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Mark Parisi @offthemarkparisi.bsky.social

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No Second TroyWhy should I blame her that she filled my days / With misery, or that she would of latepoets.org

It's depressing that this moved me so much, but did. First time I've heard a politician praise a group of immigrants, without caveat, for a long while.

#SelfPublishing #Storytelling #WIP #WriteMore #writer

I'm in the South of France , where I was introduced to a French person with the words 'and this lady is from England.' 'Yes,' said the French person, dryly, 'I can see that for myself.'

It is quite strange how little the actual public inquiry we're having into the UK's Covid response - the one that's publishing in-depth reports every few months - factors into the "you're not even allowed to ask these questions" complaints. We are, in fact, officially asking these questions!

One thing I would say about Covid is it's just utterly bizarre that we are having conversations about mental health, youth unemployment, our frankly weird and slightly scary politics, various other odd social changes and it just never comes up. Yet, it is a massive social force in this decade.

If only we had an inquiry into Covid so we could understand decision making and multiple errors in the round.... www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Covid inquiry: “Inexcusable” lockdown errors, “toxic” government culture, damaging school closuresThe UK covid inquiry’s latest report focused on political decisions made during the pandemic. Jacqui Thornton summarises the key lessons All four UK governments were too slow to respond to the covid-...www.bmj.com

RefUK, RW media, & Eurofash are plainly trying to whip up a panic about this. Any serious report must begin by explaining that Ceuta is in Africa - not mainland Spain - and 48k+ of the 50k crossers were already returned. It is frightening how many still don't know this. Please share on all socials.

England received only 7% of the long-term average rainfall for July. Southern England, just 1%. Factoid: There has been a weather station in Kew Gardens for 155 years. This July was the first month ever to record 0mm of rain. Tomorrow, London will again hit 30C+ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

July set to be driest on record for England and Wales after relentless heatwavesClimate scientist urges better planning as southern England had just 1% of long-term average rainfall last monthwww.theguardian.com

Not found on BBC as yet

Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency

David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.www.vox.com

Master of the poetic landscape: Thomas Gainsborough, English artist, died #OTD 1788; trained by Gravelot, associate of Hogarth & rival of Reynolds, he became a fashionable late 18th Century London portraitist. Mrs Richard Sheridan 1787, NGADC; Morning Walk 1785, National Gallery London

#OtD 2 Aug 1944 4000 Roma people in Auschwitz resisted being taken to the gas chambers. They armed themselves with sticks and crowbars, and barricaded the doors, women in particular fighting the SS with hands and nails. They were overcome and murdered stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9169...

Teacher and pupils in Manchester, 1956, photo by Bert Hardy (Picture Post).

#OtD 2 Aug 1980 a bomb exploded at Bologna train station, killing 85 people and injuring over 200. Carried out by neo-fascists, it was part of the Strategy of Tension, a state programme to carry out attacks and blame them on the left stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9171...

The counterfactual isn't a world in which more kids got infected with covid & were fine. It's the key worker parents they brought it home to. Putting all essential services under more pressure. Including the NHS. It's potential variants which were able to evolve with more spread. ...it's a lot!

People really do project knowledge backwards. All the decisions which were made during the pandemic were made with hospitals at capacity, people dying and becoming severely disabled, and no knowledge of what future variants would emerge or how dangerous they might be.

2 August 1906 | A Polish Jew, Fajtel Dziewiecki, was born in Wodzisław. A worker. In #Auschwitz from 21 February 1942. No. 23878 He perished in the camp on 9 April 1942.

I can’t believe that Reform UK turned out to be financed by a bunch of money laundering fronts for Russia. It’s just so unexpected.