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@HWarlow @AudreySuffolk So sorry for your loss Helen 🕊🕯

Good Morning Everyone Olivier Fischer French Watercolours artist ( Honfleur) Sad news I’m afraid Stee died this morning. I’m bereft. The nurses said it was sudden. I still need to tweet or I’ll go mad. Here and there and inbetween. I’ll tweet when I can. Helen and Max

Snoozing in the sun #Shetland

@HWarlow So sorry to hear this Helen. 💔

Good Afternoon Geoff Butterworth Lancashire Watercolours artist now deceased. Stee. He’s in a bad way perked up when he saw me … Heart failure, low blood pressure blocked bowel 6 weeks of having no physiotherapy . Im upset he didn’t get what he needed to help him walk

Bus Stop of The Day: Isle of Skye

It’s not @bbcdebatenight fault but this manel does not reflect well on Scottish politics although it is perhaps an reflection of how low a priority #WomensRights are for Scottish career politicians

@JohnSwinney I’m fed up of a Scottish Government which treats women like second class citizens.

I’m fed up with the Westminster system that means hard work delivers less and less, while people’s energy and food costs just keep going up. The fresh start of independence would mean we can use Scotland’s resources to benefit Scotland’s people. #BothVotesSNP on May 7th. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@bletchleypark 😂😂😂

Newly discovered Enigma machine… Bletchley Park today reveals the discovery of the first-known musical Enigma. Each press of a key doesn't only light up an enciphered letter, but also plays a different musical feature to help with further complexity in creating the secret message. This melodic Enigma machine was found after the sound of a glockenspiel, followed by a forlorn trumpet, was heard emanating from a recently donated large box of items. 🔊 Sound on to experience it!

If this turns out to be AI I’m going to be gutted 🤣🤣🤣

We need your help to #SaveDenby! We are sad to share that we may be forced to close and a British institution could be lost. We need your help: 1. Share this post 2. Sign the government petition 3. Buy Denby 4. Visit us at the Pottery Village Read more: denbypottery.com/pages/save-den…

Seven dogs stolen from their owners are going viral for escaping their captors and finding their way home. The group was reportedly led by a corgi and traveled 17 km to return to their families. 😭

"They told us the paint was safe enough to eat. So we put the brushes in our mouths hundreds of times a day. And now our bones are still radioactive a century after we died.' They were called the Radium Girls. Teenagers who painted watch dials with glowing paint, who danced in the dark covered in their own light, who were told they had nothing to fear. Their employer knew better. They just never told the girls." Orange, New Jersey, 1917. Grace Fryer was eighteen when she walked through the doors of the U.S. Radium Corporation. The job seemed almost too good to be true: painting watch dials with luminous paint so soldiers could read their watches in the trenches of World War I. The pay was better than any factory work available to young women. The paint actually glowed. The girls painted their nails with it, their teeth, their faces—showing up to dances shimmering like something out of a fairy tale. They called themselves the Ghost Girls. Their supervisors told them the paint was perfectly safe. "You could eat it," one said with complete confidence. So they did. Every day. The technique was called "lip-pointing"—put the brush between your lips to make a fine point, dip it in radium paint, paint the number, repeat. Hundreds of times a day. Thousands of times a week. Gram after gram of radium-laced paint passed through their lips, settled permanently in their bones. The male scientists and supervisors working with the exact same paint wore full protective gear behind lead shields. They already knew what radium could do. They simply never told the women. By 1922, the sickness began. Teeth fell out. Jaws dissolved. Bones snapped from the smallest movements. And something else—something no one could explain. They glowed in the dark. At night, standing before their mirrors, their own bodies gave off pale greenish light. The radiation had buried itself so deep it was literally shining through their flesh. When Grace Fryer's symptoms appeared in 1923, she went to the company for help. U.S. Radium denied everything. Their hired doctors blamed syphilis—a deliberate, cruel strategy to label dying women as prostitutes. Grace found a lawyer in 1927. By then she could barely walk, her spine collapsing, weighing under 90 pounds. Four other dying women joined her. The company's legal strategy was simple: delay until they died. But when the women appeared in court in 1928, the public saw with their own eyes what the company had done. Grace had to be carried in. Quinta McDonald's face had sunk where her jaw was eaten away. The outrage was unstoppable. U.S. Radium settled. Each woman got about $175,000 in today's money. Grace died in 1933 at 34. By 1937, all five were gone. What they did can never be undone. Before the Radium Girls, companies faced almost no consequences for injuring workers. Their case changed everything—workers gained the right to sue for negligence, companies became legally required to warn about hazards, employers were held responsible for occupational injuries. Every warning label on a chemical container. Every required piece of protective equipment. Every workplace safety law. Five dying women built that. In 2014, researchers held a Geiger counter to Grace Fryer's grave. Ninety-one years after her death, her bones still registered radiation. They will glow for 1,600 years. "She could barely stand when she brought her lawsuit. Her spine was giving way. She knew she wouldn't survive. She sued anyway—not to save herself, but to save people she would never meet. Her bones still glow beneath New Jersey soil. Her name is written into every workplace safety law in the country. The company that poisoned her is remembered only for what it did. Grace Fryer will never be forgotten." © Tales Of Past #archaeohistories

@HarrietHarman So why didn’t you have a go at stating it when she was alive? Your hypocrisy is quite astounding.

Impossible to overstate the importance of Jenni Murray to the movement of women that changed our politics, economy & our society; that changed our lives. She was the broadcasting wing of the women’s movement. We all owe her. RIP. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

End of an era 💔

My dear client. He sat beside me when I told his story to the Inquiry. I feel numb at his passing. He suffered so much and endured tremendous grief. He was stoical but marked by tragedy. Those malignants who put him through all this are beneath contempt.

Abundantly clear that the Government and @PostOffice are kicking these cases into the long grass; hoping Postmasters will die.

For any victim, survivor or professional who works alongside survivors of abuse, every word that Charlotte spoke yesterday will resonate. And let me say from my perspective as an ex detective but also from my role now with my charity @TMOFCharity supporting those going through the “system” every day, I can say with absolute certainty that the delays are nothing but retraumatising on a daily basis. However I can also say the delays are not anything to do with juries! It’s entirely due to diabolical organisation, incompetent admin, antiquated tech and primarily the fact that because government doesn’t invest in staff/resources etc and doesnt pay to keep the courtrooms open, so delays have built up due to lack of funding! Doing away with juries is nothing to do with speeding up the wait from charge to trial, it’s about further chipping away at the quality of our so called “justice system”, which is currently unfit for purpose and on its knees! And Charlotte knows this without a shadow of a doubt! She has suffered the reality and will never forget it….. Horrific! Once we were world leaders in justice and our trial system, but now we fall further behind with every passing day 😢

This from @Geoffrey_Cox was titanic - a truly beautiful speech. He outshone those sat opposite. They could only watch. And nervously laugh. This should be seen by every new MP to understand what they do, & every new barrister to understand what we do.

@NottsOPCC @AngelaKandola @nottspolice @MyNottingham @Broxtowewomen @NottsVictimCARE @NottsWomensAid Utter hypocrisy. You evicted a woman for asking a reasonable question about the availability of single sex services.

Today we were proud to host an inspirational day of powerful stories of strength and resilience from women across. The International Women’s Day event included awards for outstanding achievements, networking and a showcase of services. #IWD #IWD2026 @AngelaKandola

@francesbarber13 Congratulations.

Derek Jacobi and Frances Barber drama wins Radio Times award | Radio Times radiotimes.com/audio/radio/de…