A Rachel for all seasons
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Posting about languages, UK politics, faith/church, London, general stuff
Ecclesiastes 12:12
Ecclesiastes 12:12
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Roses are red
Candy's there to be devoured
Candy's there to be devoured
February 14, 2024 at 9:00 PM
Roses are red
Candy's there to be devoured
Candy's there to be devoured
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MMR rates in Hackney (not far from the Enfield schools with the current outbreak) are at a shockingly low 60 per cent. It's seriously worrying
This matters because London has among the lowest vaccination rates for measles in England - there are many pockets of unvaccinated communities that could be at significant risk from a runaway outbreak:
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Health officials are racing to contain a growing measles outbreak in London, which has struck down dozens of young children and affected 7 schools and a nursery.
UKHSA has warned an outbreak across London could see 40,000 - 160,000 cases:
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
UKHSA has warned an outbreak across London could see 40,000 - 160,000 cases:
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
February 14, 2026 at 7:01 PM
MMR rates in Hackney (not far from the Enfield schools with the current outbreak) are at a shockingly low 60 per cent. It's seriously worrying
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You know, I never really talked about this, but while we're doing this ~discourse~ I've got a little story to tell...
“We should be able to denigrate and abuse “big accounts” because people follow them,” is …an unhinged proposition
February 14, 2026 at 2:38 PM
You know, I never really talked about this, but while we're doing this ~discourse~ I've got a little story to tell...
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The Aldi self-service checkout demonstration woman and her early-2000s hairstyle.
February 14, 2026 at 6:06 PM
The Aldi self-service checkout demonstration woman and her early-2000s hairstyle.
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The sass of the person writing the minute by minute on England v Scotland is to be admired
February 14, 2026 at 5:29 PM
The sass of the person writing the minute by minute on England v Scotland is to be admired
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"Mrs. Krabappel and principal Skinner
were in the closet making babies.
And I saw one of the babies
and the baby looked at me."
were in the closet making babies.
And I saw one of the babies
and the baby looked at me."
February 14, 2026 at 3:02 PM
"Mrs. Krabappel and principal Skinner
were in the closet making babies.
And I saw one of the babies
and the baby looked at me."
were in the closet making babies.
And I saw one of the babies
and the baby looked at me."
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Yes, I bet the owner’s personal history being in the public eye does nothing for business…
Everyone’s talking about Swarovski right now so let’s take a second and dive into the fact that they were NAZI Nazis. Like full-on Seig Heil, prosecuted after the war level Nazis and the modern company has done everything they can to hide all their archives and prevent anyone accessing them.
![Members of the Swarovski family were early, active and enthusiastic champions of Nazism, and at least six of its members maintained membership in the illegal party prior to Austria's annexation to Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938.!23] Three weeks earlier, 500 marchers in the Tyrolean town of Wattens held a torchlight procession that ended with chants of "Sieg Heil" and "Heil Hitler". The majority of the participants, police determined, were Swarovski plant employees, among them Swarovski family heirs Alfred, Wilhelm and Friedrich. 124]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nvfznp5ls3wcf6aktlfkfkp3/bafkreicscf6waklhijry6fblsvr4psk7yku2jauu5hqsn4n765i4gkl2pe@jpeg)
![In its report to the state police on 14 February 1947, the Innsbruck district administrator called company head Alfred Swarovski "an enthusiastic member of the NSDAP." [25] Alfred Swarovski praised Hitler at business gatherings and took actions as a regional business leader to ensure that "Tyrolean industry could be integrated as smoothly as possible into the enormous gears of the economy of Greater Germany and into the National Socialist economic order." He sent
"grateful loyalty greetings" to Adolf Hitler on his 49th birthday and arranged a donation of 100,000 shillings for Hitler to establish a holiday home in Tyrol.!26]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nvfznp5ls3wcf6aktlfkfkp3/bafkreifou66ng5baxhiicmm6d3zntcqosn7pqwzafclwf2qs7xtq7wvqku@jpeg)
![In 1994, historian Horst Schreiber wrote about Swarovski's past but was not granted access to company archives. (27]
The contemporary Swarovski company commissioned historian Dieter Stiefel as "a step towards dealing with our history in a serious and very pro-active manner," board spokesman Markus Langes-Swarovski said in
2018; however, the study was not published because, Langes-Swarovski said, "Swarovski is a company that generally tries to keep the owners' personal stories largely out of the public eye because it does nothing for the business." (28]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nvfznp5ls3wcf6aktlfkfkp3/bafkreift4wajp6nsrzdrumb2cnyv7s5nvswakab7h62jnjqua4i7tf2qeq@jpeg)
February 14, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Yes, I bet the owner’s personal history being in the public eye does nothing for business…
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When will policymakers recognise that the digital information environment is impacting views of London in a way that can hit investment and tourism? This is one clip from several vignettes outlined in @jim.londoncentric.media’s latest newsletter
www.londoncentric.media/p/london-cri...
www.londoncentric.media/p/london-cri...
February 14, 2026 at 10:55 AM
When will policymakers recognise that the digital information environment is impacting views of London in a way that can hit investment and tourism? This is one clip from several vignettes outlined in @jim.londoncentric.media’s latest newsletter
www.londoncentric.media/p/london-cri...
www.londoncentric.media/p/london-cri...
Why do they so love to give the hint that the trains might conveniently line up at Stockwell and then as you, the first off the train on the other line and the fastest, approach the other, simply close the doors and leave without you?
Why?!?
Why?!?
