Happy poetry day xx

Ahem.

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

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This was so incredibly well played - a team for us all to be well and thoroughly proud of. 🐻

Love this , have a great weekend xx

30 years since this happened (28 since I wrote about it). I still recall that wonderful tree and the generosity of my patient in her final illness. www.bmj.com/content/315/...

Everyone should be held to the same standards.

@mushen.bsky.social @alisonbee.bsky.social @chris-dlamini.bsky.social Never Forget. Goodnight from Arizona. 🌙

💔 Fred Guttenberg whose daughter died in the 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting

I changed my starter word to crone after my 60th already pay back yesterday on quordle ! My other starter word still hasn’t been used 😂

Happy hump day xx

Ahem. 😎

So true 💜

"Every Brexit supporting voter expressing their frustration about levels of migration really need to take a long hard look at this graph. The change occurred with Brexit, Farage & Johnson. Architects of Reform created this situation, they will not bring stability only more chaos..." via Jon Taylor

Best wishes to GCSE students getting their results today. Whether your grades are neat or tangled, remember: the world is wide, and yours to discover. 🍀

This short Twitter exchange illustrates perfectly just how far the Tories have fallen compared to even a few years ago...

I really like this poem by Brian Bilston. I first came across it on twitter (when it was still a good site) Please read it right to the bottom...

@lawschoolonline.bsky.social good morning happy weekend eve and hope tech is kinder to you today xxx

Best wishes to students getting their results today. Whether your grades are high, low, or politely in the middle, remember: the world is waiting to be astonished by you.🎉

#speirgorm #booksky 📚 #writingcommunity 📚

Happy Swiss National Day 🇨🇭🧀❤️

So true what a strange two weeks am in two funerals of friends sandwiching in a big birthday - discombobulating. Take care lovely phone friends xx

Happy hump day xxx

Have a lovely weekend take care on this heat xx

Connections Puzzle #762 🟩🟨🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨

🚨 Calling all academics, policy professionals and individuals with lived experience: share your thoughts on the future of sentencing ⏰ Deadline for submissions: 11 July, 2025 ✍️ Articles, commentaries and blog-style pieces welcome www.criminaljusticealliance.org/blog/call-fo...

with awww.independent.ie/business/technology/microsoft-to-lay-off-irish-staff-as-part-of-9000-job-cuts-worldwide/a316042257.html

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Have a great start to your week blue skyers xxx

Such a brilliant design xx

Connections Puzzle #744 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Having not done connections for a few days this one needed little translation 🤣

Good morning have a lovely start to your week more useful words ! 🤣xxx

Happy hump Day blue skyers, some underused words I thought I would share ! 😃

Have a lovely start to your week Blue Skyers xxx

Good news etsc.eu/20mph-limits...

Have a lovely start to your week blue skyers xxx

😱https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/07/us/trump-federal-agencies-websites-words-dei.html

Happy weekend eve eve blue skaters xx

Incredibly proud of middle child film nominated in 5 categories and they won best budget film @romfordfilmfestival thank you xx

Just to say there's a bit of a move on Twitter to put in a Gary Lineker vote in the TV awards 'Presenter' category... nationaltvawards.com/vote/thanks

Disinformation straight from the White House.

@wrenkh.bsky.social good morning xxx

Puffins at sunset anyone?

Jeez. The Trump administration is “looking at” ways to suspend habeas corpus, a Constitutional right that allows a person to challenge government detention, as a way to assist President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda Heaven help America www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I've updated my Useful Insults. I'd hoped that we wouldn't be needing insults so much. But with the bewigged trumpeter in the USA & the UK govt.+ various others... Most definitions came via the brilliant Susie Dent. If anyone wants a credit for their original word, tell me so I can add a reference