Gilly 📎
@gillmh.bsky.social
Green Party 💚 Left of centre.
Archivist.
NHS, environment, history, politics.
Rejoin the EU. Living wage. Ban hunting.
MAGA, Reform and racists blocked.
No DMs unless I know you.
Archivist.
NHS, environment, history, politics.
Rejoin the EU. Living wage. Ban hunting.
MAGA, Reform and racists blocked.
No DMs unless I know you.
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Universal Credit was missing a crucial objective from its inception: to address poverty.
15 years on, it’s time we made Universal Credit the poverty-fighting system it could be, writes @iainkporter.bsky.social for @bigissue.com
https://bit.ly/4pc0PVB
15 years on, it’s time we made Universal Credit the poverty-fighting system it could be, writes @iainkporter.bsky.social for @bigissue.com
https://bit.ly/4pc0PVB
It's time we made universal credit the game changer it can be
In November 2010, the coalition government published its white paper detailing its plans for universal credit. How much has changed?
www.bigissue.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Universal Credit was missing a crucial objective from its inception: to address poverty.
15 years on, it’s time we made Universal Credit the poverty-fighting system it could be, writes @iainkporter.bsky.social for @bigissue.com
https://bit.ly/4pc0PVB
15 years on, it’s time we made Universal Credit the poverty-fighting system it could be, writes @iainkporter.bsky.social for @bigissue.com
https://bit.ly/4pc0PVB
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Stocking filler anyone?
November 15, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Stocking filler anyone?
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Awww! Everybody loves kittens! Even SS troopers.
November 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Awww! Everybody loves kittens! Even SS troopers.
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Mars is a way of saying “I don’t give
a shit about Earth or anything on it.”
a shit about Earth or anything on it.”
November 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Mars is a way of saying “I don’t give
a shit about Earth or anything on it.”
a shit about Earth or anything on it.”
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The EveryDoctor Charter is standing up for NHS staff, and more people are joining every day. 💙
NHS staff give their all — it’s time we stood with them.
Sign the Charter to support staff, protect patients, and defend the service we all rely on.
Add your voice: bit.ly/SignEDNHSCha...
NHS staff give their all — it’s time we stood with them.
Sign the Charter to support staff, protect patients, and defend the service we all rely on.
Add your voice: bit.ly/SignEDNHSCha...
November 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The EveryDoctor Charter is standing up for NHS staff, and more people are joining every day. 💙
NHS staff give their all — it’s time we stood with them.
Sign the Charter to support staff, protect patients, and defend the service we all rely on.
Add your voice: bit.ly/SignEDNHSCha...
NHS staff give their all — it’s time we stood with them.
Sign the Charter to support staff, protect patients, and defend the service we all rely on.
Add your voice: bit.ly/SignEDNHSCha...
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Male Autumn meadowhawk dragonfly
(Sympetrum vicinum)
on a garden stake amidst asters
off Ravenswood Ave
by Rosehill Cemetery
Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood
October 6, 2024
Music by Jimi Hendrix
#flyday #eastcoastkin #dragonflies #nature #insects #red #chicago #video #andersonville #bugs
(Sympetrum vicinum)
on a garden stake amidst asters
off Ravenswood Ave
by Rosehill Cemetery
Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood
October 6, 2024
Music by Jimi Hendrix
#flyday #eastcoastkin #dragonflies #nature #insects #red #chicago #video #andersonville #bugs
November 14, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Male Autumn meadowhawk dragonfly
(Sympetrum vicinum)
on a garden stake amidst asters
off Ravenswood Ave
by Rosehill Cemetery
Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood
October 6, 2024
Music by Jimi Hendrix
#flyday #eastcoastkin #dragonflies #nature #insects #red #chicago #video #andersonville #bugs
(Sympetrum vicinum)
on a garden stake amidst asters
off Ravenswood Ave
by Rosehill Cemetery
Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood
October 6, 2024
Music by Jimi Hendrix
#flyday #eastcoastkin #dragonflies #nature #insects #red #chicago #video #andersonville #bugs
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Long-legged fly (size: ~3mm)
(Condylostylus mundus)
A very small fly that eats aphids.😇
Bonita Nature Place 11-5-25
Bonita Springs, Florida
#ColorADay #GreenSat #green #blue #BlueSkyArtShow #bright #eastcoastkin #bugSky #nature #macro #photography #macroPhotography #native #insects #diptera #art
(Condylostylus mundus)
A very small fly that eats aphids.😇
Bonita Nature Place 11-5-25
Bonita Springs, Florida
#ColorADay #GreenSat #green #blue #BlueSkyArtShow #bright #eastcoastkin #bugSky #nature #macro #photography #macroPhotography #native #insects #diptera #art
November 15, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Long-legged fly (size: ~3mm)
(Condylostylus mundus)
A very small fly that eats aphids.😇
Bonita Nature Place 11-5-25
Bonita Springs, Florida
#ColorADay #GreenSat #green #blue #BlueSkyArtShow #bright #eastcoastkin #bugSky #nature #macro #photography #macroPhotography #native #insects #diptera #art
(Condylostylus mundus)
A very small fly that eats aphids.😇
Bonita Nature Place 11-5-25
Bonita Springs, Florida
#ColorADay #GreenSat #green #blue #BlueSkyArtShow #bright #eastcoastkin #bugSky #nature #macro #photography #macroPhotography #native #insects #diptera #art
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People have tried to say that the Green surge is just on social media.