February 14, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Why do they so love to give the hint that the trains might conveniently line up at Stockwell and then as you, the first off the train on the other line and the fastest, approach the other, simply close the doors and leave without you?
Why?!?
Why?!?
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The final item of this article feels like another early rumbling of something bigger – public services are getting swamped with AI-generated complaints and appeals, often citing fictitious legal precedents etc.
It’s already a serious headache and it’s only going to get worse.
It’s already a serious headache and it’s only going to get worse.
London’s got a global viral video malaise www.londoncentric.media/p/london-cri...
Londoners are sick of viral videos telling lies about their city
Plus: Victoria Park battle over All Points East, the Hackney school war that wasn't, the AI-generated parking appeal mess, and wild swimming in the River Thames.
www.londoncentric.media
February 14, 2026 at 11:28 AM
The final item of this article feels like another early rumbling of something bigger – public services are getting swamped with AI-generated complaints and appeals, often citing fictitious legal precedents etc.
It’s already a serious headache and it’s only going to get worse.
It’s already a serious headache and it’s only going to get worse.
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If you’d like to spread some love to refugee women this Valentine’s Day, please donate to support our warm and welcoming community space.
☕️ A donation equivalent to a cup of coffee could provide snacks, fruit, and a hot drink for one woman.
www.refugeewomen.co.uk/donate/ Thank you! 💜💜💜
☕️ A donation equivalent to a cup of coffee could provide snacks, fruit, and a hot drink for one woman.
www.refugeewomen.co.uk/donate/ Thank you! 💜💜💜
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February 14, 2026 at 9:45 AM
If you’d like to spread some love to refugee women this Valentine’s Day, please donate to support our warm and welcoming community space.
☕️ A donation equivalent to a cup of coffee could provide snacks, fruit, and a hot drink for one woman.
www.refugeewomen.co.uk/donate/ Thank you! 💜💜💜
☕️ A donation equivalent to a cup of coffee could provide snacks, fruit, and a hot drink for one woman.
www.refugeewomen.co.uk/donate/ Thank you! 💜💜💜
Just a little Mohawk-sporting guy
Petra Church Floor Mosaic https://www.wikiart.org/en/byzantine-mosaics/petra-church-floor-mosaic-550-3
February 14, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Just a little Mohawk-sporting guy
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Hedgehogs rolling on grapes to take to their young for food
BL Royal MS 12 F XIII; 'the Rochester Bestiary; 13th century; f.45r
BL Royal MS 12 F XIII; 'the Rochester Bestiary; 13th century; f.45r
February 14, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Hedgehogs rolling on grapes to take to their young for food
BL Royal MS 12 F XIII; 'the Rochester Bestiary; 13th century; f.45r
BL Royal MS 12 F XIII; 'the Rochester Bestiary; 13th century; f.45r
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The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it
February 13, 2026 at 9:37 PM
The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it
Rare to get an actual vox pop with a pothole
Potholes: 'I do not feel safe on the roads'
February 13, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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Rare to get an actual vox pop with a pothole
February 13, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Rare to get an actual vox pop with a pothole
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You never hear about anyone else of Bingen.
February 13, 2026 at 7:20 PM
You never hear about anyone else of Bingen.
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Church friends may find this article about #LLF this week at #Synod helpful
viamedia.news/2026/02/13/l...
viamedia.news/2026/02/13/l...
Leaving in Love and Faith? - ViaMedia.News
by Nic Tall, National Co-ordinator of Together for the Church of England I am writing this piece in Church House, the morning after a five-hour debate on Living in Love and Faith (LLF). As with many l...
viamedia.news
February 13, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Church friends may find this article about #LLF this week at #Synod helpful
viamedia.news/2026/02/13/l...
viamedia.news/2026/02/13/l...
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When your post gets in the discover feed
February 12, 2026 at 12:40 AM
When your post gets in the discover feed
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this feels like a spoof from The Day Today
Nadhim Zahawi thinks London is now unsafe, because the other day a tired-looking man walked past him during the morning rush hour.
February 13, 2026 at 3:24 PM
this feels like a spoof from The Day Today
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who was asking for this? who said, "you know who i haven't heard enough from? rod dreher"
Rod Dreher has fueled some of the more apocalyptic currents on the Trumpist right. Robert F. Worth spoke with the writer to understand his worldview:
Rod Dreher Thinks the Enlightenment Was a Mistake
The influential author derides secularism and the modern world. Conservatives—including the vice president—are joining him on a march back to the Middle Ages.
bit.ly
February 13, 2026 at 2:05 PM
who was asking for this? who said, "you know who i haven't heard enough from? rod dreher"
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Anyway, I'll be in the next lot of NHS statistics as "went to A&E with a cough" but I got told quite sharply that I'd done exactly the right thing so all those "people are going to A&E with trivial problems" handwringing fussbuckets can do one.
if people kept their germs to themselves I wouldn't have spent the last two hours in Minor Injuries with "not sure if I've broken a rib, I might have just pulled a muscle coughing".
Turns out it's just a pulled muscle, which, still, 0/10 do not recommend.
Turns out it's just a pulled muscle, which, still, 0/10 do not recommend.
February 13, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Anyway, I'll be in the next lot of NHS statistics as "went to A&E with a cough" but I got told quite sharply that I'd done exactly the right thing so all those "people are going to A&E with trivial problems" handwringing fussbuckets can do one.
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I share this only to help those contemplating whether to tweet "I support Palestine Action".
February 13, 2026 at 10:34 AM
I share this only to help those contemplating whether to tweet "I support Palestine Action".