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Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️🎄
December 19, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️🎄
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Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️🎄
December 18, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️🎄
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The Bethlehem Light of Peace
An international scouting tradition that began in Austria in 1986 and takes place before Christmas.
A symbolic flame shared worldwide as a sign of peace.
This year, Plast (the Ukrainian scouting organisation) also brought the light to a bookstore in Kyiv 🇺🇦
An international scouting tradition that began in Austria in 1986 and takes place before Christmas.
A symbolic flame shared worldwide as a sign of peace.
This year, Plast (the Ukrainian scouting organisation) also brought the light to a bookstore in Kyiv 🇺🇦
December 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The Bethlehem Light of Peace
An international scouting tradition that began in Austria in 1986 and takes place before Christmas.
A symbolic flame shared worldwide as a sign of peace.
This year, Plast (the Ukrainian scouting organisation) also brought the light to a bookstore in Kyiv 🇺🇦
An international scouting tradition that began in Austria in 1986 and takes place before Christmas.
A symbolic flame shared worldwide as a sign of peace.
This year, Plast (the Ukrainian scouting organisation) also brought the light to a bookstore in Kyiv 🇺🇦
Lucky I picked up lunch at Josie's in Pontypridd Market this morning, needed an lemergency dash to rescue my sister's Sainsbury delivery as she was stuck in her doctor's surgery.
December 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Lucky I picked up lunch at Josie's in Pontypridd Market this morning, needed an lemergency dash to rescue my sister's Sainsbury delivery as she was stuck in her doctor's surgery.
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Hong Kong’s "elections" yesterday were far from legitimate with not a pro-democracy candidate in sight. Five years into its sweeping crackdown, Beijing has seized full control of the LegCo. Read more from @hrw.org here 👇 www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...
Hong Kong’s Sham Elections Expose Beijing’s Tightening Grip
Hong Kong will hold elections for its Legislative Council on December 7, without a single pro-democracy candidate. The Chinese government’s attempts to present the legislature, known as the LegCo, as ...
www.hrw.org
December 8, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Hong Kong’s "elections" yesterday were far from legitimate with not a pro-democracy candidate in sight. Five years into its sweeping crackdown, Beijing has seized full control of the LegCo. Read more from @hrw.org here 👇 www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...
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It’s Monday again, Pedro and I are here to man the shop and provide you with books! - Michael
December 8, 2025 at 8:34 AM
It’s Monday again, Pedro and I are here to man the shop and provide you with books! - Michael
Well I can show you these fabulous pencils from @workersgallery.bsky.social because they are for ME, but not the rest of my Christmas shopping I'm afraid, secret Santa and all that.
December 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Well I can show you these fabulous pencils from @workersgallery.bsky.social because they are for ME, but not the rest of my Christmas shopping I'm afraid, secret Santa and all that.
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Greetings from Kyiv.
Ukraine was under a massive russian attack last night.
The target was critical infrastructure.
No power at home (rolling outages).
So, warcoffee time
Ukraine was under a massive russian attack last night.
The target was critical infrastructure.
No power at home (rolling outages).
So, warcoffee time
December 6, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Greetings from Kyiv.
Ukraine was under a massive russian attack last night.
The target was critical infrastructure.
No power at home (rolling outages).
So, warcoffee time
Ukraine was under a massive russian attack last night.
The target was critical infrastructure.
No power at home (rolling outages).
So, warcoffee time
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One week to go!
December 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
One week to go!
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The Booksellers Association (BA) has expressed "real concern" about the business rates reform outlined in this week’s Autumn Budget, warning it could catalyse "a deluge of increased costs" for already hamstrung bookshops👇
Business rates reform a ‘disaster’ for indie bookshops as BA fears ‘deluge of increased costs’
The Booksellers Association has expressed ‘real concern' about the business rates reform outlined in this week’s Autumn Budget, warning it could catalyse ‘a deluge of increased costs' for already hamstrung bookshops.
ebx.sh
November 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The Booksellers Association (BA) has expressed "real concern" about the business rates reform outlined in this week’s Autumn Budget, warning it could catalyse "a deluge of increased costs" for already hamstrung bookshops👇
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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We’ve got lots of lonely books in store looking for new homes.
Come and rescue one? - Michael
Come and rescue one? - Michael
November 25, 2025 at 8:35 AM
We’ve got lots of lonely books in store looking for new homes.
Come and rescue one? - Michael
Come and rescue one? - Michael
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On Holodomor Remembrance Day, Ukrainians light a candle at 4 pm
and place it on the windowsill to honor the millions who died in the 1932-1933 famine.
🕯️4 pm in Ukraine
and place it on the windowsill to honor the millions who died in the 1932-1933 famine.
🕯️4 pm in Ukraine
November 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
On Holodomor Remembrance Day, Ukrainians light a candle at 4 pm
and place it on the windowsill to honor the millions who died in the 1932-1933 famine.
🕯️4 pm in Ukraine
and place it on the windowsill to honor the millions who died in the 1932-1933 famine.
