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@AliBushell

Company Director. Both Parents Matter. Green Party Member ( just now) Dog Mother, dendrophile. pronouns- try/me

Norwich Katılım Mayıs 2011
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alison bushell@AliBushell·
You live on a planet where trees warn each other of danger through roots that touch beneath the earth. Where octopuses dream in colors. Where elephants return to the bones of their dead and linger there in silence, as if remembering. Where bees dance to tell one another where to fly. Where flowers bloom after the fire, as if rebirth were their way of speaking. Where crows remember cruel faces and teach their young to recognize them. Where ants build cities with tunnels and bridges invisible to the hasty eye. Where cats purr at a frequency that can help heal bones. Where whales sing songs that cross the oceans and shift a little with each encounter. Where squirrels adopt orphaned young and care for them as their own. Where dolphins call to each other by name, and horses recognize the sound of a friendly voice. Where butterflies remember migration routes their ancestors followed many summers ago. Where fungi create infinite networks beneath the earth, helping forests breathe as one. Where wolves tend to their elders and sing together to the moon. Where fireflies relight the night so crickets have something to sing to. Where fish school together for protection, moving as if they were a single body. Where turtles return year after year to the same place where they were born. Where old trees keep the story of the weather, of time, and of man in their rings. Where life, even in silence, remembers the kiss of light. You live there. In a world that feels, that cares, that remembers. Happy day :)
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Amir
Amir@AmirAminiMD·
It’s incredible enough to watch a group of young Iranians who grew up under Western sanctions and isolation, single-handedly destroy the entire Western narrative about Iran and expose their own hypocrisy by simply telling the truth - but in a way that wins the hearts and minds of people around the world unlike any political messaging before - and doing so with unprecedented comprehension of the complexities, wisdom and superhuman output. But the fact that they have decided to do it all for the love of their country in times of an existential threat - while clearly not on anyone’s payroll - yet choose to remain anonymous instead of seeking fame and money (not that it would be wrong), is what makes them absolute legends. 🫡
Explosive Media@ExplosiveMediaa

Nothing but WAR Find the real history here; In our Lego-style videos.

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James Tate
James Tate@JamesTate121·
You can’t really argue this. They believe in investing in the people and infrastructure.
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Kerry Burgess
Kerry Burgess@KerryBurgess·
Could anyone sum up where the UK is currently at any better? This is pure gold.
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alison bushell@AliBushell·
I'm not a meat eater but I agree with this.
Sama Hoole@SamaHoole

A short history of the great British improvement. They came for beef dripping. We got margarine, then seed oils, then a cardiac ward in every hospital. They came for butter. They told your grandmother it would kill her husband. The replacement was a tub of palm oil emulsified with rapeseed and a yellow dye, and her husband died of a heart attack in 1989 anyway. They came for full-fat milk. We got skimmed milk, a vitamin D deficiency epidemic in children, and a cereal aisle fortified to plug the gap. They came for mutton, the meat that fed every shepherd, miner, and mill worker for six hundred years. We got a chicken breast injected with water and a turkey twizzler. They came for the kipper. We got a Findus boil-in-the-bag, dyed orange, and a fish oil capsule sold at the chemist to make up for the omega-3 nobody is eating. They came for wool. We got polyester fleece, and microplastics in human placentas. Every one tested. Sixty-two out of sixty-two. They came for leather. We got synthetic shoes that delaminate in eighteen months, and a high street with no cobbler. They came for the cotton nappy. We got the disposable, and a landfill that will outlast the child wearing it. They came for the cast iron pan handed down three generations. We got Teflon, and a forever chemical now found in 98% of British rivers. They came for the wooden bowl your grandmother kneaded dough in. We got Tupperware, then BPA, then "BPA-free" plastic containing compounds we have not yet bothered to measure. Now they are coming for the cow herself. The replacement is a textured pea isolate, extruded in a factory in the American Midwest, packaged in plastic, and marketed as the ethical option by a company called Cargill, who happen to be the third-largest meat processor in the United States. Every traditional material we have been told to give up was working perfectly, for free, for centuries. Every industrial replacement has been worse for the body, worse for the land, and considerably better for the shareholders of the company that sold it. The pattern is not subtle, and the people running it are not embarrassed. Your great-grandmother is no longer here to call it. You are.

