Carol Long

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Carol Long

Carol Long

@fixing_projects

background engineering, business transformation, board advisor. adventuring with Long Covid. Opinions my own. RT not endorsement.

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Carol Long
Carol Long@fixing_projects·
100 years of the special bear. This is worth reading about the location. The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring the Real Landscapes of the Hundred Acre Wood amzn.eu/d/299dwLT Kathryn Aalto writes nonfiction like a beautiful story.
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That moment when you realise that you didn’t start saying 6-7 when everyone did because “comme ci, comme ca” is still in your volcab, and that means you’re gonna get called” old”
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Tiny Owl Publishing
Tiny Owl Publishing@TinyOwl_Books·
Farewell from Tiny Owl! After many years of sharing stories close to our hearts, Tiny Owl is closing its chapter. This journey hasn’t always been easy, but your support made it meaningful. 💛 Thank you for being part of our story.
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Helen S Fields@Helen_Fields·
When your son takes his dinner up to his bedroom in spite of years of warnings not to…bolognese anyone?
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Carol Long@fixing_projects·
Free speech is alive and well in UK. It is because uncivil violence-inciting people are challenged by a law to protect others. Where are the meaningful discussions that used to happen here?
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This week’s outrage about arrests for offensive speech omits that the majority of those arrested were actively harassing their targets - words and threats can be terrifying and debilitating. Have you seen someone so shocked and shaking they can barely stand?
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Carol Long@fixing_projects·
I joined Twitter to be informed and entertained, in bite-sized text from real sources. On X, most is now video adverts or political spin without fact-check. The level of misinformation takes too much energy. /1 of ?
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@Telegraph @CliveAslet @haveigotnews this one is too good for you to miss. Telegraph photo editor doesn’t know Dorset (Corfe) from Cornwall - or did they not fact check the AI?
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Omid Djalili
Omid Djalili@omid9·
So my neighbour’s house was on fire. He came running out saying “please call the fire brigade!” I said of course but only if he gifted me half of his possessions. He said no, so I told him to get stuffed. Do I get a Nobel Peace prize?
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Tim Dunn
Tim Dunn@MrTimDunn·
V pleased with news that @NetworkRailSE has signed a partnership deal with @bluebellrailway. NR gets to recycle old rail components by reusing them at Bluebell; Bluebell also gets promo space at London termini and NR staff can use volunteering days on the line. It was an early ambition of the @Railway200 project for this to happen and whilst it’s not spoken of in the press release I think I’m allowed to say that there’s a hope that this ‘Route Agreement’ is replicated with other @networkrail regions and heritage railways around the UK. Whilst asset relocation to heritage lines already happens a lot, these new Agreements provide a templated framework and process for it, and for other interesting partnership activities too. Nice.✅ networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/network-r…
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Carol Long@fixing_projects·
@RNLI Have you seen the LEGO project? #content_nav_tabs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ideas.lego.com/projects/25c08…
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James Martin, SJ
James Martin, SJ@JamesMartinSJ·
Look, I'm a @Wharton grad and a capitalist, meaning that I believe capitalism and free markets are the most efficient way of distributing goods and services worldwide and providing for the most economic benefits to the maximum number of people. But I'm also a Catholic priest who can see that free markets are not perfect. How can we tell? Just look around and see in even thriving capitalist economies millions of poor people, or, as they were often called at Wharton, the "transitional poor" (as if the poor are with us only until the ultimate flowering of the free-market system). Capitalism and free markets needs safety nets and they also need to be critiqued, regularly. Shutting down those critiques, or pretending that free markets are perfect, helps no one, especially not the poor. But of course who cares about them any longer?
Jeff Bezos@JeffBezos

I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning: I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages. We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others. There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader’s doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views. Today, the internet does that job. I am of America and for America, and proud to be so. Our country did not get here by being typical. And a big part of America’s success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else. Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical — it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity. I offered David Shipley, whom I greatly admire, the opportunity to lead this new chapter. I suggested to him that if the answer wasn’t “hell yes,” then it had to be “no.” After careful consideration, David decided to step away. This is a significant shift, it won’t be easy, and it will require 100% commitment — I respect his decision. We’ll be searching for a new Opinion Editor to own this new direction. I’m confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America. I also believe these viewpoints are underserved in the current market of ideas and news opinion. I’m excited for us together to fill that void. Jeff

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Tim Dunn
Tim Dunn@MrTimDunn·
#OnThisDay 16 Feb 2019, late at night, we hand-shunted (on Wallace & Gromit style track) in to King’s Cross the smallest locos to ever enter it by rail: ‘Chaloner’ of 1877 and ‘Velinheli’ of 1886, and a tiny passenger carriage too! All to promote @festrail
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entertainment @richardosman notes lack of bands in UK charts. in 2015 a change of licensing laws - solo artists and duos didn’t need venue performance license. Great for singer songwriters (finally) but musicians said it would change UK music forever. Perhaps they were right.
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@RevRichardColes - I hope @imacelebrity have a therapist and priest on hand to return him to ‘factory settings’, or I’m going to find it hard to trust him after his excellent performance as a con-merchant.
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NHS Million
NHS Million@NHSMillion·
Does anyone know why life saving air ambulances have to rely on funding from charities But helicopters for the Royal Family are paid for by the tax payer?
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@TheWomanfredi I will always struggle with type B. Not a fan of the pink cardboard but love ginger biscuits .
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Jayne Manfredi
Jayne Manfredi@TheWomanfredi·
I don’t know what you’re all so cross about. This seems perfectly fine to me.
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@3NNARD We can’t throw stones from our side of the Atlantic. We decided to vote for independence from the biggest driver of our economy - being part of the European economic system. We’ve still not recovered from Brexit after 8 years.
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