@parlyparty.bsky.social
I want to save the world from ourselves and I want to have fun while I'm doing it. Carer, support worker, gardener. Love trees and NHS Hate racism, genocide and ecocide. Israel and the super rich must be stopped. 💚💚💚
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Today I was told to take out a line about being a mentor to students from diverse backgrounds and historically underrepresented groups from my biosketch for a proposal, because it might damage our chances of getting federal funding.
How has it come to this? I feel absolutely sick.
How has it come to this? I feel absolutely sick.
January 24, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today I was told to take out a line about being a mentor to students from diverse backgrounds and historically underrepresented groups from my biosketch for a proposal, because it might damage our chances of getting federal funding.
How has it come to this? I feel absolutely sick.
How has it come to this? I feel absolutely sick.
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The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect
Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.
www.kcur.org
January 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
It’s a start 🤞
Business secretary hints UK could join European trade area
Jonathan Reynolds has left the door open for the UK to join Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention, which allows for tariff-free trade of goods across Europe
news.sky.com/story/busine...
Jonathan Reynolds has left the door open for the UK to join Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention, which allows for tariff-free trade of goods across Europe
news.sky.com/story/busine...
Business secretary hints UK could join European trade area
Jonathan Reynolds has left the door open for the UK to join Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention, which allows for tariff-free trade of goods across Europe as well as some North African and Levantine nat...
news.sky.com
January 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
It’s a start 🤞
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Daily Briefing | EU politicians condemn Trump’s move to pull out of climate pact
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January 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Daily Briefing | EU politicians condemn Trump’s move to pull out of climate pact
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SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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January 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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Benefit cheats could be stripped of driving licences.
Someone innocently exceeding the Carer's earning limit is charged with fraud, can't drive, many not be able to work, can't support family, needs more benefits.
Hawks are appeased
No equivalent sanctions for tax abusers, launderers, real crooks
Someone innocently exceeding the Carer's earning limit is charged with fraud, can't drive, many not be able to work, can't support family, needs more benefits.
Hawks are appeased
No equivalent sanctions for tax abusers, launderers, real crooks
Benefit cheats could lose driving licences in anti-fraud drive
A proposed new law will also give ministers greater powers to request bank account information.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Benefit cheats could be stripped of driving licences.
Someone innocently exceeding the Carer's earning limit is charged with fraud, can't drive, many not be able to work, can't support family, needs more benefits.
Hawks are appeased
No equivalent sanctions for tax abusers, launderers, real crooks
Someone innocently exceeding the Carer's earning limit is charged with fraud, can't drive, many not be able to work, can't support family, needs more benefits.
Hawks are appeased
No equivalent sanctions for tax abusers, launderers, real crooks
Hit them where it hurts most.
Right in their money.
A shopping protest. A day at a time no shopping anywhere.
Extending to more if we can.
Right in their money.
A shopping protest. A day at a time no shopping anywhere.
Extending to more if we can.
Curious what everyone thinks is the best way to have a positive or any impact on the country, during the first 30 days of the new administration.
January 22, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Hit them where it hurts most.
Right in their money.
A shopping protest. A day at a time no shopping anywhere.
Extending to more if we can.
Right in their money.
A shopping protest. A day at a time no shopping anywhere.
Extending to more if we can.
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November 26, 2024 at 8:03 AM
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Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship
Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was ‘a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s National Academy of Sciences👏
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was ‘a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s National Academy of Sciences👏
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship
Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was ‘a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s national academy of sciences
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2024 at 7:07 AM
Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship
Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was ‘a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s National Academy of Sciences👏
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was ‘a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s National Academy of Sciences👏
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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I talked to LBC about how both climate breakdown and catchment mismanagement helped cause the latest, terrible floods, and the intense frustration of spending 40 years banging your head against the wall about such issues.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=icOC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=icOC...
Storm Bert and the elephant in the room | George Monbiot on LBC
YouTube video by LBC
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2024 at 9:25 AM
I talked to LBC about how both climate breakdown and catchment mismanagement helped cause the latest, terrible floods, and the intense frustration of spending 40 years banging your head against the wall about such issues.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=icOC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=icOC...
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On Elon Musk’s repeated attacks on Keir Starmer’s government Sky’s @samcoatessky.bsky.social rightly points out
“If we were talking about a figure close to the Kremlin or the government in Moscow we would be asking the question whether this was foreign interference”
@sophyridge.bsky.social
“If we were talking about a figure close to the Kremlin or the government in Moscow we would be asking the question whether this was foreign interference”
@sophyridge.bsky.social
November 25, 2024 at 8:24 PM
On Elon Musk’s repeated attacks on Keir Starmer’s government Sky’s @samcoatessky.bsky.social rightly points out
“If we were talking about a figure close to the Kremlin or the government in Moscow we would be asking the question whether this was foreign interference”
@sophyridge.bsky.social
“If we were talking about a figure close to the Kremlin or the government in Moscow we would be asking the question whether this was foreign interference”
@sophyridge.bsky.social
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Man with 12th-century castle says Labour’s Budget has made him ‘so angry’
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/man-wit...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/man-wit...
Man with 12th-century castle says Labour's Budget has made him 'so angry'
"Old families running big houses are the most economic solution", Jason Lindsay, owner of Hedingham Castle, said.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
November 25, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Man with 12th-century castle says Labour’s Budget has made him ‘so angry’
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/man-wit...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/man-wit...
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What nonsense, the international 🙄 court is exactly the right place to hold Israel and its unethical supporters, like Joe Biden accountable.
