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@tapestrymoth.bsky.social

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Hello! I 🖤 🐗, toads, stag beetles, weevils, sighthounds. Neurodivergent + spoonie. Disability + 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ally. Childfree. Ms and she/her. I 💜 art nouveau, brutalism, 70s hard rock, art deco

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Lilith 💀🪐✨🪦 @tapestrymoth.bsky.social · Feb 11

Searching for my people ~ #70shardrock #Biba #spaceage #brutalism #artnouveau #artdeco #POTS #HEDS #dysautonomia #AuDHD #macabre #70sgoth #wildboars #stagbeetles #toads #Curve #bass #rickenbacker4001 #libertariansocialism #sighthounds #secondhand #antifascism #medievalmarginalia #swinging60s

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MissMary @missmary1111.bsky.social · 1d

THIS is election tampering. That it's not headline news is baffling.

Okay. Not baffling. Just further proof that the Fourth Estate has been bought by right-wing extremists, like 80% of our media.

it's Candy Love @candylovely.bsky.social · 2d

I posted about this on yesterday and I 'THINK we are being just a little to casual about it.
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Lilith 💀🪐✨🪦 @tapestrymoth.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve found myself recently questioning whether becoming a doctor is a common career choice for psychopaths. My personal experience suggests probably…

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 2d

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

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Use Alt Text not A.I. @carebear2717.bsky.social · 1d

Guess folks only see harm when anyone other than Black ppl say so like when they studied gynecology on Black women with no anesthesia. But yes let's discuss them becoming fascist as if this is new

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2d

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

www.desmog.com

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 2d

Reform UK-controlled Worcestershire County Council is set to slash £3m from its special educational needs and disabilities and social care capital budgets while tightening its borrowing restrictions.

£3m Midland special needs education cuts branded 'shortsighted' and 'bizarre'

Reform UK accused by Tory of cutting a secondary school but not lunches served at full council meetings

uk.news.yahoo.com

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 3d

Pearson Engineering is owned by the Israeli government. Now, it has hired a lobbying firm run by the husband of Hollie Ridley, Labour’s general secretary.

www.declassifieduk.org/top-labour-o...

Top Labour official married to lobbyist for Israeli arms firm

Pearson Engineering is owned by the Israeli government. Now, it has hired a lobbying firm run by the husband of Hollie Ridley, Labour’s general secretary.

www.declassifieduk.org

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 3d

We’re entering a fascinating new phase of the #climate end-game, one where leaders, from Mark Carney in Canada to Micheál Martin here, perfectly understand how dire the situation is, yet decide - choose - to do absolutely nothing.

theconversation.com/mark-carneys...

Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat

Climate action no longer seems to be a priority for Prime Minister Mark Carney, despite his previous activism. This is bad news for Canadians and the climate.

theconversation.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 3d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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HalloweeNKBTN @nkbtn.bsky.social · 4d

This is an interesting listen. Favourite bit was pointing out when Theresa May announced making it easier for gender recognition certificates to be had a few years ago, nobody cared. Nowadays the right would be apoplectic. Amazing what Tufton Street can achieve when they put their awful minds to it

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 5d

I don't do many podcasts any more but this, with ‪@peteryork.bsky.social, was a lot of fun covering the decay in British public life, the fight for dignity for trans people, the need for a wealth tax. podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...

Peter York's Culture Wars House Party: Jolyon Maugham, Good Law Project Founder, on Fighting Power and the Decay in Public Life

Jolyon Maugham KC, founder of the Good Law Project, is one of the UK’s most prominent—and provocative—legal campaigners. Jolyon reveals how, as a high-flying tax barrister, “I knew where th...

podfollow.com

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Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · 3d

Officially extinct yesterday, RIP slender-billed curlew

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 5d

NHS prices to skyrocket because Starmer caved to Trump

Sensing the man's weakness, Donald Trump and big pharma have ganged up on Keir Starmer and the NHS - bad news for us all, writes @willem-moore.bsky.social
www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

NHS prices to skyrocket because Starmer caved to Trump

Sensing the man's weakness, Donald Trump and big pharma have ganged up on Keir Starmer and the NHS - bad news for us all

www.thecanary.co

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 6d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 6d

What an *interesting* way of framing the ongoing collapse of Ireland’s marine ecosystems, largely driven by industrial overfishing.

www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...

