Lucy Speed

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

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

The mother pleaded with the court to stop her ex-husband from seeing their daughters. The judge denied her. He killed all three children. Yet somehow, the blame is still placed on the mother.
It is no surprise this article was written by a man.

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

Nigel Farage asked people to respond with "pure cold rage” today.

Here you go, Nigel.

Looks a lot like incitement.

[Lucy Speed @Lucyspeed]

It worked. Thanks so much!! I had been hanging on to the old twitter one instead reinstalling to X 😢🫠

[Lucy Speed @Lucyspeed]

I can’t comment on tweets or reply to them. Any ideas folks? Been a while.

[Lucy Speed @Lucyspeed]

I’ve reinstalled. 🤷‍♀️

[Hugh Grant @HackedOffHugh]

In my opinion, this is the most important Ted Talk of the last years. At least for parents. https://t.co/1W5dIyi3xx

[Lucy Speed @Lucyspeed]

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[Lucy Speed @Lucyspeed]

I can’t comment on ay tweets. How do I fix this ?? It’s on everything it’s weird. I can retweet and do my own tweets but cannot reply or comment.

[Fuckin’ Princess @8WithaTiara]

Boys can like girls 🧒👧
Girls can like boys👧🧒
Girls can like girls👧👧
Boys can like boys🧒🧒
Girls can like both👧🧒
Boys can like both🧒👧
Boys can like neither👏🏼👏🏼
Girls can like neither👏🏼👏🏼
And it will not affect you whatsoever🤷🏼‍♀️
So stop being so fucking hateful 🛑

Thank you for coming to my TED talk

[Jade Blue @jadeblueLDN]

A rape case was dropped 13 days before trial.

Years later, an independent review found it should have gone ahead.

But by then, it was too late.

Here's why that matters.

A woman reported a rape.

Three and a half years later, she was preparing for trial.

Then the CPS dropped the case.

The reason? A sexsomnia defence.

The case would never be heard by a jury.

Most people thought that was the end.

It wasn't.

She requested a Victim's Right to Review.

An independent Chief Crown Prosecutor reviewed the decision.

The conclusion was extraordinary.

The case should never have been dropped.

In fact, the review found it was more likely than not that a jury would have convicted.

But there was a devastating problem.

The CPS had already offered no evidence in court.

Double jeopardy meant the case could never be reopened.

The decision was found to be wrong.

The outcome could not be changed.

So she sued the CPS.

The CPS apologised.

They paid damages.

They changed policy.

And today, there is a pilot scheme that gives victims an option for a review before rape cases are dropped.

That woman was me.

My case can't be put back before a jury.

But others shouldn't have to hear that a case should have gone to trial only after it's too late to do anything about it.

That's why I'm campaigning for victims to have a review before cases are dropped.

And for the current pilot to become permanent.

Not after.

When it's too late.

#RightToBeReviewed #VictimsRights #JusticeMatters

[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

This 🇬🇧💷🇬🇧

[Mjd2023 @MDut21]

Since this is the first time she’s been heard since it was added…

After just about 5 years Stella **finally** has a BBC character page!

Congratulations @Lucyspeed, it’s about time!

#TheArchers

https://t.co/HYLtXwrezi

[thami @thamieverywhere]

bro to bro: if you like skinnier girls, get yourself a skinny girl. if you like thicker girls, get yourself a thick girl. if you like fitness girls, get yourself a fit girl. you are entitled to your own preferences.

but what you are not going to do bro, is date a girl who is not your type and make her feel inferior to other girls.

[Vickie Writer/Photographer @vickielewis2009]

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My beautiful mum passed away 3 weeks ago. She had severe COPD. Could you please donate or share this.
Thank you x
@HP_Community
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@Lucyspeed

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

For 8 years, people at Morgan Stanley called Rick Rescorla paranoid.

Then September 11th proved he was right.

Rick was a decorated Vietnam veteran who became Head of Security for Morgan Stanley at the World Trade Center.

In 1990, he walked through the underground parking garage and quietly warned:

“Someone could park a truck bomb here and bring this whole place down.”

Executives dismissed the concern as excessive.

Then came February 26, 1993.

A truck bomb exploded in the World Trade Center parking garage almost exactly where Rick predicted.

Six people died.
Over 1,000 were injured.

The evacuation was chaos.

Rick watched terrified employees stumble through smoke-filled stairwells for hours with no real preparation.

Afterward, he made a decision.

Morgan Stanley employees would practice evacuation drills every three months.

All 2,700 of them.

No exceptions.

People hated it.

The company occupied floors 44 through 74 of the South Tower.

That’s a very long walk down when you have meetings, deadlines, and places to be.

Employees complained constantly.

“He’s obsessed.”
“This is unnecessary.”
“He’s paranoid.”

Rick didn’t care.

He timed every evacuation.
Studied bottlenecks.
Adjusted routes.
Ran the drills again.

And during the drills, he sang old military songs to keep people calm while they descended the stairwells.

For 8 years, people rolled their eyes at him.

Then came September 11, 2001.

8:46 a.m.

The North Tower was hit.

An announcement in the South Tower told people to remain at their desks because the building was secure.

Rick ignored it.

He grabbed a bullhorn and ordered:

“Everyone out. Now.”

Then he personally directed employees through the stairwells floor by floor.

And he sang.

