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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Two things I have no answers to. 1) How can my partner forget until the last moment that we need to buy our daughter a birthday present, yet remembers that I did not exercise yesterday? 2) Where the hell did that giant long chin hair come from? #parenthood #menopause

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Damn! That bird is better at sewing than me!

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Yep, we really do need to get this.

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

What’s so unhinged about all of this is that I read Trump’s post and laughed. It’s frigging infantile playground talk. Then I read your post and the reality and consequences come crashing down.

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

This is so awful, and of course the people writing this guidance are not the people who will be in front of these kids. It’s so barbaric.

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

So far, I turned off my alarm, but my bladder woke me up anyway. I sprayed the wrong nasal spray up my nose, broke the nozzle off my expensive serum and splattered my moisturizer all over my room. Oh and I’m late for work. I should just go back to bed, right? #badday

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

There is a story the bees used to tell, which makes it hard to disbelieve. #Storytime

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Bought this for a friend’s kid (in French). It’s wonderful.

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Consistently is but a lofty dream. Roll with it when it happens and be kind to yourself when it isn’t happening.

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Except parents don’t go oh no. They were brainwashed into thinking it helped their kids learn to read and they could keep track of how well their kids were (losing any will to read).

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Posting was halted as we went through security, but before that we were given NEW boarding passes. We’re all sitting together now. We weren’t before 🤔 Anyhoo… now the excitement is all about what time will we get on the 9:12. Yes, I know it’s 9:32. #Eurostar #Chaos #Day2

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Now, I don’t want to jinx things, but the 9:12 line is moving closer to passport check. Kiddo is wondering if it’s OK for staff to say to customers: “break your face on the escalator or wait two minutes to find out if the lift is working. “ I think it’s ok, #Eurostar #Chaos #Day2

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

We’re upstairs. A kid downstairs who must be super empathetic started crying. There is a lot of stress among staff. Alternatively he could have been cold. It’s freezing. 🥶 #Eurostar #Chaos #Day2

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Train is delayed, and there’s a woman who is losing her shit up ahead. She sounds like the woman who was losing her shit yesterday. In other developments we have been told to show our tickets (to nowhere). Feeling sorry for Eurostar staff today. #Eurostar #Chaos #day2

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

So it appears I’m back at Gare du Nord. All the 8:42 passengers have not boarded and 9:12 has been pushed to the side. #Eurostar #Chaos #Day2

A crowd of people at Gare du Nord, waiting to board the escalator up to the Eurostar terminal.

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

In summary: what a shit show and well done #Eurostar for offering no help whatsoever. And Pierre, I hope someone offers you a massage and a drink

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I eventually squirm my way round and get someone’s attention. And basically the word in the street is go Home and hope for the best. So we are. #Eurostar #Shambles

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

We then go to stand in a big crowd which is crawling with about as many reporters as there are disgruntled passengers and nobody knows what is happening. We’re cold I need the loo, and I need answers. #Eurostar #Shambles

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Pierre, who has clearly had a bad day then announces: BIENVENUE A PARIS. We know you’ve had a bad day, but, WTAF?😱 #Eurostar #Shambles

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Then off to Paris we go, where Pierre, who is fed up of giving bad news lets a colleague announce we can’t rebook until we’ve had our passports rechecked. #Eurostar #Shambles

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Pierre’s next announcement is that we’re going to stop at Lille for the people who want to get off and go to Calais. #Eurostar #Shambles

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

And then comes the announcement we’ve all been dreading. Pierre of the bad news announces we are going back to Paris. Meanwhile in the background there is a full on fight going on, because Pierre insists we can’t get off the train and go to Calais. #Eurostar #Shambles

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Entertainment is provided by Pierre of the bad news, who periodically comes on to tell us: - go to the bar - but there’s no food at the bar - You can’t smoke - NO You cannot GET OFF THE TRAIN - I have no news #Eurostar #Shambles

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

This quickly turns to one and a half hours to three. At this point I suggest we go to the bar. The guy next to us says he’ll wait. #Eurostar #shambles

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

At about 10 we stop (just as I need the loo). I’d misheard the French announcement and thought he’d said we would stop for 15 minutes, but no… in the loo the announcements are crystal clear. I’ll have more news in 15 minutes, but we’re here for an hour and a half at least. #Eurostar #Shambles

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

At 9:47 we get a mal telling us there are power problems and to delay or cancel our travel. Well, we’re already on the train so… what are we to do? #Eurostar #Shambles

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

So today has been fun. 5:50 am alarm, shower, feed cat, breakfast and we’re off for a few days in London… or are we. #Eurostar #shambles

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

It’s impossible to rebook. Have spent all day on a train to then be told to go home and keep an eye on your emails. What about families who are trying to get home or have travelled long distances to get this train only to be told : sort yourself out and claim back. What a shambles.

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Heard about this before… and I’m sure I could sleep like this.

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Can’t like this. It’s so awful to see.

