Roly Pitts (the other stuff) 🌻🇺🇦

I joined Twitter for wildlife and conservation interests when the world was a nicer place . I use this account for the other stuff. #StandWithUkraine #PutinsWar

[Roly Pitts (the other stuff) 🌻🇺🇦 @RolyOtherStuff]

@CindyXiaodanYu @zhubochubo Very sad that your podcasts will end 😥. I've listened to every one since mid 2022. Have signed up to your substack & wish you all the very best in your new role 🍀🍀. I hope you will soon resume or create a new podcast 🤞. It would also be nice to see you on the 🟦 place 😉

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

I’ve been all over the country in the last month.

And I get asked the same question, over and over again:

“I disagree with Kamala’s position on the war in Gaza. How can I vote for her?”

Here is my answer:

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

If UK news shows are going to give Boris Johnson a platform to spout his absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it

We cannot allow those once in power to rewrite history.

If you agree RT this FACT CHECK

[alan rusbridger @arusbridger]

Gavin Collins was an off-duty police officer enjoying a night out in central London when he was attacked by a pair of thugs. They repeatedly punched and kicked him, even after he’d been floored. Gavin needed titanium plates in his cheek and one eye socket following the unprovoked attack.

One of the attackers had three previous convictions for similar offences of common assault in the previous three years. As it happened the thugs were brothers, and the sons of one of Britain’s richest property tycoons.

But they were in luck. When they eventually appeared before Recorder Christopher Hehir in Southwark Crown Court, the judge was in a forgiving mood. The thugs were given suspended sentences—one of 15 months and one of six months.

Fast forward to last week when the same judge had to consider a different kind of case involving two young women who did not attack anyone, but did throw a can of soup at a painting by Vincent Van Gogh.

No one needed surgery. The picture frame was moderately affected because—fun fact—tomato soup is apparently “slightly acidic”. But His Honour Christopher Hehir reacted very differently, jailing one young woman for more than two years and the other for 20 months.

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

While we ran out of beds & PPE & ventilators & watched our patients plead & gasp & die, & their families grieved alone, & decent Britons in their millions obeyed the rules, this disgusting excuse of a man boozed & cavorted & chortled in Downing Street. Utter shameless charlatan.

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

Get your own house in order William!

https://t.co/Qst57SnLA4

[ArianaGic/Аріянॳць @GicAriana]

“Everything is dead. Not a single organism survived. This is unprecedented. It’s Europe’s first completely dead river.”

Russia is deliberately leaking chemical waste into the Desna river, with deadly consequences for wildlife.

This is ecocide.

https://t.co/x2ksIjKI0J

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

If, following this devastating interview, Robert Jenrick wins the Tory leadership battle, it will prove the Conservative Party has learned absolutely nothing from its massive General Election defeat.

[Frank Gardner @FrankRGardner]

Wow. It’s 2024 and I’ve just had to crawl along the floor of this LOT Polish airline to get to the toilet during a flight back from Warsaw as “we don’t have onboard wheelchairs. It’s airline policy”. If you’re disabled and you can’t walk this is just discriminatory.

[Prof. Christina Pagel - @chrischirp.bsky.social @chrischirp]

Prof @Kevin_Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020.

The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope.
Please watch this 2min clip.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning admission, one of the most conservative Senators, Senator James Lankford, admits that it was Donald Trump who sabotaged the toughest border security legislation proposed in decades. Retweet to make sure every American sees this

[Oksana Pyzik @OksanaPyzikUCL]

Dear sweet, young, David - I can’t believe you are gone … You will always hold a special place in my heart. When @DomNicholls called me this morning with the devastating news I was too stunned to speak. I’m so grateful the universe brought us together over Ukraine & the fast friendship that developed. Seriously bright but humble, wickedly funny (my fave dinner party guest & the most appreciative of my cooking), deeply kind & caring - You made me laugh, belly laugh (see pic 3) & smile from ear-to-ear just by being uniquely, eccentrically, YOU … Supremely talented but constantly misplacing items (a quality we shared) including your phone just before a trip to Ukraine causing a full scale man hunt at the US embassy (it was later found inexplicably in my boot which I always felt guilty about!) My God, it still doesn’t feel real…Today, I listened to the last voice note you sent me just to hear you joke again, rest in eternal peace my brave & beautiful friend 🙏🏻 Thank you for all you have done for Ukraine, your work, your voice & your memory will live on. Will miss you terribly 💔 вічна пам’ять 🕯️

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Today, russia murdered a family of this man.

Wife and 3 daughters. Gone.

[Iryna Matviyishyn @IMatviyishyn]

This family lived far away from the frontline, one hour drive from the EU and NATO border. Russia is killing Ukrainians everywhere and Ukraine is still not allowed to strike back?! Each day is a tragedy because of their indifference and lame policies. I have no words anymore.

[Mariana Betsa @Mariana_Betsa]

Kharkiv. So heartbreaking…Today Russia killed 18-year old artist Veronica Kozhushko💔 it was her last painting she sent her friend just an hour before Russia’s attack. RIP #StopRussia #StandWithUkraine

[Dr. Fred Hoffman, Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) @InfoAgeStrategy]

These are empty words, President Biden. Take the handcuffs off Ukraine and finally let that country fight back against Putin's genocidal hordes with all the resources at its disposal.

In 2 1/2 years, we've given the Ukrainians too little, too late, and with far too many restrictions and caveats.

Do better. Please. Lives depend on this.

@POTUS @JakeSullivan46

[Jessica Berlin @berlin_bridge]

Die Erklärung des @Bundeskanzler & @c_lindner, der Topf für die #Ukraine sei leer, ist eine Kapitulationserklärung vor dem Kreml & seinen AfD- & BSW-Marionetten. Sie würden die Ukraine opfern, um mit ihren alten Genossen bzw. Geschäftspartnern wieder zur Tagesordnung überzugehen.

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

More rioters sentenced with pictures of what some were involved in https://t.co/lZlF1gxluz but almost all getting only half the jail time of the Just Stop Oil protesters who sat on a Zoom meeting planning to block motorways.

[Stephen Barlow @SteB777]

The longest prison sentence so far for the violent disorder, was 3 years, for assaulting a police officer.

@RogerHallamCS21 was given 5 years in prison, and the other @JustStop_Oil non-violent activists 4 years, for just taking part in a Zoom talk.
https://t.co/VawZbIyaeR
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