Kari Birch

Artist, Photographer, Ex Nurse... What more do you need to know? Oh, and Fruitcake....

[Kari Birch @KariBirch]

@Mark_Spencer @lammashow As part of this innovation you could ban bee killing pesticides…..

[Kari Birch @KariBirch]

I just signed the petition calling on the Post Office Minister, @kevinhollinrake to prevent @RoyalMail reducing their delivery requirements from six days to three days a week. Will you sign too? https://t.co/wt92gYJate via @38degrees

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

BREAKING 🚨 - STATE SANCTIONED SEXUAL ASSAULT
A new policy has been implemented under the radar by the majority of police forces in the country.
This allows trans-identifying male officers (men who claim to be women) to STRIP and intimately search women.
If you object, you are guilty of HATE.
Read more in our report by WRN’s @JackMerched below 👇

https://t.co/pTzyrzphUJ

#StateSanctionedSexualAssault
#PoliceFailWomenAgain
#ListenToWomen
1/7

[If Americans Knew @ifamericansknew]

In memory of Tom Hurndall, who would have been 42 today. He was 21 when an Israeli military sniper shot him in the head as he rescued young Palestinian girls from Israeli gunfire in 2003. Tom was wearing an orange fluorescent vest to mark himself as an unarmed civilian.

https://t.co/KLmSHjw7WT

[Dave Sumner Smith @davesumnersmith]

The Parthenon Marbles (aka Elgin Marbles) are obviously far more important to Greece than to the UK.

Shouldn't we just give them back?

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Liz Truss throws weight behind Donald Trump for President: ‘There must be conservative leadership in the US’

Her weight 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
#ToriesOut508 #SunakOut398 #GeneralElectionNow
#Sunackered #UnitedAgainstTheTories

https://t.co/RAU6hkOCsd

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

Hello , I’ve written another letter to @antanddec about the ongoing appalling abuse of animals on @ITV programme @imacelebrity . I’ve tried to be polite but my patience has run thin . If you agree with what it says please RT . #ImACeleb

[Henrik Larsen @larsen_hb]

@theAliceRoberts This is one of the two sewage plants in Copenhagen. It has the capacity to clean sewage water from 750.000 people. It's so effective that people can bathe safely in the harbour.
The waste is used to make biogas, supplying 60% of the gas needed in Copenhagen.
Pure win win.

[Prof Alice Roberts💙 @theAliceRoberts]

Last summer, my son, then 9, swam in an English river and suffered 6 whole days of diarrhoea and vomiting. It was very worrying. His friend was almost hospitalised. And now we’re told the only way we can have more houses is by sacrificing any hope of cleaning up our waterways. It’s so depressing. Humanity can surely be better than this.

[Kari Birch @KariBirch]

@theAliceRoberts Unacceptable. Greed and corruption…

[Kari Birch @KariBirch]

ROLDA helping Ukrainian dogs 2022 : Make a donation today to support ROLDA helping Ukrainian dogs 2022 https://t.co/rXfklYa9Bl #rolda-helping-ukrainian-dogs-2022 via @raisely

[Kari Birch @KariBirch]

Petition: Require police carry tranquiliser guns and ban use of police firearms on animals https://t.co/bPKG71G3Ek

[Kari Birch @KariBirch]

Petition: Introduce Mandatory Licensing of Low Power Weapons/Air Guns in England & Wales. https://t.co/dpuLV3Tk8f

[PETA UK @PETAUK]

Wild animals belong in their natural habitats, NOT hanging on a wall as a 'trophy'.

[Kari Birch @KariBirch]

@CalltoActivism Both.

[Kari Birch @KariBirch]

I just signed the campaign calling on water companies to stop the unjust act of hiking our bills while paying their shareholder dividends. Will you join me? https://t.co/h6hyUFSAbf

[Kari Birch @KariBirch]

The government's "anti-boycott" legislation would ban public bodies from making ethical decisions on how to invest their money. I do not support this bill. Add your name with mine in defiance of the "anti-boycott" bill. https://t.co/H6MDhIIz2C

[Sarah Bee🐝 @BirrelleBee]

This flying squirrel faked his own death, and created a whole crime scene…for attention. I think I’m in love. https://t.co/SZfrtNlDI0

[Kari Birch @KariBirch]

@BirrelleBee I can’t believe this!!! I can’t stop laughing. Genius Squirrel.