Anne Whitehead

Just found out that the organic farm where I worked for two summers in Canada has been sold as the young woman who ran it for 20 years moves onto the next phase of her life.

👏🥹 I learned so much here!

Everyone should know how to grow their own food.

YouTube video by Zoë Garbett A Green Mayor for Hackney - We Need You to Make History

We love Hackney, but it needs to work for all of us.

Rising rents. Mouldy homes. Foodbanks.

Zoë Garbett is running Mayor of Hackney to change that - with Dylan as Deputy.

But we need YOU.

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I don’t spend much time here mostly because I feel like the TL is too American-focused.

Is that the case for everyone?

Or do I need to do something to see more global news and conversations?

I’m interested in my other homelands - Canada, UK, Ireland, Uganda - and the world more broadly.

🤔🙏

Canada, we’re with you!
TRUMPISM IS REPUDIATED IN AUSTRALIA!
#auspol

AI and Political Campaigns, with Dr. Michael D. Cohen Social Media and Politics · Episode

Great point🎧💭

AI is ALREADY better than Jr staffers in campaigns on developing CLEAN DRAFTS quickly.

But AI copy lacks CREATIVITY & RELEVANCE.

Experienced comms pros still have better INSTINCTS & can analyse/edit AI output with juniors to TRAIN them!

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"How should the Canadian government approach the US?"

As a potential threat: 38% (+25)
As an enemy: 13% (+11)

Cautiously: 24 (+1)

As an ally: 15% (-27)
On friendly terms: 8% (-9)

Angus Reid / Mar 3, 2025 / n=2005 / Online

(% Change With November 2024)

"I’m reminded of that Jon Stone tweet, “One reason people insist you use the proper channels to change things is because they have control of the proper channels and they’re confident it won’t work.”"

California’s Scary Product Warning Labels Might Be Working, Study Says Products must state if they contain chemicals tied to cancer or other risks. As a result, manufacturers have pulled back from using the chemicals, researchers found.

California’s right-to-know law, which requires companies to warn people about harmful chemicals in their products, has swayed many companies to stop using those chemicals altogether, a new study found.

Exclusive | Musk’s X Agrees to Pay About $10 Million to Settle Trump Lawsuit The platform becomes second social-media company to settle with Trump after Jan. 6, 2021, riot triggered bans

Exclusive: Elon Musk’s X has agreed to pay about $10 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Donald Trump in 2021

Showing off my newly repaired button, blue thread on beige jacket hehe oh well

Everyone should know how to sew a button back on! 🪡

(Having the right colour of thread imho less important 😂 now this jacket has more character 🙃)

One of those skills we’ve got to keep teaching the youngens, along with farming, cooking and other basic survival skills.

Wild week for Trump effects.

Friends in Uganda seen supplies withdrawn from offices & clinics; fate of healthcare salaries unknown, due to USAID work stoppage.

Friends in Canada stocking up on supplies as 25% tariffs cause panic.

For once UK seems relatively stable… for now.🫠

Tiktok skilfully realigning itself with Trump.

Rednote demystifying American propaganda through direct Chinese-American citizen discourse.

DeepSeek releasing a cheaper, open source AI to undercut ChatGPT.

What a month for Chinese PR!

All I’m saying is, people don’t really care about that thing you are worried they’ll judge about you.

They are way too focused on how others see them.

#SpotlightEffect

May this information set you free! 😅

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Led a practice training on networking skills today & I asked what participants found easiest & most challenging.

Everyone feared being judged while introducing themselves but found it easy to ask others questions.

Also, everyone said they didn’t notice others’ insecurities.🤣

Walgreens CEO says anti-shoplifting strategy backfired: 'When you lock things up…you don't sell as many of them’ Walgreens' CEO talked about the flip side of investing in increased security on a recent earnings call.

Walgreens CEO says anti-shoplifting strategy backfired: ‘When you lock things up…you don’t sell as many of them’

Friendship across the parenting divide Today in Focus · Episode

“Friendship across the Parenting Divide”

A really thoughtful, sweet and illuminating episode from The Guardian in Focus as two journalist friends discuss what it’s been like between them and what was learned as one had kids and the other couldn’t. 🥹

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According to Barron’s, Elon Musk’s wealth increased by almost $200 billion between November 5 and December 20. That means he could give $250,000 to every homeless person in the US and still be as rich as he was on November 5.

Having ADHD and being on social media can be a fun experience where you see something that makes you feel bad/uneasy, scroll past it, forget it, but the unease stays and you’re like “why do I feel bad and how do I make it better” but you can’t bc your brain has already moved on but your gut hasn’t 🤷🏻‍♀️

Every year around this time I post this comic up on the Find Chaffy Facebook page. I wait until other viral sites start posting it, then do it officially myself. It’s become a bit of a weird and lovely tradition for a lot of people, and it’s so nice 🫡

Is Starmer a historically unpopular Prime Minister or are politicians historically unpopular? It could be both, but I wonder about over reliance on historical data from different contexts.

(Still a good piece to be clear well worth reading.)

Me standing today for my before shot with my hair out and down to my waist

Probably time to go get my hair cut I guess? (Been a while) Lol

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Finance Minister Christian Freeland resigns from cabinet… on the day of the fiscal update! #cdnpoli

A dramatic day in Canadian politics! (someone has sent a strongly worded letter)

Pic of the page where the original quote comes from: “their willingness to surrender their labour cheaply was the ultimate philanthropic act”.

Overworked and under paid?

Ah, so you are a philanthropist! 😅 according to Robert Tressell (in LinseyMcGoey’s “No Such Thing As A Free Gift”)

Picture of a photo of my great granny

My mother’s mother’s mother lived over 100 years and always had long hair, which she wore in a braid wrapped around her head like a crown.

That’s Irish-Québecoise Great Granny McGee.

Do you know who made peace out of the troubles in Ireland?

💣🔫⛪️🕵️‍♀️

As is often the case, women mobilised their communities to create political change.

Here are brief profiles of a few that might blow your mind… if you didn’t know, now you know!

🇮🇪🍀

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Yeah that’s rough 🫣 when I get back to the UK it’ll be similar. Best of luck to you out there!

Canadian winter weather be like:

“Sunshine with a high of -2C; feels like -10C with wind chill!”

☀️🥶🇨🇦

Mixed feelings reading a headline like that.

On the one hand it’s good they are planning for this, but on the other - the word “affordable” seems like such a basic necessity, so half won’t be affordable? Sigh. As a renting/houseless Millenial, my prospects in the housing market feel hopeless.