Rounding up some translations of Count Binface that have been appearing in foreign press 🇷🇴 Romanian: Contele Tomberonez 🇫🇷 French: Comte Tête-de-Poubelle (bin-head, more accurate than bin-face) 🇮🇹 Italian: Conte Faccia-da-Bidone 🇪🇸 Spanish: "un hombre con un cubo de basura en la cabeza" (!) Cont...

🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?

This is a super recap of this week's Scottish National Breastfeeding Conference! ⬇️ There is lots to celebrate and lots to keep working on 👏

LLL Collective@lllcollective.org.uk · 5mo ago

Celebrating successful breastfeeding numbers at Scotland’s National Breastfeeding Conference today!

Good afternoon from the #APPGIFI meeting in @ukparliament.parliament.uk chaired by @jessbrownfullermp.bsky.social. The APPG was reconstituted in the AGM before the public segment of the meeting, with the full name of APPG on Infant Feeding and Inequalities restored

This is brilliant "After thousands of interactions where you’ve monitored and managed your authentic responses to maintain social harmony, something in your system starts breaking down. Not because you’re broken, but because the system was never meant to run this way indefinitely."

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Ah, the science of being all out of fucks. www.blog.lifebranches.com/p/aging-out-...

Dear @the-rsc.bsky.social. My teenage Macbeth superfan daughter & I are still buzzing after seeing the brilliant Macbeth performance Monday night at The Other Place. We’d go again in a heartbeat. My daughter did this artwork, which Sam Heughan was gracious enough to sign afterwards 🤩 👑 🗡️

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

I escaped poverty because I am a scientist. And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation. A 🧵:

We're back after lunch for the last session, welcomed back by @ndzitina.bsky.social, chair for this afternoon #BFConf She's had us all on our feet applauding the Baby Friendly team, & ourselves for the work that we do 👏🏿👏🏾👏🏽👏🏼👏🏻 You can see some of Ernestine's work here www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs8C...

Breastfeeding: Not on the Agenda

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Illiyin's talk was so moving and powerful. We all have lots of work to do here!

LLL Collective@lllcollective.org.uk · 9mo ago

Next up is Illiyin Morrison speaking on Racism, perinatal choice and body autonomy Morrison is a specialist perinatal trauma midwife, debrief faciitator, anti racism educator, author (and baker on series 15 of GBBO 🍰)

Welcome back after the break. Next up is @drnaomidowibclc.bsky.social speaking about “It’s Not Thrush!”: Challenging the Candida Narrative Naomi is a GP, IBCLC and founding member of MiLC - Medics' Lactation Community #BFConf

Next up we are hearing from @philbakernz.bsky.social on The political economy of infant and young child feeding: confronting corporate power, overcoming structural barriers, and accelerating progress #BFConf

Good morning from Day 2 of the @unicef-uk.bsky.social Baby Friendly Initiative Annual Conference in Telford. @vicky-thomas.bsky.social welcomed us back to this very special conference, describing it as a combination of an academic symposium, a hen party and a therapy session 😄 #BFConf

Back from the break for the last session of the day with Britta Stordal speaking about how Breastfeeding reduces the risk of breast cancer, a call for action in high income countries with low rates of breastfeeding #BFConf

Next Yafa Ajweh and Reem Al Soufi of the Gaza Infant Nutrition Alliance (GINA) will be speaking about S-upporting, protecting & sustaining breastfeeding in conflict zones Al Soufi begins by speaking about how bf her daughter in October 2023 moved her to work to support other parents #BFConf

Welcome back after lunch. Vicky Sibson of @1stepsnutrition.bsky.social is chairing this afternoon's session. Karen Read is speaking now about 10 years of the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Neonatal Standards #BFConf

Welcome back to the 2025 Baby Friendly Conference #BFConf. We're hearing now from @aaloysius.bsky.social who is speaking now about what supports mothers of very preterm babies to start & continue breastmilk feeding in neonatal units

Now morning chair @profamcf.bsky.social is introducing Anna Byrom from @all4maternity.bsky.social whose talk is called From Ravines to Relationships:
Building bridges with Baby Friendly

Good morning from the 2025 Baby Friendly Conference in Telford. Philip Goodwin, head of @unicef-uk.bsky.social is welcoming everyone to the largest ever #BFConf Goodwin: Globally UNICEF is looking to strengthen systems that protect children globally. We must ensure children's rights are upheld

I'm looking forward to being back in-person at Baby Friendly and helping people follow along! #BFConf

LLL Collective@lllcollective.org.uk · 9mo ago

It's this week! @unicef-uk.bsky.social's Annual #BabyFriendlyConference is back in person in Telford Wednesday & Thursday at the #TelfordInternationalCentre. If you can't make it follow along here & with #BFConf. Timetable www.unicef.org.uk/babyfriendly...

From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz@katz.theracket.news · 10mo ago

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

CHT co-founder Tristan Harris returns to "The Daily Show" for an incisive conversation about the reckless AI path we're on, driven by the race to achieve market dominance: "This is an insane way to roll out a technology." Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=675d_6WGPbo

Tristan Harris – The Dangers of Unregulated AI on Humanity & the Workforce | The Daily Show

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You gotta give ‘em hop.

History rhymes, and we can learn from the cadence.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

🏳️‍⚧️ Trans people, and the queer community, deserve a regulator that stands up for their rights - free from interference or political bias. https://www.wearequeeraf.com/freedom-of-information-request-uncovers-gender-critical-bias-within-ehrc/

Freedom of information request uncovers gender critical bias within EHRC

A new investigation has revealed significant lobbying efforts by gender critical groups.

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Good afternoon from the APPG on Infant Feeding and Inequalities chaired by @jessbrownfullermp.bsky.social. Today we're hearing from @helengray.bsky.social about the 2024 WBTi report Action on feeding babies in the UK, a follow up from the first, baseline report from 2016 #APPGIFI

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

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