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@HistEnvScot have stopped cars going round the ascending portion of Queens Drive and hope that cyclists will dismount and walk for the length of Dunsapie Loch. They do this each year for #ToadMigration when toads wake from hibernation and make their way to the water.

Give the Nobel Peace Prize to Gisèle Pelicot - Sign the Petition! chng.it/9NYhfBVQxv via @UKChange

@royal_bobby24 @Thehullboy1 I don't know what he's talking about. @Thehullboy1 has a gorgeous face!

@Thehullboy1 Unprovoked and unnecessary 💔

This is so weird doing a “date update” but had hundreds of messages and a few people come up to me asking about an update so I thought id put one last thing about it all. Gutted but with the distance of where we live and one or two logistic things a relationship just wouldn’t work. Think she’s a blooming brilliant person, who deserves the world and I hope our paths cross again in the future. Can safely say I will never post about a date on social media again haha. But I do not regret giving flowers, don’t want to change who I am as a person. Just going to focus on the gym for a bit ❤️

@Thehullboy1 Awe, I've just seen this. It's just lovely to hear you speak so highly of them. And absolutely take flowers to first dates. It's a beautiful thing to do!

@Thehullboy1 I hope your date went well @thehullboy1 I think your taking them flowers is a lovely thing.

First ever date tonight, absolutely bricking it. Wish us luck ladies and gentlemen 😅

@DoubleDownNews patreon.com/posts/meet-pal…

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence. And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide. A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage. But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide. But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide. It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words. But there does need to be a clear intent. And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there. A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here. Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership. Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements. And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it. But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world. But reality cannot be denied. So yes, it is a genocide. And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.” - Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024 - Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024

@CarlBovisNature I'm sorry you've been treated like this. The customer is just used to getting their own way and possibly a regular complainer.. it's obvious this issue was completely out of your control, yet they need to blame someone, and so they've gone for you. They are wrong to do this.

Last night I was highly stressed when I tweeted this. I'd done nothing wrong but have been trying to help this customer for the last few days after a mistake by the Post Office. Last night's latest email from the customer said this at the end; 'Really shocked & disappointed at your attitude towards this,thought you would of had the decency to help, very poor customer service. Really annoyed' Those of you who have followed me for a while will know how that would have affected me. 😔 At no point did I say I wouldn't help... I had been helping. My customers are everything to me... this was the first time in thousands of orders over the years that I'd been accused of very poor customer service. Up to that point in the evening I'd been happily packaging your orders, but this email just killed it for me and I couldn't continue.. in fact I wanted to quit my little business there and then. I hardly slept last night. Today my stomach is painful thanks to the stress (it always come out in this way... can make me feel very ill for days..) Probably I'm not mentally strong enough to run my own little business... but I've been doing it for 5 years now and moments like this are thankfully very rare... the vast majority of my customers are delighted with my customer service, but when that one comes along to make you feel like shit, you do wonder if it's all worth it.. Today I've finally sorted the issue out, and it's a big relief... I'm the kind of person that will end up refunding everything at a cost to myself to keep customers happy, this customer would never have been out of pocket, even if the issue was not my fault (such as in this case). Finally, if you want to order from me, I'll try and sort any issues you may have that are in my control, just please don't message me in a passive aggressive way, I'm just one guy trying his best.. 🙏

@Raven_Crest @RelebogileM

@RelebogileM Also didn't they do a study where they had male ballet dancers switch with football (American Football) lads, and found that the ballet dancers were stronger than the football dudes or some such? (I know I'm slightly off on my memory here, but I know the ballet guys bested them.)

Men are still playing soccer and karate but you looked for one doing classic ballet.

@Raven_Crest @RelebogileM Yes, I've also seen professional valet dancers teach other sportsmen and women. They'll coach in balance and poise. Kind of like pilates but with style 😘

@NoseTheCapital Mate, the 18th century have just called. They want you back. They say they've missed you.

@RelebogileM Wow, he's amazing!

@madgie1941 Ooh, time research and to compare

My car insurance has just DOUBLED! Am in total shock.

@madgie1941 I find it the same as here but with a lot less nastiness - so far. If you find some UK people you know on here then you could look at who they follow and their followers?

Am finding bluesky almost impossible to navigate and almost entirely American - what am I doing wrong?

@spygirl_m @BBCNews Hey, we parents pay taxes too and there are plenty of us that don't receive or claim credits or benefits. We're also raising taxpayers (mine are paying taxes already), their taxes may well pay your benefits when you need them.

@BBCNews We taxpayers provide 1. Child benefits 2. Child tax credits 3. Free education 4. Free healthcare 5. Housing benefits And the parents can’t provide some food with the money we give them?

Children 'pretending to eat from empty lunchboxes' bbc.in/3O7hskC

@rovingchloe @andrewtanyongyi @WiringTheBrain Exactly, plus all the young people diagnosed yet their parents hadn't had them vaccinated after the Wakefield's fraud

@andrewtanyongyi @WiringTheBrain Pretty sure autistic people existed prior to routine vaccinations in early childhood with MMR vaccine.

Autism: The Truth is (not) Out There wiringthebrain.com/2014/10/autism… - not vaccines or cold mothers or iPads or fluoride or pesticides or the microbiome. It's genetic.

@WiringTheBrain @bbboatclub Loving it! Listening again with earbuds as focus was all over the shop first time

Had a really interesting chat with Blindboy @bbboatclub about brains, selves, play, creativity and a bunch of other stuff! open.spotify.com/episode/7BfUz3…