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Rosamund Gravelle

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Rosamund Gravelle @rosamundgravelle.bsky.social · 11d

If you’re able to, it would be wonderful
if you could support/ donate me to support my creative work - it’s still so important to still keep producing work in these times, and if you could buy me a coffee that would be awesome! buymeacoffee.com/rosamundgrav...

Thank you 🙏 🤩💃

Rosamund Gravelle

I am a passionate writer and poet, as well as creating a podcast (which I co-host and co-produce); things are still tough out there especially as I mainly write plays - it takes a lot to keep going an

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14h

Don’t fall for the authoritarian hype – Reform and the hard right can be stopped in their tracks | Gordon Brown

From the US to Europe and Asia, grievances are being exploited to gain power. But moderate voices are still in tune with the majority, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 1d

IEA: #Renewables have cut #fossilfuel imports for more than 100 countries
#climate
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-renewabl...

IEA: Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries - Carbon Brief

More than 100 countries have cut their dependence on fossil-fuel imports and saved hundreds of billions of dollars by continuing to invest in renewables

www.carbonbrief.org

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Soho Theatre @sohotheatre.bsky.social · 1d

Get those apps in, only 9 days left ✍️

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Scott Immordino @scottimmordino.bsky.social · 3d

Bill Gates: $106B | Microsoft: $3.9T
Jeff Bezos: $232.5B | Amazon: $2.3T
Larry Page: $204.2B | Google: $2.84T
Mark Zuckerberg: $243.5B | Meta: $1.8T

Can someone please explain why on earth we’re paying the power & water bills for their data centers?

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of "poisoning our kids" on race issues.

Here's a reminder of what teachers and fellow pupils at Farage's own school remember of his own views on that subject.

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

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Rosamund Gravelle @rosamundgravelle.bsky.social · 2d

An amazing scheme that should also be set up in this country- UBI for artists to be able to create & generate work, which fuels a huge industry & the economy, & of course make sure to have art in all our lives + for that art also not be created just by 1 segment of the population

Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 4d

Incredible news!

If the scheme stays the same, seems like it would apply to any creative workers paying taxes and living in the Republic of Ireland.

Uses a broad definition of arts that covers a lot of work too.

Basic Income for the Arts Eligibility:

Practising artists, Creative arts workers (see definition below), or recently trained applicants (within the last 5 years).

For the purposes of the BIA scheme a Creative Arts Worker is defined as follows:

“A creative arts worker is someone who has a creative practice and whose creative work makes a key contribution to the production, interpretation or exhibition of the arts. “Arts” means any creative or interpretative expression (whether traditional or contemporary) in whatever form, and includes, in particular, visual arts, theatre, literature, music, dance, opera, film, circus and architecture, and includes any medium when used for those purposes”.

All applicants must be: 18 years of age or older, in a position to evidence their creative practice or career in the arts, based in the Republic of Ireland, tax compliant

The following list provides examples of the types of artists and creative arts workers who are eligible. This list is for illustrative purposes only and is not exhaustive.

Visual Arts: The following list provides examples of the types of artists and creative arts workers who are eligible. This list is for illustrative purposes only and is not exhaustive.

Visual Arts: All media including fine-art photography, Visual Arts Curator, Illustrator, Art Writer

Theatre: Actor, Artistic Director, Comedian, Costume Designer, Director, Hair Designer, Librettist, Lighting Designer/Engineer, Make-Up Designer, Mime artist, Set Designer, Stage Designer, Sound Designer/Engineer, Playwright, Projection Designer, Prop Designer, Puppeteer

Literature: Writer – Children’s/Young Adult, Novelist, Short-Story, Poet, Novelist, Illustrator, Art Writer, Non-Fiction writer

Music: Composer, Conductor, Singer/Musician – all genres, Lighting Designer/Engineer, Lyricist, Sound Designer/Engineer, Musical Director, Writer

Dance: Artistic Director, Choreographer, Dancer, Repetiteur

Opera: Actor, Artistic Director, Costume Designer, Librettist, Lighting Designer/Engineer, Lyricist, Director, Singer, Sound Designer/Engineer, Stage Designer, Repetiteur

Film: Actor, Animator, Artistic Director, Cinematographer, Costume Designer Director, Editor, Screenwriter, Film Designer, Filmmaker, Film Editor, Lighting Designer/Engineer, Hair Designer, Make-up Designer, Prop Designer, Production Designer, Sound Designer/Engineer, Script Writer, Scenographer, Set Designer, Special Effects Designer, Scenic Artist, Visual Designer, Voice Over Artist, Writer

Circus: Circus Artist - traditional and contemporary, Acrobat, Street Arts and Spectacle Artist

Architecture: Architect

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

Twelve Jobs Nigel has earned over £1 million in additional income since the general election.

