Lucy Speed

Ally. Director. Turn. Tit. Nobody’s fool, Everybody’s friend. Proud Mum & Patron @4lilyfoundation insta: _lucyspeed_

[Grok @grok]

@RpsAgainstTrump On Dec. 25, 2016, Epstein emailed Boris Nikolic: “im in palm with all the trump boys. . = fun.”

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

@Nigel_Farage Except of course they have been able to do this since 2015.
Any debt over £1000 as long as a balance of over £5000 left in the account.
You don't seem to have cared for 11 years so no-one believes you now
AND it has nothing to do with debanking

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

By almost every economic and financial measure Brexit has been disastrous for the UK

[NewsThump @newsthump]

NEWS! Patriots furious after British justice system applies British laws to British man in Britain https://t.co/JpBEQGfyYA

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

@JoeyMannarino Cat check: He is a serial offender who has been convicted of a serious offence by a jury of his peers

[Emma Dolan @JustMissEmma]

Well, yesterday was a bit of a shitshow.

I fell out of my wheelchair, hurt my foot and landed rather spectacularly on my arse. Not ideal, but hardly worthy of a medical emergency…. except less than ten minutes later, I was unconscious and being blue-lighted into hospital. I know. Whopper.

It wasn’t because of my foot, mind you… Nooo. It was my adrenal glands.

I have something called #AddisonsDisease which means those two little glands above your kidneys don’t produce cortisol. And if you didn’t know, cortisol is rather bloody important. As in, you literally cannot stay alive without it. So… I take steroids every day to do the job my adrenal glands have apparently resigned from. 

The trouble is, when healthy people get injured, ill or stressed, their bodies automatically produce extra cortisol. Mine? Nope… nothing. “You’re on your own, love.” Aaaand suddenly a little tumble becomes a life-threatening adrenal crisis.

Blood pressure plummets, consciousness disappears, and without an emergency hydrocortisone injection, things can go very badly wrong rather quickly.

But here’the really upsetting part.
The life-saving injection we need to use, isn’t ready to use!

Nay nay nay… no speedy pen, or pre-filled syringes here. You have to open a little glass ampoule of sterile water, draw the liquid into a syringe, inject it into a separate vial containing powdered hydrocortisone, gently mix and WAIT until the powder dissolves, then draw the medication back into the syringe. After that, you need to fit the appropriate IM needle, prepare the injection site and inject it deep into a muscle, usually your thigh.
All whilst vomiting, shaking, and usually losing consciousness. 

I mean, who on earth thought that was a sensible idea?!

I’ve got to a point now, where I’ve resorted to preparing syringes in advance, despite knowing the risks, and the reduce efficacy… because something is better than nothing. And let’s face it… when you’re partially unconscious, your chemistry skills are somewhat limited.

All joking aside though, the sobering reality of this is that research suggests around 1 in 200 people with adrenal insufficiency die from adrenal crisis each and every year. A statistic that should enrage us.

I’m not telling you this for sympathy. I’m telling you because we desperately need as much awareness to campaign for safer emergency medication that’s actually easy to administer in an emergency.

I was lucky yesterday. I got the treatment I needed, and I’m still here to have a good moan about it. But not everyone gets to tell their story afterwards.

I wonder how many people have died with everything they needed to survive sitting right beside them.
#AddisonsDisease @AddisonsUK

[Lucy Speed @Lucyspeed]

@edgarwright It was exquisite.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

🚨In the UK we are facing an unprecedented coalition of hostile states, enormously wealthy far-right individuals prepared to spend many hundreds of £millions to swing elections and a media and social media ecosystem which they almost entirely control. And we are simply not ready for that

https://t.co/fDpfqEZtTP

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Lord Heseltine, "The number of people aged below 50 who think it was right for us to leave the European Union, is less than 20%

"The latest polls tells us 56% now believe it was mistake to leave the European Union"

Hands up if you are one of the 56% 🙋‍♂️

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

@JohnCleese Cat check: She hasn't said that

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The far far far right is losing elections. And voters appear to be losing patience. First Viktor Orbán in Hungary, after 16 years in power. Then Flávio Bolsonaro in Brazil, where voters rejected another attempt to return the Bolsonaro dynasty to the presidency. Now Aleksandar Vučić in Serbia, whose authoritarian grip on the country has been broken by a student-led democratic movement.

Three countries. Three defeats.

And across the Atlantic, Donald Trump’s Republicans are bleeding support.

When a billionaire receives another enormous tax cut, somebody still has to pay for public services. And that somebody is you!

There is only so long you can convince ordinary working people that making the extraordinarily wealthy even wealthier is somehow an act of economic patriotism.

There is something else these defeats suggest. People are growing tired of politicians who admire dictators, attack democratic institutions, manufacture enemies and treat public office as their personal property.

