Bless the Muslim man who disarmed a terrorist shooter in Australia!

After years of being curious about my lineage, I finally received my ancestry results. Apparently I'm 12% Scottish Highlands cottage, 16% used bookstore, 9% October, 13% cat rescue, 11% rainswept cobblestone side street, 7% dimly-lit café in Prague, 17% scone, and 15% Oxford comma.

🚨 Muslim Migrant Hero risked his life to disarm a gunman murdering people at Bondi Beach, and undoubtedly saved lives 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 A headline Far Right anti migrant, Islamophobe Racists will choke on so please repost to share 🙏🏼👍🏼

Bloody Hell! @eastmidsrailway.bsky.social is an absolute disgrace. Our train - 5 carriages down from 10 - is dangerously overcrowded. Who cares about a New Timetable? Sort the current system out first.

#Caturday Tis the Season The happiest time of the year Purrfect 🌲🐾

Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more... 🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍

It’s the #Strictly semi-final at 6.35pm on BBC1! My liveblog is up and running, so please come and join me for flicking, kicking and frankly fab-u-lous build-up #scd #StrictlyComeDancing www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

I HAD TO RESEARCH THIS AND READ IT THREE TIMES. I CANNOT BELIEVE I LIVE IN A COUNTRY THAT DOES THIS. I AM SO ASHAMED. “The device was a special type that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had mandated the woman wear at all times, allowing the agency to track her”

So excited for the local #RelaxedPerformance of Panto coming up. Dick Whittington at De Montfort Hall on 30th Dec at 1pm & Cinderella at Loughborough Town Hall on 2nd Jan at 5.30pm. A more laid back atmosphere, no bangs or flashes, chill out areas, Social Stories provided beforehand & trained staff.

Friend has just sent me her 3yo daughter's first school report. She's in the nursery class of a very academic private school. It's a good report (although a whole page of A4 for a 3yo!) but says stuff like she does most parallel play - not fully socialised - & has had 'accidents' on 2 occasions &...

Oh Leonard! #TheArchers

FFS! Are there any flu jabs left anywhere in UK?! Have tried four pharmacies now, trying to get one for Fe. All have run out!

Innocent people end up in our criminal courts. Completely, terrifyingly innocent. And all that stands between them and losing everything is a fair trial. Politicians would do well to remember this when they tell us that justice is all about processing “criminals” swiftly.

@manclaw.bsky.social How's Island life?! Did the storm damage anything or did it blow itself out?

Does anyone have any experience of long-haul stopovers in Beijing? Son & friends are flying to Tokyo on Boxing Day. Had a 12-hr-ish stopover in Beijing. Beijing-Tokyo flight now altered by airline, leaving a 24hr stopover. Possibility that that means he'll need a visa?? Does that sound likely?

Also (same project), why would you hire an Access Consultant & then ignore 90% of what they (I!) say? #FrustratedAndConfusedOfLeicestershire

Why would you call a 2hr meeting to give comments & recommendations on a Strategy Document that was circulated a week ago for comments to be emailed in?

I don’t want Lawrence the Racist to die. I want him to live long enough to make a *grovelling* apology for his racism to the two women of colour who saved his life in the waiting room #thearchers

At @curveleicester.bsky.social for a cheeky ##TheSoundOfMusic matinee. Other people do Cheeky Nandos. I do Cheeky Matinées, particularly when it's two weeks until Christmas & I am stressed & knackered to buggery!

Just three weeks to go until the #RelaxedPerformance of Cinderella at Loughborough Town Hall. 2nd Jan. 5.30pm. A laid back atmosphere, no bangs or flashes, trained staff, chill out spaces & a Social Story sent out ahead of time. Carers go free.

Happy to say the #audiobook of my debut novel #thedogwalkersdetectiveagency has been selected for an Apple Audio promotion, Winter Listens. For the month of December, it’s available for a special reduced price of £4.99. Your perfect pre-festive canine cosy crime fix! books.apple.com/gb/book/the-...

As well as cycle lanes we also need phone lanes. For those walking slowly on the pavement looking at their phones, so they don't get in the way of normal people who are shopping or going to work or the pub.

