Alan Fettes

I'm a joker, though not a smoker or midnight toker.

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

A rousing performance of 'Fairytale of New York' was given by Glen Hansard and Lisa O'Neill at the funeral of Shane MacGowan in Nenagh, Co Tipperary. The performance was greeted by cheers inside and outside the church | https://t.co/a1x3oRVRMz

[Ajit Niranjan @NiranjanAjit]

but in terms of the underlying psychology people in the top 0.1% of global earners seem pretty similar to those in the top 10%, which is a group that includes me, most people i know, and depending on where you live, probably you too 17/17 https://t.co/CxNsLcKbsW

[Flight Free UK @FlightFreeUK]

Train travel in the UK is on average 6 times less polluting than flying, and on certain routes it's 13 times less polluting.

That's why we're asking the government to remove air routes where there's a viable rail alternative.

Sign the petition: https://t.co/CUBHFnN0Qv

[Jamie Kennedy @jamierkennedy]

Bob, from Oban.

(If you didn't already love @robert1lefty, these five minutes will convince you)

[David Gange @david_gange]

One last mountain night. Two pics of sunset, two of dawn from a camp on Beinn Eighe. Fog rolled in at 8pm & it looked like there'd be no views at all. Then it fell into the glens & left miles & miles of peaks silhouetted against the reddening sky. Still, silent, & midge-free.

[Alan Fettes @muntermunter]

@david_gange Crazy good. Very special. 👏

[James Murray @James_BG]

As Westminster embarks on its latest round of agonising over migration figures, here's your periodic reminder climate change means many millions more people will move in coming decades, so we either get better at managing that reality or we demean us all in failing to do so.

[Tom Knowles @tkbeynon]

There’s this guy on TikTok who does nursery rhymes in the style of his favourite bands and the production standards are insane. This Mumford and Sons style rendition of You Are My Sunshine is genuinely as good as a song they would release

[Alan Fettes @muntermunter]

@jim___frost @CabrachTrust Great shot. My great great great great grandparents William and Helen were married here in June 1811. I'm not sure they would have had a drone videographer at the time.

[Steph Smith @stephsmithio]

In 1994, Jeff Bezos famously spotted a stat that made him leave his high-paying PE job to start Amazon:

💡 The Internet was growing 2300% per year.

What are the generation-defining stats of today?

I'll post a few to kick things off...

[Young Fathers @Youngfathers]

Our new album HEAVY HEAVY is out now.

The weight that we’ve been carrying is now yours. Do what you want with it.

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 𝑪𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒈 𝑨𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒚𝒄𝒆 @csa_adventure]

Loch Glascarnoch and the A835 winding it’s way north towards Ullapool 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❄️ pictures taken with my DJI Air 2s drone #lochglascarnoch #scotland #winter #drone #dji @VisitScotland @NorthCoast500 @DJIGlobal

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

#BlueMonday is a piece of crap pseudo science originally part of a travel company's press release to sell holidays.

Can we all try to avoid rewarding marketeers, using this term, which tries to sell goods by parasiting on the back of real mental health campaigns.

[Chris Bettles @ifnotnowchris]

I’m 32 years old. I was born in 1990. 50% of all the fossil fuels ever used by humans on earth have been used since 1990…in my fairly short lifetime. Pretty mind-blowing.

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

Cheap Fast fashion waste is dumped in Africa and not only causes pollution but fuels climate change and responsible for 8-10% of global emissions

Synthetic materials like polyester require an estimated 342 million barrels of oil every year

Video ITV

[Scottish Refugee Council 🧡 @scotrefcouncil]

A year ago, the Home Office promised to resettle 20,000 people fleeing Afghanistan📆

Today, not one person has been helped by the scheme ⬇️

[Nick Murphy @nickmurftweets]

Suella Braverman’s public order bill seems more than a little Putiny

Write to your MP.

[Peter Neville @peteneville65]

For those who don't fully understand what is up with the NHS, here is a thread for you that might help.

I'm a consultant physician working as a doctor in the NHS in Yorkshire and Wales for 32 years now. I have experienced the NHS at its best (2008) and its worst (2022).

[Miranda Moore ☀️ @SpareWriter]

Mini challenge:
When you speak to a kid you know after 🎄🎅, instead of automatically asking, "What did you get?" ask something else - who they spent it with, what made them smile, what they did/shared/played/ate/watched/read/thought etc.
Time to move past it being about 🎁. 🙏😊

[Michael M 👽 @michaelmphysics]

'Fairytale of New York' but all the lyrics are 'it was christmas eve babe', feat. lily rae from @fightmilkband