Elizabeth Rabineau
@lizrablondon.bsky.social
🖼 art-botherer 🏛 architecture-intelligencer
🇳🇱 Dutch-learner 🙀 I once ate a sea cucumber
🇳🇱 Dutch-learner 🙀 I once ate a sea cucumber
Please consider this Duolingo screenshot an ad for Membership of the #VerenigingRembrandt (aka Rembrandt Association).
December 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Please consider this Duolingo screenshot an ad for Membership of the #VerenigingRembrandt (aka Rembrandt Association).
December 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Agreed 😡
And what about artists? Musicians? Carers? Teachers? Hospitality workers? Bricklayers? Agricultural workers? Stay-at-home parents and grandparents?
None are high earners.
But all contribute massively to our economy and society - whether directly or indirectly.
And what about artists? Musicians? Carers? Teachers? Hospitality workers? Bricklayers? Agricultural workers? Stay-at-home parents and grandparents?
None are high earners.
But all contribute massively to our economy and society - whether directly or indirectly.
December 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Agreed 😡
And what about artists? Musicians? Carers? Teachers? Hospitality workers? Bricklayers? Agricultural workers? Stay-at-home parents and grandparents?
None are high earners.
But all contribute massively to our economy and society - whether directly or indirectly.
And what about artists? Musicians? Carers? Teachers? Hospitality workers? Bricklayers? Agricultural workers? Stay-at-home parents and grandparents?
None are high earners.
But all contribute massively to our economy and society - whether directly or indirectly.
December 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Vive la France!
But also: Kinda wondering exactly what it’ll take for the UK Government to get off X/Twitter (let alone to take action similar to France’s).
But also: Kinda wondering exactly what it’ll take for the UK Government to get off X/Twitter (let alone to take action similar to France’s).
French authorities are taking X to court because Grok is now doing straight up holocaust denial. Gas chambers intended for disinfection, cyanide residue tiny, ‘story’ persists because of taboo against critical examination. (Full translation in alt text)
November 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Vive la France!
But also: Kinda wondering exactly what it’ll take for the UK Government to get off X/Twitter (let alone to take action similar to France’s).
But also: Kinda wondering exactly what it’ll take for the UK Government to get off X/Twitter (let alone to take action similar to France’s).
This absolutely boils my piss.
That it comes from Labour is…profoundly disappointing.
That it comes from Labour is…profoundly disappointing.
High earners to be eligible for UK settlement within 3 years of arrival on.ft.com/44n8xnA
High earners to be eligible for UK settlement within 3 years of arrival
Home secretary says ‘brightest and best’ will be fast-tracked while others will have to wait up to 30 years
on.ft.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This absolutely boils my piss.
That it comes from Labour is…profoundly disappointing.
That it comes from Labour is…profoundly disappointing.
Underplanted the alpines in your rock garden?
Problematic saxifrage gap.
Problematic saxifrage gap.
Your tiger is out?
Problematic cage gap
Problematic cage gap
Your thanksgiving stuffing doesn’t taste right?
Problematic sage gap.
Problematic sage gap.
November 20, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Underplanted the alpines in your rock garden?
Problematic saxifrage gap.
Problematic saxifrage gap.
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Born on this day, 1897, Nye Bevan, Minister of Health and Housing when Labour built 805,000 council homes between 1945-51. He believed high-quality council housing should reflect 'the living tapestry of a mixed community'.
November 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Born on this day, 1897, Nye Bevan, Minister of Health and Housing when Labour built 805,000 council homes between 1945-51. He believed high-quality council housing should reflect 'the living tapestry of a mixed community'.
November 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
I know Australia has some fearsome critters but…just how big ARE Australian mosquitoes 😱 ?
Australia’s most valuable listed defence company began as the brainchild of two American scientists who originally planned to create a mosquito-zapping laser system for bedrooms on.ft.com/47zYKNf
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I know Australia has some fearsome critters but…just how big ARE Australian mosquitoes 😱 ?
