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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 10m

*not to rally?

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 11m

#FreePalestine

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Glen Le Lievre @lelievre.bsky.social · 55m

Cease fire

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 36m

I hope so too but I won't believe it until I see it. Recent reports today say the IOF is waging a violent bombing campaign west of Gaza now, following a violent bombing campaign in center and south Gaza earlier.

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 1h

"More than 54,000 children aged under five in Gaza are suffering acute malnutrition, including more than 12,800 who are severely malnourished, according to a study published in The Lancet on Wednesday."
theconversation.com/child-famine...

Child famine has reached the highest level in Gaza, with tens of thousands of kids affected – new study

By August,15.8% of children aged under five were suffering from acute malnutrition.

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks, Professor. Enjoy your day. 👏🏻🥂

I fear the bombing and the killing has not stopped. And as for "the plan" ...
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 3h

“[Trump's Gaza plan] is a proposal really for the Gaza Riviera… A proposal for… colonization, permanent occupation & siege.”

Palestinian-American lawyer Noura Erakat tells @premthakker.bsky.social how Trump’s Gaza plan is a mechanism to shut down advocacy for Palestine.

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 3h

“[Trump's Gaza plan] is a proposal really for the Gaza Riviera… A proposal for… colonization, permanent occupation & siege.”

Palestinian-American lawyer Noura Erakat tells @premthakker.bsky.social how Trump’s Gaza plan is a mechanism to shut down advocacy for Palestine.

🔗 zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 4h

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 4h

“Palestinians live under occupation. They have the right to resist, including armed resistance. Hamas initially struck military bases and killed soldiers, police, and security forces. That is not a war crime.”
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Oxford Historian Avi Shlaim: Israel Committed Genocide, Palestinians Have Right to Resist - Quds News Network

Avi Shlaim slams Israel’s Gaza genocide, defends Palestinian resistance, and calls out occupation and Zionist policies as the root of ongoing violence.

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Glen Le Lievre @lelievre.bsky.social · 4h

Bird of the year

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 4h

At the moment, there's really only one plan.

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 4h

Size is how you distinguish between the male and female Peregrine Falcon. The female is significantly larger than the male—not only taller but also broader than her partner, with a larger head and thicker neck.

Easy to identify who's who in this clip from #367Collins yesterday.

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 4h

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Another day spent catching up with the regulars in the clubhouse Executive Suite awaits me, Professor Toole.

Safe landings on the grid y'all! 🥂

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 6h

"Deforestation is a global catastrophe in slow motion. Despite the good intentions of many, it is still accelerating, as humans continue to gnaw, like termites, at the very foundations of the Earth’s life support system – and their own future."
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

The Earth uncloaked – A catastrophe in slow motion

Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. – GP Morris 1837

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 6h

"When politicians lose their moral compass, ordinary citizens are required to stand up like Thunberg and protest non-violently for action against genocide, ecocide and the removal of free speech within nations."
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Is Greta Thunberg the lone voice for justice in our world?

As the world moves from one crisis to another and our politicians ignore the immense injustices that are happening in their nation and in the world, what do ordinary non-violent citizens do to let the...

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 6h

"A real peace plan must eliminate the colonial scaffolding. It should restore Palestinian sovereignty by addressing the central issue: Palestinian statehood."
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Jeffrey Sachs: Twenty-point plan minus the US-UK colonialism

Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares offer a revised version of the Trump plan for an end of the war in Gaza and the occupation of the West Bank.

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 6h

A poem by the legendary Theodor Meron, a Holocaust survivor who (among many other things) served on the ICC Panel of Experts that approved the ICC Prosecutor's charges against Netanyahu, Gallant, Haniyeh, Sinwar, and Deif.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10h

Astonishing advance by the Greens, astonishing implosion of Labour. When will Starmer's government get the message that it is destroying its base with deeply unpopular, rightwing policies?

By chasing Reform, it legitimises the far right while delegitimising itself.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12h

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 6h

These are the type of nests they choose. Good drainage is important, which is not available in that gully. Research also shows the avoidance of getting too close to a cliff edge appears to be innate in Peregrine Falcon nestlings.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20h

Bari Weiss "is a self-described 'Zionist fanatic.' The idea that a 'neutral media organization' is led by someone who has a long history as a pro-Israel ideologue...is really worrying. I think there will be a lot more censorship of Palestinian voices." - me to Piers Morgan about CBS News and Weiss:

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 12h

“We Are Elated by the Gaza Ceasefire News. Now, the World Must Hold Israel to Account for 2 Years of Genocide”

In an emotional essay for Zeteo, former Palestinian negotiator Diana Buttu reacts to the ceasefire announcement, what it means for Palestinians, and what still worries her.
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We Are Elated by the Gaza Ceasefire News. Now, the World Must Hold Israel to Account for 2 Years of Genocide

In an emotional essay, former Palestinian negotiator Diana Buttu reacts to the ceasefire announcement, what it means for Palestinians, and what still worries her.

zeteo.com

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 18h

"Jewish Oxford University historian Prof. Avi Shlaim has openly condemned Israel’s policies and praised Palestinian resistance. In an interview with Haaretz, Shlaim repeatedly stressed that Palestinians, including Hamas, have the right to resist occupation."
qudsnen.co/oxford-histo...

Oxford Historian Avi Shlaim: Israel Committed Genocide, Palestinians Have Right to Resist - Quds News Network

Avi Shlaim slams Israel’s Gaza genocide, defends Palestinian resistance, and calls out occupation and Zionist policies as the root of ongoing violence.

qudsnen.co