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Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

@GWRHelp Seems to be a weekly occurrence!

🚨News of the horrendous crimes against humanity in Iran over the last 48 hours. 🚨 An estimated 7,000 killed by regime forces. Western outlets and human rights groups outside the country put it at 650 but news from inside have it closer to the number above. Many of them young girls and teenagers, I’ve seen the videos and they are too horrific to share. Yet STILL they are out on the streets in massive numbers. This situation is unprecedented. The most remarkable story of revolution I’ve ever seen. Berlin Wall 1989 comes close - and I was there - but this is different. Very different. The people on the streets are ordinary civilians, some of them sick, some even in wheel chairs. But the majority are young and they are fighting with all they have. And if they’re to have any kind of life ahead of them, they know there’s no way back from this. It’s a war of attrition never seen before with little to compare it to. In layman’s terms it’s do or die. With 5 days of internet shut down and black outs so the regime can kill at will, it’s time for us to speak up. The world needs to act. We are on the precipice of something seismic. #IranRevoIution2026

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We've had a new report out into maternity and neonatal care and honestly... there's not a single surprise in it. It's still - and I don't use these words lightly - a total disgrace. We've had multiple reports telling us this. And yet the same problems keep happening. Women not being listened to - mums and babies being harmed or even dying - when they shouldn't be. So many people have their own stories - I'm sure if you're listening to this right now you might have your own story - or know someone who does. There's one thing I wanted to pick out from the report by Baroness Valerie Amos. The investigation heard cases of women who had lost babies being placed on wards with newborns. This might seem like a little thing. But can you imagine losing a baby. The worst moment of your entire life. All those hopes and dreams for your child's future. Carrying the baby inside you - feeling it grow - and then the blood, the desperation that maybe it's going to be ok, surely it's got to be ok, and then the reality that you've lost your child. And then what happens? You're put on a ward full of other mothers just like you... but these mums have their little babies in their arms. That is not just negligent. It is cruel. And it also happens systematically throughout the NHS. Having a miscarriage? Go to the maternity unit. Just had a scan where you'd hope to see your baby kicking but actually find out it doesn't have a heart beat? Go and sit down with all the happily pregnant mums. This is symptomatic of a system where women are treated like vessels not like people who should be heard and listened to. Because bringing life into the world can be the happiest time of your life. But it can also be the worst time of your life. Either way - it's the most important moment. And that's why we've got to get this right.

"Our" saintly NHS and the consequence of not doing your job properly. I took my mum to the dentist. While she was in the chair she had a stroke. I got called into the dentist’s room and she was just lying in a heap on the floor. The dentist (a qualified medical doctor) had recognised it immediately and had rung 999 repeatedly, explained the situation clearly, and begged for an ambulance. We kept ringing and ringing. They wouldn’t come. They wouldn’t even listen to a doctor. What hope did I have? With no ambulance coming and my mother deteriorating on the floor, we had no choice. We carried her to my car. A dental nurse who was there jumped in with us because I didn’t know the quickest way to the hospital. I drove, talking to Mum the whole time, keeping my voice normal, telling her not to worry, acting like nothing was wrong. She mumbled, “Oh don’t worry Jo, I’ll live.” Those were her last words to me. I roared up to A&E. The dental nurse ran inside to get help. I waited in the car, but no one came out. It felt like ages. I had to lift my unconscious mother out of the back seat in a fireman’s lift and carry her to the doors while screaming for help. A nurse told me not to handle her like that because I might cause damage – The brass neck. (I think of that idiot most days) Our NHS finally placed her on a bed and wheeled her away without telling me where they were taking her. I did ask but no one answered. I gave her details at the front desk and explained my car was half on the pavement outside. The woman at the desk told me not to worry, she would sort it so that I didn’t get a ticket. They put me in a side room, a windowless cupboard, just out of sight of all the many, many trolleys with people on them in the corridor. I sat there for what felt like about 30-45 minutes. No one came. They’d forgotten about me. I went to get water because I couldn’t just sit there, but then I worried and so I came back and waited some more. Finally, going back to the front desk, I asked, “Where’s my mum?!?” I heard hushed talk, then someone walked me down to another area. She was still in the same bed I’d seen her wheeled away in, pushed to the side of the room with people walking all around her like she was in the way. I kept asking what was going on, but no one answered and just put a curtain around the bed. My brother arrived then; I’d managed to get hold of him while I was stuck in the cupboard. We stood there crying, in total shock, wondering what the hell was going on. No one was doing anything. A woman was lying there having had a massive stroke, and we were just looking at each other, helpless. I don’t know how much time passed, but eventually we were moved to another department in a private room. We sat with her through the night. I was at the side of her bed stroking her hand but also not wanting to because I knew that would have really annoyed her. I told her I loved her but didn’t want to go on too much because I didn’t want to scare her. At about 2 am I knew she had died. The nurse sent me home with a plastic bag of her urine-stained clothes. This is what happens when millions use a service they never paid a penny into while the people who funded it their whole lives are left to die without dignity. This is what happens when rigid red tape matters more than a doctor screaming down the phone that someone is having a massive stroke. This is what happens when common sense is banned and box-ticking is king. This is what happens when the job is not done properly. This is the consequence. PS. I got a parking ticket. #nhs #ournhs #dontbothercallinganambulance

