Cait Chonraoi
@caitchonraoi.bsky.social
Blessed to be alive. Lucky to travel the world. Hopeful of a good future for my family and friends.
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China to become first country to ban hidden car door handles. This due to safety concerns after EV accidents where electronic doors reportedly failed to operate and trapped passengers inside.
Sky News
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Sky News
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China to become first country to ban hidden door handles — Sky News
From next year, new car models will have to have both exterior and interior handles with mechanical releases.
apple.news
February 3, 2026 at 4:26 PM
China to become first country to ban hidden car door handles. This due to safety concerns after EV accidents where electronic doors reportedly failed to operate and trapped passengers inside.
Sky News
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Sky News
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I hope wherever she is, she can see the effect of what she taught me and how I'm a professional writer now too. Chasing dreams and creating worlds at a keyboard because she gave me gentle first steps forward into being inspired.
February 4, 2026 at 5:50 PM
I hope wherever she is, she can see the effect of what she taught me and how I'm a professional writer now too. Chasing dreams and creating worlds at a keyboard because she gave me gentle first steps forward into being inspired.
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Mandelson leaks UK secrets to Epstein
Epstein was working for the Russians
And still Keir Starmer will not instruct our security services to investigate Russian interference in pushing Brexit over the line
Epstein was working for the Russians
And still Keir Starmer will not instruct our security services to investigate Russian interference in pushing Brexit over the line
February 3, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Mandelson leaks UK secrets to Epstein
Epstein was working for the Russians
And still Keir Starmer will not instruct our security services to investigate Russian interference in pushing Brexit over the line
Epstein was working for the Russians
And still Keir Starmer will not instruct our security services to investigate Russian interference in pushing Brexit over the line
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Sunshine in dessert form? Yes please. These Strawberry Lemon Bars are the sweet‑tart, pink‑kissed treat your feed has been begging for. A buttery shortbread crust, a bright strawberry‑lemon filling, and a powdered‑sugar snowfall on top www.loulougirls.com/strawberry-l...
#StrawberryLemonBars
#StrawberryLemonBars
February 3, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Sunshine in dessert form? Yes please. These Strawberry Lemon Bars are the sweet‑tart, pink‑kissed treat your feed has been begging for. A buttery shortbread crust, a bright strawberry‑lemon filling, and a powdered‑sugar snowfall on top www.loulougirls.com/strawberry-l...
#StrawberryLemonBars
#StrawberryLemonBars
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When Farage strays from immigration, he's lost. The UK, in reality, is very different from the one he sees from the bottom of an emptying pint glass.
February 3, 2026 at 11:32 AM
When Farage strays from immigration, he's lost. The UK, in reality, is very different from the one he sees from the bottom of an emptying pint glass.
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England's water companies don't pay fines.
Thames Water, with nearly 200 criminal convictions, fined £122.4m in Aug/Dec 2024 for sewage dumping, paying illegal dividends.
Secretly agreed - Paid only £24.5m (20%) in Sept 2025. Remaining 80% may be paid by 2030 or never.
Why are companies indulged?
Thames Water, with nearly 200 criminal convictions, fined £122.4m in Aug/Dec 2024 for sewage dumping, paying illegal dividends.
Secretly agreed - Paid only £24.5m (20%) in Sept 2025. Remaining 80% may be paid by 2030 or never.
Why are companies indulged?
Public ownership of water is the only way to deliver security, efficiency, investment and value for money
37 years of privatisation has been a disaster
leftfootforward.org
February 1, 2026 at 9:33 AM
England's water companies don't pay fines.
Thames Water, with nearly 200 criminal convictions, fined £122.4m in Aug/Dec 2024 for sewage dumping, paying illegal dividends.
Secretly agreed - Paid only £24.5m (20%) in Sept 2025. Remaining 80% may be paid by 2030 or never.
Why are companies indulged?
Thames Water, with nearly 200 criminal convictions, fined £122.4m in Aug/Dec 2024 for sewage dumping, paying illegal dividends.
Secretly agreed - Paid only £24.5m (20%) in Sept 2025. Remaining 80% may be paid by 2030 or never.
Why are companies indulged?
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This new drug might really change outcomes for people with diabetes.
New drug could prevent diabetes complications not fixed with blood sugar control, study hints | Live Science share.google/MMCa7pYhsx0w...
New drug could prevent diabetes complications not fixed with blood sugar control, study hints | Live Science share.google/MMCa7pYhsx0w...
New drug could prevent diabetes complications not fixed with blood sugar control, study hints
An experimental drug compound could be a promising treatment for harmful diabetes complications, per a new study in lab mice and human cells.
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February 1, 2026 at 4:37 PM
This new drug might really change outcomes for people with diabetes.
New drug could prevent diabetes complications not fixed with blood sugar control, study hints | Live Science share.google/MMCa7pYhsx0w...
