Andy
@andy-1967.bsky.social
Now in my 50’s (how did that happen) from the West of Scotland.
I ignore DM’s.
I ignore DM’s.
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22 December 1938 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Margaretha de Groot, was born in Amsterdam.
In July 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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▶ A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
In July 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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▶ A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
December 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
22 December 1938 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Margaretha de Groot, was born in Amsterdam.
In July 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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▶ A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
In July 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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▶ A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
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I was happy to never know who Erika Kirk was but the media had different ideas
December 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I was happy to never know who Erika Kirk was but the media had different ideas
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The Roding is London’s largest forgotten river. It endures every modern indignity: scythed by motorways and concrete bridges; choked with sewage and rubbish; canalised, fly-tipped, thickened with the polluted slime of London clay. It is a forbidding place to call home. youtu.be/7sjOGOguq5A
A London barrister declared a river sacred. This is what happened next.
YouTube video by Right To Roam
youtu.be
December 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The Roding is London’s largest forgotten river. It endures every modern indignity: scythed by motorways and concrete bridges; choked with sewage and rubbish; canalised, fly-tipped, thickened with the polluted slime of London clay. It is a forbidding place to call home. youtu.be/7sjOGOguq5A
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It would be great if you could RT my post above about my January creative & mental health workshops if you have a moment-it will help me put them in front of more eyes. Many thanks 🌿
December 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
It would be great if you could RT my post above about my January creative & mental health workshops if you have a moment-it will help me put them in front of more eyes. Many thanks 🌿
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There are still a few spaces left on my botanical (10) & bird illustration (24) & mental health w'shops in January
I'll teach you how to draw🌿🌱 or🐦⬛👇
AND how creative activity alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health
I'm an molecular cell biologist & illustrator:
workshops.emmamitchell.uk
I'll teach you how to draw🌿🌱 or🐦⬛👇
AND how creative activity alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health
I'm an molecular cell biologist & illustrator:
workshops.emmamitchell.uk
December 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
There are still a few spaces left on my botanical (10) & bird illustration (24) & mental health w'shops in January
I'll teach you how to draw🌿🌱 or🐦⬛👇
AND how creative activity alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health
I'm an molecular cell biologist & illustrator:
workshops.emmamitchell.uk
I'll teach you how to draw🌿🌱 or🐦⬛👇
AND how creative activity alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health
I'm an molecular cell biologist & illustrator:
workshops.emmamitchell.uk
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Happy 79th anniversary to this diary entry from Evelyn Waugh, in which he drinks enough to make you wonder how he lived for a further 19 years:
December 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Happy 79th anniversary to this diary entry from Evelyn Waugh, in which he drinks enough to make you wonder how he lived for a further 19 years:
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Chamomile tea might be better suited for the officials who repeatedly claim they’ve taken Kupiansk.
December 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Chamomile tea might be better suited for the officials who repeatedly claim they’ve taken Kupiansk.
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Retail sales, Great Britain: November 2025
Retail sales rose in the three months to November 2025, according to our first estimate. ONS
This is because there is more money in the pockets of many in the lower pay grades. This is great news!
www.ons.gov.uk/businessindu...
Retail sales rose in the three months to November 2025, according to our first estimate. ONS
This is because there is more money in the pockets of many in the lower pay grades. This is great news!
www.ons.gov.uk/businessindu...
Retail sales, Great Britain - Office for National Statistics
Retail sales rose in the three months to November 2025, according to our first estimate.
www.ons.gov.uk
December 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Retail sales, Great Britain: November 2025
Retail sales rose in the three months to November 2025, according to our first estimate. ONS
This is because there is more money in the pockets of many in the lower pay grades. This is great news!
www.ons.gov.uk/businessindu...
Retail sales rose in the three months to November 2025, according to our first estimate. ONS
This is because there is more money in the pockets of many in the lower pay grades. This is great news!
www.ons.gov.uk/businessindu...
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A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas.
Be a love, and pay it today.
Be a love, and pay it today.
December 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas.
Be a love, and pay it today.
Be a love, and pay it today.
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I’ve stopped watching TV news. It has a deleterious effect on my thinking.
December 19, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I’ve stopped watching TV news. It has a deleterious effect on my thinking.
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Interesting. Perhaps this view is being coloured / steered by who owns & controls much of the UK media - paper, online and TV.
Happily @bylinetimes.bsky.social and @bylinesnetwork.co.uk, of which we are a part, are wholly independent.
Happily @bylinetimes.bsky.social and @bylinesnetwork.co.uk, of which we are a part, are wholly independent.
December 19, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Interesting. Perhaps this view is being coloured / steered by who owns & controls much of the UK media - paper, online and TV.
Happily @bylinetimes.bsky.social and @bylinesnetwork.co.uk, of which we are a part, are wholly independent.
Happily @bylinetimes.bsky.social and @bylinesnetwork.co.uk, of which we are a part, are wholly independent.
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Society is being nudged to think a certain way by news media and social media.
Someone said to me recently regarding an issue they had with trans women and backed her opinion up with the fact her female friends feel the same.
