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Jalata

@jalata.bsky.social

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European 🇪🇺 Life-long language learner, most recently 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 and 🇵🇹 Lover of literature. Deplore the divisions caused by Brexit and the whipping up of xenophobia.

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Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 4h

Has he been to Birdlip Hill in Gloucestershire? Apparently … 🤨

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Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 4h

No idea what you mean 😮 We only go to Sussex to visit a very respectable elderly lady.

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Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 5h

Tbf this is based on two visits about ten years apart.

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Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 5h

Last time we got one pizza refunded with absolutely no argument as to its direness.

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Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 5h

The worst is in Arundel. No contest,

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Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 8h

Solidarity with my family member, who wears himself out in the service of this profession 👊

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 9h

“Prime minister Keir Starmer was expected to go to Cop30 … But the Guardian understands that some of his advisers want him to stay at home, fearing that the Reform Party will attack him for going.”

SERIOUSLY? 😳

Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 18h

UK’s intelligence chiefs: 'UK’s national security is under severe threat from the #climate crisis and the looming collapse of vital natural ecosystems, with food shortages and economic disaster potentially just years away.'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

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Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 9h

Funnily enough this was in an email from the National Trust today so they are also sitting in the fence 😂

Scones, one whole, one with jam on cream and one with cream on jam.

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 10h

Late seventies.

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 13h

Yes but it wasn’t always the same desk and you could start the paper as soon you found it. Once my desk was in an overflow room we weren’t told about so I and another girl were in a total panic. Penalty of having names near the end of the alphabet.

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 14h

The day my desk was in an overflow room they hadn’t mentioned is etched on my soul.

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Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 15h

I didn’t really mind that. It befitted the gravity of the situation. But don’t start me on the horrors of undergoing a viva!

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you anyway 😀

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Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 15h

Dealing with the high prices of housing, food, utilities and transport would require real politics, rather than the fake politics of waving St George’s flags and locking up pensioners for mentioning Palestine Action”

cathaguamia.bsky.social @cathaguamia.bsky.social · 16h

Labour will learn this in the Caerffili by-election, one way or another

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Worried about rising bills and getting by? Keir Starmer has the answer: try chewing a flag! | Aditya Chakrabortty

The PM wants to talk about patriotism when the issue that is really affecting people is the cost of living. If he doesn’t wise up, that dissonance will sink him, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrab...

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 16h

A Reform councillor has chaired a meeting with a far-right group and parents of young children to discuss 'completely untrue' allegations about religious education at a Swansea school ✍️ Emily Price

Welsh Reform councillor teams up with Tommy Robinson allies in parents meeting

Emily Price A Reform councillor has chaired a meeting with a far-right group and parents of young children to discuss “completely untrue” allegations about religious education at a Swansea school. Re...

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Gary Gilligan #FBPE #KTTO @garygilligan.bsky.social · 18h

Their behaviour is repeatedly reprehensible...

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Formal complaint to Returning Officer as Reform is accused of lying about Nation of Sanctuary

Martin Shipton Leading members of the Ukrainian community in Caerphilly are making a formal complaint to the official running the seat’s Senedd by-election, alleging that Reform UK is lying about the ...

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Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 16h

Isn’t it good? Norwegian window.

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Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 16h

I see the National Trust is hedging its bets in the jam/cream first controversy 😂 @celiarichardson.bsky.social

Plate of scones, one intact, one with cream topped with jam and one with jam topped with cream

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 16h

And whoever thought of ringing a bell, making you find your desk, which could differ according to exam, then start writing, was a pure sadist!

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Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 17h

I always thought reading out essays was a cop out because tutors never had to read, mark or really consider thoroughly what one had written. Some, not all, seemed to consider undergraduates an unwelcome distraction.

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 17h

50 years ago so I don’t know how much has changed but certainly for History, English and Mod Langs then, more than two years work was wholly assessed in one intense week of exams.

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 18h

Perhaps Henry might like to consider a career as a hedge fund manager?

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Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 18h

I’m wondering whether students are still required to read out their essay, saving tutors the bother of having to take it in, read and mark it?

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 18h

🧥 get

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Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 20h

Feud??