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If choosing more mainstream, I’d recommend Channel 4 News if you can access it.

Aged 13 - Saturday girl in a barbershop. Some might say exploitation (and they’d be right) but I learned a lot about service, people and team work in those few years. I’m grateful for the experience in those formative years.

In #Lebanon, violence is intensifying once again. In just a few days, dozens of people have been killed and hundreds injured, while massive evacuation orders are forcing thousands of families to flee, often with no safe place to go.

Francesca Quinto, MSF Desk Manager, updates:

20+ years ago when I was studying law, the solution posed was ‘extend sitting hours’. Why didn’t that take off? Too expensive?

It’s not for ‘the sake of profit’ now - it’s a narcissistic race to the biggest bank account through kleptocracy & oppression. If it were about profits they’d worry about their shareholders and customers. These billionaires are untouchable and they know it. This requires much more than resistance.

Feel similar here in the UK. The only thing this US administration is good at is increasing my cortisol.

Let’s talk about bossware and if you haven’t heard that term yet, here’s what it is. Bossware is workplace surveillance software. Software that tracks your keystrokes, monitors what websites you visit, takes random screenshots of your screen throughout the day,

A typed letter that reads (with a few more typos!). Dear Mummy + Daddy Hi! Is it ok if I save my money for a present for Max. Anyway that’s not what we’re talking about! I love you and you were born pure gold but sadly not everyone is born that way (Donald Trump)He’s really unpleasant (cruel) He only cares about Filthy money and his stupid self! Your like a giant block off gold! shining in the night! Like I said you were born pure gold! What’s your favourite song please can you right the song lyrics and give it to me when u do it give it to me

‘…you were born pure gold but sadly not everyone is born that way (Donald Trump). He’s really unpleasant (cruel). He only cares about filthy money and his stupid self!’

January 2019, our 9yo types their first letter on their new Olivetti, a retro gift from Santa.

Out of the mouths of babes…

Sylvia sits in front of a tree in her garden in Tawton, England, holding her baby son Nicholas and smiling affectionately at her toddler daughter, Frieda. Frieda holds a bunch of picked daffodils. The leaves of daffodils can be seen in the foreground as can the grass.

“In March I’ll be rested, caught up and human.”

~ Sylvia Plath 1932-1963

An American poet & novelist whose fierce intelligence, wit and unflinching honesty revolutionised confessional poetry. A woman who lived & created with deep intensity, not just someone defined by her marriage & how she died.

General sentiment:

‘Take your bone spurs, cheap cap and nappy, and kindly fuck the fuck off.

And when you get there, fuck off some more.

Good people want nothing to do with you and your abominable, murderous plans.’

Sincerely,

The UK 🇬🇧

Epstein Files + ICE. She’s effortlessly hitting the irony high notes.

Yep! Like attracts like and now they find refuge in one another. The even more surprising thing is that ordinary folks have fallen for it! Or are they also cut from the same cloth?

Old habits do seem to die hard 😒

I’m just sitting here thinking exactly this. Running at 100mph on adrenaline and cortisol, and you know the crash will come sooner or later ☹️

An alternative is - set up a second account. I guess the difficulties are when there isn’t a regular income, but still. Not that difficult in the U.K.

The ‘simple fix’ is the decision to switch, you rude arse

I feel for you all. It’s a horror show. But let’s not pretend there weren’t a few warm-up acts. (I apply that to UK too).

As all narcissists do.

If there have been gains from Reform several times then that’s a fair point. I suspect the number of times Reform has defended isn’t well known. I can see where they’re coming from, it’s about framing rather than word accuracy, but I’m not dying in a ditch about it 😄

Our relationship with money and what we use it for is deeply personal and emotional. Our accounts reflect our struggles, as well as banality of daily living. I’d hate this banter tone too, esp if I didn’t request a review. It’s not Spotify. But then, simple fix, switch banks if the brand don’t fit.

You’ve made the *opportunity* of winning from Reform sound common, but the outcome rare. But this situation is rare full-stop. There haven’t been many by-elections with Reform defending (you’ll know the number - is this the first?). I believe that’s why this person is challenging your language.

Claude even states at the end of each chat: ‘Claude is AI and can make mistakes. Please double-check cited sources’. I don’t think the workman blaming his tools is going to cut it in this instance.

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

The Black Death’s counterintuitive effect: as human numbers fell, so did plant diversity New study finds that plant biodiversity collapsed in landscapes where arable production was abandoned during and after the Black Death era.

Very interesting! Thank you @beccyscottuk.bsky.social

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And it’s good to remember that the darkest hour is the hour before the dawn.

All these madmen need to go. All of them.

Simple. US democracy is dead.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Little Donny didn’t get much love, just soulless trinkets instead.

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