MaidenOver 🧙
@judeet44.bsky.social
Retired Nurse. Collector of rocks after studying with OU. Like to walk alone in remote places. Do knitting, sewing, embroidery, tapestry, watercolours. Read voraciously. Bit of a petrol head. My garden is my bit of paradise. Lived in France 15yrs, glorious
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Nonsense from Express (repeated by BBC)🙄.
#Facts:
Personal tax threshold (if frozen) will stay at £12570.
Anyone whose income (pension(s) etc) is under that won't pay tax.
Any earnings over £12570 taxed at 20%.
If pensions rise at 5% next 2yrs, extra tax ~20% of £700 x 2 (ie £140 & £140) *maximum*
#Facts:
Personal tax threshold (if frozen) will stay at £12570.
Anyone whose income (pension(s) etc) is under that won't pay tax.
Any earnings over £12570 taxed at 20%.
If pensions rise at 5% next 2yrs, extra tax ~20% of £700 x 2 (ie £140 & £140) *maximum*
November 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Nonsense from Express (repeated by BBC)🙄.
#Facts:
Personal tax threshold (if frozen) will stay at £12570.
Anyone whose income (pension(s) etc) is under that won't pay tax.
Any earnings over £12570 taxed at 20%.
If pensions rise at 5% next 2yrs, extra tax ~20% of £700 x 2 (ie £140 & £140) *maximum*
#Facts:
Personal tax threshold (if frozen) will stay at £12570.
Anyone whose income (pension(s) etc) is under that won't pay tax.
Any earnings over £12570 taxed at 20%.
If pensions rise at 5% next 2yrs, extra tax ~20% of £700 x 2 (ie £140 & £140) *maximum*
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
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Race to rescue London's rare hairy snail. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Conservationists unite to save London’s rare 'German' hairy snail
A team is hunting for the finger-sized snail along the River Thames to help recover their numbers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Race to rescue London's rare hairy snail. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Lier’s always lie. Even to themselves.
November 24, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Lier’s always lie. Even to themselves.
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FFS 😡
FINLAND IS NOT RE-GAUGING ITS RAILWAYS
Just because an urbanist influencer has posted a 6 months old piece (that was anyway inaccurate) about it does not mean it is happening!
Finland *might* lay some additional standard gauge track from Sweden to Oulu
FINLAND IS NOT RE-GAUGING ITS RAILWAYS
Just because an urbanist influencer has posted a 6 months old piece (that was anyway inaccurate) about it does not mean it is happening!
Finland *might* lay some additional standard gauge track from Sweden to Oulu
November 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
FFS 😡
FINLAND IS NOT RE-GAUGING ITS RAILWAYS
Just because an urbanist influencer has posted a 6 months old piece (that was anyway inaccurate) about it does not mean it is happening!
Finland *might* lay some additional standard gauge track from Sweden to Oulu
FINLAND IS NOT RE-GAUGING ITS RAILWAYS
Just because an urbanist influencer has posted a 6 months old piece (that was anyway inaccurate) about it does not mean it is happening!
Finland *might* lay some additional standard gauge track from Sweden to Oulu
Damp and chilly today...went down town for covid jab. Very nice chatty male pharmacist. Did some browsing just to marvel at the ease with which I can glaze over in front of displays of hundreds of makeup items, toiletry aisles and racks of creams extolling their special virtues, at a price.
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Damp and chilly today...went down town for covid jab. Very nice chatty male pharmacist. Did some browsing just to marvel at the ease with which I can glaze over in front of displays of hundreds of makeup items, toiletry aisles and racks of creams extolling their special virtues, at a price.
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This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
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I’d have thought nothing cuts more against our precious British values than selling out your country for Russian bribes…
And yet Reform, the right‑wing press, and all those self‑styled guardians of these values have nothing to say
…funny that.
And yet Reform, the right‑wing press, and all those self‑styled guardians of these values have nothing to say
…funny that.
