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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 1d

My company food allowance is £50 per day. Realised I can buy a couple of homeless people a sizeable meal whenever I travel and consume fewer calories at the same time. Makes me feel great and have had some great chats with real people. Do it if you can.

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Sonia T 🇺🇦 @soniaandree.bsky.social · 7h

U.K. friends. A friend of mine in Wales is in dire need of legal representation in the next couple of days, ideally someone pro-bono. Do any of you peeps have someone to recommend? Family law specialty would be ideal. I'm contacting a Citizen Advice for him tomorrow, but it's a matter of urgency. 😱

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Dawn Robertson @hayloftbooks.bsky.social · 10h

Yes, absolutely - honest, kind & funny - about Starmer: “He does not speak human”.

Dorothy Bruce @dorothybruce.bsky.social · 11h

Worth listening to
www.theguardian.com/politics/aud...

Nicola Sturgeon on leadership, scandal and trolling the trolls – podcast

In a special, bonus episode of Politics Weekly, Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey sit down with Scotland’s former first minister Nicola Sturgeon for a frank conversation about her time in office and the f...

www.theguardian.com

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Miriam @angelygogledd.bsky.social · 9h

Salford are managing to leave the flags up and put lights up *groans softly*

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Cathy Green (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈💜🏳️‍⚧️ @cathygreen67.bsky.social · 14h

To anyone who listens to ANY news on Radio Four, the very idea that the BBC has a “liberal bias” is laughable.

Not to mention how much coverage Farage and Reform get on Question time etc.

And let’s not forget their complete bias on coverage of Gaza.

FFS!!

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17h

Notice here how every wingnut in the country has a big wart on their fanny: they can never sit still and never be comfortable, until everything has been corrupted and broken to their exact desires, and they will never stop trying to fuck over everyone to get their way archive.ph/7F8fR

MATTHEW SYED
The BBC should treat this shaming as an opportunity to break free
The corporation still has many friends who would be thrilled to see it cast off the progressive blinkers
Matthew Syed
Saturday November 08 2025, 7.00pm GMT, The Sunday Times
here's a scene in The Shawshank Redemption where Brooks, the lovely old guy who runs the prison library, takes a knife to the throat of a
friend. Everyone is astonished. What are you doing, Brooks? Why are you hurting him? Eventually, Red, played by Morgan Freeman, offers an explanation:
Brooks has become "institutionalised". He has just been told he is being paroled but he has been at Shawshank so long that it has become part of who he is - and he cannot countenance leaving.
The process of institutionalisation is, I think, among the most powerful in the modern world. It is not just about prisons, of course, but the way large, complex organisations subtly shape the values, norms and attitudes of those within them. The author Shane Snow once wrote of meeting an executive at a big bank: "She told me, shaking her head, how painful it was to see the company hire these great kids - all sorts of backgrounds; all sorts of ideas brimming in their heads - only to watch them gradually remoulded to fit the culture of the organisation. They came with unique insights and voices.
She heard those voices fade unless it was to echo the company's accepted way of thinking."

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 18h

This is REALLY STUPID.

Brynley Heaven @brynleyheaven.bsky.social · 1d

Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...

UK transport secretary says full electrification of railways ‘not affordable right now’

Heidi Alexander says focus will be on other projects such as HS2

www.ft.com

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Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 17h

The Heritage Fountain- definitely racist

ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 17h

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

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IndyCelt @indycelt.bsky.social · 1d

My friend @seracracroft.bsky.social post, the Welsh Government need to take REAL action that's properly funded to combat the sexual abuse of children.

seracracroft @seracracroft.bsky.social · Jul 16

1 in 4 girls & 1 in 6 boys suffer childhood sexual abuse.The Welsh Government s 10 year strategy is welcome but needs to be funded properly.All of society needs to be educated as to the devastating effects of this crime.@NotMyShameUk #NidFyNghywilydd

Newyddion S4C @newyddion.s4c.cymru · Jul 16

Mae actores Pobol y Cwm, Sera Cracroft, wedi dweud bod angen 'addysgu cymdeithas gyfan' am gamdriniaeth rywiol yn erbyn plant – 'ddim jyst helpu goroeswyr.'

