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EveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · 7h

Worrying signs the govt could cave to Big Pharma 💰

Paying more for medicines won’t “boost innovation”, it’ll just boost pharma profits while the NHS struggles to afford care.

Strong piece from @justtreatment.org with Politico 👇

justtreatment.org/news/2025/10...

UK move to inflate pharma profits threatens NHS — Just Treatment

Statement in response to reports the government plans to raise NHS drug price limits — a move that risks importing America’s drug pricing crisis and putting profits before patients.

justtreatment.org

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 1h

Woahhhhhh.

A poll that shows the Greens surging to 15% - and just 2 points behind the Labour party.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 5h

I see Reform UK are on #BBCQT again tonight, would one of the other panelists kindly ask

Is it fiscally responsible for Nathan Gill to make anti EU, pro Russia statements in exchange for bribes

But for Nigel Farage to make anti EU, pro Russia statements, without bribes?

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Mobius @enneadgames.com · 3h

PDF based gens that I've made can be found here

legacy.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/3...

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Keep Our NHS Public @keepournhspublic.bsky.social · 5h

Our Co-Chair @drjohnpuntis.bsky.social gives an excellent
rundown of Labour Party Conference and its run-up and what was put forward around the NHS.

"time is running out and a new approach that will deliver an end to the current crisis is needed fast."

keepournhspublic.com/labour-party...

Labour Party Conference – little comfort for the NHS

Run-up to Conference In the weeks running up to Labour’s annual conference there was confusion between NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care over key aspects of the DHSC’s policy...

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Brianna Tipping @auxryn.bsky.social · 12h

I have a personal headcannon about how the dragons have unintentionally affected the culture of Tuvana. Like the principle that you cannot observe something without changing it, people are affected by the dragons.

Brianna Tipping @auxryn.bsky.social · 8d

I know I've talked about this before, but I just love this. Dragons show up when certain people are born! We don't know where they come from, or what they want, or where they go back to. All perfectly normal! It's always been this way, don't see how it could ever be different. Like our world.

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Isaac Bergmann - Streamer/Freelance Artist @ikemann5000.bsky.social · 18h

And she's done!
Ready to give you the barn tour

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 16h

Who would have guessed

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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Bright Bard Games @brightbard.bsky.social · 16h

We are hosting a sale!!

For the rest of the month, all of our autumnal games are 10% off! Celebrate the start of fall with some tiny dragon crafting time, pensive walks with your tarot deck, and more!

Check it out at brightbardgames.com

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 17h

What is "plenary authority" and why is it a big deal that Miller said that Trump has it over the national guard?

4 frame comic where Miller slowly blinks. Text reads. A few hours ago, speaking on cnn about Trump's plan to send the national guard into us cities, Miller said : under title 10 of the us code, the president has plenary authority, has... He then fully stopped talking and just blinked at the camera, as if he realized that he said the quiet part out loud. "Plenary authority" means "complete power over a particular area with no limitayions". It is equivalent to ruling by decree, which us how Mussolini, Stalin or Hitler governed. Having "plenary authority" over the military would mean that Trump can just use the national guard as he pleases, no matter what the courts say. It's a power grab.

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GeekFilter 🏳️‍🌈🐻 @geekfilter.bsky.social · 17h

Asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry?
I just have this to say:

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 21h

TONIGHT (and especially for followers outside of NYC who want to get involved):

Join @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on a special phonebank at 6pm!

Sign up: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo...

A graphic with a photo of Brennan Lee Mulligan that says "Phone Bank with Zohran, Wednesday, October 8th at 6pm."

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 22h

We’re supporting @nionwomen.bsky.social, a collective of women refusing to let their identity be weaponised to justify discrimination against trans people.

They’re calling on women everywhere to join them:
https://goodlaw.social/xmgc

goodlaw.social

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 22h

FanTASTIC news let’s get this done

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 21h

🚨 Outrageous: the UK govt is reportedly ready to make the #NHS pay 25% more for medicines - caving to pressure from Trump and Big Pharma.

