Trisha Elliott

Cover of book “The Nightingale” by Kristin Hannah with picture of Eiffel Tower in background.

I’ve just finished listening to “The Nightingale” by Kristin Hannah.

Stories of occupied World War II France are particularly distressing at the moment.

How can we have failed so badly to learn from history?

#BookSky
#HistorySky

One year ago governments around the world announced historic aid cuts. These cuts are not abstract. They are immediate. And they are deadly.

🔗 Read the joint statement from charity leaders urging governments to reverse the cuts:
https://bit.ly/4aBARpX

*Source: Lancet Global Health

Varies quite a lot. Some people not too bothered by it but others say it’s one of the worst pains you can get.

That’s what I wondered.

Total eclipse of the full blood moon is tonight, in case you haven’t checked in on the doom portents lately.

Renewable Energy Defies Trump’s Attacks, Reaching a New Record Wind, solar and other green sources generated more than a quarter of all US energy last year.

Despite Trump's frantic efforts to stop it, the renewable energy revolution rolls on:

"93% of new generation capacity expected to be added to the grid this year will come from wind, solar and batteries"

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Thank you! It was!

Thank you!

We were very lucky. We were substituting for friends who couldn’t go but didn’t want the tickets to go to waste.

It was amazing.

05:33 Sun 1 Mar - L 100% 2 凸 ••• https://nation.cymru/feature/why-isnt-the-greens-growing-success-reflected-in-media-coverage/# • Reform UK • Conservatives • Liberal Democrats SNP •Greens • Plaid Cymru Frequency 69 60 40 45 20 14 13 4 Reform UK Conservatives Liberal Democrats SNP Greens 3 Plaid Cymru Number of items led by an opposition party on BBC News at Ten and ITV News at Ten. Cardiff University, CC BY-NC-ND < >

A new study by researchers at Cardiff University shows a massive broadcast media bias (including by the institutionally transphobic BBC) against the Green Party and others and disproportionate coverage in favour of Reform…

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Farage's Reform bandwagon has stalled & beginning to go into reverse. There is a clear ceiling to Farage's support of abt 30% in the polls & the increasingly radicalised & racist language from Reform & successive failure to win by-elections is having a detrimental impact.

Question/advice needed for bicycle/active travel people on here. Our primary school is creating first proper bike/scooter park. What are the elements we need to consider to make it a huge success? Shelter? Security? All thoughts welcome

Let me make something clear.

Britain has been flying missions out of Cyprus to defend Israel and US military installations attacking Iran.

This is not 'defensive' this is being at war.

Facebook post by the Daily Mail: 'I'm not only trappedin a warzone, but I'm going to get fat again as well." "I'm trapped and under attack in Dubai - but worst of all, I left my Mounjaro pen in the fridge"

It's Private Eye I feel sorry for. How do you spoof The Daily Mail these days?

"They died to save her face"

From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 550, January 1983, some months after the Falklands war.

"I want a change of regime in Iran.
But what’s happening isn’t about freeing the Iranian people. It’s an imperialist, capitalist war started by bullies who take whatever they want & murder whomever gets in their way, including humanitarian and health workers"
via Maggie Chapman

"To all influencers and other tax exiles in Dubai, the tax authorities wish you a safe return to France."

As Nigel Farage is now so concerned about the influence of "foreign-born voters" can he finally explain why a Kazakhstan-born billionaire appears to be bankrolling his own political party?

"I'm not sure that anyone who voted Green (in Gorton and Denton) works" says Nigel Farage.

So not just smearing the winners of the by-election his party just lost, but all of their voters too.

That wanker from school living in Dubai now THAT utter wanker from school is now living in Dubai, it has been confirmed.

There's a reason this one stuck around in the collective consciousness

www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society...

"Unquestionably blindly following the Americans is, in my view, the wrong thing to do.. I'd pass legislation that said military action could be taken if.. the lawful case for it was made.. there was a viable objective &.. you got consent of the commons"

When's the vote, Keir?

Fortunately for Isabel, someone has kindly translated the message for her into a language she can read easily.

Just in case she hasn’t fully assimilated into the local culture of the place where she lives.

DUBAI issues emergency alert. are evacuating apartments 00:31 9اا Emergency Alert now نظرا للأوضاع الراهنة تهديد صاروخي محتمل، ݕرجى الاحتماء فورا في مبنى آمن بعيدا عن النوافذ والأبواب والمناطق المفتوحة وانتظر التعليمات الرسمية ) وزارة الداخلية م Due to current situation, a potential missile threats, Seek immediate shelter in the closest secure building, and to steer away from windows, doors, and open areas. Await for further instructions

Sorry for anyone affected by the violence in the Middle East and that sympathy extends to Isabel Oakeshott and her family.

Perhaps this experience will help her reflect on the fear and suffering of millions of people who suffer far far worse and are obliged to flee famine and war.

Isabel Oakeshott must be so pleased she moved to Dubai because London is such a dangerous no-go war zone.

The discourse seems to have lost some time ago the point that coming without permission if you are a refugee is actually something we are committed under international law to accepting and responding positively to, not something Ministers ahould be rejecting and stoking resentment towards.

“Moved to Dubai for tax shelter and now I’m in a bomb shelter,” says someone quoted in the FT.

UK Inland Revenue and wealth tax proponents glued to their screens...

For once I agreed with the most obnoxious man in the UK. I also believe that prospects MPs should have lived in their constituency for at least a year before they can be elected and not “bussed in”. How can anyone represent a community they know little about which was clearly the case with Goodwin

Compromise: we do airlift the tax-shirking “expats” 🙄 out of Dubai, but we charge them a fortune, and they have to wear clown costumes and land at Luton.

This Robotic Fish Feeds On Plastic Waste | Weather.com This plastic-eating, self-powered robotic fish could mark the beginning of a new era in environmental cleanup, in which technology doesn’t just consume energy but gives some back to the planet.

This Plastic-Eating Robot Fish Could Help Clean The Planet weather.com/science/envi...

So currently Bluesky believes Keir Starmer is going to cause World War III as a puppet of Donald Trump, Twitter believes he’s a beta cuck who should have launched missiles ahead of the Americans, and Facebook believes that video of the puppy playing with the tiger is real and not AI.