Cares about the environment, biodiversity and net-zero. Cornish. Mostly found in or on water. Apparently has fast fingers (Ref: WWTBAM 2022)
North West England
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Michelle Brook (michellebrook.bsky.social) retweeted
Still the greatest ever Christmas related exchange on social media
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96% of children in Gaza feel that their death is imminent and almost half want to die as a result of trauma. 92% of the children in the survey were “not accepting of reality”, 79% suffer from nightmares and 73% exhibit symptoms of aggression. theguardian.com/world/2024/d…
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In the last 30 days alone, “Dignity in Dying” ran an astonishing 602 Facebook ads, making it the most prolific UK political advertiser there.
Meanwhile, not a single word on the fears of the disabled, the concerns of senior lawyers and doctors, nothing.
Michelle Brook (michellebrook.bsky.social) retweeted
East London calling. There are 50 free places for care leavers aged 18-25 yrs for Christmas Dinner on Christmas Day in Hackney. It is totally free. To make a referal please write to Kausar at this address
[email protected].
youtu.be/S9PEsFfU6Wo?feature…
Michelle Brook (michellebrook.bsky.social) retweeted
Billionaire James Dyson is complaining about changes to agricultural tax breaks.
Dyson has hoovered up c33,000 acres of land: whoownsengland.org/2017/09/1…
Farmers Weekly on Dyson: ‘Buying farmland is popular with many wealthy investors because it doesn't incur inheritance tax.’
Michelle Brook (michellebrook.bsky.social) retweeted
the guy who just mansplained The Handmaid’s Tale to the author of The Handmaid’s Tale
Michelle Brook (michellebrook.bsky.social) retweeted
As the dust settles after yesterday's reforming #budget2024, it's time to look at what the reforms to Agricultural Property Relief (APR) from Inheritance Tax (IHT) actually mean, instead of the toys out of the pram reaction from a section of the farming community. A short 🧵 1/7
Michelle Brook (michellebrook.bsky.social) retweeted
Enjoyed today’s cryptic rail announcement at Piccadilly about disruption “due to a problem currently under investigation”. A solid blanket explanation that could just apply to the northern rail network in general
Michelle Brook (michellebrook.bsky.social) retweeted
🔗 You can read a longer write-up, alongside the full report, on our website below.
focaldata.com/blog/new-repor…
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Among some non-white groups, a minority – but in some cases a sizeable minority – express anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment. Over a quarter of respondents from some minority groups said they would not like to have a gay couple as a neighbour; 8% of white voters said the same.
Michelle Brook (michellebrook.bsky.social) retweeted
I feel I could stand to hear more about who is funding the various Tory candidates, and whether anyone has been buying them clothes, and in whose houses they may or may not have been meeting.
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As well as being incentivised to deliver faster by a pay-per-drop model, an even darker side of the gig economy is that many delivery riders can't afford to expend the energy it takes to pedal because they cannot afford the food to replenish the calories.
bbc.com/news/articles/ce8vgg…
Michelle Brook (michellebrook.bsky.social) retweeted
I’ll be in the cold, cold ground before I swear a sacred oath on the River Quaggy, BBC News Quiz!
Thank you for further popularising the Roding’s status as London’s third biggest river though…
Michelle Brook (michellebrook.bsky.social) retweeted
What a moment for Letsile Tebogo as he receives his gold medal, and what a moment for Botswana as their national anthem is played at the Olympics for the first time ever. 🇧🇼🩵
#Olympics
Michelle Brook (michellebrook.bsky.social) retweeted
Happy 20th Birthday OpenStreetMap!
"OpenStreetMap has grown exponentially or quadratically over the last twenty years depending on the metric you’re interested in . . . The story isn’t so much about the data and technology, and it never was. It’s the people. " --@stevec, reflecting on 20 years of OSM
blog.openstreetmap.org/2024/…
#HappyBirthdayOSM
#20YearsofOSM
ALT the original logo of OpenStreetMap
Michelle Brook (michellebrook.bsky.social) retweeted
It is not the working class that is responsible for spreading disinformation about Muslims and migrants. It is men with power and wealth like Elon Musk and Nigel Farage who amplify far-right conspiracy theories.
We must get organised and confront their hateful ideology.
Michelle Brook (michellebrook.bsky.social) retweeted
I miss when the internet was all weird niche personal websites, each created with the html skills of the one person behind the site (and maybe one of their friends)
Michelle Brook (michellebrook.bsky.social) retweeted
Exclusive:
*UK authorities suspect foreign state actors used bots and fake accounts to amplify the FarRightThugsUnite hashtag and other posts on X
*Russians also seen bragging about infiltrating far-right UK Telegram channels
Story with @elthorn22 >>>
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
