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“All people are born as originals but many die as photocopies”
Carlo Acutis.
Celebrate difference, be individual, break moulds, cause waves, create change.
Your annual reminder that it’s ‘guising’ and you’ve got Scotland & Ireland to thank for going out for your Halloween tonight. This is **our** tradition.
Happy neep carving!
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300 theatre designers and artists, some v famous, have given original pieces to an auction to raise funds for the grassroots organisation Gaza Formula Fund, which distributes emergency supplies to families with babies and young children throughout Gaza 🇵🇸 app.galabid.com/gazaformulaf…
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Vou ser sincero com vocês: até algumas horas atrás, eu achava que Patrick Stewart fizesse parte da comunidade LGBTQ+. Via frequentemente fotos dele trocando selinhos com Ian McKellen e até imaginava que pudesse existir algo além de uma grande amizade entre os dois.
Para minha surpresa, ao pesquisar mais sobre sua vida, descobri que não. Patrick Stewart era heterossexual e foi casado três vezes, sempre com mulheres.
E os selinhos? Eram apenas uma demonstração pública de afeto e carinho por Ian, que é assumidamente gay e um dos seus melhores amigos. Mas o mais importante nunca foi o gesto em si. O verdadeiro significado estava no fato de Patrick usar sua imagem, como um dos atores mais respeitados de Hollywood, para apoiar a comunidade LGBTQ+ de forma aberta e natural.
Patrick Stewart não tinha uma masculinidade frágil e nunca precisou provar sua heterossexualidade para ninguém. Não se preocupava com o que pensavam ou diziam a seu respeito. O que realmente importava para ele era ajudar a construir um mundo mais tolerante e acolhedor.
Um mundo em que seu grande amigo Ian McKellen, e toda a comunidade LGBTQ+, pudessem viver com dignidade e paz.
Sir Patrick Stewart foi, sem dúvida, um homem à frente do seu tempo.
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To all the people who say it's easy to claim PIP. Terminally ill mum who can't talk, walk or dress herself refused Pip payment. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckqx…
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Rest in peace, Sir Patrick Stewart, who passed away today at the age of 86. Perhaps best known for his iconic role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Stewart spent the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown sharing videos of himself reading Shakespeare’s sonnets. Notably, he was once joined by his neighbor’s cat Glenn who appeared unimpressed by Sonnet 40.
#cat #catlovers #RIP
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Who in the name of all things holy decided that it’s imperative that we “get the welfare bill down?
The UK welfare bill is projected at £360+ billion (around 10.7% to 11% of GDP), remaining lower as a proportion of national income than it was 15 years ago or during the 1980s.
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Two unparalleled storytellers with a shared conviction that each of us should have a say in how our own story end. GNU Sir Patrick Stewart
ALT Sir Terry Pratchett and Sir Patrick Stewart
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Exclusive: The Bell has learned political editor of the Daily Record, Paul Hutcheon, has quit, after an alleged affair with Labour MP for East Kilbride, Joani Reid.
As reported by Private Eye, Hutcheon oversaw favourable exclusives of Reid at his paper in past few months.
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The day after the Chancellor never mentions climate once in his speech - Shell announces profits of over £8,000,000,000.
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Three years ago, Five Nights at Freddy's released into theaters and became the highest grossing horror movie of 2023! What were some of your favorite moments from the film?
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Healey says, "We will bring down the welfare bill and do it in a labour way"
"The Labour way" seems to be demonising disabled people who can't work #Budget2026
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Hi Martin. In Scotland, temperatures can dip to the minus twenties in winter, and it can be cold for a vast part of the year. So again, Scottish citizens are going to be hurt the most with the scrapping of standard charges and based on usage.
@MartinSLewis
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If this is accurate this is a terrible budget. Terrible.
The only substantial increase is on defence spending, paid for with borrowing.
Bakes in the approval of Rosebank drilling, which is genuine madness as climate change is not just a human catastrophe but also our biggest national security threat.
The tax rise on banks is tiny and takes us back to the levels under the Tories.
The most pifling cost of living support that will be totally erased by inflation & 25% increase in energy costs, with much of it short-term.
Structural energy price reform - the only thing that will drop prices in the absence of nationalisation - delayed for the long-term.
If this is accurate, this is a budget that guarantees ordinary people will get poorer, oil companies richer, and all of us less safe as Labour doubles down on the sort of militarism that is causing our cost of living crisis and new oil& gas that will drive us towards catastrophic climate tipping points.
🚨 NEW: John Healey is set to announce the following in his Budget later
- The gas standing charge will be scrapped to save £27 a year on a typical bill
- Green levies on energy bills will be scraped "for good"
- NHS prescription charges will be frozen at £9.90 for another year
- Poorer households on benefits will receive extra help with energy bills before January's sharp rises
- The VAT cut on electricity bills, which was due to expire in April, will be extended (though it's not clear if this will be announced in the Budget or separately)
- The Government will remove the link between gas and electricity prices, which currently inflates household bills, "in the long term"
- Banks will face higher taxes, with the surcharge on their profits potentially rising from 3% to 8%, making it the Budget’s biggest revenue raiser
- HMRC will be given powers to seize money from the bank accounts of people who fail to pay their tax
- The freeze on rail fares will reportedly not be extended beyond April
- Online retailers like Amazon, eBay and Temu will be made responsible for collecting unpaid VAT from sellers to fund a cut in business rates for high street shops
- The thresholds for income tax will be frozen again so another half a million people may be dragged into the higher rate
- January's planned increase in fuel duty will be cancelled
- Pensioners relying solely on the state pension will see their tax-free allowance rise to £13,036, in line with the pension increase, so they don't pay income tax
- Billions in long-term borrowing to invest in defence firms and raise the share of GDP spent on defence (without breaking fiscal rules, as the investments are expected to generate returns)
- The upcoming "Your First Home" scheme will be made more generous to provide greater support for middle-income earners
- The Budget will also assume the Rosebank oil field is approved, which will generate "significant tax revenues"
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Today Israeli authorities barred me and other European elected representatives from entering the West Bank to meet Palestinian students and civil society leaders, as part of a @ProgIntl delegation.
We knew that by crossing into the occupied Palestinian territories, we risked being detained, interrogated and turned away by Israeli authorities. And that, alas, is exactly what happened.
For more than eight hours, we were held, interrogated and made to feel as though we had done something wrong simply by attempting to enter.
The simple truth is we had done nothing wrong. We went to show our support for the Palestinian people and highlight the terrible injustice and violence being perpetrated against them. We want to ensure that people back home do not look away from the reality of what is happening.
Ultimately, we went to show solidarity. But we left with an even greater determination to speak out. We will not be silenced, and we will not look away. None of us should.