LisaMWatki
@lisamwatki.bsky.social
Photography, Cooking, Baking, Creating and Making 🏳️🌈🕊🌈🇪🇺
A lovely homemade Chinese-inspired dinner🥢🥦🍄🌱 Slow-grilled pork loin chops, coated in fragrant Chinese 5 Spice, served with fluffy rice and a colourful stir-fry of mushrooms, spring onions, cavolo nero, tenderstem broccoli, bean sprouts and asparagus, all tossed in a delicious chow mein sauce.
Using stolen and altered images to mislead is a popular technique for deceiving people online. Here's a case study of a Bluesky user's attempt to pass off someone else's dog photo as his own, and subsequent attempts to muddy the waters with AI-generated images when the plagiarism was pointed out.
Every institution that employs Cofnas needs to be contacted & asked why they are giving a platform to him. He was sacked from Cambridge & has procured a post at Ghent university. We all need to be writing to them to ask that question. I’ve made it easy for you: Email: petra.de-sutter@ugent.be 🙏
Universiteit Gent
De UGent is een van de grootste universiteiten in het Nederlandse taalgebied en profileert zich als open, sociaal geëngageerd en pluralistisch.
ugent.be
Commission an immediate public inquiry to ensure we never see a tragic death like Dr Arday's again. goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
goodlawproject.org
It's Clacton by-election day. Or, if you prefer, Farage-Commons-standards-inquiry-reopening-eve.
“Those are dark clouds” said the boy “yes” said the horse “but they’ll move on..The blue sky above never leaves.” Charlie Mackesy - Alway Remember: The boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
“At the end of the day, remind yourself that you did the best you could today, and that is good enough.” Lori Deschene
😡This is the sort of ‘bloke’ who’d make inappropriate comments to your teenage daughter. This is the sort of ‘bloke’ who’d leer and smirk as you went by. This is the sort of ‘bloke’ who’d say any woman who got raped was ‘asking for it’. This is the sort of bloke who’d claim it was all just ‘bants’.
Even after difficult days, nature still finds ways to bloom.
‘Liberating’ food = ‘Shoplifting’ ‘Take Back Control’ = ‘Taking The Piss’ It’s activists like this, who give activism a bad name. I work with children who liberate food because there isn’t any at home and they are beyond hungry! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Taking back power or taking the mickey? The activists ‘liberating’ food from big stores
A new UK civil resistance group has called for ‘mass shoplifting’ to focus attention on inequality, but recent stunts have led to arrests
theguardian.com
We knew it was coming and today, we got the call ☎️ So many of you will know what that means. We are ready and we can do this, our students deserve the best outcome, that’s why we do, what we do!
a black and white photo of an old fashioned phone
ALT: a black and white photo of an old fashioned phone
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“Inhale, exhale, it is well, it is well. All of this is a part of the story you will tell.” Morgan Harper Nichols
No one, 50y ago, would believe a drug-addled dunderhead could be a health secretary. Especially not in the most advanced high tech country in the world. We can laugh at the stupidity but the destruction of US science, the EPA, the FDA & CDC sets back not just the US, but world health by decades.
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
My regular political round-up for Central Bylines. Reposts would be much appreciated! centralbylines.co.uk/politics/a-l...
A long time in politics: week 5 – Scandal in the Wind, and A New Kid in Town
A regular digest and commentary on key UK political events in the recent week, this week saw scandals and potential electoral law breaking
centralbylines.co.uk
Pan-seared salmon fillet served with coffee and maple syrup–braised fennel, creamed feta, potato rosti, wilted spinach, baby corn and tender green beans.
Take life day by day and be grateful for the little things. Don’t get caught up in what you can’t control, but, control what you can. Accept and make the best of it, build on it and remember, tomorrow is another day, more importantly, remember, you are enough.