Anne Howkins
@anneh23.bsky.social
Charity worker, writer, dancer, tuneless singer, rambler. Discovering the joys of grand-parenthood.
White Christmas Day in Sofia!
December 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
White Christmas Day in Sofia!
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Your pre-Christmas update. That's 800 entries now. Absolute mayhem. Last year's FULL TOTAL was 819, and there are still 9 days to go!!! Wow!
PS I'm exhausted but spellbound by all your brilliance.
PS I'm exhausted but spellbound by all your brilliance.
December 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Your pre-Christmas update. That's 800 entries now. Absolute mayhem. Last year's FULL TOTAL was 819, and there are still 9 days to go!!! Wow!
PS I'm exhausted but spellbound by all your brilliance.
PS I'm exhausted but spellbound by all your brilliance.
Thanks to @bulbculture.bsky.social for giving this little one an outing!
The light is on for Anne Howkins! @anneh23.bsky.social 💡
"Glass is Just Melted Sand" is an exquisitely crafted and haunting story that will undoubtably become one of your new favorites.
Check out Anne's truly gorgeous lyricism over at the site!
www.bulbculturecollective.com/read/glass-i...
"Glass is Just Melted Sand" is an exquisitely crafted and haunting story that will undoubtably become one of your new favorites.
Check out Anne's truly gorgeous lyricism over at the site!
www.bulbculturecollective.com/read/glass-i...
Glass is Just Melted Sand - Anne Howkins — Bulb Culture Collective
He dreams of broken bottles and the sea.
www.bulbculturecollective.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Thanks to @bulbculture.bsky.social for giving this little one an outing!
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I've taken the reins for this month's #Mondettes - it's my end-of-year round-up of some of my favourites from 2025, also known as the MAFFIAS!!!
mondettes.substack.com/p/december-2...
mondettes.substack.com/p/december-2...
December 16, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I've taken the reins for this month's #Mondettes - it's my end-of-year round-up of some of my favourites from 2025, also known as the MAFFIAS!!!
mondettes.substack.com/p/december-2...
mondettes.substack.com/p/december-2...
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The Govt’s new strategy to phase out animal experiments is a step forward - but it's not bold enough. It targets low-impact areas and avoids real reform. 🐾
💥 Email your MP and demand stronger action: secure.animalfreeresearchuk.org/page/181459/...
#AnimalFree #HerbiesLaw #KinderScience
💥 Email your MP and demand stronger action: secure.animalfreeresearchuk.org/page/181459/...
#AnimalFree #HerbiesLaw #KinderScience
November 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The Govt’s new strategy to phase out animal experiments is a step forward - but it's not bold enough. It targets low-impact areas and avoids real reform. 🐾
💥 Email your MP and demand stronger action: secure.animalfreeresearchuk.org/page/181459/...
#AnimalFree #HerbiesLaw #KinderScience
💥 Email your MP and demand stronger action: secure.animalfreeresearchuk.org/page/181459/...
#AnimalFree #HerbiesLaw #KinderScience
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UK Gov’t plans to phase out animal testing — a first step.
But we need action ✊
Our 4 priorities push for real progress for animals & science. 🐾
Read more: animalfreeresearchuk.org/animal-free-research-uks-four-priorities-for-ending-animal-experiments
#HerbiesLaw #AnimalFree #KinderScience
But we need action ✊
Our 4 priorities push for real progress for animals & science. 🐾
Read more: animalfreeresearchuk.org/animal-free-research-uks-four-priorities-for-ending-animal-experiments
#HerbiesLaw #AnimalFree #KinderScience
November 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
UK Gov’t plans to phase out animal testing — a first step.
But we need action ✊
Our 4 priorities push for real progress for animals & science. 🐾
Read more: animalfreeresearchuk.org/animal-free-research-uks-four-priorities-for-ending-animal-experiments
#HerbiesLaw #AnimalFree #KinderScience
But we need action ✊
Our 4 priorities push for real progress for animals & science. 🐾
Read more: animalfreeresearchuk.org/animal-free-research-uks-four-priorities-for-ending-animal-experiments
#HerbiesLaw #AnimalFree #KinderScience
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“Funding from Animal Free Research UK has made this project possible.”
Meet Josh, who’s building an animal-free 3D lymph node model to study how mouth cancer spreads - using human cells, not mice. 🔬
A step toward better, kinder cancer research. 💙
#AnimalFree #KinderScience
Meet Josh, who’s building an animal-free 3D lymph node model to study how mouth cancer spreads - using human cells, not mice. 🔬
A step toward better, kinder cancer research. 💙
#AnimalFree #KinderScience
December 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
“Funding from Animal Free Research UK has made this project possible.”
Meet Josh, who’s building an animal-free 3D lymph node model to study how mouth cancer spreads - using human cells, not mice. 🔬
A step toward better, kinder cancer research. 💙
#AnimalFree #KinderScience
Meet Josh, who’s building an animal-free 3D lymph node model to study how mouth cancer spreads - using human cells, not mice. 🔬
A step toward better, kinder cancer research. 💙
#AnimalFree #KinderScience
Eek, launched a little story into the ocean that is the @welkinprize.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Eek, launched a little story into the ocean that is the @welkinprize.bsky.social
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FlashGiving! Today is the last day to get your name in the hat to possibly win $200 holiday $$. Just like/share this post or the original one. We'll choose a winner randomly tonight and announce tomorrow! Be sure to tag @smokelong.bsky.social to let us know you've entered!
