Laura Bedford
@lauraweaves.bsky.social
Working in the Democratic Finance Scotland team at DTAS. Advocating for community wealth building, regenerative economics, kindness, a future for my kids. Weave, spin, knit and all things yarn. Hang out in the woods to keep me sane. 🌳🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
I could get behind this 😂
I would watch the spin-off series that's just Kate Lethbridge-Stewart doing Keep Britain Tidy OR I WILL FUCK YOU UP #DoctorFish #TheWarBetween
Pick up your trash people and don't litter or Kate will hunt you down
#TheWarBetween
#TheWarBetween
December 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I could get behind this 😂
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This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that?
The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.
The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.
December 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that?
The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.
The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.
This is so sad, one of my favourite podcasts. Hope you keep podcasting independently @robinince.bsky.social and thankyou for being an ally for all the different communities you speak up for.
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
This is so sad, one of my favourite podcasts. Hope you keep podcasting independently @robinince.bsky.social and thankyou for being an ally for all the different communities you speak up for.
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You thought the patriarchy was going to stop with trans people? Really? www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
You thought the patriarchy was going to stop with trans people? Really? www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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The thing is that achieving mental *health* for the majority of people requires us all realising that we're being made sick by our societies. Psychotherapy isn't funded because it foments revolution when done well. CBT teaches you to shut up and stop bothering the grown-ups.
The TLDR of the Streeting review is your quality of life doesn't matter so long as you are contributing to the economy and employment stats - which will exacerbate most MH conditions and increase suicide rates, which they don't care about either because the economy, stupid.
December 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
The thing is that achieving mental *health* for the majority of people requires us all realising that we're being made sick by our societies. Psychotherapy isn't funded because it foments revolution when done well. CBT teaches you to shut up and stop bothering the grown-ups.
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Unlike millionaires, we can't just pay for our opinions to be on the front page. But with your help, we're changing the conversation anyway.
Don't let them stop us! If you donate today, we'll double it. That's twice the headlines next year!
👉https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006FaMIYA0
Don't let them stop us! If you donate today, we'll double it. That's twice the headlines next year!
👉https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006FaMIYA0
December 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Unlike millionaires, we can't just pay for our opinions to be on the front page. But with your help, we're changing the conversation anyway.
Don't let them stop us! If you donate today, we'll double it. That's twice the headlines next year!
👉https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006FaMIYA0
Don't let them stop us! If you donate today, we'll double it. That's twice the headlines next year!
👉https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006FaMIYA0
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Last chance to co-sign our proposal to save the swifts before MSPs vote later today!
It's a simple but crucial requirement for all new buildings above a certain size to include a swift nesting brick.
Show your support here ✍️👇
greens.scot/saveourswifts
It's a simple but crucial requirement for all new buildings above a certain size to include a swift nesting brick.
Show your support here ✍️👇
greens.scot/saveourswifts
Safe homes for Scotland’s swifts
Safe homes for Scotland’s swifts -
greens.scot
December 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Last chance to co-sign our proposal to save the swifts before MSPs vote later today!
It's a simple but crucial requirement for all new buildings above a certain size to include a swift nesting brick.
Show your support here ✍️👇
greens.scot/saveourswifts
It's a simple but crucial requirement for all new buildings above a certain size to include a swift nesting brick.
Show your support here ✍️👇
greens.scot/saveourswifts
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📣Democratic finance in action!
Fountainside Canal Community Trust has launched a crowdfunder to replace their iconic Lochrin Bell barge with an electric barge, an important step toward a cleaner, more sustainable canal environment.
Find out more 👇
www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/community/ed...
Fountainside Canal Community Trust has launched a crowdfunder to replace their iconic Lochrin Bell barge with an electric barge, an important step toward a cleaner, more sustainable canal environment.
Find out more 👇
www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/community/ed...
Edinburgh canal charity launches crowdfunder to support low-carbon future
Fountainbridge Canalside Community Trust has set sail toward a cleaner, greener future as it aims to modernise its community fleet and cut carbon emissions.
www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:48 AM
📣Democratic finance in action!
Fountainside Canal Community Trust has launched a crowdfunder to replace their iconic Lochrin Bell barge with an electric barge, an important step toward a cleaner, more sustainable canal environment.
Find out more 👇
www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/community/ed...
Fountainside Canal Community Trust has launched a crowdfunder to replace their iconic Lochrin Bell barge with an electric barge, an important step toward a cleaner, more sustainable canal environment.
Find out more 👇
www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/community/ed...
