Yvie Crocks 🐊
@crocksrocks.bsky.social
Interested in politics 💚 music, arts, sports, animal welfare, NHS 💙 and the planet 🌏. Most of all I love my Cat more than anything 🐈⬛🥹 No random DM's please. 🙏
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16 freed Palestinians have arrived in the Gaza Strip through the Karem Abu Salem crossing, report our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/s3c9de
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January 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
16 freed Palestinians have arrived in the Gaza Strip through the Karem Abu Salem crossing, report our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/s3c9de
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/s3c9de
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Really upset & uncomfortable with Starmer talking about loners & misfits. I've become lonely & socially excluded due to a socially stigmatising metabolic condition. It's a disability.
Some cruel people called me weird.
It's never made me want to harm anyone.
Some cruel people called me weird.
It's never made me want to harm anyone.
January 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Really upset & uncomfortable with Starmer talking about loners & misfits. I've become lonely & socially excluded due to a socially stigmatising metabolic condition. It's a disability.
Some cruel people called me weird.
It's never made me want to harm anyone.
Some cruel people called me weird.
It's never made me want to harm anyone.
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Poor Pepper is so sweet and loving but he looks a little rough around the edges so he hasn't had much adoption interest. He's been through so much and deserves a lovely home! Please pass this on to anyone you know in VT who might be interested. ❤️ www.hsccvt.org/Cats#sl_embe...
January 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Poor Pepper is so sweet and loving but he looks a little rough around the edges so he hasn't had much adoption interest. He's been through so much and deserves a lovely home! Please pass this on to anyone you know in VT who might be interested. ❤️ www.hsccvt.org/Cats#sl_embe...
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Harry Truman was born in 1884.
January 7, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Harry Truman was born in 1884.
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Watch out Europe
Mark Zuckerberg cited Europe as a place with “an ever-increasing number of laws institutionalising censorship and making it difficult to build anything innovative” and said: “Latin American countries have secret courts that can order companies to quietly take things down.”
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Mark Zuckerberg cited Europe as a place with “an ever-increasing number of laws institutionalising censorship and making it difficult to build anything innovative” and said: “Latin American countries have secret courts that can order companies to quietly take things down.”
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January 8, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Watch out Europe
Mark Zuckerberg cited Europe as a place with “an ever-increasing number of laws institutionalising censorship and making it difficult to build anything innovative” and said: “Latin American countries have secret courts that can order companies to quietly take things down.”
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Mark Zuckerberg cited Europe as a place with “an ever-increasing number of laws institutionalising censorship and making it difficult to build anything innovative” and said: “Latin American countries have secret courts that can order companies to quietly take things down.”
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January 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Just got the result of my 4th post-cancer mammogram. Four years in the clear. Hooray! Thank you to the terrific NHS staff, who got me the result before New Year; and to anyone out there due for a mammogram, don't put yours off. Mine saved my life...
December 30, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Just got the result of my 4th post-cancer mammogram. Four years in the clear. Hooray! Thank you to the terrific NHS staff, who got me the result before New Year; and to anyone out there due for a mammogram, don't put yours off. Mine saved my life...
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Former US President Jimmy Carter - the longest living president in history - has died aged 100.
December 29, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Former US President Jimmy Carter - the longest living president in history - has died aged 100.
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Parmesan Shortbreads are #RecipeOfTheDay, and if you want something to hand round with drinks on NYE, look no further! Their mild, savoury butteriness goes so well with crisp bubbles www.nigella.com/recipes/parm...
Parmesan Shortbreads
This is an Italian-inspired recipe that comes to me from Australia via Brazil. To explain: a Brazilian friend, and the best cook I know, Helio Fenerich made it for me, and I had to keep (rudely) askin...
www.nigella.com
December 29, 2024 at 11:45 AM
Parmesan Shortbreads are #RecipeOfTheDay, and if you want something to hand round with drinks on NYE, look no further! Their mild, savoury butteriness goes so well with crisp bubbles www.nigella.com/recipes/parm...
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Word of the day is a favourite for this time of year. To be ‘crambazzled’, in old Yorkshire dialect, is to be prematurely aged by excess drinking or partying.
December 28, 2024 at 10:29 AM
Word of the day is a favourite for this time of year. To be ‘crambazzled’, in old Yorkshire dialect, is to be prematurely aged by excess drinking or partying.
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In the supermarket queue waiting for the tills to open at 10 and a guy looking frustrated and confused that he can't go straight to the tills. Staff explained it was Sunday trading laws. How can there be people here that still don't know that, given its been in place since 1996. 🛒🙄🫤 #SundayTrading
December 22, 2024 at 9:57 AM
In the supermarket queue waiting for the tills to open at 10 and a guy looking frustrated and confused that he can't go straight to the tills. Staff explained it was Sunday trading laws. How can there be people here that still don't know that, given its been in place since 1996. 🛒🙄🫤 #SundayTrading
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With the "Stormont Brake" in the Windsor Framework being used for the first time, here's my earlier detailed legal analysis of that process
eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2023/03/just...
eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2023/03/just...
December 21, 2024 at 12:01 PM
With the "Stormont Brake" in the Windsor Framework being used for the first time, here's my earlier detailed legal analysis of that process
eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2023/03/just...
eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2023/03/just...
