Zoe

Mother, ex academic, sometimes bakes.

[Zoe @Random_Flopsy]

@AngieShropLass @Miss_Snuffy I see your point. But as the mother of a 4 year old girl who has fretted every morning of nursery for the last year about whether she will be 'taunted' for not wearing a dress as 'sparkly' as her friend, I am incredibly grateful that her school from September requires a uniform.

[Robbie @Robbie_Reasons]

The Somerset Farmhouse of 1 North Street, Williton were approached by a "food influencer" that wanted to charge them £2,000 for a review.

They put out a video of Sally eating a sausage roll instead 😆.

Lets make Sally and the Somerset Farmhouse famous for free.

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

We all care for humanity. We all support people fighting for freedom. But what is happening to ordinary people in Iran right now is beyond the pale. It has been for many years. As we enter day 64 of the regime enforced internet blackout disturbing news has emerged of a father, Hessam Alaeddin, beaten to death simply for having an @elonmusk made Starlink terminal. Please read below from inside Iran. Do share if you can ⬇️

[Georgy Kantor @GeorgyKantor]

Quite apart from the particular case or the principle of academic freedom, if the judge imagines that reading the full text of a lecture in advance is a 'reasonably practicable measure', she clearly knows absolutely nothing about university lecturers.

[Zoe @Random_Flopsy]

Everyone should read this.

[Joanna Hardy-Susskind @Joanna__Hardy]

Hello, there 👋

Have you heard David Lammy MP and Sarah Sackman MP talking about people stealing bottles of whisky and swiping mobile telephones as examples of people who should not get jury trials?

Well. I’d like to tell you a story.

🪡 🧵

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

🚨 Iran Women’s soccer team exits Asian Cup in Australia and prepare to return home.

They do the hand sign from the coach that they are in danger, an international signal that they need help.

Women do this if they can’t speak and their lives are at risk.

All this because they refused to sing the national anthem of the Islamic regime.

Please share urgently ⚠️

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Someone will ask why an account about nutrition and training has made a dozen posts on a bull in Ledbury, a goat without borders, and a ewe with a complicated relationship with topographic dips.

Here is why.

Because the argument that these animals are destroying the planet is not a fringe position. It is in the newspaper. It is in the policy document. It is in the dietary guideline. It is being taught to children and repeated by adults and acted on by governments and it is wrong, and it is wrong in a specific, demonstrable, measurable way that becomes obvious the moment you look at an actual field with an actual animal in it.

Gerald is not an abstraction.

Keith is not a statistic.

Doris is not a carbon calculation.

They are specific, real, working animals doing specific, real, measurable things to specific, real pieces of land, and the argument against them has never once required anyone to look at the land.

So we looked.

And the land is fine.

The land is better than fine.

The land is a meadow in Ledbury, a fell in the Lake District, and a Devon field with a rank corner that Keith has been improving without Brian's permission for four months.

Come back tomorrow.

There's more.

[Zoe @Random_Flopsy]

Sometimes I wish this was all X showed me.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Doris is a four-year-old Texel ewe on a fell in the Lake District.

Doris is, according to several recent opinion pieces, destroying the planet.

Let's check in on Doris.

6:30am - Doris began grazing. The fell she is grazing is semi-natural upland grassland. It has existed in this condition for approximately eight hundred years because sheep have been grazing it continuously for approximately eight hundred years. Without Doris, the coarse grasses outcompete the finer ones. The wildflowers disappear. The skylarks that nest at ground level lose the open sward they need and abandon the site. Doris does not know what a skylark is. She has found some good grass near the wall and that is the full extent of her agenda.

7:45am - Doris walked into the bog. This was not the plan. There was no plan. Doris extracted herself, turned around, and regarded the bog with the expression of an animal that has decided the bog started it.

9:00am - Doris found a gap in the wall and went through it. She was now in Brian's field. Brian's field is, by any measurable standard, identical to Doris's field. Doris is aware of this and does not consider it relevant.

10:30am - Doris was returned to her field. The farmer repaired the gap. Doris watched the repair with the focused attention of an animal taking measurements.

11:15am - Doris rolled into a dip in the fell and got cast. This means she ended up on her back and could not right herself because the weight of her fleece shifted her centre of gravity past the point of recovery. She lay there in the dip looking at the sky with the composure of an animal that has decided the sky is quite interesting actually.

11:40am - The farmer found her, righted her. Doris walked away at speed. No acknowledgement. Complete dignity. As though the last twenty-five minutes had happened to a different sheep.

