Dr Harriet Salisbury
@endlessyesterday.bsky.social
Tales from the streets, 1970s children’s lit, rag-rugging, canal cruising, crushing the patriarchy and other diversions
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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Whoever put this sign on London tabloid rag sheets gets a 🖖 from me.
F**k the billionaires.
F**k the billionaires.
December 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Whoever put this sign on London tabloid rag sheets gets a 🖖 from me.
F**k the billionaires.
F**k the billionaires.
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God bless #NanGoldin for her documentary #AllTheBeautyAndTheBloodshed & for leading the charge to have that damned Sackler name removed from Every Museum & other bldg's across the World thru her determination & art.
It's a must watch to feel even a tiny bit of justice. Streaming on many platforms.
It's a must watch to feel even a tiny bit of justice. Streaming on many platforms.
December 7, 2025 at 3:28 AM
God bless #NanGoldin for her documentary #AllTheBeautyAndTheBloodshed & for leading the charge to have that damned Sackler name removed from Every Museum & other bldg's across the World thru her determination & art.
It's a must watch to feel even a tiny bit of justice. Streaming on many platforms.
It's a must watch to feel even a tiny bit of justice. Streaming on many platforms.
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As is traditional at this time.
December 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
As is traditional at this time.
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Fortunately David Lammy you have the chance to vote for a customs union by backing our bill next week.
See you in the Aye lobby?
See you in the Aye lobby?
December 5, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Fortunately David Lammy you have the chance to vote for a customs union by backing our bill next week.
See you in the Aye lobby?
See you in the Aye lobby?
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Anti-fascist posters appear in London
December 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Anti-fascist posters appear in London
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this feels like another iteration of the "what if I give a homeless man money and he buys booze" thing. So then he bought booze, so what, you are not his personal life coach. You did your bit now go live your life.
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
this feels like another iteration of the "what if I give a homeless man money and he buys booze" thing. So then he bought booze, so what, you are not his personal life coach. You did your bit now go live your life.
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Thames Water half-year profits leap to £386m after bills rose by nearly a third.
Leaks and sewage dumping will continue for years.
£20bn+debt. A third of the bill covers interest payments.
Captive customers have no choice.
End the scam. Nationalise water.
Leaks and sewage dumping will continue for years.
£20bn+debt. A third of the bill covers interest payments.
Captive customers have no choice.
End the scam. Nationalise water.
Thames Water half-year profit leaps to nearly £400m after it raises bills by third
Revenues jumped 40% to nearly £2bn after debt-ridden utility hiked water bills sharply in April
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Thames Water half-year profits leap to £386m after bills rose by nearly a third.
Leaks and sewage dumping will continue for years.
£20bn+debt. A third of the bill covers interest payments.
Captive customers have no choice.
End the scam. Nationalise water.
Leaks and sewage dumping will continue for years.
£20bn+debt. A third of the bill covers interest payments.
Captive customers have no choice.
End the scam. Nationalise water.
Today's Today programme sending blood pressure sky high as Streeting throws shade at doctors and BMA; so hooray for @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social for remind us we can still have compassion, decency and art
December 3, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Today's Today programme sending blood pressure sky high as Streeting throws shade at doctors and BMA; so hooray for @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social for remind us we can still have compassion, decency and art
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This is the main thing the resident doctor strike action is about, not the pay - though that helps retain doctors.
If resident doctors cannot get posts, which is the case currently, they cannot progress and may leave our NHS.
Down the line we will have a shortage senior doctors such as consultants
If resident doctors cannot get posts, which is the case currently, they cannot progress and may leave our NHS.
Down the line we will have a shortage senior doctors such as consultants
This year, 30,000 doctors applied for only 10,000 training posts. These are highly trained professionals who want long term NHS careers, yet thousands are being denied the ability to progress in their careers. Many are left moving between short-term roles or leaving.
www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/se...
www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/se...
December 2, 2025 at 11:58 AM
This is the main thing the resident doctor strike action is about, not the pay - though that helps retain doctors.
If resident doctors cannot get posts, which is the case currently, they cannot progress and may leave our NHS.
Down the line we will have a shortage senior doctors such as consultants
If resident doctors cannot get posts, which is the case currently, they cannot progress and may leave our NHS.
Down the line we will have a shortage senior doctors such as consultants
If only famous artworks could go on strike, as the Tate certainly values them over their employees. They've put up with two restructurings in five years, redundancies and below-inflation pay rises, all while working in a city of sky-high rents during a cost of living crisis. Pay up Tate bosses!
December 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
If only famous artworks could go on strike, as the Tate certainly values them over their employees. They've put up with two restructurings in five years, redundancies and below-inflation pay rises, all while working in a city of sky-high rents during a cost of living crisis. Pay up Tate bosses!
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They have no idea what they are dealing with. We have been hating things on the internet for most of our lives. We have honed hating things on the internet to a fine, monomolecular edge. They have absolutely no clue how much we can not get used to this shit.
