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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 12h

KESHED LONDON LAUNCH IS CONFIRMED.

Thursday 12th March, Bard Books, @judecook.bsky.social in the host's chair, tix link as soon as i got one. News incoming on the official online launch, more as soon as i have it.

#BookSky #GetKeshed 📚📚📚

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 2h

In joke, anyone from there will know what I mean!

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 4h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 10h

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

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Museum of Homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social · 10d

Kier Starmer's digital ID proposals are a terrible idea from our perspective.

There's already more than enough hassle navigating the system as it is.

Often, people who are homeless or living a difficult life dont have a basic phone, let alone regular digital access.

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

petition.parliament.uk

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 15h

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’, say environmentalists

Pleased to have signed @campaign4parks.bsky.social's letter urging Ministers to drop plans to remove the Protected Landscapes Duty on public bodies 1/

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups

Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law

www.theguardian.com

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 15h

At least three of the participants in Outsiders have died since I began that project, Stephen, Billy and Peter. Wes from Robert Gumpert’s Division Street project in San Francisco, who is featured in the Outsiders exhibition, is also dead. It’s an avoidable tragedy in a country as wealthy as this.

Museum of Homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social · 17h

With heavy hearts we release our findings of our annual investigation into the deaths of people experiencing homelessness in 2024.
Read more on our site here:

museumofhomelessness.org/news/new-res...

Our investigation finds that 1611 people experiencing homelessness died in 2024 - a 9% increase on the previous year. — Museum of Homelessness

We are devastated to share our latest research into the deaths of those who die. It has revealed the continued impact at the sharpest edge of the homelessness crisis, as the Labour Government has fail...

museumofhomelessness.org

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 16h

In the early 2010s it was infuriating to see endless screeds on "legitimate concerns" against East Europeans from analysts and scholars who seemed oblivious to how the moment political leaders capitulated to this xenophobia it would just lead to escalating hatemongering against other diasporas

Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 16h

It was inevitable that “too many people speaking Polish” Brexitism would become outright “too many brown people”

And it’s what people like Gove, David Davis and Johnson enabled

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James Anderson @1jamesanderson.bsky.social · 15h

It's a real problem in Politics. I have sent correspondence to many MPs over the last 25 years and maybe 75% of the time they don't reply and 99% lack an understanding of people's reality or hardships.

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Museum of Homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social · 17h

With heavy hearts we release our findings of our annual investigation into the deaths of people experiencing homelessness in 2024.
Read more on our site here:

museumofhomelessness.org/news/new-res...

Our investigation finds that 1611 people experiencing homelessness died in 2024 - a 9% increase on the previous year. — Museum of Homelessness

We are devastated to share our latest research into the deaths of those who die. It has revealed the continued impact at the sharpest edge of the homelessness crisis, as the Labour Government has fail...

museumofhomelessness.org

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 15h

At least three of the participants in Outsiders have died since I began that project, Stephen, Billy and Peter. Wes from Robert Gumpert’s Division Street project in San Francisco, who is featured in the Outsiders exhibition, is also dead. It’s an avoidable tragedy in a country as wealthy as this.

Museum of Homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social · 17h

With heavy hearts we release our findings of our annual investigation into the deaths of people experiencing homelessness in 2024.
Read more on our site here:

museumofhomelessness.org/news/new-res...

Our investigation finds that 1611 people experiencing homelessness died in 2024 - a 9% increase on the previous year. — Museum of Homelessness

We are devastated to share our latest research into the deaths of those who die. It has revealed the continued impact at the sharpest edge of the homelessness crisis, as the Labour Government has fail...

museumofhomelessness.org

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 15h

When I sent a copy of my Outsiders book documenting homelessness to every member of Labour’s top team in 2023 not a single one even replied. When I invited every Labour MP to a guided tour of the Outsiders exhibition in Parliament in January last year only one attended and nobody else even answered.

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 15h

The impression I had was that there are no votes to be won by ending homelessness, so it wasn’t and isn’t seen as a priority issue.

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 15h

When I sent a copy of my Outsiders book documenting homelessness to every member of Labour’s top team in 2023 not a single one even replied. When I invited every Labour MP to a guided tour of the Outsiders exhibition in Parliament in January last year only one attended and nobody else even answered.

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 17h

Labour are going to do to Britain what Saruman did to the Shire.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’ Rachel Reeves unblocked a development of 20,000 homes that were being held up by a rare snail, after being approached by a developer with whom she said, “we have a good relationship”. The government has been working on planning reforms that nature experts say put wildlife at risk. The reforms could include discarding the EU-derived habitats regulations that protect rare animals, and adding more pro-building amendments to the planning and infrastructure bill, which is going through parliament. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 1d

Afraid so. Soulless.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 1d

I don't want to get all Chesterton's Fence here, but if you don't understand that a "microscopic snail" is an indicator species that's protected for the health of the entire ecosystem, you probably shouldn't be forming "good relationships" with developers
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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The Frito Bandito @thefritobanditoo.bsky.social · 2d

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

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Ben Cremin @ben-cremin.bsky.social · 1d

My Zine is available to buy now! Use the link in my profile. £7 plus postage and I can do a local drop off, just select the option if you’re in Swindon.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

Utterly beholden to lobbyists, staggeringly ignorant and dismissive of the natural world: Rachel Reeves might not look or sound like Donald Trump, but she is behaving very much like him. This government is even more of an ecological hazard than the Tories were.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 1d

Colin Gray.
The Parents’, begun in 1980, is a series of photographs about Colin’s relationship with his parents and theirs with each other. The images involve enactments of memory and fantasy woven around events from collective memories or based on absurd and wonderful fantasies.

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t help thinking that there’s something wrong with her.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’ Rachel Reeves unblocked a development of 20,000 homes that were being held up by a rare snail, after being approached by a developer with whom she said, “we have a good relationship”. The government has been working on planning reforms that nature experts say put wildlife at risk. The reforms could include discarding the EU-derived habitats regulations that protect rare animals, and adding more pro-building amendments to the planning and infrastructure bill, which is going through parliament. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 1d

The first meeting with a charity CEO which deals with rural poverty is now being lined up. Getting a national project like this off the ground is incredibly challenging but we’ll see what happens. Rural poverty is widespread but hidden and not on the media radar at all.

Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 7d

If anyone has people in their network who work in charities which deal specifically with issues of rural poverty I’d be grateful for any connections. Not rural homelessness, although I appreciate there’s a crossover. Scoping out a possible follow on to Outsiders focused on this subject.

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · May 12

“no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party…so far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin”
Nye Bevan, Manchester, July 1948

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