If you need support over the festive period, help is available. See below ⬇ Food Provision Our community larders and foodbanks can support you if you need a helping hand over the festive period. Visit: northayrshire.community/festive-food-p… Homelessness Support There is no need for anyone to

If Christmas is a wee bit tough this year and you’re feeling grief that wee bit heavier than usual, that’s completely understandable. This advice from the absolutely wonderful Ardgowan Hospice might make you feel a wee bit better. ardgowanhospice.org.uk/griefoverchris…

Great article football365.com/news/ange-post…

Rest in peace Jimmy Carter. The world needs more people like you.

This book is so hilarious. Instead of cliché positivity affirmations, it is a collection of sarcastic and realistic affirmations that acknowledge the hidden and disappointing feelings we all have. Here are 12 of my favorites from the book:

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“Our only defence is a commitment to kindness, a conscious decision to repudiate and refute this manner of behaviour. In 2025, goodwill will be our chief defence against Trumpism” Ian Dunt inews.co.uk/opinion/one-th…

Had to *actually bleep* Naomi Smith is on Bluesky in the edit, that’s how angry she was about fascists. Would have left it in on the regular episode, I think, but dropping our very first C-bomb in a Sunday School seemed weirdly irreligious, even to an atheist. 😂

This is who @ElonMusk really is. Don’t buy a Tesla. Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam.

Dr. Mohammad Al-Issa at the Islamic Countries Conference in Islamabad: “Depriving women of education is a grave crime, especially when falsely attributed to Islam. Islam stands free from any justification for denying women education at any stage or in any field.”

Private schools aren’t failing because of Labour’s VAT hike. Right-wing papers are screaming about three schools going under this week. But when you dig deeper, the truth looks very different. Here’s what’s really going on:

My mum wanted to be a teacher when she was leaving school but was told she couldn't be because she was deaf and it was the early 70s. Here she is 50 years later in my sons P1 class teaching him and his friends Sign Language. Best photo I've seen in ages.

There is a strange phenomenon where people who have to rely on the welfare state for the first time and discover it to be cruel / inadequate immediately assume that it *must* be far more generous for everyone else, rather than it being cruel / inadequate for most people.