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[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Airbnb owners, if you’re charging me a cleaning fee, I’m not cleaning anything. Hotels don’t charge a cleaning fee, and I don’t have to strip the beds, take out the trash, load the dishwasher, or wash the towels.

Why are you charging a fee whilst making me an employee?

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

NEW: The Times has established that Nigel Farage and his partner own at least five homes spanning Surrey, Essex and Kent.

All but one were bought with cash since 2000. Farage described himself as "skint" in 2017.

https://t.co/dwVOv9TQvs

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Five moon bears which have spent decades living in cages in South Korea have been cleared by vets to be moved to Suffolk.

Jimmy's Farm & Wildlife Park near Ipswich and its charity Space for the Wild are working on the Bears Behind Bars campaign to transport the animals 5,500 miles (8,850km) to their new forever home.

The bears had been kept at one of South Korea's last bear bile farms – sites which have now been banned in the country.
Jimmy Doherty, founder of the Ipswich wildlife park, said the bears would soon be able to "finally feel real grass beneath their feet".

I'll never forget meeting these bears for the first time," he said.
"After decades trapped in tiny cages, it was heartbreaking to see what they'd endured.
"But even then, you could see a spark in them that was worth fighting for."

At the end of last year, South Korea announced it would ban the breeding and possession of bears and the extraction of their bile.
The bile would be used in medicines while the bears themselves were often kept in poor conditions and spent their lives in small cages.
While the practice has been phased out, there are still believed to be about 200 bears living in cages at the former farms.
Of the five coming to Suffolk, one has been kept at a farm since 1998, according to the wildlife park.

The wildlife park has started to work on a reserve for the bears.
Park director Stevie Sheppard said there was still no timeline for the bears' arrival, as a campaign to raise money for the project continues.
"No moon bears have ever come to the UK from South Korea. This is a brand new corridor we're opening for them to find a new home," he explained.
"We're not too sure on the full timeframe. We need to raise the money.
"Once we've got the money we can get the bears here."

The campaign has raised more than £50,000 but is aiming for £200,000.
Sarah Dawson, chief operating officer for Space for the Wild, said the flights for the bears were expected to be expensive.
"It's a long way here from South Korea and they've had a very difficult life. We want to make sure they're as comfortable as possible on the flight here," she said.
"Plus the crates, plus people to look after them on the flights, veterinary care, even the forklift trucks to lift the crates up on to the plane are expensive, so it all adds up."

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Old school environmentalism. 🌳

[Compute The Resistance™️🍉 @MixtUpMixy]

There are over 500,000 peer reviewed studies/papers on SARSCO-V2 Covid-19…and not a single one says it’s a good idea to catch it over and over and over again.

😷

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Paying to park at a hotel I’m already paying to stay at is absurd.

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

Today I led a debate in Parliament to ban ALL MPs’ second jobs.

Nigel Farage didn’t show up to defend any of his - including the latest one, raking in £22,500 an hour to promote a gold dealer.

The gravy train must end. Watch the debate below.

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

This baby Hippo was rescued in Kenya after he was found beside his mother, who had died. He clearly didn't understand the situation; he was calling out to his mother and nudging her with his blunt little nose, desperately hoping for a response.

He is now being raised by the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust

In this video, little Bumpy walks into his room, where a mattress has been laid on the floor for him.

One of his caretakers sleeps in the same room, because at that age, he still needs someone close.

Find out more about the wonderful work that they do at https://t.co/lg4o9Un5eb

🎦 Credit: Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.

[Lady Chuan @LadyChuan]

Out of a team of TEN people ages 44-70, EIGHT have officially been diagnosed with GERD, and FOUR have been DIAGNOSED with GOUT, TWO have been diagnosed with CANCER, and SIX no longer can drink occasionally due to ALCOHOL INTOLERANCE.

….and only TWO of us recognize the link between these illnesses to a past Covid infection, although ALL of us have been extensively trained about the long term effects of COVID.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

What if Andy Burnham could raise £15bn – without a tax rise?

There's one catch. He'd need to solve the UK’s biggest and least-discussed tax problem.

Almost half of all small business corporation tax isn't being paid - and nobody knows why.

