Lucy Weir PhD

Excellent article. I can’t stand the conversation usually, mostly because I’m bitter that they’ve never let me write for them because I don’t have an institution (I’m a freelance academic). But this taught me much and with long interest in East Africa this is v informative.

A New Generation of Gamblers Searches for Help The sports betting boom has drawn in millions of young men. Are recovery efforts for problem gamblers lagging behind?

The sports betting boom has drawn in millions of young men, and many are struggling to find people who understand the particular challenges that gambling apps present. “It’s truly apples and oranges, as far as what gambling looks like today versus what it looked like even 10 years ago.”

Don’t they want to get out? We are always being told that it’s slavery. Why would they not look to go home?

Massage parlor operator arrested for forcing 12-year-old Thai girl into sex work Police are investigating the case as human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation of a child.

Tokyo police have arrested the operator of a private-room massage parlor in Bunkyo Ward, after he allegedly forced a 12-year-old Thai girl to perform sexual services for customers.

I'm supporting Feeding America! To feed America’s hungry through food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger

Got tired of reading the news and getting mad. Feeding America backs 200+ food banks around the country and I've seeded with $500 for now. I'll match up to another $500 myself.

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Protecting the jungle: on the road with Madagascar’s seed hunters Our podcast on science and technology. Botanists in Madagascar are stocking the world’s largest seed bank, hoping to restore the country’s dwindling forests

This week our “Babbage” podcast follows the journey of a seed from Madagascar’s forests to a huge laboratory in England. It’s hoped they could help repair forests anywhere

Come on Guardian! Fewer toys and more getting kids to climb trees and swim in rivers and learn to steward the land!

How do I add my signature to the list of objectors?

Dog behaviourist: Tips to help your dogs cope with the fireworks and frenzy of Halloween Suzi Walsh offers some advice for helping your dog cope with loud noises and strange sights over the next few days.

Halloween can be great fun for us but quite unsettling for dogs.

Dog behaviourist Suzi Walsh has some advice for helping your dog cope with loud noises and strange sights over the next few days.

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Halloween is a wonderful holiday for kids and dogs if it includes walks and good food and ghost stories and games but not when it contains fires and fireworks and gangs of marauding youths.

Interested to hear what she has to say about Trump and his climate hoax claim. Can we sue him for deliberate ignorance?

Kawaha. Teacher.

Kindness matters. Kindness is its own reward. Thank you for being a good person, Al, and I hope your recording studio takes off!

Imagine if we were nice to non human animals. Imagine.

Let’s sue Trump for denying that humans are causing climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss. I’ll set up a fund. And we need lawyers. Who is with me?

How shit people are. The comments and the piece utterly fail to reflect on the cruelty these animals endure. Injected with COVID and HIV. Do it to your own species and leave others out of it, why don’t you? Humans. Scum.

Cutting back on candy is a lot cheaper than taking a weight loss drug.

Nothing on the ecological impact.

Utilitarianism is not the solution. First, examine attitudes. That will elicit the how of what you do. Find your how and you will find your why.

Don’t buy plastic or sugary crap and you’ll be healthier and wealthier. Don’t bother with Halloween at all and just celebrate with a walk and a good meal and play games like apple ducking and you’ll be wiser too!

She's pro-peace, pro-ecological emergency action, and pro-neutrality. She's got a good heart and a lovely smile, and she can speak Irish and she swims in the sea. Let's see what happens, shall we? Sound's like a person of the people, for the people, to me.

Hurricane Melissa could be Jamaica's most powerful storm in history “There is nowhere that will escape the wrath of this storm,” said Evan Thompson of Jamaica’s Meteorological Service. Melissa is already blamed for four deaths.

Praying for the Jamaican people tonight.

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Next time I will write about Face Yoga ... Here is a kind of a poem. It is called Walking at Cross

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Next time I will write about Face Yoga … Here is a kind of a poem. It is called Walking at Cross

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Good. Thugs. Protest all you like but leave out the violence and the vandalism.

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Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Pot calls kettle black.

LIVE: Ballot boxes set to open soon as presidential counting gets under way Follow along for all the latest here.

Counting day is (finally) here in the Presidential election.

Ballot boxes from all 43 constituencies will open from 9am across 32 count centres, with early tallies expected later this morning.

Follow along with us here for the latest updates
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Nobody’s perfect but Catherine seems to be genuinely unselfish, reasonably sensible (though I would love to hear her condemn Hamas’ terrorism) and kind. Here’s hoping!

Crypto billionaire gets pardon after firm supports Trump family venture U.S. President Donald Trump said 'a lot of people' had told him convicted Binance co-founder Changpeng 'CZ' Zhao wasn't guilty.

U.S. President Donald Trump has defended his decision to pardon convicted Binance co-founder Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, who pleaded guilty to violating laws against money laundering in late 2023.