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Rebecca

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Still living vicariously via books and films, but now more likely to be found in the garden than the cinema. Speaks 🇪🇸, learning 🇫🇷
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Meanwhile over at the Telegraph, a leader writer wonders if a community taking part in the democratic process means its time to stop "handing citizenship out" to them. The absolute state of this.

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Explosive reporting in Le Monde confirms what was apparent all week: Macron resisted the emergence of anti-far-right front after round 1. His PM, Attal, forced it as a fait accompli, & pressured for drop outs to block RN. Even then, Macron made some phone calls to undercut it.

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In the coldframe: [l-r] rudbeckia triloba "Prairie Glow"; malva sylvestris mauritiana (purple mallow - meant to flower in 1st yr but unlikely); and 4 types of cosmos (overkill - should have just picked 2). All grown indoors from seed. Still in the house: tiny foxglove seedlings for next year. 🌱

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Thank you. Someone else has replied that wind can do that and gently watering may bring it back. Unfortunately the wind is still with us ☹️

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Oh dear ☹️ Thank you, I will try watering. Unfortunately we've still got the wind.

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I have watered it in the last few days. Will give it some more. Tops of pots are drying out due to wind. Main stem seems intact but leaves are like that all the way down it. I need to take a look higher up, but it seems to be the entire length. Weird that there's a stem that's ok (atm).

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🌱 Gardening folks: any ideas what could have done this to the clematis? We've had 3 days of very strong winds, but I'm not sure that alone is enough. 1st flush of flowers were going over but new buds visible, now all but one stem seems to be dying ☹️ It flowered through Sept last year.

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Phew. Disappointing that the Tories are still projected to get three figures, but I'll take it. [although evidently we're going to have to put up with F*****'s gurning mug for the foreseeable]

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My chosen election night viewing: Rendez-vous de juillet (Jacques Becker, 1949). I'm having a mini Jacques Becker season - it was Touchez pas au Grisbi (1954) on Monday and Goupi Mains Rouges (1943) on Tuesday. Still to come: Casque d'Or, Le Trou, Falbalas, and more.

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As an October baby, I wasn't old enough to vote the fuckers out in 1997 (yes, the first 17.5 yrs of my life w/ Tory govts, urgh)...so I'm hoping for total annihilation later, but I'll accept them simply no longer being in a position to shit on people from a great height.

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I'd like to vote *for* something rather than just *against* something else, but this is not that election. I have mixed feelings about today - hope/anxiety - I understand people not wanting to vote Labour, but I've held my nose and done it anyway because we need this menagerie of shits out of power.

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If a foreign state had done what the Tories have done to the UK, we would call it sabotage and treat it as a hostile act.

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Richard Littler's avatar Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social
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Government should function effectively in the background like white goods. But for the past years it's been like your fridge-freezer noisily demanding attention every 5 mins, switching off for hours at a time, fiddling its definition of 'cold', and eating your food then blaming the washing machine.

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Simply Add Boiling Water Weegee, 1943

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Seine in the mist, Paris Kees Scherer, 1955

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Andy Marshall's avatar Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social
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I’ve been to many places that give you a wonderful glimpse of the past, but rarely before have I had the past glimpse 👀back at me. Green Man boss from the medieval cloisters at Norwich Cathedral.

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This interactive essay from The Pudding is super interesting - what will climate change mean for how your region feels (virtually nowhere will remain in the cold zone)? 🌱 🌍 pudding.cool/2024/06/clim...

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The project is complete. The feline has expressed her satisfaction.

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The first of the flowers on sunflower "Earthwalker" is starting to open 🌱🌻

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I can't believe we, as a species, invented bread and cheese - two things that require multiple, complicated steps as well as microbe husbandry - and this is the best political system we've got

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While I think that all libraries are a force for good (I've worked in HE libraries for >20yrs), I also think that public libraries are of a different order. It makes me happy to know there are such people/places in the world (and sad that they are so necessary) www.theguardian.com/news/article...

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Probably late to this story, but... a) the Tories now apparently preparing golden parachutes for themselves b) how is it legal to bet on an outcome that you're in a position to influence? [if he's betting £8K on losing his seat, I can't see that he'll be busting a gut to win]

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Alan Beattie's avatar Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social
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Government: make sure you don't fall for phishing scams from people doing fake HMRC letters. Conservatives: here's election material made to make you think it's an HMRC letter.

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‘What is it that is coming to a close? This fourteen-year fever dream of failures, absurdities and outbursts of reaction defies the neat periodisation or symbolisation with which the Thatcher and Blair epochs have become fixed.’

William Davies in the next issue:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Marie Phillips's avatar Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social
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It's an absolute shitshow. As far as I can tell, most / all French people resident in the UK (I don't know if this is just a UK problem or more widespread) did not receive their voter password and have to go into contortions to get a new one. There are 149,000 French people living in the UK... (3/3)

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Marie Phillips's avatar Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social
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- put in your identifiant (not the same as you NUMIC) and then click on the forgotten password link - follow instructions - this is what you need your NUMIC for - you should now receive a new password by text NB you may find that Chrome is more accommodating for this than other browsers. (2/?)

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Marie Phillips's avatar Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social
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Any UK-based French voters here: if you haven't received your text password, you are not alone. Here's what to do: - find your NUMIC (voter registration number, which is NOT the same as your identifiant) - it should be in an email - go to the vote site and scroll down to <je vote par internet> (1/?)

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twenty thousand children

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