Lu

mum of 1 living life vicariously thru teh interwebzz! Allegedly. May contain nuts. 👁️‍🗨️

[Lu @fuzzilu]

@nicolespacek I'm soooo happy you're home and recovering :)))

[mná_mná @dootdootootdoot]

I’m planning a heist, who’s in?

[Lu @fuzzilu]

@YesterdaysBrit1 Knotted hanky on that bald head I'd say. Then he's all set :))

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

There was no word for what this woman did. So Britain had to make one. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧

Mary Somerville's whole schooling was 1 year, at a girls' boarding school in Musselburgh. She left it feeling, in her own words, like a wild animal escaped out of a cage.

After that she taught herself, from the family shelves, by candles they tried to take away. The spark was a puzzle on the back page of a friend's fashion magazine, numbers mixed in with letters. Nobody she asked could explain it. It was algebra, and she wanted more. Custom stopped a woman buying such books, so her brother's tutor bought her Euclid. She worked through it alone, line by line. By 1811 she had taught herself enough to win a silver medal for mathematics.

Then she took on Laplace's Mecanique Celeste, the mathematics of the heavens, in French. Asked to translate it for British readers she did far more. She rebuilt the mathematics inside it, and in 1831 The Mechanism of the Heavens went to print. Cambridge set it in front of its own students. 📜

In 1834 she joined the sciences together. Physics, chemistry, astronomy, light, tides and magnetism, in one book anyone could read. It sold and sold. And it broke open the English language.

The Cambridge professor William Whewell sat down to review it, and no single word covered what she did. Man of science would not do. One had been floated, half in jest, at a science meeting the year before. His review of her book put it into print for the first time. 🔥

Scientist.

The first person the word ever described in print was a Scotswoman with 1 year of school.

A year on, she and Caroline Herschel became the Royal Astronomical Society's first women Honorary Members. 🏛️ Her pages on the wobble in Uranus's orbit helped point John Couch Adams at the hunt that found Neptune in 1846. She mentored a young Ada Lovelace and introduced her to Charles Babbage. In 1866 John Stuart Mill put her name first on his petition to Parliament for women's votes. Oxford named a college for her. And since 2017 her face has sat on the Royal Bank of Scotland's £10 note, printed beside a line from the book that needed a new word.

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1 year of school. A puzzle in a magazine. And a word the whole world uses.

Her word is still in your mouth. Stand a little taller when you say it.

We are the home of British heroes.
There is a place for you with them.

👉 https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf 👈

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Lu @fuzzilu]

@Carlsaidit @20th_Centurygal I do love this song soooo much!

[Lu @fuzzilu]

@backlessdress26 Flower 🌹

[Donna Louise @DonnaLouise1212]

🚨 "I am Peter, living man, son of Michael and Lily."

Those were the haunting last words of 61-year-old grandfather Peter Lynch — repeated over and over to prison guards as he refused food and water before taking his own life in HMP Moorland.

Arrested for shouting at police during the Rotherham riots outside an asylum hotel, this dad and grandad got 2 years 8 months. No violence against officers, but part of an angry crowd protesting grooming gangs, open borders & child safety.

Now he's dead. While the government fast-tracked riot sentences and ignored root causes, a confused, vulnerable man slipped through the cracks with zero mental health referral.

This isn't justice. This is what government overreach looks like when it crushes ordinary people raising their voices. RIP Peter Lynch. Britain needs to wake up.

[Bletchley Park @bletchleypark]

Polish Codebreakers.

The Poles didn't just work out how Enigma operated, they broke it.

Three outstanding mathematicians on the course - Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Różycki - proved key.

Their knowledge gave the Bletchley Park Codebreakers a crucial head start on breaking Enigma.

In July 1939, under increasing threat of a German invasion, the Poles shared their progress on Enigma with the British and the French at a conference in Pyry forest, near Warsaw.

Celebrate the pioneers of codebreaking at the Polish Codebreaking Festival, 25-26 July at Bletchley Park.

Book tickets: https://t.co/GEkD2jfXve

@PolishEmbassyUK
@PLInst_London less

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

SEXED UP AND COVERED UP

Imagine starting a war because you copied and pasted someone's old university paper and forgot to fix the typos.

You don't have to imagine it. It happened.

In September 2002 the UK government published a dossier claiming Saddam Hussein could deploy weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes. Almost no evidence behind it.

