Anna H
@athenepallas.bsky.social
'Give her a helmet and a sword, she'd look like a brave little Hobbit'
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An illustrated line from the Prayer Of St. Brendan The Navigator, who is said to have travelled from County Kerry in Ireland to America a thousand years before Columbus made his journey. Trust in the darkness. 🌌
Prints available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
Prints available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
December 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
An illustrated line from the Prayer Of St. Brendan The Navigator, who is said to have travelled from County Kerry in Ireland to America a thousand years before Columbus made his journey. Trust in the darkness. 🌌
Prints available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
Prints available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
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This is horrifying and cannot be allowed to become normal.
"A surge in death and rape threats and harassment has created a 'culture of fear' at charities serving women and refugees, and at mosques, churches and synagogues."
https://bit.ly/44irJTE
"A surge in death and rape threats and harassment has created a 'culture of fear' at charities serving women and refugees, and at mosques, churches and synagogues."
https://bit.ly/44irJTE
UK charities face ‘culture of fear’ as threats and violence surge
Exclusive: Charity Commission chief condemns public hostility towards staff helping women and refugees and at places of worship
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
This is horrifying and cannot be allowed to become normal.
"A surge in death and rape threats and harassment has created a 'culture of fear' at charities serving women and refugees, and at mosques, churches and synagogues."
https://bit.ly/44irJTE
"A surge in death and rape threats and harassment has created a 'culture of fear' at charities serving women and refugees, and at mosques, churches and synagogues."
https://bit.ly/44irJTE
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After a lot of Seven Years War/French & Indian War purchases, this one seeks to trap up the story of the French Atlantic in the subsequent era. Alan Forrest is a Revolutionary/Napoleonic Wars legend. This will be good! 📚 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 #histbookchat
December 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
After a lot of Seven Years War/French & Indian War purchases, this one seeks to trap up the story of the French Atlantic in the subsequent era. Alan Forrest is a Revolutionary/Napoleonic Wars legend. This will be good! 📚 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 #histbookchat
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I am wondering when and if a Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson will pop up amid all this murdering off Venezuela.
If Thompson is unfamiliar to you, look up My Lai.
If Thompson is unfamiliar to you, look up My Lai.
December 8, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I am wondering when and if a Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson will pop up amid all this murdering off Venezuela.
If Thompson is unfamiliar to you, look up My Lai.
If Thompson is unfamiliar to you, look up My Lai.
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Very helpful thread on why waiting lists aren't falling much despite a lot more appointments being offered.
NEW: Hospital productivity growth is beating the government’s targets. So why hasn't the NHS made more progress on cutting elective waiting times?
In a new @theifs.bsky.social comment, we examine what’s driving the divergence between two of the government’s biggest NHS priorities.
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In a new @theifs.bsky.social comment, we examine what’s driving the divergence between two of the government’s biggest NHS priorities.
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NEW: Strong productivity growth and increasing funding has meant English hospitals have been delivering much more elective (pre-planned) care.
So why isn't the waiting list going down more quickly?
🧵 @maxwarner.bsky.social and Olly Harvey-Rich examine what's going on:
So why isn't the waiting list going down more quickly?
🧵 @maxwarner.bsky.social and Olly Harvey-Rich examine what's going on:
December 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Very helpful thread on why waiting lists aren't falling much despite a lot more appointments being offered.
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Legs in wrong place on oxen.
December 9, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Legs in wrong place on oxen.
Jan van Eyck • Saint Barbara •
December 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Jan van Eyck • Saint Barbara •
John Atkinson Grimshaw • Moonlight, Wharfedale • night Venticelli •
December 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
John Atkinson Grimshaw • Moonlight, Wharfedale • night Venticelli •
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He is a performative gobshite.
Unless socialism is intersectional it's just oppression in a different coloured hat.
Unless socialism is intersectional it's just oppression in a different coloured hat.
December 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
He is a performative gobshite.
Unless socialism is intersectional it's just oppression in a different coloured hat.
Unless socialism is intersectional it's just oppression in a different coloured hat.
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It's weird how all the studies show that a 4-day week and UBI makes societies wealthier, more productive, and happier, but the RW govt types keep insisting on unemployment, austerity, longer hours, and shit labour rights
December 8, 2025 at 4:44 AM
It's weird how all the studies show that a 4-day week and UBI makes societies wealthier, more productive, and happier, but the RW govt types keep insisting on unemployment, austerity, longer hours, and shit labour rights
Varoufakis should have been exiled from being allowed an opinion on anything as soon as he uttered his "Hang in there, sisters" response. Not just because it's deeply offensive, but because it also reveals he has no understanding of solidarity in the face of class oppression.
December 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Varoufakis should have been exiled from being allowed an opinion on anything as soon as he uttered his "Hang in there, sisters" response. Not just because it's deeply offensive, but because it also reveals he has no understanding of solidarity in the face of class oppression.
