Claire Rowlands

Just little old me. Yorkshire born, now living in Glasgow! woop

[Claire Rowlands @cmr824]

@daz_black Social media isn't all bad. My daughter is online and her algorithm has taught how to do make up so much better than I can. She's learnt dances. Made friends. She questions what she sees and it can spark conversation. We've talked about blocking, reporting and questioning.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Myth: "I only wear vegan fabrics. Better for the animals, better for the planet."

Let's check in on Doris's annual contribution.

Once a year, in late spring, Doris is sheared. The procedure takes approximately three minutes. Doris does not enjoy it. Doris does not, by any visible measure, suffer from it. Doris is, immediately afterwards, a noticeably more comfortable animal in the British summer.

The fleece weighs approximately 3 kilograms. It is sold to the British Wool Marketing Board for, depending on the year, between £0.40 and £2.50 per kilogram. The shearing costs more than the wool fetches. Brian is shearing Doris at a loss.

The wool is then:
- Naturally flame-retardant
- Naturally antibacterial
- Moisture-wicking
- Biodegradable
- Renewable, annually
- Carbon-storing while in use

The replacement, in performance fabrics:
- Polyester
- Polyamide
- Acrylic
- Polypropylene
- All petroleum-derived
- All shedding microplastics on every wash
- All requiring fossil fuel inputs to produce
- All non-biodegradable, with a typical landfill lifespan of 200-500 years

A single wash of a polyester fleece can release up to 700,000 microplastic fibres into the water system. These fibres are now in: every tested water source on earth, every tested human placenta, every tested rainfall sample, the deep ocean, the Arctic ice, and the lungs of marine mammals.

A single wash of a wool jumper releases: nothing. The wool, when eventually disposed of, returns to soil within a few years.

The fabric being marketed as the "ethical" alternative to wool is plastic.

The plastic is "ethical" because nobody has been asked to slaughter the polymer.

The polymer also has not been asked.

Doris, by being a sheep on a fell, is producing the most thoroughly sustainable performance fabric humans have ever made.

Brian is selling it at a loss.

The fashion industry, meanwhile, is selling petroleum at a profit and calling it ethical.

Reject plastic. Wear wool.

Doris is, this morning, growing next year's batch.

[Claire Rowlands @cmr824]

@ScotRail @StagecoachEScot Hope the rest of your shift goes well.

[Claire Rowlands @cmr824]

@ScotRail Just curious.. my train from Aberdeen to Glasgow got cancelled and there was confusion in Aberdeen about ticket acceptance. Ended up buying a stagecoach ticket. How would it have worked if ticket acceptance was only up to Dundee?

[Claire Rowlands @cmr824]

@ScotRail @StagecoachEScot Anyway, I'm probably not making much sense.. travelling from Elgin does that. Loving your litter bin chat tonight, hope whoever you are doesn't get in trouble and people develop humour!

[Disney Dreamlight Valley @DisneyDLV]

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[All On The Board @allontheboard]

As lonely as it feels when you’re struggling with your mental health please know you’re not alone. We sometimes struggle too. So does the person who has liked or shared this. You are not alone.

#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek #MentalHealthMatters

[Asylum Matters @AsylumMatters]

There's a post going round here claiming people seeking asylum are 'relaxing by the pool' in taxpayer funded hotels.

That's quite clearly nonsense, but since these sorts of lies keep coming up, perhaps it's worth talking about what life is actually like in these hotels.

🧵 👇

[Claire Rowlands @cmr824]

@clairebubblepop There is no difference, just the way ex-pats don't want to face the reality that they are in fact migrants.

[All On The Board @allontheboard]

Today is International Day of Happiness, but with everything that’s going on in the world it’s hard to be happy at times.
There will be better and brighter days, so let's do the best we can to get each other through these ones.

#InternationalDayOfHappiness #allontheboard

[Giles Paley-Phillips @eliistender10]

Happy thoughts vs Ugly thoughts #InternationalDayOfHappiness

[Claire Rowlands @cmr824]

@TSB quick question... Can ISA interest be paid into a Savers Pot?

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Remember.

[Colin📚 @TheBookshopMan]

WIN a stack of books!

All you have to do is:

1) follow me
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Good luck!

[Humza Yousaf @HumzaYousaf]

Putting aside his Nazi salute (never thought I would start a sentence like that...) Elon Musk has been showing us his far-right sympathies for a long time.

Believe what your eyes are telling you.

The only response is to call him out, confront the far-right, not appease them.

[OVO Hydro @OVOHydro]

Due to the red weather warning in place tomorrow, the Friday evening performance of Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour will be rescheduled to Sunday evening, 26 January. Doors will open at 17.30 and the performance will start at 18.30.

[Claire Rowlands @cmr824]

Will @OVOHydro @bbcstrictly be going ahead tomorrow? Don't know how we'll get there with no trains running. 😭 #StrictlyLiveTour #glasgow