed Music
Sonnet 155
SOS: The Titanic Enquiry
Sweet Revenge (Episode OneĀ Episode Two)
Testament: The Bible in Animation - David and Saul
Tripping Over (Added 16/04)
True Dare Kiss (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
Victorian Sensations: Decadence and Degeneration
The Windmill
Withnail and I - Paul and Ralph Brown in conversation with Phil Jupitus (Slapstick Festival 2015)
Withnail and Us
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CANNOT take credit for these, my sister in law made them. Behold.
ala: hey did you get that photo of paul newman for the american library association's celebrity read campaign?
photographer: sure did boss, real fucking sexy just like you asked
ala: what
I think a great way to improve communication with kids (and adults) is to make every yes or no question a this or that question.
I started doing it when after brain surgery my husband had trouble forming responses to questions for a while, and realized that the habit was helping my students engage more truthfully with me.
Some examples:
Yes/No: āDid you clean up your room like I told you?ā
This/That: āDid you clean up already, or do you still need to do that?ā
Yes/No: āAre you going to sit quietly?ā
This/That: āAre you ready to sit and do our quiet activity, or do you need some time by yourself first?ā
Yes/No: āAre you doing anything fun for your birthday?ā
This/That: āAre you having a party on your birthday, or are you going to relax?ā
I think many children (and adults!) are averse to telling adults āNo,ā especially when a command is implied. (āDid you clean your room?ā āAre you going to sit quietly?ā Hmmm if I say ānoā I will be in trouble with the adult.) So they are actually pretty likely to just lie and say what they think you want to hear.
Presenting a this or that question provides an alternative to lying, a āno, butā scenario where they are presented with the reasonable consequences of a No (āif youāre not ready to sit quietly, you cannot do our quiet activity with us yet.ā)
I find it useful professionally with adults too - "Did you have a chance to finish that project, or is it more of a next-week item?" When done sincerely (rather than passive-aggressively), it gets over rough ground lightly: it gives the other person a solution you clearly already find acceptable, so they don't have to flail around trying to defend/excuse themselves, they can just take the solution and everyone can move on.
This is also helpful for modeling/teaching how to recognize needs and make choices. It teaches kids (and adults eho haven't had the opportunity to learn) that they have the ability to chose their actions and express their preferences or needs.
one of the many reasons to insist upon chronological timelines is that it's much, much harder to scroll forever if you can catch up with yourself. if you can run out of tumblr because you reach yesterday, that is a good and helpful prompt to do something else.
The purest form of love is consideration. When someone thinks about how things would make you feel. Pays attention to detail. Holds you in regard when making decisions that could affect you. In any bond, how much they care about you can be found in how much they consider you
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Joseph Mawle as Tim from Clapham Junction.
Joseph Mawle as Odysseus from episode 1: "Conditions" from the miniseries, Troy: Fall of A City.
THE CHAFF PROJECT
Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great!
How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public.
Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.
In practice: the goal is to make it DIFFICULT to identify trans people to target with bathroom bans, and to create many FALSE POSITIVES for businesses.
Basically, you might get accused of being trans and kicked out, because of the badge. You say: I wear the badge because trans rights matter.
You follow up with a letter to the business saying you're fucking furious because some nosy dipshit just tried to play fucking genital police with you in the loos. You know lots of trans people (don't name any, if you do) and you wear the pin in support and you're disgusted at them for allowing this.
Blame the business for allowing the behaviour.
Businesses see that their cis customers are getting bothered over a badge and may clarify trans-inclusive policies, so they can kick out the bathroom botherers instead of nice cis allies.
You only need to buy and wear the badge, and you are protecting trans people. You can be genuinely heroic. Even one cis person doing this helps, and everyone you get to join in helps even more.
Non-affiliated badge link:
https://rainbowandco.uk/collections/trans-pride/products/transgender-pride-flag-badge
Show your pride with our 25mm transgender pride flag pin badge. Perfect for wearing on your favourite denim jacket, back pack, or lanyard to
I'm not in the UK, but this is relevant anyway.
why bother caring about the environment when 1. Itās so obviously a lost cause and 2. Thereās definitely going to be a nuclear war?
And what are you doing about it Anon? Learn about ecological restoration or get out of my way.
If you read ecology books printed in the 70s and 80s, they were absolutely convinced that whales and tigers would not survive the century. There's a whole plot in Star Trek about how whales are extinct actually. Here in Argentina, we were sure that yaguaretƩs would have gone extinct. It was thought that rainforests would be forever lost, because there was no way that such complex ecosystems would be restored.
