Fay Heatley
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A life in the London suburbs. Very disappointed to announce that there really are no more heroes anymore. And finding out I'm an old fool feminist after all. It is time to go and do that reading.
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If it sounds like a squeaky dog toy, then it's a good bet it's Flickers!
Female Northern flicker, left, with her daughter from this year.
#birds
Female Northern flicker, left, with her daughter from this year.
#birds
November 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
If it sounds like a squeaky dog toy, then it's a good bet it's Flickers!
Female Northern flicker, left, with her daughter from this year.
#birds
Female Northern flicker, left, with her daughter from this year.
#birds
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Eastern Bluebird: #Kennebunk #Maine 11/25 #Sony a6700 #Sigma 16-300 at 450mm Program #birds & wildlife mods. #Photomator #nature #birdphotograpy #Point’nShootNature
November 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Eastern Bluebird: #Kennebunk #Maine 11/25 #Sony a6700 #Sigma 16-300 at 450mm Program #birds & wildlife mods. #Photomator #nature #birdphotograpy #Point’nShootNature
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Suzanne Moore: “The Olympics is finally turning its back on trans nonsense, now others must do the same”
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November 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Suzanne Moore: “The Olympics is finally turning its back on trans nonsense, now others must do the same”
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The Chess Players, 1929, painting by Sir John Lavery, 1856-1941, Irish artist (Tate).
November 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The Chess Players, 1929, painting by Sir John Lavery, 1856-1941, Irish artist (Tate).
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A Tidy Potting Shed, from 2021
Morning all! The TV programme has got to be BBC's "Gardener's World" with Monty Don and other presenters! Have a lovely day, everyone! 🪴🪴🪴
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision #gardens #gardening #plantpots #GardenersWorld
Morning all! The TV programme has got to be BBC's "Gardener's World" with Monty Don and other presenters! Have a lovely day, everyone! 🪴🪴🪴
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision #gardens #gardening #plantpots #GardenersWorld
November 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
A Tidy Potting Shed, from 2021
Morning all! The TV programme has got to be BBC's "Gardener's World" with Monty Don and other presenters! Have a lovely day, everyone! 🪴🪴🪴
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision #gardens #gardening #plantpots #GardenersWorld
Morning all! The TV programme has got to be BBC's "Gardener's World" with Monty Don and other presenters! Have a lovely day, everyone! 🪴🪴🪴
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision #gardens #gardening #plantpots #GardenersWorld
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An ex-Facebook lobbyist has been put in charge of Ireland’s data watchdog. This risks making Europe’s privacy laws meaningless. Sign today to tell the EU to reverse this decision: action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-11...
An ex-Facebook lobbyist has been put in charge of Ireland’s data watchdog. This risks making Europe’s privacy laws meaningless. Sign today to tell the EU to reverse this decision: action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-11...
Don’t let Big Tech lobbyists exploit our data!
An ex-Facebook lobbyist has been put in charge of Ireland’s data watchdog. This risks making Europe’s privacy laws meaningless. Sign today to tell the EU to reverse this decision:
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November 13, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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An ex-Facebook lobbyist has been put in charge of Ireland’s data watchdog. This risks making Europe’s privacy laws meaningless. Sign today to tell the EU to reverse this decision: action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-11...
An ex-Facebook lobbyist has been put in charge of Ireland’s data watchdog. This risks making Europe’s privacy laws meaningless. Sign today to tell the EU to reverse this decision: action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-11...
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"Since privatisation, Yorkshire Water and other regional water companies have paid out £7.6bn in dividends while loading themselves with borrowings.
Company accounts show net debt climbing year after year, even as profits were distributed to parent companies and investors."
Company accounts show net debt climbing year after year, even as profits were distributed to parent companies and investors."
Yorkshire Water: it’s time to end the rip-off
Handing the company back to local people would return both control and value to those who need it most
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November 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
"Since privatisation, Yorkshire Water and other regional water companies have paid out £7.6bn in dividends while loading themselves with borrowings.
Company accounts show net debt climbing year after year, even as profits were distributed to parent companies and investors."
Company accounts show net debt climbing year after year, even as profits were distributed to parent companies and investors."
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Jo+Anne Pugh, Cath Leng, Sam Smith No Fear No Favour. What does it mean to cover sex and gender with impartiality at the BBC? And the cost of failure to do so at the BBC. How partisan sex and gender coverage brought down Tim Davie and Deborah Turness. The story still not told.
Jo+Anne Pugh, Cath Leng, Sam Smith No Fear No Favour. What does it mean to cover sex and gender with impartiality at the BBC? And the cost of failure to do so at the BBC. How partisan sex and gender coverage brought down Tim Davie and Deborah Turness. The story still not told.
Seen in Journalism: The BBC, Bias and the Resignations
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November 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Jo+Anne Pugh, Cath Leng, Sam Smith No Fear No Favour. What does it mean to cover sex and gender with impartiality at the BBC? And the cost of failure to do so at the BBC. How partisan sex and gender coverage brought down Tim Davie and Deborah Turness. The story still not told.
Jo+Anne Pugh, Cath Leng, Sam Smith No Fear No Favour. What does it mean to cover sex and gender with impartiality at the BBC? And the cost of failure to do so at the BBC. How partisan sex and gender coverage brought down Tim Davie and Deborah Turness. The story still not told.
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Boys in High Heels, Gorbals, Glasgow, 1963, photo by Oscar Marzaroli.
November 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Boys in High Heels, Gorbals, Glasgow, 1963, photo by Oscar Marzaroli.