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BladeoftheSun
BladeoftheSun@BladeoftheS·
When Junior Doctors are on £16 an hour and MP's are on £46 an hour. And raising the Junior Doctors pay by £4 an hour is unaffordable, even though they just raised MP's pay by £5 an hour. It's hard not to see the lie. RT if Junior Doctors NEED paying.
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Craig Murray
Craig Murray@CraigMurrayOrg·
Your Reminder that Streeting, Burnham. Rayner and Milliband have all been prominent in Labour Friends of Israel and all received donations from the zionist lobby.
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Council Estate Media
If a Green candidate called for Jews to be melted down and used to fill pot holes, Keir Starmer would call a Cobra meeting and proscribe the Green Party, but a Reform candidate can say that about Nigerians and silence. This is what we mean when we say there is a racism hierarchy.
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BladeoftheSun
BladeoftheSun@BladeoftheS·
Two Reform Councillors had died before they were elected. Five have quit because they never actually wanted to be Councillors. At least four have been fired because they are vile racists. One is complaining because he thought he'd be an MP. One was completely made up Clown party
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SUSAN SIMPSON #NevertrustToryorRedTory
Under Corbyn, Labour lost 380 councillors in the 2017 local elections. There was massive pressure for him to step down with the results presented as a 'disaster' in the media and the right of the party. Starmer just lost 1,406 councillors. Let that sink in.
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Sir Norman of Nowhere. 🏴‍☠️
We have a Jewish Green Party leader who says we should redistribute wealth. We also have a Reform Party leader who said, gas the Jews. Guess which one is being called an Antisemite by the media? They don't serve us.
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alison bushell@AliBushell·
this.
Unfiltered@quotesdaily100

WHY ANCIENT HUMANS WERE HAPPIER THAN US: 1. They never ate alone — every meal was a communal event, a ritual, a reason to gather 2. They slept with the sun — no artificial light, no disrupted cortisol, no lying awake at 2am with a racing mind 3. Every person in the tribe had a role — nobody woke up wondering if their life had meaning 4. They moved their bodies all day naturally — not in 45 minute gym sessions squeezed between 10 hours of sitting 5. Children were raised by an entire village — not by two exhausted people trying to do everything alone 6. Grief was shared out loud — the whole community mourned together, so no one carried loss in silence 7. They had no comparison — no social media, no neighbour with a better house, no highlight reel of other people's lives 8. Elders were respected and consulted — wisdom had a place at the table, and old age had dignity 9. Work and life were not separated — they lived where they worked, rested where they played 10. Silence and stillness were normal — not something you had to pay for at a wellness retreat 11. Their identity was never in question — culture, ritual, and community told them exactly who they were and where they belonged 12. They touched each other constantly — hugs, physical closeness, and human contact were daily and unremarkable 13. Boredom did not exist — every moment was embodied, sensory, and present 14. They told stories every night around fire — and neuroscience now confirms that shared narrative is one of the deepest forms of human bonding 15. Strangers were rarely strangers — most people lived and died surrounded by the same familiar faces their entire lives 16. They had nothing to upgrade — no newer model, no next version, no feeling that what they had was already becoming obsolete 17. Celebration was built into the calendar — harvests, seasons, births, and moons all gave people regular reasons to stop, gather, and feel alive 18. Nature was not a weekend activity — it was the entire environment, and research now confirms that constant exposure to it lowers anxiety at a biological level 19. Death was visible and accepted — not hidden in hospitals and avoided in conversation, which made life feel more precious and less theoretical 20. They never had to search for community — it was simply the water they swam in every single day 21. They had no clocks — time was measured by light, seasons, and hunger, not by meetings, deadlines, and notifications 22. Their children played outside from dawn to dusk — unsupervised, unscheduled, and completely free in ways modern children will never experience

