Michelle

After 26 years in Newcastle, I think today I become a proper Geordie as I attempt to get Sam Fender tickets. Wish me luck 🤞

Very much looking forward to listening to this later, not least because Hankinson’s Raoul Moat book is a great book so I look forward to this next one.

A bad week for Trump and co?

After a 8 weeks of not been able to run every week my time at #parkrun must have been so slow even my Strava couldn’t be bothered to record it 🤣

drilling for more gas then telling us to stockpile because of the climate crisis is like digging a deeper and deeper hole because you know a guy who sells long ladders

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Such an incomprehensible lack of self awareness. If I had done what she did to this country, I would simply curl up in a ball and never leave the house. But no, she is constantly wanging on about how everyone failed but her.

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The horror of learning from @thenorthernagenda.bsky.social that Dominic Cummings lives in the NE and that he was spouting crap at Newcastle Uni recently like he has never been anywhere near govt. This man should be ignored, the lying little weasel, for what he wrought on this country.

Tyne Pride at Wallsend, 1976, photo by Chris Killip. Biggest ship ever built on the Tyne, but also one of the last.

Jackdaw will not bring down bills or protect jobs. This is an irresponsible decision from a government that seems to care more about the profits of fossil fuel companies than the money in your pocket or the safety of our planet.

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I have nothing more eloquent to say on this than fuck’s sake.

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

Approving the Jackdaw gas field solves none of our problems, while contributing to the existential crisis of climate breakdown. The government has privileged special interests above the general interest. It's a shameful, cowardly decision.

jackdaw drilling is labour 100% telling everyone they don't care about the climate or the environment. they shouldn't be allowed to get us all killed just bcos shell 'lobbied'( bribed ) them. im sick and tired of how corrupt this government is.

Youngest and are heading to Liverpool for the day to see the eldest.

I like cake. Also, I have grown two humans inside me.

Ordered my @talk90stome.bsky.social patreon perk mug today, which will bring my @podmastersuk.bsky.social mugs to seven and may cause my husband to lose his mind (he has one mug he uses, I have a rotation 🤣)

The freeport and Houchen have been a disaster for Teesside that has quietly continued in the background with only very occasional coverage outside the area. I genuinely don’t know how he keeps getting voted in.

These people are fucking desperate for violence in this country. It is disturbing.

No parkrun for me today, instead a 9am train to Leeds for the uni open day. Completely in denial that my baby is looking at unis already 😭

This is an interesting point in Emma’s thread. My husband has been a British citizen since 2006 but worked here since 2000 so will still be counted as a foreign national “taking” a British job.

So they're at it again 🙄 Torturing valid HMRC data to create wildly misleading headlines, designed to invoke fear and anger about immigrants. Same old, same old... (and you'll see just how old shortly!) 🧵1/28

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This was fascinating. All the deep dives are so interesting but this was something else.

One of the four songs recorded on this day in 2003.

An interesting thread, well worth a read

Went to see the filmed version of Hadestown tonight, stunning. Looking forward to the tour next year

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This is also just empirically untrue as a matter of reading consumption: women do, in fact, read books by men. It’s men who do not read books by women. I suspect the reason is not “biological.”

My kid has started a Letterboxd list called Killer Sweaters for films where the killer wears a great sweater and they've asked me to throw it out to Bluesky for more because "that's the kind of thing those weirdos like to do"

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wtf?

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Beautiful blue sky but cold for #parkrun this morning. Missed the last three weeks so today was a little struggle but I did it. 💪🏻

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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I’m going to start calling it Super Intelligence right after I start calling twitter “X.”

On this day 40 years ago, Michael drove from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Boulder, Colorado (where the band were playing the following night), in a rental car with his friend Georgina Falzarano. He wrote about this specific journey in ‘You Are the Everything’.

The Tories want an Iron Dome?

If you care about democracy & justice, centre Brazil’s election. A global right-wing kleptocratic criminal network, led by powerful forces in the US, Israel and Russia, is operating across borders. No democracy can withstand this in isolation. Just Democracies need a global coalition of their own.

Badenoch on #R4Today claiming the Tories’ problems started with the Coalition when they “had to make compromises” and were perceived as “not proper Conservatives”. Cameron/Osbourne absolutely steamrollered the Lib Dems, got all they wanted, and left Clegg &c. as patsies. What is she on?

I feel like stories like this aren’t getting anywhere near enough traction (maybe that is just me not seeing it). This is terrible, not least as someone about to start the uni open day carousel again, but for staff, students and the wider uni sector.

Words cannot express what I feel about Sodha. Arguing to allow conversion practices. 🤬

I waited until Sunday morning coffee to listen and enjoy this and was not disappointed. The entire Liz section - the voice! - was delightful. I await further updates from her.

Jerry Hall shared a bed with Rupert Murdoch, so being buried alive shouldn't have phased her. #TheCelebrityTraitors #TheCelebrityTraitorsUK #CelebrityTraitors #CelebrityTraitorsUK #Traitors #TraitorsUK