I’m backing Reading Borough Council’s new Public Space Protection Order to tackle anti-social behaviour in our town. The PSPO gives council and police more powers to deal with aggressive begging, street drinking, the anti-social use of e-bikes & scooters, and dangerous dogs.

🗳️🌹 Vote Labour Today, polls are open until 10pm. 🪪 Don't forget your photo ID!

During a debate on flood prevention I raised the importance of rewilding and other natural measures to increase capacity for drainage upstream of affected areas.

My weekly update, this week as Parliament is in recess I have been working on a number of local community projects.

I asked the Chancellor how investment in green energy will help protect consumers.

I’m backing government action to tackle online harms and have written to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology to raise both my own concerns and those of local residents. Thanks to BBC Radio Berkshire for covering this important issue.

My weekly update including: - Protecting children online - Campaigning to keep local post offices - Memorial service to PC Andrew Harper

My weekly update including: - Reading meningitis cases (please see my full update here: www.mattrodda.net/news/2026/05...) - The King's Speech - Local community events

My weekly update including: 💷 Gurkha pensions campaign 📱 Social media consultation 🚗 Parking & electric vehicle charging

My weekly update including: 🚒 Speaking about the importance of funding for fire services 🚨 Tackling crime and anti-social behaviour

Your #Horror TBR needs these books! #Horrorbooks #horrorauthors #scary

What Prolonged Eye Contact Does to Human Connection 👀 Just a few minutes of deep eye contact can create emotional closeness, even between strangers. Eyes connect hearts. 💫

A solas con las Pinturas Negras de Goya: "Perro semihundido" (entre 1820 y 1823)

🎄 Once UPun a Christmas: Day 11! 🎄 We’re continuing our countdown to Christmas with some seriously crackers’ jokes from our staff & clients to bring on the holiday cheer. 😆 Today’s dose of Christmas fun comes courtesy of Michael from Sandringham.

I think I need more variations of the little shell guys Ones that throw things, ones that jump, etc. I might make all enemies harder to destroy, but have them re-spawn much less often🤔 Balance is tough to figure out #indiedev #pixelart #indiegames

Dr. Ahmed Massoud explains how Gaza isn’t just losing hospitals—it’s losing generations of medical expertise. Healthcare workers can’t be replaced overnight. 🎧 youtu.be/lzjyxYV24As #Gaza #Palestine #DoctorsInGaza #HealthcareCrisis #AhmedMassoud

Dominate Albion Online Black Zone with my 1H Spear solo PvP guide: gear, rotations, escapes. Read:! haplogamingchef.blogspot.com/2026/05/albi... #AlbionOnline #Albion #AlbionPvP #BlackZone #1HSpear #SoloPvP #AlbionGuide #MMO #Gaming #Gank

The Beginning of a Powerful Journey | Ekascloud https://youtube.com/shorts/K2VCYLowmNM Reach us https://ekascloud.com/ekaspromo/cloud-training +919345171232 +447405103328 +91 8148032252 #TechInnovation #DigitalTransformation #TechStartups #Ekascloud #CloudComputing #BusinessGrowth

12. Masterpieces of World Literature Topics: • Global literary traditions & themes • Cross-cultural narrative analysis • Historical context of major works • Translation and interpretation • Literature in a globalized world 🔗 pll.harvard.edu/course/mast...

🇦🇷🦠 The city of #Ushuaia, in the southern Argentinian region of Patagonia, has found itself at the center of the #Hantavirus scare. Locals now fear that the outbreak will impact tourism, a key sector of the local economy ⤵️

Wow. 🤩

Released On This Day (4/18/1994): Pulp’s His ‘n’ Hers #releasedonthisday #pulp #hisnhers #britpop #alternative #alternativerock #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylcollector #vinylcommunity #vinylrecords #music

Pro AI people just be yapping saying a whole lot of nothing.

An inspirational reading from Hillary Rodham Clinton

#scifi #Cyberpunk Our Games Intro view of its cybperpunk city is almost done! This is Qamaria tower, where the game will take place, and our vigilante hero Ali goes down a rabbit hole of secrets dark enough to destroy the city! The higher you ascend the deeper the rabbit hole goes!

CHRISTMAS CRACKER 🧨 Q: What is half of infinity? A: Nity Merry Christmas 🎄 Anne Marie McGowan @noodlerecords #merrychristmas

SO WHAT ABOUT THE BABIES WHOSE HANDS WERE TIED⁉️ Israeli politican Fleur Hassan-Nahoum asked about bodies of Palestinians being recovered from mass graves and she says they were terrorists. WTF 🤬💔😢🤬🇮🇱♾️

#Habs Lane Hutson following loss vs #Hurricanes "It's pretty self-explanatory. Shitty. Shit game." #GoHabsGo #NHL #Hockey

Buying Christian books in a 19th-century slave insurance office? This troubling intersection was just one piece of Dr. Sonia Hazard’s full book talk on how the American Tract Society built a massive 19th-century mass media empire.