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The Husky
The Husky@Mr_Husky1·
In 1974, a twenty-three-year-old man named Dan Jury made a decision that went against everything expected of someone his age. He took his eighty-one-year-old grandfather, Frank Tugend, out of a nursing home and brought him into his small apartment. Dan was young. He had no money to spare. No medical training. No guarantee he could handle what lay ahead. He had watched his grandfather fade inside an institution. Surrounded by routines instead of relationships. Efficiency instead of tenderness. He could not accept that this was how the man who shaped his childhood would spend his final years. So Dan brought him home. From that moment on, Dan became a caregiver in every sense. He helped Frank bathe. He gave him medication. He cooked, cleaned, lifted, waited, stayed. He learned the slow rhythms of an aging body. He learned how fragile dignity can be and how carefully it must be protected. Friends his age were building careers, falling in love, chasing independence. Dan changed sheets. Sat through long nights. Held a hand when pain made words impossible. People told him he was sacrificing his youth. Dan would later say those years taught him more about life than anything else ever could. As Frank’s health declined, Dan began to photograph their days together. Not staged portraits. Not sentimental images. Honest ones. A frail body resting. A grandson leaning close. Moments of exhaustion, tenderness, frustration, humor, and quiet connection. Nothing was hidden. In 1978, Dan and his brother Mark published the photographs in a book titled Gramp. The book was unlike anything most Americans had seen. Aging was usually kept behind closed doors. Gramp showed the truth: the vulnerability, the intimacy, the humanity of dying at home, surrounded by someone who loved you. Frank became a teacher in his final years. Not through speeches, but through presence. By accepting help without surrendering dignity. By letting himself be seen, cared for, and loved. He taught Dan patience. He taught him how love shows up in small, unglamorous acts. He taught him that care is never something to delegate when life becomes inconvenient. When Frank died, Dan was changed forever. Their story quietly shifted how many Americans thought about elder care. Caring for a family member is not a burden to endure. It is a relationship that can deepen both lives. Dan did not lose his youth. He spent it learning to love without turning away. And in doing so, he helped the rest of us see aging not as something to hide, but as a final chapter that still deserves tenderness, dignity, and human presence.
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Tom London
Tom London@TomLondon6·
What is happening to Rajiv Menon KC should terrify everyone who cares about the integrity of the justice system in the UK All solidarity with Rajiv Menon KC
Garden Court North@gcnchambers

(1/3) Garden Court North members express solidarity with Rajiv Menon KC, a highly respected silk and member of @gardencourtlaw, who faces prosecution for contempt of court following his closing speech in a high-profile and politically sensitive criminal trial.

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Rabbi David Mivasair
Rabbi David Mivasair@RabbiMivasair·
Don’t like people wearing watermelon pins at your shitty medical conference? Don’t care. “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” makes you feel scared? Don’t care. Seeing Palestinian flags on university campuses upsets you? Don’t care. A student calling Israel an apartheid state hurts your little feelings? Don’t care. A doctor speaking publicly about Palestinian children being massacred feels “divisive” to you? Fuck you. People refusing to condemn Palestinian resistance makes you uneasy? Don’t care. Hearing the word “genocide” feels inflammatory to you? Don’t care. A keffiyeh in a workplace gives you a panic attack? Don’t care. “Globalise the intifada” sounds genocidal to you? Don’t care. People interrupting politicians feels disrespectful to you? Don’t care. You no longer being able to monopolise victimhood makes you angry? Truly could not care less. What I care about are the Palestinian children being burned alive. The doctors being tortured. The families erased under rubble. The starvation. The concentration camps. The destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and universities and refugee camps and entire civilian infrastructure. But for the nearly last 1,000 days and decades prior, Western institutions have demanded everyone stop and carefully tend to Jewish emotional discomfort instead. Not Palestinian lives. Not Palestinian suffering. Not Palestinian speech. Zionist discomfort. Zionist fragility. Zionist political sensitivity—elevated, enforced, and institutionalised across universities, hospitals, media outlets, professional associations, politicians, donors, and advocacy groups. All working in sync to transform Zionist discomfort into institutional emergency. While Palestinian suffering is rendered invisible. While Palestinian speech is disciplined. While Palestinian humanity is treated as negotiable. That is the function of the Jewish Feelings Industrial Complex. Not safety. Not care. Not protection. Institutionalised Zionist emotional management at scale. Fuck every single institution that constantly weaponizes “Jewish safety,” “Jewish discomfort,” and “Jewish feelings” to justify censorship, repression, career destruction, anti-Palestinian racism, and silence in the face of mass atrocity. If a watermelon pin destabilises you more than the annihilation of Gaza, the problem is not the watermelon pin. The problem is you. -- from "The Anti-Zionist" patreon.com/posts/awww-you…
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nazir afzal@nazirafzal·
Reform Latest 2 councillors died before election Several now suspended for various bits of bigotry At least 1 doesn’t exist Others want to stand down cos they didn’t know it’s unpaid 1 thought he would be in Parliament They don’t need a Whip, they need a Missing Persons Officer
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#WeDemandBetter Claire
#WeDemandBetter Claire@claire66hg·
@labourlewis @BIUKTradeUnions You lost me at defence spending. WTAF? It cost £100 to fill a car, the cost of living is out of control. Shit in the rivers and seas. Everything in this country is broken, apart from grifting politicians. What country would want to invade and takeover this utter shitshow?
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