Christine

Well this was interesting… as were the adhd, masking and burn out screens….
With the masking scores I got it’s really no surprise that pretty much my entire life has been in burn out….

German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers

There is evidence supporting this globally already. When you repeat far right framing you end up normalising it. We're seeing same thing with Labour pandering to the far right, and how they're actually helping Reform gain support with their rhetoric and policies.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Kanchha Sherpa, last member of first Mount Everest expedition, dies at 92 Kanchha Sherpa helped Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary summit Everest in 1953.

Kanchha Sherpa helped Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary summit Everest in 1953.

In the words of Benjamin Zephaniah:

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face” – Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

The Israelis tortured Greta Thunberg and the other flotilla activists attempting to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza during their five days of detainment. It doesnt take much to imagine how much worse the Palestinians being held in Israel are being treated www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

A sunrise alarm clock really helped me - makes the room bright with no effort from me and makes it feel sunnier than the weather is!

How can I be high priority for a flu vaccine but not allowed a covid one? How can it be wise on any level to remove access to covid vaccines for people defined as clinically vulnerable? The private vaccine is £100, unaffordable to many.

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s.

Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

The updated COVID/histamine link thread because people keep tagging me in to explain it and I keep intending to update the post from 2023 (synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/805203.html) and just not having the capacity because of my own health shit so here is a thread I can pin

Petition: Stop airport expansion: halt all airport expansion plans across the UK More than 20 airports across the UK have expansion plans, which will result in a combined increase of 60%+ capacity. More flights means more emissions, at a time when we should be doing everything we ...

Fewer than 100 signatures needed on our petition to stop airport expansion 🙌 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

We are nearly at the 10,000 required for a government response. Thanks everyone who has signed and shared so far. Keep it going!

As this article points out we’ve known this for decades - I was taught this exact scenario in my degree in the 1990s (along with the need to expect and plan for a global pandemic….). So much harm being caused by short-sighted ridiculous political choices.

‘So Jo White, why are you 15 points behind Reform?’.. ‘so Sian Berry, why are the Greens not connecting?’ .. BECAUSE you the broadcasters are massively over platforming Reform. No one else can get a word in edgeways. Keep signing &pass on folks. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Deaths averted by vaccination since the 1970’s

I imagine Amsterdam Centraal has been a difficult place to do business recently - lots of rebuilding all over the place

🥲 This was a lovely cafe and where I had my birthday lunch this year

YouTube video by Xing's World 爱鼓捣的邢志磊 I made a Subway for My Cats!

You may have seen the subway for cats video. Here it is with subtitles.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRty...

I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.

Can't wait for the wall-to-wall media coverage of What This Means, the endless thinkpieces about Green Party dominance in a working class community meaning Labour has to take their concerns seriously and pivot towards them, you know like we'd get if Reform had won.

Why was there a Kindertransport?

Because we wouldn't let their parents come with them.

Five years into the Nazi persecution, we wouldn't let their parents come with them. And we insisted every child had someone to meet their "costs". And we only agreed on condition most would "re-emigrate".

Really exciting new archaeology report showing that two people who died in 7th century Kent had West African grandfathers. It’s suggested they’d travelled here as traders and settled thanks to the Byzantine Empire’s trade network that linked North Africa to Britain

What strange times, when the commander of RAF Greenham Common is coming out as a liberal supporter of the right to protest

This is exactly how I read it too! But I felt honoured as he didn’t acknowledge the squealing visitors he met just before me 😹

I also really enjoyed having both the fascinating and tiny Tulip Museum in Amsterdam and the eccentric and wonderful Haus zum Kirschgarten in Basel essentially to myself!

Kattenkabinet in Amsterdam, dedicated to cat art and with its resident grumpy senior cat, who may, or may not, accept attention. He has lots of private spaces to escape fully and prefers calm approaches to squealing selfie takers!

There's an upcoming election in Somerville, and the claws are out There is fierce feline competition in the race to elect a new bike path cat mayor.

I keep walking by and hoping to meet one of the candidates. No luck so far.

www.boston.com/news/local-n...

I've lived in London for 30 years.

It's safer, cleaner, more at ease with itself by far now than it was when I came here and the only people who believe otherwise have either never set foot in the place or have a massive chaos agenda.

Check out homicide figures in that time 1/2

Many people will likely prefer the much more explicit sayings in the thread but, as anyone who has ever had a cat will know, this is perfect.

London library forced to briefly close after fox 'made itself comfortable' inside Foxes have been known to live everywhere in London from back gardens to the top of the Shard

Fantastic

Ah i understand now! Evidence I don’t know what it looks like ;-)