lakoma @lakoma@qoto.org

The one when you use homemade muffins to persuade a senior person within your organisation to agree to your recommendation. Not sure how vital they were, but we were using this person’s lunch break for a last minute meeting and I thought it would be unfair to expect them to listen to us without food. So we had muffins, we made a case and it got approved 💪🏻 #workchat #results #homecooking

A friend asked yesterday if I wanted to talk on (a major radio channel) about the missile that fell in Przewodów from the perspective of a Pole living in Scotland. Emotive questions were suggested, e.g. will there be a war, who’s missile was it.
I mean. I’m not an expert. But I thought there already was a war? Will the war escalate? Again, not an expert. I hope it won’t, in fact I hope it will end soon and the suffering of the Ukrainian people will end soon as well. Am I scared it will escalate? Sure, I bloody am and so should you - if it escalates it won’t escalate just to Przewodów. But again, not an expert to comment on various escalation scenarios. Who fired the missile? Not an expert. Didn’t track it. Don’t have data. There was a number of press conference organised by people who do have access to data and they presented the most likely scenario.
I said ‘no’ to the request. Primarily because as a comms person I think it’s bad practice to speak to the media in a private capacity (most of the time). I also didn’t comment because (as a trained not practicing journalist) I just don’t understand why you’d ask such questions of a non-expert. And sure, I can talk about how I feel. Not sure there’s many words to describe it. Not sure there’s anything useful to say.
What I did today though was I pinned a yellow and blue sunflower brooch to my winter coat.
#istandwithukraine #ukraine

Those little things that can make my day: two of my favourite people in my institution liking my post about my short story on LinkedIn and a troublesome BDE who dropped a tonne of work on me telling me I’m ‘a star as always’. Filing those in my ‘Kasia appreciation folder’ for a rainy day. 👍🏻 #motivation #workrelationships #work #teamwork

And then this: https://twitter.com/sumlenny/status/1592616005851054080?s=12&t=gypjB6oWVbhwmqRdDzYEuw

BBC Analysis: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-asia-63593855?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=6373edb749d9ef23494ba868%26Analysis%3A%20Russia%20has%20no%20interest%20in%20targeting%20Polish%20farms%262022-11-15T19%3A52%3A29.053Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:d9994027-8194-4fe0-9f13-c83424505636&pinned_post_asset_id=6373edb749d9ef23494ba868&pinned_post_type=share

Same here, from @gazeta_wyborcza

This: https://twitter.com/mariuszgierszew/status/1592595507427545088?s=12&t=udADJYtZ4KsVCOc1-JfW6w says that what fell on the Polish territory was the debris from a Russian missile shot down by the Ukrainian air defence. It’s from the Polish Radio Zet journalist who first reported the explosion earlier today #ukraine #WarOnUkraine

So USS decided this is the right messaging because you know crisis of living and we all are going to die. #crisisofliving #pension