Julie Spriddle
@juliespriddleart.bsky.social
Green, COVID aware, mask wearer, aspiring artist, knitter, home educator, pedant, mother, tea drinker... Views are my own.
You can also find me on Instagram and Threads as JulieSpriddleArt.
You can also find me on Instagram and Threads as JulieSpriddleArt.
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Woohoo, finally passed the 100,000 signatures on this petition to Withdraw the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill. Keep signing folks - petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
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Which one is more English?
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Which one is more English?
First attempt with ScrawlrBox 122. The prompt was Hocus Pocus, but this is more Hallowe'en in pastels.
#ScrawlrChallenge #HalloweenIllustration #TraditionalArt
#ScrawlrChallenge #HalloweenIllustration #TraditionalArt
November 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
First attempt with ScrawlrBox 122. The prompt was Hocus Pocus, but this is more Hallowe'en in pastels.
#ScrawlrChallenge #HalloweenIllustration #TraditionalArt
#ScrawlrChallenge #HalloweenIllustration #TraditionalArt
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🚨BREAKING : The Green Party has passed 150,000 members 🥳
Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform.
Are you in?
Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now ⤵️
Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform.
Are you in?
Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now ⤵️
October 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🚨BREAKING : The Green Party has passed 150,000 members 🥳
Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform.
Are you in?
Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now ⤵️
Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform.
Are you in?
Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now ⤵️
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Tampons are less regulated than candles.
Despite pesticides found at 40x safe drinking water limits and cross-party support for change, period products remain underregulated as health products.
@wildcardenviro.bsky.social from
@wen-uk.bsky.social on why the UK must act now.
Despite pesticides found at 40x safe drinking water limits and cross-party support for change, period products remain underregulated as health products.
@wildcardenviro.bsky.social from
@wen-uk.bsky.social on why the UK must act now.
We’re at a toxic tipping point: the UK must regulate period products now
This post is by Helen Lynn, senior consultant and health advisor, Wen (Women’s Environmental Network)
buff.ly
October 21, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Tampons are less regulated than candles.
Despite pesticides found at 40x safe drinking water limits and cross-party support for change, period products remain underregulated as health products.
@wildcardenviro.bsky.social from
@wen-uk.bsky.social on why the UK must act now.
Despite pesticides found at 40x safe drinking water limits and cross-party support for change, period products remain underregulated as health products.
@wildcardenviro.bsky.social from
@wen-uk.bsky.social on why the UK must act now.
More portrait practice in my sketchbook. Reference from IG challenge @ jyportraitchallenge.
#PenDrawing #PortraitPractice #TraditionalArt
#PenDrawing #PortraitPractice #TraditionalArt
October 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
More portrait practice in my sketchbook. Reference from IG challenge @ jyportraitchallenge.
#PenDrawing #PortraitPractice #TraditionalArt
#PenDrawing #PortraitPractice #TraditionalArt
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Telegraph, Mail, Express, Jeremy Clarkson etc, please stop saying nasty things about Zack Polanski; the Green Party membership system is struggling to keep up
October 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Telegraph, Mail, Express, Jeremy Clarkson etc, please stop saying nasty things about Zack Polanski; the Green Party membership system is struggling to keep up
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To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot
The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:40 AM
To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Practice portrait in my sketchbook. Reference from IG challenge @ jyportraitchallenge.
Pen drawing in my sketchbook.
#PenDrawing #PortraitPractice #TraditionalArt
Pen drawing in my sketchbook.
#PenDrawing #PortraitPractice #TraditionalArt
October 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Practice portrait in my sketchbook. Reference from IG challenge @ jyportraitchallenge.
Pen drawing in my sketchbook.
#PenDrawing #PortraitPractice #TraditionalArt
Pen drawing in my sketchbook.
#PenDrawing #PortraitPractice #TraditionalArt
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Woohoo, finally passed the 100,000 signatures on this petition to Withdraw the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill. Keep signing folks - petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
October 8, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Woohoo, finally passed the 100,000 signatures on this petition to Withdraw the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill. Keep signing folks - petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
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So much confusion by charging guidelines for Covid and flu vaccines in UK with a massive mismatch in eligibility for who can get them 🧵
Pharmacies facing angry patients over Covid jab confusion
Up to half of patients coming to some pharmacies are being turned away because they are not eligible.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 7:16 AM
So much confusion by charging guidelines for Covid and flu vaccines in UK with a massive mismatch in eligibility for who can get them 🧵
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Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Come on folks, lets get this one to 100,000 so it secures a debate - petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Petition: Withdraw the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill
We call on the Government to withdraw the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill. We believe it downgrades education for all children, and undermines educators and parents. If it is not withdrawn, we b...
petition.parliament.uk
October 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Come on folks, lets get this one to 100,000 so it secures a debate - petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
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Deeply concerned about the safety of those on the flotilla.
