buying lightbulbs.

Happy Mother’s Day all…especially thinking of those who haven’t been able to be a mummy or who have lost their Mothers. ❤️❤️‍🩹❤️❤️‍🩹❤️❤️‍🩹❤️

#MothersDay is a hard day for many, I do know. And for those, I send much love. But just as importantly, for those for whom it’s a celebration, I send cheer and jubilation. I remember my own mother with #RecipeOfTheDay, which is an elemental meal for me: My Mother’s Praised

Sir David Attenborough as Easter Eggs. A thread.

Places on Earth that don't look real - thread 🧵 1. Namibia, where the desert meets the ocean

I would personally have rephrased this

Yes, her name is Nguyen Nguyen. My grade 6 classmate that sat in front of me. She never spoke to anyone. Not even the teacher. I mean, EVER. But she was brilliant & never needed help with anything. We would walk to school together, & even then—not a single word. Then one day…

There’s a fundamental difference between those who see politics as a game and those who understand it as a meaningful way to change people’s lives. If you need any help discerning which individuals fall into the former category, take note of who is LITERALLY GAMBLING on events.

Today was not a security or cyber incident. Our customers remain fully protected. We understand the gravity of the situation and are deeply sorry for the inconvenience and disruption. We are working with all impacted customers to ensure that systems are back up and they can

Yesterday, CrowdStrike released an update that began impacting IT systems globally. We are aware of this issue and are working closely with CrowdStrike and across the industry to provide customers technical guidance and support to safely bring their systems back online.

Never even liked tennis anyway.

I love my black job 🖤

A few thoughts about X and riots 🧵 I live and work in the UK. I am of course upset and alarmed by the wave of riots taking place in towns and cities across the country. It’s scary, frankly. Professionally though, this is not really my beat - or at least, it wasn’t until Elon

I was lucky enough to spend some time with James Earl Jones. He was everything you might have hoped, and a fair bit more. Wise, kind, funny, impossibly handsome, with a voice that could have crumbled the walls of Jericho. It was such an honour.

Writing your own Playlist for Life is a great idea If dementia comes your way, music representing key moments in your life might bring comfort and familiarity Very grateful to Fergie for sharing his, and encouraging people to think about Dementia ahead of time ❤️

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Someone - and I wish I could remember who - once said that it’s much easier to trick a person than to persuade them that they’ve been tricked.

My advice, for what it’s worth: try not to be distracted by the faintly discourteous, the mildly incompetent, the harmlessly obnoxious. Roll with the delayed trains, dropped litter and misused apostrophes. Save your powder for the truly malevolent creatures now stalking the land.

Word of the day is ‘laughter-lit’ (19th century): animated and restored by laughing alongside others. That is what Janey Godley gave to many of us.