Carole Solazzo
@carolewriter.bsky.social
Writer.
Addicted to the written word. Reads everything from Shakespeare to sauce bottles.
Addicted to the written word. Reads everything from Shakespeare to sauce bottles.
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Carole Solazzo
@carolewriter.bsky.social
· Aug 18
Had a fab time at the northern #GreenGathering Huge thanks to all the workshop leaders and to the organisers and staff. ☺️🧘♀️💚
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I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
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“It is cruel, you know, that #music should be so beautiful."
🎶 #BenjaminBritten, English composer, was #BOTD 22 November 1913. #ClassicalMusic
▶️ youtu.be/VTd2aXLTA84
🎶 #BenjaminBritten, English composer, was #BOTD 22 November 1913. #ClassicalMusic
▶️ youtu.be/VTd2aXLTA84
November 22, 2025 at 1:46 AM
“It is cruel, you know, that #music should be so beautiful."
🎶 #BenjaminBritten, English composer, was #BOTD 22 November 1913. #ClassicalMusic
▶️ youtu.be/VTd2aXLTA84
🎶 #BenjaminBritten, English composer, was #BOTD 22 November 1913. #ClassicalMusic
▶️ youtu.be/VTd2aXLTA84
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November 22, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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“We suffered for our art. You have to suffer for our art as well!”
🎬 #TerryGilliam, comedy author-animator (Monty Python) and filmmaker, is 85 today. #Art #Animation #Film
🎬 #TerryGilliam, comedy author-animator (Monty Python) and filmmaker, is 85 today. #Art #Animation #Film
November 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM
“We suffered for our art. You have to suffer for our art as well!”
🎬 #TerryGilliam, comedy author-animator (Monty Python) and filmmaker, is 85 today. #Art #Animation #Film
🎬 #TerryGilliam, comedy author-animator (Monty Python) and filmmaker, is 85 today. #Art #Animation #Film
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"If I didn't shoot one or two now and then, they'd forget who I was."
🏴☠️ #Blackbeard (Edward Teach), notorious English pirate who operated in the West Indies and eastern coast of North America, #DOTD 22 November 1718 in battle, aged 38.
🏴☠️ #Blackbeard (Edward Teach), notorious English pirate who operated in the West Indies and eastern coast of North America, #DOTD 22 November 1718 in battle, aged 38.
November 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM
"If I didn't shoot one or two now and then, they'd forget who I was."
🏴☠️ #Blackbeard (Edward Teach), notorious English pirate who operated in the West Indies and eastern coast of North America, #DOTD 22 November 1718 in battle, aged 38.
🏴☠️ #Blackbeard (Edward Teach), notorious English pirate who operated in the West Indies and eastern coast of North America, #DOTD 22 November 1718 in battle, aged 38.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
🎞 Hollywood legend #MaeWest #DOTD 22 November 1980. #Film #Filmmaking
🎞 Hollywood legend #MaeWest #DOTD 22 November 1980. #Film #Filmmaking
November 22, 2025 at 1:57 AM
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
🎞 Hollywood legend #MaeWest #DOTD 22 November 1980. #Film #Filmmaking
🎞 Hollywood legend #MaeWest #DOTD 22 November 1980. #Film #Filmmaking
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"For the world you are someone, but for someone you are the world."
✒ #ErichFried, Austrian-born writer, #DOTD 22 November 1988. #Literature
✒ #ErichFried, Austrian-born writer, #DOTD 22 November 1988. #Literature
November 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
"For the world you are someone, but for someone you are the world."
✒ #ErichFried, Austrian-born writer, #DOTD 22 November 1988. #Literature
✒ #ErichFried, Austrian-born writer, #DOTD 22 November 1988. #Literature
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“You cannot reason with a tiger, when your head is in its mouth!”
