"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Shakespeare ✨🌑 (painting: Carlo Crivelli)
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As trees do not make cries for human ears to hear, nor does much of nature when it is being destroyed, so, to paraphrase Gandhi, I update his wise words:
'The greatness of a nation & it's moral progress can be judged by the way nature is treated'
@YsbrydArtist via Gandhi 💚🌳🕊️
Ysbryd PPFOB 🕊🦊🐝🌳🌗🦔🦡🦇 retweeted
Three Canning Town towers built in 2017 by Galliard Homes and Cathedral Group were evacuated in October over a transfer slab fault that letters to residents say could result in a collapse.
The 211 flats affected are still waiting for anyone to be named as responsible.
In east London, a number of residents have been left with no choice but to keep living in a building with an imminent risk to life because no responsible party offered any alternative accommodation, three weeks after they were ordered to evacuate:
insidehousing.co.uk/news/res…
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Two years ago, I was invited to talk to some young care leavers in Peterborough. Most were just 16, struggling with trauma and trying to make sense of their lives. I left that day emotional and angry with the system.
I've returned every year since. Most are now 18 and working, which is fantastic and credit to Peterborough City Council.
But here's the reality.
These young people are working for minimum wage, with little or no family support. They're falling into arrears because they need to eat. They're sitting in the dark, too frightened to turn the heating on because they can't afford it.
And some aren't even 18 yet.
We celebrate getting care leavers into employment, but what are we celebrating when they still can't afford to survive?
We've normalised young people leaving care and living in poverty. That should shame us all.
Ysbryd PPFOB 🕊🦊🐝🌳🌗🦔🦡🦇 retweeted
So close to 10,000 signatures!
Help it get there!
Make your voice heard on the issue of pesticides!
Help us get the dangerous herbicide glyphosate out of our gardens, parks, playgrounds and public spaces.
gardenorganic.org.uk/get-inv…
Ysbryd PPFOB 🕊🦊🐝🌳🌗🦔🦡🦇 retweeted
An update on this. The property manager has written to residents to say that gas and water supplies will be turned off tonight.
Neither Galliard or Newham have yet made an offer to provide temporary accommodation
In east London, a number of residents have been left with no choice but to keep living in a building with an imminent risk to life because no responsible party offered any alternative accommodation, three weeks after they were ordered to evacuate:
insidehousing.co.uk/news/res…
Ysbryd PPFOB 🕊🦊🐝🌳🌗🦔🦡🦇 retweeted
This might sound crazy, but one of the skills you NEED to learn is how to deal with an increasingly illiterate society full of emotionally dysregulated people.
If you keep getting frustrated every day over how “dumb” everything and everyone seems, the stress of it is going to wreck your mind.
You can’t control the collective intelligence or emotional maturity of the world around you.
Ysbryd PPFOB 🕊🦊🐝🌳🌗🦔🦡🦇 retweeted
Nice views of the female King Eider (furthest left bird) with her commoner cousins in a choppy Lerwick Harbour, Shetland yesterday.
Ysbryd PPFOB 🕊🦊🐝🌳🌗🦔🦡🦇 retweeted
Terrifying. An image of the cracking in the ceiling of the second floor in Royal Gateway, directly beneath a column. People are still living in this complex.
In east London, a number of residents have been left with no choice but to keep living in a building with an imminent risk to life because no responsible party offered any alternative accommodation, three weeks after they were ordered to evacuate:
insidehousing.co.uk/news/res…
Ysbryd PPFOB 🕊🦊🐝🌳🌗🦔🦡🦇 retweeted
Coming off of psychiatric drugs after being on them for 25 years was one of the most brutal things I’ve ever had to do in my life, and I did it with little to no support.
I had the doctors treating me telling me my adverse reactions to the drugs were signs of my “mental illness” and that my withdrawal symptoms were signs that I needed the drugs.
I had friends and family be incredibly harsh with me, telling me I was being non-compliant and they believed if I didn’t like what a doctor told me I’d just stop doing what they recommended. (What I know now is that I knew deep down the drugs were harming me). I had a lot of people walk away from me, all while I was deeply suffering with withdrawal, intense akathisia, cognitive dissonance and total nervous system and brain fry.
Imagine going through what we know now is real—adverse side effects and withdrawal symptoms and everyone around you is giving you the side eye and turning their backs on you. Imagine a system using your pain and suffering against you for decades to diagnose and imprison you and then when you’re trying to crawl out of it, your support system throws you right back into the pit of being crazy, unstable and smearing you.
It was brutal.
But I survived.
I’m ten years off of all psych drugs and the relationship that I made during that time that was the most essential was the one I made with myself.
No more gaslighting, overriding my intuition or fawning just to avoid disappointing people or afraid of them not liking me.
It took the strength of an army and i cultivated that strength inside myself with my connection to God.
Most didn’t believe me or walked away from me—that’s ok, because I proved them all wrong and proved my resiliency to the only person that mattered—me.
If you’re in this place, the only thing I can tell you is to dig deep and keep going.
Ysbryd PPFOB 🕊🦊🐝🌳🌗🦔🦡🦇 retweeted
Travelling across the country, speaking at conferences and meeting young people in care, one thing continues to break my heart.
We have 16, 17 and 18-year-olds living alone, worrying about gas, electricity, rent and how much money they have left to eat, let alone enjoy time with friends.
And somehow, we've accepted this as normal.
I'll say that again.
Young people leaving care are being forced into independence before they've even had the chance to experience a proper childhood.
We call it preparing them for adulthood.
But there's a difference between independence and survival.
These young people deserve love, stability and a childhood, not just a set of keys and a pile of bills.
Ysbryd PPFOB 🕊🦊🐝🌳🌗🦔🦡🦇 retweeted
I’m starting to think one of the biggest conversations we’re not having is about the psychological damage of modern work.
People are celebrating Outlook outages, abandoning careers they spent decades building, and having existential crises over the job market.
And somehow we’re still treating burnout like an individual problem instead of asking what the fuck we’re doing to people.
Ysbryd PPFOB 🕊🦊🐝🌳🌗🦔🦡🦇 retweeted
Others have spent thousands of pounds of their own money on hotels (which are £200 plus every night in this part of London) and storage for their belongings. Some have nowhere to sleep at all. The developer (Galliard) has committed to paying for temporary accommodation, but...
Ysbryd PPFOB 🕊🦊🐝🌳🌗🦔🦡🦇 retweeted
In east London, a number of residents have been left with no choice but to keep living in a building with an imminent risk to life because no responsible party offered any alternative accommodation, three weeks after they were ordered to evacuate:
insidehousing.co.uk/news/res…
