Fionna O’Leary
@fascinatorfun.bsky.social
Retired Lawyer, cook, Europhile, books, music, good conversations, gardens, walking. Bird site refugee 🇬🇧 🇮🇪
Look at this for examples.
What possible excuse can there be for suggesting a person come off prescribed medicine, up the dose of ketamine and suggest the person might fly if he jumped off the 19th floor?
What possible excuse can there be for suggesting a person come off prescribed medicine, up the dose of ketamine and suggest the person might fly if he jumped off the 19th floor?
November 18, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Look at this for examples.
What possible excuse can there be for suggesting a person come off prescribed medicine, up the dose of ketamine and suggest the person might fly if he jumped off the 19th floor?
What possible excuse can there be for suggesting a person come off prescribed medicine, up the dose of ketamine and suggest the person might fly if he jumped off the 19th floor?
H/t @martinmckee.bsky.social who recommends this book by @lucyaash.bsky.social …how Putin uses the Russian Orthodox Church to control the population, stripping it of its spiritual purpose.
Gill comes over as a useful idiot.
Gill comes over as a useful idiot.
November 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
H/t @martinmckee.bsky.social who recommends this book by @lucyaash.bsky.social …how Putin uses the Russian Orthodox Church to control the population, stripping it of its spiritual purpose.
Gill comes over as a useful idiot.
Gill comes over as a useful idiot.
We would do well to remember history.
This “voyage of the damned“ in 1939 was but one of many where Jews fleeing Germany were turned away from one country after another. Maybe they, too, had jewellery sewn into the lining of their coats in the hope they could keep some currency for safety.
This “voyage of the damned“ in 1939 was but one of many where Jews fleeing Germany were turned away from one country after another. Maybe they, too, had jewellery sewn into the lining of their coats in the hope they could keep some currency for safety.
November 17, 2025 at 10:06 AM
We would do well to remember history.
This “voyage of the damned“ in 1939 was but one of many where Jews fleeing Germany were turned away from one country after another. Maybe they, too, had jewellery sewn into the lining of their coats in the hope they could keep some currency for safety.
This “voyage of the damned“ in 1939 was but one of many where Jews fleeing Germany were turned away from one country after another. Maybe they, too, had jewellery sewn into the lining of their coats in the hope they could keep some currency for safety.
I’ve visited Sarande on the SW of Albania in Oct 2016
Huge sweeping sandy bay …excellent for 3 people with change from 5€
Clear that there was much poverty behind the sea front, but also a sense of determination to beat it.
Would be very interested in revisiting now -9 years later
Huge sweeping sandy bay …excellent for 3 people with change from 5€
Clear that there was much poverty behind the sea front, but also a sense of determination to beat it.
Would be very interested in revisiting now -9 years later
November 17, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I’ve visited Sarande on the SW of Albania in Oct 2016
Huge sweeping sandy bay …excellent for 3 people with change from 5€
Clear that there was much poverty behind the sea front, but also a sense of determination to beat it.
Would be very interested in revisiting now -9 years later
Huge sweeping sandy bay …excellent for 3 people with change from 5€
Clear that there was much poverty behind the sea front, but also a sense of determination to beat it.
Would be very interested in revisiting now -9 years later
She is the daughter of immigrants from Pakistan.
Perhaps she thinks they should be sent back?
Perhaps she thinks they should be sent back?
November 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
She is the daughter of immigrants from Pakistan.
Perhaps she thinks they should be sent back?
Perhaps she thinks they should be sent back?
Immigration is NOT tearing this country apart.
Politicians like Farage and Mahmodo are tearing it apart by their divisive rhetoric and dishonest framing of the known facts behind immigration.
I despise them for it.
Now 10 years here isn’t long enough. It has to be 20 years.
What a disgrace.
Politicians like Farage and Mahmodo are tearing it apart by their divisive rhetoric and dishonest framing of the known facts behind immigration.
I despise them for it.
Now 10 years here isn’t long enough. It has to be 20 years.
What a disgrace.
November 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Immigration is NOT tearing this country apart.
Politicians like Farage and Mahmodo are tearing it apart by their divisive rhetoric and dishonest framing of the known facts behind immigration.
