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Julie Featherstone 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 💚 ✊🏿🌍 💙☮

@jujurants.bsky.social

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✨ Freelance designer + illustrator✨ A Teessider in East London. Recovering from loss of partner 😢 See my folio + art: http://linktr.ee/juliechicago NO DMs+No 'Go Fund Me' requests! ☮Ceasefire NOW☮

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Julie Featherstone 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 💚 ✊🏿🌍 💙☮ @jujurants.bsky.social · Feb 25

I sell digitally drawn illustrations of my favourite building and places, over on RB . Includes my 'home-home' areas of Teesside, and my current home ,London 😀

#redbubble #prints #architecture #london #eastlondon #teesside #greggs #BSNM #digitalartist #barbican

🔗 www.redbubble.com/people/julie...

Julie Featherstone 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 💚 ✊🏿🌍 💙☮ @jujurants.bsky.social · 22h

Bath was really lovely
Need to go again and explore the smaller streets I think. That Bath stone is so beautiful

#bath #somerset #architecture #buildings #uk

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 1d

#BREAKING | One million of Gaza's 1.1 million olive trees have been destroyed

“We Estimate That Nearly One Million of Gaza’s 1.1 Million Olive Trees Have Been Destroyed”

Gaza’s olive groves have been bulldozed by the Israeli military, dried up from lack of water, or remain inaccessible, leaving Palestinian farmers with little to harvest.

www.dropsitenews.com

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Julie Featherstone 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 💚 ✊🏿🌍 💙☮ @jujurants.bsky.social · 1d

STUNNING
Wells in Somerset
Home of beautiful architecture (and Swans) Yarp ❤️

#architecture #wells #somerset #buildings #hotfuzz

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Julie Featherstone 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 💚 ✊🏿🌍 💙☮ @jujurants.bsky.social · 1d

My Figma has gone bizarre and is loading a blank homepage and says 'You are not allowed to copy this file" error when I try to copy any element in the one file that opened

Bloody AWS outage
No freelancing for me tonight then - great 🙈

#awsoutage #figma #figmauk

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Julie Featherstone 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 💚 ✊🏿🌍 💙☮ @jujurants.bsky.social · 5d

More close-up flowers 🌺🪷🌸

#microscopicart #microscope #flowers #botanical #closeupphotography #artistsonbluesky #art #eastlondonartist

Julie Featherstone 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 💚 ✊🏿🌍 💙☮ @jujurants.bsky.social · 5d

Spot on as ever
' Just know The World’s Most Moral Army™ is allowed to torture and humiliate whoever it likes - and that includes you.'

www.normalisland.co.uk/p/israel-tor...

Israel tortured Greta to demonstrate what it means by "world's most moral army"

The first time Israel abducted Greta Thunberg, it abandoned its principles by giving her and her crew mates the gentle treatment because it thought it would be better PR - and most importantly, the fo...

www.normalisland.co.uk

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jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social @jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social · 7d

Now we're going to start shaking down our seniors just for being outside not bothering anyone!! www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Chicago man fined $130 by ICE agents for not carrying identification

A legal Chicago resident spoke exclusively with NBC Chicago and Telemundo Chicago after receiving a $130 fine from immigration agents.

www.nbcchicago.com

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 6d

Your occasional reminder that Mone can not be stripped of her peerage without an act of parliament.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Baroness Mone-linked PPE firm misses deadline to pay £122m

PPE Medpro was ordered to repay damages by 16:00 BST on Wednesday after breaching a Covid-19 contract.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Helen Bracken #FBPE 🇪🇺🌻 #RejoinEU 🕯️ #FBPPR 🇺🇦 #NAFO @helentbracken.bsky.social · 7d

Please tell me how many UK born and bred citizens have A level standard English???
What even is A level standard English???
They’re off their heads, aren’t they?! 😤
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Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK www.bbc.com/news/article...

