Sheila (Bounford) Pinder

@LinkedInHelp Have DM'd.

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@LinkedInUK please help. You've suspended my account for suspicious activity...at the moment it has been announced I'm taking on an important new role in the industry. The new activity is me responding to lots of people reaching out to be in contact!

Please could you reinstate my account (Sheila Pinder)? I have verified my identity as requested. It's such an unfortunate moment for this to have happened. Your help would be greatly appreciated. Cc @LinkedIn

Which is exactly what LinkedIn is for! Here's the role: thebookseller.com/news/sheila-pi…

@SkyPoliticsHub @SkyNews Do we really want to live in a world where the bullies are in charge?

'He has to go' Professor Paul Moorcraft, director of the centre for foreign policy analysis, says the path to a peace deal in Ukraine is Volodymyr Zelenskyy stepping down. trib.al/Rx0iR33 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

@LuxJules1 @LucyGoBag Try negotiating in a second language after being sleep deprived for three years and seeing atrocities in your country on a daily basis. You might not sound your best.

@LucyGoBag I have no skin in this game, but Zelensky sounded like a slurring angry drunk.

Regardless of your politics or views or stake in this - all I could think about was distress this specific moment must cause Zelensky. Ukraine is grisly and grinding, he has asked so much of every citizen. To see it trivialised in this way will do something to his soul

@Positivteacha Amen

@LucyGoBag I don't understand why the medua is not asking why the government did not offer the whole population flu and civid vaccines this season. Surely it would have been more cost-effective...not to mention more caring...to have prevented the flu wave

Slightly shocked that ITV regional news is implying that NHS crisis being caused by people using the NHS when they don’t need it 🙋‍♀️

@David__Osland Look after a frail elderly person with dementia for a year 24/7 and then ask that question again.

How does it cost £8000 a month to provide one person with residential social care anyway? What percentage of that is profit for private equity bosses?

Christmas procession in Kyiv. After the morning attack, Ukrainians gathered and sang carols. We are stronger than russian bombs. The world should see this.

Gisèle Pelicot waived anonymity in a mass rape trial, so that "macho, patriarchal society that trivialises rape" could change. Her courage unfathomable, no honour too great, she stood up for ALL women, changed history and yet Time's Person of the Year is a male sexual assaulter:

@LucyGoBag Have to be "a certain age" to get that reference 🤣

This is Ratners levels of crisis management bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@LauraRWeldon @mancunianmedic I think this problem starts much younger: people become active participants and "joiners in" early in life, so well-funded social, sports and cultural activities at a local level for ALL ages are essential: they shape the older people we will become...joiners in, or loners

I spent several years in older people’s charities. It’s virtually impossible to get them to leave the house to go to groups that would give them social contact, a healthy meal, exercise or really anything beneficial. If you offer at home befriending you’ll find all people want is their shopping doing. I’ve also spoken to people before that want to go to hospital when there’s nothing medical wrong with them because it makes them feel like some sort of minor celebrity. Even if you offered them a stay at a hotel they would probably prefer hospital. A lot of the problem is their own a refusal to do anything. Sounds harsh but that’s why I ended up leaving older people’s charities - they didn’t actually want the help being offered.

@pressfuturist Ummmm. This is not true.

One of those weeks where your deep-held suspicion that you’re actually mediocre at best receives an endorsement you really can’t argue with.

@lewis_goodall It only amplifies his voice if the media continue to privilege it as they have for years. And if they do so now, all it will achieve is accelerating the rate at which the fascist toxin spreads. The BBCs' continual platforming of Farage is partly responsible for where we're at.

It’s a great line from Starmer but Farage is the one still laughing. He’s in the remarkable position of legitimately being able to say he has a better relationship with the US president than the British PM and will be able to say so for sometime, potentially indefinitely. It significantly amplifies his voice in British politics. x.com/Josh_Self_/sta…

@paulpowlesland Good! I searched for you there unsuccessfully last night, but now I've found you!

One of the joys of twitter was that it combined connecting & sharing ideas & information with people within your bubble, with campaigning & seeking to persuade those outside it. As the former purpose is becoming harder on here, I’ve now set up my account @paulpowlesland.bluesky.social at the other place. Do connect with me on there if you’re interested in all things Nature. I also think it is important to keep radical voices for nature in the general conversation and not to cede that space even if it is no longer as way or pleasurable to make our voices heard. I will therefore be keeping this twitter account to speak & campaign for nature however I am able to.

@urbanponds101 My main reason for thinking I'll leave is I don't want EM's businesses to have access to any of my behavioral data or content via this app. We're all fuelling his engine

So is everyone leaving as a fuck you to Elon Musk? I’ve just always blocked bellends and have a lovely set of kind and funny folk in my feed…

What troubles me most about ⁦@kimleadbeater⁩’s bill is that it places a legal obligation on the Secretary of State to ensure that assisted dying is available to patients for whom he’s under no such duty to provide adequate palliative care. 🧵 bills.parliament.uk/bills/3774/pub…

@David__Osland Yup. The optics are dreadful.

Charles Windsor is to open two 'food distribution hubs' that will ensure the poor get to eat supermarket produce nearing its sell-by date. A veritable Marie Antoinette moment for the twenty-first century.

Since X (and probably all social media) is evidently such an unsuccessful & inefficient way to obtain balanced news & information, what's the way forward? Not convinced that jumping ship to other platforms achieves much. Just downloading my archive here, prior to deleting.