Or in a bubble that's just about polls and just about new members.
Yet up and down the country - Greens are also winning elections.
Huge congratulations to the Canterbury Greens! 💚🎉
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Or in a bubble that's just about polls and just about new members.
Yet up and down the country - Greens are also winning elections.
Huge congratulations to the Canterbury Greens! 💚🎉
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Wincheap (Canterbury) Council By-Election Result:
🌍 GRN: 39.1% (+24.1)
🔶 LDM: 24.1% (-12.2)
➡️ RFM: 16.3% (New)
🌹 LAB: 12.8% (-25.5)
🌳 CON: 7.7% (-2.6)
Green GAIN from Liberal Democrat.
Changes w/ 2023.
🌍 GRN: 39.1% (+24.1)
🔶 LDM: 24.1% (-12.2)
➡️ RFM: 16.3% (New)
🌹 LAB: 12.8% (-25.5)
🌳 CON: 7.7% (-2.6)
Green GAIN from Liberal Democrat.
Changes w/ 2023.
November 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
People have tried to say that the Green surge is just on social media.
Or in a bubble that's just about polls and just about new members.
Yet up and down the country - Greens are also winning elections.
Huge congratulations to the Canterbury Greens! 💚🎉
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Or in a bubble that's just about polls and just about new members.
Yet up and down the country - Greens are also winning elections.
Huge congratulations to the Canterbury Greens! 💚🎉
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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NEW - we've data showing huge numbers of people reducing their income to avoid high marginal income tax rates. Not just at the £100k point (as previously reported). But at the £50k point:
November 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
NEW - we've data showing huge numbers of people reducing their income to avoid high marginal income tax rates. Not just at the £100k point (as previously reported). But at the £50k point:
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Senedd refuses to release details of who worked for disgraced ex-Wales Reform leader Nathan Gill
Senedd refuses to release details of who worked for disgraced ex-Wales Reform leader
Emily Price The Senedd has refused to release details of who worked for Nathan Gill when the disgraced former leader of Reform in Wales was a member of the Welsh Parliament. Gill recently pleaded guilty...
nation.cymru
November 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Senedd refuses to release details of who worked for disgraced ex-Wales Reform leader Nathan Gill
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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Neal Layton depicting the young Michael Rosen for the pb of Rosen‘s Hot Food Nice! which Walker Books published on 6 Nov. 13 Nov is Michael Rosen Day with 266,000+ children signed up to watch his livestreamed event. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Neal Layton depicting the young Michael Rosen for the pb of Rosen‘s Hot Food Nice! which Walker Books published on 6 Nov. 13 Nov is Michael Rosen Day with 266,000+ children signed up to watch his livestreamed event. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
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The flood risk map for #Norfolk and pictures of the saltmarsh. Part of the Norwich Greenpeace exhibition at @theforumnorwich.bsky.social today
November 15, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The flood risk map for #Norfolk and pictures of the saltmarsh. Part of the Norwich Greenpeace exhibition at @theforumnorwich.bsky.social today
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I'm pleased she's got a knack for something!
It’s what happens when Allsop’s ignorance, hypocrisy and bigotry tries to criticise a national treasure
Kirstie Allsopp went after an elderly children’s author for having a free bus pass and, safe to say, she lost the room with this argument
Kirstie Allsopp seems to have a knack for locating, locating, locating herself in online spats about different facets of modern life – from giving kids iPads over breakfast to young people ditching fe...
www.thepoke.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I'm pleased she's got a knack for something!
