WhatWouldLadyMacBethDo?

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[WhatWouldLadyMacBethDo? @WWLadyMdo]

What hath quenched them hath given me fire

- #LadyMacbeth

[WhatWouldLadyMacBethDo? @WWLadyMdo]

@howarddawber @BootsUK Actually, it's powerful branding bc this is what doctors prescribed!

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

💔 THIS IS HEARTBREAKING. COULD DARTMOOR TRULY LOSE ITS PONIES? 🐴📉

A devastating warning has been issued by campaigners who fear that up to NINETY PERCENT of Dartmoor’s iconic semi-wild hill ponies could completely disappear from the moorland.

Over 23,000 people have already signed an emergency petition demanding action to protect them.

New rules drawn up by Natural England mean that grazing limits across the moors are being slashed. But here is the catch: campaigners say the famous ponies are being lumped into the exact same livestock quotas as commercial cattle and sheep.

Because they are competing for the same reduced space, it's feared farmers will be forced to remove the ponies to make way for more financially viable livestock.

The Dartmoor Hill Pony Association warns that numbers have already plummeted from 7,000 to just 900 in the last 25 years. They are already listed as an officially endangered native breed. Campaigners warn that once they are gone from the moor, they are gone forever.

Natural England says they want to ensure "optimal numbers" remain and that ponies are vital for restoring the landscape—but officials confirm they must be included in the total livestock count.

Dartmoor simply wouldn’t be Dartmoor without the ponies. Do you think it’s fair to treat these historic animals the same as farm livestock?

📸 Ben Ivory / Getty Images

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

📱A social media ban for children means ID checks for all of us to post online

Free speech online is vital for democracy to thrive & it's under attack.

We've launched a speedy tool for you to tell your MP to reject plans to create digital checkpoints⤵️
https://t.co/8TBWFeVxNB

[WhatWouldLadyMacBethDo? @WWLadyMdo]

Everyone keeps writing about what a huge loss Anthony Head is to them and how wonderful he was. Perfectly right, of course, but I keep thinking of his daughters and how they've lost both their parents in a few short months...

[WhatWouldLadyMacBethDo? @WWLadyMdo]

@NottaGlitch @HannahWardEdu Agree, I have a few confirmed memories from <1

[James 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 @EasyPeasy_3]

His date of birth is 17 Dec 2005. Please retweet this. If you know him, please tell him to remain anonymous. He just needs to contact DKMS, even if it’s to say ‘no’. That would give us closure.

[WhatWouldLadyMacBethDo? @WWLadyMdo]

@adogtwting Proud of you, Clever Boy

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@ENortonHistory Oh of course! 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️
It's been a long day...

[WhatWouldLadyMacBethDo? @WWLadyMdo]

@Sally_writes Ah no, I haven't heard mine in a few days either 😔

[WhatWouldLadyMacBethDo? @WWLadyMdo]

Spot on
Technology no longer makes our lives easier, but harder. And we're being manipulated & controlled through it - where once it served us, now it enslaves us

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

I genuinely think a lot of millennials are reaching the same conclusion at the same time.

We grew up watching technology make life better every year. Cell phones. iPods. Smartphones. An app for everything. It felt like the future was arriving right in front of us, and we couldn’t wait for what came next.

Then somewhere along the way, it changed.

Everything became a subscription. Social media became algorithms. Every day feels like another once-in-a-lifetime event. The things that were supposed to save us time somehow ended up demanding more of our attention than ever.

We were sold convenience.

What we got was a world that feels faster, louder, more expensive, and somehow less human.

And that’s why so many people I know dream about a completely different life now. Not more technology. Not more optimization.

Just a quiet job, a flip phone, a small town, and a place where life feels real again.

[WhatWouldLadyMacBethDo? @WWLadyMdo]

@RichardWeinfeld @katephillips29 @Pott_Shrigley_ That's what I was going to say, the restraints show forced and you could interpret the dagger / the act of suicide an act of freeing herself from the violence

[WhatWouldLadyMacBethDo? @WWLadyMdo]

@juliet_turner6 I really love those earrings, please, tell me where you got them?

[WhatWouldLadyMacBethDo? @WWLadyMdo]

She did the right thing

[Amanda @Idontgive2u]

Anonyme :

Anonyme : Cette semaine, j’étais dans un parc aquatique avec ma famille quand un ado m'a défait le haut de mon bikini par derrière, en guise de "mauvaise blague". Je me suis retournée et je lui ai mis une grosse claque.

