Ginger Ratbag
@gingerratbag.bsky.social
I like arts, humour, poetry, water polo, sheds, cooking, history, science and nonsense. IRL the last two are what I do.
an intrmittent plug for my v slow selling ebook: a #goodread #science #periodictable #elements #chemistry
www.amazon.co.uk/Atomy-Ginger...
www.amazon.co.uk/Atomy-Ginger...
An Atomy eBook : Ratbag, Ginger: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
An Atomy eBook : Ratbag, Ginger: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
www.amazon.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
an intrmittent plug for my v slow selling ebook: a #goodread #science #periodictable #elements #chemistry
www.amazon.co.uk/Atomy-Ginger...
www.amazon.co.uk/Atomy-Ginger...
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Hey!
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
November 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Hey!
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
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Hello! We're ten free-to-access, no-ads, volunteer-run, press-regulated, evidence-based, progressive citizen journalism publications covering the UK.
The truth is out there (if you look)! Do give us a follow and share the love.
The truth is out there (if you look)! Do give us a follow and share the love.
October 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Hello! We're ten free-to-access, no-ads, volunteer-run, press-regulated, evidence-based, progressive citizen journalism publications covering the UK.
The truth is out there (if you look)! Do give us a follow and share the love.
The truth is out there (if you look)! Do give us a follow and share the love.
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In 2021 Afghan women started an online campaign to protest the Taliban's female dress code by posting photos of what traditional Afghan clothes look like #AfghanWomen
#WomensArt
#WomensArt
October 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
In 2021 Afghan women started an online campaign to protest the Taliban's female dress code by posting photos of what traditional Afghan clothes look like #AfghanWomen
#WomensArt
#WomensArt
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🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social
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Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published OTD in 1962.
“[W]e have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”
🌱🐋 # HistSTM 🧪🌎 #philsci #philsky #WomeninSTEM
“[W]e have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”
🌱🐋 # HistSTM 🧪🌎 #philsci #philsky #WomeninSTEM
September 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published OTD in 1962.
“[W]e have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”
🌱🐋 # HistSTM 🧪🌎 #philsci #philsky #WomeninSTEM
“[W]e have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”
🌱🐋 # HistSTM 🧪🌎 #philsci #philsky #WomeninSTEM
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I've just done Stand Up Against Harassment training, designed to empower bystanders when they see harassment taking place.
These free 30-minute webinars are run by the Suzy Lamplugh Trust and are available to book throughout the year.
www.suzylamplugh.org/anti-harassm...
These free 30-minute webinars are run by the Suzy Lamplugh Trust and are available to book throughout the year.
www.suzylamplugh.org/anti-harassm...
Free half hour bystander training
This free training empowers people to be active bystanders when they see harassment taking place, without putting their own personal safety at risk.
www.suzylamplugh.org
September 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I've just done Stand Up Against Harassment training, designed to empower bystanders when they see harassment taking place.
These free 30-minute webinars are run by the Suzy Lamplugh Trust and are available to book throughout the year.
www.suzylamplugh.org/anti-harassm...
These free 30-minute webinars are run by the Suzy Lamplugh Trust and are available to book throughout the year.
www.suzylamplugh.org/anti-harassm...
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Whether it’s paracetamol or something else, Trump and co are perpetuating the idea autism is wrong and disability is an individual’s responsibility to avoid. It’s anti-science but it’s deeply ableist at its core. The goal is for non-disabled to be afraid and disabled people to be ashamed.
September 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Whether it’s paracetamol or something else, Trump and co are perpetuating the idea autism is wrong and disability is an individual’s responsibility to avoid. It’s anti-science but it’s deeply ableist at its core. The goal is for non-disabled to be afraid and disabled people to be ashamed.
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A baby of a Giant Redwood at 165 years old, but already one of the tallest trees in Tonbridge, the Kingdom of Kent
September 19, 2025 at 6:09 AM
A baby of a Giant Redwood at 165 years old, but already one of the tallest trees in Tonbridge, the Kingdom of Kent
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We need to be very clear about this.
Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.
humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.
humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
Rising Christian nationalism: a threat to us all
Scenes on Saturday of Christian preachers denouncing ‘Secular Humanism’ from the main stage of Tommy Robinson’s radical right Unite the Kingdom rally in London may have been surprising to see on the s...
humanists.uk
September 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
We need to be very clear about this.
Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.
humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.
humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
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Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting dragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Happy Wednesday x
#watercolour #dragonfly #art #paint
Arthur Conan Doyle
Happy Wednesday x
#watercolour #dragonfly #art #paint
September 17, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting dragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Happy Wednesday x
#watercolour #dragonfly #art #paint
Arthur Conan Doyle
Happy Wednesday x
#watercolour #dragonfly #art #paint
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Today the sea was all foam and glitter as a strong wind pushed an afternoon high tide high up Crosby beach. Racing clouds scattered distant showers across the Wirral Peninsula whilst the iron men on Crosby beach stood in bursts of sunlight. #IronMenCrosby #SeftonCoast
September 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Today the sea was all foam and glitter as a strong wind pushed an afternoon high tide high up Crosby beach. Racing clouds scattered distant showers across the Wirral Peninsula whilst the iron men on Crosby beach stood in bursts of sunlight. #IronMenCrosby #SeftonCoast
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There were no small boat arrivals before 2017.
Farage's 2016 Brexit severed our EU cooperation agreement with France and created the small boat problem.
Farage is making capital out of promising to solve a problem HE CREATED.
Farage's 2016 Brexit severed our EU cooperation agreement with France and created the small boat problem.
Farage is making capital out of promising to solve a problem HE CREATED.