Fishing industry facing 'economic Armageddon'

The Irish fishing industry has warned it is bracing for catastrophic fishing quotas next year that "could collapse the Irish fishing sector and devastate major fishing communities".

www.rte.ie

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Neighbours Against Wood Smoke @nbrsvswoodsmoke.bsky.social · 6d

“Ecodesign” stoves now create more PM2.5 pollution than ALL powers stations in the UK and “modern” stoves burning “Ready to Burn” wood are the largest source of carcinogenic Benzo[a]pyrene in the UK. These extremely high emissions are often emitted less than 2m from neighbours windows.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 7d

Tories offer £47bn austerity - cuts to disability benefits, PIP for mental health claimants, social housing, civil service, regulators, green economy, accompanied by anti-migrant rhetoric.

Won't hike taxes the rich or curb profiteering.

The nasty party heading for the dustbin of history.

Tories confirm plans to cut PIP for mental health claimants

The Conservatives have unveiled plans to cut spending on welfare and scrap environmental subsidies

www.mirror.co.uk

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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 10d

The absolute worst people in the country benefit from all this shit.

ellenahzulu.bsky.social @ellenahzulu.bsky.social · 10d

There's a bigger play going on here. Slumlords coordinating with ICE to roust tenants, steal or destroy their stuff, damage the building so its uninhabitable. All to trigger legal expedited evictions, make insurance claims, and then sell to developers.

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Investors buy bigger share of properties in South Shore than other neighborhoods near Obama Center

Investor interest in South Shore has steadily increased with investors buying single family homes and condos.

www.cbsnews.com

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🐝thee agnes de buffle🐝 @vanadiumzest.bsky.social · 10d

eugenics leads to fascism

everyone who participated in the rush to pretend the pandemic ended (spoiler: covid’s transmitting at higher rates than during 2020 and long covid, for which there’s no treatment, has destroyed at least 400 million lives) is partially responsible for today’s fascism

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 10d

Since 2020, disabled people have been pointing out the rising ease with ableist rhetoric/language, the comfort with which so many people used the r word, the number of people willing to abandon disabled people for some notion of the "normal."
All of it mattered/matters to understand fascism today.

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Lilith 💀🪐✨🪦 @tapestrymoth.bsky.social · 10d

So smug and narcy

Lilith 💀🪐✨🪦 @tapestrymoth.bsky.social · 10d

That is quite a cover! 😲🤩

The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 10d

Andrew Lang's Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897) — Containing 78 weird happenings, from a demon strangling Devonian farmers in 1682 to a poltergeist terrorising a contemporary Chinese couple. Read it here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-book-of-dreams-and-ghosts-1897

Lilith 💀🪐✨🪦 @tapestrymoth.bsky.social · 10d

I fucking KNEW chocolate was fundamental 😃

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 10d

#OtD 3 Oct 1952 the UK conducted its first-ever atomic bomb test on the Monte Bello Islands off the coast of Western Australia. The government later admitted they gave no thought for the health of Aboriginal people living nearby stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1024...

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 10d

Bribe, baby, bribe.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11d

Top 65 banks, including UK banks, committed $869bn (£648bn) in financing fossil fuels in 2024.

$7,900,000,000,000
over 9 years, driving climate chaos, deadly health impacts, crop failures, migration.

Banks profit from destruction and no govt stops them.

Some of UK’s biggest banks ‘investing ever larger sums into fossil fuels’

Which’s analysis follows research finding that the world’s biggest banks significantly increased their fossil fuel finance in 2024.

www.independent.co.uk

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 11d

#OtD 3 Oct 1937 almost a year after their defeat at Cable St, Mosley's Blackshirts attempted to march through Bermondsey, South London. Met with strong local opposition and barricades in the streets, the march never arrived at its intended destination workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e35-...

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 11d

The Starmer government is REALLY running scared of this petition, now at 2.75 million, to the extent that it has responded 3 months early, in a transparent attempt to spike it.

So please, under no circumstances should you sign it and share it widely. Starmer & his boss McSweeney would not like it.

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

petition.parliament.uk

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