October 31, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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spidermanicule
October 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
spidermanicule
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Neil Kinnock points out that Brexit:
- cost UK economy £100bn a year
- reduced tax revenues by £40bn a year
- exited UK from system where asylum seekers are processed by first EU country entered & can be returned there
Says time to put #RejoinEU on the agenda…
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
- cost UK economy £100bn a year
- reduced tax revenues by £40bn a year
- exited UK from system where asylum seekers are processed by first EU country entered & can be returned there
Says time to put #RejoinEU on the agenda…
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
September 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Neil Kinnock points out that Brexit:
- cost UK economy £100bn a year
- reduced tax revenues by £40bn a year
- exited UK from system where asylum seekers are processed by first EU country entered & can be returned there
Says time to put #RejoinEU on the agenda…
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
- cost UK economy £100bn a year
- reduced tax revenues by £40bn a year
- exited UK from system where asylum seekers are processed by first EU country entered & can be returned there
Says time to put #RejoinEU on the agenda…
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
🗣️ #REJOIN 🇪🇺
Labour voters overwhelmingly cite Brexit as the number one cause of our current difficulties, with 69% naming the decision to leave the EU as the main reason behind the country’s problems.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Britain is going backwards under Starmer, Labour voters say
Disappointing figures come on the eve of a crucial Labour Party Conference
inews.co.uk
September 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
🗣️ #REJOIN 🇪🇺
Excellent and clear long 🧵 on why the proposed New Towns aren’t really New Towns and won’t actually deliver what the OG New Towns did.
We deserve better, don’t we 🙄
We deserve better, don’t we 🙄
Labour is pitching the New Towns announcement today as a return to the "transformative post-war housing boom under Clement Attlee".
Actually it looks much more like housing policy under Blair, or even Thatcher and Boris Johnson (thread)
Actually it looks much more like housing policy under Blair, or even Thatcher and Boris Johnson (thread)
September 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Excellent and clear long 🧵 on why the proposed New Towns aren’t really New Towns and won’t actually deliver what the OG New Towns did.
We deserve better, don’t we 🙄
We deserve better, don’t we 🙄
Literally no words 🫥
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World's largest private Rembrandt collection may be fractionalised, owner reveals
Plans are underway for the Leiden Collection of Dutch Golden Age painting, amassed by billionaire investor Thomas S. Kaplan, to be offered as shares on a public stock exchange
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September 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Literally no words 🫥
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In London, hate will never win.
September 17, 2025 at 6:10 AM
In London, hate will never win.
September 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Simply cannot wait to try this sentence out on my next trip to The Netherlands.
#duolingo #DuolingoNederlands #DuolingoDutch #AmLearningDutch
#duolingo #DuolingoNederlands #DuolingoDutch #AmLearningDutch
September 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Simply cannot wait to try this sentence out on my next trip to The Netherlands.
#duolingo #DuolingoNederlands #DuolingoDutch #AmLearningDutch
#duolingo #DuolingoNederlands #DuolingoDutch #AmLearningDutch
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Journalists questioning Nigel Farage should be pointing out Brexit has been a primary factor in the sky rocketing number of small boat crossings. How hard can this be?
youtu.be/cKXFjbxSBBI?...
youtu.be/cKXFjbxSBBI?...
Imagine the shock when he finds out Brexit is a primary factor in sky rocketing small boat crossings
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
September 7, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Journalists questioning Nigel Farage should be pointing out Brexit has been a primary factor in the sky rocketing number of small boat crossings. How hard can this be?
youtu.be/cKXFjbxSBBI?...
youtu.be/cKXFjbxSBBI?...
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NEW: Man who wants Nobel Peace Prize creates Department of War.
August 31, 2025 at 9:00 AM
NEW: Man who wants Nobel Peace Prize creates Department of War.
Who wore it better?
Mussolini at the Palazzo Braschi in 1934 or POTUS at the Dept of Labor in 2025?
Mussolini at the Palazzo Braschi in 1934 or POTUS at the Dept of Labor in 2025?
August 30, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Who wore it better?
Mussolini at the Palazzo Braschi in 1934 or POTUS at the Dept of Labor in 2025?
Mussolini at the Palazzo Braschi in 1934 or POTUS at the Dept of Labor in 2025?
Them: Why do you keep holidaying in The Netherlands, Liz?
Me:
Me:
August 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Them: Why do you keep holidaying in The Netherlands, Liz?
Me:
Me:
Happy Samphire Day to all who celebrate 💚
Today is Duodi the 12th of Thermidor in the year 233.
Thermidor is the month of heat.
Today we celebrate glasswort.#JacobinDay
More information on glasswort
Thermidor is the month of heat.
Today we celebrate glasswort.#JacobinDay
More information on glasswort
July 29, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Happy Samphire Day to all who celebrate 💚
For some cheer I picked up these gorgeous #peonies from Bouquets and Beans in #Kennington. (Find them at Kennington Cross or on insta.)
They also do really good iced coffee.
They also do really good iced coffee.
June 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
For some cheer I picked up these gorgeous #peonies from Bouquets and Beans in #Kennington. (Find them at Kennington Cross or on insta.)
They also do really good iced coffee.
They also do really good iced coffee.