1:00pm - Doris grazed the area around the base of the dry-stone wall. The grazing keeps the vegetation short enough that the wall's base stays dry and frost doesn't work into the joints and expand. The wall is two hundred and sixty years old. It will outlast everything currently being written about livestock farming if the vegetation around it is managed. It is being managed by Doris eating grass. Doris does not know she is doing conservation work. Doris has found something particularly good near the fourth stone from the bottom.

3:00pm - Doris produced manure. The manure will feed the soil microbiome. The soil microbiome will grow the grass. The grass will grow back where Doris has grazed it. The grazed areas will remain open enough for the tormentil and harebells to survive. The tormentil and harebells are why people drive three hours from Manchester to walk on this fell.

This system has no external inputs. It has been running since Texel sheep were brought to these fells from the Netherlands in 1970 and discovered the gaps in the walls shortly afterward.

5:00pm - Doris lay down. The fell was quiet. The skylarks were still up. The wildflowers were still in the turf.

5:47pm - Doris found a new gap. She was in Brian's field again.

Brian has started keeping a log.

[Shayan @shayan_]

I’m devastated. A good friend and dormmate of mine, Amin Pourfarhang, has been sentenced to death after protesting in Iran 😭 He’s one of the kindest people I’ve ever known.

Please share. Visibility raises the cost for the Islamic Republic and may stop this execution!

[Zoe @Random_Flopsy]

@Anonymousw9601 @Bonniepurple @tombennett71 @thetimes That may be an exaggeration. But if a child needs a nappy change 3x daily, say, two staff members need to interrupt their teaching and leave the rest of the class 3x each day. It’s resource intensive, very disruptive & potentially quite humiliating for the child.

[Zoe @Random_Flopsy]

@Anonymousw9601 @Bonniepurple @tombennett71 @thetimes I’ve spoken to teachers with first hand experience of children arriving in Reception in nappies despite having no additional needs, yes. No idea how widespread it is, but this is maybe the third article I’ve seen that mentions it, so I don’t think it’s as rare as one might hope.

[Zoe @Random_Flopsy]

@Bonniepurple @tombennett71 @thetimes Children who have been toilet trained but have a few accidents at school are not a new problem, or one that schools are likely to struggle with. Children arriving in nappies so represent a new and troubling phenomenon.

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

Correction: latest figures in The Times cite 16,500 civilians murdered and 330,000 injured “in two days of utter slaughter”.

A regime that maintains its power by shooting and killing its own people has lost all international legitimacy.

Is it time for governments around the world to ask themselves ‘why are we appeasing and propping up this regime?’

#IranDigitalBlackout #IranMassacre‌

[Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC]

I read with great sadness and heartache about the pending execution of Erfan Soltani, a 26-year-old shopkeeper.

He is facing death at the hands of the ayatollah simply for protesting in the street for a better life.

His family is calling on the world to come to their son’s aid.

I hope and pray that the execution does not go forward and this young man does not forfeit his life because he wants to live in freedom without fear.

To the world: if they kill this man and we allow this regime to survive, then we have created for ourselves a world of intimidation, fear and accepting barbaric evil as a norm in the 21st century.

This regime must fall and the Iranian people must have a better life. The effects on the region and the world without a murderous ayatollah running Iran would be incredibly positive. However, if he stays in power after all this bluster, it will be a giant step backward into the darkness.

I am praying for Erfan.

https://t.co/BFXXxlJiCv

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

Shared by a foreign correspondent for Channel 4 News. To everybody who contributed to the campaign to make Erfan Soltani famous, you have to know that you just saved somebody’s life. An eternity of gratitude. But it’s not over, we must keep saying his name until he is released.

[Eve Barlow @Eve_Barlow]

Keep saying his name.
Erfan Soltani.
It could be the difference between life and death for him.

[National Union for Democracy in Iran @NUFDIran]

The Islamic Republic is set to execute innocent Iranian Erfan Soltani TOMORROW.

Under a total Internet blackout, the regime has murdered 12,000 Iranians in a matter of days.

They won't stop until every Iranian is silenced.

SAVE ERFAN SOLTANI. Keep all eyes on Iran.

[Bev Jackson @BevJacksonAuth]

Among its many atrocities, the vile regime in Iran, loathed by the Iranian people, has arrested #ErfanSoltani as a ringleader and sentenced him to death by public hanging - to take place tomorrow, Jan 14th.
Please make him famous.
It may save his life.

[National Union for Democracy in Iran @NUFDIran]

The Islamic Republic is set to execute Erfan Soltani this Wednesday.

He was arrested last week during Iran’s 2026 uprising.

His only crime is calling for freedom for Iran.

Be his voice, save Erfan Soltani.

[James Dreyfus @DreyfusJames]

Save #ErfanSoltani

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