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Angela
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Cares about the planet, Quaker leanings, aspiring artist, interested in history, proudly woke.
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Latest developments in this crucial story summarised: eastangliabylines.co.uk/opinion/a-su...
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January 25, 2026 at 9:55 AM
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carolinelucas.bsky.social
Sadly suppressing such a devastating report doesn’t make the risks go away - it just makes them even harder to deal with. Facing up to the truth is the first step to coping with it - it’s beyond scandalous that ministers tried to prevent this. They need to act - and fast
January 23, 2026 at 9:29 AM
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greenparty.org.uk
Help us make hope normal again.

Join the Green Party now.
January 22, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
Greens surge to joint highest polling as Reform support stalls

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/gre...
Greens surge to joint highest polling as Reform support stalls
The Green Party have seen a jump in the polls as they closed the gap on Labour, the Tories and Reform.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
January 20, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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tonyjuniper.bsky.social
An across-government technical assessment published today recognises that "nature is the foundation of national security" and that "every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse". A rational response to this would be to get very serious about nature recovery.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Nature security assessment on global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security
This strategic assessment explores how global biodiversity loss and the collapse of critical ecosystems could affect the UK’s resilience, security and prosperity.
www.gov.uk
January 20, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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chrisgpackham.bsky.social
Fox on ice ! This pond defying #FoxOfTheDay was captured by @calumma.bsky.social 1on a wildlife came , brilliant stuff !
January 18, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Japanese artist Akie Nakata (known as Akie) turns found stones and rocks into animal paintings #WomensArt
Photo of a close-up ofcan open white hand holding a stone painted to resemble a curled up fox
January 17, 2026 at 8:53 AM
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radiolento.bsky.social
Looking for colour on a cold grey day.
very green moss on the trunk of a big tree. some patches of green lichen too.
January 9, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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charliepsych.bsky.social
There's a kind of loneliness that's not about access to social events. It's deeper, more about our inner worlds. It's about a disconnection to self, being a persona, being something you're not. So much drives this disconnection.

It's precious to find relationships where you can be your real self.
December 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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lucyfurleaps.bsky.social
I came here to post this as I can't believe it doesn't already have 10,000 signatures - please sign and share! So vital and so utterly crazy that this has to be petitioned for. #climatesky
December 16, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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mandascott.bsky.social
Because traditions matter - even if they're only 6 years old - here's my round-up of books, poetry, podcasts—and one magazine—that have maximally impacted my year (not including those on the podcast)

accidentalgods.life/word-magic-2...

#Accidentalgods
#Podcast
#BooksofBlueSky
#WritersofBlueSky
Word Magic 2025 - Accidental Gods' pick of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and podcasts through the year
Mandas' pick of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and podcasts through the year...
accidentalgods.life
December 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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davidwearing.bsky.social
"Art history gives you tools to interpret the visual world and makes you more of a critical viewer of political messages, advertising and a barrage of social media images. It’s dangerous if you can’t examine these things critically".

apollo-magazine.com/art-history-...
Art history is too important to be the preserve of the privileged
The subject is endangered at A level just as it couldn’t be more essential or universal. Helen Barrett makes the case for its survival in British schools
apollo-magazine.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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philsturgeon.com
@bristolpost.co.uk could you wonderful people boost this tree planting work? It might be country but we’re still Bristol. 🫡
philsturgeon.com Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · Nov 18
Pucklechurch is getting 30 hectares of woodland!

Western Forest + Forest of Avon helping access Trees for Climate funding from Defra to plant on South Gloucestershire land.

@protect.earth is helping out! Tools, kit, and volunteers. Come play! www.protect.earth/events/treep...
Volunteers needed to help South Gloucestershire Council plant trees in Pucklechurch, Bristol — Protect Earth
www.protect.earth
November 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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mikehudema.bsky.social
Tiny urban forests can help #rewild urban settings and help fight #climatechange. The brainchild of the Japanese botanist Miyawaki is taking his idea global.

We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate

#climate #forests #nature #biodiversity
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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guyshrubsole.bsky.social
The increasingly uncommon toad - whose numbers have almost halved since 1985 - is one of my favourite creatures. One once sat on our doorstep every time it rained.

Their decline is awful, but the existence of 100s of Toad Patrols is the most British thing ever:

