Emily

@millyrose.bsky.social

Tired, wired and ultra left.

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn landscape from above. It shows a forest on the right, a line of fire and charred ground with smoke on the left. The smoke is felted wool.

Curse of Private Equity Our nurseries were bought by private equity firms – fees are up, food is frozen. Usual PE practices. Build local monopolies, high debt and prices, profiteering, worst services, high exec pay, shareholder returns. Parents/Children abused. Govts do nothing. archive.ph/Yk4Eh

Our nurseries were bought by private equity firms - fees are up and food is frozen

Nurseries are spending millions on their investors – at parents' expense, analysis shows

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Very disappointing from the new Prime Minister, very much sounding like the previous PM. These are among the world’s most vulnerable and desparate people. They need safe routes and humanity from responsible politicians, not grandstanding. This isn’t doing politics differently.

Burnham pledges to be "relentless" in curbing small boat crossings

Thinking about how last night when I had a horrendous 24 hour bug my mum tries to comfort me with ‘well think of how much weight you’ll lose.’

Screen grab of Mia Goth in Pearl smiling and crying.

Every so often I think about Ming the clam, who was 507 years old and died when scientists killed when trying to determine its age and then I feel really sad.

A picture of Ming the clam

It was only last week that we were paying tribute to the two French firefighters who lost their lives battling a forest fire near Bordeaux. Now, just seven days later, three more firefighters in Greece have lost their lives tackling wildfires.

The Guardian reports: Three firefighters killed on Crete and in mainland Greece as Europe battles wildfires. Repeated heatwaves and strong winds alarm experts, who warn blazes are becoming harder to quell.

Once you have a lot of money it becomes easier to get more money by doing nothing, which disincentivizes work. This is why all our billionaires post insane bullshit all day. If they had to work they'd be too busy to act like this, doubly benefiting society