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It's hard to find words to capture quite how revolting, steeped in bigotry, irresponsible, morally unmoored, Labour has become. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Anglican bishop shaken ‘to the core’ by home secretary’s asylum seeker comments
Bishop of Edmonton says people coming to UK are being ‘scapegoated’ for years of policy failures
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
It's hard to find words to capture quite how revolting, steeped in bigotry, irresponsible, morally unmoored, Labour has become. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
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‘Morrisons killed us’: UK’s most westerly village shop closes after half a century
Ferry Stores on #Ardnamurchan shuts its doors tomorrow after struggling with a decline in footfall and competition from home delivery vans
@libbybrooks.bsky.social reports 👇🏴
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Ferry Stores on #Ardnamurchan shuts its doors tomorrow after struggling with a decline in footfall and competition from home delivery vans
@libbybrooks.bsky.social reports 👇🏴
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Morrisons killed us’: UK’s most westerly village shop closes after half a century
The Ferry Stores, in the remote village of Kilchoan, will shut its doors after struggling to fight off the decline in footfall and the advent of home delivery services
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
‘Morrisons killed us’: UK’s most westerly village shop closes after half a century
Ferry Stores on #Ardnamurchan shuts its doors tomorrow after struggling with a decline in footfall and competition from home delivery vans
@libbybrooks.bsky.social reports 👇🏴
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Ferry Stores on #Ardnamurchan shuts its doors tomorrow after struggling with a decline in footfall and competition from home delivery vans
@libbybrooks.bsky.social reports 👇🏴
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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“The wealth gap is choking off growth, funnelling resources into property and financial assets rather than productive investment. It is worsening the housing crisis, which now stands as both a symptom and a driver of broader inequality”
@fairness.bsky.social
fairnessfoundation.com/risks-2025
@fairness.bsky.social
fairnessfoundation.com/risks-2025
Wealth Gap Risk Register 2025
An online resource that collates evidence about the impacts of wealth inequality, the solutions and public attitudes to all of the above
fairnessfoundation.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:22 AM
“The wealth gap is choking off growth, funnelling resources into property and financial assets rather than productive investment. It is worsening the housing crisis, which now stands as both a symptom and a driver of broader inequality”
@fairness.bsky.social
fairnessfoundation.com/risks-2025
@fairness.bsky.social
fairnessfoundation.com/risks-2025
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This is the essence of reporting "science" versus public health: stop putting people off discovering the joy of moving their bodies and being out in common space by telling them they're not optimising. Report science better, report joy more.
The best walking is the walking you actually do, not the optimal walking recommended by the latest scientific study (which will feed into the evidence base that informs longer term advice on physical activity)
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
One long walk beats short strolls for a healthy heart, study says
Walking for at least 15 minutes without stopping is ideal, according to new research.
www.bbc.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:39 AM
This is the essence of reporting "science" versus public health: stop putting people off discovering the joy of moving their bodies and being out in common space by telling them they're not optimising. Report science better, report joy more.
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"The group has represented clients in the United States who are opposed to abortion, gay and transgender rights and contraception coverage in health care."
Every anti-abortion group is also anti-trans. Period. Support their latter work and you support their former. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
Every anti-abortion group is also anti-trans. Period. Support their latter work and you support their former. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.
www.nytimes.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:06 AM
"The group has represented clients in the United States who are opposed to abortion, gay and transgender rights and contraception coverage in health care."
Every anti-abortion group is also anti-trans. Period. Support their latter work and you support their former. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
Every anti-abortion group is also anti-trans. Period. Support their latter work and you support their former. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
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We're joining the panel at the Democratic Business Summit 2025 - a one-day conference seeking to advance democracy across the UK business economy & develop and promote more awareness of how democratic business can transform our current economy.
Sign up 👇
www.democraticbusiness.org/events/summit
Sign up 👇
www.democraticbusiness.org/events/summit
Democratic Business Summit 2025
This year’s Democratic Business Summit – a one-day conference to advance democracy across the UK business economy – is coming to Glasgow’s Barras Art & Design on 4th November 2025.
www.democraticbusiness.org
October 14, 2025 at 9:25 AM
We're joining the panel at the Democratic Business Summit 2025 - a one-day conference seeking to advance democracy across the UK business economy & develop and promote more awareness of how democratic business can transform our current economy.
Sign up 👇
www.democraticbusiness.org/events/summit
Sign up 👇
www.democraticbusiness.org/events/summit
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"For the next 15 years, give us a subsidy from public money, and remove the disincentive for us to stop dumping raw sewage, so our creditors are rescued from the consequences of their own greed" is not, I have to say, the world's most appealing pitch. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Thames Water creditors ask for up to 15 years’ leniency from river pollution rules
Lenders say a ‘full return to legal, regulatory and environmental compliance’ under new rescue plan would not be completed until at least 2035-2040
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
"For the next 15 years, give us a subsidy from public money, and remove the disincentive for us to stop dumping raw sewage, so our creditors are rescued from the consequences of their own greed" is not, I have to say, the world's most appealing pitch. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Yup: "80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding."