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
FlashGiving! Today is the last day to get your name in the hat to possibly win $200 holiday $$. Just like/share this post or the original one. We'll choose a winner randomly tonight and announce tomorrow! Be sure to tag @smokelong.bsky.social to let us know you've entered!
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UK friends who, like me, might have some relatives thinking of voting Reform, you might want to tell them about this. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres
Questions about potential conflict of interest as council’s cabinet member for social care owns private care company
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
UK friends who, like me, might have some relatives thinking of voting Reform, you might want to tell them about this. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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NFFD will open our MicroFiction Comp ((up to 100 words) & subs to our new anthology (theme to be announced) on 1 Dec. More details coming soon!
a cartoon drawing of snoopy sitting at a desk writing on a piece of paper
ALT: a cartoon drawing of snoopy sitting at a desk writing on a piece of paper
media.tenor.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
NFFD will open our MicroFiction Comp ((up to 100 words) & subs to our new anthology (theme to be announced) on 1 Dec. More details coming soon!
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We’ve nailed the slogans. We’ve got the mugs, the hashtags, the “It’s okay not to be okay” posters.
What we don’t have is access to actual care.
In todays piece, I discuss Movember, men and the gap that exists between talking and being heard.
🐻
What we don’t have is access to actual care.
In todays piece, I discuss Movember, men and the gap that exists between talking and being heard.
🐻
Movember: Great Moustaches, Terrible Mental Health Infrastructure
We’ve nailed the slogans and motivational posters. Now it’s time to build the bloody scaffolding underneath them
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
We’ve nailed the slogans. We’ve got the mugs, the hashtags, the “It’s okay not to be okay” posters.
What we don’t have is access to actual care.
In todays piece, I discuss Movember, men and the gap that exists between talking and being heard.
🐻
What we don’t have is access to actual care.
In todays piece, I discuss Movember, men and the gap that exists between talking and being heard.
🐻
Ooh, it's still there...
www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/31st...
Hot on the heels of the Longlist here’s the shortlist of 20 as selected by judge @kazbarwrites.bsky.social for our 31st Award. Congratulations to all!
Hot on the heels of the Longlist here’s the shortlist of 20 as selected by judge @kazbarwrites.bsky.social for our 31st Award. Congratulations to all!
31st Award Short List
Huge congratulations to the twenty authors who have made our 31st Award short listAuthor names are yet to be announced, so while it is fine to share you are on the short list, please do not identif…
www.bathflashfictionaward.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Ooh, it's still there...
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Very well researched piece by UCL - Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010.
The only answers to better energy security and overall lower energy costs are more wind power and renewables - implemented in a way that allows for a just transition.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The only answers to better energy security and overall lower energy costs are more wind power and renewables - implemented in a way that allows for a just transition.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds
Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Very well researched piece by UCL - Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010.
The only answers to better energy security and overall lower energy costs are more wind power and renewables - implemented in a way that allows for a just transition.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The only answers to better energy security and overall lower energy costs are more wind power and renewables - implemented in a way that allows for a just transition.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Delighted to see my story on this list, thank you!
www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/oct-...
Very late in the day but at last our Oct 2025 Longlist. Congratulations to all. And apologies for the delay
Very late in the day but at last our Oct 2025 Longlist. Congratulations to all. And apologies for the delay
Oct 2025 Long List
Congratulations to all the authors who have made our Award long list and huge thanks to all who entered.Author names are yet to be announced, so while it is fine to share that you are on the long l…
www.bathflashfictionaward.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Delighted to see my story on this list, thank you!
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This is an interesting piece but I just read it going “the missing bit is the section on how the internet has fried everyone’s brains”.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Buxton: Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK
How national concerns affected a local election in the heart of the Peak District.
www.bbc.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
This is an interesting piece but I just read it going “the missing bit is the section on how the internet has fried everyone’s brains”.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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there you have it folks
she can't pay back what she swindeld but she can buy a £10 million home. in america 👇
MICHELLE Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman have bought a £10 million home on America’s
billionaire island” 👇
www.thenational.scot/news/2557373...
she can't pay back what she swindeld but she can buy a £10 million home. in america 👇
MICHELLE Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman have bought a £10 million home on America’s
billionaire island” 👇
www.thenational.scot/news/2557373...
Michelle Mone buys £10 million flat on Florida’s ‘billionaire island’
MICHELLE Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman have bought a £10 million home on America’s “billionaire island” ...
www.thenational.scot
October 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
there you have it folks
she can't pay back what she swindeld but she can buy a £10 million home. in america 👇
MICHELLE Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman have bought a £10 million home on America’s
billionaire island” 👇
www.thenational.scot/news/2557373...
she can't pay back what she swindeld but she can buy a £10 million home. in america 👇
MICHELLE Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman have bought a £10 million home on America’s
billionaire island” 👇
www.thenational.scot/news/2557373...
