Deborah Parr
@deborahparr.bsky.social
Retired NHS. Recent non-cat lady 😢😢 married 41 years. Refreshing knitting and sewing skills. Addicted to reading. Still hate Brexit, not fond of Trump either.🇨🇦🇬🇱🇺🇦🇵🇦
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Ive been here for over a year now and either bluesky has locked me in the broom cupboard or Im not using this platform correctly.
How does one find the people they knew on twitter, Im still missing about 25,000 people (approx) 🤣🤪
How does one find the people they knew on twitter, Im still missing about 25,000 people (approx) 🤣🤪
December 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Ive been here for over a year now and either bluesky has locked me in the broom cupboard or Im not using this platform correctly.
How does one find the people they knew on twitter, Im still missing about 25,000 people (approx) 🤣🤪
How does one find the people they knew on twitter, Im still missing about 25,000 people (approx) 🤣🤪
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Isn't it fantastic to be a sovereign nation once again, able to make our own rules and not bend to the demands of foreign politicians?
December 30, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Isn't it fantastic to be a sovereign nation once again, able to make our own rules and not bend to the demands of foreign politicians?
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Got tickets for NYE fireworks? Don’t forget:
🎆Rucksacks and suitcases aren’t allowed
🎆Bring ID
🎆Charge your phone
🎆Dress for bad weather - there’s no cover in the ticketed viewing areas
🎆Check which station you need to arrive at for your viewing area
🎆Rucksacks and suitcases aren’t allowed
🎆Bring ID
🎆Charge your phone
🎆Dress for bad weather - there’s no cover in the ticketed viewing areas
🎆Check which station you need to arrive at for your viewing area
December 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Got tickets for NYE fireworks? Don’t forget:
🎆Rucksacks and suitcases aren’t allowed
🎆Bring ID
🎆Charge your phone
🎆Dress for bad weather - there’s no cover in the ticketed viewing areas
🎆Check which station you need to arrive at for your viewing area
🎆Rucksacks and suitcases aren’t allowed
🎆Bring ID
🎆Charge your phone
🎆Dress for bad weather - there’s no cover in the ticketed viewing areas
🎆Check which station you need to arrive at for your viewing area
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This time the WMDs are drugs. Maybe someone from the administration can flash their 8 ball at the U.N. like Colin Powell? Then the NY Times can run a bunch of false WMD stories again, we can have another disastrous war on credit, and a whole new generation of soldiers with PTSD from another oil war.
December 30, 2025 at 4:55 AM
This time the WMDs are drugs. Maybe someone from the administration can flash their 8 ball at the U.N. like Colin Powell? Then the NY Times can run a bunch of false WMD stories again, we can have another disastrous war on credit, and a whole new generation of soldiers with PTSD from another oil war.
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Tonight in the December Comfort Watches: Apollo 13, perhaps the best film ever for competent people doing competent things competently, both on screen and off of it:
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The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day Twenty-Nine: Apollo 13
Apollo 13 is a film that sits atop a small but diverse and, for some people, extremely enjoyable sub-genre of film: Competence Porn. This has nothing to do with actual pornography (well, I guess it…
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December 30, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Tonight in the December Comfort Watches: Apollo 13, perhaps the best film ever for competent people doing competent things competently, both on screen and off of it:
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Interested in how you square the circle of “British people who post ‘burn down a migrant hotel’ during race riots shouldn’t be arrested” with “someone who posted pretty objectionable and racist things 8 years before they became a British citizen should be deported” and am sure someone will ask Nigel
December 29, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Interested in how you square the circle of “British people who post ‘burn down a migrant hotel’ during race riots shouldn’t be arrested” with “someone who posted pretty objectionable and racist things 8 years before they became a British citizen should be deported” and am sure someone will ask Nigel
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Sam is absolutely right: if you have the chance to enjoy a small pleasure, don’t deny yourself
Did you get something really *nice* for Christmas? Are you saving it?
STOP
Eat it. Slather yourself in it. Spray it on a random wfh Tuesday. Use it next time you have a meal. Make up an occasion and use it.