I despise them for it.
Now 10 years here isn’t long enough. It has to be 20 years.
What a disgrace.
Politicians like Farage and Mahmodo are tearing it apart by their divisive rhetoric and dishonest framing of the known facts behind immigration.
I despise them for it.
Now 10 years here isn’t long enough. It has to be 20 years.
What a disgrace.
More illegal fly tipping resulting in fears of toxic waste run off into the nearby River Cherwell, near Kidlington
An organised crime group is suspected.
The tip is estimated by the BBC to be 150m (490ft) long and 6m (20ft) high appeared in the span of 1 month.
apple.news/AKuooST2hSp6...
An organised crime group is suspected.
The tip is estimated by the BBC to be 150m (490ft) long and 6m (20ft) high appeared in the span of 1 month.
apple.news/AKuooST2hSp6...
November 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM
More illegal fly tipping resulting in fears of toxic waste run off into the nearby River Cherwell, near Kidlington
An organised crime group is suspected.
The tip is estimated by the BBC to be 150m (490ft) long and 6m (20ft) high appeared in the span of 1 month.
apple.news/AKuooST2hSp6...
An organised crime group is suspected.
The tip is estimated by the BBC to be 150m (490ft) long and 6m (20ft) high appeared in the span of 1 month.
apple.news/AKuooST2hSp6...
Alongside his post at the Palace, he was working in another realm — as an organiser in the upper ranks of an international white supremacist movement.
Read more here. In the undercover tapes
Read more here. In the undercover tapes
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Alongside his post at the Palace, he was working in another realm — as an organiser in the upper ranks of an international white supremacist movement.
Read more here. In the undercover tapes
Read more here. In the undercover tapes
And the UK’s NHS despite reluctance from NHS trusts both on security and functional grounds….
….and defence, our National security.
And remember Theil & Musk have been business buddies and appear to share highly dangerous values.
….and defence, our National security.
And remember Theil & Musk have been business buddies and appear to share highly dangerous values.
November 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
And the UK’s NHS despite reluctance from NHS trusts both on security and functional grounds….
….and defence, our National security.
And remember Theil & Musk have been business buddies and appear to share highly dangerous values.
….and defence, our National security.
And remember Theil & Musk have been business buddies and appear to share highly dangerous values.
In America the revolving door is very clear across several arms of Government
And Peter Theil has a finger in most of these pies.
But this is now spreading to Europe.
Including the U.K.
And Peter Theil has a finger in most of these pies.
But this is now spreading to Europe.
Including the U.K.
November 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
In America the revolving door is very clear across several arms of Government
And Peter Theil has a finger in most of these pies.
But this is now spreading to Europe.
Including the U.K.
And Peter Theil has a finger in most of these pies.
But this is now spreading to Europe.
Including the U.K.
I’m sure it was only last week that I ready that Michele Mone was purchasing a £10 million house.
Yet here it says her and Barrowman’s PPE Medpro owe £39 million in taxes… not to mention repaying the £multi millions for duff PPE
Yet here it says her and Barrowman’s PPE Medpro owe £39 million in taxes… not to mention repaying the £multi millions for duff PPE
November 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I’m sure it was only last week that I ready that Michele Mone was purchasing a £10 million house.
Yet here it says her and Barrowman’s PPE Medpro owe £39 million in taxes… not to mention repaying the £multi millions for duff PPE
Yet here it says her and Barrowman’s PPE Medpro owe £39 million in taxes… not to mention repaying the £multi millions for duff PPE
“If you’re going to do it, you need to think carefully and deliver a space that people actually want to live in.”
New white goods, insulation, new radiators.
And he still makes a decent profit.
apple.news/AoV1LX5GgRvO...
New white goods, insulation, new radiators.
And he still makes a decent profit.
apple.news/AoV1LX5GgRvO...
November 5, 2025 at 8:43 AM
“If you’re going to do it, you need to think carefully and deliver a space that people actually want to live in.”
New white goods, insulation, new radiators.
And he still makes a decent profit.
apple.news/AoV1LX5GgRvO...
New white goods, insulation, new radiators.
And he still makes a decent profit.
apple.news/AoV1LX5GgRvO...
