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Private school parents targeted by fraudsters stealing fee payments Some families have lost up to £10,000 after being duped into sending money to fraudsters’ bank accounts

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New research, yet the Charity Commission were warning about this years ago
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Lactation Cookies With Brewers Yeast Recipe This lactation cookies with brewers yeast recipe is packed with oats, flaxseed, and chocolate chips. A healthy breastfeeding snack you can bake anytime.

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Best bit (other than the taste) is that you can make a big batch, roll it into a sausage, wrap in parchment, and freeze. Then you can slice off half a dozen disks to bake whenever you fancy.

Also bringing hot drinks/meals and giving mum the space to drink/eat them hot.
And if mum is considering breastfeeding, I can dig out a recipe for lactation cookies that were so yummy my husband ate the lions share!

Congratulations! I agree w everything @belovedofoizys.bsky.social and others have said. It's amazing how feeds seem to run into each other, esp if breastfeeding. There were times that I hadn't left my bedroom by 2pm, desperate for food/drink/shower. Being on hand w snacks or 10 min breaks is gold!

If anyone can... 😊🍀

A lot of Brits confessed to pressing the big, red Brexit button to see what would happen. Frighteningly, I don't think that masochistic itch has yet been scratched.

I joined the Conservatives for the partying, says Kemi Badenoch The Tory leader opens up about her life and career - and chooses her favourite music - on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.

Tories ARE awfully good at partying

BBC News - I joined the Conservatives for the partying, says Kemi Badenoch - BBC News
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Ahh...
Michael Jamal Warner 💔
And Gordon Kaye... 💔🥹

‘The play we need now’ — how images of Auschwitz staff at leisure became Here There Are Blueberries A drama based on an SS officer’s long-forgotten photo album forces uncomfortable reflection

'Seeing mundane images of the Nazis makes it harder to dismiss them as simply devils: They were real people like us,’...
'Take away that buffer, and the bigger question is exposed: how did ordinary people succumb to such a poisonous ideology?'

‘The play we need now’ — share.google/YJ9YAv6jkMhT...

Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

Executed James, he was executed after being beaten

'Plausible' deniability

Trump knows Carney spanked him at Davos and is now having a predictable petty despotic meltdown. But what he will never understand is that in doing so he is proving the points Carney made in his landmark speech.

What's making me really livid right now is thinking back to the years of commentary lecturing us that the rise of MAGA was rooted in a sense of righteous victimization by overbearing liberal elites, and sneering at those who insisted that it was fundamentally about domination and sadism all along.

Minneapolis shooting: man shot dead by federal officers was 37-year-old US citizen, police chief says – live updates Officials in Minneapolis plead for calm amid ‘anger and questions around what happened’; shooting comes less than three weeks after Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE officer in the city

The balls on the likes of #Trump , #Musk and Vance lecturing us and the rest oh Europe on the decay of our civilisations whilst this mental shit is going down

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Funny coincidence, isn't it, that the greatest attack on critical thinking - AI, closure of humanities courses, etc, etc, should come at just the same time we're being told to reject the evidence of our eyes and ears?

Call off the King’s visit to the US for the 250th anniversary of America's independence With the current political chaos in the US and Trump’s failure to adhere to international norms, and given his apparent obsession with the Monarchy, calling off this visit would send a powerful messag...

While a celebration that honours all of the United States, Trump's deliberate provocation: failure to recognise European response to Art5 post 9-11, dishonouring of UK troops, backstabbing re Chagos, threatening of allies... means the King's visit cannot go ahead
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Campaign launched to address concerns over charities’ use of AI

With 3/4 charities using AI but less than half having a digital strategy in place & ever decreasing headspace to formulate one, this will be such a useful resource.

Conscious AI Campaign for charities.
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#Charity #Digital #AI #EthicalUse

Homegrown sunchokes, roasted with a bit of garlic and thyme, are both utterly delicious and aggressively full of inulin 😳
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It was a fantastic talk. You're such a natural. If that's a taster, I can't wait for the book!

Image from an ancient vase. Hercules fighting Cerberus the hound of Hades.

MOTHER OF MONSTERS. Outcast Echidna & her family must stop spree killer Harry, who has targeted them in order to prove himself to his father in an inverted retelling of Hercules’ Labors. Featuring a cast of modern analogues to the characters of Greek and Roman myth. #bluepit📖 #A #SP #F #Q

A moodboard with the text THE DIVINE RITUALS superimposed on it. The moodboard images feature horses in a field, a salt flat mirror lake, inside ancient ruins, an altar, a skull, hieroglyphics, a desert landscape, a black rock, ancient Egyptian art, and a mysterious spacey image.