Whatever it is don't hoard it until it's near its use by date or too precious.
STOP
Eat it. Slather yourself in it. Spray it on a random wfh Tuesday. Use it next time you have a meal. Make up an occasion and use it.
Whatever it is don't hoard it until it's near its use by date or too precious.
December 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Sam is absolutely right: if you have the chance to enjoy a small pleasure, don’t deny yourself
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If pensions are abolished then young people will not want to bring children into this world - it’s happening already.
It’s very difficult to work past mid 60’s.
#TaxTheRich
FGS!!!
If pensions are abolished then young people will not want to bring children into this world - it’s happening already.
It’s very difficult to work past mid 60’s.
#TaxTheRich
FGS!!!
Most Europeans think state pensions will become unaffordable, polling shows
YouGov survey finds many say payments are too low and oppose reforms such as raising retirement age or cuts
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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If pensions are abolished then young people will not want to bring children into this world - it’s happening already.
It’s very difficult to work past mid 60’s.
#TaxTheRich
FGS!!!
If pensions are abolished then young people will not want to bring children into this world - it’s happening already.
It’s very difficult to work past mid 60’s.
#TaxTheRich
FGS!!!
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December 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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First they decided to strip nursing of its “professional” designation.
Now they’re removing a requirement that ensured nursing homes receiving Medicare or Medicaid funding had an RN available 24/7.
This regime doesn’t care about the elderly & disabled.
This policy change will kill people.
Now they’re removing a requirement that ensured nursing homes receiving Medicare or Medicaid funding had an RN available 24/7.
This regime doesn’t care about the elderly & disabled.
This policy change will kill people.
Nursing homes are about to get a lot worse, thanks to Trump and RFK Jr.
We can debate tax policy. We can debate spending priorities. But protecting the elderly should not be a debate at all.
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December 29, 2025 at 11:15 AM
First they decided to strip nursing of its “professional” designation.
Now they’re removing a requirement that ensured nursing homes receiving Medicare or Medicaid funding had an RN available 24/7.
This regime doesn’t care about the elderly & disabled.
This policy change will kill people.
Now they’re removing a requirement that ensured nursing homes receiving Medicare or Medicaid funding had an RN available 24/7.
This regime doesn’t care about the elderly & disabled.
This policy change will kill people.
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Yes it is!!!! And trump BROKE Americas word to stand by and support Ukraine. All because President Zelensky would not find dirt on Biden! Putin knew that pissed trump off. And used that to convince trump not to help Ukraine. So blatantly obvious.
December 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Yes it is!!!! And trump BROKE Americas word to stand by and support Ukraine. All because President Zelensky would not find dirt on Biden! Putin knew that pissed trump off. And used that to convince trump not to help Ukraine. So blatantly obvious.
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The legislation ushers in a range of changes, including enhancements to paternity leave and sick pay
Major UK employment law changes in 2026 with new worker rights and protections
The legislation ushers in a range of changes, including enhancements to paternity leave and sick pay
www.dailypost.co.uk
December 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The legislation ushers in a range of changes, including enhancements to paternity leave and sick pay
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Now, for our consciences, the arms are fair,
When the intent of bearing them is just.
Henry IV-I [V, 2] #ShakespeareSunday #DogsOfBluesky💙
When the intent of bearing them is just.
Henry IV-I [V, 2] #ShakespeareSunday #DogsOfBluesky💙
December 28, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Now, for our consciences, the arms are fair,
When the intent of bearing them is just.
Henry IV-I [V, 2] #ShakespeareSunday #DogsOfBluesky💙
When the intent of bearing them is just.
Henry IV-I [V, 2] #ShakespeareSunday #DogsOfBluesky💙
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We need to get our arms out of the US machine. Regulate US companies out of our countries. It’s as big a security threat as Russia.
NEW: last night, the US govt launched an assault on the ‘global censorship industrial complex’, aka European tech researchers/campaigners.
It’s a deeply chilling move & speaks as to why we need international solidarity more than ever.
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It’s a deeply chilling move & speaks as to why we need international solidarity more than ever.
