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SueN

@tynegal.bsky.social

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Growing old disgracefully, lady who lunches. Retired journo, PR director, living on the north east coast of England. Leftie, snarky, animal lover. #FightThePatriarchy #TAXtheRICH

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Knew he was some director…

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46 Mary Tyler Moore

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14 is Johnny Halliday

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Classic ‘if you’re not with us you’re against us’

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#LindenHallHotel

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Close the lid before flushing.

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If she’s happy there is no problem. Keep out.

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Friend visiting. Traitorous #RescueKitties slept on her bed!! #CatsofBluesky @hedgewatchers.bsky.social

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After some independent living, the #RescueKitties are loved up again. #CatsofBluesky @hedgewatchers.bsky.social

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But Tim whatsisname is a nasty man.

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True. Shocked that takeaway F&C was £13 at nearest chippy (north east seaside town). £3.50 for chips alone.

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Nuremberg

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Wonderful Life, James Stewart

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Boo says it’s past her bedtime #DogsofBluesky

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Didn’t do their sums.

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🤣🤣🤣

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No shit.

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‘A facism’ - love it!

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He’s no friend to Britain.

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Hydrangeas and seed heads from garden, bought roses, faux honesty and eucalyptus

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OMG!

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Trump out of control.

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What's the figure white v other races?

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Their bosses didn’t applaud him last week.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · Feb 15

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

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