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@volcaholic1 Congratulations 🙌 they are such a gift. Makes me so happy to spend time with them.

I thought I'd share some good news. My first grandchild is due in November 🥰

This kind of heat would be extreme in the UK even in the middle of summer, never mind May. Kew Gardens has provisionally hit 34.8°C today, making it the hottest May day ever recorded in the UK and smashing the previous record by around 2°C. But apparently we’re all just “overreacting” again.

Nobody deserves today more than Sienna ❤️ Her family came all the way from Wales to pick her up and put her at ease. Huge smile on my face

London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally. Authorities had planned major man-made flood infrastructure, but the beavers effectively created their own system — while also boosting biodiversity and restoring the ecosystem around them.

I haven’t met a single “old” single lady with loads of cats who don’t absolutely love their lives. They tend to have a job they love, multiple hobbies, a tight group of friends, their own house and most give back to the community. Only ones bitching about it are always men.

A woman on my flight yesterday switched seats with her husband because their toddler wouldn’t stop crying. The second she sat down alone, she closed her eyes for maybe 30 seconds. Just resting. Not sleeping. When the husband walked past with the kid later, he laughed and said loudly, “Must be nice to finally get a break from doing nothing.” A few people chuckled. She laughed too. But something about it felt off because for the entire flight she had been: holding the baby, packing snacks, cleaning spills, walking him down the aisle, missing her own meal trying to calm him down… while the husband watched a movie with headphones on. And honestly I think that’s why so many women are exhausted. Not because they’re doing everything alone. But because they’re doing everything while someone else calls it “nothing.”

@London_W4 Don’t mean to be up this early but that is beautiful.

Mornin’. Survived the first night on my sailing boat and have just come out on deck to be met by one of the most beautiful scenes I’ve ever seen. Sunrise over the River Deben to a dawn chorus from the birds. Really very pleasant.

So what happens when Reform take over your local council? This. #KentCountyCouncil

"Look back in courage" the judge tells the girls - including one who had told the court she wanted to die. No. When these girls look back, they’ll remember the pain. The violence. The terror. The humiliation. The sound of their rapists laughing while their lives were destroyed. And playing behind it all like a sickening backing track: a judge delivering sympathy and praise to their vile attackers - before watching them walk free out of court. If there was one thing that could have offered the smallest fraction of "comfort" to these girls - it was justice. And there was none here.

literally how can it get bleaker than this

I thought for a moment this said “Three boys avoid jail after rape of two teenage girls.”

Dads, are you considering selling off your primary school aged daughters into a lifetime of sexual slavery? If so get in touch with the BBC News now, who are looking to a sympathetic piece on the difficulties of being a man.

A lot of newer followers often ask me who Tina was, the dog that means so much to me. This is her beautiful story A lot of older followers will also enjoy seeing her big, beautiful face I'm sure.

@NiallHarbison not really sure if you ever think about the absolute good that you do this charity not only helps these wonderful dogs but it also helps the many many people all around the world who are brought along with what you have accomplished here. You have touched so many thank you

A hospital trust has admitted that nearly 50 members of staff looked inappropriately at the medical records of victims of the Southport knife attack. It happened at Aintree Hospital in Liverpool The BBC understands the three patients affected included a 13 yr old girl who had been helping to supervise the Taylor Swift-themed dance class that was targeted in the attack - and adult teacher Leanne Lucas The NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHLG), which runs Aintree, said the breach was "inexcusable" and changes had been made - although no-one has been sacked. Leanne Lucas was stabbed five times in the attack, which killed three young girls and seriously wounded eight children and another adult. "I am absolutely devastated and horrified that my privacy has been invaded when I was at my most vulnerable," she said.

@dobbies great to see you offering 20% off your Rattan garden furniture but pretty pointless as you have none in stock to buy.

