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Barbara J Bone
@barbarabone.bsky.social
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A wife, Mother, Photographer of sorts and a Quaker who looks for wisdom.
Tyneside / Northumberland
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yangyyoung.com
Why this name sucks:

Debate:
Tory member: *Speaking some bs*
YP member: This is untrue. Your party will bankrupt the economy.
Tory member: Yeah I know you will.
YP member: No. YOUR PARTY will end austerity, help the economy recover.
Tory member: Yeah, I know we will.

It's gonna be insufferable.
scotnational.bsky.social The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING: Your Party members have chosen to officially keep the name Your Party
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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eithin.bsky.social
Inexplicably, the party formerly known as Your Party is still known as Your Party, instead of the more accurate and appropriate We Have The Green Party At Home.
November 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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woodbrooke.bsky.social
Being a Quaker elder can be inspiring but also challenging. This is a monthly space for those with eldership responsibilities to come together to consider and learn how to serve as an effective elder in your Quaker community.
https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/essentials-of-quaker-eldership-3/
Close-up of a red book titled 'Quaker faith & practice' with text Essentials of Quaker Eldership Monday 12 January 19:30-21:00 (UK time) Pay as Led
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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paulhebden.bsky.social
As I was saying yesterday, Kemi Badenoch's odd comments about Christianity is of a piece with the global far right's attempt to demolish democracy and embed authoritarianism and inequality. This is the right's project now.
November 29, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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shobitap.org
We should start calling these babies the Kennedy generation.
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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petersontoscano.bsky.social
Have you sat in silent worship and had your mind spin out of control? I can totally relate. Centering is not always peaceful; sticking with it has enriched me. Listen to Quakers Today podcast as we demystify the internal experience of "waiting worship."
www.quakerstoday.org
@friendsjournal.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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theguardian.com
Harvey Barnes double helps Newcastle derail Manchester City revival
Harvey Barnes double helps Newcastle derail Manchester City revival
Newcastle’s recent slide left them 15th in the Premier League at kick-off but, by the end of an always absorbing, sometimes almost anarchic, eveningthey had ascended to Cloud Nine. It is very hard to argue that Eddie Howe is not an elite coach but, until this watershed win, his record against Pep Guardiola was pretty dismal. In 18 Premier League matches against Manchester City, with Bournemouth and Newcastle, Howe had lost 16 and drawn two. Continue reading...
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November 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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kinglucythe1st.bsky.social
BBC2: When I was 17, Mum paid quite a lot of money for me to get my hair cut like Kim Wilde (she had a fashionable hairdresser that weirdly she took me to). I feel terrible now that I know that Kim cut her own hair because she didn't want to take money from her parents.
November 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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frod1959.bsky.social
Strange that 20 people said he did, when Farage denied it...

Twenty people allege he has a racist past. He denies it. Who’s telling the truth about Farage’s schooldays? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Twenty people allege he has a racist past. He denies it. Who’s telling the truth about Farage’s schooldays?
Reform UK’s leader refuses to answer questions about his abusive behaviour, claiming there’s ‘no evidence’. We talk to victims and witnesses
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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peterwalker99.bsky.social
Blimey. Some pretty big questions for Nigel Farage to answer about this.

www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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mthrjo.bsky.social
Some good news!
adapalmer.bsky.social Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 15d
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
buff.ly
November 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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scottkiss.bsky.social
A Great Eggfly showing off those blue iridescent wings at the Butterfly Pavilion. I loved how the worn edges added character.

If moments like this resonate, I’d love to share more with you.