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Incidentally there is growing talk in Brussels of von der Leyen under threat, Merz is struggling in Germany, and we measure French Prime Ministerial survival in weeks...
So if we all care to be less insular there is rather a wider trend in European politics.
So if we all care to be less insular there is rather a wider trend in European politics.
November 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Incidentally there is growing talk in Brussels of von der Leyen under threat, Merz is struggling in Germany, and we measure French Prime Ministerial survival in weeks...
So if we all care to be less insular there is rather a wider trend in European politics.
So if we all care to be less insular there is rather a wider trend in European politics.
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I cannot recommend Gail's wares highly enough.
What the husband @mjowen174.bsky.social says is true.
It’s been a bit quiet in my shop lately.
If you’re looking for #Christmas cards and gifts please have a look at my website.
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A repost would be lovely too.
It’s been a bit quiet in my shop lately.
If you’re looking for #Christmas cards and gifts please have a look at my website.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
A repost would be lovely too.
November 12, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I cannot recommend Gail's wares highly enough.
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Over the years social housing stock has been sold, real wages cut, profiteering unchecked, local council funding cut.
Liverpool has 12,764 households on its social housing waiting list. It has just five "additional social rent dwellings".
What is the govt doing?
Watch the Minister's reply.
Liverpool has 12,764 households on its social housing waiting list. It has just five "additional social rent dwellings".
What is the govt doing?
Watch the Minister's reply.
November 12, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Over the years social housing stock has been sold, real wages cut, profiteering unchecked, local council funding cut.
Liverpool has 12,764 households on its social housing waiting list. It has just five "additional social rent dwellings".
What is the govt doing?
Watch the Minister's reply.
Liverpool has 12,764 households on its social housing waiting list. It has just five "additional social rent dwellings".
What is the govt doing?
Watch the Minister's reply.
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While fresh air is good, trying to clean the air chemically is not. The atmospheric chemistry community has been saying this for a long time; the best ways of cleaning indoor air is physical removal (filters/sorbents/air exchange).
New air cleaner paper! @airqing.bsky.social challenged an oxidation-based cleaner with an air freshener, and saw tons of chemistry. In particular, ethanol (a common ingredient in cleaning products, and ubiquitous indoors) oxidized to form acetaldehyde and formaldehyde.
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Changes in Volatile Organic Compound Composition from an Oxidation-Based Air Cleaner
Air cleaning devices, or “air cleaners”, have the potential to improve indoor air by decreasing levels of air pollutants, including volatile organic compounds (VOCs), in indoor environments. Many comm...
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November 12, 2025 at 10:07 AM
While fresh air is good, trying to clean the air chemically is not. The atmospheric chemistry community has been saying this for a long time; the best ways of cleaning indoor air is physical removal (filters/sorbents/air exchange).
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This was a diagram illustrating a piece I wrote in @prospectmagazine.co.uk in January 2024. Some faces have since changed but you get the general gist …
November 10, 2025 at 10:44 AM
This was a diagram illustrating a piece I wrote in @prospectmagazine.co.uk in January 2024. Some faces have since changed but you get the general gist …
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Pregnant Women Are “Controversial”? BBC Impartiality Row Exposes Woke Double Standards
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November 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Pregnant Women Are “Controversial”? BBC Impartiality Row Exposes Woke Double Standards
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"COULD you die if you get on an airplane due to the horrifically negligent way that the current administration has run the government? Yes.
WILL you die? Very likely.
Can it be prevented? Unfortunately, no.
Other than that, we urge people not to worry about air travel."
WILL you die? Very likely.
Can it be prevented? Unfortunately, no.
Other than that, we urge people not to worry about air travel."
November 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
"COULD you die if you get on an airplane due to the horrifically negligent way that the current administration has run the government? Yes.
WILL you die? Very likely.
Can it be prevented? Unfortunately, no.
Other than that, we urge people not to worry about air travel."
WILL you die? Very likely.
Can it be prevented? Unfortunately, no.
Other than that, we urge people not to worry about air travel."
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It was about time. I hope the next step is to take away the medals that men cheated their way to, and give them back to the women who actually won them.
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
It was about time. I hope the next step is to take away the medals that men cheated their way to, and give them back to the women who actually won them.
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And of course the former mediocre male swimmer Lia Thomas www.espn.com/college-spor...
Thomas first transgender athlete to win D-I title
Pennsylvania's Lia Thomas became the first known transgender athlete to capture a Division I national title by winning the 500 free at the NCAA women's swimming championships in Atlanta on Thursday, w...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
And of course the former mediocre male swimmer Lia Thomas www.espn.com/college-spor...
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An expert report presented to the committee says the reasons are real and scientific. Sports has been segregated by sex for more than a century.
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
An expert report presented to the committee says the reasons are real and scientific. Sports has been segregated by sex for more than a century.
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Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
The International Olympic Committee is moving towards a blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport, Sky News understands.
news.sky.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
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🏛️ An Ottoman Iznik Pottery Tile, c. 1570
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
🏛️ An Ottoman Iznik Pottery Tile, c. 1570
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news outlets have a responsibility to inform the public of any possible interference.
Yes, it can be an interference.
Yes, it can be an interference.
Journalist, "Farage accused the BBC of election interference"
Ed Davey, "The interference we've seen is from Farage's friend, Putin"
"We've seen Russian interference in the most appalling way"
Ed Davey, "The interference we've seen is from Farage's friend, Putin"
"We've seen Russian interference in the most appalling way"
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
news outlets have a responsibility to inform the public of any possible interference.
Yes, it can be an interference.
Yes, it can be an interference.