Racquel

Crafter. Silver appreciator. Loves the night sky. Enjoys wine & fizz - not together. Spends too much on gigs. Lives for a good band tee.

[💰💵 @RoyalMajestease]

DO YOU KNOW that bringing a Yacht to MONACO is one thing but securing a trackside parking is ANOTHER.

Here's the FACT behind this:

​To get a Zone 1 Trackside "Pole Position" berth (the absolute front row right up against the tarmac at the Tabac corner or the Chicane), the parking ticket alone is staggering.

​The Marina Fee: For a 60-meter (196-foot) superyacht, the port authority charges upwards of €210,000 ($228,000) just for the week's mooring rights. This does not include water, electricity, or fuel.

​The Charter Cost: If you don't own the boat and want to charter a 50 to 70-meter vessel for race week, the baseline rate ranges from €300,000 to €600,000. High-end mega-yachts routinely clear €1,000,000 for those seven days.

​The real kicker? The harbor layout creates a literal class system among multi-millionaires.

​If you "only" spend €30,000 on a peripheral berth, you are placed in the back rows. You can hear the V6 hybrid engines screaming, but your view is completely blocked by a towering wall of larger, more expensive boats.

​To actually watch the rubber hit the asphalt from your own deck, you have to drop a cool million. It is a level of hyper-exclusive capitalism where people spend the price of a suburban American home just to park a boat for 168 hours.

[Shane Janisch 🇺🇦🐬🐳🐘 @janischshane]

When you visit Edmonton Valley Zoo,don't see Lucy as an icon.
See her for what she is: a wild elephant stolen from her Sri Lankan home at age 2,forced into 48 years alone in Canada's coldest city.
This isn't conservation. It's theft imprisonment.
Would you accept this for child?

[#T4Animals 🐘🦁🦒🐅🦊🦔🐻 @Cosmicbrigade]

#SundayThought
#Lucys days of freedom came to an abrupt end when she was taken & shipped across the 🌎 to live her life trapped in a 🇨🇦 barren, tiny zoo enclosure.
Don’t let #Lucy die in this hell.
Raise your voice 🌏 #Sanctuary is waiting. @YEGMayorOffice you can #FreeLucy

[Shane Janisch 🇺🇦🐬🐳🐘 @janischshane]

Bunka the elephant is DYING from cruelty at Yerevan Zoo (Armenia). 7+ years alone in a concrete barn, 17 hours/day. Foot abscesses, inflamed eyes, depression (walking in circles). This violates international zoo guidelines! HELP BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE. 🐘💔

[Mr Lumpy & Friends @LumpyandFriends]

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[🔧🔩 Durham Steel 🔧🔩 @PhilHannon]

If your first response to somebody telling you they've been stabbed is, "don't think so mate" you shouldn't be anywhere near a police uniform.

[Esther McVey @EstherMcVey1]

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨

Nicola Sturgeon has updated her pronouns to him/not me.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

A petition calling on the UK Home Office to shut down MBR Acres, a beagle breeding facility in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, has gathered nearly 190,000 signatures. Over 2,000 beagle puppies are bred at the site every year.

Some are bled and dissected on-site. Others are sent to laboratories for toxicology testing where they are force-fed chemicals and killed.

Animal Rising, which organised the petition, argues that proven alternatives already exist. Organ-on-a-chip technology, AI modelling, and human cell-based testing can replace animal experiments today. Campaigners say these methods are more accurate and more ethical.

In 2022, Animal Rising rescued 23 puppies from the facility. Twenty rescuers will face court this year, pleading not guilty to burglary charges. The organisation is calling the trial an opportunity to put animal testing itself on public trial.

The petition calls on the Home Office to safely rehome all beagles at MBR Acres, shut the facility permanently, and invest in modern humane testing alternatives.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Release the footage, you evil bastards!

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I’m over here recycling toilet paper roll cores, using my own bags, not running the water when I brush my teeth, while billionaires are blowing up rockets and building water-polluting data centers. It’s hard not to be discouraged.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I really do think we underestimate how many people are hanging on by a single, fraying thread, and how, some days, the only things saving them from the abyss are the small comforts of a TV show that feels like home, a book that tells you you’re not alone, or a pet that needs you.

[Mr Lumpy & Friends @LumpyandFriends]

Our little shop is really struggling and I think this may be our last year so please take a look 🙏
A plea from the Nut Fairy we need your help to keep going.
Would any of you kindly like to support Mr Lumpy & Friends.
You can help by making purchasers or donations from our little online gift shop which not only helps us it also helps the wildlife organisations that we support.
If you can then this Nut Fairy very much appreciates it. 🐾🐾🦡🦊❤️

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[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

🚨BREAKING: A brave local Vicar has spoken out on the murder of Henry Nowak in Southampton:

"The police are driven by a cultural-Marxist ideology and it's not right. We're seeing two-tier policing, two-tier justice and the people of Britain have had enough!"