A second dossier followed in February 2003. Colin Powell quoted it at the UN as proof of Iraqi deception. One day later Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) found large parts of it were copied almost word for word from a thesis by Ibrahim al-Marashi, a PhD student. They even copied his typos.

Alastair Campbell (@campbellclaret) had already demanded the first dossier be "sharpened" and made "revelatory."

John Scarlett's intelligence committee went from admitting there was "very little intelligence" to signing off firm WMD claims. No new evidence appeared in between.

David Kelly knew the difference. The government's own weapons expert told @BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan (@mragilligan) the dossier had been sexed up.

He was named as the source, grilled by MPs on live television, and found dead days later.

Hutton ruled it suicide. Doctors and MPs have disputed that verdict ever since, and no inquest was ever held.

Parliament voted 412 to 149 for war anyway. The Chilcot Inquiry took 13 years to confirm what a journalist and a dead scientist had already said.

Nobody went to prison. Blair runs a think tank now (@InstituteGC). Kelly doesn't get that choice.

Sources
@Channel4News
@BBCNews
@guardian
@mragilligan
Others.

[Lu @fuzzilu]

@TheMelisaAsilem @SpaceX I love we have knowledge of knowing so much. So fascinating!

[Lu @fuzzilu]

@pilbeam_stephen @20th_Centurygal The Hendrix version does it for me :))

[Jack Duval🌊 @jackduval]

MAJOR NEWS🚨

new footage has been released showcasing baby jimothy's voice

up until this point nobody knew what jimothy sounded like and now we do

(please listen with sound on)

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

I wish musicians all over the world got together to support this young Iranian woman who received 74 lashes for singing.
In 21st-century women are not allowed to sing because Islamic Republic believes men cannot control themselves and they get aroused if a woman sings.

[Lu @fuzzilu]

@BlivvyBenson Who?!? ;)

[Lu @fuzzilu]

@ArturNadol7566 @LinkedIn I would say it was years before that. I was a postie and I left Royal Mail 2001. I had heard from the counter people of troubles they were having. It's made me so angry. I did work on the counter after leaving school, but swapped job to be a postie. There but for the grace of God

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Italian singer Adriano Celentano released “Prisencolinensinainciusol” in 1972 with proto-rap gibberish lyrics that sounded like English words. It’s brilliant. Fantastic video as well - performed by Celentano and Raffaella Carrà. Way ahead of its time.

[Lu @fuzzilu]

@ArturNadol7566 This makes sooo annoyed. As a postie a looong time ago I was told the machines for balancing the tills were hooky. That had been my job. It was my Dads job too, who was meticulous in his arithmetic. He was so proud of the Post Office. They need to pay her NOW !

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

AT 93 BETTY BROWN IS STILL FIGHTING

Betty Brown just turned 93 and picked up an OBE from King Charles at Windsor Castle. Lovely photo. Lovely medal on a lovely jacket. What she still does not have, six months after settling her claim, is a single penny of the compensation she was promised.

Betty and her late husband Oswall ran the Annfield Plain Post Office in County Durham from 1985 to 2003. The Horizon accounting system built by Fujitsu @fujitsu_uk told them money was missing from their branch. It was not missing. It was never missing.

They spent around 100,000 pounds of their own savings covering shortfalls that did not exist, because that is apparently the correct response when a computer accuses you and nobody in charge believes the human standing in front of it.

She is thought to be the oldest surviving victim of the Horizon scandal. She was one of the original 555 claimants who backed Alan Bates in the group legal action against the Post Office @PostOffice.

She reached a settlement through the government redress scheme at the end of last year. At her OBE investiture in June she said she still had not received a penny.

Meanwhile Fujitsu, the company whose faulty software caused this entire catastrophe, has been criticised by a committee of MPs for contributing nothing financially toward the redress bill, which is running toward 2 billion pounds.

The company that broke the till keeps its money. The 93 year old it falsely accused of stealing from that till gets a medal instead of a bank transfer.

She dedicated her OBE to the sub-postmasters who never lived to see this day. She has said before that at least 13 people are believed to have taken their own lives because of what Horizon did to them. She said she wears the honour for them because she still feels everything they felt.

She also had a message for the Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer, asking him directly to sort this out as quickly as he can. That is a simple sentence. It appears to be an extremely difficult instruction to follow.

Britain does love turning its victims into heroes once the damage is done and the bill has gone unpaid long enough to be embarrassing.

Medals are cheap. Redress schemes, it turns out, are somehow still cheaper for the people who actually owe the money.

[Lu @fuzzilu]

@ReggieReySky Very handsome boi :)))