We know the government will try ignore it - it's really important we all speak up and raise our voices.
This is a group of people delivering baby food to Gaza and the Government must intervene to ensure their safety.
We know the government will try ignore it - it's really important we all speak up and raise our voices.
This is a group of people delivering baby food to Gaza and the Government must intervene to ensure their safety.
October 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Deeply concerned about the safety of those on the flotilla.
We know the government will try ignore it - it's really important we all speak up and raise our voices.
This is a group of people delivering baby food to Gaza and the Government must intervene to ensure their safety.
We know the government will try ignore it - it's really important we all speak up and raise our voices.
This is a group of people delivering baby food to Gaza and the Government must intervene to ensure their safety.
This month's ScrawlrBox came with the challenge "Happy Place". After some thought I painted our soon to be closed local public library - Coundon Library. It might not look like much, but it has always been a happy place for my family.
#ScrawlrChallenge #SketchCoventry #TraditionalArt
#ScrawlrChallenge #SketchCoventry #TraditionalArt
September 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
This month's ScrawlrBox came with the challenge "Happy Place". After some thought I painted our soon to be closed local public library - Coundon Library. It might not look like much, but it has always been a happy place for my family.
#ScrawlrChallenge #SketchCoventry #TraditionalArt
#ScrawlrChallenge #SketchCoventry #TraditionalArt
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Farage is keeping us prisoners in his Platonic cage with the nonsense he talks, which the media lets set the political agenda. We need to break the chains and go outside to find the light. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09...
Farage, the cave, and pushing the Overton window aside
This post arose out of a conversation between Jacqueline, my wife, and me yesterday, although the idea had been bouncing around for a few days before..
The allegory of Plato’s cave probably needs l...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
September 28, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Farage is keeping us prisoners in his Platonic cage with the nonsense he talks, which the media lets set the political agenda. We need to break the chains and go outside to find the light. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09...
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Nish Kumar, "What is the Green Party's vision for how we redraw the economy of this country?"
Zack Polanski, "The first thing is to have a big conversation about public ownership"
"Nothing we need, and need to use, should be in private hands. All of our utilities should be nationalised"
Zack Polanski, "The first thing is to have a big conversation about public ownership"
"Nothing we need, and need to use, should be in private hands. All of our utilities should be nationalised"
September 27, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Nish Kumar, "What is the Green Party's vision for how we redraw the economy of this country?"
Zack Polanski, "The first thing is to have a big conversation about public ownership"
"Nothing we need, and need to use, should be in private hands. All of our utilities should be nationalised"
Zack Polanski, "The first thing is to have a big conversation about public ownership"
"Nothing we need, and need to use, should be in private hands. All of our utilities should be nationalised"
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The idea that a hospital could be BANNING employees from wearing high quality masks makes me incandescent with rage.
September 26, 2025 at 9:13 AM
The idea that a hospital could be BANNING employees from wearing high quality masks makes me incandescent with rage.
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Please support clinically vulnerable
September 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Please support clinically vulnerable
This petition could also do with more signatures - if we could get it past the 100,000 mark to secure a debate that would be fantastic petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Petition: Withdraw the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill
We call on the Government to withdraw the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill. We believe it downgrades education for all children, and undermines educators and parents. If it is not withdrawn, we b...
petition.parliament.uk
September 26, 2025 at 8:48 AM
This petition could also do with more signatures - if we could get it past the 100,000 mark to secure a debate that would be fantastic petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
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Ok. They’ve pissed me off.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
September 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Ok. They’ve pissed me off.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
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We should all ask the question: Where is Keir Starmer?
September 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
We should all ask the question: Where is Keir Starmer?
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Everyone: What's government doing about the cost of living crisis, the climate crisis, and the unfolding genocide in Gaza?
Labour: "We will mandate people carry Brit cards".
This government's priorities are painfully out of touch and increasingly authoritarian.
Labour: "We will mandate people carry Brit cards".
This government's priorities are painfully out of touch and increasingly authoritarian.
September 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Everyone: What's government doing about the cost of living crisis, the climate crisis, and the unfolding genocide in Gaza?
Labour: "We will mandate people carry Brit cards".
This government's priorities are painfully out of touch and increasingly authoritarian.
Labour: "We will mandate people carry Brit cards".
This government's priorities are painfully out of touch and increasingly authoritarian.