Strong_Andria_Fly

Tired mother, freelancer. Eye-roll is my favourite emoticon.

And what exactly is a dream?
And what exactly is a joke?

[Strong_Andria_Fly @andriaboo]

Actually, in order to #RejoinEU, it appears that the UK will need to have some form of Proportional Representation (#PR) voting system, so you might as well forget about rejoining if you don't have this as your number one priority. Plan ahead.

https://t.co/7BaMLtCftd

[Carl Hindy, Ph.D. @DrCarlHindy]

IF I GET DEMENTIA…..
I’d like my family to hang this wish list up on the wall where I live. I want them to remember these things.

1a. Every time you enter the room announce yourself. “Hi Dad - it’s Amanda.”
NEVER ask- Do you know who I am??? That causes anxiety.

• If I get dementia, I want my friends and family to embrace my reality.

• If I think my spouse is still alive, or if I think we’re visiting my parents for dinner, let me believe those things. I’ll be much happier for it.

• If I get dementia, don’t argue with me about what is true for me versus what is true for you.

• If I get dementia, and I am not sure who you are, do not take it personally. My timeline is confusing to me.

• If I get dementia, and can no longer use utensils, do not start feeding me. Instead, switch me to a finger-food diet, and see if I can still feed myself.

• If I get dementia, and I am sad or anxious, hold my hand and listen. Do not tell me that my feelings are unfounded.

• If I get dementia, I don’t want to be treated like a child. Talk to me like the adult that I am.

• If I get dementia, I still want to enjoy the things that I’ve always enjoyed. Help me find a way to exercise, read, and visit with friends.

• If I get dementia, ask me to tell you a story from my past.

• If I get dementia, and I become agitated, take the time to figure out what is bothering me.

• If I get dementia, treat me the way that you would want to be treated.

• If I get dementia, make sure that there are plenty of snacks for me in the house. Even now if I don’t eat I get angry, and if I have dementia, I may have trouble explaining what I need.

• If I get dementia, don’t talk about me as if I’m not in the room.

• If I get dementia, don’t feel guilty if you cannot care for me 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It’s not your fault, and you’ve done your best. Find someone who can help you, or choose a great new place for me to live. With a bus and activities!!

• If I get dementia, and I live in a dementia care community, please visit me often.

• If I get dementia, don’t act frustrated if I mix up names, events, or places.
Take a deep breath. It’s not my fault.

• If I get dementia, make sure I always have my favorite music playing within earshot.

• If I get dementia, and I like to pick up items and carry them around, help me return those items to their original place.

• If I get dementia, don’t exclude me from parties and family gatherings.

• If I get dementia, know that I still like receiving hugs or handshakes.

• If I get dementia, remember that I am still the person you know and love.”

ᴄᴏᴘʏ ᴀɴᴅ ᴘᴀsᴛᴇ in Honor of someone you know or knew who has dementia. In Honor of all those I know and love and lost who are fighting Dementia/Alzheimer’s.

[Chris Littlewood @chrislittlewoo8]

Digital ID for every adult is not progress. It is the end of a free society dressed up as convenience.

I am a cyber security specialist. This is my take.

They are selling it as a fix for illegal migration. That is bollocks.

We spend hundreds of billions a year on cyber security and yet the volume of breaches is breaking records. The threat is growing faster than the spend.

Digital ID will not stop boats. It will not stop trafficking gangs. It will not fix a broken border.

Criminals will work around it.

Honest citizens will pay the price.

It builds giant data banks that track where you go, what you buy, what you read and who you speak to.

It links your identity to every checkpoint in daily life.

One breach and your life is exposed.

Look at Jaguar Land Rover and the airports in recent weeks. Now imagine that at national scale on an ID system tied to everything you need to live your daily life.

Here is the risk that ministers will not admit.

Ransomware seeded through a supplier or an insider:

It lies quiet for months.
It rolls through the backups.
On trigger day the register and the recovery sets are both encrypted.

Payments fail. Health and benefits stall. Borders slow. Citizens are frozen out until a ransom is paid or the state rebuilds from scratch.

Centralise identity and you centralise failure.

Do not fall for the pitch.
Function creep is certain.
It starts as login.

It becomes access to money, travel, speech and public services.

It turns rights into permissions controlled by the state and its contractors.

