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Lorena Hodgson retweeted
Y’all, this is why men should not be making decisions about women’s reproductive health.
Lorena Hodgson retweeted
Thank you! The Wild Robot is a genuine delight and audiences have been moved and entertained across the run. Beautiful too!
Cool movie, and great to have an #IndieCinema like @LuxeWisbech to watch it in. Particularly liked @MarkHamill being in it! Teen suitably impressed I knew who he was 👀😏 #TheWildRobot
Lorena Hodgson retweeted
As our Instagram and Facebook following grows, our Twitter seems to slowly fall, bit by bit. Soon we'll be sitting here, on an island, on our own, talking to some cows, about how it used to be.
So we tweet on, cows against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
ALT Two cows walking through water from one island to another. One island is labelled Twitter, the other is labelled Not Twitter. The cows are walking to Not Twitter. The cows are labelled Our followers.
Lorena Hodgson retweeted
I saw the rain dirty valley,
you saw Brigadoon.
I saw the croissant,
you saw the whole of Sassoon.
ALT A book about Patisserie alongside the biography and collected poems of Siegfried Sassoon
Lorena Hodgson retweeted
ultimately, the way you refuse to acknowledge any of this is your responsibility too is why this is happening to us. It’s why we are being murdered, abused, rape and harassed.
All of it’s connected. All of it matters. And none of it will decrease until you wake up and join the fight. 👊🏻
Lorena Hodgson retweeted
🌳 We look after more than 135 hectares of green space in Fenland - including parks, play areas and open spaces.
ℹ️ If you've spotted a problem, such as damaged play equipment or full bins, report it to us online:
fenland.gov.uk/openspaces
ALT Image – trees in a park. Text reads: “Parks & Open Spaces - If you spot a problem in one of our parks, play areas, or open spaces, let us know about it. Find out more and report at www.fenland.gov.uk/openspaces
Lorena Hodgson retweeted
An effective monologue occurs when someone (loudly or softly) revokes the ability to be interrupted.
It is a masculine, conversational gesture and, as such, it feels especially strong when the feminine form claims it.
Nicole Mary Kidman.
Lorena Hodgson retweeted
I am DETERMINED that Musk, the bots & the provocateurs will not take this platform from us. Inspired by the counter riots in the UK where positivity dwarfed hate, I think we should flood Twitter. So here’s my starter… I’m on a road trip to discover Joan of Arc. Day 1 Rouen x
Lorena Hodgson retweeted
I’d like to talk about my Dad.
He came to England from India at age 17.
He had a brutal childhood- he’s refused to talk us kids about it but part of his childhood involved living on the streets as a child in India
Coming to England saved his life. Literally.
He has worked - shop keeper, then taxi driver & has contributed to tax his whole life here. He refused to charge people for his taxi service when they visited hospitals, students who felt unsafe walking at night etc. He worked 7 days a week, and we lived month to month.
My Mum, at the age of 64, still works full
time as an insurance broker & has also paid tax her entire working life.
My Dad retired at the age of 70 during the pandemic as he was diagnosed with cancer. Thankfully he’s currently in remission 🙏
As soon as he was given the “all clear” he could finally pursue his dream - to feed those in need.
At the age of 70 he asked my Mum to teach him how to cook.
Every Tuesday he buys food to feed about 100/200 homeless people a week. He wakes up at 3am every Wednesday to cook the food, package & distribute it with a team of volunteers who also provide them warm clothing, cut their hair etc with nothing but love.
The volunteers are from all backgrounds, all colours, all ethnicities as are the people they serve.
He is the kindest, most compassionate person I know. To have people judge him based on the colour of his skin breaks my heart beyond measure.
Lorena Hodgson retweeted
One of the best robots. 👾
It's from one of the best all-time movies.
Interstellar! 🧑🏼🚀
Do you remember TARS?
A developer called Charles Diaz has created a fully functional TARS replica using a @Raspberry_Pi.
This isn't just a static model - it can move forward and turn on sides.
At the heart of this stellar creation is a Raspberry Pi 3 B+. The robot's graceful movements come courtesy of 4 micro servo motors and 5 metal gear servos. Bluetooth remote control ensures smooth operation.
All code and CAD files are freely available on Hackster.io!
🧱 Build it guys, build it, break it, and build it again: lnkd.in/dAGrVpyc
P.S. The music makes me feel nostalgic...
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♻️ RT to help 1 robot find a new workplace.
Lorena Hodgson retweeted
This is one of the hardest but also one of the most important warnings from the history of Auschwitz coming for us today.
Perpetrators were in fact people who accepted and followed an ideology that made them believe that they were better than others, an ideology that rationalized and promoted hatred & evil. This became part of their everyday lives and their environment.
They were not monsters. They were people: fathers and mothers, husbands and wives, sons and daughters. They had their family joys and problems, their favorite desserts or songs, hobbies or fears. They were people like us. But they also perpetrated horrible things, monstrous things on behalf of the ideology they believed in.
The perpetrators thought of themselves as moral people. And this is the scary part of this history. This is our human warning.
Lorena Hodgson retweeted
Wait what. The Science Minister is a scientist who advised government on science?
WHAT IS THIS WITCHCRAFT
Sir Patrick Vallance KCB has been appointed Minister of State (Minister for Science) in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology @SciTechgovuk.
ALT Sir Patrick Vallance KCB appointed Minister of State (Minister for Science) in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.
Lorena Hodgson retweeted
It's so exciting. Walking into a public building because you know it's time to make a change. You make your choice, show your card and hope you've made the right decision though you won't really know until later. ❎️
It's always great changing your books at the library. 📚
ALT Orkney Library & Archive
Lorena Hodgson retweeted
Watch all my Election 2024 videos here:
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Fury as Wisbech Tory councillor paints 15th century listed building red, white and green cambsnews.co.uk/news/fury-as…
Lorena Hodgson retweeted
Seven days before the election, the government has postponed the release of statistics showing the catastrophic state of the backlogs in the criminal courts.
Perfectly above board, I’m sure.
Update from @MoJGovUK by 1020am Thursday 27 June 2024
“The release of these statistics has been postponed for further quality assurance following concerns about the quality of key data inputs. This is in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics. We will keep this page updated with future publication plans.”
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To confirm the independent criminal bar is continuing to work at full capacity with our cadre of highly trained specialist criminal barristers prosecuting and defending all manner of criminal cases arriving into the Crown Court on top of case backlogs that by the start of 2024 had already scaled 23 year record highs.
We work so that complainants, defendants, victims of crime and their families can see that justice is done once cases come to court,
trial dates are met and conclude, and any sentencing hearings complete.
It is normal for @MoJGovUK to receive all the criminal court statistics for the quarter ending 31 March 2024 from that time and to begin detailed analysis immediately to last for nearly 3 months until publication. Only this month @MoJGovUK’s courts arm @HMCTSgovuk published provisional courts data on “open caseload” to the end of April 2024, covering all 3 months of the first quarter and the first month of the second quarter 2024.
The general election was called around 4pm on Wednesday 22 May 2024.
The @MoJGovUK updated this Tuesday 24 June 2024 to confirm that the release of its first quarter figures would go ahead today 27 June 2024. No explanation was given until after 10am today 27 June 2024 for the decision made at 643pm on Wednesday 26 June 2024 to cancel today’s 930am release date.
