Cherry blossom orchard with people using the many swings, and taking pictures .
🌱on the last afternoon of the school holidays, hundreds of people with children and dogs flocked to enjoy the last of the blossom in the Alnwick Gardens cherry orchard. Japanese music and lanterns. A real buzz, which was pretty cool.
Photo shows a heap of older style phones with the text “Planned obsolescence is now outlawed in France. It is a crime to intentionally reduce the lifespan of a product to force customers to replace it.”
Love France 🇫🇷 They understand the importance of the battery life of a Nokia 3310
Fun fact that lying UK journalistic hacks won’t tell you because they hate Labour: Boris Johnson did not pass vetting when Theresa May appointed him Foreign Secretary. #UKPolitics
for an idea of how big a deal this is, my mom was in great shape when she got diagnosed and she lasted less than sixty days. six years is insane.
Woman in Deptford: If the people in your life ain't good for you darlin' don't keep 'em in it.
I’m a boomer, bucking the trend. I did a degree in Philosophy and Psychology with the OU in my 50s. I learned about critical thinking, which was not taught at school. My voting is ‘situational’ but progressive. This article reflects the weird fear my neighbours express, and their camera doorbells.
The UK PM has co-chaired a meeting 51 nations, along with the President of France, on the topic of the Strait of Hormuz & the freedom of navigation.
Isn't it great to have a PM who leads on these matters, works with the international community and work to make things better for the UK & the world?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The rich overwhelmingly back fascism if they rightly believe that will protect their wealth..the hate and violence is of zero concern to them, after all we are just worker ants to them, they see our role as to toil and if necessary die for their benefit
A nice reminder from Ember, using British data. Wind and solar are complementary. Our system works best when you have both, each calling on their own strengths in terms of generation patterns.
If either struggles to grow like it should, we end up with a more expensive, slower fossil phase-out
⚡️UK transfers about 1 billion dollars in frozen Russian assets to Ukraine.
The United Kingdom has transferred 752 million pounds (about 1 billion dollars) in frozen Russian assets to Ukraine, Ukraine's Finance Ministry said April 15.
The Daily Mail poll about whether the UK should re-join the European Union did not go according to plan.
Excellent read 💪🇨🇦
“The most powerful economic boycott in modern history is being conducted by people in sensible parkas who say sorry when you bump into them. They’re not angry. They’re not loud. They’re just gone”
Oh look. Another list of all the things the government are achieving. I don’t know when they actually get to sleep. This is hard work and perseverance in action. Not just chatter.
Well fuck off then.
🌱⚘️Apparently today is aphid on the roses day. Yay!
Sign saying "Frog mouthed wanker" on a wire fence
So Nigel Farage popped over to Shetland and it went well for him.
I’m glad Reeves and Starmer aren’t sitting on their hands whilst learning our growth is taking a hit thanks to Trump.
Like responsible leaders they’re fast tracking the reset with the EU.
That’s responsible leadership.
Glad we have them
It's the Toll Ships Race.
Close up view of forget-me-not blooms peeking out from under the cat mint.
🌱 After the daffs and primrose yellows, I get excited to see the blues of the humble Forget-me-not.
well I’m going to need this image for probably the rest of my internet life, however long that may be
Picture of a burning hillside where a warehouse used to be A California distribution warehouse for the consumer products of giant Kimberly-Clark burned to the ground on Tuesday and an employee has been taken into custody under suspicion of arson. The sixth alarm fire required 175 firefighters to contain. A video circulating online, reportedly taken by the agreed worker shows them setting fire to several pallets of toilet paper while calmly repeating "all you had to do was pay us enough to live."
"All you had to do was pay us enough to live"
Forces of capitalism, these are the Canaries in your coal mine.
Pay attention to them.
Might be important.
Just might be.
"All you had to do was pay us enough to live"
www.instagram.com/reel/DW412NV...
Peterol and diesel carmakers today might as well be investing in typewriters and rotary telephones.
The real headline: crypto crook (who pleaded guilty to breaking US money laundering rules) plans to try and buy UK politics www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
Clean, safe, cheap, renewable energy that you don't have to fight deadly wars or destroy the environment to get.
Good for wildlife, too, when done properly.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Good morning & welcome to Whiskers Wednesday
Some of the very best things don’t announce themselves, they simply arrive when the time is right.
* hopefully like a 3rd breakfast
France has sold off the last of its gold held in the US Federal Reserve and now holds all its gold in Paris.
German groups are now pressuring the government to repatriate its own gold.
Where ballots are held, a simple majority will now be enough. Before support had to be obtained from at least 40% of eligible members.
Our Labour government delivering real Labour policies to support workers get better deals!
2/2
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Me being asked to do anything productive on a Bank Holiday.
When someone says “at least you can get loads done today.”
Yes- lots of loafing hopefully
What’s everyone doing today — productivity or professional loafing?
Tesco could pay every worker an extra £10,000 and still make a profit.
British Gas could pay every worker an extra £35,000 and still make a profit.
Shell could pay every worker an extra £300,000 and still make a profit.
It is the billionaires who are ripping you off.