J'ai 32 ans. J'étais dans le petit bassin avec ma fille, à essayer de lui apprendre à nager, quand j'ai soudain senti qu'on tirait d'un coup sec sur les ficelles de mon maillot.

Avant même que je puisse comprendre ce qui se passait, le tissu s'est détaché. Je me suis retournée et j'ai vu ce garçon d’environ 16/17 ans planté là. Il avait un sourire répugnant, tenait les ficelles de mon bikini dans sa main et rigolait avec ses potes comme s'il venait de faire la blague de l'année.

Je n'ai même pas réfléchi. Ma main a percuté sa joue avant même que mon cerveau ne réalise. C'était un coup vraiment sec. Son sourire a disparu d'un coup. Il a reculé en titubant, les deux mains sur le visage, pendant que ses copains se sont tus net.

Et là, les cris ont commencé. Ses parents ont surgi de nulle part. Sa mère s'est mise à hurler que j'avais "agressé un enfant". Son père a menacé d'appeler la police. Il m'a traitée de "femme hystérique" et a dit que je n'avais pas le droit de frapper un mineur.

Les agents de sécurité et les maîtres-nageurs ont accouru. Les parents du garçon exigeaient que je sois arrêtée pour coups et blessures. Ils disaient qu'ils allaient porter plainte et m'ont traitée de "femme violente" qui n'avait "aucun droit" de toucher leur fils.

Je leur ai dit de regarder les caméras de surveillance. L'angle qui montre comment il a attrapé mon haut de maillot. Qu'ils aillent interroger les témoins : mon mari, Julien, l'a vu, une autre mère l'a vu aussi.

J'ai dit clairement aux parents : s'ils voulaient porter plainte contre moi pour la gifle, je porterais plainte contre leur fils pour harcèlement sexuel. Pour m'avoir déshabillée devant ma fille et des parfaits inconnus, et pour m'avoir touchée contre mon gré.

On nous a tous demandé de quitter la piscine. J'étais assise dans la voiture, tremblante et humiliée, tenant mon haut fermement fermé contre moi, pendant que mon mari conduisait en silence pour rentrer.

Puis il a fini par dire : "Tu étais vraiment obligée de le frapper si fort ? Ce n'est qu'un gamin. Tu aurais sûrement pu juste crier. Maintenant, on va peut-être se retrouver avec une plainte sur le dos."

Rien qu'un gamin. Un gamin qui trouvait ça drôle de dénuder à moitié une femme en public. Un gamin à qui ses parents ont visiblement appris que le corps d'une femme est un terrain de jeu pour des "blagues débiles".

Est-ce que je suis en tort d'avoir réagi avec mes mains plutôt qu'avec des mots quand un inconnu a tiré sur mes vêtements pour m'exhiber ? Et parce que je refuse de m'excuser d'avoir défendu ma dignité devant ma fille ?

[WhatWouldLadyMacBethDo? @WWLadyMdo]

@Keir_Starmer Now do water companies

[WhatWouldLadyMacBethDo? @WWLadyMdo]

@OgLakyn Funny how I was pondering just this as I drove this evening

[WhatWouldLadyMacBethDo? @WWLadyMdo]

@Rugception @Pamela_Vista That's the opposite of what my driving instructor taught me 🙈

[helen warlow @HWarlow]

Made me smile
Speedbump cartoon

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Last week: @thenerve_news.

This week: the FT View.

We forensically tracked cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne’s donations against Nigel Farage’s crypto policy statements.

Yesterday the FT pulled out this same point in its main editorial & notes the similarity to Trump.
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[Cherry @Cherryopenmind]

This is what elite, world-class investigative journalism looks like:

Carole Cadwalladr and her team at The Nerve have forensically stripped the mask off the British political establishment.

The pattern they found in The Harborne Receipts is nothing short of terrifying. Millions of pounds flow from a crypto-billionaire into the pockets of Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage, and like clockwork, weeks later, those exact politicians start pushing laws to benefit the crypto industry.

It is the exact same playbook Donald Trump used in America. It is cash-for-policy, clear as day.

While the billionaire-owned press tries to distract us with culture wars and theatre, true journalists follow the money.

This is the toxic soil that is destroying our democracy from within.

Absolute honour to see her back in action!