Findlay Kember

Le Photowallah Caption Therapist, mountainbiker, coffee, Surrey, Spurs Stade Francais, NEIndia observer usual caveats about non attribution of my tweets to AFP

[Findlay Kember @Findlay_Kember]

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@michaelkeegan14 No Crimea goes without punishment

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Cri de cœur

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Owen ready chips😉

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He has sole

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He has sole

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….washed down with a pint of Strongbow 😉🍺

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Tonks very much

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@campbellclaret Slower than it took for you to sign off on the dodgy dossier on Iraq

[Eric Luke @EricLuke2]

@AFP @Findlay_Kember Horrific

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Armed Israeli settlers on Tuesday beat an AFP photographer, leaving him requiring hospital treatment, as he covered ongoing violence by settlers against West Bank olive farmers. https://t.co/vJi0VZwEzI

[Shaun Tandon @shauntandon]

.@AFP demands a full investigation after Israeli settlers beat our photographer Jaafar Ashtiyeh as he covered settlers' ongoing violence against Palestinian olive harvesters https://t.co/9dXJfz3fFZ

[Findlay Kember @Findlay_Kember]

The return of Prince Monolulu😉?

[Pirate Irwin @pirateirwin]

@TopshotKirk @Findlay_Kember Though I have just been offered some African masks by a chap from Cameroon who approached me by the parade ring as I was smoking and engaged me in conversation about racing and then went for the kill.....I politely excused myself.

[Everett Stern @EverettStern1]

A bank laundered money for terrorists and drug cartels and paid a fine. A restaurant gave me a job and sent me home with dinner.

Guess which one I think about more.

After I blew the whistle at @HSBC, every door in my industry closed. Not slowly. All at once. I had a degree, a record of being right, and no one who would return a call. I was sleeping on a camping cot in a studio apartment and I needed to eat.

@PFChangs hired me.

They did not ask about the bank. They did not treat me like a liability. They handed me an apron and a section and let me earn an honest dollar on a day when nobody else in America would. On the nights money was tightest, the kitchen sent me home with lo mein so I would have something to eat. Nobody made a speech about it. They just did it.

I rebuilt my life between shifts. Everything I have now traces back to a restaurant that decided a whistleblower was worth hiring.

Here is what I learned carrying plates that I never learned at a bank. Dignity does not come from the title on your badge. It comes from doing honest work well, every single shift, when nobody is watching and nobody is impressed. The people I reported kept their bonuses. I kept my self-respect. I would make that trade again.

So I have a small ask.

Eat at @PFChangs this week. Lunch, dinner, whatever works. And tip your server like they might be rebuilding their entire life between tables, because some of them are. I was.

To the @PFChangs team, past and present: you did not just feed me. You gave me a place to stand while I figured out how to fight back. I will never forget it.

[Findlay Kember @Findlay_Kember]

🎩🎩🎩🍾🍾🍾 lad needs to have a Fray Bentos - Argentina’s best export 🥩🐮

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https://t.co/S9xQ6l8fUJ -- He's wide of the mark by a country Milei

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‘Knock on….’

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Touch wood

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…or alternatively the International Cricket Council 🏏😉

[Richard Carter @rdcParisAFP]

Probably the International Criminal Court? Easy to mix the two up!

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Jaguar Land Rover to cut 4,000 jobs — Hard to claw those back https://t.co/s31vmblLVT

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…zero chance of coming off the bench for this inside-right…

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That’s his benchmark

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That’s his benchmark

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Starring in the musical Grifter on the Roof

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What a fella! 🙏

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