Floral Laura

Floral Laura

@florallaura.bsky.social

Formerly @Now_Being_Laura on that other place. Middle aged transwoman who enjoys cycling for leasure, does Karate, big into trains and railway modelling, wargaming, and lots of other things.

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As a reminder, Baroness Kalkner, chair of the EQUALITIES watchdog, sent an EHRC lawyer to get 'Gender Critical' as a protected belief under the equalities act. Imagine is Falkner helped get "Race Critical" for Tommy Robinson, or 'Jew Critical' for a Nazi... it'd be a massive scandal!

25 years ago today was still an era of general positivity While never perfect, that point in time between the end of the Cold War and 9/11 was generally a time of optimism of a better world Tomorrow those walls came tumbling down along with the World Trade Centre. It's a shame hatred changed it all.

A couple of years ago, I met someone who couldn't read. Later I realised how this is a social disability. If you watch a movie based on a book, and one character asks another character a question, they might put their hand to their chin to ponder the positive and negative points that are weighed...

... up before giving an answer. This simple question could be half a page of cohesive thought. These, in turn, cause us, the reader, to ponder on them too. But if you couldn't read, you've never had access to anybody's thoughts but your own inner voice. In both the movies and our real lives...

... the words we say aren't as pure as our inner voice. We usually use 'diplomatic language' so we don't offend people. If you couldn't read, you'd be isolated from the mental growth we all achieve by reading books... you'd only get a surface level of human consciousness, and conscience!!

I'd been to the US twice when I took this photo of the World Trade Centre in May 2000. On 9/11, I was at home in Manchester, UK, when the phone rang and a friend told me to turn on the TV. The first tower was on fire. It seemed like an accident. 5 minutes later, I saw the second plane hit!

In seconds it went from a 'terrible accident' to 'terrorism'!! It was a chilling sight!! I flew into Newark again 6 weeks later and saw the still burning pile out the window. It was such an awful sight. My memories of this day are so clear and are burned into my mind!!

The BBC website section for Manchester, had a prelude to this years Pride weekend celebrations 3 days ago. But there was absolutely no mention of the actual events, including a parade through the city, that even the new Mayor attended!! www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/mus...

manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe 100 best pictures of Manchester Village Pride 2026The four-day Manchester Village Pride celebration has been one to remember with a rain-soaked parade and performances but spirits were never dampened

I've lost over three kg in the last 7 weeks! It just came down to controlling the amount of stuff I'm sticking in my face! Mostly is was cutting snack-like foods, which, although fruit, has a lot of natural sugar in it. Still need to drop about 40kg, so a long way to go!!!

Epstein was very clever to collect rich powerful men, to both provide underage girls, so they can protect his underage sex racket and (even though he's dead), the powers-at-be are protecting each other to prevent their secrets getting out! When that protection ends, they'll devour each other!!

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I said nothing when they came for Laurence Fox. I said nothing when they came for Russell Brand. And I said nothing when they came for Andrew Tate. And I remain perfectly comfortable with all of those decisions!

Just think... there are people who spend their day trying to find things to be outraged about. Rather than live their lives with a sense of general happiness and positivity, instead, they want to find immigrants, black people, LGBT people, so they can project their anger!

UK NEWS Expected on Monday: 12 million sudden unexpected illnesses. That it occurs on the same day England plays against Mexico in the #WorldCup is purely coincidental!!

I'm sure Nigel Ferage will be calling for pure, cold uncaring on this topic!!

Sarah Owen MP@sarahowen.org.uk

Ben Cullen, a leading figure of the "Raise the Colours" campaign, will stand trial for three separate charges regarding a total of 78 indecent images of children. I have only seen this covered in local newspapers, so far. Grim as it is, it needs wider coverage www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2624087...

The end of the blockade of Iranian ports will be a relief to importers. At least 3 container ships are expected to arrive early next week, relieving the dire situation where Iranians had run out of US and Israeli flags to burn! Flag burning is almost half of Iran's CO2 emissions and 23% of GDP!

When your wife/girlfriend ever asks "Does my bum look big in this?"... ... the answer is NEVER "Yes"!!! 🤣

John Lyon@johnlyon.bsky.social

Me: If there was a fire and you could only save me or the cat, who would you save? Wife: Me: Wife: I feel like you’ve had a good run.

You know that thing where a football team is losing games, and there's a rumour of the manager resigning, but the board of directors say "We have total confidence in the manager"?... What's the betting we'll see Labour MP's saying that have "Total confidence in Keir Starmer"?! I give him 2 weeks!

With a confession like this... you just know that it's because when #PresidentChump tried to put down a rich successful person, they quipped "Yeah, but I've never needed to claim bankruptcy... unlike you Donald!"

Press Release Central@prc4aam.bsky.social

The countdown to the 25th amendment has begun.

Not just hooked on fossil fuels, but held to random by governments bent on conflict. Nationally generated green fuels isolate consumers from global instability.

Center for Climate Integrity@climateintegrity.org

Now feels like a good time to remember that Big Oil is the reason why we're still hooked on dirty, dangerous fossil fuels. The industry's lies have essentially stolen a generation’s worth of time that we could have used to transition to cleaner, safer energy sources. It’s time for accountability.

I've been saying something similar for years... and their self-prophesising mindset is that god put them in power to be able to make this happen! It's a dangerous feedback loop!!!

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