November 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I’d have thought nothing cuts more against our precious British values than selling out your country for Russian bribes…
And yet Reform, the right‑wing press, and all those self‑styled guardians of these values have nothing to say
…funny that.
And yet Reform, the right‑wing press, and all those self‑styled guardians of these values have nothing to say
…funny that.
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Transparency- who owns it. Put a name to it. Follow the money. Land Registry Transparency. Stamp duty up on 2nd homes. New HMRC team ensuring the wealthy actually pay their tax. On & on...
List credit to
@viviane49.bsky.social
List credit to
@viviane49.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Transparency- who owns it. Put a name to it. Follow the money. Land Registry Transparency. Stamp duty up on 2nd homes. New HMRC team ensuring the wealthy actually pay their tax. On & on...
List credit to
@viviane49.bsky.social
List credit to
@viviane49.bsky.social
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Gambling ruins lives, causes poverty, bankruptcy, suicide, crime, & domestic abuse.
There is a very simple solution.
Ban gambling advertising & sponsorship, same as we did for smoking. Tax them £2billion instead.
Gambling is a societal parasite, not "fun"
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
There is a very simple solution.
Ban gambling advertising & sponsorship, same as we did for smoking. Tax them £2billion instead.
Gambling is a societal parasite, not "fun"
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
UK gambling firms spent ‘astronomic’ £2bn on advertising last year
Calls for Rachel Reeves to increase taxes in budget as estimate outstrips duties collected from online casinos
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Gambling ruins lives, causes poverty, bankruptcy, suicide, crime, & domestic abuse.
There is a very simple solution.
Ban gambling advertising & sponsorship, same as we did for smoking. Tax them £2billion instead.
Gambling is a societal parasite, not "fun"
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
There is a very simple solution.
Ban gambling advertising & sponsorship, same as we did for smoking. Tax them £2billion instead.
Gambling is a societal parasite, not "fun"
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Haven't actually counted how many OS maps I have but I reckon I've actually used about 60% of them...some were bought in preparation for taking holidays in an area I'd not really been to before, ie Bristol/Cotswolds. Taken the train and had lifts around area but not had real hols there. Next yr?
November 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Haven't actually counted how many OS maps I have but I reckon I've actually used about 60% of them...some were bought in preparation for taking holidays in an area I'd not really been to before, ie Bristol/Cotswolds. Taken the train and had lifts around area but not had real hols there. Next yr?
Good article...so rare to read anything picking apart what's happening in the HoL after May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak stuffed it full of Tories in quick succession over a short time period, ensuring any gov other than RW wouldn't get legislation through. Press #fail though too, not to report on this.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Good article...so rare to read anything picking apart what's happening in the HoL after May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak stuffed it full of Tories in quick succession over a short time period, ensuring any gov other than RW wouldn't get legislation through. Press #fail though too, not to report on this.
I feel lucky that I don't like chocolate. An incident in the playground at Primary School where I nearly choked to death eating it well and truly showed the power of Pavlovian aversion. I can eat a bit on say a chocolate biscuit, or in cake or the odd tiny bite, but the feeling of choking remains.
November 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I feel lucky that I don't like chocolate. An incident in the playground at Primary School where I nearly choked to death eating it well and truly showed the power of Pavlovian aversion. I can eat a bit on say a chocolate biscuit, or in cake or the odd tiny bite, but the feeling of choking remains.
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In the same week the Covid Inquiry concluded that introducing lockdown a week earlier could have saved 23,000 lives and a former Reform politician was jailed for accepting Russian bribes, #bbclaurak hasn’t expended a single second talking about it
That is absolutely appalling
That is absolutely appalling
November 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
In the same week the Covid Inquiry concluded that introducing lockdown a week earlier could have saved 23,000 lives and a former Reform politician was jailed for accepting Russian bribes, #bbclaurak hasn’t expended a single second talking about it
That is absolutely appalling
That is absolutely appalling
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Interestingly we’ve been consistently better off since Q2 2024. You’d never know that from the media who provide 90% of our information on the governments performance.