It creates a single point of failure for criminals, insiders and hostile states to target.

It will punish the elderly, the poor and anyone who is not always online.

It will centralise risk and outsource blame.

It will not stop fraud.

It will not stop illegal migration.

It will build the machinery for a social credit system by stealth.

If ministers cared about the border, they would enforce current laws, resource patrols and processing, close loopholes and remove those with no right to stay.

You do not need a national ID to do any of that.

We scrapped ID cards in 2010 for a reason.

Britain does not need a central register to prove age or status.

Yes to privacy first proofs. No to a database state.

[Strong_Andria_Fly @andriaboo]

@MrCellophane121 I was never interested in children but then had my son ( (and daughter) - it was an incredible challenge, but also an amazing journey. It happens gradually, so one (hopefully) growns into the role. But I know what you mean - I still find other people's children barely tolerable.

[Strong_Andria_Fly @andriaboo]

@TTExulansic A movie quote:

"Look how she moves. Like Jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motor. I tell you, it's a whole different sex."

Well, nobody's perfect.

[Strong_Andria_Fly @andriaboo]

@SlimSugar @SStarmeroid @TwisterFilm Thanks for the link. Every day is a school day :)

[Strong_Andria_Fly @andriaboo]

@SlimSugar @SStarmeroid @TwisterFilm Ah, interesting. I hadn't realised it was banned.

[Strong_Andria_Fly @andriaboo]

@SlimSugar @SStarmeroid @TwisterFilm Depo-Provera is the contraceptive injection. I think you might be thinking of Lupron?

[Strong_Andria_Fly @andriaboo]

Apprently, it's my #MyXAnniversary. It's a Twitterversary really. This platform is always going to be Twitter for me. Shame it's nowhere near as good as it used to be...

[Sebastian Salek @sebastiansalek]

Brexit's biggest promises were a political con.

Eurosceptics claimed leaving the EU would unleash prosperity. But nine years since the vote, the data reveals how wrong they were.

Here are 5 promises they made – and what actually happened:

[Strong_Andria_Fly @andriaboo]

@chloecole The dance an attempt at Justyna Steczkowska's coreography from her 2025 Eurovision entry for Poland (she didn't do that much hair-flipping though):

[Strong_Andria_Fly @andriaboo]

@Upsy_Daisy666 Ah, ok. Didn't realise it was in relation to Ireland. I stand corrected :)

[Strong_Andria_Fly @andriaboo]

@libsoftiktok No doubt Jean-Paul Gaultier has done this for the extra publicity in an over-saturated market. Of course it's 'Peak Femininity'. Being 'Peaked' is the word employed to describe the tipping point of realisation that you're being duped. It's clearly deliberate trolling.

[Strong_Andria_Fly @andriaboo]

@Upsy_Daisy666 Wasn't the Gender Recognition Act passed in 2004? It's intention was to allow a tiny handful of transsexuals to marry their same-sex partners. Subsequently, the Same-Sex Marriage Act was eventually passed in 2014. At that point, the GRA should have been repealed.

[Strong_Andria_Fly @andriaboo]

@DanKjerulf @MrAndyNgo Btw, the 2007 Eurovision winner - Marija Šerifović - was then, and still is, a standard-issue lesbian woman.🙂

[Strong_Andria_Fly @andriaboo]

@WordyDabbler Where were GN's usual catty comments on the tragic outfit and wig? 🤔

[Strong_Andria_Fly @andriaboo]

@rutarishop Doesn't polishing the floor to a high gloss make it extremely dangerous to walk on, especially in socks, as shown?

[Strong_Andria_Fly @andriaboo]

@2001joe_mendy Isn't Luxembourg a Benelux country? I'm pretty sure it qualified 🙂

[Strong_Andria_Fly @andriaboo]

@joakial_ AND all the Baltics too!

[Strong_Andria_Fly @andriaboo]

@rakahaha Austrian is predicted to do well though? (Re: high voices). I'm just relieved the songs with horrible flashing lights didn't get through (so Cyprus, Croatia and Belgium) that's another common link I noticed. #Eurovision2025

[Strong_Andria_Fly @andriaboo]

Ok #Eurovision2025 experts - please help satisfy my curiosity. What is the turquoise carpet made from, who creates it and what happens to it after the ceremony?