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JustaScribbler

@JustaScribbler

Ex-newsdesker now in military charity comms. Royal Navy parent and dogparent to Newspup Nelson. Navigating widowhood.

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JustaScribbler@JustaScribbler·
When I was at the Echo giving people the opportunity to reply was expected. By the time I left the industry I was tired of having to nag some reporters to pick the phone or email for a response.
Jo Bartosch@jo_bartosch

Dear @GlosLiveOnline, I started in journalism writing a column for you (or the Gloucestershire Echo, as it was) about feminism. You could have approached me for comment, rather than combing through my social media. gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/regional-…

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JustaScribbler@JustaScribbler·
@BhavaniVadde @metpoliceuk This is awful Bhavani. Glad you've reported it, not that I've any confidence the justice system will deal with that creature properly. Hope you're OK.
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Bhavani Vadde@BhavaniVadde·
Still in disbelief that this happened to me in #Balham yesterday. I was walking alone with my ear pods in & stopped as I thought he was asking for directions. Instead it was racist abuse. Filmed a few seconds of it. Have reported to @metpoliceuk & am giving a statement next week
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Financial Times@FT·
FT Exclusive: A broker for the US defence secretary attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter. ft.trib.al/HIiu9Tx
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JustaScribbler@JustaScribbler·
In a pub car park waiting for family to arrive for a birthday lunch. Just waved at what I thought was a relative and was actually a complete stranger. Now I have to be engrossed on my phone to avoid eye contact until they out of sight 🙄
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curt@casbeataol·
The crew of the Artemis are currently further away from Trump than any other humans. Lucky bastards!
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Royal Navy@RoyalNavy·
125 years of the Royal Navy Submarine Service.⚓️ Here’s to all who have served below the surface - past and present. They protect. They deter. They defend. #SM125
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JustaScribbler@JustaScribbler·
@QcWynter When we moved into our old house we thought it was on the sewer network & the concrete pad over the “redundant” septic tank was a perfect spot for the kids’ playhouse ….. until I went outside one day and discovered a large & foetid swamp with floating fecal matter & bog roll.
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Colin Wynter KC@QcWynter·
A delight of living partially off grid in the countryside is annual arrival of the septic tank people to one's rural abode to do the necessary. They are always cheerful as they go about their grim business of sucking up & carting off one's effluent. A charming break from my work.
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Tymofiy Mylovanov@Mylovanov·
Kellogg: Zelensky is a hard ass. He is a lot like Trump, very direct. The Russia-Ukraine war is not a business deal. Putin has been the aggressor. The U.S. needs to apply the pressure on Putin to finish the war.
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JustaScribbler@JustaScribbler·
@SgtMajFrenchie This sounds the perfect role for Newspup. He’s an expert shouter out of windows. His kennel name is Brigadier Boris - although he’s named after Admiral Lord Nelson so he outranks himself.
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Sgt Maj Frenchie@SgtMajFrenchie·
‘Sergeant Major, have you seen my dog?’ ‘He’s in my office, Sir.’ ‘What is he doing there?’ ‘Barking at some private soldiers through the window and now he’s asleep.’ ‘Sergeant Major, please do not turn my dog into a Corporal.’ #dogs #dogslife #armylife
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JustaScribbler@JustaScribbler·
@BladeoftheS Yes, it’s nothing like the Cadbury’s I grew up with. They’ve ruined it.
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BladeoftheSun@BladeoftheS·
Everyone is saying Cadbury's chocolate which was bought by the Americans now tastes like crap and they won't buy it. Do you agree?
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Paul Waugh MP@paulwaugh·
Not a lot of people know this but most wizened journos do: Margaret Thatcher’s 1960 Private Members Bill gave the press the right to report on council meetings. In Nottinghamshire, Reform’s curbs on the freedom of the press lay bare the simple fact that they don’t like proper journalistic scrutiny.
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Sgt Maj Frenchie@SgtMajFrenchie·
A chaotic explanation about what happened to my previous X account. It might help explain a few things. More likely, like everything in X, it will probably make no sense at all. If nothing else, there is a lovely horse eating carrots. #horses #socialmedia
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JustaScribbler@JustaScribbler·
Somebody really should have explained the British military Seven Ps to Donald Trump before he started something he can’t finish. Proper planning and preparation prevents piss poor performance.
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Occupy Democrats@OccupyDemocrats·
BREAKING: Pope Leo SLAMS Trump’s Oval Office evangelical pro-war powwow! – "War is not holy; only peace is holy!" Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff, issued a powerful condemnation from the Vatican today, directly rebuking the Christian Zionist leaders who gathered in the Oval Office to lay hands on Donald Trump and "bless" his unauthorized war against Iran. In a moving appeal, the Chicago-born pope declared: "War is not holy; only peace is holy because it is willed by God." He repeated the phrase several times for emphasis, calling the conflict an "immoral" assault that has already claimed American lives, Iranian civilians (including schoolgirls), and risks drawing the region – and the world – into wider catastrophe. "If the world is deaf to this appeal, we are certain that God will hear our prayer and the lament of so much suffering," the pope said. He urged religious leaders worldwide to echo the people's cry for peace, giving voice to the voiceless poor, the displaced, and the earth itself ravaged by destruction. "We must dare peace," he insisted. "Enough of wars with their painful piles of death, their destruction and displacement." The pontiff framed the moment as a moral crisis: governments must heed the cry of the suffering, not the zealots who sanctify violence. The response comes as Christian Zionist figures – many tied to the same evangelical networks boosting Trump's "end-times" rhetoric – publicly prayed over the president in the Oval Office, framing the bombardment as divine will and biblical prophecy. The pope's words cut through that narrative with clarity: no war is holy, no matter how it's dressed in scripture. His Chicago roots and consistent opposition to Trump's policies add extra moral weight to the rebuke, underscoring growing international alarm over the lack of congressional authorization, the human cost, and the reckless escalation without an endgame. While Trump shrugs off more dead troops as "the way it is" and his energy czar admits the war is a long-term oil grab, the leader of the Catholic Church calls for de-escalation and dares the world to choose peace over bloodshed. When even the pope denounces the war as immoral and the blessings as misguided, the moral bankruptcy of MAGA warmongering is laid bare. Like and share if you agree.
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JustaScribbler@JustaScribbler·
A timely timeline cleanse. Keith the goat.
Sama Hoole@SamaHoole

