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Aussie academic in technology ethics. Fibre crafts & video games. Personal Account. she/her. Dances Morris with . Swears a bit (sorry dad) πŸ‘¨β€πŸ‘©β€πŸ‘¦
Leicester, UKliedra.netJoined June 2007

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For the right wing press the gravest sin is to refuse to live by the rules they set. What you get in return, if you are prominent, is an endless series of ugly smears, like this. Respect, once again, to Harry and Meghan.
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Mum and dad went home today, going to miss them a lot. 😭
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Parents of toddlers - be careful which rap songs you let your kids listen to 🀣🀣 This tweet brought to you by Ludacris β€œMove Bitch”
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β€œThe most important thing is to stop burning fossil fuels. The second most important thing is conserve the nature we already have. Trying to create new nature to absorb our fossil fuel emissions is way down the list of priorities.”
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My baby just let out a Homer Simpson burp 🀣
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Was having a lovely birthday until I got some bad news about a colleague leaving us and now I’m sad
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A man who called Β£250,000 β€œchicken feed” and ate Β£27,000 of free takeaway in a year asking people on minimum wage staring down the barrel of Β£5,000 gas bills and 15% inflation to keep a sense of perspective
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Boris Johnson urges UK to keep sense of β€˜hope and perspective’ in tough months ahead independent.co.uk/tv/news/cost-l
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If you're comfortably middle class, and all of a sudden you dread basic bills, and are furious at a govt doing nothing to help, please remember this is how the poorest have felt for a decade. Maybe now you understand their anger.
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Omg this made me laugh so much
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What sort of thing did Australians expect to find in England? 🌏 #OnThisDay 1961: Alan Whicker interviewed some Aussies just before they set sail from Melbourne to Essex.
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This gassy at night phase sucks. Also playing β€œmilk or wee?” when I find out my pj top is wet (milk this time). Motherhood is so glamorous
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Wow!
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Have you ever heard the expression β€œif it sounds too good to be true, it probably is”? Well AliExpress is currently advertising a 30 Terabyte SSD for $29. And I just had one delivered. Let’s open it up, shall we? /1
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Having been in Facebook mums group culture now for six months I can tell you the divorce rate would double or triple if the govt gave single mums a liveable inflation matched income.
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I haven’t really seen much comment on the double whammy for business: their energy bills, and the reduction in consumer disposal income. Carnage
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That's Β£1578pa less for households to spend on other things - which means closures of pubs, shops & restaurants. This isn't just a catastrophe for the worst-off: it's disaster for almost everyone. twitter.com/MartinSLewis/s…
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Completely unsustainable. The economy will collapse. That's before we even consider impacts on actual people. We have no functioning government. Even if we did, they couldn't care less. #CostOfLivingCrisis #EnergyPriceCap
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1 OCT NEW ENERGY PRICE CAP Direct Debit Rates. Overall up 80% Elec: Daily standing charge was 45.3p now 46.3p Unit rate kWHwas 28.3p now 51.8p Gas: Daily standing charge was 27.2p now 28.4p Unit rate per kWh was 7.4p now 14.8p (Ie you pay Β£273/yr before any energy use)
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Brutal.
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1 OCT NEW ENERGY PRICE CAP Direct Debit Rates. Overall up 80% Elec: Daily standing charge was 45.3p now 46.3p Unit rate kWHwas 28.3p now 51.8p Gas: Daily standing charge was 27.2p now 28.4p Unit rate per kWh was 7.4p now 14.8p (Ie you pay Β£273/yr before any energy use)
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