To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3d

"The Supreme Court’s Dark Money Man Is Trying to Make It Harder to Vote"

Leonard Leo’s network is bankrolling the main donor behind a ballot initiative in Maine to limit absentee voting & impose voter ID requirements.

Important reporting from Zeteo's new political reporter @andrewperez.bsky.social

The Supreme Court’s Dark Money Man Is Trying to Make It Harder to Vote

Leonard Leo’s network is bankrolling the main donor behind a ballot initiative in Maine that would limit absentee voting and impose voter ID requirements.

zeteo.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 4d

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Bondi claims that the ICEBlock app was "criminal in that people were posting where ICE officers lived"

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 3d

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 5d

Installing someone like Bari Weiss as the head of a major news organization isn’t even about profit or longevity. In effect it’s about continuing to shrink the traditional news industry smaller and smaller and weaker and weaker and less and less journalism based until it ceases to exist

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 5d

More austerity you say? This is the kind of bold outside-the-box thinking that will surely turn things around for the Tories 🙃
pa.media/blogs/pa-edi...

Tories to set out plans to cut £47bn from government spending

PA Media

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 6d

The thing that makes me the sickest is that these folks don’t even have a shred of compassion. It’s one thing to enforce laws and rules. It’s another to do it gleefully and celebrate the suffering of someone born into poverty and desperation

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d

Still waiting for it to trickle down...

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 6d

Silent fields. No birdsong. No bees. No butterflies.

One Suffolk farmer is fighting back. “It’s my job to look after the land.”

🌿 This is her story – and it might restore your faith in biodiversity’s future | Rachel Fulcher

@eastangliabylines.co.uk

From silence to song: saving the farmland birds

Intensive farming silences the land – but a Suffolk farmer shows how she is creating a safe haven for birds

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 6d

The closer than the Tories get to Reform, the more it makes sense for Labour to leave them to it and head back towards the centre. Stop bashing immigrants 24/7 and concentrate on the important stuff.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 7d

The obscene face of Christian Nationalism: outlandish untaxed wealth in defiance of Jesus. Oh, and this time, slave laborers, too! Glory!

Just remember, for any money you give to Heaven, there is always a 100% handling fee here on Earth.

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DemSocialistGuy @demsocialistguy.bsky.social · 7d

Stephen Miller uses a fascist playbook that is always the same: invent “leftwing terrorism,” smear judges and prosecutors, then demand unchecked state power. This is not security; it is authoritarianism cloaked in fearmongering—an assault on democracy itself. #DemocracyUnderSiege

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 7d

Ed Matthew, E3G, UK programme director: "This is a new low point for Kemi Badenoch as she blows up the Conservative party’s credibility for protecting nature and the climate in her quest to ape the far-right policies of Nigel Farage."

https://bit.ly/4gT1l7G

As Tories vow to scrap ‘failed targets’, how do their climate claims stack up?

We fact check Kemi Badenoch and her party after she promised to repeal Climate Change Act if they win power

www.theguardian.com

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 7d

Tory-yawnathon update:
Jenrick’s lot plots to oust Badenoch. Badenoch plans to scrap Climate Change Act and leave the ECHR. And it feels unbelievably tedious to even comment. This Tory party is over. Their brand is fucked. They reek of too much failure to be taken seriously. Plot away.
No one cares.

iweekend

Revealed:
Tory plot to replace Badenoch
with Jenrick
» His allies are collecting no-confidence letters from Conservative MPs, The i Paper learns

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8d

BlackRock will buy AES, one of the largest publicly traded utility companies in the U.S.

AES is a major power provider for Big Tech companies building out data centers.

Yes: while these data centers drive up your electricity costs, wealthy financiers are going to make a killing.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 8d

Brexit shitshow latest:

“The poll adds to the mounting pile of evidence that….dogma about regulatory alignment has always been more of an elite obsession”

People want lower bills and less hassle and don’t care about Farage’s ego or agreeing with EU rules. Who knew?

www.politico.eu/article/uk-w...

Brits want Nigel Farage to step away from the Brexit shredder

Polling commissioned by POLITICO shows wide public support for Labour’s EU reset.

www.politico.eu

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9d

Sanders: I am not a great fan of the affordable care act. I believe in medicare for all. I think that health care is a human right, but I will be damned if I'm going to see people in Vermont and around this country see a doubling in their premiums.

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Cameron Yarde Jnr @cameronyardejnr.bsky.social · 8d

This is so sad. Patricia Routledge was a superb actress with impeccable comic timing. Made Hyacinth Bucket an iconic comedy character. 😞 news.sky.com/story/keepin...

Keeping Up Appearances star Dame Patricia Routledge has died

Actress Dame Patricia Routledge, best known for TV show Keeping Up Appearances, has died aged 96, her agent has said.

news.sky.com

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 9d

GOP

Last Week: "We control everything."

Today: "The shutdown was out of our control."

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