Every extra pound handed to drug company bosses is a pound stolen from patient care.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

NHS could pay 25% more for medicines under plan to end row with drugmakers and Trump

UK ministers preparing to raise payments to end standoff with pharma industry, cited as reason for firms axing British investments

www.theguardian.com

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

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.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

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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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 23h

🚨 BREAKING: Reports say the UK is preparing to hike #NHS drug prices - a move pushed by Donald Trump & Big Pharma so they can pocket even bigger profits.

If this goes ahead, more NHS funds will be siphoned from care to corporate greed.

Take action now: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ke...

Keir Starmer: stand up to Trump’s attacks on our NHS!

Donald Trump is using global tariff threats to force countries to gut the protections that keep medicine prices in check. The UK has agreed to review the pricing of drugs on the NHS in order to strike...

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Wolf & Wyld's Queer Bookstore @wolfandwyldbooks.com · 1d

📚🙂 Fellow word nerds - this looks nifty 🤓 👇

📖 Useless Etymology

Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds

by Jess Zafarris @jesszafarris.bsky.social

ebook bookshop.org/a/100590/978...
hardback bookshop.org/a/100590/978...

#booksky

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🌿Elaine Tipping🍃 @triaelf9.bsky.social · 1d

Pathways - 804
Going okay so far...

#webcomics #comics #OC #OCSky #art
~Read more~ pathways.elainetippi...
Support on patreon.com/TriaElf9 or ko-fi.com/triaelf9
~Home Site~ elainetipping.com/

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Just in case you are curious - and my God you should be - about the dude Wes Streeting and others are handing loads of public data contracts to. 👇

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

"This surveillance supersystem," Thiel wrote, could act as “a political framework that operates outside the checks and balances of representative democracy as described in high school textbooks.” www.wired.com/story/the-re...

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

www.wired.com

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Blue 9 (they/them) @odinscrow.bsky.social · 1d

Telling liberals they're doing a fascism by throwing marginalized people under the bus on the off chance it'll stave off the "greater evil" a few more years isn't "in-fighting". The "lesser evil" is still fucking evil, and so are they.

Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 1d

Folks who tell you that it’s okay to temporarily sacrifice a marginalized group in order to win

Do not care about the marginalized group

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ThePoseArchives @theposearchives.bsky.social · 1d

New poses!✏️
Sitting/perspective/table/crystal ball

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aidThompsin @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 1d

Kuy is right. This time will be split into Parliaments, Recesses etc, it will fly by.

And the entire time Starmer is sat “Bidening” his time, expending the ability he temporarily has to regulate press, social media and fix all this.

We are on course to a Trump style Reform Govt.

Kuy Von Braun II @kuyvonbraun.bsky.social · 1d

Labour’s agenda is akin to repeatedly putting your hand into a fire. Starmer-stans insist it’s ok to keep doing that because there’s 3/4 years to go…
…
…they are very smart 🤪

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 1d

Jordan’s rant is pure race-baiting confused disinformation.

Truly shocking & shameful to hear a BBC employee go off like this on air.

Thank you, Barry, for pushing back & standing up to the tedious angry bigotry that is being forced down our throats 👏👏👏👏

Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 1d

Simon Jordan on TalkSport, unchallenged yet again.

As a Talksport employee, I am embarrassed by this rebuttal of what Neville said. This moron pontificates without question. It is bonkers.

And yeah, i'll probably be sacked. Fuck it.

youtube.com/watch?v=FrXr...

"APPALLING STANCE!" Simon Jordan rages at "COWARD" Gary Neville after Union Jack REMOVAL admission!

YouTube video by talkSPORT

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Tom Hayes @tomhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Does the UK have a Culture Secretary, with responsibility for this stuff, who might take an interest in how media regulation works? If there is such a person, does anyone know what she/he does all day?

Paul Marshall @pmarsha11.bsky.social · 2d

Someone please explain.
What is the point of Ofcom?
Utterly useless.

Ofcom to take no further action after finding GB News breached broadcasting code for "homophobic slur"

After more than six months of investigation, Ofcom has concluded that while GB News breached the broadcasting code when a presenter repeated "a homophobic slur" it will take no further action. On 22 ...

www.scenemag.co.uk

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