Miriam

That's absolutely great :)

I have another #buyastrangerabook day offer for you.

@magentakoru.bsky.social is offering to buy someone the book of their choice, up to £15!

So, if there's a particular book you're after, get in touch.

UK only

ANOTHER #buyastrangerabook day offer!

@angelygogledd.bsky.social is offering to buy someone whatever book they want, up to £20!

That's right!

So, if you have your eye on a particular book, let us know what it is.

UK only

I've put £20 into the kitty to buy someone a book or two.

My way of saying thanks for the books bought for me.

BBC News' report on the Darlington nurses just now was utterly disgraceful.

Misgendering the trans person throughout, presenting it entirely from the complainants' perspective and including no trans voices, using transphobic tropes and making the trans woman out to be a pervert. Impartial, my arse!

Being appreciated by Zula cat and Ares cat. #tinyjoys

What an ignoramus

This is unbelievably wrong.

Poppies & cornflowers became symbols of 11 Nov thanks to women forgotten by history. Every year on the anniversary of 1918 Armistice, English-speaking countries traditionally wear a poppy, while the French don a cornflower. This custom was intended to raise funds for wounded war veterans

If true that’s good to hear!

Friends who pray - can you pray for Fox and I pls- a potentially good thing may happen, which would be VERY BRILLIANT, but I cannae be more specific here, because public Internet

But cross fingers, pray, etc pls. Many thanks

1/2 Hear me out- Suppose we promise to make Trump the next Bond?

My cishet white RP-speaking son hates walking through the flagged-up areas in his uni city, while feeling very much at home among, for example, the fireworks of Diwali a few weeks back. If he feels uncomfortable, I can’t imagine what it’s like for anyone with a different skin tone, accent etc.

Small group Bible studies for Advent

Small group Advent Bible studies aplenty on the website at buff.ly/4q5eoO8 !

🤦‍♂️

Ydych chi wedi darllen hwn @jeremy-miles.bsky.social ?

What an absolute piece of shit. I hope her sleep is haunted by the pain she has caused our community for forever

Someone remind me to do this tomorrow...way past bedtime now

Corgi butt's on the other hand I know exactly who to get for

British Muslim Trust Mosque and Islamic centre security and safety support. Register your interest to receive professional, culturally sensitive support.

British Muslim Trust reports that between July and October, 25 mosques in Britain were targeted in 27 attacks - 'an alarming sudden spike'. More than 40% of the incidents featured British or English flags, crosses or slogans eg 'Christ is king”

Want to know why the prisons system seems to be suddenly falling apart?

Well, it's not sudden. It's just suddenly being REPORTED. This rot was a deliberate policy choice, and I kept the receipts. Because I'm not the BBC.

(A note on what Tories did to cause this, from The Decade In Tory)

These are the people who forged Electoral College vote certificates and tried to pass them off as real, right in front of the whole country.

Maybe the most insane crime of them all.

Nothing quite more depressing than seeing north Wales comms/stakeholder jobs advertised at £30k requiring two languages, and similar monolingual jobs in the south of England for £50k.

Novara Media The Indian state of Kerala has become the first in the country to eradicate extreme poverty – one year ahead of schedule – thanks to a “meticulously planned” programme led by the Communist Party of...

A story you won't see in the billionaire press ...

"The Indian state of Kerala has become the first in the country to eradicate extreme poverty – one year ahead of schedule – thanks to a 'meticulously planned' programme led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist)"
www.facebook.com/novaramedia/...

Mick Waddington is Reform UK's candidate in the Barnoldswick, Pendle by-election.

He's "campaiging to protect Pendle's care homes".

No one seems to have told him that Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close their care homes and day centres:
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Peterborough infirmary appears to have a very low mortality rate for surgery in the 19th century but I have nothing to compare it to. Has anyone seen any published stats on their travels?

My company food allowance is £50 per day. Realised I can buy a couple of homeless people a sizeable meal whenever I travel and consume fewer calories at the same time. Makes me feel great and have had some great chats with real people. Do it if you can.

U.K. friends. A friend of mine in Wales is in dire need of legal representation in the next couple of days, ideally someone pro-bono. Do any of you peeps have someone to recommend? Family law specialty would be ideal. I'm contacting a Citizen Advice for him tomorrow, but it's a matter of urgency. 😱

Yes, absolutely - honest, kind & funny - about Starmer: “He does not speak human”.

Salford are managing to leave the flags up and put lights up *groans softly*