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Monica Parker

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Author, speaker, researcher, Wonderbringer. Studying if altered states of wonder make better leaders. Follow for wonderbased research & rocket fuel 🚀

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Monica Parker @monicacparker.bsky.social · May 14

Keir Starmer is my MP. This is the letter I wrote to him today.

Subject: Island of Strangers?

Mr Starmer,

Let me tell you about this ‘stranger’.

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Monica Parker @monicacparker.bsky.social · Sep 1

Me too!!

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Aug 3

“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

The Invention of “Sesame Street”

Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

www.newyorker.com

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Monica Parker @monicacparker.bsky.social · Aug 2

Loves me some Yayoi!

Monica Parker @monicacparker.bsky.social · Jul 17

Stockholm Syndrome?

Monica Parker @monicacparker.bsky.social · Jun 28

Nope. That honour belongs to Cameron. He put it to a vote. Farage just took the foreign money and rode the wave of Cambridge Analytica misinfo. He’s a pig but Brexit would’ve been a pipe dream if Cameron didn’t try to save his hide by putting it to referendum.

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Monica Parker @monicacparker.bsky.social · Jun 27

Can parents opt out of their children learning about Christianity or heterosexuality? Seems an absurd slippery slope and one that is sure to make LGBTQ kids and families feel otherised and less safe.

Monica Parker @monicacparker.bsky.social · Jun 26

When I was younger, I was a homicide investigator working for the defense teams representing Florida’s Death Row inmates. I visited these men and women and knew them as humans. Some were innocent. Many were not, but neither were they animals deserving of extermination. It is a barbaric practice.

Monica Parker @monicacparker.bsky.social · Jun 22

Wow. Pass the Pigs is taking me back!! And I didn’t realise it was found on both sides of the Atlantic. Love it!!

Monica Parker @monicacparker.bsky.social · Jun 16

The public transport is so clean. I hear some people complain about it and I think they have never seen public transport in other places!

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IMIX @imixuk.bsky.social · Jun 10

Stunning photo essay which powerfully demonstrates the pain families separated by huge visa fees experience. With a govt review due photographer Frankie Mills & @rfuk.bsky.social tell the stories of those whose lives are turned upside down by this hostile policy

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

In limbo: families hoping for change to UK income rules for spousal visas

Photographer Frankie Mills documents the lives of nine families whose stories illustrate the human cost of this policy threshold

www.theguardian.com

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Monica Parker @monicacparker.bsky.social · Jun 3

I went to uni in Miami in the 90s. What a walk down memory lane this was!!!

Miami Herald @miamiherald.com · Jun 3

Lums once served beer-steamed hot dogs in Miami, while CocoWalk and Bayside spurred lively retail and social trends.

Miami used to look like that? See old nightclubs, restaurants and stores

Lums once served beer-steamed hot dogs in Miami, while CocoWalk and Bayside spurred lively retail and social trends.

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · May 31

It is also the 150th anniversary of the birth of Norwegian psychologist Helga Eng, who in the 1920s was noted for her studies of the development of children's artistic capacities and sense of visualization. She passed away in 1966.

#WomenInSTEM #PsychSky #ChildrensDevelopment #BookSky

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Monica Parker @monicacparker.bsky.social · May 29

I’m not even gonna read this. With a headline like this it deserves an instant repost.

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · May 29

Feathers are flying after a dignified celebration of Westphalia was tainted by a ‘blasphemous’ performance that included plucked fowl dressed in nappies

Outrage over dancing chickens and topless men in German cathedral

Feathers are flying after a dignified celebration of Westphalia was tainted by a ‘blasphemous’ performance that included plucked fowl dressed in nappies

www.thetimes.com

Monica Parker @monicacparker.bsky.social · May 28

Reverse rainbow!
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Monica Parker @monicacparker.bsky.social · May 27

Any breakdown of the funding going to men vs women owned businesses?

Monica Parker @monicacparker.bsky.social · May 18

We pay ours £20/hr through the WeCasa app. His name is Carlton and he is the most calming presence in our home. Lovely guy.

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Monica Parker @monicacparker.bsky.social · May 17

I’m sorry. I have immigrant family in the US and understand.

Monica Parker @monicacparker.bsky.social · May 15

I think we can do both. I feel your concern that by criticising Starmer we set ourselves up for a worse option. The same was said in the US. But the Dems didn’t listen & that’s why they lost. And that’s why Labour will lose. Not because we criticise them but because they won’t listen to us. ✌️

Monica Parker @monicacparker.bsky.social · May 15

I’m also fond of oik and numpty 😂

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Monica Parker @monicacparker.bsky.social · May 15

Me too! He’s a dream. 😍

Monica Parker @monicacparker.bsky.social · May 15

Just a big mouth lol!

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Monica Parker @monicacparker.bsky.social · May 15

Three cheers for the middle-aged American to Nordy student immigration pipeline! 😂

Monica Parker @monicacparker.bsky.social · May 15

That made me giggle. Thank you 😂. I may also have to tut loudly and make a cuppa in protest!

Monica Parker @monicacparker.bsky.social · May 15

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Monica Parker @monicacparker.bsky.social · May 15

I needed a lawyer b/c as a consultant I travelled out of the UK so much I had to prove each trip was for a specific client etc. 🫠 I hear ya on the dreams! Mine was panicked calls to my US banks asking for EACH PAGE of my ENTIRE BANKING HISTORY to be notarised & sent overnight to make a deadline.