david matheson #FBPE #mahsa_amini

Our newest little darling: Luna, born 22 March 2024. A little sister for Alba, a new daughter for Lucia and Ben, a new granddaughter for Catherine, Luz, Lorenzo and me. I can’t wait to meet her.

@GregBaldwinIroh Warm the beans… and the microwave works just fine. Toast the bread any way you want. Butter the bread as much as you like. Either pour the beans onto the toast or shovel beans à fur et à mesure onto the buttered toast. Eat and savour the wonderful mélange.

British blokes…. I’ve purchased several “tins” of Heinz (British) beans because the idea of beans on toast intrigues me. I eagerly anticipate a tasting. Other than toasting bread and heating beans… Are there any other steps/ingredients?

@Rainmaker1973 @gildedcage66 Migros owns Denner which does sell alcohol and tobacco. The owners of Migros are anyone who pays a nominal sum to join. The « part social » is 1.5% of turnover that goes to social projects, especially in poorer areas.

Fun fact. The Switzerlands largest supermarket, Migros, doesn’t sell alcohol or tobacco in stores, pays no dividends, caps profits by lowering prices if earnings exceeds 5%, is a cooperative with 2M+ members, and donates 1% of revenue to social projects, purely out of the founders moral philosophy

Larry the Cat has been locked out of his Twitter account for 3 weeks, do you think Larry the Cat's Twitter account must be unlocked immediately?🤔 Repost after voting please.

@DitroniX @Amelia558rs Where is the paint going? Are you left breathing it in?

@Amelia558rs Maybe of interest x.com/alphafox/statu…

@theiaincameron Don’t forget Ceuta.

For many years, the overseas territory of Gibraltar has been the proverbial British stone in the Spanish shoe. A colonial anachronism that, some say, should be returned to Spanish sovereignty. However, less well known is that Spain has a number of overseas territories itself. 1/4

Did you see this headline? Did you feel the requisite anger and rage at asylum seekers that The Sun was asking of you? Did you maybe blame Starmer because.... um... it was probably his fault🤷‍♀️ Would you like to know the reality behind the headline? Course you would!😜 Let's take a look 🧵 1/25

@sciencegirl @PeteLondonerUK Where in Northampton was this? I wasn’t aware we ever had a race track since the Race Course became a public park.

1980s double-decker bus racing in Northampton featuring classic red London buses.

Oh wow this has been shared over 1000 times! 😮

@theiaincameron It’s an interesting place to visit but I since heard that it is a bit away from the actual four corners. 😊

Predictably, the entrepreneurial Americans have capitalised on this. A café, visitor centre, and shopping facilities exist there, where you can buy some nice Navajo, tongue-in-cheek T-shirts. 6/6

There are quite a few tripoints in the world, where three countries come together to meet at a single location. Only at one point on Earth do four countries meet; Kazangula, on the Zambezi river (Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia). But, there’s a big catch. 1/6

@theiaincameron @ron_mould Loch Maree also has the most midges I have ever witnessed in one place!

Loch Maree in Scotland is a very pretty stretch of water. Arguably the prettiest in the country. In additon to its beauty, it has a claim to a record among UK lakes & lochs. 1/3

The BBC just released a new adaptation of Lord of the Flies, the classic novel by William Golding. It's beautifully made, but it's still telling the wrong story. A few years ago, I went looking for the *real* Lord of the Flies. I wanted to know: has it ever actually happened? Have kids ever been shipwrecked on a deserted island? It took me a year of research, but I found it. In 1965, six boys from a boarding school in Tonga stole a boat, got caught in a storm, and drifted for eight days without food or water. They washed up on 'Ata, a remote, uninhabited island in the Pacific. They stayed there for 15 months, and what happened on that island was the exact opposite of William Golding's novel. These boys set up a small commune. They built a food garden, stored rainwater in hollowed-out tree trunks, created a gym with improvised weights, and built a badminton court. One of them, Stephen (who would later become an engineer) managed to start a fire using two sticks. They kept it burning the entire time. Of course they fought too. But then they argued, they had a rule: go to opposite ends of the island, cool down, then come back and apologize. As one of them told me: ‘That's how we stayed friends.’ Back home, everyone assumed that the boys – Luke, Stephen, Sione, David, Kolo and Mano — were dead. When they were finally discovered by an Australian captain named Peter Warner, he radioed their names to Tonga. After twenty minutes, a tearful response came back: ‘You found them! These boys have been given up for dead. Funerals have been held. If it's them, this is a miracle!’ Peter commissioned a new ship, hired all six boys as his crew, and named the boat the Ata, after the island where he found them. They remained friends for the rest of their lives – Peter and Mano even became soulmates. I tracked them down, and it became one of the central chapters of my book Humankind. Here's what struck me most: William Golding (the author of Lord of the Flies) was a troubled man, an alcoholic who once said ‘I have always understood the Nazis, because I am of that sort by nature.’ I think he was projecting his own darkness onto children. And we turned it into a lesson about human nature that we teach to millions of kids around the world. I think the real lesson is the opposite. When real children found themselves alone on a real island, they didn't descend into savagery. They cooperated, they took care of each other, they survived. I'm not saying that the Tongan castaways were representative of all kids everywhere. But I am saying that every kid who has to read or watch the fictional Lord of the Flies also deserves to know what actually happened when it played out in real life. Stories are never just stories. We become the stories that we tell ourselves.

Remove Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from royal succession - Sign the Petition! c.org/TzmSPMwcvb via @UKChange

@Kdogthegreat @EagleEye9876 @Mylovanov Your passport is not geography.

@EagleEye9876 @Mylovanov Not according to my British passport.

Starmer: Europe is a sleeping giant. Our economies dwarf Russia’s — by more than 10 times over. We have enormous defense capabilities. Europe has more than 20 types of frigates, around 10 types of fighter jets, over 10 types of main battle tanks. Meanwhile, the US has one. 1/

@sciencegirl Two

How many channels did your TV have when you were younger

@is_glasgow In the old calendar, the university was founded in 1450 as the Scottish year started in March.

The current campus is relatively new, having only been built in the 1860s when the university moved from its original campus on High Street to avoid the outbreaks of diseases like cholea, which were a frequent occurrence in the overcrowded medieval heart of the city.

575 years ago today Glasgow University was founded by Pope Nicholas V in a letter (known as a Papal Bull) dated 7th of January 1451. Cont./ #glasgow #glasgowhistory #glasgowuniversity #glasgowtoday

A must watch. This video is over 30 years old.

Stellan Skarsgård reflects on his worldview : "My father told me something when I was very small to instill confidence in me: 'Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody’s worth less.' It is an egalitarian view that I’ve carried around in my life. That’s why I am for free schools, free universities, free health care, and free babysitting. Because our society could afford it" "In America, people think social democracy is some kind of communism. They think capitalism is freedom. It’s not. It’s only freedom to exploit people" (via @vulture)

@Matt_Pinner Ripper

Help me out: I need a highly specific, aggressively masculine name for a tiny Chihuahua puppy. Nothing cute. I'm desperate.

Six months ago, former Minnesota Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered by a right-wing extremist. RETWEET to honor her life of service 💙

@BholanathDutta Is ! for emphasis or does it mean factorial? It makes all the difference to the answer!

Let’s see how many get this right.