November 25, 2024 at 11:34 AM
What nonsense, the international 🙄 court is exactly the right place to hold Israel and its unethical supporters, like Joe Biden accountable.
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"1. Pete Hegseth, Trump's nominee for secretary of defense, has no qualifications for the job. He has never run a large organization and has no national security expertise."
Essay: "Pete Hegseth: 13 Steps to National Destruction"
snyder.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...
Essay: "Pete Hegseth: 13 Steps to National Destruction"
snyder.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...
Pete Hegseth: The Short Course
13 Steps to National Destruction
snyder.substack.com
November 24, 2024 at 7:05 PM
"1. Pete Hegseth, Trump's nominee for secretary of defense, has no qualifications for the job. He has never run a large organization and has no national security expertise."
Essay: "Pete Hegseth: 13 Steps to National Destruction"
snyder.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...
Essay: "Pete Hegseth: 13 Steps to National Destruction"
snyder.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...
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You knew how the right wing dehumanizes and demonizes trans people? What if we did that with billionaires? That might be a winning message.
November 24, 2024 at 2:22 PM
You knew how the right wing dehumanizes and demonizes trans people? What if we did that with billionaires? That might be a winning message.
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A remarkable piece this.
A @hopenothate.org.uk activist Infiltrated Britain First... and... well it's even worse than you might think
hopenothate.org.uk/britain-firs...
A @hopenothate.org.uk activist Infiltrated Britain First... and... well it's even worse than you might think
hopenothate.org.uk/britain-firs...
My Year Inside Britain FIrst
A first-hand account of infiltrating Britain First, revealing their hate and hypocrisy.
hopenothate.org.uk
November 23, 2024 at 5:23 PM
A remarkable piece this.
A @hopenothate.org.uk activist Infiltrated Britain First... and... well it's even worse than you might think
hopenothate.org.uk/britain-firs...
A @hopenothate.org.uk activist Infiltrated Britain First... and... well it's even worse than you might think
hopenothate.org.uk/britain-firs...
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King Charles the last.
It is time for Game Over.
It is time for Game Over.
November 22, 2024 at 10:23 PM
King Charles the last.
It is time for Game Over.
It is time for Game Over.
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This is why the #eXodus to #BlueskySocial is so important:
We can't let private capital like Musk control the information and manufacture consent.
We can't let private capital like Musk control the information and manufacture consent.
November 15, 2024 at 9:44 PM
This is why the #eXodus to #BlueskySocial is so important:
We can't let private capital like Musk control the information and manufacture consent.
We can't let private capital like Musk control the information and manufacture consent.
It’s time for a referendum on whether to abolish the monarchy.
‘Obscene’: Anger after cost of King Charles’s coronation revealed
‘Obscene’: Anger after cost of King Charles’s coronation revealed
Official figures put the price of the event at £72m but anti-monarchy group Republic says the real cost is likely much more
The coronation of King Charles in May 2023 cost taxpayers at least £72m, official figures have revealed.
The cost of policing the…
dlvr.it
November 21, 2024 at 10:17 PM
It’s time for a referendum on whether to abolish the monarchy.
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Errol Musk, father of Elon bears a strange resemblance to Josef Fritzl. Apartheid Clyde senior, calls on Starmer to resign as he claims Labour have 'sent England back 400 years' in an interview on LBC. Why are they entertaining him? We know the establishment supported apartheid back in the day but..
November 21, 2024 at 6:30 AM
Errol Musk, father of Elon bears a strange resemblance to Josef Fritzl. Apartheid Clyde senior, calls on Starmer to resign as he claims Labour have 'sent England back 400 years' in an interview on LBC. Why are they entertaining him? We know the establishment supported apartheid back in the day but..
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Leak the report. Pass it on.
November 21, 2024 at 2:08 AM
Leak the report. Pass it on.
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What I Support
LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
BLM 🖤
Free Palestine ☮︎
Indigenous People 🫶
Women’s Rights 💖
Pro-Choice ❤️🔥
Gender Identity 🤍
Mental Health Awareness 🎗
Autism Awareness ♾
Disability Awareness 🏥
LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
BLM 🖤
Free Palestine ☮︎
Indigenous People 🫶
Women’s Rights 💖
Pro-Choice ❤️🔥
Gender Identity 🤍
Mental Health Awareness 🎗
Autism Awareness ♾
Disability Awareness 🏥
November 20, 2024 at 7:25 AM
What I Support
LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
BLM 🖤
Free Palestine ☮︎
Indigenous People 🫶
Women’s Rights 💖
Pro-Choice ❤️🔥
Gender Identity 🤍
Mental Health Awareness 🎗
Autism Awareness ♾
Disability Awareness 🏥
LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
BLM 🖤
Free Palestine ☮︎
Indigenous People 🫶
Women’s Rights 💖
Pro-Choice ❤️🔥
Gender Identity 🤍
Mental Health Awareness 🎗
Autism Awareness ♾
Disability Awareness 🏥
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1. The difference so far (and for god's sake let's keep it that way) between X and Bluesky is not between right and left but between abuse and respect.
A good society is built on mutual respect. But what does this mean?
A short thread.🧵
A good society is built on mutual respect. But what does this mean?
A short thread.🧵
November 21, 2024 at 7:54 AM
1. The difference so far (and for god's sake let's keep it that way) between X and Bluesky is not between right and left but between abuse and respect.
A good society is built on mutual respect. But what does this mean?
A short thread.🧵
A good society is built on mutual respect. But what does this mean?
A short thread.🧵