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Kerry 🕊 @kezzasett.bsky.social · 15h

Read no.20 of 2025 and book club no.4. If you want a book where nothing really happens, then this is for you. Unfortunately, it wasn't for me...

Image shows the front cover of Three Days in June by Anne Tyler. Half the page (vertically) is royal blue with the author in yellow text and the title in white. The other half has a white background with an overlayed picture of a table set for a wedding

Kerry 🕊 @kezzasett.bsky.social · 16h

Exams are pushing young people to their limit, and it's hurting their mental health. On 15th October there is a Westminster Hall Debate on reforming the educational assessment system. Please ask your MP to attend and call for the assessment system to be revised

act.youngminds.org.uk/assessment-r...

#MissingTheMark

Take action! We need to talk about exams. There’s too much unnecessary pressure on young people, and we know this is having a serious impact on their mental health with record numbers being referred f...

act.youngminds.org.uk

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5d

This week, the Global Sumud Flotilla tried to deliver life-saving aid to Gaza.

Instead, 461 people—including New Yorkers—have been detained by the Israeli military.

They must be freed at once. And the deliberate starvation of Palestinians must end now.

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Kerry 🕊 @kezzasett.bsky.social · 6d

Read no.19 of 2025. It's pretty much what you'd expect from Philippa Gregory, but it's great to read things from Anne Neville's perspective. I'm off to rematch The White Queen now 📚💙

Image shows the cover of the book 'The Kingmaker's Daughter' which has an illustration depicting King Richard III and his queen, Anne, Lord Warwick's (the kingmaker) daughter.

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Council Estate Media @councilestatemedia.uk · 12d

delegates walk out during Netanyahu's UN speech

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Kerry 🕊 @kezzasett.bsky.social · 15d

Check in with your autistic friends, family, and colleagues this morning. They're likely to be hurting

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 22d

Labour is reaping what it has sown.

My piece for @the-independent.com on the need for a real alternative.

www.independent.co.uk/voices/jerem...

Surprise, surprise – Labour is reaping what it has sown

Instead of addressing child poverty, homelessness, poor working conditions or any of the real issues impacting this country, Labour has chosen to deflect the blame and pour billions into arms, says Je...

www.independent.co.uk

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Kerry 🕊 @kezzasett.bsky.social · 23d

A new law could give millions of us better rights at work, but corporate lobbyists & politicians are trying to gut it. Tell the Government: protect workers, not profits!
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/uk...

UK Government: Keep your promise to protect workers

Zero hours contracts, unfair ‘fire and rehire’, waiting months or even years to be able to access benefits – the world of work in our country is weighted against actual workers. It’s billionaire bosse...

you.38degrees.org.uk

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25d

The scenes on our streets are shameful consequences of decades of austerity - government after government fanning the flames of anti migration instead of tackling inequality.

We can & must make different choices. Solidarity to all communities under attack. We stand together.

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Kerry 🕊 @kezzasett.bsky.social · 26d

Clive saying it like it is

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 26d

BREAKING: At least 59 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn today, medical sources have told Al Jazeera.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/kz2du2

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Kerry 🕊 @kezzasett.bsky.social · 26d

Read no.18 of 2025, book club read no.3 and reading challenge of complete (not stopping though).
I struggled with this to start with as found the story being written in the form of letters disorienting, but as I kept going I became invested in the characters, so I actually liked it in the end 💙📚

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Kerry 🕊 @kezzasett.bsky.social · 26d

And don't even get me started on my Carer's Allowance claim 😒

Kerry 🕊 @kezzasett.bsky.social · 26d

Have spent hrs & hrs on the phone/emailing on behalf of autistic son in the last couple wks, trying to sort out his PIP renewal or his OU registration. Now there's a big f*** up with the reg, meaning more phone calls, paperwork, etc. This folks is why unpaid parent carers find it hard to work...

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 27d

Ireland, Slovenia, Iceland, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal are now all considering boycotting Eurovision unless Israel are removed.

Like if they should.
RT if Israel should be kicked out

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Council Estate Media @councilestatemedia.uk · 27d

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Kerry 🕊 @kezzasett.bsky.social · 29d

F*** no

Kerry 🕊 @kezzasett.bsky.social · Sep 4

The first thing I said to my husband when I saw the headline was surely he should be arrested as soon as he gets here. This government is complicit

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Kerry 🕊 @kezzasett.bsky.social · Sep 4

The insidious tactics of forked tongues pretending to care, while pushing to dismantle SEND rights www.specialneedsjungle.com/insidious-ta...

The insidious tactics of forked tongues pretending to care, while pushing to dismantle SEND rights - Special Needs Jungle

SEND parent Amber Windsor highlights the insidious forked-tongues pretending to care about SEND families while aiming to kill their rights

www.specialneedsjungle.com

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Kerry 🕊 @kezzasett.bsky.social · Sep 2

Off you pop then

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Kerry 🕊 @kezzasett.bsky.social · Aug 30

I emailed my MP, asking them to join the debate on 2 Sept and speak out in support of scrapping FPTP for Mayoral elections. Use this tool by @makevotesmatter.bsky.social @unlockdemocracy.bsky.social @compassoffice.bsky.social @openbritain.bsky.social to do the same actionnetwork.org/letters/devo...

Email your MP about scrapping First Past The Post (FPTP) for Mayoral elections

On the 2nd of September, MPs will debate abolishing First Past the Post for Mayoral and PPC elections. Since the system was introduced, it has resulted in Mayors being elected on as little as 25% of t...

actionnetwork.org

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Kerry 🕊 @kezzasett.bsky.social · Aug 29

😂

Robin-DeBowler @robin-debowler.bsky.social · Aug 29

Chuckle of the day

Facebook chat:
User-BK: If you could have dinner with one person dead or alive, who would it be.

User-FilthyDog: Nigel Farage, dead

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Kerry 🕊 @kezzasett.bsky.social · Aug 25

This articulates really well how I feel. The flags arrived in my area a couple of weeks ago and are gradually multiplying. There was a hotel protest yesterday,and the division on local social media is worse than ever before. I'll be honest I'm scared, I lie awake worrying about where it will all end

Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · Aug 25

1. The Flags have arrived in my area.
They make me uneasy. It isn't I have a problem with them when we're celebrating something. Football. Olympics. Even a royal wedding. But right now they don't *feel* like a positive affirmation of stuff we like but more a protest against things people don't..

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Kerry 🕊 @kezzasett.bsky.social · Aug 24

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Kerry 🕊 @kezzasett.bsky.social · Aug 23

No lifers at Amwell nature reserve but saw this beauty 😍

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