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R to @slweekendwarmup: Glad you like it

 

[@TrussellTrust]

RT by @BootstrapCook: When donating to a food bank, many of us may think of giving pasta or tinned food.

Though this food is appreciated, our food banks are also in need of some more unexpected, but essential items.

Here's six unexpected things you can donate to your local food bank

 

[@Shelter]

RT by @BootstrapCook: We need your help!

We’re improving our online mortgage arrears and repossession advice. If you've missed mortgage payments or faced court action by a lender, and looked for information online, please tell us:

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[@CarersNI]

RT by @BootstrapCook: Today we’re announcing the launch of our new #CarerPovertyCommissionNI.

Bringing together unpaid carers and poverty experts from across the UK, the Carers NI project will deliver new research on the scale, drivers and solutions to poverty among unpaid carers here. 1/6

 

[@jrf_uk]

RT by @BootstrapCook: Have you used our framing research to talk more effectively about poverty? We've been reviewing our #TalkingAboutPoverty work and want to share what we've learned so that we can maximise impact for future framing projects. Join us on 25 January, 1-2pm. Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Talking about Poverty: Lessons learnt and the way forward. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

 

[@savechildrenuk]

RT by @BootstrapCook: This slight dip is down to:
️falling petrol prices lower clothing costs

BUT food continues to spike & families on low incomes spend a greater proportion of their £ on groceries.

£20 extra per child per wk into child related benefits would give families vital support

 

[@BlurtAlerts]

RT by @BootstrapCook: Depression: How To Recognise a Downward Spiral And What To Do About It Depression: How To Recognise A Downward Spiral And What To Do

 

[@BootstrapCook]

Inflation falls by 0.2% to 10.5% but food prices go up by eye-watering 16.9% - Evening Standard Inflation falls by 0.2% to 10.5% but food prices go up by eye-watering 16.9% — Evening Standard

 

[@joannanadin]

RT by @BootstrapCook: Did you know that every time you borrow a book from the library the author, and illustrator if there is one, get 30p? For most paperbacks and many hardbacks that’s almost as much as if you’d bought it at full price. And more than if you’d bought it at discount from you know who.

 

[@BootstrapCook]

R to @katrinagulliver: It’s quicker, and that’s what has been requested.

 

[@BootstrapCook]

R to @TonyH1212: Good luck - getting a diagnosis is scary but it helps because then you can get a treatment pathway and the right pain management, there are plenty of options out there once you know what you’re dealing with! Thinking of you, it’s not easy but it helps to be armed with the facts.

 

[@BootstrapCook]

I’m seeing v little in news reports about the utterly relentless, horrific, online abuse and harassment that Jacinda Ardern was subjected to every single day of her premiership, the vociferous and explicit threats of violence, the misogyny and the bullying, and I think it matters

 

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R to @BootstrapCook: I was woken this morning by my radio alarm and JAs resignation speech was the first thing I heard, and that ‘nothing left in the tank’ - and the way she /said/ that - I wish I was surprised, but that abuse is so corrosive, so destructive, it grinds you into a husk, in the end.

 

[@BootstrapCook]

R to @BootstrapCook: And I’m not saying it’s the definitive reason for her deciding to stand down, nor the only reason, but that feeling of having nothing left of yourself to give when you’ve been reduced to a pile of a and death threats, gaslighting, relentless hounding? It’s a very familiar one.

 

[@BootstrapCook]

R to @BootstrapCook: And it’s not just ‘online’ abuse. It’s abuse. It doesn’t just live in the internet, as a neat contained little thing that can be switched off and ‘just don’t look at it’. It seeps into every waking second of the day, every corner of your life, every precious private relationship.

 

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R to @BootstrapCook: If you respond to it, it celebrates and intensifies. If you ignore it, it escalates until you can’t any more. If you block it, it multiplies and breaches your boundaries. And her crime? Pretty much ‘being female in public.’

 

[@BootstrapCook]

R to @BootstrapCook: I’ve got a busy day on, but I’ll probably write later. I’ve a rule about if something is more than a 4 tweet thread (and the thread doesn’t expunge the Big Feeling about it) then it should probably be an essay. But journalists: do better. Don’t gloss over this.

 

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R to @BootstrapCook: 82% of women in public political life report being severely psychologically affected by online abuse.

 

[@BootstrapCook]

R to @BootstrapCook: The internet is overrun with men (mostly), hounding & condemning women to death, for daring to be here, showing our faces, raising our voices, in public. We protest this treatment of women in ‘other countries’, but I regret to inform you, the calls are coming from inside our own.

 

[@BootstrapCook]

R to @grannymoonboots: I’ve said almost those exact words several times a day lately, that I can’t do this any more and that I’ve got nothing left in the tank to give. That’s why I think I’ve reacted so strongly to hearing it this morning, especially coming from a woman as bold and brilliant as Ardern.