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ShropsFidgetPie 🇭🇰🇪🇺♿️Trans ally. @shropsfidgetpie.bsky.social · 1d

If you hate fireworks in the hands of private individuals as much as I do, there is this petition happening.

Petition: Limit the sale of fireworks to those running local council approved events only

Ban the sale of fireworks to the general public to minimise the harm caused to vulnerable people and animals. Defenceless animals can die from the distress caused by fireworks. I believe that permitt...

petition.parliament.uk

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Miriam @angelygogledd.bsky.social · 1d

This knitting is not getting my sermon written for tomorrow

Miriam @angelygogledd.bsky.social · 1d

I refuse to read the mail, but it's highly likely. I read a transcript - he didn't name reform but the things he talked about are things I've heard other very old people bemoan in the context of reform

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John Birch @fandw.bsky.social · 1d

Israel is holding dozens of Palestinians from Gaza isolated in an underground jail where they never see daylight, are deprived of adequate food and barred from receiving news of their families or the outside world.
#Israel #Palestine

Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight

Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include nurse and teenager who have been deprived of natural light since January

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Dr Ieithydd (Carys) @yrieithydd.bsky.social · 2d

Once again puzzling at the fact that the thematic index for "Hymns Ancient & Modern, Hymns and Songs for Refreshing Worship" includes "I vow to thee my country" under "peace"

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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Hey.

I got in touch with another school yesterday to offer them £500 worth of books, courtesy of The Big Green Books 500 Club.

They are VERY happy!

This is the second school I've been able to do this for, thanks to you.

Join Here, if you can. www.biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-bo...

Here's Harland's Primary School. The recipients of the first £500 of books, for The 500 Club.

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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 2d

If you've not bought a book from me today, don't worry.

You can do it tomorrow.

I've sold 7 books today, so seven of you are now relieved of your duties.

The rest of you, I'm ready for a torrent of book requests.

I am a single human person, but I reckon I can cope with 12,500 orders.

Ta.

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Miriam @angelygogledd.bsky.social · 1d

I would see it as a rebalancing act....

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Miriam @angelygogledd.bsky.social · 1d

His point was that the rise of reform etc wasn't worth it.

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Dr Ieithydd (Carys) @yrieithydd.bsky.social · 1d

Not to self: taking your blood pressure reading while reading an article related to LLF probably wasn't the best idea!

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Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 1d

Helpston level crossing gates have failed twice in the last few weeks and if National Rail need me to go and give an illustrated talk on the history of level crossings on that particular stretch of line, I am available...

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Miriam @angelygogledd.bsky.social · 2d

You're interesting and insightful, an inspiring teacher and a great friend.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 3d

Deeply depressing that a respectable place like Nottingham is following my own beloved institution’s approach: get rid of anything creative, critical or artistic.

Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 3d

Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday.

It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham

In a statement the institution also says it is

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dawn Robertson @hayloftbooks.bsky.social · 3d

News from Germany a lorry driver "surprend un couple en plein ébats sexuels à 140 km/h sur l’autoroute.
"Le véhicule roulait si dangereusement qu'un camion a dû se mettre sur la bande d'arrêt d'urgence. Le couple a finalement été arrêté à une station-service."

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Rhydd 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhyddian.bsky.social · 3d

I couldn't pretend to be ex reform but do something similar: serve up a shit sandwich with slices of Labour fuck ups holding together a massive filling of Reform's utter shitshow rounded off with saying I'd vote Plaid Cymru if I still lived in Wales.

fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 3d

On my dog walk I often chat with right wingers. I pretend I am an ex-Reform voter put off by the utter fuck up of our county council. Then they see me as one of their own, don't get defensive and shouty, and start to question their own opinion of Reform. Honey, not vinegar.

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Dawn Robertson @hayloftbooks.bsky.social · 2d

We need music more than ever in these bleak times

Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 3d

Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday.

It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham

In a statement the institution also says it is

www.bbc.co.uk

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cathaguamia.bsky.social @cathaguamia.bsky.social · 2d

The importance of the owl in Welsh tradition @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social

Curious Travellers @curioustravellers.bsky.social · 2d

Followed by Liz Edwards from @yganolfangeltaidd.bsky.social telling us about the possibility that this illustrated owl - found by Pennant in a collection at Bryn-y-Pys - might have been one of his favourites, thanks to repeated appearances in his extra-illustrated books

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