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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 31m

Devastated after reading that Maria Corina Machado dedicated her award to Trump and her Zionist sympathies - she shames the #NobelPeacePrize

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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you @claireboardman.bsky.social - I remembered that they awarded it to Kissinger ...

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel Peace Prize was won by María Corina Machado.

Venezuela's opposition leader.

Her biggest policy, privatising Venezuela's Oil Reserves, the largest in the world, worth nearly $100tn.

Hmm... I wonder why she won?

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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 6h

Devastated to read this! Maria Corina Machado has dedicated her Nobel Peace Prize to #Trump!!
#Nobel #NobelPeacePrize #MariaCorinaMachado

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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 1d

Maria Corina Machado has shown that the tools of democracy are also the tools of peace. She embodies the hope of a different future, one where the fundamental rights of citizens are protected, and their voices are heard. In this future, people will finally be free to live in peace.

Nobel Peace Prize 2025

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transi...

www.nobelprize.org

Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 1d

Holding my breath just now - waiting for the result!

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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 1d

Holding my breath ....
#NobelPeacePrize #Nobel #Peace

Announcement of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

YouTube video by Nobel Prize

www.youtube.com

Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 2d

@livingmaps.bsky.social Invite you to join us for our first Autumn 2025 Seminar Series, Mapping Fluid Worlds. In which Anne-Laure Fréant explores how data-sculpture can convey a river’s history, and questions how we store, share, and remember environmental histories. 👇👇

#maps #environmentalhistory

The Flood Necklace - Anne-Laure Fréant

Join us in the first event of our Mapping Fluid Worlds Series to explore how data-sculpture can carry a river’s history

www.eventbrite.com

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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 2d

@livingmaps.bsky.social
for those of you interested in military map making, check out this fascinating First World War #Maps blog from
@stuartackland.bsky.social
Link below👇

Nick Millea @milleanick.bsky.social · 2d

Time for the next @bodleian.ox.ac.uk #Maps blog from @stuartackland.bsky.social taking us back to the First World War & a close look at trench maps. What are these unusual numbered circles? Learn more at: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/
@bcsmaps.bsky.social @westernfrontww1.bsky.social

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LIVINGMAPS @livingmaps.bsky.social · 3d

Interested in creating more inclusive maps? Join us for a hands-on workshop on the 18th October to learn about and practice inclusive mapping www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inclusive-...

Inclusive Mapping Workshop: Creating a Design Brief

Join us for a hands-on workshop to learn about and practice inclusive mapping

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 5d

With the Conservative Party and Reform UK planning for the UK to join Russia by pulling out of the European Convention on Human Rights, here is a checklist of what those rights are and what they would be ripping up:
#EHRC #humanrights

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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 9d

Saddened to hear of the death of Jane Goodall, a pioneering conservationist. We were fortunate enough to have interviewed her as one of the 100 voices in the Oral History of the Environmental Movement archive, soon to be available in the British Library Life Stories Collection.

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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 11d

Solidarity with Women's Environmental Network and sisters everywhere. ❤️♀️❤️
Now more than ever, we must lean into our values of care, connection, and collective action. Reach out. Check in. Speak up. Protect one another; every act of solidarity is a seed of resistance.
www.wen.org.uk/2025/09/19/s...

STATEMENT ON FAR-RIGHT VIOLENCE AND RACISM

Statement on Far-Right Violence and Racism.

www.wen.org.uk

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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 16d

Royal Park Keeper setting the record straight!

Royal Parks breaks silence on Nigel Farage's bombshell claim migrants eat swans

Reform UK leader claimed migrants are stealing and eating swans from Royal Parks in Britain

www.express.co.uk

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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 22d

me too!

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 22d

I've been so despondent about the inability of politicians to answer questions with integrity and clarity, and then I watch this and, be still my heart, there's hope again. @zackpolanski.bsky.social nailing it. This is the future I want. Go Green.💚 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ksg...

Is Zack Polanski the Left's answer to Nigel Farage?

YouTube video by Channel 4 News

www.youtube.com

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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 22d

Thanks for the reminder, @olimould.bsky.social I was feeling quite traumatised after being so outnumbered on the Dis-Unite the Kingdom march and almost vomming after watching scenes from the state banquet and Trump-Starmer press conference🤢

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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 23d

mine too!

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 23d

Led by Donkeys protests "Orwellian" arrests for projecting Trump/Epstein photos www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Led By Donkeys attacks ‘Orwellian’ arrests after Trump Windsor projections

Exclusive: Campaign group says it was behind stunt that showed images of Trump and Epstein on castle tower

www.theguardian.com

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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 23d

@wen-uk.bsky.social Women's Environmental Network have pioneered and continues to campaign on toxic chemicals in menstrual and baby products.

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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 24d

Hugely proud to sing with the @climatechoirs.bsky.social choir flashmob at King's Cross, fighting back against more oil and gas licenses at Rosebank, the largest undeveloped oil field in the UK. Equinor, we don't want your dirty oil anymore! ! Great support from the crowd!

Climate Choir Flashmob King's Cross Station: Stop Rosebank!

YouTube video by Climate Choir Movement

www.youtube.com

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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 25d

@livingmaps.bsky.social Earlier this year we had the pleasure of co-facilitating a workshop on creative mapping and health, with colleagues from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. This short video shows some of the fun and creative mapping approaches and ideas we were exploring
youtu.be/oqmMDoLr2Pk

What Does a Map of our Health Look Like?

YouTube video by Global Affairs, King's College London

youtu.be

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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 26d

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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 26d

A book for the times we are in - how over a hundred thousand people could decide asylum seekers and people of colour are to blame for their troubles, and why they think the world's former richest man is on their side.

Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 27d

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