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Quick #booksky 📚 recommendation for anyone looking for some new crime writers to follow: Harini Nagendra Sujata Massey Meeti Shroff-Shah Also, adding Halima Khatun for non-crime but very funny diaries of a British Bangla girl from Manchester.

Those in power from both parties who couldn’t find the courage to stand up to Netanyahu will not find the courage to stand up to President Trump and the oligarchs.

NEW — The National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 282 just emailed its ~8,000 employee members strongly advising them NOT to reply to the “What did you do last week?” email from OPM/Musk.

If anyone tells you that a two-state solution is the only way to achieve peace, ask them to explain this.

Following his Nazi salute, Steve Bannon engages in unalloyed antisemitism, calling progressive US Jews the "#1 enemy...inside the wire" for Israelis, "progressive Jewish billionaires funding all this stuff", disloyal to Israel & MAGA

Popped into Tesco to check out their Easter egg collection. All the cheap ones are mostly gone, so I had 😉 to buy a Lindt pistachio one instead.

The weirdest paradox is that after you hit 35, you pretty much feel like you’re both 20 and 60 years old at the same time forever. Like it’s just a lifetime of thinking “but what do I REALLY wanna do with my life” while you fire up the blood pressure machine that lives on the kitchen counter now

I've been umming and ahhing about whether to sign up for a perimenopause group call via the GP. Turns out I can't do it anyway, as I'm on a work night out that day. It's only taken me a week to realise! 🤦‍♀️

Worst. Episode. EVER.

TEAM RITCHSON

I've been reading some books either based in India or the UK Bangladeshi community and wondered what betel nuts/ paan were. So I looked it up, and now I know it's not something I want to try as carcinogenic substances aren't my thing.

My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread

yeah let's put starlink into our community instead of building locally controlled infrastructure what could possibly go wrong

When you're watching the same series as your parents and hope they don't drop a spoiler before you've caught up.

Happy International Mother Language Day! 21 February is commemorated around the world to honor the right to speak one’s native language because Bangladeshis fought for the right to speak in Bengali in 1952. Ekushey February honors those sacrifices. Details here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...

First meeting of the day done in 5 minutes. ✔️

Peat bogs cover 3% of the land but store more carbon than all of the world’s forests.

This will kill people.

Banning TikTok is a plot by Democrats and Republicans to end your freedom of speech in service to Israel It has Jack shit to do with China

Thames Water could learn from this instead of funnelling money to their shareholders rather than investing it and fixing leaks.

Their arms just do that now.

This year is the 40th anniversary of the Rainbow Warrior bombing by French Govt agents here in Auckland. Four decades on, we're stronger than ever, and we're still fighting to protect People and Planet. Together, we've shown that you can't sink a rainbow. #PeoplePower

The Gaza so-called "ceasefire" is a racist lie. New post 👇 owenjones.news/p/the-gaza-c...

"In other countries, this would be called 'an authoritarian coup.' In America, mealy-mouthed officials call our transition into a mafia state 'deeply troubling' and do little to curb the damage." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

Here's one of the warnings I gave in an article before the US election. It's devastating to see it all happening. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Okay so you know I like to remind everyone how the American immigration system has been cruel for a very long time. But loading people on flights to deport them to countries that they are not from, like Iranians to Panama, is not business as usual.

I'm hoping I've managed to clear enough gunk out of the air fryer to make it usable again. Otherwise, I might need to take it apart.

The documentary Boycott goes into great detail about this. youtu.be/FAMAFyR7L9U?...

The false slander of antisemitism has been broadly and often very effectively leveraged to punish and silence Palestinian activism. I’ve often been at the receiving end of it. But this doesn’t lessen even 1% the truth of anti-Jewish bigotry, nor our responsibility to be vigilant for it: thread