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I cannot even begin to describe how disgusted I am with the current UK Government #FreePalestine #GenocideDeniers UK has ‘not concluded’ Israel carrying out genocide in Gaza, Lammy says www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

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UK has ‘not concluded’ Israel carrying out genocide in Gaza, Lammy says

Government position set out in letter to select committee as No 10 prepares for visit by Israeli president

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

The current U.K. government is such a disappointing shit show, and what this woman describes is tragic. Aaah!

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Diagnosed at 52. Best thing I’ve done in a long while.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

When anti-terror laws were introduced, opponents said they'd abused. Making Palestine Action a terrorist organisation akin to ISIS is deranged behaviour. History will damn how opponents of genocide were branded terrorists, while war criminals were armed and feted.

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Dapo Adeola @dapsdraws.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Not gonna lie, I keep forgetting to post on here 🫣 Here’s the cover for my next book ☺️ it’s called “SUPER GOAT GIRL” and it’s written by the awesome Tracey Baptiste. It’s really cool and it’s out July 15th (US) and 17th (UK). Can’t wait for yous to see it. ☺️

Book cover artwork has a little blue Goat character, wearing a yellow, navy and red outfit with her hands on her hips.

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

This government is such a spineless shitshow. I am so deeply ashamed of my country right now, and despair of Keir Starmer. What an awful, awful government.

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Wow, well I reached alert fatigue years ago, although it felt more like intense alert irritation rather than fatigue.

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Sam Missingham @samatlounge.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Agree. I feel total despair looking at Izreal killing with impunity because they’re playing narcissistic political games. Who will ever stop them?

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

And still the world stands by and does nothing. It’s so disgusting.

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Is it alright if adults who act like kids participate too?

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

“She sheds boyfriends like snakes shed their skin,” he says. Debra pauses and sighs. Should she point out his double standards? Their daughter, sitting at the counter, lifts her head from her book. “I Talking of sheds, shouldn’t you go spend some time in yours.” #vss365 #prompt #shed

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

A shape has layers of being. Take a square, at first a mere quadrilateral with four sides. Later add corners, and four equal sides. Later still a square is a rectangle, but not all rectangles are squares. Whereas I am a squiggly line On the right side of the page. #vss365 #prompt #shape

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Michele Helene @michverilion.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Skipping through the just watered grass barefoot, she dances on the hot concrete, till she finds her abandoned flip flops and slips them on. Then she squints at her hand, her palm pink one side, her skin brown on the other. She is four. In this moment, she knows she is other. #vss365 #prompt #skin

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.northsky.social · 10/06/2025

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UPDATE

Approximately 24 hours after contact was lost with the civilians aboard 'Madleen', lawyers from Adalah were able to meet with 10 of the 12. Two of them, Omar Faiad, a journalist with Al Jazeera, is represented separately through legal counsel arranged by the network, and Yanis Mhamdi, a journalist from France, is represented by private counsel.

We confirm that four of the 12 have been deported and eight remain in Israeli detention:

1. Baptiste Andre (France) - Deported

2. Greta Thunberg (Sweden) - Deported

3. Sergio Toribio (Spain) - Deported

4. Suayb Ordu (Turkey) - Detained

5. Mark van Rennes (The Netherlands) - Detained

6. Pascal Maurieras (France) - Detained

7. Reva Viard (France) - Detained

8. Rima Hassan (France) - Detained

9. Thiago Avila (Brazil) - Detained

10. Yanis Mhamdi (France) - Detained

11. Yasemin Acar (Germany) - Detained

12. Omar Faiad (France) - Deported

Israel is handling the custody of all 12 as though they had entered illegally-even though they were forcibly abducted from international waters and brought into Israel against their will.

The 12 were given two options: sign documents consenting to deportation, or remain in detention and appear before a tribunal. The FFC had encouraged some of them, if given the option, to agree to deportation in order to restore access to communication, including the ability to speak freely and advocate for their comrades when and if they are able. All of them disputed the claim of unlawful entry in writing, affirming that Israeli law does not apply to them, that their mission was humanitarian in nature, and that the interception and their detention are illegal.

Those who did not consent to leave remain in detention and will appear before a tribunal. Legal counsel will argue that the interception was unlawful, the detentions arbitrary, that the volunteers must be released without deportation, and that the volunteers be allowed to return to 'Madleen' to resume their lawful mission to Gaza. However, we know all too well that there is no justice in Israel's system, founded on colonization, occupation, and apartheid. The tribunal will ultimately order their forced expulsion.

The FFC stands with the 'Madleen' 12. Their detention is unlawful, politically motivated, and a direct violation of international law. The persecution of humanitarian action and the silencing of resistance will not succeed.

We acknowledge that by virtue of their passports of privilege, the 12 are shielded from the daily brutality and horrendous systemic torture Palestinians endure under Israeli occupation. According to Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, as of June 4, 2025, there are over 10,400 Palestinians held captive in Israeli dungeons. Of those, more than 400 are children and more than 3,500 are held without trial, charge, or minimal due process.

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