H/t @jeffm2018.bsky.social for this link to US data.
367 mass shooting in 2025
189 children killed by gun violence and a further 414 injured.
bsky.app/profile/jeff...
367 mass shooting in 2025
189 children killed by gun violence and a further 414 injured.
bsky.app/profile/jeff...
November 3, 2025 at 10:16 AM
H/t @jeffm2018.bsky.social for this link to US data.
367 mass shooting in 2025
189 children killed by gun violence and a further 414 injured.
bsky.app/profile/jeff...
367 mass shooting in 2025
189 children killed by gun violence and a further 414 injured.
bsky.app/profile/jeff...
New York Times Oct 2024.
“DONALD TRUMP SAYS HE WILL PROSECUTE HIS ENEMIES ORDER MASS DEPORTATIONS USE SOLDIERS AGAINST CITIZENS PLAY POLITICS WITH DISASTERS ABANDON ALLIES,” the cover warned in all-capital letters. “BELIEVE HIM.”
Yes. Well 🇺🇸. How are you doing?
“DONALD TRUMP SAYS HE WILL PROSECUTE HIS ENEMIES ORDER MASS DEPORTATIONS USE SOLDIERS AGAINST CITIZENS PLAY POLITICS WITH DISASTERS ABANDON ALLIES,” the cover warned in all-capital letters. “BELIEVE HIM.”
Yes. Well 🇺🇸. How are you doing?
November 2, 2025 at 8:17 AM
New York Times Oct 2024.
“DONALD TRUMP SAYS HE WILL PROSECUTE HIS ENEMIES ORDER MASS DEPORTATIONS USE SOLDIERS AGAINST CITIZENS PLAY POLITICS WITH DISASTERS ABANDON ALLIES,” the cover warned in all-capital letters. “BELIEVE HIM.”
Yes. Well 🇺🇸. How are you doing?
“DONALD TRUMP SAYS HE WILL PROSECUTE HIS ENEMIES ORDER MASS DEPORTATIONS USE SOLDIERS AGAINST CITIZENS PLAY POLITICS WITH DISASTERS ABANDON ALLIES,” the cover warned in all-capital letters. “BELIEVE HIM.”
Yes. Well 🇺🇸. How are you doing?
Props to Kuldeep Maan, principal trading standards officer, Dudley Council & shame SHAME on West Midlands Police who devoted all of 2 days to”investigating” this before deciding it wasn’t a crime.
Well : Judge and jury have decided differently and these care home ghouls are due to be sentenced.
Well : Judge and jury have decided differently and these care home ghouls are due to be sentenced.
November 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Props to Kuldeep Maan, principal trading standards officer, Dudley Council & shame SHAME on West Midlands Police who devoted all of 2 days to”investigating” this before deciding it wasn’t a crime.
Well : Judge and jury have decided differently and these care home ghouls are due to be sentenced.
Well : Judge and jury have decided differently and these care home ghouls are due to be sentenced.
“Soon after, she was in Kenya when the King died on 6 February 1952, and Elizabeth became Queen when Charles was just three.”
Not so much Andrew aka “Baby Grumplings” or, more tellingly from Prince Philip “The Boss”
apple.news/ANY5JRowKRSe...
Not so much Andrew aka “Baby Grumplings” or, more tellingly from Prince Philip “The Boss”
apple.news/ANY5JRowKRSe...
November 1, 2025 at 11:59 AM
“Soon after, she was in Kenya when the King died on 6 February 1952, and Elizabeth became Queen when Charles was just three.”
Not so much Andrew aka “Baby Grumplings” or, more tellingly from Prince Philip “The Boss”
apple.news/ANY5JRowKRSe...
Not so much Andrew aka “Baby Grumplings” or, more tellingly from Prince Philip “The Boss”
apple.news/ANY5JRowKRSe...
This development from 🦋 might help
If I see someone is doing a thread I generally press on a post and whizz up to the top and start reading….
Or go to their feed, having given them time to finish it, and pick it up there from post one.
If I see someone is doing a thread I generally press on a post and whizz up to the top and start reading….
Or go to their feed, having given them time to finish it, and pick it up there from post one.