🇬🇧 #OTD in #Film #History 22 November 2017, #JoeWright’s #Churchill biopic DARKEST HOUR, starring Oscar-winning #GaryOldman, #KristinScottThomas, and #LilyJames, had a limited release in the 🇺🇸
🇬🇧 #OTD in #Film #History 22 November 2017, #JoeWright’s #Churchill biopic DARKEST HOUR, starring Oscar-winning #GaryOldman, #KristinScottThomas, and #LilyJames, had a limited release in the 🇺🇸
a man in a suit and top hat holds a cane in front of a painting
ALT: a man in a suit and top hat holds a cane in front of a painting
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November 22, 2025 at 2:09 AM
“You cannot reason with a tiger, when your head is in its mouth!”
🇬🇧 #OTD in #Film #History 22 November 2017, #JoeWright’s #Churchill biopic DARKEST HOUR, starring Oscar-winning #GaryOldman, #KristinScottThomas, and #LilyJames, had a limited release in the 🇺🇸
🇬🇧 #OTD in #Film #History 22 November 2017, #JoeWright’s #Churchill biopic DARKEST HOUR, starring Oscar-winning #GaryOldman, #KristinScottThomas, and #LilyJames, had a limited release in the 🇺🇸
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Tech companies: AI is the future! You must embrace it or risk being left behind!
Also tech companies: Our AI products suck so much that we must actively bully our customers into using them.
Also tech companies: Our AI products suck so much that we must actively bully our customers into using them.
November 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Tech companies: AI is the future! You must embrace it or risk being left behind!
Also tech companies: Our AI products suck so much that we must actively bully our customers into using them.
Also tech companies: Our AI products suck so much that we must actively bully our customers into using them.
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you do have to do it in a couple of places but this tutorial makes it easy to go uncheck the boxes that otherwise lets Google's AI read all your shit. or move everything over to protonmail but moving everything over is a giant thing I know.
Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM
you do have to do it in a couple of places but this tutorial makes it easy to go uncheck the boxes that otherwise lets Google's AI read all your shit. or move everything over to protonmail but moving everything over is a giant thing I know.
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Starting to look like late autumn around here, as in this painting by Marie Bashkirtseff.
#FallFriday #LastOfTheLeaves
#FallFriday #LastOfTheLeaves
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Starting to look like late autumn around here, as in this painting by Marie Bashkirtseff.
#FallFriday #LastOfTheLeaves
#FallFriday #LastOfTheLeaves
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It was lovely to see homage to the Hunterian Museum’s Evelyn Tables in @realgdt.bsky.social Frankenstein. These four tables were made in Padua, taking arteries, veins and nerves dissected in Padua’s famous anatomical theatre, pasting them to boards and varnishing them to protect and preserve
November 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
It was lovely to see homage to the Hunterian Museum’s Evelyn Tables in @realgdt.bsky.social Frankenstein. These four tables were made in Padua, taking arteries, veins and nerves dissected in Padua’s famous anatomical theatre, pasting them to boards and varnishing them to protect and preserve
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Once Nathan Gill is sentenced, investigate all the MEPs.
Nigel Farage
Richard Tice
Dr David Bull
Paul Nuttall
Martin Daubney
Alex Phillips
#ReformRussianBribes
Nigel Farage
Richard Tice
Dr David Bull
Paul Nuttall
Martin Daubney
Alex Phillips
#ReformRussianBribes
November 21, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Once Nathan Gill is sentenced, investigate all the MEPs.
Nigel Farage
Richard Tice
Dr David Bull
Paul Nuttall
Martin Daubney
Alex Phillips
#ReformRussianBribes
Nigel Farage
Richard Tice
Dr David Bull
Paul Nuttall
Martin Daubney
Alex Phillips
#ReformRussianBribes
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"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
✒️ #Voltaire, French author, philosopher, and playwright, was #BOTD 21 November 1694. #Philosophy #Theatre
✒️ #Voltaire, French author, philosopher, and playwright, was #BOTD 21 November 1694. #Philosophy #Theatre
November 21, 2025 at 12:24 AM
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
✒️ #Voltaire, French author, philosopher, and playwright, was #BOTD 21 November 1694. #Philosophy #Theatre
✒️ #Voltaire, French author, philosopher, and playwright, was #BOTD 21 November 1694. #Philosophy #Theatre
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NHS private finance diverts money away from healthcare, towards the pockets of private shareholders.