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A message to America: we are not your enemy
Last night, the US launched an all-out assault on the "global censorship industrial complex", I respond with some deep breaths, solidarity and a vibey video (it's all I have)
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December 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
We need to get our arms out of the US machine. Regulate US companies out of our countries. It’s as big a security threat as Russia.
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Need cheering up after a terrible year? I may have just the story you’re looking for | Martin Kettle
Need cheering up after a terrible year? I may have just the story you’re looking for | Martin Kettle
A single act of kindness reminded me that, despite so much evidence to the contrary, the better angels of our nature are not necessarily doomed, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Need cheering up after a terrible year? I may have just the story you’re looking for | Martin Kettle
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His silence, echoed by his new Reformatory, speaks eloquently of guilt: ‘“Farage’s unwillingness to offer a straightforward apology to those men affected by his past behaviours is also both puzzling and concerning.”
Reform did not respond to a request for comment’ www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Reform did not respond to a request for comment’ www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘Of course he abused pupils’: ex-Dulwich teacher speaks out about Farage racism claims
Exclusive: Chloë Deakin tells how she wrote to Dulwich college master to argue against Farage’s nomination as prefect
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 9:14 AM
His silence, echoed by his new Reformatory, speaks eloquently of guilt: ‘“Farage’s unwillingness to offer a straightforward apology to those men affected by his past behaviours is also both puzzling and concerning.”
Reform did not respond to a request for comment’ www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Reform did not respond to a request for comment’ www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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Anger aimed only at voters is convenient.
It avoids naming the people who made careers, money, and power from Brexit — and then walked away from the damage.
It avoids naming the people who made careers, money, and power from Brexit — and then walked away from the damage.
December 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Anger aimed only at voters is convenient.
It avoids naming the people who made careers, money, and power from Brexit — and then walked away from the damage.
It avoids naming the people who made careers, money, and power from Brexit — and then walked away from the damage.
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December 23, 2025 at 7:52 AM
We need journalism which isn't owned by billionaires.
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Iain Banks (With Alt Text)
December 28, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Iain Banks (With Alt Text)
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Christie's is auctioning off some things from Jimmy Carter's estate. Included are some things from his wardrobe (ties, peanut scarves, cowboy hat) and furniture he personally made. Auction starts in two weeks.
December 28, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Christie's is auctioning off some things from Jimmy Carter's estate. Included are some things from his wardrobe (ties, peanut scarves, cowboy hat) and furniture he personally made. Auction starts in two weeks.
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“Reform UK…A party that promised to be ‘different’ seems instead to be collecting ex-Tories like Panini stickers, except instead of legends you’re mostly getting the ones that never made the starting team”
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Reform’s poll numbers are slipping because Yorkshire folk are not daft - Yorkshire Post Letters
From: David Ingham, Ripon.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
December 28, 2025 at 9:04 AM
“Reform UK…A party that promised to be ‘different’ seems instead to be collecting ex-Tories like Panini stickers, except instead of legends you’re mostly getting the ones that never made the starting team”
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion...
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion...
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Here's an account calling itself "God Save Great Britain". It is a Putin tool parroting Russian hate propaganda against Ukraine.
There are thousands of such accounts, posing as patriots, while whipping up fear, hatred and division as part of Russia's hybrid war against Western democracy.
There are thousands of such accounts, posing as patriots, while whipping up fear, hatred and division as part of Russia's hybrid war against Western democracy.
December 27, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Here's an account calling itself "God Save Great Britain". It is a Putin tool parroting Russian hate propaganda against Ukraine.
There are thousands of such accounts, posing as patriots, while whipping up fear, hatred and division as part of Russia's hybrid war against Western democracy.
There are thousands of such accounts, posing as patriots, while whipping up fear, hatred and division as part of Russia's hybrid war against Western democracy.
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They’re again advocating against Denmark when it comes to Greenland
December 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
They’re again advocating against Denmark when it comes to Greenland
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This is utterly pathetic by Dyson.
Miniature musical instrument makers admit defeat as violin size requirement for story is declared "too small to build."
December 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This is utterly pathetic by Dyson.