#Photography #Butterflies #Macro #ScottKissPhoto
A male Great Eggfly butterfly with iridescent blue patches on dark brown wings rests on a textured green leaf, its wings slightly worn at the edges.
November 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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kinglucythe1st.bsky.social
Pissing down here. Lucy is searching for summer - he keeps going from the back door to the front door only to find it is raining everywhere.
kinglucythe1st.bsky.social Sam and King Lucy the 1st @kinglucythe1st.bsky.social · 17d
Strictly tomorrow: Do not do the 'mention of Blackpool' drinking game as you will be unconscious within half an hour.
kinglucythe1st.bsky.social Sam and King Lucy the 1st @kinglucythe1st.bsky.social · 17d
I love the Waitrose advert with Keira Knightly and Joe Wilkinson (who I have always found attractive). I am sure I will be sick to death of it 6 weeks from now but, at the moment, I think it is charming.
November 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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davidallanphoto.bsky.social
St Peter's Church, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland in North East England, pictured on a wet November evening. The building's west wall and lower part of the tower date back to AD674, when this location was part of an early Benedictine monastic site.
#england #sunderland #historic #monochrome #photography
The historic church dedicated to St Peter, pictured on wet November evening. The building, parts of which date back to AD674, is located in Monkwearmouth, Sunderland in North East England.
November 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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dharazny.bsky.social
Robin taking a bath in the waterfall, until it was disturbed by a Sparrow. #water #bathing #drinking #birds #gardenbirds #mygarden #nature #mywildlifegarden #ukbirds #birdsonbluesky #CheshireUK
November 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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steviebennett.bsky.social
The bare faced cheek.
November 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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reuters.com
Ethiopia confirms outbreak infecting nine was caused by Marburg virus, WHO says reut.rs/4i4OlN4
Ethiopia confirms outbreak infecting nine was caused by Marburg virus, WHO says
Ethiopia has confirmed that an outbreak infecting at least nine people in the south was caused by the deadly Marburg virus, the World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday in a post on X.
reut.rs
November 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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drjoepajak.bsky.social
'The Royal College of Nursing, @rcn.org.uk, and British Medical Association, @bma.org.uk, have criticised the UK government for failing to recognise #LongCovid and severe COVID-19 complications as occupational diseases for health and social care workers.' 👏💯
www.nursinginpractice.com/clinical/res...
November 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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factpoint.bsky.social
For most people, showering every two to three days is enough to stay clean and keep skin healthy, unless they sweat heavily, work in dirty environments, or have specific medical conditions.
November 13, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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transportenvironment.org
Leading medical publication the British Medical Journal recognises SUVs as a danger to public health in a new editorial co-authored by T&E’s James Nix: bit.ly/4hVDlBC

Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers.

It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.
November 12, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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woodbrooke.bsky.social
S Jocelyn Burnell, 1989
Quaker Faith & Practice 22.50
Some situations which cause pain or suffering are avoidable, so part of our learning must be to analyse the situation and see if this is such a case. If it is, we must try to prevent it happening again. But perhaps the most painful situations are those that are apparently beyond our control. Another part of our learning is to recognise that there is unfairness, uncertainty, fear, loneliness and hurt in this world; learning to accept that this is the nature of the world can, of itself, be painful. Initially we may be able to do little, bound up in an acute, self-centred pain. As we try to cope with the anger, the pain and grief that come through some unhappy experience, we can learn a lot about the less-well-articulated, darker sides of our personality. These darker aspects should not be ignored. Although we tend to equate evil with darkness, we should remember that in the plant world roots grow in the dark. Darkness (and shadows) are as much a part of the natural order as light. S Jocelyn Burnell, 1989 Quaker Faith & Practice 22.50
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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suffolkvicar.bsky.social
#ToPray✝️

If there is no friendship with them (the poor) and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals

(Gustavo Gutiérrez)
A picture of a smiling Gustavo Gutiérrez If there is no friendship with them (the poor) and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals (Gustavo Gutiérrez)
November 6, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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dlted.bsky.social
In an extract from the new edition of Bleeding for Jesus @andrewgraystone.bsky.social recalls the eventual publication of the Makin Review – and its immediate aftermath – on 7 November 2024.
dlted.substack.com/i/178183751/...
November 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
barbarabone.bsky.social
Wonderful colours and shapes.
November 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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quaker.org.uk
We’ve joined almost 300 organisations in an urgent plea to politicians and the UK government to stop scapegoating the country’s human rights framework.
Quakers join call for “full-throated defence” of UK human rights protections
Almost 300 organisations, including Quakers in Britain, have issued an urgent plea to politicians and the UK government to stop scapegoating the UK’s human rights framework.
www.quaker.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM