Liz Crosbie #AllianceNowUK #FBPE

A crisis over using frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine It’s an old-style Euro punch-up in a deadly new context

Europe has 11 days to figure out how to do this, with Belgium's assent or without. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

Photo looking up at suspended circular differently patterned and coloured crochet work, in a band above a street at night with Italian houses on either side

Crochet mandala street decorations, a collective creation by women in Licata, Italy #WomensArt
(via Howtofeelgood. net)

The government with the biggest economy and most powerful military has decided that they no longer believe in the rules based order.

The entire planet is at risk.

How’s your day goin?

Margaret Hamilton (born 1936) is an American computer scientist and systems engineer whose pioneering work in software development was crucial to the success of NASA’s Apollo missions. As the director of the Software Engineering Division at MIT’s Instrumentation Laboratory, she led the team that developed the onboard flight software for the Apollo spacecraft. Hamilton’s innovative approach to software design included rigorous error detection and recovery systems, which famously helped save the Apollo 11 mission during its historic 1969 moon landing by allowing the onboard computer to prioritize critical tasks amid unexpected errors. She is one of the outstanding women like Katherine Goble Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, who worked at NASA during the Space Race. Her work not only contributed to one of humanity’s greatest achievements but also helped establish software engineering as a recognized discipline. Margaret Hamilton’s legacy endures as a testament to technical brilliance, leadership, and the critical role of software in space exploration.

Margaret Hamilton (born 1936) is an American computer scientist and systems engineer who led the team that developed the onboard flight software for the Apollo spacecraft.

#GirlPower
#RadicalWomen

NEW: In a joint letter, senior peers including 3 former cabinet secretaries and 3 former Lords speakers have warned peers not to use procedural manoeuvres to thwart the assisted dying bill.

With 1,100+ amendments tabled, they warn the reputation of Parliament is on the line.

Anarchy in Londonistan.

Shocked l say👇 The 🍊 Felon is dismantling the glue holding the international order together one decision at a time. It is now fair to say that the WH is infiltrated & part of Russia's sphere of influence. Whatever is in the Epstein files is bad but what Russia has on Trump is 40 years of collateral

China ‘systematically’ using UK research to gain a military edge Report reveals that 8,000 scientific papers — involving 5,000 academics — have been produced in partnerships linked to the People’s Liberation Army

This @thetimes.com piece www.thetimes.com/uk/education... on UK universities' co-operation with Chinese military-affiliated researchers strengthens the case in my @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social policy brief for strengthening the UK approval scheme for sensitive research: www.cer.eu/publications...

My question is will there be any women other than the cleaners? Tech bro nonsense just an extension of a teenager who refuses to clean up their room while living out of Mum's fridge.

Picture of Gaza disaster with I've donated to the DEC appeal. Can you help?

Something positive Brits can do about #Gaza & the horrible winter folks are facing there. UK govt will double donations up to £3million. dec.org.uk

if you came of age in the 20th century then this really sits you down about how much the Worlds changed in 21st century. no going back….
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...

I would love to see the gender mix in these corporate tech cities. 10 to 1 male to female, except the cleaners is my guess. Tech bro anti-rules is just the middle aged equivalent of the stroppy teenager refusing to clean up their room while living out of Mum's fridge. Freeloading taken to politics.

I wouldn't be so bl***y furious if blue Labour could articulate exactly what they hope to achieve post Brexit. Pro-local procurement? Keep Enterprise Zones & Free Ports? Closer to US corporate overlords? Anything concrete to justify the red lines. Failing that its fear of Reform voters. Spineless!

I remain very angry that far too little research is going in to ME and post viral conditions. We are failing/abandoning millions of extremely vulnerable people who need and deserve more.
Women are 2-4x more likely to get ME than men.
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The "Putinisation" of the US economy & what it means for the future 👇. The end of the dollar based international system?

Reform’s record £9m crypto donation is just the latest offering from abroad | The Observer

Will Hutton
“When the story of the 2024 - 29(?) Parliament is told one of the strangest chapters will be the refusal to close down foreign donations to British political parties”.
What on earth do Labour MPs think their ministers are doing here?
observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?

I would say this because I edited it but @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social's piece on tech bros founding their own for-profit cities really is unmissable reading www.ft.com/content/b127...

Do you feed your tree? Citrus are really picky about feed types & levels. I once got 14 lemons off our 2 trees when l followed the advice religiously. This year hospitalized & recovery meant they had to fend for themselves= zero fruit & only a few blossoms. Have to be frost free in a cool place in ☃️

Congratulations. I love it when the lemon trees do well. The smell of their flowers is wonderful.

This is my flag.

It stands for unity, freedom, peace, democracy, equality, civilization, diversity, rule of law, science, beauty and strength.

There is nothing more important to fight for.

In varietate concordia!

A screenshot of a news article from The Guardian with the headline "Senior DWP civil servant blames victims for carer's allowance scandal." The featured image shows a man in a blue hoodie pushing a person in a red hoodie who is using a wheelchair along a path.

I’m disgusted that some senior DWP people have learned nothing about the scale of the misery their policies inflicted.

It’s high time the DWP showed some respect to carers and some awareness of their own gross errors.

Reform’s record £9m crypto donation is just the latest offering from abroad | The Observer

Reform’s record £9m crypto donation is just the latest offering from abroad.

Two thirds of funds given to Nigel Farage’s party this parliament have come from donors with overseas interests, writes @catneilan.bsky.social and Becky Pinnington.
https://bit.ly/4oDNKn2

Those words ‘can’t be uttered without malice’ – Holocaust survivor on Farage antisemitism allegations One of the people who signed that letter to Mr Farage is Agnes Kaposi, an engineer and author who survived the Debrecen ghetto and labour camps in Austria.

Those words ‘can’t be uttered without malice’ – Holocaust survivor on Farage antisemitism allegations
www.channel4.com/news/those-w...

One tiny little 🎻 is playing.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

This is simply not acceptable @therestpolitics.bsky.social. No no and dont go there triple underlined _____

The Lost Paths Hundreds of thousands of miles of paths reach into, and connect, communities across England and Wales. More than just a practical way for us to walk, ride and cycle around, they are an inheritance fro...

This year we read The Lost Paths by Jack Cornish and learnt lots about the history and function of paths. Hard recommend as a good read if you are looking for a gift for an outside person. 📙

A view over a ploughed field towards an ancient barn topped with snow. There is a hard hoar frost tracing cobwebs and making the going hard for the corvids in the field

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar
Window 7
‘Frost’
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Good 🧵but 1 point to add. Despite the size of the pro-EU community there is little effort put into closing the gap on European norms of behaviour. What would a truly European UK look like - roles of the nations (federal UK), how would social safety work, how do we promote growth without UK favours?

Ann Lowe was the Black genius behind Jackie Kennedy’s iconic wedding gown.

Before the fashion world was ready to credit a Black woman’s talent, Lowe was already designing for America’s most powerful families. Brilliant. Bold. Innovative. Undervalued. And nearly erased from history.