November 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Interestingly we’ve been consistently better off since Q2 2024. You’d never know that from the media who provide 90% of our information on the governments performance.
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In honour of its proponents, I suggest that the Dmitriev-Witkoff proposal should henceforth be called the Dim-Wit Plan
November 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
In honour of its proponents, I suggest that the Dmitriev-Witkoff proposal should henceforth be called the Dim-Wit Plan
Finally the maps are sorted...all loose ones back in their covers and in regional groups. Wales and Welsh borders, local and Peak District, Lancashire and Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Norfolk/Suffolk, Bristol/Cotswolds, Scotland. A few outliers for Cornwall and Essex. Ancient Britain and
November 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Finally the maps are sorted...all loose ones back in their covers and in regional groups. Wales and Welsh borders, local and Peak District, Lancashire and Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Norfolk/Suffolk, Bristol/Cotswolds, Scotland. A few outliers for Cornwall and Essex. Ancient Britain and
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NEW: This is worth your time.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
November 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
NEW: This is worth your time.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
Of all the hundreds and hundreds who've blocked me on here, there are still only 3 whom I'd ever interacted with. One local woman, a LW political activist, one author and one actor. I may have been muted by lots but listifications don't tell you that.
November 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Of all the hundreds and hundreds who've blocked me on here, there are still only 3 whom I'd ever interacted with. One local woman, a LW political activist, one author and one actor. I may have been muted by lots but listifications don't tell you that.
After postponing my visit Friday I went over as planned to see my best friend today. She wasn't in...she was round at her daughter's with the great granddaughter again. Still, it was very nice chatting to her son for a while and having a laugh about all sorts. I'd kind of forgotten how nice he is.
November 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
After postponing my visit Friday I went over as planned to see my best friend today. She wasn't in...she was round at her daughter's with the great granddaughter again. Still, it was very nice chatting to her son for a while and having a laugh about all sorts. I'd kind of forgotten how nice he is.
Oh dear, Alex the Actorr has blocked me...probably for daring to question his attitudes towards women. Or maybe it was my awkward questions/comments about politics? HO HUM.
November 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Oh dear, Alex the Actorr has blocked me...probably for daring to question his attitudes towards women. Or maybe it was my awkward questions/comments about politics? HO HUM.
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The people who complain about migration are probably a mixture of people but they all seem to think it doesn’t matter if the country works even less well. We don’t have enough public discussion about why Brits can’t or don’t do the shortage occupation jobs. The complainers need to hear it.
November 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The people who complain about migration are probably a mixture of people but they all seem to think it doesn’t matter if the country works even less well. We don’t have enough public discussion about why Brits can’t or don’t do the shortage occupation jobs. The complainers need to hear it.
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Boris Johnson didn't apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, even when she told him in person the lasting impact his comments about her had on her detention in Iran, her husband tells the BBC
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Boris Johnson didn't apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, even when she told him in person the lasting impact his comments about her had on her detention in Iran, her husband tells the BBC
Went to sleep early, woke fully refreshed thinking it must be maybe around 7am, but no. It was only 2.45am. So here I am doing an ancestral sleep pattern...sleep early for a few hours, get up, re-stock stove, potter about, go back to bed at some point til about 9am. That's the theory.
November 23, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Went to sleep early, woke fully refreshed thinking it must be maybe around 7am, but no. It was only 2.45am. So here I am doing an ancestral sleep pattern...sleep early for a few hours, get up, re-stock stove, potter about, go back to bed at some point til about 9am. That's the theory.
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Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone is a BBC documentary series on iPlayer. It uses extensive archival footage to show the profound and brutal impact of the collapse of the Soviet Union on ordinary people, a "trauma" that continues to affect Russia today. A must-watch.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
November 23, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone is a BBC documentary series on iPlayer. It uses extensive archival footage to show the profound and brutal impact of the collapse of the Soviet Union on ordinary people, a "trauma" that continues to affect Russia today. A must-watch.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...