1. I had a conversation with a gay friend yesterday about the Trans debate and was reeling by the end of it. I wanted to address some of the commonly used arguments he used with confidence and which are often used;
People asking us about big #bumblebees they’re noticing on the wing at this time of year.
Here’s a quick 🙄 thread explaining.
Please #retweet as the more people who know that these are queens the more likely that someone will help some out meaning more colonies next year.
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Incredible video. Afghan dad jokingly says school is only for boys. Watch his remarkable daughter - who can’t be more than 5 or 6 years old - respond with these arguments.
Afghan girls have been denied access to schools and universities. This little girl's courage represents the collective voice of countless Afghan girls who yearn for equal educational opportunities.
As an advocate for girls' education the father's teasing is simply to highlight an important message: that the Taliban - another backward regime - are harming the people of his country.
It’s time the world is done with them.
Ditto the “Islamic” Republic in Iran #regime
In Brazil, this pair planted 2 million trees in 18 years, bringing back 172 species of birds, 33 mammals, 15 amphibians, 15 reptiles, and 293 plant species.
The world should know them. These are Lélia Wanick and Sebastian Salgado
Structure matters
“Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.”
A great example from Gary Provost:
Former Royal protection officer Richard Griffin reminisces about a picnic he went on with the Queen at Balmoral and an encounter they had with two American tourists who did not realise they were in the company of the monarch.
#PlatinumJubilee: https://t.co/orTd7551d3
It is intriguing that my utility supplier has doubled the price I pay them for electricity but frozen the amount they pay me for the surplus electricity I provide them from my solar panels.
Ukrainian refugee kids arrive in Italy, and start at local schools. On their first day they enter nervously. You won’t believe what the Italian kids did next …
Video shared on Ukrainian channels of a captured Russian soldier apparently being fed by locals. The post says he burst into tears when he was allowed to video-call his mother. So many of these troops are just teenagers, with absolutely no clue what this war is really for.
Now we have a 18 year old player as great as #EmmaRaducanu , let’s look after her. When tabloid papers, TV or radio start doing stories about her that are not about her tennis, boycott them.
Best of luck to the #ThreeLions in your semi-final Euros match tonight! @England 🏴���
- From The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall
#ItsComingHome
Dear England by Gareth Southgate | The Players' Tribune. Just posting this again as a reminder of what a remarkable man is managing England https://t.co/lNwyPZieoL
"There is always light if we are brave enough to see it. If only we are brave enough to be it.”
Amanda Gorman, 22, has become the youngest poet ever to perform at an inauguration. She used to have a speech impediment as a child like the president.