Lurcher Girl 💙 🐾🦊🦡🦔🏔🥾🧘‍♀️🧶📚🖌

Born around 320ppm. Hugs trees, likes newts and bats 🦇 .

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Yet another example of how elderly people are being discriminated and marginalised from everyday life - simply because they don’t have a smartphone / internet access. It’s horrendous. ⬇️

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

This white British murderer is no reflection on me a white British man.

Just like Nowaks murder is no reflection on the Sikh community.

Don’t ever let violent thugs get away with using other violent thugs to stoke racism.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Thankyou JD Vance, we have so much to learn from America.

[Clean Up Britain @cleanupbritain]

This is more evidence of Britain's failing civil service.
Like other quangos, the @EnvAgency is unaccountable and too-often incompetent. Long on excuses, short on results. There are so many cases of Britain's failing state. It is a HUGE problem. @TiceRichard

[Lurcher Girl 💙 🐾🦊🦡🦔🏔🥾🧘‍♀️🧶📚🖌 @burtlebird]

@anon_opin Unless you have dogs for whom it is toxic. The fridge is the safest place to keep it out of reach

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

In 2008, a group of friends in a small Yorkshire town decided to start planting food in unused public spaces.

The town is Todmorden, population about 15,000, tucked into a valley between Burnley and Halifax. The group is Incredible Edible Todmorden. Their motto is "if you eat, you're in."

Today the railway station beds grow herbs. The fire station is surrounded by fruit trees. The canal towpath is lined with edible plantings. The forecourt of the local police station has been transformed into what's now called "possibly the finest and greenest looking police station in the UK," with a small library of crime novels installed for good measure. Everything is free to harvest.

They have no paid staff, no buildings, and no public funding. They've operated this way for almost two decades. Their guiding principles: "believe in the power of small actions," "kindness underpins everything we do," and "it's sometimes better to ask for forgiveness, not permission."

Over the years they've added a Tool Library, a Makery, and little free libraries scattered around town. They host visitors from around the world (they call it "vegetable tourism"). Their gardening Sundays have grown from four or five people to forty or fifty.

The model has been replicated in over 700 projects worldwide and continued to spread.

[Orkney Library @OrkneyLibrary]

Today is #WorldEnvironmentDay so we're taking back all the books that people have read, putting them onto shelves for people to look at, then giving them out again to other people who haven't read them yet. For free.

What a system. ❤️

#LoveLibraries #GreenLibraries ♻️

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

Up to 22 Swift nests were destroyed during demolition works carried out by Northeast Demolition UK on behalf of Hill Group and Clarion Housing. Conservationists have described this as a significant wildlife crime. Surrey Police had been warned that Swifts were actively nesting.

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

THEY ARE BASTARDS!

We just got an email sent to MSE. The spelling was awful, and it was quite tough to understand. Lower down, the writer later explained she was 78 and her disability had stopped her being able to spell. So perhaps it is a stroke, or something similar.

I've tidied it and summarised below, changing some identifying details. In a nutshell, it was this...

"I invested, Martin, with Quotum when you first announced it on TV. What an opportunity for me to buy my own flat. My manager there passed me through to a nice man who asked me for £350 more. He showed me it was growing. I did what he told me to do."

She then goes on to explain how she really wanted her flat and she gave more and more money. And she has nothing left to help with her disability.

I'm honestly in tears typing this. These types of scam ads have now been going on for a decade. I have spent my career trying to help people with their finances. It feels visceral to get this, and to feel that this reputation has been perverted by criminals to steal from someone who is clearly so vulnerable leaves me feeling nauseous.

So many people, both vulnerable and not, lose money and see their lives and wellbeing destroyed. It's now seven years since I sued Facebook. And yet still nothing is being done.

Big tech makes £3bn a year from these scammers. We have a law in place to make them responsible for these ads they're paid to publish, yet it isn't implemented. How many more of these do I have to receive - and far worse, how many more people have to go through this?

This is relentless. It is wrong. Government has to take action! I wrote to the PM just two weeks ago on this very issue. I've not heard back yet.

(We are, of course, going to try and point her in the right direction to get help, but that will be stressful for her too)

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

Anthony Head, best known for TV roles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ted Lasso and Little Britain, dies aged 72 https://t.co/obPVwf7MdJ

[⚽️ Kyle Sheldon @kylesheldon]

Is this the best World Cup team photo of all time?

Bravo, Norway 🇳🇴⚔️

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"'No signs of life' in stream after sewage spill."

And the @EnvAgency does what exactly?

https://t.co/4ZyaFy96BX

[Love Music @khnh80044]

One of the most iconic dance scenes in film history 🕺❤️
Anthony Quinn and Alan Bates performing the legendary “Zorba’s Dance” in Zorba the Greek (1964)

[Lurcher Girl 💙 🐾🦊🦡🦔🏔🥾🧘‍♀️🧶📚🖌 @burtlebird]

@PlusTovell @MartinSLewis Ever heard of “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” 🙄

[Lurcher Girl 💙 🐾🦊🦡🦔🏔🥾🧘‍♀️🧶📚🖌 @burtlebird]

@domdyer70 Oh dear, how sad, never mind

[Lurcher Girl 💙 🐾🦊🦡🦔🏔🥾🧘‍♀️🧶📚🖌 @burtlebird]

@UKLabour @JOwusuNepaul One word ….WATER !

[Lurcher Girl 💙 🐾🦊🦡🦔🏔🥾🧘‍♀️🧶📚🖌 @burtlebird]

@AlisonMoyet What a fantastic lineup !

[Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire]

Sir Alex Younger on #Newsnight last year 👇

[Lurcher Girl 💙 🐾🦊🦡🦔🏔🥾🧘‍♀️🧶📚🖌 @burtlebird]

@JaneFallon Time well spent