Nell 🐦

Zoo vet. Spends evenings writing letters in attempt to get goldfish banned from local fairs. Views are those of Maz Kanata.

[Adam Bienkov @AdamBienkov]

So it turns out they spent £715 million on sending a grand total of FOUR volunteers to Rwanda.

For comparison, this is more than you could expect to spend on building an entire brand new hospital in the UK

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Water is life - yet here in Britain, right now - it's on life support.

England’s rivers are contaminated by a chemical cocktail of raw sewage, agricultural run off and chemical pollutants

What kind of a legacy is this to pass on to our children and our grandchildren? We have got to do something about this, we need to do it now and we need to do it TOGETHER

That’s why on Sunday 3rd of November I’ll be joining people from all walks of life from right across the country to march on Westminster to demand change, to demand action to end the pollution of our waterways

This is a public health emergency and TOGETHER we must demand the new government enforce the current law and deliver new legislation that will restore our rivers, our waterways and seas to full health by 2030

So let’s get this done - not just for ourselves but for our children and our grandchildren

So please Join the march this November - See you there!
@MarchforWater @RiverActionUK

[Sacha Coward @sacha_coward]

Next on the Queer Of Folklore tour is the aptly named Folkestone on Thursday!!
📚 🧜🏼‍♂️📚☠️📚🦇📚
See you there?
https://t.co/WeC9V4p2Hq

[James Armstrong @PoliticoTeacher]

These Just Stop Oil actions are part of a noble history of protest.

The Suffragettes are lauded today with statues in Parliament Square, but at the time they were regarded with contempt, and they didn't throw soup on paintings protected by glass, they slashed & damaged them.

[Britain People @Britain_People]

🔴LUDICROUS: SOUTHERN WATER plan to ship water from Norwegian fjords to UK

▪️Contingency plan using sea tankers to deal with future shortages would be paid for from customers’ bills

▪️@SouthernWater customers, this is why your water bill is going up 44%. @Ofwat approved it.

So, Southern Water which loses millions of litres of water every day through leaks is planning to ship in water by tanker from Norway to the UK. The plan — which the Environment Agency and Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs need to sign off — will require £70million spent to build docking facilities to receive the water and £5million each year it is used. Southern Water has been allowed to raise its bills by 44 per cent over the next five years, which equates to £183, by water regulator Ofwat. Southern Water is among the worst offenders for serious pollution incidents, and was fined £90million in 2021 for nearly 7,000 unpermitted sewage discharges. Southern Water is the worst company for leakages and loses 107 million litres of water — around 19 per cent of its total water supply — through leaky pipes each day.

@GreenJennyJones @Feargal_Sharkey

[Prof. Christina Pagel - @chrischirp.bsky.social @chrischirp]

Prof @Kevin_Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020.

The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope.
Please watch this 2min clip.

[Charlotte Church @charlottechurch]

On Saturday at the March for Palestine I led the crowd to sing “Yma o hyd” (“still here” in Cymraeg) and “Sumud” (“steadfast perseverance” in Palestinian) together

And above those beautiful voices I sang this poem by Ukranian-Jewish-Puerto Rican poet Aurora Levins Morales:

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

WE GOT THE WIN ON CHILD BENEFIT!
Chancellor tipped me off before budget, said this was due in large to MSE/my shows campaigning all based on all those of your who messaged me to say it was the key thing to put to him

So
1) From this April threshold which hasn't moved since 2013 rises from a single parent earning £50,000 to £60,000 and you lose child benefit totally at £80,000 (not £60,000)
2) Consultation on moving it to family income not individual income and hopefully that'll be in place from April 2026 (this is to stop unfairness for single income/single parent) families.

#Budget2024 #BudgetXplanations

[John Wiswell @Wiswell]

you KNIT miette? you KNIT her body like the football? oh! oh! shroud for mother! shroud for mother for One Thousand Years!

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Our street trees are facing a growing threat from greedy insurers making money by blaming trees for subsidence, rather than spending money on actually repairing their customers’ homes. A key way to fight this is consumer pressure: boycotting insurers that needlessly destroy trees

[Asher 🏴‍☠️ @scallyfagg]

@deathbybadger I understand gender like I understand the office (based off of context clues alone the concept is just awful)

[Oliver Darkshire 🌈 @deathbybadger]

imo you have to take a gen 1-4 pokemon approach to leftism, you dont expect all of them to go to the gym, some are only in the party to use Surf, magikarp only knows splash and we love them anyway, but you *do* make sure you bring a roided charizard to the league

[Oliver Darkshire 🌈 @deathbybadger]

ODIN: thank you everyone for coming
THOR: is this about loki
ODIN: that's not very charitable of you
ODIN: anyway yes its about loki
ODIN: hes given birth to an eight legged horse
BALDUR: gross
ODIN: we ARE keeping it but loki IS back in his cell
LOKI: can i ask a question

[Ragged Trousered Philanderer @RaggedTP]

The moving speech of Harry Leslie Smith to the Labour Party Conference reminding people of what life was like before the NHS when working class people suffered and died in agony in their own homes for want of money to pay for treatment.

[c 🥀🥀🥀 @anddreadful]

Ursula Le Guin going the fuck off on the fantasy genre

[Philippe Lazzarini @UNLazzarini]

In my 35 years of work in complex emergencies, I never have expected to write such a letter, predicting the killing of my staff & the collapse of the mandate I am expected to fulfill #Gaza

[Colin the Dachshund @DachshundColin]

"The bad news is we're cutting your benefits. The good news is my kids won't have to pay inheritance tax."

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

Perhaps we should also solve the problem of cancer by banning cancer wards.