Keith the Apocalypse Bringer is a three-year-old Anglo-Nubian goat in a field in Devon. Keith should not be underestimated. Keith has been systematically dismantling the ecosystem since approximately 7am, when he ate a bramble. This is significant because bramble is an invasive scrub species that outcompetes wildflowers, reduces biodiversity, and creates dense monoculture thicket that nothing else can use. Keith ate it. Keith does this every day. Keith does not charge for this service. 8:15am - Keith ate a thistle. Thistles are also considered invasive scrub in managed pasture. Goldfinches eat thistle seeds, but Keith's grazing will ensure the pasture remains open enough for the ground-nesting birds that can't use dense scrub. Keith has not attended a conservation workshop. Keith arrived at this conclusion by being a goat. 9:00am - Keith dismantled a section of hedge. This was less helpful. Keith does not have a perfect record. 10:30am - Keith escaped the field. He was in the road for eleven minutes. He ate a neighbour's rose. This is not being counted in Keith's environmental impact assessment. 11:00am - Keith was returned to the field. Keith regarded the farmer with the specific expression of an animal that does not recognise the concept of property. 12:00pm - Keith ate more bramble. His digestive system: four stomachs, a rumen full of specialised microorganisms, the ability to extract nutrition from lignified plant matter that would defeat any other animal on this field, is converting scrub vegetation into milk with a fat content of approximately 4.5%. The milk will become cheese. The cheese will be sold at the farm shop. The farm shop is four miles away. The cheese food miles are: four. 3:00pm - Keith produced manure. The manure will grow the grass. The grass will grow the bramble. The bramble will be eaten by Keith. This system has no inputs. It has been running since goats were domesticated approximately ten thousand years ago. Keith is not aware he is saving the planet. Keith is thinking about whether the fence on the north side has a weak point. It does. Keith found it at 4:45pm. Keith got out again.

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Cleckylad@cleckylad·
Roses are red The grass is green The creepiest photo I've ever seen.
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