Good morning and welcome to Tippetty Tap Tap Thursday
Sometimes we spend far too much time worrying about things we simply can’t control
Today gently shift that energy into what you can influence,your actions, your mindset your kindness
That’s where the real difference is made
This might be my favorite angle of all 🤩😍 thanks!
I can't stop smiling, what an end😊 👌
Unbelievable
Arteta, we are all you in that moment 😭♥️
Time to get up #sophiefromromania and tell everyone to sign the #parkypetition100K ! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
5:45 and the #parkypetition100k needs another 70 signatures by 8:20 to hit its daily target! Get signing please petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Really happy for him 👌
North London Forever after Arsenal are crowned Champions League winners. ❤️
Feeling a bit gutted and sad. Love the team. Can't and don't want to do the analysis right now.
Just to bang this drum again but I don’t think we could have asked for much more in terms of how we played that half. Another half like that, perhaps fractionally tidier, and whatever happens happens.
What a night, what a performance from this far from 100% team, one of the great European nights at the Emirates.
Declan Rice has produced two of the greatest free kicks you'll ever see at this level, and we 100% deserved that third goal too.
Incredible. This team deserves so much love. #arsenal
You will not see a better free kick than that from Declan Rice. The distance from goal and the amount of bend. Incredible.
A Sunday morning in May 2004. The final 'The Premiership' airs on ITV. A montage of the invincible season is played accompanied by show song 'U2 - Beautiful Day'.
Simpler times, such memories, take me back.
So pleased for Joe Willock
I will be on Today on @bbcradio4.bsky.social at 0740 explaining that whatever the latest theory is, I do understand #sophiefromromania and what her mood is!
Zoe Williams argues that fascism's gradual arrival induces a sense of paralysis (The new world order is exactly what it looks like. Are we too frozen with fear to name it?, 17 February). Her words immediately brought to mind the "smoky room experiment". In this study, when a person is alone in a room that begins to fill with smoke, three-quarters raise the alarm within minutes. Yet, when surrounded by others who remain passive, only 10% take action. This is the "bystander effect", identified by Latané and Darley in the 1970s, which reveals how a silent, unresponsive crowd can stifle our instincts - even when our own lives are at stake. I often reference this experiment when discussing climate change, urging people to voice their fears to friends and colleagues. The same principle applies when fascism begins to creep in around us. Trusting your instincts, naming the threat and sharing your fears isn't just cathartic - it's empowering. It might even save your life. Dr Caroline Vincent London
• Zoe Williams is so right. I worked as a psychotherapist at the Holocaust Survivors' Centre in Hendon from 1990 to 2000. For 10 years I listened to my clients talking about their experiences of a world that turned from normal to nightmare in a matter of months. They survived Auschwitz and other death camps while their families were murdered by the Nazi death process. This kind of work leaves one with a very clear and specific understanding of fascism and nazism. When we watched Donald Trump's inauguration, and witnessed Elon Musk parading Hitler-like around the stage before throwing his arm into the air in that familiar salute, I was dumbstruck for a brief moment. I thought, wait a minute, has he just made a Nazi salute? I had to rewatch three times before my brain would allow me to fully recognise it for what it was. This was the moment I knew the Trump train had lurched into a new order. Zoe Williams is right. We can't stand by and watch, incredulous. We need to say loudly what this is. Paul Goldreich Eastbourne, East Sussex
“When fascism begins to creep in around us…. Trusting your instincts, naming the threat and sharing your fears isn't just cathartic - it's empowering. It might even save your life.”
No excuses. No equivocation. We call it what it is. And them what they are.
Very good letters in @theguardian.com
And her happiness at getting praise and a stroke from Diane. Lovely stuff Sophie 👌
That's good to hear.
I hope you are ok?
Please RT: I was run over by a taxi on the north junction of London Bridge (in front of the Wolseley City) around 5.45pm this evening. Knocked off my bike.
There were a lot of witnesses. If you saw it, please get in touch.
A magpie nest, completely made out of anti-bird spikes. A bunker for birds, some 1500 metal spikes guarded the young birds inside. (Collected after the breeding season)
The picture that almost got me arrested. Three security cameras with on each camera a single strip of anti-bird spike. I thought it was funny - the police did not.
Few people know that studying anti-bird spikes almost got me arrested. 👮
I snapped this picture of carefully placed spikes on security cameras at a London train station—just because I thought it looked funny. Within seconds I was surrounded by police.
They didn’t find it funny. 😬 1/5
#birds 🧪🪶
Morning Sophie. That's a happy tail😊
Night night sweet dreamies
Breathe deeply and fully.
Allow your stress to exit with each exhale.
Days pass, moods fade, things can and will get better.
Here's some Handbrake Off pod to go with the goalfest. With @ianstonecomedy.bsky.social and @adrianjclarke.bsky.social, talking as calmly and routine low key as you would expect.
pod.fo/e/2a7f49
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🎶 KAI HAVERTZ SCORES AGAIN! 🎶