Gotta love a day which starts with feeling sick with tiredness, then Tom's taxi being 20mins late, all while negotiating an 8.30am meeting & planning 2 more meetings - next one starts in 10mins time. Still, managed that plus have a load of washing in, have wrapped 5 pressies & cleaned the bathroom

I used to be a Crisis volunteer. It was, indeed, a massive logistical undertaking. It was also where I learned to roll ciggies - decades before vapes, hundreds per day were handed out, rolled in our down time!

Lawrence and The Telegraph readership will be apoplectic about a black person and her child in Ambridge along with the Malik family and the vicar with a brown wife , facilitating a Muslim place of worship. 😱😱😱🙄 #TheArchers

AND her home is filthy and filled with infected people. So much worse than anything Jesus experienced in The Bible. #TheArchers

So, advice - I purchased, online, a v expensive bag for youngest. It hasn't arrived or, as far as I can tell, even been shipped. They said that I would have it within 5-7 working days - it has now been twice that and they are not answering emails & have disabled their online messaging board. Ideas?

If you think you're a leader, ask yourself, do other people try to engage in the discussion, or do they just let you speak? If it's the latter, you're not a leader. You're just loud. Other people have learned it isn't worth trying to join in.

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

If you are "moving at pace and breaking things" then I guarantee that 90% of the time you're creating issues for people further down the line to fix. This isn't the way to be operating as a human being unless you're knowingly choosing to be an arsehole.

“Do you still listen to #TheArchers ?” ‘Yeah, we have a Tweetalong thing, it’s fun’ “I might give it a go - what’s going on at the moment?” ‘Well, two characters have got the shits and we had to listen to someone’s annual appraisal’ “Ah.”

Either Akram leaves and Azra shacks up with someone else or they take over the tenancy of Esme's farm. #TheArchers

Dear America. Fuck off. Sincerely, Europe apple.news/AzotQVpkYQai...

Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.

This is definitely one for @michaelhogan100.bsky.social

We don’t do court reports, especially when it comes to violent crime, but there’s always an exception.

At least a quarter of space in every local authority area should be public access green space. If there are too many buildings, the council should remove planning permission and build a park. If there's just a lack of public access, the council should be able to grant it.

“It isn’t unusual for a former asylum seeker like Paddington to become British. In fact, 70% of all refugees granted asylum over ten years ago ultimately went on to naturalise as British. What are the requirements that Paddington must have fulfilled?” freemovement.org.uk/an-immigrati...

During the Xbox Partner Preview a couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of writing the #AudioDescription for the trailers that were included. Below is a thread with a few of my favorites! Tip: Enable the AD by selecting the Settings Cog, then set "English Descriptive" as the audio track!

Loving how well the Quiet Sessions are going at Leicester Ice Rink. Still five to go - 10th Dec, 14th Dec, 17th Dec, 21st Dec & 28th Dec. Far fewer people on the ice, no music or flashing lights, extra helpers, wheelchairs welcome on the ice & accessible loos available iceskateleicester.co.uk/send

As with everything he says, this is wildly uninformed. Formula keeps getting better and saves lives. And modern research indicates that outcomes are roughly the same. There are reasons to breastfeed but your child isn’t suffering if you don’t

This is a mainly US convo but can I just say....not every mother can breast feed, not every mother wants to breast feed, for some it just isn't the right thing to do. And that's ok! Stop with the pressure. Formula is ok. Whatever your baby thrives on is ok.

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.

If you have to change a significant number of the lyrics to suit the time of transmission, perhaps don't use the song #SCD #Strictly #StrictlyComeDancing

*sighs* Working on a Comms strategy for a project I'm doing with the council. First comment needs to be 'use a platform that is accessible to people who don't have council logins. Any time I try to print anything, (a) my laptop crashes, (b) my printer has a hissy fit & (c) I get a message....

Unhinged. US National Park Service removes free entry on Martin Luther King and Juneteenth (celebrates end of slavery) Day. Replaces with free entry on Trump's birthday. King Donald removes MLK & Juneteenth public holiday, replaces with flag day which is Trump's birthday. US Congress asleep.

For some older Jewish family - who aren't Reform voters but don't like Labour - having it on the record that he made explicitly antisemitic comments does make a difference.

You know that thing where you have a *really* bad dream & it stays with you for hours the next day, even when you've been awake for ages.....