Lil Binewski

[Bill @BillWiIdin]

Self-checkout lanes are a scam to make customers do unpaid labor for massive retail corporations. They eliminate cashier jobs to save money, yet they don't pass any of those savings down to us. Then they have an employee stand there and watch you like a criminal while you scan your own groceries.

If I am checking out my own items and bagging them, I deserve a 5% discount on my entire receipt.I will gladly stand in the one open human lane just to avoid using those automated machines.

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

Don’t worry about Elon becoming rich with his own money.

Worry about politicians becoming rich with your money.

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

“The students who cannot read a 20-page article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill, or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow.”

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

You can survive without politicians. They come and go.

But you cannot survive without farmers.

No farmers.
No food.

[Sarah G @norfolkmum1]

If a single use cubicle with a lockable door renders it safe for women in a mixed sex changing room why does the same lockable single use cubicle make transwomen unsafe in men’s changing rooms?

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

The 1976 UK heatwave was one of the most intense, prolonged periods of high temperatures in British history, lasting from 23 June to 27 August 1976. But no one blamed cow farts and the weather maps certainly didn’t look like a volcano had erupted over Britain.

[Made In England @BuyEnglishMade]

It's been a long road.

Back in 2010, I had an idea: a marketplace where English producers could sell directly to the public.

I underestimated the scale.

So this year I started smaller, with what we do best - food and drink.
Nearly six months on, https://t.co/eWD8weWXHH is almost live.

The mission is simple. Promote the purchase of English-made products. Help English makers thrive. Support jobs, shorten supply chains, and build a place people instinctively think of when they want to buy something made here in England.

It's been exhausting at times. But I can finally feel excited about what comes next.

#MadeInEngland

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

I mean presumably France is just a blasted, post nuclear hell scape

And Spain has turned entirely to glass.

This is total manipulative rubbish - also known as bollocks.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

No one believes me when I say this, but the decline in reading is already having dire consequences for art & culture. The media you loved in your youth—shows, albums, films—was made by artists who were widely read. You will not have that quality of art in a post-literate world.

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Farming should be one of the main priorities of any government. Domestic local farm food security is vital to the health and wealth of any nation. And the fact that the Labour government are doing the exact opposite and financially punishing farmers is absolutely shameful.

[Ethel Braithwaite @Ethelbrait1941]

Never stop saying "dozen" and "half dozen". Never stop using the word you read in an old novella. Never stop using your regional jargon. Don't succumb to an internationalized English stripped of its whimsy and romanticism in the name of streamlining global commerce.

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

I don’t care. Promising legislation to celebrities is wrong. The objections to this bill concerned how vulnerable people would be coerced or otherwise pressured into state assisted suicide. I couldn’t give a damn of a child of a celebrity is angry.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

I’m sorry but the future belongs to those who read widely, who are able to write without the assistance of a machine, who haven’t allowed endless slop to kill their curiosity and cognitive abilities. Excess tech is going to melt many brains. Yours doesn’t need to be one of them.

[Letters of Note @LettersOfNote]

Happy birthday to my favourite of all the haters, Charles Darwin

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Governments have no right to mission creep towards digital ID, central bank digital currencies and a cashless society. We did not vote for that. They do not have a democratic mandate to tie us to a state surveillance system. They serve us. We do not serve them. Never forget that.

[Buster Keaton @BusterKeatonSoc]

This Day in Buster… February 1, 1966
Joseph Frank “Buster” Keaton passes away at his Woodland Hills home at the age of 70. A Service of Memory was held at the Church of the Hills. His influence in comedy and film has inspired generations and will continue to do so for many more.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

"One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again."

— Thomas Sowell

[penelopepitstop ( blue tick) @BlondeKbf]

For the people at the back

[🤠 @heavensbvnny]

as an adult, you're going to get the urge to return to hobbies, like reading, that you used to enjoy as a kid... it is very important that you do so, and start doing things that bring you joy again.