We don’t have to ask ourselves what we would have done at dark moments in our history. We are in one of these moments where history is calling on us. Now it's on us, what will we do? I believe we must stand up.

This is outrageous……

A new report comparing #BlueJays salaries to the city’s housing market is highlighting just how expensive detached homes in #Toronto have become. #realestate 🔗⬇️Read more nowtoronto.com/real-estate/...

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Me every time I hear or read the words “Jeff Probst”:

With sadness, I spoke about massacre, rape and human rights atrocities committed by Russian paramilitaries deployed in West and Central Africa at the Oslo Freedom Forum in Norway. It was shocking to so many.

Posted 3 weeks ago "turtle_eggsplorer: All these baby #turtles would not have survived without #conservation intervention. 🌊 The conservation team on @cousineislandseychelles return these baby Hawksbill #seaturtles onto the beach following their successful hatching in their hatchery." thread 2 👇

Something to keep in mind if you’re traveling through Greer, S.C. 🚔 🔔‼️: Greer police officers have beefed up their presence along “high-volume” and “high-traffic” areas where they’re the most likely to catch people driving distracted and impaired. 👇🏾 #GreerPoliceDepartment #heightenawareness

Saturday resistance in Tbilisi, Georgia ♥️ Never surrender! #GeorgiaProtests

As Director Gabbard testifies before the House Intelligence Committee, I want to remind her of her own words from 2020 warning about the consequences of war with Iran.

We are all just humans, experiencing life for the first time. Be kind to yourself. #nwtherapygroup #NWTG #mentalhealth

Plus, an exploration of one of the great joys of owning your own place: you can pound nails into whatever you want without consequences!

Limited-edition print, 8”x8”, of this super-cute toy car painting from 2016 (one of my early pieces, so it’s a bit looser in brushstrokes than my current work). Used my husband’s matchbox cars as the models. kimtestone.com/products/toy... . #prints #artprints #artlover #artcollector #homedecor #arts

R2-D2's real voice. #starwars #starwarshistory

We need more folks in Congress like this 👇. Elect this guy.

Good news: Crooked Con is back! Join us Nov. 5-7 in Washington, DC. We’ll reflect on the lessons of 2026 and debate the best ways to turn those lessons into strategies to win in the elections to come. Head to crookedcon.com for updates including when tickets go on sale!

Navigating change can be tough! 🚧 For users, major implementations shake up familiar routines and expectations. 🙃 Creating early familiarity is key to success. 💪 #Salesforce #SalesforceTrainingSolutions #SalesforceSuccessSecrets

Seems I need something lighthearted to finish up this dreadful year. My very 'big guy' bear uses a small tree for a little extra action to scare a raccoon and turns and smiles. Yes he does. And I am smiling too. You cannot not love bears.

As your next Congresswoman, I’ll never take a paycheck while our troops and Federal employees go unpaid. Leaders serve first and get paid last. (Ask @degette.house.gov why she is still accepting her paycheck)

Tired of the "organic or nothing" price premium? 🥦💸 You can't control industrial supply chains, but you can control the final filter before food enters your biology🧵

The Scottish Government's home energy scheme is six times more expensive to administer than the equivalent scheme in England and Wales, while also leading to a stalling number of green energy installations. 1/2

Jeet vision #music #tao #zen #mindful #nature

❤️🧲 No needle, no problem: synthetic ECV from CMR matches lab ECV (r≈0.9–0.95, <1% diff), enabling fast, noninvasive fibrosis assessment. pdf 👉 www.journalofcmr.com/article/S109... Dr. Naofumi Yasuda explains below 👇 #WhyCMR

/2 Chuck Sams former dir of Nat Park System, and a defender of the sign-writing process. Removing signs, "is taking us back to a past that didn't really exist…America's always strived to be better. And we can do that by learning from things that we do well, and also things that we didn't do well."

Missile interceptor debris in Kuwait:

MTG Attacking Trump re the Epstein Files. A stopped clock and all that. Later, she points out she has the texts.

Foraging is growing in popularity across Canada, but experts say proper identification is critical. Mia Gordon learns how to distinguish three popular wild foods. ⬇️ Watch more video: https://ow.ly/aM7i50Z6mqh

The psychic documentation of Mashanin: a young armed man knocks on a house door trying to get the occupants to leave, then opens fire and flees. (Read Aish)

Why was the military conducting a training exercise across the street from people's homes from 8pm to 12am 6/3/26 in Pasadena, CA? And why did it go into the early hours of the morning? What are they practicing for? #ProudBlue 📹:

All the kefka recently put this all timer back on the brain again