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Helen LP @helenlp.bsky.social · 6h

Today’s face is Jac drawingfaces.home.blog/2025/10/15/j... #ArtSky

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Jac drawn on an iPad Air using the Procreate app.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 9h

This from @francescasimon.bsky.social reminds me of what @bridgetemob.bsky.social used to say about her philosophy degree when ppl asked what kind of job that'll lead to: "Oh, I think I'll just sell out and join one of the big philosophy firms". www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Kemi Badenoch wants to end ‘rip-off degrees’ – but I wouldn’t have created Horrid Henry without mine | Francesca Simon

I studied Old and Middle English. Although I didn’t know it, I couldn’t have chosen a better subject to train me to become a children’s author, says author Francesca Simon

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 9h

"Seeds are a source of life. Farmers must have the right to freely use and exchange seeds, but four corporations control 60% of the world’s seed sales."

— Nurfitri Amir Muhammad 🇲🇾

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Helen LP @helenlp.bsky.social · 1d

I find I learn something from every failed art experiment like this so it never feels like a waste of time. Im sure you learned something from this one.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

The Green Party is expected to have more Members than the Conservative Party by the end of the week.

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Helen LP @helenlp.bsky.social · 1d

BBC Radio 4 Today programme this morning- Israeli hostages report torture, Palestinian “prisoners” “allege” torture. The language betrays the bias.

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badgersgetabadname.bsky.social @badgersgetabadname.bsky.social · 2d

Reform withdraws tax back policy for those on less than £20k per year.

When asked by the Times, Tice explained "we would like to"...

It's always a lie.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

How the hell can you put 'dies' what is wrong with you Sky News are you denying death now?

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The Broken Spine @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 2d

Something Gothic this way comes… Submissions are OPEN for The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry. We want poems of neon dread, fractured love, haunted minds.

Closing date: October 31st

#PoetrySubmissions #SubmissionWindow #TheHavishamSteps #ModernGothicPoetry

Something Gothic This Way Comes: Submit to The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry - The Broken Spine

Submissions Open Throughout October 2025 | Publication in 2026

thebrokenspine.co.uk

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 2d

In case you aren’t aware, any video you see with the label “Sora” is A.I. generated. It’s fake.

Do NOT make or share #AI videos. It contributes to misinformation, and to a larger culture of disrespect for truth and disregard of reality.

Plus it enriches capitalist techbros raping the planet.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 2d

902) Gorgonbot. Mythic robot with Snakebots for hair. Its gaze isn't quite powerful enough to petrify its targets, but it can cause dry skin and, if Gorgonbot stares hard enough, a nasty bout of eczema. #SmallRobotsRemonstered #Halloween

An angry, spherical robot with banded legs that is leaning slightly forward and sticking out its tongue. Its head is crowned with fourteen equally angry robotic snakes on long, banded necks, all arching upwards and facing in the same direction as Gorgonbot, with their own forked tongues sticking out too.

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Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social · 2d

📣 CALLING POETS 📣

Opportunity to lead poetry workshops at a unique location to creatively and sensitively explore untold stories: personal, historical, or imagined.

•Theme: Untold Stories
•Fee: £200 per workshop
•Workshop Dates: Sat 17 & 24 Jan 2026
•The New Scriptorium, Arbroath Abbey, Scotland

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

From Robert Jenrick's video - in which he did not see a single other white face on a brief trip to Birmingham, despite his video showing that he did.

"He must have been walking around Handsworth with his eyes closed" writes Dan Cave

www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/a-notorious-...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d

The story behind the mural, which is actually quite lovely

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d

One of the things I love about London is how inconquerable it is. There's just too much of it to ever believe you'll discover it all. I first stumbled on this mosaic a few months ago, about a minute's walk from the flat I've lived in for 8 years.

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PoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social · 2d

Universities in the UK are heading for a financial calamity like the 2008 crash, the head of @ucu.org.uk has warned

@drjogrady.bsky.social told @matildamartin.bsky.social: "The people who should be either governing from government or governing institutions are asleep at the wheel"

Universities Are Heading A Financial Crisis Like The 2008 Crash, Warns Union BossBoss

The head of the University and College Union, Jo Grady, has warned that universities face a financial calamity similar to the 2008 banking crisis, ...

www.politicshome.com

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Nightblaze, the Phantom Thief @blazingskies.bsky.social · 2d

So obviously this is going back on my bag strap

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2d

Trump, speaking in the Israeli parliament, boasts about the weapons the U.S. has provided and says "you obviously used them very well."
An estimated 20,000 children have died in the war in Gaza.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 2d

This is interesting - makes me wonder what the objective function of Crown Estate is: on.ft.com/48o1wpD Greenpeace threatens to sue Crown Estate for pushing up UK energy prices

Greenpeace threatens to sue Crown Estate for pushing up UK energy prices

Cost of offshore wind increased by monopoly ownership of seabed, alleges campaign group

on.ft.com

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Hearing Voices at Mind in Camden @hearingvoicesmic.bsky.social · 2d

Hi everyone! We were formerly Voice Collective on Bluesky, but we've changed our name to Hearing Voices Mind in Camden so that we can share updates about all of our Hearing Voices projects (posts by the HV team, Sarah, Alex, and Fiona 👋)

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Hearing Voices at Mind in Camden @hearingvoicesmic.bsky.social · 2d

Find out more about what we do here:

Voice Collective www.voicecollective.co.uk

London Hearing Voices Network www.mindincamden.org.uk/services/lhvn

Voices Unlocked www.voicesunlocked.co.uk

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 2d

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 2d

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3d

BBC News explain that because of Brexit, Brits will be photographed and have their fingerprints taken when going into the EU, as the UK now is a third country

BBC News forget to explain that the UK helped create these rules when we were part of the EU because we wanted stronger border control

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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