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Tortoise whisperer.
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BREAKING 🚨: We are watching governments steer us toward 2.6C of heating, a future where the Amazon shifts toward savannah, ice sheets deteriorate and lethal heat becomes part of daily life.

They know exactly what this means and still fund fossil fuels.
November 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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The Graun simply does not see women at all. It ignores our political & legal campaigning, erases the language that refers to us. Equates leftie feminists like myself to Boris Johnson.
Appalling.
November 8, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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So nothing whatsoever about opposition across the political spectrum to the BBC overwriting sex with gender identity, erasing women when it means women ('pregnant people') & substituting woman when they mean man (male criminals with trans identities), then?
Just Boris?
Mendacious spin.
Disgusting.
November 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Friend messages to tell me how much she had enjoyed the Tove Janssen novel, Fair Play, which I had recommended, & which made her cry several times.
November 3, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Happy World Wombat Day! Sound on to listen to the very soothing munching noises of this chonky wombat...
October 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
My nephew in law is running the Royal Parks half marathon tomorrow in memory of my niece Amelia, who he never actually met. Amelia died from an epileptic seizure at just 21 and he is raising money for the Amelia Roberts Fund (Epilepsy Society). Society.https://www.justgiving.com/page/jordanrunsbadly
Jordan's fundraiser for Amelia’s Fund (Epilepsy Society)
Help Jordan Harrison raise money to support Epilepsy Society
www.justgiving.com
October 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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On Yom Kippur— the holiest day for Jews— a synagogue in Manchester became a crime scene.

Two murdered, more injured.

This is what happens when hate is normalised, when Jew-haters are allowed to roam free.

It has to stop.
October 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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This is the sort of shite Jewish people globally are faced with in the aftermath of attacks.

Netanyahu is a war criminal, but Jews in Manchester have nothing to do with him or the state of Israel. Their murder was anti-semitic, not anti-zionist. Stop providing moral justification for terrorism.
October 2, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Went to see Robert Plant last night. Utterly brilliant. Do grab a ticket for his tour if you can.
SHOT FROM // ROBERT PLANT'S SAVING GRACE // EVERYBODY'S SONG // LIVE AT CIRCUIT, KINGSTON
YouTube video by Shot From
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September 30, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Yet another climate-wrecking decision from a Government intent on the pursuit of growth at all costs - but the only things that will grow as a result of this disastrous decision are pollution, noise, and climate chaos
Gatwick airport second runway approved by transport secretary
There has been strong opposition against the airport wanting to use its northern runway.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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France has banned internal flights where the train is less than 4 hours. Yes, our infrastructure isn't up to scratch for that yet but if government set a goal to do it in 10 years, it could be our moonshot.
September 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This was in the bedside drawer of my Airbnb. Someone’s had a good night.
September 27, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Regenerative braking for phones, so when you think better of a message or tweet, the process of furiously deleting it charges the battery.
September 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Clearing drawers my wife finds my father’s slide rule. It doesn’t have sentimental value, but I find myself reluctant to simply bin it. What does one do with these tenacious, interstitial objects? Is there a slide-rule collector out there who might want it?
September 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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It’s a wicked world. But there are pure souls in it. If you’ve not been watching the Twiggy documentary on BBC2 I do recommend catching up with it.
September 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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I can recommend Gail’s work. We bought a big version of her print of Forton Services and it looks great on the wall. Northern Brutalism classic.
If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty crap about my small business.

It’s so bloody difficult at the moment with rising costs, US tariffs, Brexit nonsense and the threat of AI.

Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word gailmyerscough.co.uk
September 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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"leaving what is taught in our universities solely up to market forces undermines resilient subject provision and economic strategy, with lasting consequences for students and for universities’ ability to serve a public good.” 2/2
Cold spots: Mapping inequality in SHAPE provision in UK higher education
This British Academy report reveals that many parts of the UK are becoming subject cold spots – areas with no provision in a subject within a commutable distance. These are often in rural, coastal or ...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
September 10, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Belgium has been accused of “pure antisemitism” by Germany after a leading music festival cancelled a concert by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra because it has an Israeli conductor
Germany accuses Belgium of antisemitism over ban on Israeli conductor
Organisers of the Ghent festival have cancelled a concert by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra featuring Lahav Shani to ‘preserve serenity’ in the city
www.thetimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Why do farmers need to do this? @RSPB #biodiversity #birds #wildlife
September 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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5 September 1938 | A Polish Jewish boy, Jchiel Bela Tiszman, was born in Płońsk.

In 1942 he was deported from the ghetto in Płońsk to #Auschwitz. He was murdered in a gas chamber.
September 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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“Dress however you please.
Call yourself whatever you like.
Sleep with any consenting adult who'll have you.
Live your best life in peace and security.
But to force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real?"

One of the most famous quotes of the current era that spawned a hate fest.
September 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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And these transactivists as well? Should they be arrested by 5 armed police for tweets inciting violence full of death threats, 'terf genocide' & calling for women to be decapitated?
terfisaslur.com
TERF is a slur
Documenting the abuse, harassment and misogyny of transgender identity politics
terfisaslur.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM