Shona Cook

@SeabirdCentre This is really helpful, thank you!

@ShonaCook5 Hi @ShonaCook5 It's hopefully just resting. If you're still there here's a guide for how to know whether or not it is likely to be in trouble and if you are concerned who to call. Hope that helps↙️ seabird.org/wildlife/injur…

Please don’t fill this online form with a joke name and email address, it would really mess with their data harvesting.

Signing up to the website Rishi Sunak advertises here gives your details to Conservative Party according to Community Notes. So the Prime Minister is using phishing techniques now? Jaysus 🤷🏼‍♀️

with a headline like this you’d never know it was her husband who killed her

HMRC taxing people on the money they make selling things on Vinted as they see it as a form of self employment. In that case shouldn’t they be taking into account what price those items were originally bought for as realistically most people will make a slight loss not a profit?

An interesting little extra from Popbitch for everyone watching Mr Bates vs The Post Office #PostOfficeScandal

They’re making it too expensive to live in a city and too expensive to commute into a city which is very very smart

At @CommClothing we make 100% of our clothes here in the UK, and by doing so support great jobs right across the country. Think about where you want your money to go, and what you want it to do. The money you spend can do great things. Please, support local.

Sunak’s Covid startup fund invested nearly £2m in firms linked to his wife. It is the fourth business linked to his wife to receive an investment from the fund set up by Sunak to support startups. None declared in parliament's register of interests. theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

The V&A Illustration Awards 2024 are back!💥Now in its 5th decade, the UK’s most prestigious illustration competition is accepting entries for 2024 👇

The police in Netherlands are using torture against non-violent climate activists. The courts in the UK are sentencing non-violent climate activists to rot in jail for YEARS. Now we know why : the Atlas Network is succeeding in criminalizing protest. 1/2 newrepublic.com/article/175488…

'Estimates suggest that every £1 invested in libraries returns between £5 and £7 – a staggering return of between £5bn and £6bn a year for the UK economy.' scottishbooktrust.com/articles/why-a…

what's even the point of being on this god-forsaken web site if there's no fat bear week? The right wing of the U.S. Congress wants to restrict our freedom to read AND our access to fat bears? Unacceptable.

Energy tariffs changing on 1st October let’s look at some standing charges for electricity North Scotland 61.52p Southern Scotland 64.21p North West 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 53.97p Southern 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 53.15p London 40.74p Central belt 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 is 23.47p per day higher that London before you switch a light on

Feels like a good time to re-post this.

I'll take the highest overall taxes since at least the war if you give me great health care, shit-free waters, affordable energy, a safety net for all, reliable rail, a liveable pension, maintained roads, police, a functioning legal system, funded councils, funded schools,

Please note, the deadline to apply for the Festival Director role at EIFF has now been extended to Monday 9 October 2023. Full details: saxbam.com/appointment/ed…

📢 New grant opportunity! Grants of up to £30,000 available for arts organisations and artists to develop collaborative inclusive arts projects between Taiwan and the UK. Projects should explore issues related to older people. Learn more: 👇 britishcouncil.org.tw/en/2023-inclus…