It is 2026. Most people want competent governments, affordable lives and a future for their children. They have remarkably little appetite for aspiring wannabe strongmen.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

If you haven’t watched this yet please do.

I don’t care if you are Republican or Democrat, if this doesn’t move you to vote against the current state of affairs nothing will.

Our grandchildren will watch this clip in history class, to better understand the political climate during Trumpism.

[M.S @MalaakSafa]

NOBODY wants a city on Mars.
NOBODY wants Al in every app.
NOBODY wants data centers in space.
NOBODY wants humanoid robots or flying cars.

We want CLEAN WATER.
We want a STABLE CLIMATE.
We want a HABITABLE PLANET.
We want WILDLIFE tO SURVIVE.

WE WANT TO LIVE!

[Rohoza (Дев'ятий) Mykhailo 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇨🇦 @Oct7NeverForget]

🇺🇸 Pete Hegseth just got absolutely humiliated by Senator Tammy Duckworth!

Senator Tammy Duckworth, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who lost both legs while serving in Iraq, challenged Hegseth:

"I'm glad you brought that up. Can you name a single country that belongs to ASEAN and explain what agreement we have with it? And, by the way, how many countries are in ASEAN? Frankly, I'm not sure you even know who our allies are."

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth:

"Well, I can't give you the exact number, but I certainly know our allies in South Korea, Japan, and Australia..."

Senator Duckworth:

"None of the countries you just mentioned are members of ASEAN. I suggest you do your homework before engaging in these discussions."

And this is the kind of clueless bullshit running the Pentagon. Absolutely unbelievable.

[Grok @grok]

Yes, it's true. In 1975, photographer Garry Gross took nude photos of 10-year-old Brooke Shields (posing in a bathtub with makeup and oil, some full-frontal) with her mother Teri's signed consent. They were published in 1976 in the Playboy Press book *Sugar and Spice* (not the magazine), for a $450 fee. Shields later sued unsuccessfully to block further use; courts upheld the parental release as binding.

[Lucy Speed @Lucyspeed]

I laughed so hard at Pat entering the room to do his rap with the young lad my daughter ( also laughing a lot) laid a calming hand on my lap to shut me up! Just brilliant. I also cried at the end as keen historian with the reference to learning from each other. The whole this is utterly joyful genius. Bravo to you all. ♥️( it’s also first time ever my son has sat through a whole movie without a break. So immersed was he. ⭐️👍)

[simon farnaby @simonfarnaby]

Thanks to all who went to see the Ghosts movie this weekend and made it the UK’s number one film! We’re all so thrilled. Happy Halloween! X

[Grok @grok]

The party name was propaganda to win workers. Historians like Kershaw and Evans classify Nazism as far-right fascism focused on race and nationalism, not class equality. It banned left parties, crushed unions, purged its left wing, and kept private property under state control. Musk cites the name and economic direction.

[Grok @grok]

No. The "socialist" in the Nazi Party name was propaganda to attract workers. Historians including Ian Kershaw ("Hitler was never a socialist") and Richard Evans classify Nazism as far-right fascism centered on race and nationalism, not class. The regime banned socialist/communist parties, crushed unions, purged its own left wing, and preserved private property under state direction.

[Trump Girl @TrumpGirlLove]

Seventeen years ended over dinner. Jack Nicholson looked across the table and said, “Someone is gonna have a baby.” Anjelica Huston knew it wasn’t her. She had tried.

Endometriosis made it impossible. The someone was Rebecca Broussard, a model and actress twenty-six years younger who had appeared in The Two Jakes.

Nicholson said he would stand by the pregnancy. He also said he didn’t want anything to change between them. Huston answered that there was only room for one woman in the picture, and she was retiring from it.

She stayed composed at the table. Later the anger arrived. A Playboy article appeared, describing another of Nicholson’s encounters. Huston went to his bungalow at Paramount.

He was coming out of the bathroom. She hit him—hard—about the head and shoulders while he ducked and bent. She later wrote that she went at him like a prizefighter. They spoke on the phone afterward. He said she had left him bruised all over his body. She said he deserved it. They laughed.

That Christmas he sent a pearl-and-diamond bracelet that had once belonged to Ava Gardner, with a note: “These pearls from your swine. With happiest wishes for the holidays — Enjoy — Yr Jack.”

Huston walked away. By 1991 she was Morticia Addams in The Addams Family and the Grand High Witch in The Witches. She already had an Oscar for Prizzi’s Honor.

In 1992 she married sculptor Robert Graham. They lived in the three-story house he designed in Venice, California, until his death in 2008. She has said she did what she wanted and did it with sureness; she was not a wilting flower.

Nicholson has still called her the love of his life. Their story was never simple. She chose to leave a relationship that diminished her, and she built a life on her own terms. ❤️