Once again encouraging everyone to share Ahmed's fundraiser/donate if poss.
They're raising money to evacuate when the crossing opens, for living costs, & for his niece, who is recovering from severe head-to-waist burns sustained in recent bombings.
NEW: The organiser behind the Glasgow Willy Wonka experience which went viral across the globe has claimed his life had been 'ruined' by the event.
🗣️ 'I was devastated and I was sick to the pit of my tummy'
@Devon_OnEarth
Are these people arguing we should also be routinely snitching on kids to their potentially unaccepting or abusive families if they say, are gay, have asked about birth control, are pregnant etc
"In the new Deadpool 3 film, there is a cameo of 'Welshpool' who is the Welsh variant of Deadpool. Pretty cool that Ryan and Rob are trying their hardest to put Wales on the map!"
#DeadpoolAndWolverine
#Welshpool
I hope in, in the next few days we’ll able to discuss how we get our economy growing again and enable our citizens to live well. Right now, I’d like to address another question that I’ve been asked:
"Disabled pensioner Brian Kügler, 70, said he has been left with just £3-a-month to live on after the lavish landlord supercouple increased his rent by nearly 60 per cent, from £380 to £595 a month."
The more we find out about this guy's absolute lack of philosophical and political depth, the more it feels like such a miracle that both Ex Machina and Annihilation were Good
“If the left wants to combat right-wing extremism, it needs to be in the business of winning elections.” explains Alex Garland, writer and director of ‘Civil War’.
New pod:
I watch a lot of nature documentaries, so you'd forgive me for getting to feel like I'd "seen all the animals".
Not so. Tonight they've hit me with "tree kangaroo". Look at this thing
Oh no, the student halls transparently built to eventually become overpriced vertical slums for adults is being converted into overpriced vertical slums for adults!
The Met Police is trialling a “new approach” to stop and search in which officers are trained to use “respectful language” and explain their actions, amid a crisis of public confidence
A pilot is running in parts of London worst affected by stabbings
Your first look at Scoop. A new film inspired by Prince Andrew's infamous Newsnight interview. Starring Gillian Anderson, Keeley Hawes, Billie Piper and Rufus Sewell.
A group of men making profiles on a lesbian dating app in order to publicly pass judgement on the looks of its users, constantly bumping into each other: We are the Feminist Lesbian Protectors
Just sat here bleakly staring into space having heard a teenager speak eloquently and matter-of-factly about hiding in a room with her family "so that we die together".
Any journalist that remains "neutral" on this isn't doing their job.
It's expected at this point, but still gutting, that the sentiment "We won't rest until Israelis and Palestinians can live together, from the river to the sea, in peaceful liberty" is considered so beyond the pale in UK discourse that people will demand you be sacked
All in all, I would thoroughly recommend Becoming Obsessed With Birds as a mental health tool. Everything is collapsing, but the birds have it figured out
Mad how quickly this went from an austerity era catchphrase we all condemned Theresa May for saying to something parroted by multiple Labour politicians at every opportunity
"There’s no magic money tree but there are choices we can make – and Labour would make incredibly different choices to what this government is making," Reeves says.
Huge day for us and our beloved associates. We have been visiting the male since he was a lonesome bachelor, and late last year a very shy, very battered female appeared in the pond. We saw her grow confident and strong, her injuries healed, and they became a bonded pair 😌
North Wales Police are planning on rolling out the "undercover police in bars" plan in the run up to Christmas.
"Their job will be to identify vulnerable women and girls and any potential offenders."
.. No comment.
Literally every Corbyn-supporter/left winger I know is working class, has at *most* an undergrad degree, and is, as far as I can tell, part of the electorate and a human being 🤷♀️
@thomas_violence
(looking at a picture of a large ham and some dangling sausages being rolled down an aeroplane aisle) I was born in the wrong decade 💔
Incredible to still try wheeling out that retro Benefit Scrounger sound when the average household energy bill has increased by around 90% since last year, food prices jumped by at least 10% this summer, and people now spend well over a third of their income on rent.
