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Tracey Baucells retweeted
On behalf of the British people, I would like to apologise for the slave trade. I am sorry we were the first great power in history to turn its guns on it. I am sorry it cost us around 2,000 sailors to free 150,000 people they would never meet. I am sorry the rest of the world took so long to follow.
Slavery did not begin with Britain. It is as old as civilisation. Babylon wrote it into law. Rome built an empire on it. The Vikings sold Englishmen through the slave market at Dublin. In 1625 Barbary corsairs took 60 men, women and children out of a Cornish church; by 1640 Parliament was told 3,000 to 5,000 English people were held in Algiers alone.
Every great power of the age took part in the Atlantic trade. Portugal and Spain for a century before an English ship did. Then the Dutch, the French — and the British, who in the eighteenth century carried more than anyone. That is the record. It is not disputed here.
Then a nation turned on the trade that had made it rich.
Wilberforce's bill was beaten year after year. On 25 March 1807 it passed. Then Britain did the part the critics never mention — it sent the Royal Navy to enforce it. The West Africa Squadron sailed in 1808, two ships for 3,000 miles of coast, and hunted slavers for nearly sixty years. Britain paid Spain and Portugal to open their ships to search. HMS Black Joke ran down the slaver El Almirante in 1829 and found 466 people in her hold.
Around 2,000 British sailors died doing it — most of fever, to free people they would never meet. 1,600 slave ships seized. 150,000 Africans set free.
In 1833 Parliament borrowed £20 million to end slavery across the Empire. The debt was not finally redeemed until 2015. The United States needed a civil war. Cuba held slaves until 1886. Brazil until 1888 — eighty-one years after Westminster voted.
Yes, we took part in the trade. Every power of the age did. None of them fought it like we did.
So yes. I will apologise. I am sorry it cost us so much. I am sorry the rest of the world took so long to follow.
That is not something you apologise for. That is something you teach.
#history #britishhistory #royalnavy #westafricasquadron
Tracey Baucells retweeted
I don’t want to post the video. You’ve all seen it. But I do want to write a love letter…
Dear everyone in Britain, ( even you illegals)
Just so you understand. The poppy is for the boys who never got to grow old. For the boys who were still somebody’s baby, brother, uncle or father. More than 600,000 of them.
It doesn’t matter if you support war, hate your country, think you are a woman (even though you are a man). It doesn’t matter which God you pray to, or if you pray to none at all.
It doesn’t matter who you vote for, what climate narrative you believe, or whether you believe Israel should exist or not!
The poppy isn’t for you!
It’s for those who came before. Those who fought for your right to be weird, annoying or even foreign.
The poppy is how we say thank you. Thank you for giving us time, peace and choice.
And attempting to ban our poppy by declaring it politically divisive isn’t a move towards freedom. It is an act of suppression. Understand that.
The poppy is about love and loss. For you!
So stick your rainbow flags and every other flag where the sun doesn’t shine and just wear your poppy. Those boys did not die as symbols. They died for you!
Did you know that poppies grew across the battlefields where so many fell? As though even the land refused to forget the blood once given to defend it.
So the poppy is for them. For those who came before us and paid in youth, in hope, in breath, in blood, so that we might have the freedom to be arseholes.
So that we might even have the freedom to fight over the ridiculous, the inconsequential and the insane.
Revere it, celebrate it and wear it. The very least you can do is that.
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The ordinary people.
If everyone eschewed garden lighting, and towns turned off permanently-on street lamps, too (motion detecting ones are perfectly sufficient), maybe we could all see the stars! theenglishgarden.co.uk/garde…
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Tracey Baucells retweeted
Activist: "The difference is nothing died for my dinner."
Farmer: "What did you have?"
Activist: "Rice, roast veg, hummus, a bit of bread. Oat milk in my tea."
Farmer: "The rice."
Activist: "Grown in a paddy."
Farmer: "A flooded field, drained for harvest. Frogs, fish, snails, eels, all of it dies in the mud. Then the combine. The veg?"
Activist: "Carrots, peppers, courgettes."
Farmer: "Carrots are a ploughed field. I've ploughed. The gulls follow the tractor because of what comes up in pieces. Peppers and courgettes are a polytunnel. Slug pellets, and a hive of bees trucked in to pollinate them, then the hive's left to die at the end of the season because it's cheaper than feeding it. The hummus?"
Activist: "Chickpeas."
Farmer: "Sprayed with something to kill the plant so it dries evenly for the combine. I've done that too. Whatever's living in it dries out with it. Mice, voles, leverets, partridge chicks. Twelve miles an hour, a blade eight metres wide. The bread?"
Activist: "...Wheat."
Farmer: "Same field, same machine, plus the rats in the grain store and what's done about them. Your oat milk's the same again, with a factory on the end."
Activist: "Those are all accidents."
Farmer: "I've killed more voles with a plough than I ever have with a bolt gun, and I'm the one with the bolt gun. One bullock off that hill is one death and a year's dinners. Your plate's about forty and you didn't see any of them."