Now, you can go to PenĆnsula ValdĆ©s and find that the whale population there is growing year after year, people can see them from their windows. In IberĆ”, where yaguaretĆ©s were extinct for over 70 years, there's now a population of 35 and growing, after being reintroduced just five years ago. As for rainforests?
We've becoming very, very good on restoring them. Natural environments, when given space and time to heal, can return to that they were. And after all, all natural enviroments are managed by human societies. It is up to us to implement a good management, un buen gobierno.
I firmly believe our children and grandchildren will see a restoration of Earth like never before.
Millions of people are working on this. You can learn about it, perhaps even become one of them. Or be a pointless doomer in my ask box. Your choice.
if there are people who care, it's never a lost cause. at one point, kÄkÄpÅ, a nocturnal flightless parrot species from aotearoa, were thought to be entirely extinct for decades. until 1977, where booming calls from males were heard on the small island of whenua hou. now, thanks to people who care so much they dedicated their lives to caring, kÄkÄpÅ numbers are close to 300. despite the setbacks. despite the small gene pool causing infertility and health problems. people cared so fucking much that they survived. this is one of COUNTLESS, countless similar stories. I'm studying ecology so that I can go into conservation and all around me, every day, I see people who care enough to put years of their lives into learning about and solving environmental problems. I don't know man. hope isn't just some nebulous thing. it's tangible if you do something with it.
Tim Wong saw the decline of the pipeline swallowtail butterfly, and dedicated himself to providing habitat and raising babies, and it worked.
Spix's Macaws were extinct in the wild for 70 years, and now captive breeding and conservation groups have reintroduced a small population (with more on the way) and there are babies being successfully raised in the wild again.
And what else is there, but hope? We exist for the grace of hope. Those who have lost all hope don't stay here. If you are here to send an ask like this, it is not because you have given up, it's that you are hoping someone will show you that that hope is worth having.
It is!! It always is!!
There will be good things and if you cannot find them, make them! The time will pass anyway, you can choose what to do with it, and so many, many people are choosing to try to help.
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Want to do something to help stop the tradwife pipeline btw? Include mothers in your feminism. Hold space for women and others who are experiencing pregnancy or motherhood. Listen to their concerns about and unique perspectives on things like universal childcare, bodily autonomy, healthcare. Hold men who disrespect, sexualize, fetishize, shame or harass pregnant women and mothers accountable. Advocate for the right to nurse in public. Advocate for bodily autonomy within the healthcare field. Listen to women and birthing parents who have birth trauma. Listen to women who have undergone things like āthe husband stitchā, or medically unnecessary c-sections, or who were given drugs without consent by doctors and nurses violating their birth plan. Advocate for resources to promote an end to the high rates of maternal mortality in the US. Get to know a woman who has children. Get to know the person she is. Know about her likes and interests and hobbies. Unlearn the stigma in your head which makes you see pregnant women as āruinedā or ātaintedā and mothers as devoid of individual personhood.
As a leftist I will always advocate for the needs of mothers and their children. I refuse to let the right attempt to manipulate people by using the āweāre the only ones who care about mothers and childrenā talking point. I refuse to let my fellow leftists and progressives continue to enjoy complacency in their exclusion of these two marginalized groups.
this also means welcoming children at your events and/or offering free childcare. childcare is expensive and many mothers (much moreso than many fathers) can't participate in our movements unless we participate in looking after their kids.
Back when I was more politically active and involved in candidate recruitment for my party, Chuck E. Cheese was my go-to restaurant to meet with potential candidates who were parents.
We really needed their spouses present for those meetings (too many incidents of someone enthusiastically agreeing to run for office but then backing out after going home and talking with their spouse) and Chuck E. Cheese is set up so that kids can run wild without the parents needing to pay much attention.
So I'd take the whole family out for lunch Chuck E. Cheese and buy one of those packages that included a bunch of game tokens so the adults could all talk while the kids played games. Worked really well because parents loved that they didn't need to worry about childcare.
If you ever need to schedule a business lunch with a parent, consider Chuck E. Cheese or similar child-friendly venues. Those locations tend to be too noisy for large group meetings, but two-to-six adults can sit close enough to have a productive conversation.
Rat pizza: it's not just for kids' birthday parties!