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Θεσσαλονίκη-München-Nottingham 🇬🇷🇩🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
"Δεν ελπίζω τίποτα. Δε φοβούμαι τίποτα. Είμαι λέφτερος."

[David Harris @DavidHarrisNY]

Turkey OCCUPIED #Gaza for 400 yrs. Never offered independence.

Turkey MASSACRED 1.5 million Armenian #Christians. To this day, never acknowledged the genocide.

Turkey was NEUTRAL & PROFITED from war against greatest evil in history—German Nazism.

Turkey has OCCUPIED 37% of EU member #Cyprus since 1974.

Turkey has SUPPRESSED aspirations of tens of millions of #Kurds.

Turkey JAILS political dissidents & journalists.

Turkey HOSTS #Hamas & other terrorists.

Turkey CONSPIRES w/ radical, anti-Western Muslim Brotherhood.

And we’re supposed to take morality lessons from @RTErdogan & company?

Give me a break!

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Britain had about seventy supermarkets in 1975 and more than twenty-five thousand butchers. That is not a typo.

You were nine. You got sent.

Out the back door with a list in your mother's handwriting and a purse, and the week ran past you on the way. The milk float had been and gone before six and you heard it in your sleep. The baker's van came mid morning, bread still warm through the paper.

Tuesday was the fish man. Whistle first, then the van, then the smell of the ice.

Saturday was the joint, and a queue, and everybody in it knew everybody else in it.

It went over twenty years, one shutter at a time, and every closure got a paragraph in the local paper about changing tastes.

The milkman took the loop with him. A glass bottle went out, came back, was washed and refilled about twenty times, no bin, no lorry, no effort from anybody. Britain swapped that for thirteen billion plastic bottles a year and a national conversation about microplastics in blood.

The cream went at the same time, broken up so fine it never rose again.

The baker took the fermentation. A loaf made in that street took most of a day and went hard in two. The one on your shelf was mixed in three minutes, holds its softness with emulsifiers, and no household in Britain has a use for a stale loaf any more because there is no such thing.

The fish man took the freshness. Off the boat, on the slab, gone by tea. Supermarkets have spent the last decade closing the fresh counters that replaced him, and most of this country is now down to a frozen rectangle in breadcrumbs.

And the butcher took the animal.

The sawdust on his floor was there because a man who buys a whole bullock has to sell a whole bullock. So the liver arrived. The kidneys, the heart, the tongue, the shin, the marrow bones, all of it, attached, whether anybody had asked for it or not, and it had to move that week or he wore the loss.

That is the whole reason a working family ate the most nutrient dense food on earth twice a week and thought nothing of it.

The carcass left the shop and all of it left with him.

The liver went, and the cheapest iron in Britain came back as a tablet. The bones went, and the same gelatine is sold to you now in a tub for thirty pounds. The fat was trimmed at a plant and sold to industry, and the spread that replaced it needed an Act of Parliament to force vitamins A and D into it, because it had none of its own.

The shin and the skirt vanished, so the only cheap meat left in this country is chicken breast and mince.

The trade counted 25,300 butchers in 1977 and counts around five thousand now. Britain had 1,890 red meat abattoirs in 1971 and has 203.

In 1975 the cheapest things in the country were the liver, the bones, the fat and the milk with the cream on it. Every one of them is now a premium product with a story on the label, and the cheapest food in Britain comes in a wrapper.

[Ron Manager Remembers Nottingham @ronmanagernottm]

Nottingham has gifted the world many life-enhancing items, but HP sauce is one of the very best.

[Lloyd Legalist @LloydLegalist]

Well played, TJ Maxx… well played.

[Nottm Confidential @Nottm_Con]

Nottingham's Victoria Centre has announced today that the Emmett Clock is to be returned to its original location outside John Lewis, following an extensive renovation.

[Chantelle Alicia @ChantelleA33696]

📣👇👇

[No1tingham @No1tingham]

Highfields Lido, #Nottingham, c.1938. Commissioned by Jesse Boot and opened in 1924, Highfields Lido was at the time the largest in England. It remained open until the end of the summer season in 1980 and was demolished in 1990. Credit: https://t.co/GbVqM2FxHe

[Paul64 🇬🇧 @paul1964Jam]

We were so easily pleased 😄

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Pretty funny, since he started the suit to harass the BBC. 🤣😂🤣
It's called FAFO you putrid piece of lard!

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

I gave up drinking once --it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.

- Humphrey Bogart

[Alex Sakalis @alexsakalis]

Kind of an amazing stat

[Àshàké(not Ololade)❤️ @Molayoo_]

“He who is without ovaries, shall not make laws for those who do.”

-Fallopians 24:7

[e_Sparrows 🦉 @e_sparrows]

Could well be true. It’s STILL none of his fucking business giving unsolicited advice to an unknown woman.

[Izzy Jo King @jackiebuzzee]

@wine_x13 Literally everyone I know who drinks Red Bulls has either died, stroke, brain tumor, cancers, etc. he was probably trying to save your life.

[Ron Manager Remembers Nottingham @ronmanagernottm]

Did one of those DNA thingies.

Someone's got questions to answer.

[Nefelina 🇬🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Nefelina451806]

Turkey is challenging EU sovereignty by setting up "national" marine parks over an EU member's continental shelf to isolate European islands. Yet @eu_eeas and @EUCouncil stay silent. This double standard—acting only when Russia threatens the north—is indefensible. 🇪🇺

[Harry Theocharous @TheocharousH]

THE 17 AUGUST MASSACRE: TURKISH BARBARISM THAT THE WORLD STILL IGNORES🚨

On 17 August 1974, in the village of Palekythro, four Turkish Cypriots from neighbouring villages lined up 21 Greek Cypriot civilians mostly women and children from the Souppouris and Liasis families and executed them in cold blood.
Infants, toddlers, mothers, aunts, grandparents, shot one after another in the yard of a house where they had sought refuge.
Their bodies were piled on top of each other and a handful of children who survived the slaughter were wounded and orphaned and forced to watch their entire families die.

This was deliberate sadistic execution of unarmed civilians during the second phase of Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus and surely not an isolated case. Across the island in those weeks of summer 1974, thousands of Greek Cypriot civilians were executed, hundreds of women and girls, young and old were sexually abused by Turkish forces and their collaborators. Villages were emptied, families wiped out and mass graves were filled.

Fifty two years later, Turkey still occupies nearly 40% of the Republic of Cyprus. The same state that enabled and promoted this barbarism continues to deny responsibility, rewrite history and demand recognition of its illegal regime in the illegally occupied north part of Cyprus.

Let the world never forget the Souppouris and Liasis families and the children who watched their mothers and siblings die.
This history must never be buried with the world’s silence.