Activist: "At least I didn't choose it."
Farmer: "You chose to be the only one at the table who didn't know."
Tracey Baucells retweeted
Hola @policia, CAP comissaria de la província de Barcelona permet marcar cap cita prèvia perquè estan totes saturades. Soc un ciutadà i he de renovar el meu DNI, què se suposa que he de fer?
Pregunta molt seriosa.
Tracey Baucells retweeted
I’m 54 and I honestly think this is as joyful now as it was when I was 4, in 1976:
If in France, “Any work that isn’t finished by 5pm is a tomorrow problem”.
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Tracey Baucells retweeted
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Tracey Baucells retweeted
Mike is deteriorating I just wish he could stay stable, he asked me what Albie’s name was the other day and actually said to me
“Please don’t ever leave me as you are my memory now”.
It’s so upsetting to see as he is still waiting for an appointment to be reassessed at the neurological unit
Mike had to retire early due to FND (Functional Neurological Disorder) he suffers from memory issues, stutters, balance, speech loss, swallowing issues, leg seizures and tremors.
So me Christine The Nut Fairy has had to step up to try and make a go of our little online gift shop.
Mr Lumpy & Friends supporters help us by making donations or purchases from our little online shop which not only helps us it also helps the wildlife organisations that we support.
So I ask you next time you’re thinking of buying a gift or something for yourself please take a look at our shop.
I’ve done my best with a range of quality goods at reasonable prices and you would be supporting a small business.
We are not a faceless entity, you all know that it’s me and Mike you are talking to, taking orders packing the goods ourselves and dealing with customer services as quickly and as efficiently as we can.
This is on top of all the social media which is my job and I hope I’m keeping you informed whilst raising a smile 😊
Thank you for reading and following the ever evolving story of Mr Lumpy & Friends 🦡🦊🐿️🦔🐾🐾❤️
mrlumpyandfriends.com/donate
Www.mrlumpyandfriends.com
Thank You 🙏
Tracey Baucells retweeted
A recent report says that voice notes are huge across the world… apart from in Britain.
Here’s my two cents (or pennies) on why I dislike voice notes:
1. I don’t want to have to put in earphones or find a quiet place when out and about, just for you to tell me “yes” or “no” about whether you’re free for a cup of tea next Wednesday.
2. While I’m watching telly, I want to be able to glance down at my phone and get the information I need in text form. I don’t want to have to turn the telly off and listen to your private podcast that’s just for me.
3. I don’t want to wade through three minutes of waffle and chit-chat I never asked for when a thumbs-up emoji will do.
4. It makes me feel like you expect a voice note back - and I’m not doing that.
5. I have no interest in tangents about how you’ve just seen an interesting pigeon on the pavement. I asked if you could give me a lift to the station, and 12 minutes in you’re talking about a pigeon and I’ve missed my train.
6. The convenience is all yours. It’s quick to send a voice note, but much slower for me to consume it. It’s bad manners.
I think that about covers it. Of course, if voice notes are a more accessible option for the sender (due to difficulty typing, vision impairment, language barriers, etc.), that’s completely understandable - a different kettle of fish! But if you just like waffling, I’d rather not be the waffle sounding board.
(Really I think I’m just jealous of people who are able to talk coherently for minutes at a time).
ALT A phone with a voicenote on it
Dear @Oceano_mag Oceanographic Magazine,
Why, in an article about oysters, have you used a hero image of scallops?
oceanographicmagazine.com/ne…
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Tracey Baucells retweeted
Cal saber que si anem al supermercat, al metge, al forn o a la cafeteria i es fa mantinc el català, és de bona educació.
Tracey Baucells retweeted
Go beyond single-page designs in #AffinityByCanva w/ real tools for long documents:
• Sections
• Page #
• Running headers
• TOC
• Index
• Anchors
• Hyperlinks
• Footnotes
• Cross-references
• Linked text-flow
Build structure first, save time all the way through ~ #MadeInAffinity
elainegiles.co.uk
Dear @OpenAI ,
Would you PLEASE give customers the option to change the date format in Billing.
Invoices with dates like "4/3", "5/10" and "7/10" when what you mean is March, May and July are nonsensical and confusing for everyone outside the USA.
Give us the date-format choice!
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Tracey Baucells retweeted
If you are switching from #MicrosoftPublisher to @Affinity #AffinitybyCanva do NOT rely on the new 3.3 "we can open Publisher files" feature ... it is laughable at best but the only real description is abysmal ... case in point attached
Tracey Baucells retweeted
Trump's visit to his golf course in Doonbeg, County Clare, Ireland is marked by protestors using the medium of mime. Homage to the late great Janey Godley, it's a thing of beauty.
ALT People shaping themselves to spell the word 'CUNT' to protest against Trump on a visit to Ireland. This image has been sharpened using AI.
Tracey Baucells retweeted
Are you doing the #GoldenGate thing?
Check your apps are compatible at Roaring Apps: roaringapps.com
#GoldenGate #macOS #Apple