New drug could prevent diabetes complications not fixed with blood sugar control, study hints | Live Science share.google/MMCa7pYhsx0w...
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#plants #history #botany #art 🌳
I've had a busy week - it has left me tired and melancholic. John Grimshaw painted many public spaces in N 🏴 in the C19. His work was calm and pensive.
John Atkinson Grimshaw 1836-1893
Moonlight on Waterloo lake, Roundhay Park, Leeds 🇬🇧
Oils on Canvas c1872
I've had a busy week - it has left me tired and melancholic. John Grimshaw painted many public spaces in N 🏴 in the C19. His work was calm and pensive.
John Atkinson Grimshaw 1836-1893
Moonlight on Waterloo lake, Roundhay Park, Leeds 🇬🇧
Oils on Canvas c1872
January 30, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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* "We'll shoot shit all over the landscape. Keep the money for maintenance, for ourselves. Up your water rates and you'll like it."
* Tories, Labour, Fartage
* "We can't possibly give @libdems.org.uk @greenparty.org.uk a shot.
They haven't detailed how they'll pay for it!"
* Rando on the internet.
* Tories, Labour, Fartage
* "We can't possibly give @libdems.org.uk @greenparty.org.uk a shot.
They haven't detailed how they'll pay for it!"
* Rando on the internet.
January 29, 2026 at 10:26 AM
* "We'll shoot shit all over the landscape. Keep the money for maintenance, for ourselves. Up your water rates and you'll like it."
* Tories, Labour, Fartage
* "We can't possibly give @libdems.org.uk @greenparty.org.uk a shot.
They haven't detailed how they'll pay for it!"
* Rando on the internet.
* Tories, Labour, Fartage
* "We can't possibly give @libdems.org.uk @greenparty.org.uk a shot.
They haven't detailed how they'll pay for it!"
* Rando on the internet.
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Water bills to rise again in England, well above the rate of inflation.
90% of water industry is foreign owned. Shareholders count the returns, have no contact with leaks, water shortages or sewage dumping.
Customers fleeced. Privatisation is a scam.
90% of water industry is foreign owned. Shareholders count the returns, have no contact with leaks, water shortages or sewage dumping.
Customers fleeced. Privatisation is a scam.
Water bills to rise again: Use our tool to find out by how much
The average annual household bill in England and Wales will increase by £33 from April.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Water bills to rise again in England, well above the rate of inflation.
90% of water industry is foreign owned. Shareholders count the returns, have no contact with leaks, water shortages or sewage dumping.
Customers fleeced. Privatisation is a scam.
90% of water industry is foreign owned. Shareholders count the returns, have no contact with leaks, water shortages or sewage dumping.
Customers fleeced. Privatisation is a scam.
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Privatisation Curse.
Royal Mail delivered Xmas letters/parcels late to 16m people.
2025 figure is 50% higher than previous year.
RM doesn't meet targets.
Price Now: Ist class stamp £1.70; 2nd class 87p.
When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.
Royal Mail delivered Xmas letters/parcels late to 16m people.
2025 figure is 50% higher than previous year.
RM doesn't meet targets.
Price Now: Ist class stamp £1.70; 2nd class 87p.
When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.
Royal Mail delivered Christmas letters and parcels late to about 16m people
‘No light at the end of the tunnel for consumers’ as 2025 figure is 50% higher than previous year, says Citizens Advice
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:49 AM
Privatisation Curse.
Royal Mail delivered Xmas letters/parcels late to 16m people.
2025 figure is 50% higher than previous year.
RM doesn't meet targets.
Price Now: Ist class stamp £1.70; 2nd class 87p.
When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.
Royal Mail delivered Xmas letters/parcels late to 16m people.
2025 figure is 50% higher than previous year.
RM doesn't meet targets.
Price Now: Ist class stamp £1.70; 2nd class 87p.
When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.
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Still trying desperately to cling on to your youth? Watch out: you could be a Young 40 | Emma Beddington
Still trying desperately to cling on to your youth? Watch out: you could be a Young 40 | Emma Beddington
Millennials in South Korea are being mocked for trying too hard to follow fashion. It’s far better to accept the march of time, writes Emma Beddington
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Still trying desperately to cling on to your youth? Watch out: you could be a Young 40 | Emma Beddington
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Outside the political bubble, this will look incredibly petty and motivated entirely by spite and cowardice. It also creates clear water between the parliamentary party and one of their few remaining popular politicians, this could easily lose them another 5pp in the polls
January 25, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Outside the political bubble, this will look incredibly petty and motivated entirely by spite and cowardice. It also creates clear water between the parliamentary party and one of their few remaining popular politicians, this could easily lose them another 5pp in the polls
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“Don’t be discouraged when you find that the process of self-discovery takes a long, long time,” she said. “Don’t even be surprised if at 50 you are still wondering what you are going to be when you grow up.” 🗃️
RIP Barbara Aronstein Black
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
RIP Barbara Aronstein Black
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
Barbara Aronstein Black, a First as a Law School Dean, Dies at 92
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2026 at 3:36 AM
“Don’t be discouraged when you find that the process of self-discovery takes a long, long time,” she said. “Don’t even be surprised if at 50 you are still wondering what you are going to be when you grow up.” 🗃️
RIP Barbara Aronstein Black
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
RIP Barbara Aronstein Black
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
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About 25 feet (7.5m) up in the canopy of an Irish Atlantic rainforest, a wonderful profusion of epiphytic lichens and mosses.
