Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 9hMy uncle's father-in-law was a Nobel laureate in 1954 - does that count? 030
Reposted by Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈H.P. @hannelore14089.bsky.social · 23hOskar Schindler war ein deutscher Industrieller, der im Zweiten Weltkrieg an die 1200 in seinen Fabriken angestellte jüdische Zwangsarbeiter vor der Ermordung im Konzentrationslager rettete. 28. April 1908 - 9. Oktober 1974 Guten Morgen  835582
Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026'I want to classify you! Damn you for not fitting in my box!' 030
Reposted by Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈Rachel Courtland @rachelcourtland.com · 08/10/2026RIP to the world's first software engineer news.mit.edu/2026/margare...news.mit.eduMargaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90. 191756445
Reposted by Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026 424119133825
Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026I don't understand why there's no attempt to make it look like a Jaguar. They claim it resembles an E-Type in side profile, but it really doesn't. 000
Reposted by Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?” 6857801249
Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026Yet I made this screenshot from the Labour Party website in 2018. 210
Reposted by Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈David Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Letter printed in The Times today 8591240
Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026Could include a swerve to Six Mile Bottom. 010
Reposted by Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Welcome to the new and returning students, nice to have you 0342
Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026Tbh that sounds almost as bad as when someone put Midori in my Long Island Iced Tea. 100
Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026My first general election was Thatcher I, in 1979 - I listened to the declaration for Cambridge (Robert Rhodes James returned for the Conservatives) outside the Guildhall. He was to return twice more before it became the Labour/Lib Dem marginal it remains. 020
Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026My DNA says majority Welsh and NW English, French, two kinds of Irish, Danish, oddments of other English regions and a fragment of North African which is probably Algerian as I have a French grandmother. Do I get repatriated to Welshpool or may I choose? 140
Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026The Nicholas Winton one tears me up. 010
Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026Yup. The term should not be billionaires but money hoarders. 000
Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026It must have been my Marina 1.8TC, which had some ability to accelerate, poor brakes and long-departed structural integrity. But the main issue was the need to spray petrol into a carburettor to make it start - and thus to carry petrol in an unsafe container, viz. a laboratory spray bottle. 020
Reposted by Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 30/09/2026British authorities arrested scores of elderly protestors for peacefully holding signs that expressed solidarity with Palestine Action and opposing genocide. One of them was 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen. She is now being referred to as "the oldest terrorist in Britain." 22211
Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026I left school in 1976 and can't remember ever singing the National Anthem during my school years. Hymns, yes, though non-Christians only rocked up at the end to hear announcements. 001
Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026When I think about it, it's probably an unintended consequence of teaching Irish. 110
Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026There are also the things one feels one can't just throw away, only give away to another member of the family. My grandmother's toasting fork has ended up with me. 000
Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026Cheerful willingness to be better at languages, according to chatter at the lunch table. 110
Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026There are phases too - my son was a keen reader at primary age, appeared to lose interest as a younger secondary schooler and then astonished us by doing A-level English lit. 020
Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026MLX 385, 277 MMA - the first family cars I was old enough to remember. The former still exists, but the latter has gone wherever rusty things go. 000
Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026We broke down at 4pm and were home at 10:30. But at least we broke down in Essex, not Germany (we were rallying around Groesbeek, as far east as one can go in the Netherlands, and managed to take a wrong turn over the border), Netherlands, Belgium or France. 010
Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026Anyway, here's the view from our bedroom window in our lovely lakeside hotel - they asked us to park one of each model on the grass. We couldn't get the De Tomaso Deauville that was parked closer in shot. 250
Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026We attempted a rally around Gelderland - a new experience for me - and managed the first leg with our pride intact, only to have the app freeze on the second leg. We attempted to carry on in the old-fashioned way using paper instructions, but got lost part-way through and missed out on a group ferry 100
Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026That aside, we visited the fascinating Gallery Aaldering in Brummen - great apple cake - and Metropole Classic Cars in Druten, where with apologies to Porsche people, my highlight was meeting the original Herbie and seeing how he was controlled invisibly from the back. 110
Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026First someone had to come and agree that he couldn't repair it, and call a tow-truck. That arrived after four hours, but we were concerned when the driver began to work on his own vehicle - apparently the power take-off was on strike. So he had to go back for another truck. Nice chap though. 200
Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026Our Iso/De Tomaso/Jensen club weekend in the Netherlands ended with us ignominiously broken down beside the M25. A slightly bodgy year-old fuel pump repair chose to fail in a place that isn't conducive to roadside fixing. Our insurance includes get-you-home recovery, but that was a lengthy process. 220
Reposted by Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The ‘harm’ from immigration is illusionary. The harm from too little immigration is all too real. 1223582
Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026What a twit. Part of the problem, I suspect is that not enough British people used their freedom of movement because they were reluctant language learners. When I briefly worked at the CJEU, there seemed to be more Irish than British legal assistants. 141
Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026I think that's a US offence. It's criminal damage with intent to endanger life or reckless as to whether life endangered (Criminal Damage Act 1971, s1(2) and (3)); 'destroying ships' under the Aviation and Maritime Security Act 1990 & 'conduct endangering ships' under the Merchant Shipping Act 1995. 021
Reposted by Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Just me saying that any effort to tackle misinformation must be an attack on Reform, thereby admitting that Reform are helping Russia to spread far right narratives and create dissent and unrest. 701383432
Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026We should take standard terms and be grateful. 060
Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026Why is there an article on Russian on the landing page of the BBC News website? 000
Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026They're just regular citizens. I presume no-one is looking at my kids and going 'second-generation migrant', though my husband is a first-generation immigrant. 100
Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026Thinking of General Buck Turgidson for some reason... 000
Reposted by Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈James Ball @jamesrball.com · 23/09/2026I think once black clad men are interfering with rescues at sea, we are past "legitimate concerns". Once they're attacking boats, and risking the lives of everyone on board, it's just thuggery. The Home Secretary's statement is on the side of criminals. There's no other way to read it. 501557415
Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026These anti-refugee villagers saying 'we're protecting 𝘰𝘶𝘳 women'. 000
