Victoria Thomas

Mum of 2 | Deferred archaeology student @OxfordConted | #longcovid sufferer | PhD in Linguistics @OfficialUoM | 🇬🇧 with 🇩🇪 🇱🇹 🇮🇪 heritage | ✝️

[Lynn Nothegger @Lynn_Nothegger]

The problem with German compound nouns is AI doesn’t always know how to separate them into their individual components. This might be the best incorrect translation I’ve ever seen.

[Victoria Thomas @quirkycase]

@annettedittert Such a brilliant report, thank you. Eagerly awaiting the English version so I can share it more widely in the UK.

[Victoria Thomas @quirkycase]

@campbellclaret @SadiqKhan Big fan of yours @campbellclaret but as a linguist you should know better than being prescriptivist! Here’s a very old blog post I wrote about less vs fewer, tl;dr less + count noun has been around in English since c.800AD https://t.co/JR1BBUphGY‘incorrectness’/

[Victoria Thomas @quirkycase]

I really enjoy reading Matthew Johnson’s books, so lucid, so well explained, they make me think about things I haven’t considered before. It isn’t easy writing books like that! #weekendreading #landscapearchaeology #Archaeology

[Victoria Thomas @quirkycase]

I went to university with @ClaireCoutinho . She was the year above me at Exeter College, Oxford. We weren’t friends, but she always seemed kind, cool, and clever. I am so disappointed she has turned out to parrot the same old party lines for her own apparent gain.

[Victoria Thomas @quirkycase]

🚨#MashallahKarami🚨 is being tortured into making false confessions by the Islamic Republic and needs our help! His son was already executed by this ruthless regime. Say his name (and the name of his imprisoned lawyer, #AmirHosseinKohkan), to save their lives!

[Victoria Thomas @quirkycase]

🚨 URGENT 🚨 #MashallahKarami needs our help! @CarolineLucas @SarahJolney1 @HNeumannMEP @AbirAlsahlani @YeOne_Rhie @LiaQaurtapelle @HBrandstaetter, we ask that you please politically sponsor #MashallahKarami & his imprisoned lawyer, #AmirHosseinKohkan

[Jonathan Lis @jonlis1]

Genuinely shameless. Sunak effectively ditches the UK’s entire plan for countering climate change and promises it won’t have any effect in delivering our climate commitments. It’s like watching the Leave campaign all over again except this time it’s about future life on earth.

[Annette Dittert  @annettedittert]

Suank totally incoherent here. How can you claim you're still committed to net zero by 2050 if you are abandoning the steps to actually achieve it. Hopeless. #NetZero

[Victoria Thomas @quirkycase]

We've been failed. The collapse of @ThamesWater and the inability of @Ofwat to properly regulate the water industry shows we need a new system. Sign the petition and demand an independent public inquiry into our water system: https://t.co/f1S8QRiD7I

[Alec MacGillis @AlecMacGillis]

Wow: all 750,000 Germans turning 18 this year get 200 euro to spend on any cultural good: concerts, theater, movies, musical instruments, books, records etc. It'll cost 100 million euro and is given in recognition of what young people lost during pandemic.
https://t.co/xU8sOFXkIL

[Victoria Thomas @quirkycase]

In two weeks, the 63 central banks will meet to decide the rules on fossil fuel investments for banks worldwide. We need to make sure they listen to the people and adopt new financial rules that put people and planet over fossil profits. Sign the petition https://t.co/xeCokz7zqz

[Victoria Thomas @quirkycase]

Next Wed, MPs are debating a project that would breach the UK’s climate targets & threaten our only shot at a liveable future -the Rosebank oil field.
It’s a key moment to firm up MPs' opposition to this disaster. Please mail your MP & ask them to attend
https://t.co/j8hudXlh7K

[Victoria Thomas @quirkycase]

Wow, this is quite the 🧵

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

Hundreds and hundreds of people were deliberately left to drown yesterday. That is where this dehumanisation leads us.

We will always see death & suffering following this government & others across Europe’s approach. We must force a change in policy if we want to end it #r4today

[Andrew Stroehlein @astroehlein]

Mass deaths at sea are to the EU what mass shootings are to the US.

- It keeps happening.

- And every time, politicians pretend to be concerned.

- And every time, politicians keep in place the government policies at the root of the problem.

- And it keeps happening.

[Victoria Thomas @quirkycase]

My MP @robertcourts has supported Johnson throughout, despite many of us writing to him and informing him of his many flaws

[Anna Soubry 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺🖤🤍 @Anna_Soubry]

Everyone with a Conservative MP should be questioning them as to their record of support for Johnson over the last 7 years.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

13 June 1937 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Naomi Plattner, was born.

In June 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

[Femi @Femi_sorry]

I'm always asked "What can I do to help?"

1⃣ Discuss politics with everyone you can; explain the link between politics & their lives.

2⃣ Make sure they register to vote, and know about the new voter ID law.

3⃣ Get them to follow well-sourced accounts on the platforms they use.