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@sophiacollins.bsky.social

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Swearing, feminism, lefty, eco, argumentativeness, home education, science, public engagement with science. Occasional pedantry. And maybe some menopause jokes. I failed to copy over my contacts from the other place. I’ve not ditched you on purpose.

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 9h

Quite apart from the fact that they taught us at school to punctuate addresses with a comma after the number. The Royal Mail's authority does not supersede that of Mrs Doughty the english teacher.

sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 9h

Is this the most pointlessly bureaucratic email that anyone has ever received? Is there an award I can submit it for?

sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 9h

"Before we can begin to process your application, you need to log back in to the application portal and update your address. You currently have: 20, Street Name
But according to the Royal Mail postcode finder, your address is: 20 Street Name"
Are you fucking kidding me?

sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 10h

“Oh, everyone goes out in their pyjamas these days. Haven’t you been to Lidl?”
#RiotWomen is absolute genius.

sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 14h

The kind of not terribly informed voters who vote for Farage, also don’t know Brexit has been a disaster.

sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 14h

I don’t think they do, I’m afraid. I saw a thread on Mumsnet the other day, where someone asked why everything’s so expensive now, several people replied Brexit, and a bunch of other people replied, “No it’s not, you remoaners just won’t drop it, will you.”

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 19h

Surely it must be illegal to charge £4.25 for a hot chocolate, and not even give you cream and marshmallows? It feels illegal.

sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 21h

I’m exactly the same - with any intensive brain work. I have to do a lot of faffing first. I used to get really frustrated with myself, but now I just accept it’s part of my process and it’s less bothersome.

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 21h

You’re moments away from really getting stuck in!

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 22h

Why are hotels always too hot????

sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 22h

It’s a two-presenter show. Any reason why the male one is the only one you mention in the headline?

sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 22h

Every time I walk down my dad’s road some part of my brain feels my mum is going to be standing in the kitchen when I go into the house.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 23h

"A provider told me last week they had 80 applications for a job they were advertising and not one person turned up for the interview.”

Carers - who are overwhelmingly racialised - are too scared to even show up for interviews - and the UK has 130,000 job vacancies.

Do the math.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'Staff working with elderly and disabled service users have been advised to travel to work in racially mixed groups and carry panic alarms....It comes against a backdrop of charities also warning of growing intimidation, racial abuse and threats of violence towards staff and beneficiaries.'

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

www.theguardian.com

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

ALSO. ALSO. Needing us to find Europeans who condemned him for his actions at the time--and there are many! So many! My God so many!--is also some white supremacist bullshit, because the TAINO PEOPLE HE WAS MURDERING CERTAINLY CONDEMNED HIM FOR IT AND THEY WERE HUMAN BEINGS OF HIS TIME TOO.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Carole Cadwalladr was right and we’d be in a better world if more people had listened.

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 16d

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing news, we’ll await that with bated breath.
The love definitely shines through in the podcast. (And it’s the scripts that make it😀)

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 1d

No, thank you for making it! It really is the best kid’s podcast by miles. We home educate, and there’s always posts in home ed groups asking for podcast recommendations. They always go, “You have to listen to Greeking Out! It’s the best!” Then… “Here’s some other suggestions of OK podcasts.”

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 1d

OMG! I thought maybe you weren’t doing any more, as it’s been such a long gap.
My kid is going to be so excited.

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Donnacha DeLong @donnachadelong.info · 1d

Never forget that Hamas offered to release all the #hostages days after 7 Oct 2023, #Netanyahu's government said no.

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah well, I’ve watched you shit your pants, kid.

sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 2d

My offspring just told me I had, “NPC dialogue”. Because I said, “Wow, this looks nice!” twice in a row, at a buffet.

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 2d

The UN estimates that 83 percent of all structures in Gaza City were damaged or destroyed.

Gaza's vegetation, too, is largely dead. UNEP has said that 97 percent of tree crops, 95 percent of shrubs and 82 percent of annual crops are gone.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Drone footage shows the extent of destruction in Gaza City after Israel-Hamas cease-fire

The UN Estimates That 83 Percent of All Structures in Gaza City Were Damaged or Destroyed, Along With Most of Its Crops and Vegetation

www.haaretz.com

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 2d

We were at Wollaton Park this morning. Tally made me take a photo of the hall in the mist.

sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 2d

Watch out. Horny deer.

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 2d

Gaza Port, Before and After

(Abdallah El Hajj)

Two pictures of Gaza port before and after

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