Ruth Dawkins

My 16yo: I always get Robert Burns and Robert Frost confused because they’re like opposite ends of the same spectrum.

Thank you! I’m in Australia so no TJ’s but I will look up an ingredient list and see if I can track down an equivalent :)

I need to find a gluten free pasta that doesn’t taste like sadness 😩

Dare Graham Platner to talk with Isaac Chotiner, tell him he would be a huge wuss if he doesn't

Candesartan - it’s a blood pressure med used off-label. I specifically asked my GP for it after a friend recommended it - otherwise the next options I would have been offered were amitriptyline or topiramate. Propanol was the one that made them worse.

Don’t let mega-constellation-building billionaires steal your night sky Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet

Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.

Yes. A MILLION.

This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:

www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp...

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I have started a new medicine with the aim of reducing migraine episodes… this is the second one I’m trying after the first one I tried gave me basically one long 6-week migraine 🥴

Aaaand… I have gone one whole week without a migraine. Don’t want to get ahead of myself, but it’s v promising ❤️

In the middle of a regional war that has led to meaningless loss of life, wreaked terror globally, and harmed US allies, instead of using its leverage to get Israel to immediately deescalate and stop further attacks, the US is handing it the weapons it needs to continue.

Bloody Hell! Katherine. River height well above major flood level. Hospital being evacuated. River cam has water over 17 m in town. BOM has 8 m on the gauge at Nitmiluk. Most of the town will be under at these river heights #flood #auspol

Remember all those annoying people like me who kept chirping up when hospitals were targeted in Gaza, saying that if we let it happen there it would become the new normal from now on…

Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced.

They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon.

The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

The responses to this are wonderful ❤️

So that’s a yes, then.

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.

A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

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Morning.

How did it go??

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And 9 times out of 10 that someone is Bret Stephens!

The only reason I am not drinking every night is because even one glass makes me feel like crap for about three days and the world is bad enough without adding a permanent migraine and alcohol-induced anxiety into the mix 😂

Sarah Vaci is a "gender critical" artist who set out 4 years ago this month to create 100 portraits of "female detransitioners." To date, worldwide, she hasn't even found 100 to take part in her project, and at her current rate, it will take her 10 to 15 years to finish.

Why is this important? 1/

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It's Monday again and today I'm reading "Monk and Robot" by Becky Chambers

What book(s) are you reading this week?

💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR

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Morning. A good week for reading and staying offline, I reckon 😵‍💫 I’m reading All God’s Children Need Travelling Shoes by Maya Angelou.

Screenshot of text: First, it’s a mistake to say that Trump got America into war on Saturday. What he did was respond to a war that Iran has been waging against the United States since 1979.

Cool hey did anything happen *before* 1979 between the United States and Iran

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The whole thing has now all been referred on to the right place. So impressed by their fast and caring response ❤️🙏🏻

Just want to give a shout out to COTA (Council on the Ageing Tasmania). I had a concern about an elderly neighbour and emailed them with an enquiry because I didn’t know where else to go. They replied to the first email within 10 minutes & sent a second within the hour requesting more info.

BREAKING: Keir Starmer says the U.K. has given the US permission to use British bases to launch strikes on Iran

Iran has a great many Mandelas and Walesas. Most of them are in a prison that Israel bombed back in July.