Leigh Forbes

Leigh Forbes

@writeleighso.bsky.social

Books and language, nature and environment, mountains. Studying sociolinguistics and French. Also an atheist Quaker. Typographer at blot.co.uk Neurodivergent, semi-speaking. she/her

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Radio Lento
@radiolento.bsky.social

We have two bits of essential Lento kit at the tech hospital at the moment. Thoughts and prayers for fixes please (or coffees - ko-fi.com/radiolento - to deal with the costs). We're about to work on a new episode to act as a boost to the longer darker days.

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DrNaturegirl
@drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk

This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know these thugs do not speak for the rest of us. Add your name? 38d.gs/jpcf #petition #RNLI

38d.gsAn open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLIThis is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
Leigh Forbes
@writeleighso.bsky.social

Also, I wonder if Badenoch realises the financial value of having an established support-network, in terms of savings to both the economy and to healthcare services. Does she not realise that you lose that network when you move?

Leigh Forbes@writeleighso.bsky.social

Kemi Badenoch says if you can’t afford your rent (because they’ve cut your housing benefit), you should just “move somewhere cheaper”. Didn’t some politician once tell us to sell our pearls if we were struggling? (I can’t find a reference now, and am wondering if I’m gaslighting myself… anyone?)

Leigh Forbes
@writeleighso.bsky.social

Kemi Badenoch says if you can’t afford your rent (because they’ve cut your housing benefit), you should just “move somewhere cheaper”. Didn’t some politician once tell us to sell our pearls if we were struggling? (I can’t find a reference now, and am wondering if I’m gaslighting myself… anyone?)

James O’Brien@mrjamesob.bsky.social

Listening to Kemi Badenoch and feeling almost envious of a life lived entirely undisturbed by reality.

Leigh Forbes
@writeleighso.bsky.social

Wood pigeons. Still shagging in my neighbour’s tree. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours #UKBirding

Persiflage@persiflage.bsky.social

First birds of my day: a ghostly Barn Owl, shrieking in a ghastly manner as it hunted along the railway line, and a lone Robin singing sweetly from the back garden fence. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #UKBirding

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Gemma Amor
@manylittlewords.bsky.social

Replying to @manylittlewords.bsky.social

Formatting is so wildly important. Please follow submission guidelines about formatting to the letter. Reading 400+ stories is hard enough without scanning through tiny fonts, terrible line spacing, weird justification etc. Help my old eyes read you more easily.

Leigh Forbes
@writeleighso.bsky.social

Even with an exposure time of 1/4000th of a second, less than 8% of the sun’s light is still too much for my camera – only the lens flare gives it away! #OctoEclipse @OctopusEnergy

Leigh Forbes
@writeleighso.bsky.social

Jobs I have been putting off in the heat: Nice, easy, computer-based work, in the shade by an open window. Jobs I have NOT been putting off in the heat: shovelling eight barrow loads of wet sand from the front to the back of my house, in full sun. TF is wrong with me?

Leigh Forbes
@writeleighso.bsky.social

So card payments (including Apple Pay) have gone down in my local Tesco. Cash only. A few people have dashed out to the ATM, the rest of us are standing around like the helpless technophiles we are 😕