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

The tougher rules will come in force in January as part of wider plans to cut immigration.

www.bbc.com

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 6d

“The UK stands at a crossroads. Are we going to be a nation that respects its human rights obligations, or are we going to abandon them whenever the rightwing press demands it? First immigrants, then trans people – who next, Sir Keir?” – Jo Maugham (@goodlawproject.org)
https://goodlaw.social/icp3

European human rights chief warns against trans exclusion in the UK

Human rights commissioner calls on parliament to make sure guidance following the Supreme Court’s decision in April promotes inclusion.

goodlaw.social

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Julie Featherstone 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 💚 ✊🏿🌍 💙☮ @jujurants.bsky.social · 7d

Starmer claiming aid is flowing
Actual lies, due to Israel deciding its bombing of some of its own people held as hostages are buried under rubble, so will have that as a new nice excuse to stop the cesefire and are already witholding aid
Despicable

#freepalestine #stopsupportingisrael #genocide ☮️☮️

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 7d

'the truth' and it's just like 'bcos they are the only ones trying to make life better for ppl'.

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Julie Featherstone 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 💚 ✊🏿🌍 💙☮ @jujurants.bsky.social · 8d

JFC

Julie Featherstone 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 💚 ✊🏿🌍 💙☮ @jujurants.bsky.social · 8d

Imagining seeing this in a history book the way we look back aghast at WW2 photographs after mass slaughters took place, in incredulity

Julie Featherstone 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 💚 ✊🏿🌍 💙☮ @jujurants.bsky.social · 8d

Microscopic plants

Have been sorting out my thousands of microscope images i created from when my other half bought me a usb microscope, One of the best pressies EVER💔

#microscopicart #closeupphotography #plants #artistsonbluesky #seeds #abstract #microscope #flowers #botanical #pattern #colourpop

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Julie Featherstone 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 💚 ✊🏿🌍 💙☮ @jujurants.bsky.social · 9d

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Gaza PhD student ‘heartbroken’ as family blocked from entering the UK

Manar al-Houbi’s husband and children refused entry despite her winning a scholarship to cover tuition fees, living costs and housing for them all

www.theguardian.com

Julie Featherstone 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 💚 ✊🏿🌍 💙☮ @jujurants.bsky.social · 10d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Boycotting Israel has gone mainstream: ‘We’ve never seen such traction before’

After decades of being dismissed as fringe, the boycott call has been taken up by leading figures across arts, sports and politics

www.theguardian.com

Julie Featherstone 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 💚 ✊🏿🌍 💙☮ @jujurants.bsky.social · 11d

Shopify ads on Spotify ensure I will never ever use them
Have you never heard of VOLUME CONTROL
Inbelievably shit-full absolutely blast every single day (compered to every single other advertiser). Sort your shit out.
#shopify

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 12d

Gotta “ make the proof” because there is no existing proof at all

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Julie Featherstone 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 💚 ✊🏿🌍 💙☮ @jujurants.bsky.social · 11d

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Julie Featherstone 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 💚 ✊🏿🌍 💙☮ @jujurants.bsky.social · 11d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Two years of displacement and destruction in Gaza – photo essay

Enas Tantesh’s photography captures not only the despair and insecurity but also moments of normality and human connection

www.theguardian.com

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13d

Israeli "I believe Hamas more than I believe Netanyahu"

The wall is breaking.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12d

Reminder there are 1.53m unemployed people in the UK.

There are 0.11m jobs, and most of these are part time.

They are screaming at people to get jobs that don't exist.

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Julie Featherstone 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 💚 ✊🏿🌍 💙☮ @jujurants.bsky.social · 12d

It REALLY pisses me off that supposedly AI is amazing-yet try and block these fuckers from the relentless spam -nothing works- filters- reporting phishing-it literally never ends

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 12d

Reform says one thing and does the opposite - this is not reforming our politics, it’s what we’ve come to expect after 14 years of Tory rule - is there really any difference between Reform and the Tories? I can’t see it.

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