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘The cars just turn them into mush’: can Britain’s toads be saved from traffic and terrible decline?
Since 1985, the country’s toad population has almost halved, with hundreds of thousands killed on the roads each year. But many people are determined to protect them – including 274 dedicated patrol g...
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
a-ngela.bsky.social
I haven't watched Strictly.
I haven't read Harry Potter.
helenebismarck.bsky.social Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · Oct 5
I have never played a Video Game.
I haven‘t seen The Office.
I haven‘t read The Hobbit.
hannahfearn.bsky.social Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · Oct 5
Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
October 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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thejohnrylands.bsky.social
Great to see our founder Enriqueta Rylands getting a bit of attention... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The unknown Manchester lady who funded a Hogswart-style library
How Cuban-born Enriqueta Rylands spent more than £100m to set up the John Rylands Library.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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josephfasano.bsky.social Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · Sep 12
In a time of dangerous divisiveness, I invite you to join this conversation:
In a time of increasingly dangerous divisiveness, what we need are leaders who are genuinely interested in healing the wounded soul. Tragically, most of our "leaders" are only interested in dividing us further, because that is how they perpetuate the narratives that put them in power. There is, quite simply, no "adult" in the room right now, neither in high public office nor in our media spaces, and it shows in how the infantile parts of the masses are acting. In the absence of healers on a national level, the solution is to become healers on a community level. Tellingly, this has now become almost impossible to imagine, but it would look something like this: —organizing discussion groups that educate people about how to identify misinformation —encouraging ourselves, and especially our children, to spend considerable time offline, having *actual* conversations with peers, neighbors, and others —fostering literacy and communication skills that empower people to speak up *and* to listen —creating communities and resources that help people express themselves creatively, cultivate the capacity to look inward, and understand the lives of others (hint: fund the arts) —using social media platforms to spread material that pushes back against the algorithm of hate And that's just a beginning... Grassroots healing—that's the only way forward. It won't immediately appeal to those who are addicted to strife, it won't be amplified by the social media algorithms that run on divisive engagement, and it won't be front-page news, but it will be a start. If this sounds like a naïve dream, that's only because our media and false leaders want us to believe it's impossible. It isn't. Are there extremists whose words and actions only cause more pain, people and groups whose hate and danger aren't welcome in your life? Absolutely. But we're talking here about moving beyond the amplified extremes and connecting with others, and with ourselves, in a new-media age that threatens to tear us apart. My own humble work has been to offer free workshops and resources that foster communication, contemplation, creativity, and community-building. It never feels like enough, but maybe that's the point: each of us doing what seems small will add up to something larger. We have to want this, and we have to work for it—even if that work sometimes 'just' looks like genuine introspection, time with ourselves and others, and restoring connection with a power higher than ourselves and our false leaders—a power that wants to guide us for our benefit, not just its own. We're addicted to doom. We're unconsciously driven toward destruction and self-destruction by our spiritual frustrations. We're living in the broken psyches of those who claim to lead us. But it doesn't have to be this way. Let's have these conversations. What do you think? What's something we could do together—or as individuals? Is grassroots healing something we could give to our children and ourselves? —Joseph Fasano
September 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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josephfasano.bsky.social
In a time of dangerous divisiveness, I invite you to join this conversation:
In a time of increasingly dangerous divisiveness, what we need are leaders who are genuinely interested in healing the wounded soul. Tragically, most of our "leaders" are only interested in dividing us further, because that is how they perpetuate the narratives that put them in power. There is, quite simply, no "adult" in the room right now, neither in high public office nor in our media spaces, and it shows in how the infantile parts of the masses are acting. In the absence of healers on a national level, the solution is to become healers on a community level. Tellingly, this has now become almost impossible to imagine, but it would look something like this: —organizing discussion groups that educate people about how to identify misinformation —encouraging ourselves, and especially our children, to spend considerable time offline, having *actual* conversations with peers, neighbors, and others —fostering literacy and communication skills that empower people to speak up *and* to listen —creating communities and resources that help people express themselves creatively, cultivate the capacity to look inward, and understand the lives of others (hint: fund the arts) —using social media platforms to spread material that pushes back against the algorithm of hate And that's just a beginning... Grassroots healing—that's the only way forward. It won't immediately appeal to those who are addicted to strife, it won't be amplified by the social media algorithms that run on divisive engagement, and it won't be front-page news, but it will be a start. If this sounds like a naïve dream, that's only because our media and false leaders want us to believe it's impossible. It isn't. Are there extremists whose words and actions only cause more pain, people and groups whose hate and danger aren't welcome in your life? Absolutely. But we're talking here about moving beyond the amplified extremes and connecting with others, and with ourselves, in a new-media age that threatens to tear us apart. My own humble work has been to offer free workshops and resources that foster communication, contemplation, creativity, and community-building. It never feels like enough, but maybe that's the point: each of us doing what seems small will add up to something larger. We have to want this, and we have to work for it—even if that work sometimes 'just' looks like genuine introspection, time with ourselves and others, and restoring connection with a power higher than ourselves and our false leaders—a power that wants to guide us for our benefit, not just its own. We're addicted to doom. We're unconsciously driven toward destruction and self-destruction by our spiritual frustrations. We're living in the broken psyches of those who claim to lead us. But it doesn't have to be this way. Let's have these conversations. What do you think? What's something we could do together—or as individuals? Is grassroots healing something we could give to our children and ourselves? —Joseph Fasano
September 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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carolinelucas.bsky.social
.@TheGreenParty now has more members than ever before. In these dangerous times, people are desperate for a party that speaks truth to power, has courage of its convictions & will take on the far Right.
There's never been a better time to join our movement join.greenparty.org.uk
September 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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greenparty.org.uk
Congratulations to the newly elected Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales, @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Leadership elections results New Leader Zack Polanski Photo of Zack Polanski REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
September 2, 2025 at 10:14 AM
a-ngela.bsky.social
Ken Loach's film 'The Old Oak' is one vehicle through which this message is conveyed in terms that 'ordinary people' in the UK would surely understand.
August 30, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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robertsaunders.bsky.social
Good piece by Rowan Williams, pointing out that refugees are also "ordinary people" and that pride in your country should be "more than a sullen self-congratulation for just being where you are".
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ordinary people outside hotels raging at ordinary people inside them: that’s the tragedy of this refugee controversy | Rowan Williams
Anyone who has met refugees sees the ordinariness of their hopes and dreams. If we reject their humanity, how can we be proud of ourselves, asks former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams
www.theguardian.com
August 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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carolinelucas.bsky.social
This should be headline news - the implications are horrifying …
Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds
Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout
www.theguardian.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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adambienkov.bsky.social
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations

When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
August 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM