Boys and girls and cartoon dogs,
The baby food fundraiser was closed in record time!
I will be travelling to Ukraine sometime next week, to buy the food.
Also, the playground fundraiser is still going on, so you might want to keep this in mind.
Here is the math:
Raised: 6,419.56 eur
Left to raise: 4,580.44 eur
If you are still interested in bringing joy to Ukrainian orphans and want to join the mission, all info is available in the quoted tweet.
⚡ Today we charge KRAKEN
Join the raffle and win a signed flag from KRAKEN’s FPV sector.
67 tickets total.
€15 = 1 ticket.
Each ticket comes with a KRAKEN sticker pack.
When all tickets are gone today - anonymous supporter adds another €500.
Details below ⬇️
Nie głosowałam na Nawrockiego, jak połowa Polski. Podziwiałam Ukraińców w czasie pomarańczowej rewolucji, podczas Majdanu i teraz tym bardziej.
Życzę Wam zwycięstwa i obyśmy pozostali przyjaciółmi. Wstyd mi za tego prezydenta.
🇵🇱❤️🇺🇦
Today was another step in preparing for the walk.
One of the things I tested? A shower in a bag.
Soon, I'll be leaving #Kyiv's Independence Square and walking all the way to #Kramatorsk City Hall.
This isn't just a personal challenge.
It's a mission to raise funds for my battalion and to keep Donbas in the minds of Ukrainians and our friends around the world.
Donate here:
https://t.co/6d3TNP169B
A journey like this isn't just about putting one foot in front of the other. Every kilometer depends on preparation.
Between my military duties, I've been researching gear, testing equipment, planning routes, and packing supply boxes that I'll send ahead along the way so I can carry only what I truly need.
Some ideas work better than others. Some things have to be tested before you're relying on them hundreds of kilometers from home. That's why today's experiment was seeing whether a shower in a bag can help keep me clean when there won't always be access to proper facilities.
Over the next weeks, I'll be sharing the reality of preparing for this walk: the successes, the mistakes, the gear tests, the logistics, and the challenge of balancing all of it while still working to get my soldiers what they need at the front.
If you have questions, ask them. If you have useful advice from hiking, endurance events, military service, or long-distance travel, I'd love to hear it. (And yes, I've already heard "don't do it" and "get some rest" more times than I can count.)
This walk is about more than distance. It's about reminding people that the war is still here, that Donbas still matters, and that the soldiers defending it have not been forgotten.
#StandWithUkraine
New account. Same Christine.
After my account was compromised, I'm starting over. Thank you to everyone who offered advice and helped spread the word. Special thanks to @tanyawoz4 for keeping me updated and passing along messages.
Missed you all. Much love.
💙💛
Open letter to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer
Dear Prime Minister,
I am writing as a Labour supporter who is deeply concerned by the growing pressure surrounding your leadership, but also as someone who has developed a genuine admiration for the way you conduct yourself.
What I respect most about you is your seriousness.
You are not a political showman. You do not rely on constant drama, easy slogans or theatrical promises. You come across as disciplined, intelligent, decent and deeply conscious of the responsibility that comes with leading the country.
In an age when politics is increasingly dominated by noise, outrage and personality cults, your calmness is a strength.
Your resilience is also admirable. You have faced relentless criticism, personal attacks and an often hostile media environment, yet you have continued to behave with dignity. You rarely lash out. You do not appear consumed by ego. You keep returning to the work.
That matters to me.
Britain has already endured years of political chaos, revolving-door prime ministers and governments more interested in internal warfare than governing. The country does not need another leadership contest. It needs stability, seriousness and delivery.
You were elected with a mandate to govern. You inherited damaged public services, weak growth, overcrowded prisons, an NHS under enormous pressure and public trust worn down by fourteen years of Conservative government. None of that can be repaired overnight.
I hope you will remain Prime Minister and continue the work until the next general election in 2029.
Labour MPs should understand that removing you now could trigger weeks of division, uncertainty and damaging promises made during a leadership contest. The press would feed on the chaos, financial markets could react, and Nigel Farage and Reform would be handed exactly the political instability they want.