Thread:

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

Martin Lewis evidence to MPs… the biggest area of complaint I get about energy bills is on the Standing Charge.

Just a small part of the evidence given at the Commons Public Accounts committee you can watch the full session here: https://t.co/EWNRsrTH1l

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I just saw a comment that said, “I’m a student. Can anyone recommend an alternative to ChatGPT?”

HELLO??? YOUR BRAIN. That’s literally the whole point of being a student.

[Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire]

A judge was "wrong" to pass community sentences on three boys convicted of raping two teenage girls in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, the Court of Appeal has heard. https://t.co/LmTrGkDK0o

[Puppies & Positivity @Puppieslover]

Don’t pass without leaving a big heart ❤️ for this brave heroic dogs that traveled all the way from their country to Venezuela and helped save lives in their recent earthquake

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

Six of these ten Highland Councillors voted to allow a taxi driver who raped a passenger to keep his operator’s license — even though senior police officers urged them not to.

Please note that although we’re constantly told it’s women who grease the wheels for rapists, every single councillor who voted in rapist David Brown’s favor is a man. Take a good look at them, Scottish women: these 6 men would put you, alone and unwarned, in a taxi with a man who has already raped at least one passenger.

Brown has been put on the register for life; he raped an 18 year old girl and dumped her outdoors on a sub-zero January night in the Scottish Highlands; but these 6 men - Chris Birt, John Grafton, Ruraidh Stewart, Sean Kennedy, Willy MacKay, and Duncan MacPherson - are more concerned about his finances than they are about the safety of local women.

https://t.co/Rq2jzLJ9P3

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The evolution of school nutrition.

1906: "Feed the poorest children, so they might learn on a full stomach."

1944: "Every child shall have a proper hot dinner. Meat, vegetables and a pudding, guaranteed by law."

1946: "And a free bottle of milk. Every child, every morning."

1966: "Twenty-nine grams of protein a meal. Fresh meat three days a week. These are the standards."

1968: "Milk's dear this year. The secondary schools can manage without."

1971: "Take it off the little ones too. They'll survive."

1980: "Bin the nutritional standards altogether. And we needn't feed most of them at all any more."

1988: "Hand the kitchens to whoever bids lowest. Cheapest wins, quality optional."

1990s: "Why serve fresh meat when a turkey twizzler costs half as much?"

1999: "A four-year-old apparently ate better in the 1950s than today. Anyway, moving on."

2005: "There are legal nutrition standards for tinned dog food. There are none for school food."

2020s: "Why does every child suddenly have the attention span of a goldfish?"

2026: "One in three children leaves primary school overweight. Truly baffling."

You: noticing that the hot, guaranteed, meat-and-milk dinner your grandparents got by law was quietly legislated down to a chip and a shrug, one budget cut at a time, and wondering aloud why a nation that swapped the fresh meat and the full-fat milk for sugar and seed oil is now baffled that its children cannot sit still.

[Matt Casey 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 @MattCas04807118]

What a witch! 🤬

Pink haired idiot with a cold heart, 77 dogs in bad condition and 5 put down under her watch! 🤬🤬

Some even had to be put down!

[#bullshitjobs @bullshitjobs]

The relevant part of our "economy" is producing enough wealth to take care of 20 billion people.

But we waste all the wealth to build financial districts, data centers and skyscrapers full of financial nonsense and to maintain billions of #bullshitjobs.

Instead of taking care of every human being on this planet, we waste most of our wealth to maintain the silly money games of capitalism.

Global warming will force us to stop the fight over money, to shut down all the abstract and financial nonsense and to utilize our wealth to take care of people instead.

#basicincome

[Skint Dad @SkintDad]

I honestly don’t know where money goes any more.

£20 used to feel like you had something in your wallet.

Now you can nip to the supermarket for a few bits you forgot and somehow it’s £38.

The food shop hurts.

Putting fuel in the car hurts.

The bills hurt.

Then payday rolls around, and before you know it, you’re wondering where half of it’s gone.

I don’t even think most people are trying to live a fancy lifestyle (I know we’re not). They’re just trying to pay for the same things they were paying for a few years ago.

It just feels like everything’s doubled except our bank balances.