Please Be Kind To Moles. They are beneficial to soil health, acting as natural aerators and pest control by consuming lawn-damaging grubs, beetles, and larvae. They do not eat plants, and their removal often leads to new moles occupying the vacant tunnel system, making it a futile effort. Apart from that, it is CRUEL!

I don’t think people understand that global warming doesn’t mean “no cold weather ever.” It means a warming planet destabilizes weather patterns, causing more extreme weather. This has been explained for decades and people still don’t get it.

⚠️⚠️ SICKENING LENIENCY ⚠️⚠️ A vulnerable woman with Alzheimer’s waved down a stranger - 61YO Adrian Long - in Ipswich after becoming confused and lost. She didn’t know where she was or even her own address. Long looked through her bag, found her details, and drove her home. But instead of helping her safely and leaving, he followed her into her property and sexually assaulted her. A family member later saw him entering the home on doorbell footage. Despite her obvious confusion and vulnerability, Long claimed he didn’t realise she lacked the capacity to consent. The court heard his actions caused a rapid deterioration in the victim’s health, while leaving her already heartbroken family devastated that someone could exploit her in such a cruel and calculated way. ➡️Anyone who has witnessed Alzheimer’s firsthand knows just how vulnerable sufferers become as the illness progresses - moving through devastating stages of confusion, memory loss and dependency before 24-hour care or residential placement is ever considered or becomes unavoidable. Families are forced to tread a difficult line between respecting a loved one’s independence and keeping constant watch over them, relying on the public to help vulnerable people safely - not prey on them for their own sick gratification. What Long did was unconscionable. Yet he WALKED FREE. 😫 He received just 8 months suspended for 20 months and 40 "rehab" days. One vulnerable woman. One devastated family. One disgusting offender. And one disgracefully weak so-called sentence. A "justice" system that allows society’s most vulnerable people to be exploited and sexually assaulted with barely any real consequence has no right to call itself justice at all. Sickening. Heartbreaking. Infuriating. Vulnerable people in the UK being failed in the worst possible way. 💔🤬

NHS MADE HER SIGN A GAG ORDER. PARLIAMENT PROMISED TO STOP IT. BOTH LIED. Sue Allison was a breast radiographer at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust (@UHMBT) for nearly two decades. In 2012, she reported a senior radiologist who was repeatedly failing to diagnose women with breast cancer. Two of those women died from cancers that should have been caught. What happened next is the NHS playbook, start to finish. She was ostracised. Bullied. Pushed out of her department. Blacklisted across the NHS so thoroughly that job applications in hospitals as far away as Kingston triggered questions about her whistleblowing. She described her reputation as "absolutely destroyed." After 34 years in the profession, she will never work in it again. In 2015, with no legal advice, she was pressured into signing not one but two NDAs. The trust used those agreements to try to stop her from ever bringing a claim against them. An employment tribunal later ruled both NDAs void. The judge found she had a clear case of whistleblower detriment. By 2019, her case had reached Parliament. Health Secretary Matt Hancock (@MattHancock) personally cited Sue Allison's NDAs in the House of Commons and declared he was "determined to end" the injustice of gagging NHS whistleblowers. The ban was never enforced. Six years later, it still hasn't been. She eventually settled her detriment claim in 2020 for financial compensation after admitting she would have had to sell her house to fund a full tribunal. The trust thanked her for raising concerns. The same trust that silenced her for eight years. She wasn't done. She became a governor of the same trust, trying to hold it to account from the inside. In May 2023, she resigned. The bullying culture, she said, had never changed. Governors asking legitimate questions about patient safety were being suppressed and eventually dismissed. This case runs from 2012 to 2023. Eleven years. Same trust. Same culture. Same result for the people who spoke up. The Morecambe Bay maternity scandal. The urology cover-up. The disputed emails. Peter Duffy. And Sue Allison, running through all of it, trying to hold the line, watching the institution close ranks every time. Sources: @ComputerWeekly, @BylineTimes, Lancaster Guardian, @IndexCensorship,