@hennieh
A bit of a world traveller but currently living in the UK. On the other place I was @henniehigh. Interested in UK and Global politics, health, economics and a raft of other stuff. Married = no DMs/ Private chats, thanks
BBC’s Ben Taverner: ‘Mobile internet still down in central Moscow. Pedestrians, couriers and taxi drivers look lost. People connecting to wifi outside cafés/banks. Vedomosti says sales of pagers, paper maps and landline phones through roof. And now even wifi in the Duma (parliament) reportedly out!’
Horrified that Travelodge would turn away vulnerable booked customers (with ID, just not a passport) - very poor.
[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone]
Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.
I am now in my 55th year of being an imminent millionaire.
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
My cat, brother and sister, snuggling in a box
My tabby cat being squashed by my ginger cat, same box
Cat love... Squashed cat
All you Chat GPT fans who can’t be arsed to write your own words or think it’s great fun to drain the planet so you can show what your cartoon work persona looks like, well this is what you’re funding. It’s basically Skynet.
Due to reported missile attacks, British nationals in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and United Arab Emirates should immediately shelter in place. Remain indoors in a secure location, avoid all travel and follow instructions from the local authorities
UK warning British nationals in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and United Arab Emirates “to immediately shelter in place. Remain indoors in a secure location, avoid all travel and follow instructions from the local authorities”
This is amazing.
www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com
NEW
Six concerns about public procurement
What is wrong about public procurement - and why it can be hard to do anything about it
Detailed post by me:
emptycity.substack.com/p/six-concer...
Two cats have jumped onto a sash window and climbed up under the blind, dislodging it
Working from home proving more stressful than I feel is necessary
@lbc perhaps you can share with Tom Swarbrick. Seems the preacher was actually being pretty offensive.
This is super interesting.
The last one I can read fluently is 1600.
I can then still read it and figure out (almost) every word, with some puzzling, but then lose it almost completely at 1200.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
Poetry >Wendell Berry >The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
The Peace of Wild Things, by Wendell Berry. Heard it for the first time today - just beautiful ❤️
Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel.
“The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”
The video from Nigel Farage gives the impression that he was individually refused access.
Farage is in the Maldives.
200 miles away from the Chagos Islands which are not a
tourist destination.
Hasn't got the paperwork and wasn't on the 'aid boat' he's pointing at which is trying to establish a settlement for four people on the islands.
How is this serving Clacton? Who paid?
I see the University of York is offering a fixed-term post in public history for the same salary (£37k) I earned for a fixed-term post in public history, also in Yorkshire, in 2012. Had the rate risen with inflation it would now be £53k.
Ami Nakai in the short program. Absolutely joyful.
Keely Hodgkinson broke the indoor 800m world record last night - set on the day she was born 24 years ago.
She becomes only the second Brit to hold a WR along with Jonathan Edwards' triple jump mark.
Absolutely insane story about a middle-aged woman from Hertfordshire who got arrested, shackled, and detained by ICE and held in a prison for eight weeks.... while on holiday... with a valid tourist visa... as she tried to leave the country.
NEW
How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence
How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir
By me, at FT
www.ft.com/content/5207...
US Supreme Court rules Trump exceeded powers in imposing tariffs ft.trib.al/5CjsdD9
Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.
A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".
2026 basically
listen to the Trumpian way that Farage tries to silence my tenacious colleague @annasophiegross.bsky.social
(who was politely asking a reasonable question)
“Nobody in their right mind would say, ‘Hey, a 41-y-old woman is going to have a shot at another Olympic medal in a speed and power sport. I want my children to know that people told their mom that it can’t happen and then she went for it anyways.” www.nbcnews.com/sports/olymp...
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
I think… I think I may have done something really bad
