Lockdown Update Day 300
First of all, everyone who can please help our Owls (
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owlboy)? GoFundMe here:Help Jack keep his home.
Don't let the awful start to 2021 get you down. Do something good!
DONNA: Just [save] someone. Please. Not the whole
And even a small contribution will make a difference. ♥ ♥ ♥
Nice things
Well, this little clip from Staged 2 (I've only watched half so far! I'm trying pace myself) is entirely too accurate. Not in the details obviously, but in the dynamic.
Staged continues Monday and Tuesday at 9.45pm on BBC One or stream it now on BBC iPlayer #DavidTennant #GeorgiaTennant #Staged pic.twitter.com/MRUxYU3LVV
— David-Tennant.com 💙 (@davidtennantcom) January 10, 2021
And GOODNESS this is delightful. Read the whole read:
I interrupt your doomscroll to let you know it hasn’t been snow covered like this in 61 years in Madrid, Spain. People are into it so I’m going to share some videos. This guy has been waiting for this his entire life- pic.twitter.com/tMxgG6OrCw
— jaded new yorker (@nozztilbrooklyn) January 9, 2021
And free art!
Hey friends, here is something cool to break up your Twitter feedhttps://t.co/EGOySpyiHL pic.twitter.com/G5yPm0fFLd
— I'm that weird space outside our solar system. (@SarahLovesHAM) January 11, 2021
Anyway, more politics & covid & stuff. Guess these posts are turning into some kind of continuing time capsules?
US
This is AMAZING, and a brilliant summary:
Anyway here's a Chaos Compilation of what went down in the news and on twitter over the last few days. SOUND ON. #ImpeachTrumpNow pic.twitter.com/eFg3tjYTHV
— Alexandra Rowland (they/them) ✨ (@_alexrowland) January 9, 2021
Good thread:
My wife and I attended the “Stop the Steal” Trump Insurrection on Wednesday (as observers, NOT participants) and there are FIVE big take-aways from what we witnessed and heard outside the Capitol that I'd like to share. (We took all the pictures below). 1/22 pic.twitter.com/NTV7JTUXZa
— Terry Bouton (@TerryBoutonHist) January 10, 2021
And Arnie! And he is... very Republican. (Not a hero)
My message to my fellow Americans and friends around the world following this week's attack on the Capitol. pic.twitter.com/blOy35LWJ5
— Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) January 10, 2021
So, I was asked to write down my thoughts on the coup for a major newspaper earlier this week.
— Dr. Kelly J. Baker (she/her) (@kelly_j_baker) January 10, 2021
I told them no, and let me tell you why.
Colin Powell: “I can no longer call myself a fellow Republican." pic.twitter.com/6xGnzeUg4Y
— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) January 10, 2021
PARLER GOT FUCKING OWNED BAD...and I mean BAD 😂
— B̤̿it̺̕B͓̚ur͍̒neȑ🔥 k33p !7 m0v!n (@bitburner) January 11, 2021
"This group of Internet Warriors then used that account, to create a handful of other ADMINISTRATION accounts, and then created a script that ended up creating MILLIONS of fake administration accounts."
HOLY SHIT HAHAHA 😂🤣 pic.twitter.com/bS3GSRsxET
Department of Defense says they will review troops deployed to Biden inauguration to ensure they don’t have sympathies to domestic terrorists — meaning the US govt is now trying to prevent a military coup.
— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) January 11, 2021
It's Sunday night, or as we call it in America, four days since the President sent a mob to murder Mike Pence and a bunch of members of Congress.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) January 11, 2021
Sen. Whitehouse calls for the Senate Ethics Committee to consider "the expulsion, or censure and punishment, of Senators Cruz, Hawley, *and perhaps others.*"
— Sam Stein (@samstein) January 11, 2021
BREAKING: An impeachment article will be introduced at 11am charging trump with “incitement of insurrection.”
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) January 11, 2021
UK
Politics.
Trans ppl are the canary in the coal mine:
If you'rea UK cis person and you follow me I need you to tell Starmer you won't support Labour if he doesn't deal with the vile transphobia in his party.
— Officially Mx Themboposting 🌈⚡ (@theymerSophie) January 10, 2021
A private company is reportedly being paid by the Tories to provide £30 food packages to school children and is actually giving them food packages worth £5.25. They are stealing £24.75 from hungry kids during a pandemic. Burn this country to the fucking ground.
— RD Hale (@RDHale_) January 11, 2021
Covid.
I've just done 5 BBC radio interview in a row. Each one started with the question: what shall we do about all these people breaking the rules?
— John Drury (@ProfJohnDrury) January 11, 2021
I said:
1. Public adherence to most of the required behaviours has been high throughout the pandemic https://t.co/QTWD4nZ1df
Boris Johnson warns against complacency. Yes, that Boris Johnson. pic.twitter.com/QuLkkrVGmj
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) January 11, 2021
More than 30k people are currently in hospital with Covid. The number is *up by 13k since Christmas Day*.
— Aleesha Khaliq (@a_leesha1) January 11, 2021
It's absolutely NOT a coincidence that hospitalisation is up after Boris Johnson told people they could mix on Xmas Day amid a strain that's up to 70% more transmissible. https://t.co/E8cxlixpth
Have you noticed you're not dreaming about the pandemic even though it dominates your waking life?
— Owen Jones 🌹 (@OwenJones84) January 11, 2021
What's that all about? I interviewed a Harvard professor who explains all.
This is seriously fascinating - about this and dreams in general!https://t.co/DX6SVV1Joi
And finally, this is rather accurate. :)
This one goes out to everyone still easing back into working from home after the Christmas break...https://t.co/J6UnXxto9T / @Telegraph pic.twitter.com/ZJ3l2ZcP1E
— Rob Temple (@RobTemple101) January 11, 2021
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