Good Yes GIF
ALT: Good Yes GIF
media.tenor.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
They have no idea what they are dealing with. We have been hating things on the internet for most of our lives. We have honed hating things on the internet to a fine, monomolecular edge. They have absolutely no clue how much we can not get used to this shit.
Just subscribed to Love, The Airport because (alongside Daniel Kitson), John Finnemore is the funniest person I've come across and having a smile or a laugh is cheaper and healthier than getting drunk (not totally ruling that out though) johnfinnemore.substack.com?r=gwzl&utm_c...
Love, The Airport | John Finnemore | Substack
Things I didn't know; things that made me laugh; things I'm doing you can come to, buy, watch or listen to; things I've come across; things I've written. And too many animals. Click to read Love, The ...
johnfinnemore.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Just subscribed to Love, The Airport because (alongside Daniel Kitson), John Finnemore is the funniest person I've come across and having a smile or a laugh is cheaper and healthier than getting drunk (not totally ruling that out though) johnfinnemore.substack.com?r=gwzl&utm_c...
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ICE raids are cruel, inhumane, and do nothing to serve public safety.
My responsibility is to be the mayor to each and every person that calls this city their home. That includes millions of immigrants— of which I am one.
My responsibility is to be the mayor to each and every person that calls this city their home. That includes millions of immigrants— of which I am one.
December 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
ICE raids are cruel, inhumane, and do nothing to serve public safety.
My responsibility is to be the mayor to each and every person that calls this city their home. That includes millions of immigrants— of which I am one.
My responsibility is to be the mayor to each and every person that calls this city their home. That includes millions of immigrants— of which I am one.
RIP Tom Stoppard, adored since a mid 1970s school production of After Magritte when me and another girl (I'm holding the tuba) were recruited by a local boys school. The passion for my onstage husband didn't last, but Stoppard has never disappointed, right up to The Invention of Love this year.
December 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
RIP Tom Stoppard, adored since a mid 1970s school production of After Magritte when me and another girl (I'm holding the tuba) were recruited by a local boys school. The passion for my onstage husband didn't last, but Stoppard has never disappointed, right up to The Invention of Love this year.
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🚨BOOM! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 70,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000 this week. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 27, 2025 at 11:25 AM
🚨BOOM! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 70,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000 this week. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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When Paris was full of cinemas, the Surrealists used to go and see five minutes of one picture, move to another cinema, watch a bit of their fil, and so on, making one weird movie in their groovy minds.
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
When Paris was full of cinemas, the Surrealists used to go and see five minutes of one picture, move to another cinema, watch a bit of their fil, and so on, making one weird movie in their groovy minds.
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🚨 Rachel Reeves JUST unveiled “the most complex government budget in history.” But without a proper wealth tax we’ll never fix the NHS or fund schools properly. So we HACKED a billboard in her constituency with the real solution: TAX THE F*CKING RICH
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
🚨 Rachel Reeves JUST unveiled “the most complex government budget in history.” But without a proper wealth tax we’ll never fix the NHS or fund schools properly. So we HACKED a billboard in her constituency with the real solution: TAX THE F*CKING RICH
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Communism and socialism aren’t the same thing at all.
Communism is when the govt owns the banks
Socialism is when the govt bails them out
Communism is when the govt owns the banks
Socialism is when the govt bails them out
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Communism and socialism aren’t the same thing at all.
Communism is when the govt owns the banks
Socialism is when the govt bails them out
Communism is when the govt owns the banks
Socialism is when the govt bails them out
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HegSith.
There was no “Battle at Wounded Knee.”
300 unarmed Lakota, men, women, children and elders were massacred.
By cowards.
Your word IS NOT final.
Those medals were unearned.
By evil men.
That’s the truth.
And that is definitely FINAL!!
There was no “Battle at Wounded Knee.”
300 unarmed Lakota, men, women, children and elders were massacred.
By cowards.
Your word IS NOT final.
Those medals were unearned.
By evil men.
That’s the truth.
And that is definitely FINAL!!
November 24, 2025 at 7:43 AM
HegSith.
There was no “Battle at Wounded Knee.”
300 unarmed Lakota, men, women, children and elders were massacred.
By cowards.
Your word IS NOT final.
Those medals were unearned.
By evil men.
That’s the truth.
And that is definitely FINAL!!
There was no “Battle at Wounded Knee.”
300 unarmed Lakota, men, women, children and elders were massacred.
By cowards.
Your word IS NOT final.
Those medals were unearned.
By evil men.
That’s the truth.
And that is definitely FINAL!!
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Are those "MANY GREAT LEGAL SCHOLARS" in the room with you right now, Piggy?
November 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Are those "MANY GREAT LEGAL SCHOLARS" in the room with you right now, Piggy?
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I want A.I. to do my admin and laundry while I write and illustrate books. I don't want A.I. to write and illustrate books while I do my admin and laundry.
November 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I want A.I. to do my admin and laundry while I write and illustrate books. I don't want A.I. to write and illustrate books while I do my admin and laundry.