Selina Beety (she/her)
@a-stitch-in-time.bsky.social
Reader, writer, Border Collie walker. Not loving these interesting times. 🕊️♾️ ☮️ 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 🏴 🇩🇰 🇿🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 🛑 Please no DMs unless you are Hozier 🛑 Not looking for love 🛑 or cryptocurrency
In 1989 the Romanian president Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena were executed for crimes of genocide against their own people. They had also financially exploited the country Apparently the couple were known to be deeply stupid. Elena couldn’t write a complete sentence Reminds me of something
A lot of comparisons are made between Trump and Hitler but listening to this podcast I was struck by a greater similarity to the vain, jealous, and internally destructive Stalin! open.spotify.com/episode/00zI...
398. Stalin: The Great Terror (Part 4)
Empire: World History · Episode
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The most British foiling of a terror plot -
MPs call for emergency legislation for public control of Thames Water, let govt restore it and resell. Hedge funds want to takeover TW, want exemption from penalties for breaking laws. Neither will do. Profit motive is the cause of the crisis. Need public ownership.
MPs urge ministers to break off Thames Water talks with US hedge funds
Efra committee calls for emergency legislation enabling government to take public control of the company
theguardian.com
I think I just encountered Trump’s previous incarnation AD410 - when the Roman’s quit Briton (right after they took all our young men to conquer territory and settle mainland Europe.) Geoffrey of Monmouth: The History Of The Kings Of Britain -
#SovereignIndividuals redefining governments to suit themselves We should all realise how fragile our freedoms really are in the hands of greedy self dealers
#booksky Dignity is like a tonic against these dark times. Brown has beautifully painted a working-class community that has dignity in all of its corners. What I like most of all is that this is a humane story. Even the characters who do wrong are given the chance to achieve a realistic redemption
“This year’s El Niño cycle is likely to be the strongest ever recorded—and its already-increased water temperatures could have irrevocable effects,” Joshua Partlow reports. www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
This El Niño Will Be Unlike Any in the Past Eight Decades
Die-offs and floods have started already, a prelude to supercharged storms and droughts.
theatlantic.com
Just when you think you couldn’t love David Byrne more he goes to the Hollywood Bowl playing "Life During Wartime" projecting ICE raids 🔥
The BBC's tried to deliver a subpoena to Ivanka & Jared, but was refused entry at a police checkpoint & told that the Secret Service could not accept subpoenas When they tried to serve D Trump Jr at Trump Tower the concierge said the person who normally took such documents may have been at lunch
BBC seeks to subpoena Trump's family members in Panorama lawsuit
The BBC's lawyers argue Trump's family members "have personal knowledge" of his intentions in the speech he gave outside the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.
bbc.co.uk
This is so sad. Yes, he lied, but the outrage and hate frenzy was out of all proportion. Another (white/male) Cambridge Prof previously found to have plagiarized student work is still in post with no media attention. Being black was Jason’s primary ‘crime’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead
His family said it was "in shock to have lost this amazing father, partner, brother, uncle and son" after the academic was found dead in London on Friday.
bbc.co.uk
Wow, 4 billion of US tax payers money paid to stop energy companies investing in wind power! Apparently, they have had to agree to invest in more embargo affected fossil fuels instead. Meanwhile, China is going great guns with its solar and water power industries. open.spotify.com/episode/7KQY...
Sunday School: The Thetford strifes
Quiet Riot · Episode
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People from some other countries wont find this very impressive and it obs isn’t as dramatic as the fires that have been raging accross several parts of the Uk and Europe but … still … I want to say that THIS IS NOT NORMAL for Britain. Not good. Not good at all www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
Moment 'dust devil' mini-tornado tears through Greenwich Park in London
The ‘dust-devil’ resembled a scene out of the Wizard of Oz as it ripped through the Royal Park
standard.co.uk
Thames Water hands finance chief £1 million, because who cares about its £20bn debt?
Failing Thames Water faces fresh fury over fiance chief's £1m signing bonus
Thames Water is so bothered by its mounting debt and leaky infrastructure that it handed its finance chief £1 million
thecanary.co
Arron Banks is helping us send a nice clear message - if you scrutinise the dodgy finances of Reform, you will be sued or put under surveillance. Perfectly normal behaviour from people who want to govern a democracy.
Leprosy. I said LEPROSY! A 4,000 year old bacterial infection. What the F have you done to yourselves America? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Leprosy cases are on the rise in Florida. Here’s how to reduce your risk
Leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease, can impact a person’s nerves, muscles, skin, eyes and respiratory tract, causing large bumps all over the skin and lead to paralysis and blindness
independent.co.uk
A snapshot of modern dialogue: -Did you just kill that dog? -Yes, I just killed that dog. -That’s not nice. -Oh, stop that leftie spin machine! 😭
While fires rage in large parts of Europe incl UK, farmers face crop failure and livestock loss, every RefUK or Tory politician on the news must be challenged on their "let's do away with costly net zero nonsense" stance, side-by-side with live images of the cost of inaction. Expose the charlatans.
And not one reservoir built since privatisation. Not one. It's state sanctioned theft. However much it will cost us to clean up our rivers,repair leaks & update the infrastructure, it will cost us a lot more if we pay out shareholder dividends on top of that.
Thinking of Spain and France this evening. Hard to believe that fires of the century are ripping through the villages, towns and cities of my beautiful neighbors. This is apocalyptic. We have to face the reality of climate change before it’s too late
-Parked at store. - Left the car in gear and the handbrake off (only noticed both later). -Went into shop. -Put shopping though the check out then had to go back to the car to find my purse. -Got the purse but left the car door hanging open. In summary: I can’t take this heat!
Farage is filth. A filthy traitor who has sold his own country down the river.
Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙@cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 3mo ago“Nigel Farage’s criminal funder runs a Montenegro company whose corporate advisors work for a Belgrade Russian-arms dealer and individuals tied to Russian state-linked enterprises” bylinetimes.com/2026/07/27/h...