Felicity Hayes-McCoy

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USA Today Bestselling #Irish author. New novel #TheBooksellersGift out from Hachette Books Irl Oct 2024

Lives London/Corca Dhuibhne

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Best Airbnb instructions I’ve ever seen in my life.

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When the bar has been set so low for so long, it’s almost giddying to have credible, experienced, serious people in cabinet and to be spoken to with respect and understanding. Clearly, that’s the least we deserve. Right now it feels transformational.

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if i had to pinpoint the beginning of the internet's long decline i would say it's when "search-engine optimisation" became a thing burying the worthwhile beneath the profitable has been the death knell of every industry ever

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Tice and other Reform dark money sources have deep pockets. I look forward to the regular updates that Farage and the other Reform reprobates will have to provide to Parliament, especially after Starmer's opening shot on standards.😀

Reform spent £108,413 on Meta ads for each seat they won, the Lib Dems just £3,700.

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BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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There is lots and lots of things for the new government to put right and probably higher priority. That said, they also must fully release the details of that Russia report - which was swept away and redacted in the height of covid back in July 2020.

Well I never. A canary in the Russian coalmine, you say?

Boris Johnson and the Lebedevs: how I exposed the prime minister’s defining scandalwww.theguardian.com The ties between the PM and an ex-KGB officer, first revealed in the Observer three years ago, could be Johnson’s lasting legacy

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The Irish government is asking people to take a survey on climate change action. If you live in Ireland, this affects you. Please take the survey. It's pretty detailed, but it'll be time well spent. www.gov.ie/en/consultat... #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

Climate Conversations 2024www.gov.ie

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One of the most powerful quotes I've seen about how this happens to a country and how this pivotal historical moment in America feels.

I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

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Can everyone just STOP?

Also known as “training your replacement.” 😩

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

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Saw this on mastodon and it is fantastic. AI in medicine

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Historic results for North Tyneside Greens | North East Bylines

North Tyneside gets strongest Green General Election results in historynortheastbylines.co.uk Historic results for North Tyneside Greens

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Tories have been in since I was 26 - a year after uni As such, things have been ‘A bit shit at the moment’ my whole professional life. I’m 40 now with children and a body that’s starting to go on me. I am OFFICIALLY claiming the next 14 years as ‘My best years’, in arrears.

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“Celebrate: we have waited so long for this routing of the Tories. An unbearably rare moment of pure political joy. This is a moment to savour the worst of Tory sour breath being sucked out of politics…” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Celebrate: we have waited so long for this routing of the Tories. An unbearably rare moment of pure political joy | Polly Toynbeewww.theguardian.com Out with the scoundrels. There will be time to think about the massive tasks ahead for Labour, but – for now – marvel at what they have done, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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This guy

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Yup

“You don’t accomplish anything by posting” is such a ridiculous & boring take. I have learned so much from so many people on social media just from them posting. I have shared that information with others. We have changed our behaviors based on information to impact communities & ourselves.

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Through my childhood, on election nights, my dad was the man under Peter Snow’s desk putting interesting facts on notecards into his socks. That’s how it was done before Google, kids. You got a very clever ASD man with some Oxford degrees to just remember interesting constituency histories.

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today is my NINETEEN YEAR anniversary working at my local library In honor of that, I ask you to get a card to your local public library today! If you ALREADY have a card to your local public library, check out their digital resources! Their summer programs! And yeah, they have books too.

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"Politics as a public service" sounds good. Let's have this and save the world. #starmer #ukelection

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#Starmer grew up in a small town just outside London, the son of a nurse and a toolmaker. He was the first member of his family to go to university, after which he helped run a left-wing magazine called Socialist Alternatives. 😎 #UKElection2024 www.cbsnews.com/news/uk-elec...

Who is Keir Starmer, set to be the new U.K. prime minister after the Labour Party's election landslide?www.cbsnews.com With the U.K. Labour Party returning to power after 14 years of Conservative rule, the main appeal of the man set to take power may be his dullness.

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t.me/liveukraine_... 👏 Keir #Starmer said that #UK 's support for #Ukraine will not change after the parliamentary elections: "The last thing anyone in Ukraine wants is to see political parties in the UK arguing about what is a matter of life and death for them." alt⬇️

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Sir #Starmer & Co. have a big job ahead of them. Still, it is difficult to imagine that they will do worse than their predecessor. Then again, you never know.

According to Britain's new Prime Minister, Sir Keir #Starmer, "politics can be a force for good...that is how we will govern country first, party second." Further, he wish to "restore service and respect to politics." Politicians across the world should try to imitate his goal. A great speech!

Sir Keir Starmer's full first speech to the UK as Prime Ministerwww.youtube.com Sir Keir Starmer gives his first address to the nation after becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - as the Labour Party win a historic landslide maj...

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Rachel #Reeves is the UK’s first female chancellor. Here’s why that’s so significant theconversation.com/rachel-reeve... #Labour #Starmer

Rachel Reeves is the UK’s first female chancellor. Here’s why that’s so significanttheconversation.com The new government can’t keep its promises for growth without bringing more women into the economy.

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Great to hear that the Rwanda policy has been binned. #Starmer

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Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders. AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...

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There's a Small Problem With the AI Industry: It's Making Absolutely No Moneyfuturism.com AI is not making money for investors which may be connected to businesses having trouble adopting the technology.

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Struggling to stay awake for the exit poll, having been up at 5 for a 6am work pickup. Please send noisy puppies.

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And this is the main thrust of this post, ok the Tories may be gone (and I certainly hope they lose power), but now we need to collectively protect the rights of the minorities who’ve become punching bags. Asylum seekers, immigrants, the disabled, benefit claimants, our Trans brethren and more. -15

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This is where I have a small, boring bit of advice, from my time managing a customer contact centre for a central government department: write letters to your MP asking them to raise issues with secretaries of state; make the letters unique, not copy-and-paste campaigns; be direct, not cranky.

So how do we stand up and make a government take notice? Writing to your MP? I mean… It’s nice when they reply but it feels ineffectual. Mass mobilisation? Cool story bro, but unlikely. No revolts please, we’re British. How do we become the prick it’s hard to kick against? I’ve no idea. -11

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Good Voters today need to understand this and work together.Share👇widely today for a momentous achievement of cooperation, a protest vote today would be a wasted vote, please use votes at maximum impact by voting tactically together #stopthetories aim for Lib Dems to be the leading opposition party💥

the places we think you need to energise people to do this are here: stopthetories.vote/keyseats

StopTheTories.Votestopthetories.vote Vote tactically to put the Tories in 3rd place. Find out where tactical voting is most important to get the Tories in 3rd and Lib Dems as the official opposition!

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I have leant my vote to Labour, tactically. Let's be clear that they are wrong on both #ProportionalRepresentation and #RejoinEU and over the next 5 years, I intend to work hard to change their minds. #votetactally #toriesintothird

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I just voted! Polls are open until 10pm so please get out to vote if you can, and remember you need photo ID to vote this time. This is the first time I’ve voted tactically, but it is worth it to make sure we kick the Tory bastards out!!!!