Ally Lester

The view out of my bedroom window. 10 March 2026. A pond, plum trees, next door's house over the fields.

Gonna try this thing where I take the same photo every morning. And it's doubling as todays #SmallJoys because the plum trees have got leaf buds.

@thomasinapots.bsky.social

Labour lawyers ‘blocked’ from briefing MPs on jury trials overhaul before vote Leader of rebel group says there is deep concern within Society of Labour Lawyers about courts and tribunals bill

This is shocking. Labour lawyers ‘blocked’ from briefing MPs on jury trials overhaul before vote. The Prime Minister is completely out of control on this. MPs must come together and stop him from undermining & restricting a fundamental cornerstone of our democracy
www.theguardian.com/law/2026/mar...

February sunlight on old Penguins

Oh, do romance readers read too much? Of the wrong kind of books, you say? In the wrong kind of language, you say? Are they too easy, too sexy, too fun, too silly? And we’re pretending this is not The argument that people have made against romance since (checks library) 1785?

To be clear: Signal’s encryption and infrastructure have not been compromised and remain robust. These attacks were executed via sophisticated phishing campaigns, designed to trick users into sharing information – SMS codes and/or Signal PIN – to gain access to users’ accounts. 2/7

really tired of conversations about how we need to get people to spend more time offline that don't acknowledge that one of the reasons people ARE online is their access needs aren't being met in physical spaces. This is especially true for queer people and disabled people.

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“We never thought that in 20 years we could have gone from being this depleted, polluted, dysfunctional post-industrial farmland, to being one of the most significant biodiversity hotspots in Britain”

Read CNN's story: edition.cnn.com/world/rewild...

Green Party say 'Hannah Spencer won't be silenced' after Manchester violence Hannah Spencer, Gorton and Denton's newly-elected MP, was ushered into a police car amid the unfolding chaos

The reason the middle-class media has not reported Hannah Spencer being attacked by right-wing transphobes is that it needs to preserve the nice, coffeee-round-the-kitchen-table, middle-class view of transphobia, not the thuggish fascist reality.

Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hot pink filing cabinets behind a pile of crap, including a Henry hoover, stepladders and a roll of carpet. Is

I have spent £15 on a pair of hot pink filing cabinets and I could not be happier with myself.

Is the house still filled with chaos? Only if you didn't know what it looked like before.

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I am so sorry to hear this and I wish you both all the best. It was a blessing when I hit menopause. I didn't have it anywhere nearly as badly as you describe, but I empathise.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 6230:
Writing is freedom. You are free to write whatever you like, in whatever way you like. You're free to take advice, or not. You're free to describe the real world, or to build it differently. Your successes, your mistakes, your decisions belong to you. Own them.

A felt pigeon watching me. It has felt boobs.

I will felt sensible pigeons today. There will be no other pigeons, just sensible ones.

🤣🤣🤣
Good old Dubai, resolutely fighting for the right to exploit imported slave labour to build luxury homes for the world's tax avoiders, and beautiful holiday hotels for the ethically deficient.

A short 🧵 of Good Things.

Cis dudes now is your time to shine: tell the me the most disgusting man things about your body so I can prove to my niece that being HUMAN sucks not just being a cis woman

Do I know anyone in the York, England, area (admittedly large) who might help me get in touch with the descendant of a pioneering printing technologist? The person in question has a very thin online presence, but I believe would welcome the contact about his family.

This, exactly

Really beautiful!

Some moss for yall

Oh yay you guys! We are so nearly done, everything is now painted and mostly the shelves are up and tomorrow I'm going to start pulling things out of The Pile and putting them up.

It’s 8pm & it’s Sunday, so it must be time for #wildflowerhour!🎉 Please share your pics of the wild & naturalised blooms you’ve spotted from across Britain & Ireland in the last week especially if they are #SignsofSpring, the focus of this week’s challenge! 😀

The scammers are relentless.
Please understand, no book club is EVER going to proactively seek you out. It is natural to hope so but that is not how the world works.
They are NOT looking through millions of new books searching for your novel when they haven't even read Northanger Abbey yet

A rough, rubbly looking terrain that looks like that weird lint crap that builds up in crawlspaces.

This photo was taken on the surface of an asteroid.

In this current harsh world, let's warm a few hearts remembering the events of 7-8 March 1991, when the 90,000 people of Brindisi woke up to find 25,000 Albanians roaming the streets of their town. For perspective, that's roughly equivalent to 25k people suddenly landing in Hastings [Thread] >> 1

me 🤝 Proton's comms person

explaining that you cannot simply decide a court order doesn't apply to you just because you don't like it

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

The State of the Art by Iain M Banks - BBC Sounds A spaceship arrives on Earth and finds a planet obsessed with alien concepts like 'money'.

This is so good. Give it a listen. I miss Iain Banks

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...