This is not the time for Labour to imitate the Conservative Party.
I also believe your personality is better suited to this difficult period than many people appreciate. You are methodical rather than impulsive, measured rather than reckless, and focused on governing rather than performing.
Those qualities may not always generate exciting headlines, but they are the qualities a serious Prime Minister needs.
Leadership is not only about popularity. It is about character.
It is about remaining calm when others panic, showing discipline when others chase attention, and continuing the difficult work when the noise becomes unbearable.
Please hold the line.
Many Labour supporters still believe in your integrity, your determination and your sense of duty. Britain needs less political theatre and more delivery, and you deserve the opportunity to complete the job the country elected Labour and you to do.
Yours sincerely,
Thomas Soede
In case you plan on playing the “wait for their response” game, today’s strike on Moscow WAS a response. For Ukraine’s holiest place bombed. And for dozens of cities & towns razed to the ground. And for 20 thousand kids kidnapped. And for 700 kids dead. And…
They say moscow has the highest level of support for the so-called “special military operation.”
Check back by the end of the summer. Something tells us those poll numbers may change.
French President Emmanuel Macron pulls off what could be the greatest diplomatic troll of all time by getting Trump to sign the "$300 Billion US Surrender to Iran" deal in... Versailles. The ignoramus Trump will have been clueless as to the historical significance of the location
Well, for once, Twitter has done something rather amazing.
We haven’t sold 100 ties in 24 hours…
We have actually sold 1000 TIES in LESS THAN 24 hours, raising over £10,000 for the British Hedgehog Preservation Society!
Thank you all, sincerely. I am shocked.
Before & After…
If anyone doubts the power of community action over the @EnvAgency’s spineless inertia, you can walk to the outskirts of Ilford & walk along an ancient lost river to see for yourself.
With 10 days of intense effort by dedicated volunteers, the river River Roding Trust managed to clean up & restore 250 metres of the Aldersbrook (about 1/3 of the brook). This allows a direct comparison between the parts of the brook we restored & those we haven’t got round to yet.
These photos & videos are all from May 2026. The first is on a part of the Aldersbrook still to be restored & shows the old flood defences which are no longer needed & are killing the river but which the EA won’t remove unless we volunteers pay them £50,000 just for surveys. These defences have caused 2-3ft of stinking sludge & silt to build up over 70 years, such that the water in the brook is just a few centimetres deep. Combine with huge amounts of rubbish & and out of control knotweed infestation & the river ecosystem is essentially dead. A river that is older than England destroyed by official indifference.
A hundred metres away, and it’s a different story. The rubbish & the invasive species (I sprayed the knotweed myself last autumn) are gone. The silt that used to clog the river is now spread on the banks & rapidly providing fertile ground for native plants. Instead of sludge, there’s 2-3ft of water, so fish have returned to the brook for the first time in decades, along with dragon flies, herons & a nesting moorhen. We river guardians knew our intervention would make a difference, but have been shocked at quite how quickly nature has come back. The restored Aldersbrook is now a rare jewel: pretty much the last fully natural tidal brook in London.
The EA now has a choice. It can salvage some good from this situation & work with us to restore the remaining sections of the brook, or it can continue to do nothing. If the latter, river guardians *will* be back this winter to finish the job & the EA can see how well prosecuting volunteers for restoring a river without permission goes for them.
As part of our funding to our aid partners SOTA, they have undertaken a number of initiatives to support children recently;
🗣️”We organised a picnic for more than 140 children of Strizhava boarding school and transferred help in the form of school supplies and toys.
It was a day of joy, sincere smiles and warm emotions for children who so need attention and care 💛
Many thanks ❤️ to our partners from France 🇫🇷 Agir Ensemble Pour l'Ukraine and from the UK 🇬🇧 Surrey Stands With Ukraine for their support and help. It's because of you we can give children these happy moments 🤝
United we are invincible 💙💛”
#wedontstop 🇺🇦🇬🇧