Kim

Social Chameleon & food perv. Everything in moderation - except love ✌🏼️

[Kim @MissKimb0]

You've got to learn to leave the table when love is no longer being served #NinaSimone

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is one of the most famous paintings in America, and most people have no idea what they are actually looking at...

The painting is Christina's World, made by Andrew Wyeth in 1948, and the woman was real: her name was Anna Christina Olson, Wyeth's neighbour in Cushing, Maine. Since childhood a degenerative condition had slowly taken the strength from her legs, until walking was no longer possible. She refused a wheelchair, and for her entire adult life she chose to drag herself across the ground with her arms instead, going wherever she wanted to go under her own power.

Wyeth saw her one afternoon from an upstairs window, alone in that vast field, crawling slowly toward the house on the hill. He said the painting was an attempt to do justice to her extraordinary conquest of a life which most people would consider hopeless. Her world, he said, was limited physically but by no means spiritually.

That is what turns this painting from a portrait of frailty into one of the most triumphant images ever made...

Look at it long enough and it stops being about what her body took from her, and becomes about what she would not stop doing anyway. The field is enormous and she is small and the house is far away, and still she goes, because the alternative, to be carried, to give up, to let the distance win, was something she simply would not accept.

There is one more thing: Christina loved this painting. Pink was her favorite color, and Wyeth had placed her exactly where she most wanted to be, out in the open, in her own field, under her own sky. Late in her life, when she could no longer even crawl out to that field, she said something that holds the whole meaning of art inside it:

"Andy put me where he knew I wanted to be. Now that I can’t be there anymore, all I do is think of that picture, and I’m there."

[Kim @MissKimb0]

@juliandorey 👏🏼👏🏼

[Sam @SamCKx]

It's quite obvious that the USA World Cup was used by Infantino, in cahoots with Trump, to demonstrate to investors how much money can be extracted out of the beautiful game. The whole thing - the hydration breaks, the awful half time show - it was all a set-up.

[Kim @MissKimb0]

https://t.co/GAy5y4IRjx

[Kim @MissKimb0]

I got so overwhelmed looking for somewhere to stay in Venice that I just gave up. Why am I like this? 😐

[Kim @MissKimb0]

Alexa play the summer afrobeat mix 🤩

[ol’ stocky ⛳️ @oldstocky]

Ian Fleming’s typical day at his estate in Jamaica where he wrote all his James Bond stories, need to emulate this

[Kim @MissKimb0]

Epstein, Tate brothers and a dolphins di@k……quality content, doesn’t get much more varied 😂

*Must not google a dolphins 🍆
*Must not google a dolph….
*God damnnnn 🙈😂

[Julian Dorey @juliandorey]

https://t.co/HhTmq6rIVh

[Russell Brand @rustyrockets]

What a time to be alive.

[Robert A. Pape @ProfessorPape]

The Titanic of U.S. diplomacy is hitting the Iran iceberg

Trump's MoU diplomacy was a "wicked escalation trap"—trying to buy off a regime with $12B when power, not cash, is Iran’s goal

With the truce broken, shipping choked, Washington faces 1 choice to avoid major war:  real concessions

[Kim @MissKimb0]

Those quick fleeting thoughts that come out of nowhere then a couple of days later it transpires….yeah that happened again….

[Senior Lieutenant Zandi Sussex @ZandiSussex]

Saw this brilliant post on LinkedIn and thought it was worth sharing here. 🤔

[Emma @MrsEmmaWebber]

❗️Here it is. Please RT 🙏
The major piece of news I have been waiting to share
⬇️
@NHSNotts UNDER CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION FOR CORPORATE MANSLAUGHTER.

@thetimes
‘Detectives (@northumbriapol ) have informed the trust’s bosses and told them to preserve all records related to the June 2023 attacks.
The trust said that it would co-operate with the inquiry.
The move is likely to send ‘shockwaves’ through the NHS as it shifts the case against the trust from treatment failures to the question of whether it was directly responsible for the killings’.

COMMENT:
As a trust we hold you to account for the loss of our son, for Grace and for Ian.
Yes - YOU.
To all of the negligent, inept and failed clinicians, practitioners and managers.
TOP DOWN.
You WILL be held to account.
You (alongside the Calocane family, the @nottspolice, @leicspolice and @CPSUK ).
You have blood on your hands. You know it, I know it, and now the country will know it.

Whatever it takes, you will be held to account.
I will post in full tomorrow….
@Fhamiltontimes 🫶

https://t.co/xcHMWZ7JP3

[Kim @MissKimb0]

Still gutted he’s gone! Happy heavenly birthday 🐐

[Zak Williams @zakwilliams]

Happy 75th Dad!

Today I'm remembering your weirdness and your extraordinary capacity to love.

And for the folks out there who'd like to celebrate with me, go do something kind for someone. Make someone laugh. Put a little more good into the world.

Love you forever.

[Kim @MissKimb0]

Pub quizzing with my last remaining brain cell 🍻

[Bear Grylls OBE @BearGrylls]

Some people are exactly who you hope they are.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Updated my profile. Again.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

"Larry likes his breakfast at 9, brunch at 1030 and lunch at noon with plenty of snacks in between. The rest of the job is a doddle"

[Dubois @CFC_Dubois]

Argentina are a dirty, dirty team.

[Teroso @0xTeroso]

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden on why your phone isn't yours

freeze it at 1:20 - that's the second he says what Google and Facebook never wanted out loud

"if you have to be the president of the phone and the phone is as complex as the United States government, we have a problem, guys"

"they can see everything about you... and they can do whatever they want with your device"

"before we understood what we were giving up, they were making billions of dollars"

bookmark this, then watch