Paula Williams 💙

Just in case this site falls over I set up a mastodon account a few days ago. @Peejala@mas.to I might work out how to use it properly soon! Hopefully see some of you on there.

Some original 150-year-old units on Llandudno Pier in north Wales have been ripped off their foundations and tipped onto their side Live updates ➡️ trib.al/boelmSd

@BendyGirl @merseyrail Amazing cake. 👏 and happy birthday to N 🎉🥳 xx

It has taken me more hours and more swear words than I care to count, but I am quite proud of the finished version. The 507001 birthday cake for the boy who loves this train with all his heart @merseyrail

Wordle 1,256 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

@SammieFMc @SarahOC_MECFS @LongCovidKids Done! Good luck 🤞🤞🤞

@ladybadem @andycorneys We were below freezing all week down to -4 at some points. Late Thursday night it was still in minus figures. By 5pm Friday we were at 17 degrees! Then torrential rain and strong winds on Saturday morning.

@andycorneys It’s 16 degrees here in Maastricht, after freezing for days… we’re so screwed 😔

It’s late November & yesterday it was 16°C here in Norwich. Just saying for a planet!

“Labour hands over cash to foreign farmers”. 8 of the 9 aid grants that make up the £500m total quoted were given by Conservative governments.

@ScottDuncanWX We were below freezing all week with snow and ice for days up to Thurs night. Then on Friday morning it suddenly warmed up to 17 degrees C by 6pm 🤯 then heavy rain on Saturday like a tropical rainstorm at 7am and very windy. We're in Rochdale UK

Some places which observed snow just a few days ago were not far away from hitting 20°C today. Incredible pulse of warmth wrapping into Europe right now.

Storm Bert undergoing explosive cyclogenesis and then merging into broad gyre of low pressure - creating an enormous wind field.

@JudyandHuahua @CarolTopalian @PrognosticChats Duke of Edinburgh died before the Queen (in 2020)

@CarolTopalian @PrognosticChats I only know queen died, who else died?

@bound_berta @1goodtern It may have been a normal flu but it was horrendous and he was very sick for about a week. Of course he was in a group of people from all over the country and international students. The lad sat next to us was from Madrid. No surprise so much was passing around at the time

@bound_berta @1goodtern Our son and i were visiting uni campuses in Jan/feb as he had offers to start in sept. We had tours and at one of the speeches the lead scientist said they had just had visitors from wuhan. Everyone laughed (some nervously like me!) Our son was then floored by a horrible virus 🥺

A quick thread about the 'horrible illness' that a load of people have described having in late 2019/early 2020...

@DrSdeG @g_gosden See also Stanley Johnson....🤦‍♀️

@g_gosden why oh why is anyone giving him air time. He is the dad of a deeply unpleasant man. That's it.

'Keir Starmer needs to resign in the next three months.' Errol Musk, father of Elon Musk, soils himself live on TV. What an arrogant, charmless, stupid little man.

The news that people inheriting land worth at least £1 million will have to pay tax on it has drawn significantly more outrage from politicians and the press than the news that 1 in 3 children in Britain are now living in poverty.

Tax due if parents hand on £3m house: £940k Tax due if parents hand on a £3m farm: £0 A reminder of significant tax advantage to farmers vs everyone else AFTER these changes

@g_gosden They've got figure wrong too. They have a special arrangement. They pay 20% tax unlike everyone else paying 40%, they have higher thresholds and they can pay it over 10 years - interest free. Not at 7% they claim in the video. Plus no more than 500 farms will be affected...

The far right jumping on the backs of farmers to create division. Pitiful.

@OrganicAlley @astorey88 @alexarmstrong They have a special arrangement. They pay 20% tax unlike everyone else paying 40%, they have higher thresholds and they can pay it over 10 years - interest free. Not at 7% they claim in the video. Plus no more than 500 farms will be affected...

Fantastic video from these young farmers explaining the basic economics and mathematics of the inheritance tax law that Rachel Reeves from customer service and is clearly incapable of. Please share this to inform the left wing echo chamber where needed.

@John_Stepek @soniasodha If the lived experience means there are no substantive arguments why do disability campaigners always say you should listen to it when dealing with other issues around disability? Either it's valid or it isn't. It needs careful consideration and the lived experience

@soniasodha "Lived experience" = "I have no substantive arguments"

Will the greatest respect to Kim this misunderstands the role of MPs. Individual stories only take you so far: it’s key that MPs subject the bill to detailed scrutiny as part of the public debate. That’s their job. It’s not “politicians detracting from the issues.”

@dbkell Done thank you 😀 same name but different handle.

If my followers choose t follow me on #bluesky I'll see and follow back, though I'll more commonly read stuff on this platform for now.

@organicbotanic @SGriffin_Lab Done thank you 😊

@peejala @SGriffin_Lab Type in profsteve + surname. Should come up

I'm still curious to understand what the "bespoke model" involves. What THIS involves is an even narrower offer for free vaccines in the UK. This is a striking difference to the US (for now 😬), which offers KP2 mRNA for all >6m. TLDR, false economy🧵 gov.uk/government/pub…

@SGriffin_Lab @organicbotanic I couldn't find you do you have a link please?

@organicbotanic There already!

Just the most astounding couple of paragraphs. Pure oligarchy territory.