A truly unforgettable moment. Three exhilarating years, and at the end of it, all I can express is how thankful I am. For the friendships, for the opportunities, for the unparalleled quality of my education here. My BA may be over, but I am blessed to be #ForeverKings.❤️🦁🎓
I’ve gotten a lot of new followers lately, so it’s a good day to urgently remind everyone that ALL clothing is handmade. It doesn’t matter if it’s a $2 t-shirt or $20,000 couture, someone had to make it. We don’t have automatic clothes-sewing machines.
@fpl_esr @JeanHatchet It's already being leaked what happened. Your eagerness to defend a man you do not know, in light of staggering statistics and true fact, is extremely concerning. Sexism doesn't affect you.
35yo Andy Murray, a former world #1 with a metal hip, who played 5h two days ago, comes back to beat Thanasi Kokkinakis 4-6, 6-7(4), 7-6(5), 6-3, 7-5 in the 2nd longest ever #AusOpen match: 5h45, finished after 4am in the morning.
Into the 3rd round
Epic. Legendary. All of that
The sheer intensity of Royal Mail’s assault against their employees, contained in this heartbreaking piece by a postal worker, is shocking. What a stark contrast between what posties do for us and what their employers do to them. #PostalWorkersDay
To put in context multi millionaire Nadhim Zahawi threatening nurses & ambulance paramedics with bringing in soldiers to break their strike, it’s worth remembering his expenses claim which included heating his horses’ stables was more than a nurse on starting pay is asking for.
Shell posts £10bn profit for just three months & pays investors £6.5bn. Centrica, the owner of British Gas, posts profits of £1.3bn for six months and pays investors £59m.
All while your energy bill increases by 300%. A racket. Nationalise energy.
The Labour leadership, in charge of a party set up by trade unions to support workers' rights, has just sacked Shadow Transport Minister Sam Tarry for joining a picket line. Labour is drifting away from its trade union roots and a plant without roots dies pretty quickly.
Tax payers in England spend £2.3bn more a year on water bills than they would do if the water companies had remained in public hands.
Even the Financial Times has called Britain’s privatised water industry an ‘organised rip-off’.
There’s a massive story unfolding in Atlanta, but it’s barely getting any media attention. Right now the city’s forest, a vital site for humans and animals alike, is under attack, and some amazing people are fighting back. Here’s the story. 🧵
For people who have been studying the misinformation campaign around the Depp v Heard trial, this verdict is chilling. The success of Depp’s “redemption arc” narrative reveals a lot about our social media platforms and ourselves.
A thread of things I learned during Depp v Heard:
Rachel Maclean has just solved the cost of living crisis - turns out all you need to do is get a better paid job and work more hours. For example, you could become and MP and claim £218,000 in expenses on top of your £80k salary like she did last year.