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[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

Caroline Lucas, Chris Packham, George Monbiot and others are asking you to add your signature to a petition, putting pressure on the government to hold a televised emergency briefing on the risks of climate and nature breakdown. They need 100,000 signatures. https://t.co/saHaqs34wf

[Punkrock History @PunkRockStory]

41 years ago
Talking Heads’ bassist, Tina Weymouth, from the August 1985 issue of Vogue.

Photo by Oliverio Toscani

#punkrock #newwave #postpunk #basswoman #tinaweymouth #talkingheads #history #punkrockhistory

[Music over time🎻 @Peal8888]

Stopped me in my tracks! Great song. Lyrics are hauntingly relevant today

[Vinnie Sullivan @VinnieSull1van]

We must never forget the one and only, Flat Eric. ⏳️

[Larry Karaszewski @Karaszewski]

Things I didn’t know department - In 1961 they made a pilot for a SOME LIKE IT HOT television series that opens with Jack Lemon and Tony Curtis - yes the real guys - running to a plastic surgeon so they can alter their faces to hide from the mob. When they wake up and take the bandages off they are two completely different actors - Vic Damone and Dick Patterson! And Ginger herself - Tina Louise plays the Marilyn Monroe part! The show didn’t get picked up.

[Kea @jacquemusx]

This bee swam dress by Alice Pärtelpoeg (IFM) in collaboration with Dior Couture is the best piece I’ve seen in a while. 👏

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

POST OFFICE PUT A CHILD IN PRISON

In 2002 Tracy Felstead @TracyF882 was a 19 year old counter clerk. She worked at the Camberwell Green Post Office branch in south London. She had left school and was proud to have a job with a company everyone trusted.

Then the Post Office's Horizon computer system showed a shortfall of £11,503 at her till. Nobody checked if the machine was wrong. @PostOffice investigators decided Tracy was a thief.

She was interviewed under caution at Peckham police station. Investigators asked her to prove she did not steal money that a computer had simply invented. They even asked if her own family had pressured her to steal.

Her family scraped together the £11,500 and paid it back. They were told this could help her avoid prison. It did not work.

Tracy was convicted of theft and false accounting at trial. The judge sent her to a young offender institution for 6 months. She was still a teenager.

Inside, she saw things no 19 year old should see. She has said the memory of prison still comes back to her now, decades later. She has spoken about trying to take her own life twice because of what happened to her.

Years later the stress caught up with her body too. She suffered a neurological breakdown that left her temporarily paralysed on one side.

Tracy was not alone. Horizon was built and run by Fujitsu @fujitsu_uk. Between 2000 and 2014 the Post Office prosecuted more than 700 sub-postmasters and counter staff using data from that same system.

It is now officially called the biggest miscarriage of justice in British legal history.

Paula Vennells @PaulaVennells1 ran the Post Office as chief executive from 2012 to 2019. Under her watch the organisation spent millions fighting the very people it had wrongly accused, rather than admitting the software was broken.

Over 1 million people later signed a petition demanding she hand back her CBE.

The Court of Appeal finally quashed Tracy's conviction in 2021. 19 years after she went to prison. Nobody at the Post Office or Fujitsu spent a single night in a cell for it.

In 2023 Tracy sat down with Post Office bosses in Parliament, with the support of her then MP Lucy Allan @lucyallan.

She told the chief executive to his face how to fix the compensation process. She later gave evidence to the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry @PostOffInquiry, chaired by Sir Wyn Williams, about what six months in a cell at 19 actually cost her.

A faulty computer got 16 years of trust from an entire national institution. A teenage counter clerk got a criminal record, a prison sentence, and a mental health battle that has lasted her whole adult life.

Same script every time. Protect the system first. Apologise decades later, if at all..

SOURCES: @PostOffInquiry @BBCNews @guardian and many others.

[Marl Karx @BareLeft]

Another casualty of rolling local government cuts and the Cameronite "Big Society" relying on volunteers to perform previously paid work.

Councils in England are collectively spending over £330 million less on the upkeep of parks and open spaces than they did in 2010.

[Monisha Rajesh @monisha_rajesh]

All the terfs, from Rosie Duffield to Julie Bindel to Kathleen Stock are gutted about the death of howling racist Rod Liddle who wrote about wanting to “shag kids”, and punched his pregnant girlfriend.

But yes, they want to protect women.

[Betty Moffett @bettymoffett]

#np The Velvet Underground - Rock and Roll

[Noirchick In Old Hollywood @Noirchick1]

A touch of Friday "Frug" from "Sweet Charity" (1969) -with the unmistakable choreography of Bob Fosse....

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

The whole point is that these two topics are inextricably linked. If social & palliative care are inadequate, then patients with a terminal diagnosis could “choose” AD because we, society, have not given them the care they need for life to still feel like it’s worth living. As a palliative care doctor I witness this so depressingly frequently - patients whose suffering is avoidable, preventable, if only they received decent care.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

She's one of the original BUPA7 whistleblowers who lost everything blowing the whistle on abuse, and she's spent every year since trying to make sure the next person who speaks up doesn't have to lose the same. Two minutes to sign is nothing next to that.

[CrémantCommunarde #GreenTransitionNow💚 @0Calamity]

It has been the law in France for years that supermarkets must give left-over food to charities and not dump it.
Please sign this petition to get this debated in parliament.
https://t.co/EQ9UB883cT

[Lex Lamb @LambLex]

I try to stay out of the argy-bargy on here, but I ought to say that this piece by @RoryOlcayto is compelling and comes very close to making my mind up about the situation of the Mackintosh Building. https://t.co/uh3ngdSsvr

[Matt Zarb-Cousin @mattzarb]

Remember when Corbyn had a policy to plant a load of trees and everyone in the media said how stupid it was

[Ben Cohen @YoBenCohen]

Magnum has worked with many celebrity ambassadors, including A-listers like @Charli_xcx and Bella Hadid.

Both have used their platforms to bring attention to issues they care about, but now their images are helping sell a brand that has silenced Ben & Jerry’s for trying to do the same thing.

Here’s how you can help: Flood their social comments with #BoycottMagnum and #freebenandjerrys

We are asking these influential celebrities to use their massive platforms to ask Magnum one simple question: Why are you destroying an ice cream company for having a conscience?

[Hollywood Golden Age of Cinema @HGACinema]

A compilation of photos of Marilyn Monroe photographed in New York by Ed Feingersh for Redbook Magazine, March 1955. The last 2 photos were taken at Costello’s bar and restaurant on the corner of Third Avenue and East 44th Street founded by brothers Tim and Joe Costello in 1929.
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In a 2005 article, Redbook editor Robert Stein (seen in photos 6 & 8) shared this unforgettable moment: “Marilyn had never been in a subway. Wrapped in the camel’s hair coat, her famous hair subdued, she walked to the Grand Central stop of the IRT and down to the platform. Nobody recognised her. Eddie’s camera kept clicking while she stood straphanging on the uptown local. No heads turned.”

“Back up on the street, Marilyn looked around with a teasing smile. “Do you want to see her?” she asked, then took off the coat, fluffed up her hair, and arched her back in a pose. In an instant she was engulfed, and it took several shoving, scary minutes to rewrap her and push clear of the growing crowd.”

Music | “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” ― The Platters.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

.@GuzKhanOfficial went on Deal or No Deal & won £19,710 for @MedicalAidPal. ❤️✊

[nazir afzal @nazirafzal]

Broadmoor is a high security prison with pills, a place where every move is observed & every decision controlled
It houses murderers inc Sutcliffe who killed 13 women
There are only two exits, back to prison or a coffin
it is as far from an easy option as some are from the truth