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Female regal jumping spider
(Phidippus regius)
nesting on a trail marker
at Crew Flint Pen Strand hiking trail
Lee County, Florida
#MacroMonday #BlueSkyMonday #MinimalMonday #ColorADay #PinkMon #EastCoastKin #bugSky #arachnids #spiders #jumpingspiders #macro #photography #macrophotography #art 🕷️
(Phidippus regius)
nesting on a trail marker
at Crew Flint Pen Strand hiking trail
Lee County, Florida
#MacroMonday #BlueSkyMonday #MinimalMonday #ColorADay #PinkMon #EastCoastKin #bugSky #arachnids #spiders #jumpingspiders #macro #photography #macrophotography #art 🕷️
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Female regal jumping spider
(Phidippus regius)
nesting on a trail marker
at Crew Flint Pen Strand hiking trail
Lee County, Florida
#MacroMonday #BlueSkyMonday #MinimalMonday #ColorADay #PinkMon #EastCoastKin #bugSky #arachnids #spiders #jumpingspiders #macro #photography #macrophotography #art 🕷️
(Phidippus regius)
nesting on a trail marker
at Crew Flint Pen Strand hiking trail
Lee County, Florida
#MacroMonday #BlueSkyMonday #MinimalMonday #ColorADay #PinkMon #EastCoastKin #bugSky #arachnids #spiders #jumpingspiders #macro #photography #macrophotography #art 🕷️
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It's not just ambition on climate action that's being run down, but nature.
Planet Earth is in the fight of its life and, on balance, those of us who are its allies are losing.
It's our duty to work out why, and act on it.
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Planet Earth is in the fight of its life and, on balance, those of us who are its allies are losing.
It's our duty to work out why, and act on it.
share.google/N0QU31GX4Znw...
Conservation projects abandoned as rich countries retreat from climate fight | The Observer
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November 15, 2025 at 8:44 AM
It's not just ambition on climate action that's being run down, but nature.
Planet Earth is in the fight of its life and, on balance, those of us who are its allies are losing.
It's our duty to work out why, and act on it.
share.google/N0QU31GX4Znw...
Planet Earth is in the fight of its life and, on balance, those of us who are its allies are losing.
It's our duty to work out why, and act on it.
share.google/N0QU31GX4Znw...
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Antivaxxers in Parliament have been in positions of making key science related decisions and there needs to be a parliamentary investigation into this. bylinetimes.com/2021/10/01/i...
Inside the Radicalised Anti-Vaxxer Network ‘Influencing’ Government Vaccine Advisory Panel
As Covid lobbying groups combine to oppose child vaccination, Nafeez Ahmed and Karam Bales investigate how conspiracy theories and pseudoscience disfigure public debate
bylinetimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Antivaxxers in Parliament have been in positions of making key science related decisions and there needs to be a parliamentary investigation into this. bylinetimes.com/2021/10/01/i...
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So you can see most children didn’t receive any vaccines until 2022 but children had long covid in 2020 & 2021. So vaccines are definitely not the cause of long covid. Its impossible. COVID causes long covid. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2021/se...
First findings from world’s largest study on long Covid in children
Up to one in seven (14%) children and young people who caught SARS-CoV-2 may have symptoms linked to the virus 15 weeks later, suggest preliminary findings from the world’s largest study on long Covid...
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
So you can see most children didn’t receive any vaccines until 2022 but children had long covid in 2020 & 2021. So vaccines are definitely not the cause of long covid. Its impossible. COVID causes long covid. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2021/se...
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The Patron Saints of Wraparound Oakleys and Indictable Hard Drives are having one helluva time right now
November 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
The Patron Saints of Wraparound Oakleys and Indictable Hard Drives are having one helluva time right now
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Continuing the #caturday theme, a belated happy second birthday to this @privateeyenews.bsky.social #cartoon #cat #bedtimeroutine
November 15, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Continuing the #caturday theme, a belated happy second birthday to this @privateeyenews.bsky.social #cartoon #cat #bedtimeroutine
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Palestinian woman Umm Zuhri Shweiki was forcibly expelled from her home in occupied East Jerusalem by Israeli forces, who seized and emptied her house before handing it to Israeli settlers.
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Palestinian woman Umm Zuhri Shweiki was forcibly expelled from her home in occupied East Jerusalem by Israeli forces, who seized and emptied her house before handing it to Israeli settlers.
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Both the dog’s cool confidence and the cat’s bitchiness are hilarious.
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Both the dog’s cool confidence and the cat’s bitchiness are hilarious.
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Handy list of Trump ballroom supporters that support child rape
November 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Handy list of Trump ballroom supporters that support child rape