The same friends she is on FB with who see the same memes and stories
Someone said to me recently regarding an issue they had with trans women and backed her opinion up with the fact her female friends feel the same.
The same friends she is on FB with who see the same memes and stories
December 19, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Society is being nudged to think a certain way by news media and social media.
Someone said to me recently regarding an issue they had with trans women and backed her opinion up with the fact her female friends feel the same.
The same friends she is on FB with who see the same memes and stories
Someone said to me recently regarding an issue they had with trans women and backed her opinion up with the fact her female friends feel the same.
The same friends she is on FB with who see the same memes and stories
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Lost Evri delivery? It's not just corporate incompetence - it's because of worker exploitation
Evri drivers earn as little as £7 an hour, while Evri rakes in nearly £120m in profit.
When drivers aren’t paid for failed deliveries, they’re pushed to cut corners and it’s customers who pay the price.
Evri drivers earn as little as £7 an hour, while Evri rakes in nearly £120m in profit.
When drivers aren’t paid for failed deliveries, they’re pushed to cut corners and it’s customers who pay the price.
December 19, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Lost Evri delivery? It's not just corporate incompetence - it's because of worker exploitation
Evri drivers earn as little as £7 an hour, while Evri rakes in nearly £120m in profit.
When drivers aren’t paid for failed deliveries, they’re pushed to cut corners and it’s customers who pay the price.
Evri drivers earn as little as £7 an hour, while Evri rakes in nearly £120m in profit.
When drivers aren’t paid for failed deliveries, they’re pushed to cut corners and it’s customers who pay the price.
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Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is.
GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
December 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is.
GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
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💥🔥 The combat losses of the enemy from February 24, 2022 to December 19, 2025.
December 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
💥🔥 The combat losses of the enemy from February 24, 2022 to December 19, 2025.
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Good morning from Ukraine
Have a productive Friday!
🇺🇦📷: Rubizh Brigade
Have a productive Friday!
🇺🇦📷: Rubizh Brigade
December 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Good morning from Ukraine
Have a productive Friday!
🇺🇦📷: Rubizh Brigade
Have a productive Friday!
🇺🇦📷: Rubizh Brigade
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The tragic reality about violence against women and girls: unless it's an issue which can be weaponised to bash trans people or migrants no one gives a fuck.
December 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
The tragic reality about violence against women and girls: unless it's an issue which can be weaponised to bash trans people or migrants no one gives a fuck.
When I am forced to think about Badenoch in the future,this below will be the first thing to pop into my mind. Just another reminder of 14 years of Tory incompetence and the sheer hypocrisy of the whole party machinery.
It holds up a mirror and what is reflected back is her inaction to address this abhorrent abuse and appalling misogyny and therefore the failure of her in helping victims / survivors, when she was, ‘ checks notes ‘ Minister for Women, within the Tory government….
December 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
When I am forced to think about Badenoch in the future,this below will be the first thing to pop into my mind. Just another reminder of 14 years of Tory incompetence and the sheer hypocrisy of the whole party machinery.
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It holds up a mirror and what is reflected back is her inaction to address this abhorrent abuse and appalling misogyny and therefore the failure of her in helping victims / survivors, when she was, ‘ checks notes ‘ Minister for Women, within the Tory government….
December 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
It holds up a mirror and what is reflected back is her inaction to address this abhorrent abuse and appalling misogyny and therefore the failure of her in helping victims / survivors, when she was, ‘ checks notes ‘ Minister for Women, within the Tory government….
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Kemi Badenoch's stance on this is truly bizarre!
It's so obvious to most people that these measures to tackle misogyny, and worse through additional resources, teaching and support for all young boys are necessary.
In what world can someone oppose it?
It's so obvious to most people that these measures to tackle misogyny, and worse through additional resources, teaching and support for all young boys are necessary.
In what world can someone oppose it?
December 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Kemi Badenoch's stance on this is truly bizarre!
It's so obvious to most people that these measures to tackle misogyny, and worse through additional resources, teaching and support for all young boys are necessary.
In what world can someone oppose it?
It's so obvious to most people that these measures to tackle misogyny, and worse through additional resources, teaching and support for all young boys are necessary.
In what world can someone oppose it?
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Including religious groups www.secularism.org.uk/news/2025/12...
December 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Including religious groups www.secularism.org.uk/news/2025/12...
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But were they red and how many of them were there?
#BBCNews - Balloons from Belarus are causing chaos in Lithuania. Is it smugglers or a hybrid attack?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Balloons from Belarus are causing chaos in Lithuania. Is it smugglers, or a hybrid attack?
Lithuania has declared an emergency after the balloons started to cross the border.
www.bbc.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
But were they red and how many of them were there?
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"You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people." "You know, you do, too."
Game, Set and Match
Game, Set and Match
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 17, 2025 at 11:48 PM
"You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people." "You know, you do, too."
Game, Set and Match
Game, Set and Match
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I ordered a one-hand candle holder and an led flickering candle on a whim and I'm so excited to haunt the shit out of my own house.
December 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I ordered a one-hand candle holder and an led flickering candle on a whim and I'm so excited to haunt the shit out of my own house.