Grumpy and Proud!
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Proud stepdad and husband. Irish 🇮🇪 & English 🇬🇧 at the same time. Child of the 90's when the music was good and the world felt kinder. STH kop.
The Sadness of Cave Life - Elpis Counselling
I have a easily distracted and wandering mind. Sometimes this is quite nice, useful even, other times it is deeply annoying as I find it hard to focus and concentrate on one thing at a time. The thing...
www.elpiscounselling.co.uk
September 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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A reminder of a pretty etymology to brighten the day. The ‘daisy’ takes its name from the Old English ‘dæges ēage’, ‘day’s eye’, because it opens its petals at dawn, and closes them again at dusk.
April 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM
A reminder of a pretty etymology to brighten the day. The ‘daisy’ takes its name from the Old English ‘dæges ēage’, ‘day’s eye’, because it opens its petals at dawn, and closes them again at dusk.
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Psst… take 12 seconds away from doom scrolling, to take a deep breath and relax with these sweet otters 🦦
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March 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Psst… take 12 seconds away from doom scrolling, to take a deep breath and relax with these sweet otters 🦦
🔊
🎥Nature
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🎥Nature
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The UK would now want to rejoin the EU by 55% to 33%
Removing those that don’t know - that’s a 62.5% to 37.5% breakdown.
Removing those that don’t know - that’s a 62.5% to 37.5% breakdown.
March 20, 2025 at 10:09 AM
The UK would now want to rejoin the EU by 55% to 33%
Removing those that don’t know - that’s a 62.5% to 37.5% breakdown.
Removing those that don’t know - that’s a 62.5% to 37.5% breakdown.
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Brick Lane, east London, seen yesterday.
March 16, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Brick Lane, east London, seen yesterday.
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It's official: US now seen no longer open and free thanks to Trump's "undue restrictions on civic freedoms." The watchdog group says Trump's "Gross abuses of executive power raise serious concerns over the freedoms of peaceful assembly, expression and association" thehill.com/homenews/adm...
US added to human rights watchlist over Trump moves
The United States has been added to CIVICUS’s monitor list of potential human rights threats due to President Trump’s restrictive executive orders and institutional cutbacks, which are …
thehill.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:59 AM
It's official: US now seen no longer open and free thanks to Trump's "undue restrictions on civic freedoms." The watchdog group says Trump's "Gross abuses of executive power raise serious concerns over the freedoms of peaceful assembly, expression and association" thehill.com/homenews/adm...
Social media platforms must be ‘brought to heel’, says UK schools leader
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Couldn't agree more. Billionaire sociopaths shouldn't be allowed to decide what our children can and cannot see. All governments need to act immediately to halt access yo such content.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Couldn't agree more. Billionaire sociopaths shouldn't be allowed to decide what our children can and cannot see. All governments need to act immediately to halt access yo such content.
Social media platforms must be ‘brought to heel’, says UK schools leader
Headteachers’ conference to be told that rise in bullying, abuse and malicious use of deepfakes is being reported
www.theguardian.com
March 14, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Social media platforms must be ‘brought to heel’, says UK schools leader
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Couldn't agree more. Billionaire sociopaths shouldn't be allowed to decide what our children can and cannot see. All governments need to act immediately to halt access yo such content.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Couldn't agree more. Billionaire sociopaths shouldn't be allowed to decide what our children can and cannot see. All governments need to act immediately to halt access yo such content.
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Trump sacked the chairman of the Kennedy Center along with 13 trustees, appointing himself the new chair. He said “So we took over the Kennedy Center. We didn’t like what they were showing. We’re going to make sure that it’s good and it’s not going to be woke” 🤔
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
‘Ruined this place’: chorus of boos against JD Vance at Washington concert
Attendance of vice-president – who once disbelieved that people listened to classical music for pleasure – strikes sour note at Kennedy Center in light of Maga takeover
www.theguardian.com
March 14, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Trump sacked the chairman of the Kennedy Center along with 13 trustees, appointing himself the new chair. He said “So we took over the Kennedy Center. We didn’t like what they were showing. We’re going to make sure that it’s good and it’s not going to be woke” 🤔
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Broadly as predicted that if you make trade with your nearest market harder there will be a fall in exports. Worth noting that an SPS deal doesn't automatically mean all of these losses are reversed - as there are many different barriers. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK food and drink exports to the EU down 34% since Brexit
Food and Drink Federation say businesses are struggling to deal with added ‘complexity and bureaucracy’
www.theguardian.com
March 14, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Broadly as predicted that if you make trade with your nearest market harder there will be a fall in exports. Worth noting that an SPS deal doesn't automatically mean all of these losses are reversed - as there are many different barriers. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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A new “European Movement Canada” is being built. 🇨🇦🇪🇺
"Canada must not be a spectator to history. Strengthening our relationship with Europe now is an investment in the stability and prosperity of our shared future.”
