Excellent financial literacy expert Wendy Grace has some great financial knowledge to share in a way that makes sense to even the most maths averse (me). Have a listen to us talking cold, hard cash on the latest @standardissueuk.bsky.social episode. open.spotify.com/episode/3YDX...
Award-winning podcast @drunkwomenpod.bsky.social is about to double its episodes – the perfect excuse for @micksternoonan.bsky.social to get @taylorglenn.bsky.social
and Hannah George on to talk about crime, drinking, and US presidents.
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Our Hannah is outside Westminster, showing her support with Not Dead Yet UK, Liz Carr and a whole load of others, as MPs discuss the #AssistedDyingBill, hopefully with the interests of the disability community in mind. Our woman on the ground says it's a great turnout and positive atmosphere.
Etymology of the day: before a tapering piece of hanging ice was called an ‘icicle’ it was an ‘ickle’. In the Middle Ages people decided to add ‘ice’ for extra oomph and (tautologically) called it an ‘ice ickle’, until the two words eventually blended together.
Our @micksternoonan.bsky.social's written this week's
Bush Telegram, and she's talking about great shows to see, dogs on Farage, and why Bono needs to back off. #Substack open.substack.com/pub/standard...
I want to hear this headline and standfirst in David Attenborough's voice. www.livescience.com/animals/orca...
Our @micksternoonan.bsky.social's got a Girls Aloud earworm* and it's all @lizbuckley.bsky.social's fault. Our resident music guru is back – and she's brought some bona fide pop legends with her. But who's looking after her cat?
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*Biology. Obviously.
Seems like a nice place to share this, innit. Brought to my attention by the excellent @jenoff.bsky.social.
Now in my 31st year of leaving the house and asking anyone who’ll listen if they’ve got their keys AND the secret
Please don't call what RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya are going to do medieval. It's not medieval. It's nothing like the Middle Ages. People in the Middle Ages were happy to try all kinds of things to not die of the plague and if you'd given them antibiotics and vaccines they would have loved it.
Oh, this is amazing! I've immediately told the boys about their name twins. Ghosts must be shitting themselves. Thanks for sharing! [Mickey]
Please spare a thought for James Dyson, the Brexit-voting billionaire who bought up 33,000 acres of farmland to avoid tax then moved his business to Singapore. He's the real victim here.
Hannah, Jen, Sarah and Mick are all doing big smiles.
It's our 10th birthday this year! 🎂 🎈
So here's a special podcast, in which @micksternoonan.bsky.social, @jenoff.bsky.social and Hannah chat to the boss (@sarahmillican.bsky.social) about a decade of Standard Issue, why we started, and some of our highlights.
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