For more on this listen to "Carbon Bros," the latest season of @drilledmedia.bsky.social with @amywestervelt.bsky.social
For more on this listen to "Carbon Bros," the latest season of @drilledmedia.bsky.social with @amywestervelt.bsky.social
Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos.
It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.
heated.world/p/fossil-fue...
It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.
heated.world/p/fossil-fue...
Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement
An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.
heated.world
September 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Yup: "80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding."
For more on this listen to "Carbon Bros," the latest season of @drilledmedia.bsky.social with @amywestervelt.bsky.social
For more on this listen to "Carbon Bros," the latest season of @drilledmedia.bsky.social with @amywestervelt.bsky.social
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If I understand capitalism correctly, it was by being very clever, and working much harder than anybody else. Right?
Right?
Right?
September 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
If I understand capitalism correctly, it was by being very clever, and working much harder than anybody else. Right?
Right?
Right?
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If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.
September 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.
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Bisexual Awareness Week, also known as #BiWeek, is an annual celebration held from September 16–23. It is an extension of Celebrate Bisexuality Day. The celebration promotes cultural acceptance of the bisexual community, as well as attempts to create a platform for advocating bisexual rights.
September 17, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Bisexual Awareness Week, also known as #BiWeek, is an annual celebration held from September 16–23. It is an extension of Celebrate Bisexuality Day. The celebration promotes cultural acceptance of the bisexual community, as well as attempts to create a platform for advocating bisexual rights.
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We're joining the panel at the Democratic Business Summit 2025 - a one-day conference seeking to advance democracy across the UK business economy & develop and promote more awareness of how democratic business can transform our current economy.
Sign up 👇
www.democraticbusiness.org/events/summit
Sign up 👇
www.democraticbusiness.org/events/summit
Democratic Business Summit 2025
This year’s Democratic Business Summit – a one-day conference to advance democracy across the UK business economy – is coming to Glasgow’s Barras Art & Design on 4th November 2025.
www.democraticbusiness.org
September 16, 2025 at 8:54 AM
We're joining the panel at the Democratic Business Summit 2025 - a one-day conference seeking to advance democracy across the UK business economy & develop and promote more awareness of how democratic business can transform our current economy.
Sign up 👇
www.democraticbusiness.org/events/summit
Sign up 👇
www.democraticbusiness.org/events/summit
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📢 We’ve partnered with @dtascotland.bsky.social to bring you a free webinar about the Community Shares finance guide, aimed at organisations that have run community share offers and are based in Scotland.
🗓️ 8 Oct, 10:00–11:30
💻 Online via Zoom.
Register here: buff.ly/8dY5Gxp
#comshares #Scotland
🗓️ 8 Oct, 10:00–11:30
💻 Online via Zoom.
Register here: buff.ly/8dY5Gxp
#comshares #Scotland
September 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
📢 We’ve partnered with @dtascotland.bsky.social to bring you a free webinar about the Community Shares finance guide, aimed at organisations that have run community share offers and are based in Scotland.
🗓️ 8 Oct, 10:00–11:30
💻 Online via Zoom.
Register here: buff.ly/8dY5Gxp
#comshares #Scotland
🗓️ 8 Oct, 10:00–11:30
💻 Online via Zoom.
Register here: buff.ly/8dY5Gxp
#comshares #Scotland
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Governments should not wait for international bodies to state the blindingly obvious before acting but now the UN has Labour must use every means at its disposal to stop the wicked genocide.
September 16, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Governments should not wait for international bodies to state the blindingly obvious before acting but now the UN has Labour must use every means at its disposal to stop the wicked genocide.
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This week marks #RememberACharity Week, a national campaign that encourages people to consider leaving a gift to a charity in their will.
To coincide with this, @dtascotland.bsky.social is reflecting on the learnings from our recent Local Legacy Giving Pilot...
To coincide with this, @dtascotland.bsky.social is reflecting on the learnings from our recent Local Legacy Giving Pilot...
September 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
This week marks #RememberACharity Week, a national campaign that encourages people to consider leaving a gift to a charity in their will.
To coincide with this, @dtascotland.bsky.social is reflecting on the learnings from our recent Local Legacy Giving Pilot...
To coincide with this, @dtascotland.bsky.social is reflecting on the learnings from our recent Local Legacy Giving Pilot...