How many people claiming poverty have smart phones, takeaways, Sky tv & Netflix etc., cars, beauty treatments, smoke, drink?
There is no real poverty in the UK apart from homeless people. Poverty is relative. Many people have poor morals & trouble getting their priorities right.
@PhilosophyTube
When you break up your only option is Horrendously Fraught Attempted Friendship of Denial until you either never speak again or become good friends after approx 2 years of silence. No other way
Not to be outperformed, the friendly duck mam brought a couple of ducklings out of the pond for a visit while we were there too. Receiving seeds was top of the agenda
By incredible fortune we even saw them do their lovely swan mating dance, and then we watched our boy build and maintain a ludicrously massive nest for his Queen. Today is the first time we've seen her up close for about 2 months. HUGE. We're proud, folks
@mlothianmclean
I remember reporting on an incident under lockdown where a Welsh police officer issued a teenager with a covid fine and then took her number from the paperwork to hit on her. Unreal.
So many British Journalisme Bugbears here.
- Calling a gov policy briefing an "exclusive"
- The specific English tabloid syntax which produces phrases like "needy Brits"
- The word "boffins"
NEW: A Welsh Labour local elections candidate in Cardiff suggested on social media that trans people are "brainwashed", and shared material which argued that trans people are suffering a mental illness that should be corrected through "therapy".
Don't Look Up was good, but it did feel wilfully naive - the people being hindrances were mostly coded (sorry) as Trumpian republicans, when we know half the battle is left-leaning liberals that still think capitalism will somehow solve the problem it itself caused
Just SW Police bragging about putting a man in jail for nicking a £5 bottle of wine. They included a picture, too, for maximum humiliation.
Clearly this is the best and most healthy way to run society.
Unbelievably grim. A capital city that can't keep the doors open and staff employed at the national museum, that's closed down its City Hall to disrepair. What will it take before cuts are pushed back on instead of accepted wholesale?
Imagine you come home one day, and your key doesn't work in the front door. You look in the window, and a stranger is standing in your flat. All your stuff is inside still. Your landlord ignores your calls.
This happened to Tenant A in Cardiff last year.
JK Rowling is a very powerful, wealthy woman, who has significant political and cultural influence.
She's the president of a children's charity. Her views on these things have weight and consequence - it's not only acceptable but vital that she's pulled up on them!
“Do you really think the way to win an argument for trans equality is to try and shut [J.K. Rowling] down?”
Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting says “there’s got to be a lot more empathy and understanding” on both sides of the trans debate
Opening a letter advising me that TV licensing officers have been authorised to visit my flat and my brain immediately finishing the sentence with 🎶 but you don't have to let them in 🎶
Brianna was addicted to social media: teens need online protection - today's front page from The Independent 📰
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Wild to me that it's environmental activists opposing this, given rail infrastructure is *the* key to cutting our heaviest emissions. Such a waste of organisational energy.
Environmental activists are planning a “national day of action” to protest against the expansion of the HS2 high-speed railway – as the Bill for the project is laid out in Parliament on Monday
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Funny because when I used to commute, I don't recall being paid for the hour's journey.
I also remember being threatened with sacking at one job because I arrived at my start time, and not "ten minutes before to get settled."
Can't have it both ways!
This minister is 100% right. If you want the continued benefit of working from home then don’t expect a salary that was designed for staffers commuting into the office.
I'm sure it's been said, but the Trojan Horse scandal was based on exactly this hysteria, directly informed policy, & it took the NY Times for any significant scrutiny to be applied. Even then, that work was met with shrugs at best, & smears at worst, by establishment media.
Islamic infiltration narratives now commonplace on mainstream right. See this from a former Home Sec in The Telegraph this am. Essentially 5th column stuff. Again extraordinary (and disturbing) how quickly this has been normalised.
I do wonder why the side of this building, a couple of second away, wasn't used for the aforementioned McDonalds ad, if there had to be one?
Believe it's owned by Cardiff Council atm, though they were considering selling to fee-paying Cardiff Sixth Form College.
Favourite bit of this was learning about the Welsh tradition of "packing off" your shitty boss - Dragging him from his house and putting him on a train to England