🕯️4 pm in Ukraine
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Last chance to vote in the People's Choice Award🥈
Get yourself here!🏃🏃🏻♀️🏃🏿🏃🏽♂️
Saturday 10am-5pm
22nd November 2025
The Friends of the Workers Gallery's Winter Open continues until January 2026.
It's a great mix of painting, sculpture, design, craft, drawing & print making!
www.workersgallery.co.uk
Get yourself here!🏃🏃🏻♀️🏃🏿🏃🏽♂️
Saturday 10am-5pm
22nd November 2025
The Friends of the Workers Gallery's Winter Open continues until January 2026.
It's a great mix of painting, sculpture, design, craft, drawing & print making!
www.workersgallery.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Last chance to vote in the People's Choice Award🥈
Get yourself here!🏃🏃🏻♀️🏃🏿🏃🏽♂️
Saturday 10am-5pm
22nd November 2025
The Friends of the Workers Gallery's Winter Open continues until January 2026.
It's a great mix of painting, sculpture, design, craft, drawing & print making!
www.workersgallery.co.uk
Get yourself here!🏃🏃🏻♀️🏃🏿🏃🏽♂️
Saturday 10am-5pm
22nd November 2025
The Friends of the Workers Gallery's Winter Open continues until January 2026.
It's a great mix of painting, sculpture, design, craft, drawing & print making!
www.workersgallery.co.uk
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Join us at 1:30PM today when Carys Shannon and Mari Ellis Dunning will be signing copies of their debut novels!
November 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Join us at 1:30PM today when Carys Shannon and Mari Ellis Dunning will be signing copies of their debut novels!
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Ammunition from #Bulgaria, equipment from #France appeared in #RSF hands in #Darfur #Sudan via #UnitedArabEmirates. But @eudiplomacy.bsky.social silence on UAE's role allows impunity.
Time for EU to step up response to UN embargo violations.
www.politico.eu/article/suda... @laukaya.bsky.social
Time for EU to step up response to UN embargo violations.
www.politico.eu/article/suda... @laukaya.bsky.social
Sudan urges EU: Stop selling arms to UAE amid massacre claims
“Those weapons were not intended for third-party use,” Sudan’s top envoy in Brussels tells POLITICO, as a paramilitary group stands accused of committing atrocities in the country’s civ…
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Ammunition from #Bulgaria, equipment from #France appeared in #RSF hands in #Darfur #Sudan via #UnitedArabEmirates. But @eudiplomacy.bsky.social silence on UAE's role allows impunity.
Time for EU to step up response to UN embargo violations.
www.politico.eu/article/suda... @laukaya.bsky.social
Time for EU to step up response to UN embargo violations.
www.politico.eu/article/suda... @laukaya.bsky.social
One of my heroines.
Nov 17: Feast of Hild (c.614-680), abbess. She succeeded Heiu in charge of Heruteu (Hartlepool) before founding, or refounding, Streanæshalch (Whitby), where she championed the 'Irish' dating of Easter at the synod in 664. She later founded a monastery at Hacanos (Hackness). #medievalsky
November 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
One of my heroines.
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Kyiv, Sophia Square today.
The annual “Empty Chairs” event –
in support of journalists, writers, and cultural figures
missing, imprisoned, or held captive
because of russia’s war against Ukraine.
I was there. I want the world to see.
The annual “Empty Chairs” event –
in support of journalists, writers, and cultural figures
missing, imprisoned, or held captive
because of russia’s war against Ukraine.
I was there. I want the world to see.
November 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Kyiv, Sophia Square today.
The annual “Empty Chairs” event –
in support of journalists, writers, and cultural figures
missing, imprisoned, or held captive
because of russia’s war against Ukraine.
I was there. I want the world to see.
The annual “Empty Chairs” event –
in support of journalists, writers, and cultural figures
missing, imprisoned, or held captive
because of russia’s war against Ukraine.
I was there. I want the world to see.
Reposted by Chris Bowen
At least 600 migrant workers employed by Saudi Arabian Baytur Construction Company have not received their salaries for at least eight months.
The blatant wage theft speaks volumes about Saudi authorities’ broken wage protection system.
The blatant wage theft speaks volumes about Saudi authorities’ broken wage protection system.
Saudi Arabia: Migrant Workers in Mecca Arrested for Demanding Unpaid Wages
At least 600 migrant workers employed by Saudi Arabian Baytur Construction Company have not received their salaries for at least eight months.
www.hrw.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
At least 600 migrant workers employed by Saudi Arabian Baytur Construction Company have not received their salaries for at least eight months.
The blatant wage theft speaks volumes about Saudi authorities’ broken wage protection system.
The blatant wage theft speaks volumes about Saudi authorities’ broken wage protection system.
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🔴 There is mounting evidence the Sudanese city of El Fasher is at the centre of one of this century’s worst ethnic massacres.
Now, The Telegraph has received a voice message from a survivor telling harrowing story of survival ⬇️
www.telegraph.co.uk/bluesky-tmg/sudan-pay-genocide/
Now, The Telegraph has received a voice message from a survivor telling harrowing story of survival ⬇️
www.telegraph.co.uk/bluesky-tmg/sudan-pay-genocide/
November 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
🔴 There is mounting evidence the Sudanese city of El Fasher is at the centre of one of this century’s worst ethnic massacres.
