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gabrielmilland.bsky.social
Lost amid the discussion of why the Government should get off X is its utter uselessness as an engagement tool and the fact departments are wasting vast sums making content for it. Take this:
January 2, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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snig.bsky.social
The problem in the UK is that it is worse to be called a racist than it is to be a racist or say racist things. It should not be against parliamentary rules to tell the truth. Sarah Pochin was explicitly racist. It shouldn't be parliamentary misconduct to say so.
robinince.bsky.social Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · Oct 27
Dawn Butler was ordered to leave the commons when she called a lying Prime Minister a liar - now the deputy speaker tells her that you can’t call a racist a racist - grotesque protection of the worst people while the decent are hung up to dry
implausibleblog implausibleblog • Original audio • • • Surreal! - Dawn Butler MP is repeatedly told off for referring to Sarah Pochin MP as racist by the Deputy Speaker despite citing her racist language
October 28, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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theobserveruk.bsky.social
The Observer issue no. 12,198: The actual state of Palestine

Read more in tomorrow’s Observer, available in print nationwide or online. Click the link in our bio to get the paper delivered straight to your door every week.

#TomorrowsPapersToday
September 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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drrachelclarke.com
Measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, polio, tetanus.

Diseases that used to terrorise families, killing children & babies in their thousands.

Now we have vaccines - safe & miraculous life savers.

Please, parents, use them.

Protect your precious children 🩷

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Vaccine warning for England as one in five children start school unprotected
Experts say country needs ‘wake up call’ with levels far below those needed for herd immunity
www.theguardian.com
August 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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agirlcalledlina.bsky.social
Well done, Britain
pranman.com Pranay⚡️ @pranman.com · Aug 6
Skilled immigrants who have worked for TFL for years will be forced to leave the UK because many incomes don't meet the new thresholds and in some cases, their jobs have been removed from the shortage list (presumably because they filled the shortage?)
More than 60 Tube staff set to be deported after Government changed immigration rules
EXCLUSIVE: Foreign workers who came to London to work for TfL could lose jobs and be forced to leave country, RMT union warns
www.standard.co.uk
August 6, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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ellabaron.bsky.social
Wednesday's Guardian cartoon on #PalestineAction
#Gaza
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August 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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considermycat.bsky.social
A very happy 30th birthday to bisexuality, born this day in 1995 🎂
Newsweek’s infamous 17 July 1995 cover: “Bisexuality: Not Gay. Not Straight. A New Sexual Identity Emerges.”
July 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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erlevar1031.bsky.social
A customer told me she couldn't believe this store would put up a Pride display, because what if children see it??

Anyway, it was my display, and I'm proud of it, and you (and your children) should all see it. #BookSky 📚💙
First shelf: The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School (Reyes), Learning to Fall (Morris), I Love You S'more (Desombre), She Gets the Girl (Lippincott & Derrick) Second Shelf: All That's Left in the World (Brown), Caught in a Bad Fauxmance (Rose), Heartstopper Vol. 1 (Oseman), The Darkness Between Us (Schaeffer) Third Shelf: Going Bicoastal (Adler), Where the Dark Stands Still (Poranek), Never Ever Getting Back Together (Gonzales), Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute (Hibbert), Flowerheart (Bakewell) Fourth Shelf: Hell Followed With Us (White), I Wish You All the Best (Deaver), The Sunbearer Trials (Thomas), Dead End Girls (Heard), The Sacrifice (Chupeco) Fifth Shelf: Loveless (Oseman), Icarus (Ancrum), Summer Bird Blue (Bowman), Radio Silence (Oseman), The Weight of Stars (Dow), Sawkill Girls (Legrand) Bottom Shelf: I Kissed Shara Wheeler (McQuiston), Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Albertelli), Nimona (Stevenson), Forget Me Not (Derrick)
June 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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jrf-uk.bsky.social
Yesterday the government published their welfare reform bill. These cuts could pull up to 400,000 more people into poverty ✂️

New JRF figures show that nearly 8 in 10 low-income working-age families in receipt of disability benefits went without essentials in May 2025. 1/2
June 19, 2025 at 9:29 AM
carolynposts.bsky.social
Happy birthday Katie! And well done for the race and all your fundraising! Love Carolyn xx fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/katies-...
Donation of £20 for The Pearson's 2025 Race for Life from Carolyn C
Happy birthday Katie! And well done for the race and all your fundraising! Love Carolyn xx
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org
June 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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biggreenbooks.bsky.social
I had a clear out today.

Here are two lots of books. I'm giving them away for free, cos I want to.

The first pic to a primary school.
The second pic to a secondary school.

If you'd like them for your school get in touch. I'll choose the schools tomorrow

UK only

PLEASE SHARE
32 primary aged new books. 36 secondary school aged books. All new.
April 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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morselya.bsky.social
As Emily says, "Once again..."
Three panel comic: 1. Two people in frame. One says, "Let's not talk about politics anyore, I can't bear it". The other replies, "same" 2. Two people, no speech. 3. Same two people, gesticulating, as one says, "THE THING IS THOUGH" and the other continues, "Those FUCKING IDIOTS". Comic by Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social‬
November 11, 2024 at 1:41 PM
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adrianaguatame.bsky.social
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Ensuring children have access to nutritious meals at school can transform their futures.

I'm proud to support the @financialtimes.com campaign with Magic Breakfast, aiming to raise £100,000 this January to empower young minds and boost their learning potential.
Breakfast and financial education: help us deliver this foundation
The FT’s homegrown charity FLIC and Magic Breakfast are making a real difference for young people
www.ft.com
January 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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jrf-uk.bsky.social
This is Dawn, a dedicated volunteer at the Albrighton Community Fridge that provides food to families and supports over 200 households a week

Her portrait, made by Sukhy Hullait, has won the Portrait of Britain award 🎉

This award recognition honours the image and the powerful stories behind it 1/2
Dawn, a foodbank volunteer, stands in front of crates stacked up behind her. She is working on supply deliveries, carrying them into the centre to be sorted. She is wearing a red top, black trousers and black trainers. Behind her are the words 'Portrait of Britain'. Featured in the British Journal of Photography.
January 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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paulisci.bsky.social
Women are so powerful
Women Blamed for Men's Lack of Jobs (Oakland Tribune, 1932) Women Blamed for Men's Lack of Style, Clothes Love (The Palm Beach Post, 1958) Women Blamed For Men's Ulcers (The Vincennes Sun-Commercial, 1953) Women Blamed for Men's Fall (The Sioux City Journal, 1927) Women Blamed for Men's Lack of Good Manners (Clinton Daily Journal and Public, 1958) Women Blamed for Men's Moustaches and Beards (Marshfield News-Herald, 1972) Women Get Blamed For Men's Driving (Anaheim Bulletin, 1960) Women Are Blamed For Men's Inaction (The Sentinel, 1958) Women Blamed For Men Acting As Superiors (Wisconsin State Journal, 1923) Women Blamed For All Men's Woes (The Daily Item, 1967)
September 24, 2024 at 1:06 AM