Fiona Beckman

The bloody herald exists so deeply in clickbait territory these days. I assume every headline is a fantasy at best, but more often a blatant lie 🙄

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

I will *never* get my head around the supposed maths of privatising social services. It simply cannot work without reducing quality ffs. 🙄

Oh give over 🙄
If a tax rise results in improved public services, I think most of us will see past the policy change.
Obviously, I’d rather see a big tax on the super rich, but I am open to solutions that are swift and simple to administer, so the benefits quickly outweigh the pain.

New remembrance sculpture for Plymouth | PLYMOUTH.GOV.UK

I think it’s very cleverly done - and I was drawn to it as I walked to work this morning.

Of course, Plymouth’s social media is full of the usual negativity and naysayers 🙄

More about the project here: www.plymouth.gov.uk/news/new-rem...

‘Ebb & Flow’ - a clever new #sculpture unveiled in #plymouth yesterday - depicting the way that service families experience the deployment of a parent ‘disappearing’ from daily life.

This is a brilliant, crowd-sourced, expert-led scientific factchecking platform. I would encourage all my researcher and #scicomms colleagues to take a look and, ideally, sign up to be part of the fight against misinformation. ⤵️

Please reshare - and let’s help rebuild public trust in science 🌊🧬🥼🧪

Desperately miss living in London - brilliant city, and some of the best years of my life 🥰.
That said - I couldn’t bear to move away from the sea now 🥲
A heart torn in two 💔🌊

The #virtualoceanpavilion is for anyone interested in why the #ocean matters in #climate negotiations.
#COP30

Come and visit 🌊 ⤵️

I have religious friends who are convinced their daughters will be virgins who marry virgins, so will never be at risk. Unwilling to consider any possible scenario that might alter the stakes 🙄

When the 'something' is cancer, I'd focus on the 'may happen' bit, and then imagine the conversation with the adult you didn't vaccinate.

A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...

78% are murdered by a partner/ex

Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this

Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety

In fact, they voted against them...

Probably around the same time that luggage became a chargeable extra for flights…

Just placed my @nationaltrust.org.uk vote - deadline is today ⬇️

Clicking on the secure link in my email was nice and easy - took me less than a minute to use the ‘quick vote’ options 👍

Thanks for the reminder about the quick vote - I’ve been putting it off because I felt overwhelmed by the list… But I will now go straight in and do my democratic duty 🤞

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[wonders if it’s time to re-explore off-grid living, away from obvious target cities…]

(Terrible hand held
iPhone photo - but you can see the two bits of lighting)

I saw that too - just by Plymouth station - and really couldn’t work out what it was 🫣

Or new car to access out of the way hiking spots…??
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Personally, I’m struggling with a timeline where Boots made cookware after dishwashers and/or induction hubs were invented… But maybe I just wasn’t paying attention 😂

NB - our mice were always a cat-gift, let loose in the house…

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Oh yeah - I have been there 🫣
And my brain is still tainted with memories of chewed wires and mouse carcasses behind the freezer when we left Walthamstow - amazing we hadn’t had a nasty fire…

😂 Surely that’s what ear plugs are for…?
Although, here in the SW, that didn’t help when cat is still on BST, and insisted on turfing occupant out of his ‘day bed’ at 8am by walking on their head 🙄

Hallowe’en creatures turning on one another 🦇🐀😱.
I now want to know if a cat caught and ate the rat…? 🐈‍⬛

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Baking pie has warmed up the heating-free house 😊

But… are the trains still working?
Do people just not know which platform to go to?

I have mental images of empty trains heading north while passengers start hiking…

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