These places are ecological treasurehouses, are almost all gone, yet are *still* mostly being allowed to just die off through overgrazing.
What the hell is *wrong* with us?
These places are ecological treasurehouses, are almost all gone, yet are *still* mostly being allowed to just die off through overgrazing.
What the hell is *wrong* with us?
January 22, 2026 at 5:38 AM
About 25 feet (7.5m) up in the canopy of an Irish Atlantic rainforest, a wonderful profusion of epiphytic lichens and mosses.
These places are ecological treasurehouses, are almost all gone, yet are *still* mostly being allowed to just die off through overgrazing.
What the hell is *wrong* with us?
These places are ecological treasurehouses, are almost all gone, yet are *still* mostly being allowed to just die off through overgrazing.
What the hell is *wrong* with us?
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Fancy a brief escape into the wild world of an Irish Atlantic rainforest mini waterfall?
Both we and nature need a lot more of this, and rewilding is how we make it happen.
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Both we and nature need a lot more of this, and rewilding is how we make it happen.
🌍
January 18, 2026 at 5:49 AM
Fancy a brief escape into the wild world of an Irish Atlantic rainforest mini waterfall?
Both we and nature need a lot more of this, and rewilding is how we make it happen.
🌍
Both we and nature need a lot more of this, and rewilding is how we make it happen.
🌍
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2026: Rishi Sunak says the UK is under attack through our screens.. Misinformation from Russia
2020: Stewart Hosie, "The UK gov actively avoided looking for evidence that Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum"
2020: Stewart Hosie, "The UK gov actively avoided looking for evidence that Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum"
January 18, 2026 at 11:48 AM
2026: Rishi Sunak says the UK is under attack through our screens.. Misinformation from Russia
2020: Stewart Hosie, "The UK gov actively avoided looking for evidence that Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum"
2020: Stewart Hosie, "The UK gov actively avoided looking for evidence that Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum"
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Badenoch tells the Telegraph that Britain isn't broken and tells the Express that she'll fix broken Britain.
Run that past me again.
Run that past me again.
January 17, 2026 at 6:48 AM
Badenoch tells the Telegraph that Britain isn't broken and tells the Express that she'll fix broken Britain.
Run that past me again.
Run that past me again.
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Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).
January 16, 2026 at 8:18 AM
Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).
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I'm a sartorial prepper.
If I ever get invited to a white tie event, I will be jubilant that I had exactly the right outfit on hand. Then I will politely decline the invitation because I don't like being around a lot of people.
If I ever get invited to a white tie event, I will be jubilant that I had exactly the right outfit on hand. Then I will politely decline the invitation because I don't like being around a lot of people.
January 15, 2026 at 2:20 AM
I'm a sartorial prepper.
If I ever get invited to a white tie event, I will be jubilant that I had exactly the right outfit on hand. Then I will politely decline the invitation because I don't like being around a lot of people.
If I ever get invited to a white tie event, I will be jubilant that I had exactly the right outfit on hand. Then I will politely decline the invitation because I don't like being around a lot of people.
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Some very careful ducks
January 13, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Some very careful ducks
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‘A friend spoke to a number of people in Isfahan who said they could hear people dying in the alleyways. One witnessed blood stains all over the city’s streets and walls. “The situation is far far worse than what we see in limited videos.”’2.
January 13, 2026 at 11:00 PM
‘A friend spoke to a number of people in Isfahan who said they could hear people dying in the alleyways. One witnessed blood stains all over the city’s streets and walls. “The situation is far far worse than what we see in limited videos.”’2.
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I'm gonna be posting about stuff that's not heavy. It's a privilege that I get to do so. We're all on this strange space rock together, for a limited time. Hope you get to make something beautiful today.
Hug your kids, bring some magic to the world.
Hug your kids, bring some magic to the world.
January 8, 2026 at 4:05 PM
I'm gonna be posting about stuff that's not heavy. It's a privilege that I get to do so. We're all on this strange space rock together, for a limited time. Hope you get to make something beautiful today.
Hug your kids, bring some magic to the world.
Hug your kids, bring some magic to the world.
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This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
December 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.