Cat Eccles MP’s motion can force the government to drop their NHS private finance plans from the Autumn Budget.
✉️Take 2 mins now to email your MP to sign the motion and protect patients.
Cat Eccles MP’s motion can force the government to drop their NHS private finance plans from the Autumn Budget.
✉️Take 2 mins now to email your MP to sign the motion and protect patients.
November 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
NHS private finance diverts money away from healthcare, towards the pockets of private shareholders.
Cat Eccles MP’s motion can force the government to drop their NHS private finance plans from the Autumn Budget.
✉️Take 2 mins now to email your MP to sign the motion and protect patients.
Cat Eccles MP’s motion can force the government to drop their NHS private finance plans from the Autumn Budget.
✉️Take 2 mins now to email your MP to sign the motion and protect patients.
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When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, you may be entitled to compensation. Have YOU been involved in a food-related lunar gravitational mishap that wasn’t your fault? You could be in line for a big payout from the estate of Sir Isaac Newton. Call the hotline now.
November 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, you may be entitled to compensation. Have YOU been involved in a food-related lunar gravitational mishap that wasn’t your fault? You could be in line for a big payout from the estate of Sir Isaac Newton. Call the hotline now.
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Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
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Our co-chair @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social was proud to speak at @weownit.org.uk protest against another round of disastrous PFI in the NHS.
Effectively buying health centres on credit cards whilst giving money to shareholders, is not a sensible or responsible way to support our health service.
Effectively buying health centres on credit cards whilst giving money to shareholders, is not a sensible or responsible way to support our health service.
November 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Our co-chair @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social was proud to speak at @weownit.org.uk protest against another round of disastrous PFI in the NHS.
Effectively buying health centres on credit cards whilst giving money to shareholders, is not a sensible or responsible way to support our health service.
Effectively buying health centres on credit cards whilst giving money to shareholders, is not a sensible or responsible way to support our health service.
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This story about a Reform councillor in Northumberland has about three different massive stories in it.
He's accused of ripping off his constituents to the tune of £140k.
He owes his own council nearly £40k in unpaid tax.
His own council is suing him.
He's accused of ripping off his constituents to the tune of £140k.
He owes his own council nearly £40k in unpaid tax.
His own council is suing him.
Blyth Reform councillor Barry Elliott's property firms owe customers £140,000
Property companies owned or run by Barry Elliott owe tens of thousands of pounds to customers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
This story about a Reform councillor in Northumberland has about three different massive stories in it.
He's accused of ripping off his constituents to the tune of £140k.
He owes his own council nearly £40k in unpaid tax.
His own council is suing him.
He's accused of ripping off his constituents to the tune of £140k.
He owes his own council nearly £40k in unpaid tax.
His own council is suing him.
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We seem to have adopted a cat-sith by accident 🤣
November 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
We seem to have adopted a cat-sith by accident 🤣
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
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Congratulations!! Proud to have stood shoulder to shoulder with you on this 💙💪
“This is happiness!”
500+ NHS workers just WON a £10 million deal after years of being treated as second-class. 🔥
Their unity changed everything. Watch their joy and keep reading! ✊🏽
👇🧵
@keepournhspublic.bsky.social @blacklivesmatteruk.bsky.social
@bma.org.uk @bmalondon.bsky.social
500+ NHS workers just WON a £10 million deal after years of being treated as second-class. 🔥
Their unity changed everything. Watch their joy and keep reading! ✊🏽
👇🧵
@keepournhspublic.bsky.social @blacklivesmatteruk.bsky.social
@bma.org.uk @bmalondon.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Congratulations!! Proud to have stood shoulder to shoulder with you on this 💙💪
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Portrait of a young woman with her headdress stitched with a white bouquet, C18th, by #RosalbaCarriera (Italian, 1673-1757). Held by the Louvre, collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/c... #womenartists #artherstory
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Portrait of a young woman with her headdress stitched with a white bouquet, C18th, by #RosalbaCarriera (Italian, 1673-1757). Held by the Louvre, collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/c... #womenartists #artherstory