Joe Cassidy

“the thinker of tender thoughts” by shel silverstein [an illustration depicting a boy growing into a man. as he grows, his hair grows out as flowers. people laugh at him for it and he becomes sad. he starts trimming off the flowers, but as he reaches the last one he stops. he is then depicted with a smile and a flower in his buttonhole on his jacket.]

“the thinker of tender thoughts”
by shel silverstein

Takeaway and delivery restaurants should use proper stainless steel containers and collect them, so they can be used again. If there was a national standard for the containers they could be returned to any restaurant, or even supermarkets, for recycling.

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

Do you know roughly when this change came into effect?

Two of the sexist comments I received this morning on Facebook. The "ladies" they are referring to are myself and Christiana Figueres, former UN climate chief and architect of the Paris Agreement.

FB recently altered their algorithm to promote conflict by boosting content into people's feeds they'd disagree with.

The unexpected side-effect? My old page, shadow-banned & dormant since 2018, took off.

Tons of trolls + sexists, yes. But also 1000x more eyes on my climate content than before 🤯

Thames Water are overcharging me due to a faulty smart meter.

I noticed it when they charged for 300 litres when I was away.
I flagged this to TW and they said an engineer would come in SIXTY working days.

That's 3 months! They want me to keep paying my bill as normal obvs.

Joke company.

fair enough - in my experience most people take it as a joke not warranting more than a raised eyebrow, but depends who it is obvs.

Let Me Google That For all those people that find it more convenient to bother you with their question than to google it for themselves.

Have you ever come across
letmegooglethat.com 😄

Reform UK are now down on average five points in the polls from where they were six months ago

"Which is remarkable"

Mark Stone reports that Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State, has suggested American foreign policy is being dictated by Israel.

That YouGov poll yesterday:
Britain's working age population 18-65:
🟢Green 26%
🟣Reform 21%
🔴Labour 16%
🟠Lib Dem 14%
🔵Tories 13%

Britain's retired population 65+:
🟣Reform 33%
🔵Tories 26%
🔴Labour 15%
🟠Lib Dem 14%
🟢Green 6%

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.

1/2

Genuinely shocking

15 US military aircraft have left the Rota and Morón air bases after Spain refused to allow them to be used for operations related to Iran, Reuters reports.

This is the reason the culture wars exist.

Fare dodgers targeted as train ticket refund rules are tightened In a bid to clamp down on ticket fraud that costs the railways millions each year, the government has quietly changed the rules on claiming refunds for unused train tickets.

DON'T BUY TRAIN TICKETS IN ADVANCE!
On 1 April, the government is quietly changing the rules.
Off-Peak & Anytime tickets become non-refundable after 23:59 the day BEFORE you travel.
If you wake up & find your event cancelled, NO REFUNDS, even on £100+ tickets.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/far...

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

BREAKING — 51 Iranian children are dead after a strike hits Minab girls elementary school in Iran.

"Let's be blunt. Let's be brutally honest with ourselves. When you lose an election in a democracy, you deserve to. You don't look at the electorate and ask them, what were you thinking? You look at yourself and ask, what were we doing?"

Keir?

Keir Starmer's attempt to paint the Greens as extremists yet again reveals his intolerance of political difference. His instincts are illiberal and authoritarian.

Labour MP Andy McDonald: "The party has to come to terms with the reality that factionalism fails the party and more importantly fails the country...

"It is the political approach of the Prime Minister, his former chief of staff, and of Labour Together, which has cost Labour this safe seat".

GNU Rob Grant. 💔

It’s been a long, slow, dirty road.

So glad to see this happen.

This is a massive scandal.

Labour has invented a made-up tactical vote organisation to trick Gorton and Denton into voting for them.

How can this even be legal?

The Labour Party seem happy to lie and deceive voters in order to win the Gorton and Denton by election.

They currently have an effective working majority of 168 😐

In Gorton and Denton, vote for Hannah Spencer & the Greens.

There is only one way we will defeat Reform: by working together.

Rio Police Chief & Congressman Convicted in Assassination of Socialist Rio Councilwoman Marielle Franco The court found that the former Chief of Rio de Janeiro Civil Police Rivaldo Barbosa, Brazilian Congressman Chiquinho Brazão, and his brother, Rio State Auditor General Domingos Brazão, were responsib...

"Today, the Brazilian Supreme Court announced that they had convicted the masterminds behind the assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco guilty on all counts."

massive news in Brazil today, writeup by @mikeelk.bsky.social

paydayreport.com/rio-police-c...

Irish Independent: Man stole three coffee machines in a week from Monaghan department store.

How does he sleep at night?