🌟 THE DIVINE RITUALS 🌟

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A bronze age adventure to attack and dethrone god!

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✨ Magic as science
✨ Heroes on a journey (but not a hero's journey)
✨ Ancient people doing even more ancient archaeology
✨ Melting pot city states
✨ Oh no, the god emperor is hot
✨ Horse

#BluePit 📖 #A #F #W

Close image of the shoulders and the nose and mouth of a marble statue of a young male in the classical style. To the right, the text: "Bound. Brother-in-blood. Nothing could part us."

THE ARGONAUT'S SON

The Song of Achilles x The Women x The Binding

In Ancient Greece, when one man’s dream of family and brotherhood collides with another’s quest for honour, can their bond survive the trauma of war?

#BluePit📖 #Q #A #LGBT #ND
#HS #R #Myth

Grid of nine images: old car outside London Town home,man on London’s Southbank, angel statue on a grave, treeless landscape, blaze of fire, Greek temple, man in church, cemetery, sky garden at the Gherkin

An immortal guardian of god-magic comes out of hiding in modern London when immortal extremists exploit his daughter’s death to establish a new age of gods on earth.

HIGHLANDER meets GOD OF WAR

#BluePit📖 #A #F #Q

FROM THE ASHES PLAYLIST - YouTube

PERCY JACKSON X GIRL, INTERRUPTED X THE NOTEBOOK
🐉Retelling myths & monsters
💋Slow-burn
🤬Gritty dialogue
👿Angry women
🥰Found family
💪Strong female characters
☮️Self-Acceptance
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Vibes👉 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#Q #Genreblending #A #NA #F w/ elements of #R & #H

Book cover for "Mark of the Jester" by B. van Bodegom (author of Dad Bodies). Dark fantasy novel. Features a split jester mask in black and white halves with a red smile on the white half. 'The' runs vertically down the center, with decorative silhouettes of roses framing the mask. High-contrast graphic design in black, white, and red.

THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA × BEST SERVED COLD × THE BUTCHER BOY

When a Court Jester snaps and brutally murders the tyrant king, he must perform and slay his way out of a kingdom in chaos, hunted by loyalists, hailed by rebels, while his sanity slips and fractures.

#BluePit 📖 #A #D #F #H #W #DIS

Agent's Guide to KORI'S DESTINY WITH THE MULTIVERSE

AMARI x LOKI

After a meteor crash Kori learns her grief transcends the multiverse when doppelgängers attack. Now Kori must save herself, from herself or risk imprisonment in a time loop
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An agent's guide to Time's Signature.

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Editor’s Guide To: The Things We Run For YA Drama Mystery with Romance 94k Words Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media

4/13/1995 Run. What a powerful instinct. Emma Bridge had wanted nothing more than to be with her two siblings in a home that felt safe, but those wishes never came true. With nothing left to lose, Emma runs away from the spotlight of the Hills to a small town across the country, but this new home is anything but the safety she’d been after. The weight of the world has fallen on her shoulders, and she can’t carry it alone. But with her old name in every police station and her new name on every tongue in town, she’s not sure who she can trust to help carry the burden.

What we know: -Runaway in Hiding -Fake Identity (turned real identity) -Mental Health Rep -Genderfluid and Pan Rep -Found Family -90s Small-Town Nostalgia At the bottom, the name Emma Bridge is crossed out and replaced with Peyton Freys

6/23/1995 “The Hills have Eyes” There’s a collage of pictures. Picture one is of two people, one sitting on the counter with the other in front of them. Picture two is go a small-town street with snowy homes to either side. Picture three shows a row of high school desks. Picture four shows a box of police evidence. Picture five shows a group of kids sitting behind an abandoned building. Picture six shows someone flipping off a police car. Picture seven shows a paper with the words “Child Custody Hearing” printed on it. The last picture shows a boy at a school desk, writing something into a notebook. In the bottom right, it says Going on submission in 2026

#Editors THE THINGS WE RUN FOR ( #OnSub 2026!)

Emma Bridge ran to find a safe home, but the town she picked is anything but. When she gets wrapped up in a cold case that threatens her siblings, who can she turn to while keeping her secrets safe?

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#DIS #LGBT #OV #OS