Now, The Telegraph has received a voice message from a survivor telling harrowing story of survival ⬇️
www.telegraph.co.uk/bluesky-tmg/sudan-pay-genocide/
Now, The Telegraph has received a voice message from a survivor telling harrowing story of survival ⬇️
www.telegraph.co.uk/bluesky-tmg/sudan-pay-genocide/
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🚨Today!🚨
Last chance
1-4pm
Sunday 2nd November
🖼️ Hand in your submissions for the Friends of the Workers Gallery Winter Open!
For info and entry form - use links on poster👇
Last chance
1-4pm
Sunday 2nd November
🖼️ Hand in your submissions for the Friends of the Workers Gallery Winter Open!
For info and entry form - use links on poster👇
Artists and Photographers!
Friends of the Workers Gallery Winter Open Exhibition
It's hand in day! Don't forget to bring your entry form.
For timings, entry form and information follow links on poster.
99 Ynyshir Road, Ynyshir Rhondda Cynon Taf, CF39 0EN.
#art #photography #Wales #Rhondda
Friends of the Workers Gallery Winter Open Exhibition
It's hand in day! Don't forget to bring your entry form.
For timings, entry form and information follow links on poster.
99 Ynyshir Road, Ynyshir Rhondda Cynon Taf, CF39 0EN.
#art #photography #Wales #Rhondda
November 2, 2025 at 9:39 AM
🚨Today!🚨
Last chance
1-4pm
Sunday 2nd November
🖼️ Hand in your submissions for the Friends of the Workers Gallery Winter Open!
For info and entry form - use links on poster👇
Last chance
1-4pm
Sunday 2nd November
🖼️ Hand in your submissions for the Friends of the Workers Gallery Winter Open!
For info and entry form - use links on poster👇
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Nov 1: Feast of All Saints (All Hallows). Ecgberht, the first archbishop of York (†766), brought the feast to England, where it is found as a marginal addition to the Martyrology of Bede. #medievalsky
November 1, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Nov 1: Feast of All Saints (All Hallows). Ecgberht, the first archbishop of York (†766), brought the feast to England, where it is found as a marginal addition to the Martyrology of Bede. #medievalsky
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Artists and Photographers!
Friends of the Workers Gallery Winter Open Exhibition
It's hand in day! Don't forget to bring your entry form.
For timings, entry form and information follow links on poster.
99 Ynyshir Road, Ynyshir Rhondda Cynon Taf, CF39 0EN.
#art #photography #Wales #Rhondda
Friends of the Workers Gallery Winter Open Exhibition
It's hand in day! Don't forget to bring your entry form.
For timings, entry form and information follow links on poster.
99 Ynyshir Road, Ynyshir Rhondda Cynon Taf, CF39 0EN.
#art #photography #Wales #Rhondda
November 1, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Artists and Photographers!
Friends of the Workers Gallery Winter Open Exhibition
It's hand in day! Don't forget to bring your entry form.
For timings, entry form and information follow links on poster.
99 Ynyshir Road, Ynyshir Rhondda Cynon Taf, CF39 0EN.
#art #photography #Wales #Rhondda
Friends of the Workers Gallery Winter Open Exhibition
It's hand in day! Don't forget to bring your entry form.
For timings, entry form and information follow links on poster.
99 Ynyshir Road, Ynyshir Rhondda Cynon Taf, CF39 0EN.
#art #photography #Wales #Rhondda
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Worst cholera outbreak in 20 years hits war-torn DRC
The disease is spreading fast along the Congo River and into remote villages that are hard to reach because of ongoing fighting
@liliasebouai.bsky.social reports
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
The disease is spreading fast along the Congo River and into remote villages that are hard to reach because of ongoing fighting
@liliasebouai.bsky.social reports
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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www.telegraph.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Worst cholera outbreak in 20 years hits war-torn DRC
The disease is spreading fast along the Congo River and into remote villages that are hard to reach because of ongoing fighting
@liliasebouai.bsky.social reports
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
The disease is spreading fast along the Congo River and into remote villages that are hard to reach because of ongoing fighting
@liliasebouai.bsky.social reports
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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Russian forces, using drones, attacked a United Nations convoy delivering humanitarian aid in Ukraine. The very next day, they posted video evidence.
This brazen, unlawful attack should remind governments of their responsibility to stand up for justice.
This brazen, unlawful attack should remind governments of their responsibility to stand up for justice.
Russian Forces Deliberately Attack UN Aid Convoy
On October 14, news broke that Russian forces, using drones, had attacked a United Nations interagency convoy delivering humanitarian aid to Bilozerka in the region of Kherson, southern Ukraine.
www.hrw.org
October 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Russian forces, using drones, attacked a United Nations convoy delivering humanitarian aid in Ukraine. The very next day, they posted video evidence.
This brazen, unlawful attack should remind governments of their responsibility to stand up for justice.
This brazen, unlawful attack should remind governments of their responsibility to stand up for justice.