"Canada must not be a spectator to history. Strengthening our relationship with Europe now is an investment in the stability and prosperity of our shared future.”
Strengthening the European Union-Canada relationship
European Movement International seeks creating a European Movement Canada
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March 9, 2025 at 7:25 AM
A new “European Movement Canada” is being built. 🇨🇦🇪🇺
"Canada must not be a spectator to history. Strengthening our relationship with Europe now is an investment in the stability and prosperity of our shared future.”
"Canada must not be a spectator to history. Strengthening our relationship with Europe now is an investment in the stability and prosperity of our shared future.”
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I'm looking forward to speaking at Tunbridge Wells Literary festival this Tuesday - 11th March! I'll be there with my book, CRYPT - Life, death and disease in the Middle Ages - and doing book signing too.
www.assemblyhalltheatre.co.uk/whats-on/dr-...
www.assemblyhalltheatre.co.uk/whats-on/dr-...
Dr Alice Roberts - Crypt: Life, death and disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond
www.assemblyhalltheatre.co.uk
March 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I'm looking forward to speaking at Tunbridge Wells Literary festival this Tuesday - 11th March! I'll be there with my book, CRYPT - Life, death and disease in the Middle Ages - and doing book signing too.
www.assemblyhalltheatre.co.uk/whats-on/dr-...
www.assemblyhalltheatre.co.uk/whats-on/dr-...
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Canadians — tell your friends to leave X. Tell people whose posts you like to read to leave. Tell your governments and your elected officials. Tell your favourite pundits and shitposters. Tell the people with bad takes to bring them here.
X is a platform used to undermine our sovereignty. Leave it.
X is a platform used to undermine our sovereignty. Leave it.
March 8, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Canadians — tell your friends to leave X. Tell people whose posts you like to read to leave. Tell your governments and your elected officials. Tell your favourite pundits and shitposters. Tell the people with bad takes to bring them here.
X is a platform used to undermine our sovereignty. Leave it.
X is a platform used to undermine our sovereignty. Leave it.
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Labour MPs need to listen to their pro-European supporters and back growing public calls for a rethink of the government’s doomed Brexit “reset”, @therejoineuparty.com says.
londonlovesbusiness.com/labour-mps-s...
londonlovesbusiness.com/labour-mps-s...
Labour MPs should back growing public pressure for Brexit rethink, Rejoin EU Party says - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
Discover why Labour MPs should back growing public pressure for Brexit rethink, as support for rejoining the EU surges.
londonlovesbusiness.com
March 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Labour MPs need to listen to their pro-European supporters and back growing public calls for a rethink of the government’s doomed Brexit “reset”, @therejoineuparty.com says.
londonlovesbusiness.com/labour-mps-s...
londonlovesbusiness.com/labour-mps-s...
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March 8, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Tesla sales have plummeted by 76% in Germany, 71% in Australia, and nearly 50% in China. It’s rapidly collapsing across dozens of countries. #3E #EndOligarchy #TeslaTakeOver
March 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Tesla sales have plummeted by 76% in Germany, 71% in Australia, and nearly 50% in China. It’s rapidly collapsing across dozens of countries. #3E #EndOligarchy #TeslaTakeOver
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Tell me again how brilliant he is: www.nbcnews.com/science/spac...
SpaceX again loses its Starship rocket on test flight after explosion during previous attempt
A little over 8 minutes into the flight, live video showed the upper-stage vehicle spinning in space before all communication was lost.
www.nbcnews.com
March 7, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Tell me again how brilliant he is: www.nbcnews.com/science/spac...
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