Nell Kenning

NAFO- adjacent Main Bastard, kendoka, DV survivor, cancer survivor, yarn lover.

[Nell Kenning @NellKenning]

My most popular post ever 🤣

[Nell Kenning @NellKenning]

@justrevolting @sranysovok Bollox

[Nell Kenning @NellKenning]

Imagine going to the most progressive and inclusive city in the UK to preach hate and division.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

If the kids are united, they will never be divided!

[Gemma Matthews @Gtilleymatthews]

Sore fingers have stopped progress! Apologies I was really hoping to have finished my latest piece this weekend but my hands say otherwise. Here’s a collage of details taken from a variety of my embroideries to keep you going…😉🪡🌿🌺 #stitchedart #embroidery #thesewingsongbird

[Nell Kenning @NellKenning]

@YacobEpsberg @faygocoin @RussianBot_14 @beherleader Yes that's the problem: men like you think that it's easy even though you've got no idea what's actually involved, and refuse to accept the words of women who actually do the work.

[Nell Kenning @NellKenning]

@cossackgundi Congratulations 🩷

[Nell Kenning @NellKenning]

@Acyn I was told that lie in school forty years ago only it was robots instead of AI.
We've got poorer since then and there's less jobs than ever.
Why are we letting these unelected, selfish, compassionless monsters direct the future of our world?

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

C. S. Lewis on why you NEED to read old books. This has never been more vital than it is today

[Owen @Owennfa]

HOT TAKE: nobody in 1975 needed a budgeting app, a financial coach, three side hustles, and a finance influencer explaining the "latte factor" just to afford a two bedroom apartment.

A single income, often a single average income, covered rent, a car, and still left room to save.

Now we're told the problem is that we don't meal prep enough, or we buy too much iced coffee, or we haven't "automated our savings" correctly.

Nobody explains why rent has outpaced wage growth for 40 straight years. Nobody explains why a worker today needs almost twice the hours at minimum wage to afford the same apartment their grandparents rented on one paycheck.

This isn't a personal finance problem. You can't budget your way out of a wage that hasn't kept up with the cost of staying alive.

It's not a discipline problem. It's not a mindset problem. It's not a "sacrifice more lattes" problem.

It's a wage theft problem, dressed up as a self-improvement industry so nobody has to ask why the paycheck stopped being enough.

[Nell Kenning @NellKenning]

@prairiehsewife @mangomorango She's spent most of her life looking after other people. Now her life is her own and she can do what she wants, which isn't continuing to look after other people. Get over it, get a babysitter, let your mum have her own life at last.

[Nell Kenning @NellKenning]

@Coliban @SamaHoole It wasn't free. What are you talking about. We paid the milkman in cash once a week.
You're not even English don't speak on matters you know nothing of.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Just a reminder that there is a city in Europe where Russian drones hunt civilians 24/7.

[Nell Kenning @NellKenning]

@LuzTeresaPiedra Making a contribution to household bills and food that you yourself use is not the same as charging rent on a room.
If you rent a room bills can be included in the rent or are an additional charge on the renter.
This whole situation is BS

[Gemma Matthews @Gtilleymatthews]

Good morning, it’s been just about a year since I created my embroidery, Into the unknown, so I thought it was worth a look back… Please feel free to delve into all the foliage! 😉🪡🌿🌺
*completely freehand, no patterns or paints just threads. #stitchedart #thesewingsongbird

[The Rev. Anton Mittens 🌹👮🎓 @MittensOff]

That's bravery right there, standing up to an aggressive thug and his mates. Source - England 'Til I Die a Channel 4 documentary focusing on the community divisions and anti-immigration protests in Crowborough, East Sussex.

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

Here's the very first 'find the...' photo I made just under a yr ago. There's a miniscule silver plated stag hidden among the small autumnal finds.
Spending time looking at my photo will help your mental health in 4 different ways:
😍If you find the photo pleasing that'll trigger a burst of dopamine in your 🧠
👀scanning your eyes to look for the stag will help with trauma (really)
🌿the botanical patterns will help you recover from stress more quickly
🦌when you find the stag you'll get another burst of dopamine.
Quite a few good things in one snap of things that fell off trees...

[Nell Kenning @NellKenning]

@Qi_ra997 I don't want to talk about it 😔

[Mr. Nobody @MmisterNobody]

A pack of aging white guys with maybe a decade left are torching the Earth for a pile of money they will never get to spend, and everyone just shrugs like that is normal.

[CrémantCommunarde #GreenTransitionNow💚 @0Calamity]

I'm going to say this again in clear, simple terms so there can be no equivocation:
Prior to Brexit, immigrants very rarely came to the UK in small boats because it is an extremely dangerous mode of transport. They came in lorries. Organised smuggling gangs knew that because there was free movement of goods between EU countries that there was a high chance that a lorry concealing immigrants would not be searched.
I am sure you all remember that terrible case of a lorry-load of migrants from China and Vietnam that was abandoned in Essex. 31 men and 8 women died.
The onset of Brexit meant that gradually, from approx 2018 onwards, more and more stringent checks began being carried out on lorries, as well as increased security at ferry ports - even Newhaven-Dieppe are surrounded with high barbed wire security fences, and every vehicle leaving Dieppe is opened and checked, so I imagine it must be pretty much the same at Calais and Boulogne as well.
We have no idea how many people a year arrived in the UK unlawfully by lorry. The reason for this is because they were literally untrackable. Occasionally you would see a lorry stopped by the M2 or the M25 with a handful of people standing behind the safety barrier while the police had the blue lights on. But they certainly could not track what they didn't know about.
The likelihood is that there were a great many more people getting into the country. The overwhelming majority of them would disappear into the undergrowth, never to be seen again until either
a) they committed an offence
b) they were caught in raids working illegally
c) they either walked into a police station to claim asylum almost immediately or
d) they popped over the parapet several years later because they wanted to regularise their status, either by marrying, or because they had children, or under the Long Residence rules - it used to be 15 years but is now 20 years. If you can prove you have been in the UK continuously for 20 years and have otherwise kept your nose clean, you are entitled to limited leave to remain. Eventually you might get settlement after 30 years - again, if you can prove you have always been in the country in that time. You will not get nationality if you entered the country illegally these days, though, unless you can show that there is something exceptional about your contribution to society.
The small boats are different. The small boats are highly visible. The small boats - and their passengers - are very easy to spot, and very easy for the Coastguard and Border Force to track. A man from the BBC used to spend all his time stood on a cliff counting them post-Brexit.
Yes, there will be the occasional one that slips through undetected. But that is the opposite of the way it was with lorry smuggling, where it was the occasional one that was actually detected, and the majority slipping through un-noticed.
The irony of Farage, Lowe, Robinson, Tommo and all the other far-right screechers claiming we are unsafe because of "fighting age men" arriving on these boats is hilarious if it wasn't so desperate. When the boats arrive, every person is fingerprinted, screened and vetted as best we can, although another irony of Brexit is we no longer have automatic access to Europol except if we have grounds to suspect someone is a criminal rather than just an asylum seeker, so well done Brexit for that as well.
Also, as we are no longer party to what's called the Dublin Agreement, whereas before we could make an application to France to take them back, and take responsibility for the asylum claim, now we are out of the EU we can't do that either.
But at least we know who is here, we have their fingerprints, and we know who they are.
In short, we are arguably safer from the "fighting age men" now that at any time in the past 30-odd years. The numbers are reducing. The numbers of crossings are reducing.
I hold no candle for Labour these days, but at least they are processing the backlog the Tories (deliberately?) built up and those who don't have the right here are being deported as well.
Boris Johnson is as full of shit as he always was.
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