And now, I will take you
to one of the bookstores in Kyiv.

I want you to see how beautiful
Kyiv is.

Congratulations to all of these women for their work. Interesting that many are working in similar fields.

www.cam.ac.uk/news/univers...

We have a impressive and magnificent hornet nest ( probably asian) about 20 metres up a tree in our garden. Waiting to see if the Mairie want us to do anything about it.

Trickle down economics has been nothing short of a disaster.

Get our union-printed shirt now and help @rbreich.bsky.social and Inequality Media get out the truth about this economic scam: inequalitymedia.goodstockcompany.com/product/YGBc...

🇬🇧 Remember COVID? Here's a video we made at the time taking the piss out of the Daily Briefings we used to have to watch.

Since then, this sketch has been selected for permanent preservation in the British Film Institute (BFI) National Archive. #brag

youtu.be/tYUMQL5ABPw

L’entrée du port de Marseille 1754, painted by Claude-Joseph Vernet, acclaimed French marine painter, commissioned by Louis XV to paint 15 ports of France; died #OTD 1789.
Musée du Louvre

May I just say /🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."

Thomas Mann

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You already know wealth is unequal but did you know how unequal?

On official figures, the top tenth own half of everything

The bottom three-tenths? They own 1% of all the wealth between them

Glasgow's hospitals are amongst the safest in the UK contrary to this morning's BBC Scotland irresponsible, unprofessional, fearmongering:
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2024/11/12/d...

‪Andrew Carnegie was born today in 1835 in this one room cottage.
He made hundreds of billions of dollars in today's money, becoming one of the world's richest men. He gave away 95%

Carnegie helped endow a college in Dunfermline, telling the staff at the opening: "teach whatever you like"

Truth behind GE petition as identities behind signatures debunked

Thousands of those who have signed aren't even living in the UK. In fact the petition has been signed by people based across a whopping 184 countries. Numbers soared after Musk shamelessly shared it
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing.

They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.

The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

⚡️Gazprom plans for end of gas transit via Ukraine after 2024, Reuters reports.

Kyiv has indicated it will not extend the transit deal, ending over 50 years of gas flows from Siberia to central Europe — a vital revenue stream for Russia since the Soviet era.

I am just back from a few days in England to celebrate my mother’s 100 birthday (more of that later). I haven’t lived in England since the last century, and not visited often. How third world it seems. No working infrastructure, potholes, litter, graffiti, poor architecture. So depressing.

#LearnALanguage & know: Even native speakers & presidents make mistakes. It's language, we're human. 🤷‍♀️

I am currently obsessing about paper handkerchiefs (PH)! How many tons are used per year? Should we revert to cotton handkerchiefs (CH)? It’s only a small move, but it could be another small step towards saving the planet.

My thoughts are always with our friends in Kiev ( and also other places in the world where there are conflicts).My friend sent me this video of music ( I don’t know what) being played the day after a severe missile attack. It has such a mixture of tension and determination, as well as other emotions