RT @BWareAuthor: Wait… what? ANOTHER giveaway? Well... yes! I LOVE this time of year, so why the baubles not?!🎁🥳🥂 For a chance to win this…

TWO AWAY! TWO AWAY! 🥳🥳🥳 Keeping the sale up for a wee bit longer to try and reach this goal! Reposts appreciated, homeskillets 🫶💪

📚 GIVEAWAY 📚 A huge thank you to @ViperBooks for sending me a copy of The Killer Question by @JaniceHallett. As I already have a proof, Viper Books have said I can give this copy to one of YOU! To enter: • Repost • Tag a friend • Make sure you’re following so I can DM

OK I'm back to posting...and to reading! Moved house, moved counties, moved jobs...too much change so had to sit out for a while 😅 What are you currently reading? Pictured-my current reads The Rebel Witch by Kristen Ciccarelli

Effective immediately

an important message from Duolingo

"We need a total arms embargo on Israel.. we need to commit to holding Netanyahu & his govt to account for the war crimes they have perpetuated & you need to look at things like #BDS" @AyoCaesar on #politicslive (her comments at the start were directed at the 2MPs on the panel)

I’m Canadian, and one of our governments biggest critics. The amount of Fentanyl, weapons, and migrants that flow from the U.S. to Canada is multiples higher than what comes from Canada to the U.S. I believe only 0.2% of the Fentanyl that enters the U.S. comes from Canada. Most of the weapons used by criminals in Canada are illegally smuggled into Canada via the U.S. What I think is insulting to Canadians, and I’m assuming Mexicans, and maybe soon European’s is that we have been friends and allies for over 100 years. We have come to your aid, just as you have come to ours. The Trump administration negotiated a new NAFTA prior to the Biden administration. He went back on his word, showing his word means nothing, and tore up an agreement negotiated in good faith with friends and allies, which he said was a huge win for the U.S. What has offended and shocked @Canada and @mexico is you have lumped us in with China, a true adversary to the U.S. and western democracies. Not only did he lump us in, he only imposed 10% tariffs on China and 25% tariffs on friends and allies that share your northern and southern borders. Friends who feel betrayed by the broken promises of the Trump administration 4 years prior. With the greatest of respect this is not about fentanyl and migrants. The data doesn’t support that. Those are his media talking points to justify his actions. What he has done is declared economic war on @Canada and @Mexico. He is using tariffs as a weapon to try to hurt Canadians and Mexicans so much that he can take what he wants from them. That is not how you treat your friends and allies of the last 100 years, you don’t try to bankrupt, hurt, or beat your friends into submission. The reason the U.S. has trade deficits is because we live in an inflationary monetary system and the U.S. has the exorbitant privilege of being able to export its inflation to the rest of the world. That is why the U.S. is able to run massive deficits. This is why BRICS was formed and why foreign governments have stopped buying U.S. treasuries. The new global order set up after Bretton Woods, was abused by the US and that’s why the gold standard failed. With the greatest of respect please don’t parrot the media talking points, and call a spade a spade, he has just declared an unprovoked war on your friends and allies. The reason is clear, he wants to take whatever he desires from Canada, Mexico and the rest of the world using tariffs as a weapon. He wants the land resources, and strategic locations of these respective countries. Why else include Panama and Greenland in his threats? Because they are of geopolitical importance. Tariffs are taxes, they do not lower prices of goods. That is false. This would only occur after years of suffering for all parties. Massive re-shoring of industries like energy cannot be spun up over night. Canada and Mexico can spin up their own refineries, LNG facilities, and rare earth mineral mines in similar time frames as the U.S. Everyone will suffer in the short term, but the long term effects will be that your allies can no longer trust your treaties or undertakings. This will have the effect of pushing Canada, Mexico, and Europe to find new trade partners and new free trade agreements, possibly with BRICS. Completely isolating the U.S. in the long term. Similar to Biden freezing Russia’s US treasuries, this will have long term unintended consequences, it shows other nations that they cannot trust the U.S. to honour their commitments. Ultimately leading to a new global order. For anyone who is interested in what, and why these tariffs are being used, just look at how Hawaii became a state. The U.S. used tariffs as a weapon to tariff them into submission and take Hawaii. “Hawaii greatly relied on importing sugar into the United States. The McKinley Tariff Act hurt Hawaii's sugar industry to the point that they annexed the United States to avoid the high tariffs.”

Id like to thank @duolingo for all their aggressive reminders . I couldnt have done it without them 😆

No matter your politics, it's obvious the US is falling apart. I simply cannot imagine blaming some of the least powerful social groups (immigrants and trans people) instead of the people at the top with decision-making power--call them oligarchs, capitalists, whatever you want.

Why is it that Male main characters in fantasy books have the monopoly on that one soap flavour they like? No one else in that book world is allowed to smell as good as them 🤔

🎉📚 DELUXE #BOOKGIVEAWAY 📚🎉 Ultra rare PROOF copy edition of 'SUFFICIENTLY ADVANCED MAGIC' by NYT Bestseller Andrew Rowe! Less than 30 exist! Follow for 4 chances, #RT for 2, Like/Comment for 1 each! Winner announced next Friday! We ship internationally!

.@TIME got it wrong. Gisèle Pelicot is Person of the Year 2024.

This is Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson, who represents Madison. He has received more than $1.2 million from the NRA and has voted against every attempt to address gun violence since taking office. RETWEET to let his constituents know he will do nothing to end gun violence!

🚨NEW: Madison Sheriff calls out American’s gun epidemic in the wake of the Wisconsin shooting: “Stop asking why schools don’t have bullet proof glass & metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools HAVE to.“ RETWEET if you stand with Sheriff Barnes against gun violence!

the REAL person of the year: gisèle pelicot 🤍

It's that time of year again, and as a special present I'm giving away a £10 Waterstones Voucher to 3 lucky followers.🎅🏻 To enter: 👥Follow Me 🩷Like This Post 🔄Retweet This Post Closes Friday 13th (😱) at midday (UK Only) No competition accounts. Good luck!

A convicted felon was just reelected president. There's no rules anymore. I've started pronouncing the L in salmon