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Daniel Day Lewis came out of Instagram retirement to show support for Paul Dano. King shit.
December 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Daniel Day Lewis came out of Instagram retirement to show support for Paul Dano. King shit.
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"After her hearing ended, three-year-old Lucy cuddled her teddy bear as she walked back from the lawyer’s table and took a seat.
Moments later, the next child was called up to face the judge..."
coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/c...
Moments later, the next child was called up to face the judge..."
coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/c...
December 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"After her hearing ended, three-year-old Lucy cuddled her teddy bear as she walked back from the lawyer’s table and took a seat.
Moments later, the next child was called up to face the judge..."
coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/c...
Moments later, the next child was called up to face the judge..."
coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/c...
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My dad came to the UK with nothing. He needed financial assistance for years; he even had to ask a charity for money to buy a suit and train ticket for his university interviews. He became a world-leading migraine doctor and helped countless patients.
He “took”, then he “gave”.
He “took”, then he “gave”.
December 8, 2025 at 12:19 PM
My dad came to the UK with nothing. He needed financial assistance for years; he even had to ask a charity for money to buy a suit and train ticket for his university interviews. He became a world-leading migraine doctor and helped countless patients.
He “took”, then he “gave”.
He “took”, then he “gave”.
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Three backbench Tories asked questions on the child poverty statement. For most of the statement there were just two Tories in the chamber.
No Reform at any point.
No Reform at any point.
December 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Three backbench Tories asked questions on the child poverty statement. For most of the statement there were just two Tories in the chamber.
No Reform at any point.
No Reform at any point.
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extremely funny that Your Party is now making it to the Guardian's consumer rights column
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/d...
Your Party let me down with membership chaos
A reader found there seemed no way to cancel a subscription for Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s new party
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
extremely funny that Your Party is now making it to the Guardian's consumer rights column
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/d...
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"If the democratic state does not wish to give itself up, then it must resort to intolerance toward the enemy of the constitution."
Jürgen Habermas, 2004.
Jürgen Habermas, 2004.
December 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
"If the democratic state does not wish to give itself up, then it must resort to intolerance toward the enemy of the constitution."
Jürgen Habermas, 2004.
Jürgen Habermas, 2004.
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Hard to overstate how stupid this is. But it is true. One young person I’ve been working with was refused a tenancy on the grounds they can’t afford the rent living alone (even though their rehousing would help free up a large, under-occupied flat which will therefore…stay under-occupied 🤦)
People on lowest incomes being denied access to social housing, research finds
Benefit claimants having applications denied for being deemed too risky by housing associations, says Crisis
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Hard to overstate how stupid this is. But it is true. One young person I’ve been working with was refused a tenancy on the grounds they can’t afford the rent living alone (even though their rehousing would help free up a large, under-occupied flat which will therefore…stay under-occupied 🤦)
BLOODY AI,a thread:so, I saw a picture online of the Towers of Perugia by a Renaissance artist, Benedetto Bonfigli whose other work I know a little bit. Here is the image 1/n:
December 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
BLOODY AI,a thread:so, I saw a picture online of the Towers of Perugia by a Renaissance artist, Benedetto Bonfigli whose other work I know a little bit. Here is the image 1/n:
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And their previous opus on taxes on higher earners post-Budget:
December 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
And their previous opus on taxes on higher earners post-Budget:
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Some of the best content on the FT.com is not being produced by FT journalists, but by below-the-line commenter Winter Cruise Allowance.
Here's their take on the new taxes on cash held in stocks-and-shares ISAs:
Here's their take on the new taxes on cash held in stocks-and-shares ISAs:
December 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Some of the best content on the FT.com is not being produced by FT journalists, but by below-the-line commenter Winter Cruise Allowance.
Here's their take on the new taxes on cash held in stocks-and-shares ISAs:
Here's their take on the new taxes on cash held in stocks-and-shares ISAs:
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'The best conspiracy books of 2025' for @theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
'The best conspiracy books of 2025' for @theguardian.com
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I'm sorry but a country where the legislature sells jerk seasoning as gift shop tat is not one where the engines of multiculturalism can be rolled back to 1948
December 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I'm sorry but a country where the legislature sells jerk seasoning as gift shop tat is not one where the engines of multiculturalism can be rolled back to 1948
Sorry, but this combination of message and media has absolutely sent me. Lockdown forever-ism and Eliot I can see as bedfellows (albeit rather odd ones), but it's the addition of Kermit that makes it special:
December 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Sorry, but this combination of message and media has absolutely sent me. Lockdown forever-ism and Eliot I can see as bedfellows (albeit rather odd ones), but it's the addition of Kermit that makes it special:
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Another great idea from the UK’s loveliest bookshop.
December 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Another great idea from the UK’s loveliest bookshop.