Two whiskey glasses, one filled with blue and the other with amber beads.
I love this visual tool. Coloured glass beads. Each bead represents a task (word count, writing sprint, health goal - steps, etc). I use blue for writing and amber for health.
Each time you finish the task you add a stone to a jar, giving a visual shot of your week.
BREAKING: Peter Mandelson just sent this secret notice to all UK media, demanding they leave him alone.
He uses IPSO clauses designed to support grieving families in a bid to stop scrutiny of his relationship with Epstein
We have published it in full.
www.thenational.scot/news/2583451...
I know 😂
Bluesky notification “Shemar Moore followed you”
If only!!
Honestly, when I think I’m beyond being surprised by people, someone like “Claire” says this - publicly.
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
NEW: Reform UK says it would re-impose the two-child benefit cap - scrapped by Labour - for most families to fund £3bn support package for pubs.
Here’s a useful reminder of what our federal courts SHOULD be doing to uphold our constitutional traditions:
Tomorrow we are in the High Court suing Reform for breaching data processing rules. We think it's really quite important. 👇
Disabled people have a poverty rate 8 percentage points higher than people with no disability.
🗣️ Hear Lead Analyst @datataha.bsky.social set out some of the additional structural barriers that disabled people face, and why the government must increase their support. 👇
Oh I’ll be getting this - I’m UK but fairly certain it’ll be applicable to the chaos we’re seeing here.
February is going well so far.
1st - 1.3k words
2nd - 1.4k words
Listened to Sally-Anne Martyn on The Writers Routine as I sat waiting for my daughter in a car park (hello to those who know how that feels) and downloaded Will Storr’s The Science of Storytelling.
Such an improvement from January
NEW: Emily Thornberry, Labour chair of foreign affairs committee, says police should investigate emails.
"Surely this is not a matter of whether Mandelson should be in the Lords [but]... of whether the police should be involved."
SNP, Lib Dems and PC have all already called for police involvement
WE LOVE ❤️ THE BOSS,AND
MINNEAPOLIS.......
🔴 Tommy Robinson and the London News Website Linked to a Putin-Backed Propaganda Network
Far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon was appointed as an ambassador to an unregistered charity connected to a Russian 'black PR' operation, Matt Bernardini reports
NEW: This isn't about "training." The two agents who murdered Alex Pretti - Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez - have been with Border Patrol for 8 and 12 years respectively. You can't reform CBP. Abolish ICE/CBP. www.propublica.org/article/alex...
February, the bar is very low, you have to be better than January. Please.
£600k on eight free parking spaces, six reserved for Reform politicians, whilst removing free parking for junior Council staff.
Total snouts in troughs from Reform. www.lbc.co.uk/article/refo...
Please share. 💔
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
As the BBC - abandoning even the vaguest pretence at balance for a campaign grounded in passionate intensity - it's worth reading this joint statement signed by 40 children’s charities, digital safety experts and bereaved families.
They oppose one.
Photo taken from inside a car of a car park at dusk, lights just turned on
Wouldn’t it be great if we got paid by the hour for the time spent in car parks, especially as a parent carer! I seem to spend half my life sat in the car, waiting for someone or something.
Thankfully, I can write my draft in the car so it’s all good.
Well I wasn’t even thinking of this as a late breakfast option but now….. those eggs look perfect 😍
Black labradoodle lying on his back, with paws up in the air, asleep on a sofa
This is my view as I try to write the next chapter of my book - a chapter that is proving to be a challenge.
I’m glad one of us is feeling relaxed and chilled. No imposter syndrome for him
We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.
FUCK ICE. Hi, it’s your pal KG. I’m getting suppressed on threads b/c in addition to inappropriate jokes, I post a lot of political stuff. I wanna give this app a chance but just don’t know yet. Can u help me get a lot more followers, so I can do a test anti trump post to see if it gets traction?
When a government needs a distraction, or a quick moral panic to keep the public looking sideways instead of upwards, it picks a group and tells a story about them.
open.substack.com/pub/lifeaspl...
PIP is not about income. Its about "overcoming the costs" of a disability. Any study that shows PIP reform will put people into poverty shows that PIP is being misused and that other parts of the benefits system (ie UC) are inadequate. 120 Labour MPs clearly cannot be bothered to read legislation
“If we can afford not to have a wealth tax, not to equalise capital gains, or draw on the excess profits of corporate greed; then we can afford PIP.”
Labour MP Rachael Maskell gave a passionate and emotive speech at the welfare bill debate in commons this afternoon. Watch the clip 🎬
Scrapping EHCPs won’t fix the cracks. It just hides who’s falling through them.
Seriously? What is this government doing? It’s like we’re in a parody and someone is going to shout “surprise, only joking” soon!