So many young women don't realise how relatively recently the rights they take for granted were won.

In the middle of a "forcing party" where friends and I are forcing one another to do the things that we've been avoiding So far: • A passport has been filed for • An inbox has been zero'd • A personal website has been created &more I recommend this format!

For a lot of people, tomorrow is back to work day. This can bring feelings of anxiety & worry. Try to keep calm. The days are getting longer and Spring is just round the corner. Good Luck!!

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Look at the ice we had last night 💎😍 Moonlight with auroras made it even more memorable✨ 📍Ranua, Finland

📢Come & work with us in our Research Support team! We're looking for a F/T Research Facilitator, deadline for applications is Mon 14 Oct. #collapse4980106" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">arch.ox.ac.uk/job-vacancies#… #vacancies @UniofOxford #oxford

Did the Romans recycle? Listen as Dr Sainsbury (AKA @V_Sainsbury) discusses this and more in our School #podcast Digging for Meaning. @oxsocsci @oxfordenvsust ♻️🦻 arch.ox.ac.uk/podcasts

Just voted. Turnout low and polling station staffed entirely by bewildered primary school children. Make of that what you will.

Looking back on 14 years of the Tories is like looking back at the traumatising post-vindaloo shit you just did in the toilet.

When you watched Johnson lie every fucking day, you had no power. When you found out the Tories gave billions to their mates, you had no power. When your mortgage increased because of that useless twat Truss, you had no power. Tomorrow you have power. Use it #GeneralElection

@bluelightcard did you know your app and website are down?

@PostOffice hi. I want to too my wonderful travel card money up with $ but the exchange rate on the app is less that what you’re advertising online. Help?

Michelle Mone's husband Barrowman has issued a "statement" this morning after @thetimes report showing the National Crime Agency is investigating a £3 million payment into Mone's Coutts bank account, which would prove her direct benefit from the PPE Medpro contract as well as indirectly through trusts. The statement is full of "look over there", fundamental lies (we saved the govt £100 million - they didn't) & obfuscation. Who'd have thought it? Obfuscation is where he doesn't mention that he didn't declare his interest on company filings- nowhere on the Companies House declarations at the time. She didn't declare her interest on official documents, she lied consistently (par for the course), threatened press with libel, lied to her lawyers, lied about her lawyers "they told me to lie" - they didn't. Now their defence about getting £65 million profit and pandemic profiteering is saying "I'm not the only one who robbed the public, they're picking on me, it's not fair" There is so much which needs to be investigated with other companies too. We've been saying this for a long time. @RachelReevesMP has promised a Covid CORRUPTION Commissioner to investigate them if Labour win the next election. More to follow with data..... Don't forget to follow "The VIP Files" with @GoodLawProject and I here. We have access to huge amounts of data through FOIs and are putting it together about numerous contracts given through the infamous VIP Lane. It's a Tory mess which stinks and they're still trying to hide a lot of the evidence.

Shut up Joey Barton.