Lorna Ridgway Manson

Proud grannie & mother to humans and dogs! Still a European 🇪🇺
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[Sara | Journalist @SanaJournalist1]

EVERY TIME WE UPLOAD THE VIDEO AND IT GETS DELETED, WE'LL JUST KEEP UPLOADING IT. 🤣👌

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

Another huge march against the GENOCIDE in Gaza

Again the Jewish Bloc is very large and determined

Here Holocaust survivor descendants against genocide

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Thousands of us are in London today with a message to the new Prime Minister: we are not disappearing, we are not going away, and we will never stop campaigning for the liberation of Palestine.

End Britain’s complicity in genocide, now.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

We had all these Police Tents outside Nicola Sturgeon's house for £400,000.

But they won't even investigate £10,000,000,000.

Blatant corruption.

[Siob, Princess of Yorkshire #FBPE #FBR @Sillyshib]

It also criminal that they were allowed to keep the profits

[Prof. Peter Strachan @ProfStrachan]

‘No one wants to be right about this’: #ClimateChange scientists’ horror and exasperation as predictions play out

 "It’s as if the human race has received a terminal medical diagnosis and knows there is a cure, but has consciously decided not to save itself"

#ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis
https://t.co/gAHUlAqAjO

[Carolyn Rockey @CarolynWRockey]

Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies at his home in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The ones he had looked after as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. Wild butterflies fled. His didn't.
He was in second grade. He wrote a four-page letter to Dr. Martha Weiss, an entomologist at Georgetown University who had studied whether moths could retain memories through metamorphosis. He asked if she could help him design a version of her experiment for butterflies.
She said yes.
Using a muscle therapy device, Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70 per cent of them still avoided the lavender. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis. The memory survived anyway.
Then he bred them.
The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, two generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to a scent their grandmother had been taught to fear.
Jo documented it all in a 33-page research paper and presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.
A second grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations.

-Wilderness Whisper

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

My Binface pledge card for Clacton - exploiting his opponent’s main local weaknesses

[Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics]

Why the growing wealth of the super rich makes you exponentially poorer

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Just shoplifted £10bn worth of stuff from Tesco.

Said to the Police Officer who came, "It was an honest mistake."

He said, "You know what we won't even investigate and you can just keep it all."

[goma @soigomaa]

Her name is Megan Rapinoe. The US women's team were the best football team on earth. Four World Cups. Four Olympic gold medals. The men failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup entirely. The women were still paid significantly less. Lower salaries. Lower bonuses. Lower prize money. Same federation.
Different rules.
In 2019 Megan and her teammates sued the United States Soccer Federation for gender discrimination. The federation fought back. Argued the pay gap was justified. Argued the men generated more revenue. The women kept fighting.
In 2022 US Soccer agreed to pay both teams equally - permanently. Every female player who had been underpaid received back pay. The most successful team in American football history had to sue their own federation to be treated the same as the men who couldnt even make the tournament. They won. Every penny.

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

Thames Water has just increased bonus payouts for "key management personnel" from £2.8 million to £4.1 million – despite being £18.5 billion in debt and causing several category 1 pollution incidents.

Thames bypassed Ofwat's bonus ban, which ONLY targets chief executives and finance managers, by awarding the bulk of the £4.1 million to other executive team and board members.

We were told privatisation would bring efficiency and lower costs – instead we got shitty rivers and some of the highest bills for water in the world.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

It's a good job that the people responsible for the the £10bn NHS PPE rip-off didn't fail to declare a ten quid Universal Credit overpayment, because they'd have really been in trouble then

[norman candy @normanbluecoll1]

In Italy those responsible for 43 people dying because of their actions are sent to prison. Not one arrest has been made following Grenfell, Hillsborough, Blood Scandal, Postmaster Horizon scandal, soldiers exposure to radiation scandal, PPE and care home scandal. We are told Italy has a Mafia problem.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

AT 93 BETTY BROWN IS STILL FIGHTING

Betty Brown just turned 93 and picked up an OBE from King Charles at Windsor Castle. Lovely photo. Lovely medal on a lovely jacket. What she still does not have, six months after settling her claim, is a single penny of the compensation she was promised.

Betty and her late husband Oswall ran the Annfield Plain Post Office in County Durham from 1985 to 2003. The Horizon accounting system built by Fujitsu @fujitsu_uk told them money was missing from their branch. It was not missing. It was never missing.

They spent around 100,000 pounds of their own savings covering shortfalls that did not exist, because that is apparently the correct response when a computer accuses you and nobody in charge believes the human standing in front of it.

She is thought to be the oldest surviving victim of the Horizon scandal. She was one of the original 555 claimants who backed Alan Bates in the group legal action against the Post Office @PostOffice.

She reached a settlement through the government redress scheme at the end of last year. At her OBE investiture in June she said she still had not received a penny.

Meanwhile Fujitsu, the company whose faulty software caused this entire catastrophe, has been criticised by a committee of MPs for contributing nothing financially toward the redress bill, which is running toward 2 billion pounds.

The company that broke the till keeps its money. The 93 year old it falsely accused of stealing from that till gets a medal instead of a bank transfer.

She dedicated her OBE to the sub-postmasters who never lived to see this day. She has said before that at least 13 people are believed to have taken their own lives because of what Horizon did to them. She said she wears the honour for them because she still feels everything they felt.

She also had a message for the Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer, asking him directly to sort this out as quickly as he can. That is a simple sentence. It appears to be an extremely difficult instruction to follow.

Britain does love turning its victims into heroes once the damage is done and the bill has gone unpaid long enough to be embarrassing.

Medals are cheap. Redress schemes, it turns out, are somehow still cheaper for the people who actually owe the money.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

.@ZackPolanski: "We know if we taxed 1% on assets of £10m or 2% on assets of £1bn or more, we could be raising between £15-£24bn.. & just as importantly, we would stop the hoarding of assets. Its that hoarding of assets that's creating the inequality in this country" 🎯

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

“People are worried about their careers.” Actor Brian Cox tells Ghida Fakhry why so many in film stay silent on the genocide in Gaza, and why he chose to speak out.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I’m so mad about this and all the other shit Argentina got away with

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

America must be proud…