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Henry Nowak: “I have been stabbed.”
Police officer: “I don’t think you have, mate.”

Henry, eighteen years old and in his final moments on earth, said he couldn’t breathe.
Scared. Disdained as a “racist”by disgusting DEI @HantsPolice
Who was the officer?

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A bricklayer in East Yorkshire has spent 35 years putting up barn owl nest boxes on weekends. This year, the region saw 308 owlets hatch.

His name is Robert Salter. He's 56 and does bricklaying full time. In 1990, he saw a piece on the news about a man in Lincolnshire installing barn owl boxes, and decided he'd do the same. He started with five.

He now has more than 350 boxes scattered across fields, farms, outbuildings, and trees in East Yorkshire. Every June, he takes four weeks off from bricklaying and visits them with his wife Sue. Scrambling up ladders, ringing chicks, cleaning boxes, repairing the ones the weather got to. He's a licensed bird ringer for the British Trust for Ornithology.

In 2024, the region ringed 95 owlets. In 2025, the count was 308. The Barn Owl Trust says that nationally, this year was "pretty poor" for barn owl breeding, but east Yorkshire is the exception, and it's the exception because of one man with a ladder.

The barn owl population in the UK was estimated at 4,000 pairs in the mid-2000s and crashed to roughly 1,000 by the early 2010s. The species is still recovering.

Most of conservation is one person who refuses to give up.

[Racquel @absinthenymph]

Do your thing, Internet.

[Steve Perkins @Perky_43]

🚨 ALLEGED DOG ABUSER - ST ANNES ON SEA BLACKPOOL. IF YOU KNOW HIM, HAVE A WORD

From another social media post:

Does anyone recognise this specimen of humanity who was on the beach - south of the pier - about 7.45 this evening (Wednesday 27 May)?

My friend and I (with our dogs) noticed him as he was hitting both of his dogs. He then picked one up either by its collar or scruff of the neck and let it hang! We could hear what he was saying to them (loudly) and it wasn’t pleasant.

Out came my camera and I pretended to be videoing the beach but was taking this photo. He sort of walked towards us and as he did so the language he used towards the dogs changed from very unpleasant to more favourable.

As he came closer I said I’d noticed the change in what he was saying to the dogs - well the beast was unleashed and a tirade of foul abusive and threatening language came forth - he was nearly screaming at us.

Other people heard him as we were asked what all that was about. My only concern was for the dogs - 2 Yorkshire terriers (or similar) who seemed to be fastened together by a length of chain - could have been a ‘brace’ for walking 2 dogs on one lead.

Being reported to police this morning.

Source Essie Baker

Image has been cleaned as was grainy.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

It's 30°C in parts of Britain today. And the animals are struggling.☀️

Dairy cows in Cumbria are drinking twice as much water.
Milk yields are dropping.
Farmers are out there at 3am moving livestock to shade.

This isn't just a heatwave. This is another challenge for British farming.

The Irish government has already issued guidance - no transporting animals in the hottest part of the day.
What has the UK government said? Nothing new.

East of England just had one of the driest Aprils on record.
Crops already planted are failing.
This current hot spell is making everything worse.

A Lincolnshire arable farmer told the BBC his wheat is suffering.
That wheat becomes your bread.
Your pasta.
Your breakfast cereal.

One more week of this and thousands of acres of British crops will be written off.

Temperatures are rising. So are costs.
More water for livestock.
More diesel for ventilation.
More stress on the farmer.

The weather is getting harder. The government is getting quieter.

This isn’t to scaremonger, and it’s nothing British farmers haven’t weathered before (excuse the pun), just an opportunity to ask the question…

Is anyone in Westminster paying attention to what 32°C means for your food?

[Essex Patriot @Essex_Patriot]

British economy snapshot over the last 4 years:

Gas: +94.1%
Electricity: +78%
Fuel: +49.3%
Airfares: +34.4%
Hotels: +37.8%
Groceries: +25.0%
Eating out: +26.5%
Baby food: +26.3%
Dog food: +58.1%
Rent: +25%
Used cars: +30.5%
Public transport: +18.7%

Real average weekly earnings: -2.8%

The UK population is being killed

Source: ONS

[Mr Lumpy & Friends @LumpyandFriends]

More bedding added to our
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Over 70 goodies now reduced ………UP TO 60% Off End Of Line Stock ‼️‼️‼️‼️
When It’s Gone It’s Gone !
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[Mr Lumpy & Friends @LumpyandFriends]

I spoke to soon yesterday!
Our first Fox cub spotted last night at the back of Narnia 😍
Lets hope we see them all soon 🦊🦊🦊🦊🦊🐾🐾❤️