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Lucie
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💬 Speech and Language Therapist
👩👧👼🏻 Mum of two beautiful living daughters and one precious son

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Ally
🚺 Supporter of all women
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🇵🇸 Free Palestine
Q for those who have knitted the Hermione's Everyday Socks? I'm (possibly overthinking) and very confused by the heel, I've nit done an Eye of Partridge heel before.

Do I purl on the RS or WS? 🧶
January 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Excellent new blog post from Marge Blanc explaining the importance of qualitative research & lived experience to understanding natural language development: www.meaningfulspeech.com/blog/nla-glp...
Gestalt Language Development, Natural Language Acquisition, & Research
Natural Language Acquisition (NLA) research is qualitative in design, and more than that, it is the result of 15 years of accumulated clinical evidence. NLA is not an experiment. It is a description o...
www.meaningfulspeech.com
January 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I rescued my 2.75mm circular knitting needles from my mum's needle 'storage' so I can do the collar/band on my latest #NewbornVertebrae. I hate picking up stitches, but it is satisfying when it looks nice and neat like this.
And as a comparison, photo 3 is how *I* store my needles! 🧶
January 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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$1,131,794,901

That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.

Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.
January 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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I left Twitter when M**k bought it, and am now transitioning from Meta since their recent changes in policy re: fact checking and exemption hate speech when directed at LGBTQIA+ people/community.
Getting to used to this system, but loving it so far.
Intro: I'm a Speech and Language Therapist, ...
January 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Go, Meta employees with heart and backbone!!
New: Meta employees are furious about a new policy that allows users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill." Some have resigned in protest. Some LGBTQ+ employees have started saying they if they are 'mentally ill' they should get leave of absences from work

www.404media.co/its-total-ch...
‘It’s Total Chaos Internally at Meta Right Now’: Employees Protest Zuckerberg’s Anti LGBTQ Changes
Meta's decision to specifically allow users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill" has sparked widespread backlash at the company.
www.404media.co
January 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM