Rebecca Wilks
@WilksBecca
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Freelance journalist covering housing, devolution and the criminal justice system. 🏳️🌈 (She/They) Get in touch! [email protected]
Cardiff, Wales
Joined February 2010
With all the love in the world, why would you deploy "tummy" in this situation.
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'
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You see the worst thing you've ever seen and then 2 weeks later you see something worse. And again. And again. And again.
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Pleased to announce that our mates The Swans have, in the past 24 hours, brought 2 perfect little clouds into the world
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You're not getting a better genre of image than "Researcher interacting with Big Albatross", I'll tell you
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I mean, this is the desired effect of the policy!.
The number of second homes being put up for sale in one part of Wales has increased by more than 250% - as homeowners and businesses criticise the Welsh government's council tax premium.
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Sometimes you do something like look at your Reddit home feed and see this from r/DWPHelp and for the rest of the day your heart is on the floor
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The sheer cultural vandalism of this. The mural is being replaced with a painting of two burger buns for a McDonalds ad.
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Getting some very clear warning signs in minute 3 of this Grand Designs
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Feels pretty fucking bleak that these have now appeared next to the canned food in my local Tesco
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Hope that poor woman she bullied on national TV a few years back is having a nice chuckle at this ❤️.
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@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.
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Really funny to have a celebrity put your country on stuff like it's a tequila brand he's started.
"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
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"Some have tried to paint me as marginally less monstrous than the other candidates - Let me assure you, they are wrong.".
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:
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You HAVE to find a different title construction. This is NOTHING
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The Owen Jones co-parenting row is a perfect illustration of how transphobic groups and people inevitably slide into homophobia.
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"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."
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These are all from June. I think freedom of expression when it comes to "disagreeing" with trans rights advocates is intact.
The Observer view on the right to free expression | Observer editorial
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Kicking off your redemption arc with a bold, a piquant "stop yelling at me you're making my tummy hurt!!".
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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:
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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
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Oh no, the student halls transparently built to eventually become overpriced vertical slums for adults is being converted into overpriced vertical slums for adults!.
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Thinking about when we realised Jake had somehow learned the words "mashed potato"
Mr Knows He Never Gets Fed From The Plate Unless I'm Having A Steak And Has Now Learned Specifically The Smell Of A Cooked Steak
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This weird self-important conception some comedians have of the profession is so grimly fascinating. Where did it come from?
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So important to take a mental health walk every day, because what if your mate the duck wants to introduce you to the kids
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"Local agents say the properties coming onto the market are too expensive for first-time buyers.". What I'm hearing is that supply is outstripping demand - I guess the prices will have to be reduced! That's the market, baby.
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Nation's Most Powerful Police Force Considers Following Its Own Rules.
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.
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Agencies. They're paying that to temp agencies, who take a cut from those fees, and do not offer staff paid holiday or sick leave.
Desperate NHS paying nurses up to £2,500 a shift
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If it's possible for a bird to have a kind face, the Albatross has one
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Something deeply distasteful about doing this at Gays The Word when your current party line is anti-strikes.
This week @Keir_Starmer visited @gaystheword to hear how you want the next Labour government to stand up for LGBT+ rights. 👇
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You can't make a Spotlight style movie about a BBC producer receiving an email.
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.
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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.
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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.
As Israel wages war on Palestine, I'm joined by Palestinian activists you desperately need to hear from in Gaza and Jerusalem >>
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I'm not normally one for openly gushing Corbyn posts but this *got me* 😭.
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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.
This is the speech referred to….
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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
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Decided to get back into reading House of Leaves after a hiatus. Opened it up to find where i left off, and -
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@Devon_OnEarth Had a quick look and it can't possibly be that they would deploy The Fog in the event of a shoplifter???
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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.
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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 😌
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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.
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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 🤷♀️.
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@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 💔.
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Extremely evident which one of us knows how to correctly operate an old camera
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NEW from me: "Peaceful civil disobedience" call from Mick Lynch, as unions and government in Wales consider their options.
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Every single one of my gang members in Watchdogs Legion looked like this.
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For those wondering: I burst into tears at this and then pretty much solidly wept until the end credits
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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
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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.
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@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.
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The design for the house itself is giving "expensive and widely mocked Olympic Games logo"
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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
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@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.
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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"
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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".
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Story here, with some of my reporting from when the mural was first put up.
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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.
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Yes I agree with this. The most important thing is to get Daniel Craig into more Little Outfits.
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Cardiff Landlords: Hello, would you like to pay nearly £800 a month to sleep 2 steps from your fridge
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Crazy that they're so similar to seagulls, a permanently furious bird.
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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.
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Grooming gangs hysteria going around again is driving me nuts. Some of the most harrowing child sex abuse cases in recent years have been committed by (white) South Wales Police officers. This was a couple of months back, even
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@lwoodhouse @ByYourLogic you have been caught expressing sadness about human suffering. V problematic imo.
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Really hate to do this, but this looks like a Mari Lwyd porn parody
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Friends fear she's got a fit off
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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 🎶.
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The act of successfully building his Bondage Stegosaurus looking ass house has half-morphed Joe into a queer-coded Disney villain
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A team of exasperated builders with thick West Country accents has just advised that none of the panels for the Jagged Line House fit together
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Submitting good FOI requests is a skill not unlike answering riddles for a belligerent bridge troll.
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British media once again absolutely impervious to self-reflection I see.
Brianna was addicted to social media: teens need online protection - today's front page from The Independent 📰. You can download a digital newspaper every morning with a subscription to Independent Premium. Subscribe here 👉
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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. ✍️: @AlanaCalvert & @NeilLancefield.
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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.
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Not to IBS post again, but sensor-operated toilet lighting that turns off if nobody enters for 5 mins should be prohibited under the Geneva Convention.
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JOHN WICK rounds a corner to find a smiling leather daddy with a diamond tooth aiming an RPG-7 his way. LEATHER DADDY: Sorry, John. LEATHER DADDY fires, hitting JOHN WICK squarely in the chest, engulfing him in fire & smoke. JOHN WICK (Entirely unharmed): We can settle this.
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