October 31, 2025 at 9:32 PM
This development from 🦋 might help
If I see someone is doing a thread I generally press on a post and whizz up to the top and start reading….
Or go to their feed, having given them time to finish it, and pick it up there from post one.
If I see someone is doing a thread I generally press on a post and whizz up to the top and start reading….
Or go to their feed, having given them time to finish it, and pick it up there from post one.
It isn’t just that what Badenoch did was much worse in that it was a criminal imprisonable offence… but also because the responsibility was all hers…whereas Reeve’s agents have admitted it was their responsibility & fault that the licence was not applied for
October 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
It isn’t just that what Badenoch did was much worse in that it was a criminal imprisonable offence… but also because the responsibility was all hers…whereas Reeve’s agents have admitted it was their responsibility & fault that the licence was not applied for
But this from Caitlin Moran (is she not on here) is much more on the money - especially if you stay away from Gobshite Corner - which is what X should be called.
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
October 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
But this from Caitlin Moran (is she not on here) is much more on the money - especially if you stay away from Gobshite Corner - which is what X should be called.
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Lawyers using AI: including Government lawyers…beware
There is now an incredibly useful database of the use of “hallucinating“ AI in casework.
So a disciplinary hearing could be coming your way if you rely on it. Or try and hide the fact that you did.
There is now an incredibly useful database of the use of “hallucinating“ AI in casework.
So a disciplinary hearing could be coming your way if you rely on it. Or try and hide the fact that you did.
October 29, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Lawyers using AI: including Government lawyers…beware
There is now an incredibly useful database of the use of “hallucinating“ AI in casework.
So a disciplinary hearing could be coming your way if you rely on it. Or try and hide the fact that you did.
There is now an incredibly useful database of the use of “hallucinating“ AI in casework.
So a disciplinary hearing could be coming your way if you rely on it. Or try and hide the fact that you did.
That Gobshite 1, Musk, is suggesting the “ENGLISH“ (NB. Not U.K. Citizens or even British) should ally with that other Gobshite, 2, Tommy Robinson…(funded by Musk) & “fight for their existence or they shall surely die”
I’ll “fight back” alright. It’s your patriotic duty to say
#GobShitesBeGone.
I’ll “fight back” alright. It’s your patriotic duty to say
#GobShitesBeGone.
October 29, 2025 at 9:38 AM
That Gobshite 1, Musk, is suggesting the “ENGLISH“ (NB. Not U.K. Citizens or even British) should ally with that other Gobshite, 2, Tommy Robinson…(funded by Musk) & “fight for their existence or they shall surely die”
I’ll “fight back” alright. It’s your patriotic duty to say
#GobShitesBeGone.
I’ll “fight back” alright. It’s your patriotic duty to say
#GobShitesBeGone.
Some NEVER walked for 5 mins continuously?
How is that possible?
I guess if you never go out…or go out only as far as your car.
TBH 15 mins of continuous walking seems a very low bar.
I’m guessing those walking for under 5 mins continuously might already be pretty ill? Correlation v causation.
How is that possible?
I guess if you never go out…or go out only as far as your car.
TBH 15 mins of continuous walking seems a very low bar.
I’m guessing those walking for under 5 mins continuously might already be pretty ill? Correlation v causation.
October 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Some NEVER walked for 5 mins continuously?
How is that possible?
I guess if you never go out…or go out only as far as your car.
TBH 15 mins of continuous walking seems a very low bar.
I’m guessing those walking for under 5 mins continuously might already be pretty ill? Correlation v causation.
How is that possible?
I guess if you never go out…or go out only as far as your car.
TBH 15 mins of continuous walking seems a very low bar.
I’m guessing those walking for under 5 mins continuously might already be pretty ill? Correlation v causation.
But here’s 6 golden golf balls….we know how you like your gold from your Oval Office décor.
Ah. Another groped old bloke to navigate. I’m used to it.
Ah. Another groped old bloke to navigate. I’m used to it.
October 29, 2025 at 7:29 AM
But here’s 6 golden golf balls….we know how you like your gold from your Oval Office décor.
Ah. Another groped old bloke to navigate. I’m used to it.
Ah. Another groped old bloke to navigate. I’m used to it.