August 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
There were no small boat arrivals before 2017.
Farage's 2016 Brexit severed our EU cooperation agreement with France and created the small boat problem.
Farage is making capital out of promising to solve a problem HE CREATED.
Farage's 2016 Brexit severed our EU cooperation agreement with France and created the small boat problem.
Farage is making capital out of promising to solve a problem HE CREATED.
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The thing about human rights is it protects humans.
That means everybody who is a human.
Not merely the people Nigel Farage decides are human.
That means everybody who is a human.
Not merely the people Nigel Farage decides are human.
August 27, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The thing about human rights is it protects humans.
That means everybody who is a human.
Not merely the people Nigel Farage decides are human.
That means everybody who is a human.
Not merely the people Nigel Farage decides are human.
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Young people are being left at risk of drowning as hundreds of swimming pools have closed over the past decade, a union has warned.
Swimming pool closures put children ‘at risk of drowning’, union warns
www.mirror.co.uk
August 26, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Young people are being left at risk of drowning as hundreds of swimming pools have closed over the past decade, a union has warned.
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As this guy says, asylum-seekers are just the start and people with the wrong colour skin, the wrong religion, or the wrong sexual orientation are next. No doubt Labour MPs will detect "legitimate concerns" there too.
I'm a legal refugee in Britain. So why am I always being treated like a criminal? | Ayman Alhussein
I’ve met wonderful people here who make me feel that I belong – but there are now many who see asylum seekers as an easy political target, says film-maker Ayman Alhussein
www.theguardian.com
August 21, 2025 at 7:44 AM
As this guy says, asylum-seekers are just the start and people with the wrong colour skin, the wrong religion, or the wrong sexual orientation are next. No doubt Labour MPs will detect "legitimate concerns" there too.
going to do a reread of #discworld #witches books over the next couple of weeks. I feel a need to hear #grannyweatherwax 's wisdom (andwhy are there no granny weatherwx gifs?)
a turtle with elephants on its back and a flat earth on top
ALT: a turtle with elephants on its back and a flat earth on top
media.tenor.com
August 21, 2025 at 11:59 AM
going to do a reread of #discworld #witches books over the next couple of weeks. I feel a need to hear #grannyweatherwax 's wisdom (andwhy are there no granny weatherwx gifs?)
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August 18, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Two-thirds of refugees who arrived in Germany a decade ago now have jobs. Read more on how the country achieved that: https://bloom.bg/4oBFLs1
📷: Maria Sturm for Bloomberg Businessweek
📷: Maria Sturm for Bloomberg Businessweek
August 15, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Two-thirds of refugees who arrived in Germany a decade ago now have jobs. Read more on how the country achieved that: https://bloom.bg/4oBFLs1
📷: Maria Sturm for Bloomberg Businessweek
📷: Maria Sturm for Bloomberg Businessweek
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🌿 The National Plant Monitoring Scheme has turned 10!
More than 1,000 volunteers have gathered 250k+ botanical records that feed into the UK Biodiversity Indicators. Marking the milestone, the 2024 report shares surveyor stories & a timeline of NPMS highlights.
🔗 🧪 www.npms.org.uk/article/npms...
More than 1,000 volunteers have gathered 250k+ botanical records that feed into the UK Biodiversity Indicators. Marking the milestone, the 2024 report shares surveyor stories & a timeline of NPMS highlights.
🔗 🧪 www.npms.org.uk/article/npms...
August 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
🌿 The National Plant Monitoring Scheme has turned 10!
More than 1,000 volunteers have gathered 250k+ botanical records that feed into the UK Biodiversity Indicators. Marking the milestone, the 2024 report shares surveyor stories & a timeline of NPMS highlights.
🔗 🧪 www.npms.org.uk/article/npms...
More than 1,000 volunteers have gathered 250k+ botanical records that feed into the UK Biodiversity Indicators. Marking the milestone, the 2024 report shares surveyor stories & a timeline of NPMS highlights.
🔗 🧪 www.npms.org.uk/article/npms...
to mourn #TomLehrer I have been thinking about the different Periodic Table poems, songs and stories
My contribution is here, with the poems derived from the wikipedia entries:
www.amazon.co.uk/Atomy-Ginger...
My contribution is here, with the poems derived from the wikipedia entries:
www.amazon.co.uk/Atomy-Ginger...
Amazon.co.uk
www.amazon.co.uk
August 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
to mourn #TomLehrer I have been thinking about the different Periodic Table poems, songs and stories
My contribution is here, with the poems derived from the wikipedia entries:
www.amazon.co.uk/Atomy-Ginger...
My contribution is here, with the poems derived from the wikipedia entries:
www.amazon.co.uk/Atomy-Ginger...
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We shouldn't need a Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, but here we are. Still underpaid. Still undervalued.
66 cents on the dollar means we lose thousands every year, for doing the same job.
Over a lifetime? That’s hundreds of thousands gone.
Pay Black women. Period.
66 cents on the dollar means we lose thousands every year, for doing the same job.
Over a lifetime? That’s hundreds of thousands gone.
Pay Black women. Period.
July 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
We shouldn't need a Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, but here we are. Still underpaid. Still undervalued.
66 cents on the dollar means we lose thousands every year, for doing the same job.
Over a lifetime? That’s hundreds of thousands gone.
Pay Black women. Period.
66 cents on the dollar means we lose thousands every year, for doing the same job.
Over a lifetime? That’s hundreds of thousands gone.
Pay Black women. Period.
hope UK MPs vote for assisted dying today.
June 20, 2025 at 7:03 AM
hope UK MPs vote for assisted dying today.