Carol McAuley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸🇨🇦

This SF books debate is weird. There is great old work and great new work. Read both. Read widely.

The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.

When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.

The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.

Hard to Disagree with Mr. De Niro !

Letter of the day (in the Times)

No truer words have been spoken. 😳👇

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Fight for teachers and education!

ICYMI: A president weaponing the DOJ to exact revenge on his political rivals IS 100% AUTHORITARIANISM.

WE ARE ALREADY THERE.

In 1949, Superman told schoolchildren “our country is made up of Americans of MANY different races, religions and national origins. So…

“…if YOU hear anybody talk against anyone else because of his religion, race or national origin — don’t wait: tell him THAT KIND OF TALK IS UN-AMERICAN.”

"Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened."

– Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945

In 2024, Scotland generated a record 38.4 TWh of renewable electricity. The majority of this, 30.1 TWh, came from wind technologies. However, a significant amount of potential wind energy was not used due to a process called "curtailment."
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Faroe Islands

A wee clip to happiness in a small independent country

FTSE 100 bosses rake in a record £550m haul The number of significant shareholder protests has more than doubled so far this year compared with a year ago, with 11 FTSE 100 companies seeing revolts of more than 20 per cent.

FTSE 100 CEOs netted £550m in pay packets, 11% hike.

Shareholder revolts make no difference, execs collect up to 1,112 average worker pay. Corporations are private fiefdoms of execs.

Workers in same companies relying on food banks and charity.

Worker real average pay stuck at 2008 level.

It is 100 days since Reform took control of ten councils. In that time they have taken down one flag, refused diversity training, put a 19 year old in charge of a £2bn council and created a 'DOLGE' group that made false claims and achieved fuck all.

The same newspaper has a columnist who thinks it's wrong to prosecute people who incite violence against asylum-seekers

🧵Spotted on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A small human (4?) is waiting for a cheese toastie to be made while roaring what can only be an ancient summoning spell.
It goes: "Melted CHEEEESE! Melted CHEEESE. CHEEESE! In. My. TUMMMYYY! CHEESE!"
A toastie appears.
Her work here is done. (1)

My firm represents FBI Special Agent in Charge of Las Vegas Field Office Spencer Evans, a decorated 21 year veteran, who was just summarily fired by Dir #KashPatel. No due process. Fired because he followed COVID protocol instructions issued by Justice Dept back in 2021-22.

He LOST.

YOU win.

(You knew he wanted YOU to pay his lawyers and his legal bills, right?)

Welcome back 😀

In our absence, the sunflower we planted just after Easter seems to have gotten a little bit out of hand!

#glasgow #sunflower #penguin #glasgowpenguins #kelvinwalkway #gardening #streetart

Let me repeat it! 👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾👇🏼👇🏽

BREAKING: Volodymyr Zelenskyy has spoken with Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

The Ukrainian leader says he was "grateful for the support" of the British PM

Saturday morning coffee on my deck🌞

I’m sending this message out to all the 🍊🤡 cult members who are trying to destroy science in America…it has survived for almost 250 years & your little temper tantrum isn’t going to stop it now

The British pediatrician D. W. Winnicott once wrote, “There’s no such thing as a baby. There is a baby and someone.”

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Tunnock's teacakes are sooooooooo good!

Every day I’m inspired by the bravery of these courageous ICE agents.

If this doesn’t make you angry, you really aren’t paying attention.🤬