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On the one hand....why would you vote Tory after the past 14 years? On the other hand...why would you vote Labour at all? Look at that fucking turnout.
❗ Conservative GAIN from Labour
Brockmoor and Pensnett (Dudley) council by-election
CON: 35.4% (+7.0)
REF: 30.1% (+30.1)
LAB: 28.9% (-34.7)
GRN: 3.0% (+3.0)
LDEM: 1.5% (-6.5)
IND: 1.0% (+1.0)
Estimated turnout: ~16% (-6)
Brockmoor and Pensnett (Dudley) council by-election
CON: 35.4% (+7.0)
REF: 30.1% (+30.1)
LAB: 28.9% (-34.7)
GRN: 3.0% (+3.0)
LDEM: 1.5% (-6.5)
IND: 1.0% (+1.0)
Estimated turnout: ~16% (-6)
Previewing the six by-elections of 19th December 2024
"All the right votes, but not necessarily in the right order"
buff.ly
December 20, 2024 at 1:13 PM
On the one hand....why would you vote Tory after the past 14 years? On the other hand...why would you vote Labour at all? Look at that fucking turnout.
Gorgeous light show at Guildford Castle #guildfordilluminated 🎅🎄🦌✨️🎇🎆
December 18, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Gorgeous light show at Guildford Castle #guildfordilluminated 🎅🎄🦌✨️🎇🎆
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Even the leaves are looking festive these days.
December 15, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Even the leaves are looking festive these days.
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Why is Labour even saying it’s a choice between the environment or housing? It’s not a binary decision. There are huge numbers of brownfield sites, many areas even in greenbelts that don’t disrupt the environment or destroy rare species.
Housing must take priority over nature, says Starmer in green belt reform plan
Councils given mandatory targets to deliver 370,000 homes a year in England, including through review of green belt boundaries
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2024 at 1:08 AM
Why is Labour even saying it’s a choice between the environment or housing? It’s not a binary decision. There are huge numbers of brownfield sites, many areas even in greenbelts that don’t disrupt the environment or destroy rare species.
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Jeremy Corbyn is suing Nigel Farage.
RP if you can’t wait to see Nigel Farage bankrupt
RP if you can’t wait to see Nigel Farage bankrupt
December 14, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Jeremy Corbyn is suing Nigel Farage.
RP if you can’t wait to see Nigel Farage bankrupt
RP if you can’t wait to see Nigel Farage bankrupt
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I’ll be speaking to LBC tonight about the recent victory in New Zealand in banning greyhound racing & whether the UK should follow suit📻
The world is evolving & we need to evolve with it. Time to put this nonsense in the bin🗑️
#YouBetTheyDie 🐕
The world is evolving & we need to evolve with it. Time to put this nonsense in the bin🗑️
#YouBetTheyDie 🐕
December 12, 2024 at 8:11 PM
I’ll be speaking to LBC tonight about the recent victory in New Zealand in banning greyhound racing & whether the UK should follow suit📻
The world is evolving & we need to evolve with it. Time to put this nonsense in the bin🗑️
#YouBetTheyDie 🐕
The world is evolving & we need to evolve with it. Time to put this nonsense in the bin🗑️
#YouBetTheyDie 🐕
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By my reckoning, last Wednesday marked the first time that MPs have voted in favour of a bill to introduce proportional representation for elections to the Commons
A symbolic turning point?
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/10/b...
A symbolic turning point?
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/10/b...
'Britain's Deeply Unfair Two-Party Electoral System is Dying and MPs Know It'
Startling new research reveals that this year's General Election was the 'most disproportionate ever' with millions of votes wasted
bylinetimes.com
December 10, 2024 at 12:46 PM
By my reckoning, last Wednesday marked the first time that MPs have voted in favour of a bill to introduce proportional representation for elections to the Commons
A symbolic turning point?
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/10/b...
A symbolic turning point?
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/10/b...
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#RachelReeves to outsource Goverment Spending decisions to 'expert' banker
Very same bankers who brought us GFC with their expertise & more recently a Car Financing scam that could cause a UK recession according to Lloyds Bank boss
#Reeves a walking disaster. Everything she touches turns to shit
Very same bankers who brought us GFC with their expertise & more recently a Car Financing scam that could cause a UK recession according to Lloyds Bank boss
#Reeves a walking disaster. Everything she touches turns to shit
This is insane. We don't want bankers deciding our spending priorities. What is the effing point of parliament?
#Neoliberal Labour are screwing up our country, as many of us predicted.
#Neoliberal Labour are screwing up our country, as many of us predicted.
Chancellor orders ministers to submit spending plans to private sector experts
Rachel Reeves to wield ‘iron fist against waste’ by examining departments’ expenditure line by line
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2024 at 12:43 PM
#RachelReeves to outsource Goverment Spending decisions to 'expert' banker
Very same bankers who brought us GFC with their expertise & more recently a Car Financing scam that could cause a UK recession according to Lloyds Bank boss
#Reeves a walking disaster. Everything she touches turns to shit
Very same bankers who brought us GFC with their expertise & more recently a Car Financing scam that could cause a UK recession according to Lloyds Bank boss
#Reeves a walking disaster. Everything she touches turns to shit