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Oliver Conway
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Neurodivergent Solicitor specialising in complex family matters. Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year finalist 2021 & 2024. Lawyers Who Care Champion. #Legalsky #Neurodivergent #Legalaid 🏳️‍🌈
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My client who has been called incapable by people who should know better, in a final hearing all week, took the time to make me these bracelets overnight.

They mean “seek happiness” 🥺
June 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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A great post day.

My physical copy of the Legal Workers Inquiry which contains my essay
“A Day In The Life of A High Street Legal Aid Lawyer”

Only 200 copies exist but it will be freely available online after the launch in May.
Cover of the legal workers inquiry publication
February 24, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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I mean some plucky start up has to bring this back. The cans alone would be enough to fill the recycling boxes of north London 🤭
A can of Quatro fizzy juice drink from the 80s featuring a post modern colourful design.
February 11, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Reunited with one of my favourite photographs.

Taken by my brother at the student protests in 2010.

A reminder that protest however futile is often an act of simple defiance against despair.
A black and white photo in a white frame of two police officers arresting a smiling young man at the student protests. Photograph by Harry F Conway
February 11, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Stylistically I always go for Demolition Man 🤭
Nigel Hawthorne sitting in maroon robes in a large leather chair in the film demolition man
February 11, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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For the Adam in your life 🤭
#valentines
Appleas with I LOVE YOU crisply written on their flesh
February 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Stefan Zweig: the generation of our time, which was loaded down with a burden of fate as was hardly any other in the course of history!

2025: Hold my beer!
I HAvE never attached so much importance to my own person that I would have been tempted to tell others the story of my life. Much had to occur, infinitely more events, catastrophes, and trials than are usually allotted to a single generation had to come to pass, before I found the courage to begin a book in which I was the principal person or, better still, the pivotal point. Nothing is further from my thought than to take so prominent a place unless it be in the role of a narrator at an illustrated lecture. Time gives the pictures; I merely speak the words which accompany them. Actually, it is not so much the course of my own destiny that I relate, but that of an entire generation, the generation of our time, which was loaded down with a burden of fate as was hardly any other in the course of history. Each one of us, even the smallest and the most insigni-ficant, has been shaken in the depths of his being by the almost unceasing volcanic eruptions of our European earth. I know of no pre-eminence that I can claim, in the midst of the multitude, except this: that as an Austrian, a Jew, an author, a humanist, and a pacifist, I have always stood at the exact point where these earthquakes were the most violent. Three times they have overthrown my house and my existence, severed me from the past and all that was, and hurled me with dramatic force into the void, into the "I know not whither" which I know so well. But I do not regret this. The homeless man becomes free in a new sense; and only he who has lost all ties need have no arrière-pensée. And so I hope at least to be able to fulfil one of the chief conditions of any fair portrayal of an era; namely, ,, honesty and impartiality.
February 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Without downloading any new pictures, where are you mentally?
Annoyed kitten with angy face!
February 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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#blackhistorymonth
#blackscifi
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery. Octavia E. Butler
February 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Back from a social media detox following a period of quite brutal burn out before Christmas.

Lots of interesting things to promote this year but also wanted to humble brag about last year’s achievements.

Apparently neurodivergent people don’t recognise our own achievements so here goes 🤭🙏
Achievements 2024 Assisted 5 mothers ensuring their babies were not removed at birth Did over 100+ hours of probono private law work not in scope of legal aid Started working with my Lawyers Who Care Mentee Wrote my grandfather's eulogy Nominated as a Finalist legal aid lawyer of the year Became a monthly columnist for Legal Action Magazine Organised a conference on attendance and the SJP Spoke at the festival of Education Appeared on NZ breakfast TV Quoted in the The Observer and The Times print newspapers Appeared on BBC Scotland Podcast The cruelty Had my first essay published in a book (out 2025)
January 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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This all staff email is the reason I don’t work from home 🤭
An elf has been spotted desperately making their way to the (upper) ground floor of 87 Lancaster Road! It is speculated that the elf could no longer endure the torture inflicted by a certain member of staff. The elf maintains that he had nothing to do with the cancellation of the art exhibition! Is Elfie telling the truth? You decide... join the movement #SaveElfie
December 5, 2024 at 10:40 AM
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Noam Chomsky was very on point about this.
The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information. - Noam Chomsky
December 3, 2024 at 7:43 PM
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Me, a family lawyer, when the threshold document is not Re:A compliant.
Ridiculous Guiliani losing it in court
November 27, 2024 at 8:44 AM
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Definitely not Christmas yet. But when you are in a Swiss place, you get offered mulled wine at 10am.
Milo the dog looking at a cheese and pickle toastie in awe.
November 24, 2024 at 10:47 AM
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Will give it a look I am loving Emily Jungmin Yoon at the mo
Vow I love you; I don't know how else to begin. How we began, though, was almost as if it were already written. The details of how we arrived at each other, to say I love you even as we fall asleep, to let each other's name be the first sound we utter every morning, can only be a gift of careful construction, a design of an elsewhere where we were already together. Saying nothing, you make me want to live more meaningfully. The world is so wild, beautiful, and terrifying, and everywhere we turn, a new atrocity. Then, I close my eyes and picture joy. Among things, there is this day. Among faces, there is yours. And I am no longer afraid. I watch you in your own, quiet moments, and I want this life. I want this life to be longer. All I want is more time with you. I love you. This is the only way I know how to end. -Emily Jungmin Yoon
November 22, 2024 at 7:34 PM
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I needed to read this several times today. Sums up my view on why I feel a lot more less stressed here🦋
"The world is violent and mercurial-it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love--love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love." Tennessee Williams
November 21, 2024 at 7:12 PM
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Stop! If you see this post, repost with your cat 🐈

Hello traveller I am Mici purrrrrrrr
Mici the cat being very relaxed on her red velvet sofa
November 21, 2024 at 10:55 AM
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Post you from a different era, 2014, the Californian Desert (Where else would an 👽 be?)
A British hipster in the Californian desert in 2014
November 20, 2024 at 10:50 PM
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Good morning !
Cartoon by ketnips depicting a pink blob reaching out for financial freedom and the panel below depicts a giant bottle of olive oil next to the blob showing why they will never reach financial freedom
November 19, 2024 at 7:44 AM
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Whenever the daily mail editors get a chicken katsu wrap by accident in the meal deal.
November 18, 2024 at 1:09 PM
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If the PM wants to make good on this claim he must reform LA funding and management.

It cannot simply be that we farm off even more children’s care to the private sector.
November 18, 2024 at 8:53 AM
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Someone in Cheetos marketing team was read this book at night as a kid 🥹
November 18, 2024 at 7:00 AM
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For anyone who hasn’t read it. My book of the year.

Eliza Clark is a writer who gets British Dread perfectly, and is one of our finest contemporary science fiction authors.👽

Also if you want people to buy your book make it this gorgeous. 👌
November 17, 2024 at 1:50 PM
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All this talk of echo chambers brings me back to my 2014 visit to the INTEGRATRON in the Californian desert.

An incredible feat of engineering - an echo chamber built in part by its creator’s interpretation of alien’s telepathic guidance. 👽

We had a sound bath which felt incredible.
The INTEGRATRON an echo chamber built in part by alien telepathy and run as a sound bath by 3 sisters.
November 16, 2024 at 5:08 PM
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“She admired the wildness of the satyr daring to challenge a god who maintains power by any means necessary, tracing parallels with our present political leaders, who rule not by joy and justice but by addiction to power.”

Marlene Dumas show did not disappoint. 🔥
Devil May Care page bring by Marlene Dumas
November 16, 2024 at 4:05 PM