Mhairi Isabelle

Mature Speech & Language Therapist-to-be. She/her, xe/xer. Personal twitter on diverse topics.

[Peter Just @PeterDJust]

❤️ When @RCSLT published the briefing, it was supported by 46 organisations. It is now being supported by 48. We are massively grateful to them for their support - there's still time for more!

📢 @MikeysWish_VDA brilliantly highlights why the #InvestInSLT debate matters.

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[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

Blue Monday is a piece of crap pseudo science originally part of a travel company's press release to sell holidays.

Can we all try to avoid rewarding marketeers, using this term, which tries to sell goods by parasiting on the back of real mental health campaigns.

[Maliha @CaffeinatedLiha]

No matter how many books you read, there will always be tons of books to read. That's amazing and annoying at the same time.

[ᴘᴏᴛᴀᴛᴜᴍ @pot8um]

Back in my day, most paid apps / software had ONE price that you paid ONCE and then you owned it FOREVER

Everything’s a subscription model now. WHY is everything, even something as simple as a photo editing app, $10+ per MONTH now

This shit is wringing people dry and for what

[sunshine ᯓ✩°.⋆ @snshn_nd_strdst]

BRING BACK THE CD/DVD PLAYERS ON LAPTOPS!!!!

[Medieval Manuscripts @BLMedieval]

Women held a number of different medical roles in the medieval period, serving as healers and caregivers, wet nurses, hospital staff, midwives and paid professionals.

https://t.co/i8ANZl9fLn

[the merry wörm @zenyanna]

"chatgpt helped this person with a busy schedule plan meals" i think it would be nice if in one hundred years water still existed on this planet !

[Roe 🏳️‍⚧️ they/them @GraceRoe5142]

Oh they did that! In Italy a lot of rich ppl ran off to their rural villas (where historically they had escaped things like malaria) and were like, “now that we are safe we can have our little parties!” And then they all died.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

How much is the £11.44 an hour minimum wage damaging British business? With me in the studio to discuss this are a £91,000 a year Tory MP, a £200,000 a year rightwing journalist and a chief executive on £4.2m.

[Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford]

Today is Twelfth Night, the eve of the Epiphany. It's a time for festivities marking the end of the Twelve Days of Christmas, and the transition from midwinter into the new year: parties, king-cakes, fire rituals, and wassailing to waken the trees from their winter sleep.

[Haggard Hawks 🦅📚 Words | Language | Etymology @HaggardHawks]

🧵 30. According to a 17th century proverb, a COCKSTRIDE—literally, one step of a cockerel—is the amount by which the days seem to lengthen after the New Year.

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

Just your New Year reminder that public ownership is hugely popular ❤️
#NewYear #PublicOwnership

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

Your regular reminder that Nigel Farage’s stated policy is to scrap the NHS & introduce a private insurance health system in the UK, too.

[Prof Elaine Chalus @EHChalus]

“It is unacceptable that ... the UK should see an increase in the number of conditions that can be linked to poverty and poor nutrition, and yet this is the reality.”> Hospital admissions for lack of vitamins soaring in England, NHS figures show https://t.co/kRqiN3a9Dt

[Dr Lacey Bonar Hull @LaceyBonarHull]

Happy 2025, everyone!

At the Tudor court, New Year's Day was cause for celebration & spectacle, as 1 January was the traditional day of gift-giving, as opposed to Christmas

At Henry VIII's court, New Year's Day 1532 was also an opportunity to display both favoritism & malice 🧵

[North Ages @NorthAges]

‘There were seen in the air fiery flashes such as mortals of that age had never seen before, and they were seen almost the whole night,’ #OTD in 744/5, according to Symeon of Durham. 📸Janek Pärn

[Bulbagarden - The original Pokémon community @Bulbagarden]

Happy New Year!

Whatever you do in 2025,

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

Time for a brisk walk to burn off the 50,000 calories consumed this week. 10-15 minutes should do it. And then... probably a ham sandwich.

[Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford]

'Make we mirth
For Christ's birth,
And sing we Yule til Candlemas!'

The medieval Twelve Days of Christmas, from Christmas to Epiphany, formed a special season - a chain of festivals, each with its own customs and carols. Yuletide is just beginning! https://t.co/LOTahStXWv

[Bulbapedia @Bulbapedia]

Merry Christmas!

Santa Claus is a recurring character in Pokémon the Series, behaving much like his real-world counterpart.