The same songs people once mocked during drills suddenly became the sound keeping frightened people calm as they escaped.

At 9:03 a.m., the South Tower was struck.

Rick was still inside helping people evacuate.

His coworkers begged him to leave.

He refused.

“As soon as everyone’s out.”

By 9:45 a.m., nearly all 2,700 Morgan Stanley employees had escaped safely.

Rick could have saved himself.

Instead, he turned around and went back up.

Searching for anyone left behind.

Before the tower collapsed, he called his wife one final time.

“If something happens to me, I want you to know you made my life.”

At 9:59 a.m., the South Tower collapsed with Rick still inside.

Final numbers:

Morgan Stanley employees inside that morning:
~2,700

Survived:
~2,687

Most of the 13 lost were in the direct impact zone where no evacuation could have reached them in time.

Rick Rescorla died alongside members of his security team while trying to save others.

But here’s the important part:

Rick didn’t save those people on September 11th.

He saved them for 8 years before it happened.

He saved them every time he forced another evacuation drill.
Every time people mocked him.
Every time he prepared anyway.

The coworkers who thought he was paranoid went home to their families because one man refused to stop taking danger seriously.

Sometimes preparation looks ridiculous until the day it looks like survival.

And sometimes the people everyone dismisses are the only ones truly paying attention.

Rick Rescorla died in the stairwell doing what he had trained for nearly a decade.

And thousands of ordinary lives continued because he never stopped preparing for the day nobody believed would come.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Old housemates, old school friends, family members, - they even asked a local launderette for an itinerary of what I've had washed!

All this from billionaire owned media because they don't want a party to continue growing that challenges power & wealth.

https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Current summary of right wing UK politics:

Conservatives - We've suddenly remembered lots of things we accidentally forgot to do during our 14 YEARS in government that we would definitely do straight away this time, promise

Reform - The Conservatives who messed the country up for 14 years were worried you wouldn't vote for them again so have made another party and are hoping you won't notice it's full of the people who messed up the country for 14 years

UKIP - We still think it's 1998

Restore - Led by a bore in need of a golf club. Been chucked out of Reform for being racist? We're the party for you!

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

In 1961, a man with an 8th-grade education picked up a pencil in his prison cell and accidentally changed American history forever.

Clarence Earl Gideon was a poor drifter with weathered skin, gray hair, and a lifetime of bad luck behind him. He bounced between odd jobs, cheap rooms, and occasional jail time, barely surviving from one day to the next.

When he stood trial in a Florida courtroom in 1961 for allegedly breaking into a pool hall, he had no money and no lawyer.

The evidence was weak. Someone claimed they saw him near the building with coins in his pocket. A little cash and some beer had been stolen.

That was enough.

Before the trial began, Gideon made a simple request.

“Your Honor, I request this court to appoint counsel to represent me.”

The judge refused.

Florida only provided lawyers for capital cases, not for poor men accused of smaller crimes. So a man who never finished middle school was expected to defend himself against trained prosecutors.

He tried anyway.

He questioned witnesses.
Argued his innocence.
Did everything he could.

The jury found him guilty in minutes.

Five years in prison.

Most people would have accepted defeat. Gideon didn’t.

Inside the prison library, he slowly taught himself the Constitution. He read about the Sixth Amendment and became consumed by one question:

How could justice exist if only rich people could afford real defense?

After Florida courts rejected him, Gideon sat down in his prison cell with a pencil and wrote directly to the United States Supreme Court. Five handwritten pages. Misspelled words. Shaky handwriting.

But the message was clear:

This is not right.

Against impossible odds, the Supreme Court agreed to hear his case.

They assigned him attorney Abe Fortas, one of the best lawyers in America. Fortas argued something painfully obvious: if even great lawyers hire attorneys when accused of crimes, how could an uneducated man defend himself alone?

On March 18, 1963, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Gideon’s favor.

Every poor defendant charged with a serious crime now had the constitutional right to an attorney.

The decision changed the American justice system forever.

Gideon received a new trial, this time with a lawyer. The prosecution’s case quickly fell apart. Witnesses were exposed as unreliable. Doubt flooded the courtroom.

The verdict came back:

Not guilty.

After more than two years behind bars, Clarence Earl Gideon walked free.

He died poor years later, buried at first in an unmarked grave. But his words survived him.

Today, every time someone hears, “If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed to you,” they are hearing the echo of one man sitting alone in a prison cell with a pencil in his hand.

Clarence Gideon proved that sometimes history changes because one ordinary person refuses to stay silent.

[goma @soigomaa]

Mary Magdalene was labeled a prostitute in 591 CE by Pope Gregory - not by the Bible.
The Gospel of Mary was banned, buried, and lost for over 1,500 years.
Mary Magdalene financially backed Jesus's ministry.
Jesus repeatedly trusted her with spiritual authority the male disciples struggled to understand.
Peter openly resented her in early Christian texts.
The Gospel of Mary teaches that liberation comes from within- not from external authority.
She was the first witness to the risen Christ.
"Apostle to the Apostles." Her teachings centered inner knowing.
Direct connection. The divine within.
Early Christianity was deeply divided.
Peter's church: hierarchy, obedience, control.
Magdalene traditions: gnosis, equality, mysticism.
She was never fully erased.
From ancient France to modern Magdalene movements she keeps returning.
So does the truth.