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
October 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
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The light is on for Anne Howkins! @anneh23.bsky.social💡
“The Oxbow Parenthesis” is a gorgeous story about a young schoolgirl whose home life is capsizing.
Check out Anne’s beautiful writing over at the site!
“The Oxbow Parenthesis” is a gorgeous story about a young schoolgirl whose home life is capsizing.
Check out Anne’s beautiful writing over at the site!
The Oxbow Parenthesis - Anne Howkins — Bulb Culture Collective
Chloe wants her water enclosed, straight.
www.bulbculturecollective.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The light is on for Anne Howkins! @anneh23.bsky.social💡
“The Oxbow Parenthesis” is a gorgeous story about a young schoolgirl whose home life is capsizing.
Check out Anne’s beautiful writing over at the site!
“The Oxbow Parenthesis” is a gorgeous story about a young schoolgirl whose home life is capsizing.
Check out Anne’s beautiful writing over at the site!
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Farage, Johnson, Trump, Bolsonaro… different countries, same trick. Lies become performance, scandal becomes marketing. Accountability? Optional. The Bear looks on sadly
What happened to shame in politics?
In the age of Farage, Trump and Johnson, deception became currency and scandal marketing strategy
eastangliabylines.co.uk
September 21, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Farage, Johnson, Trump, Bolsonaro… different countries, same trick. Lies become performance, scandal becomes marketing. Accountability? Optional. The Bear looks on sadly
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Pensions, productivity and the myth of the migrant “drain” – why Britain’s real crisis is ageing, not immigration.
Another cracker from the Bear.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
Another cracker from the Bear.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
Nan’s not bankrupting Britain (but politicians might be)
Pensions, productivity and the myth of the migrant “drain” – why Britain’s real crisis is ageing, not immigration
eastangliabylines.co.uk
September 7, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Pensions, productivity and the myth of the migrant “drain” – why Britain’s real crisis is ageing, not immigration.
Another cracker from the Bear.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
Another cracker from the Bear.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
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🔥 Where the US has serious problems, the UK is not far behind.
One in four UK MPs have taken pro-Israel lobby funding, raising urgent questions about foreign influence and trust in British democracy.
One in four UK MPs have taken pro-Israel lobby funding, raising urgent questions about foreign influence and trust in British democracy.
An unhealthy alliance
One in four UK MPs have taken pro-Israel lobby funding, raising urgent questions about foreign influence and trust in British democracy
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
August 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
🔥 Where the US has serious problems, the UK is not far behind.
One in four UK MPs have taken pro-Israel lobby funding, raising urgent questions about foreign influence and trust in British democracy.
One in four UK MPs have taken pro-Israel lobby funding, raising urgent questions about foreign influence and trust in British democracy.
My friend @nkrowe.bsky.social has written a rollicking novel - The Ophagy - and has been a kind, inspiring and encouraging support to @fossewaywriters.bsky.social for many years.
**WIN** a free spot on 1 of my courses
To win, quote this post + tag a friend + say why they're fab
Post for a new friend every day + get your name in the hat multiple times
Friend wins a micro edit, you win a course place or vice-versa, you decide
Names drawn next Monday
DETAILS IN THREAD:
To win, quote this post + tag a friend + say why they're fab
Post for a new friend every day + get your name in the hat multiple times
Friend wins a micro edit, you win a course place or vice-versa, you decide
Names drawn next Monday
DETAILS IN THREAD:
August 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
My friend @nkrowe.bsky.social has written a rollicking novel - The Ophagy - and has been a kind, inspiring and encouraging support to @fossewaywriters.bsky.social for many years.
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You've GOT to be kidding me!
The Conservatives - who oversaw every single thing on this list - are trying to claim that only the Conservatives would "stop the madness" - that they created...?
So incredulity aside, what about the list itself?
Let's go Debunking! 1/34
The Conservatives - who oversaw every single thing on this list - are trying to claim that only the Conservatives would "stop the madness" - that they created...?
So incredulity aside, what about the list itself?
Let's go Debunking! 1/34
August 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
You've GOT to be kidding me!
The Conservatives - who oversaw every single thing on this list - are trying to claim that only the Conservatives would "stop the madness" - that they created...?
So incredulity aside, what about the list itself?
Let's go Debunking! 1/34
The Conservatives - who oversaw every single thing on this list - are trying to claim that only the Conservatives would "stop the madness" - that they created...?
So incredulity aside, what about the list itself?
Let's go Debunking! 1/34
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ICYMI:
Scientists received €735m in grants in 2024 after UK rejoined programme as associate member post-Brexit.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Scientists received €735m in grants in 2024 after UK rejoined programme as associate member post-Brexit.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
UK recovers position in EU’s Horizon Europe science research programme
Scientists received €735m in grants in 2024 after UK rejoined programme as associate member post-Brexit
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
ICYMI:
Scientists received €735m in grants in 2024 after UK rejoined programme as associate member post-Brexit.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Scientists received €735m in grants in 2024 after UK rejoined programme as associate member post-Brexit.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...