Niamh Goggin
@niamh-smallchange.bsky.social
Politics, local economies, social investment, credit unions, financial Inclusion, money for good.
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Cats, Ireland (23 yrs), Norn Iron (36 yrs), Croydon (4 yrs) France (dream). ME/CFS 18 yrs (sigh).
If you haven’t posted anything, I won't follow you.
Cats, Ireland (23 yrs), Norn Iron (36 yrs), Croydon (4 yrs) France (dream). ME/CFS 18 yrs (sigh).
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 2
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The European Commission on Friday imposed a €120 million fine on Elon Musk’s X, the first-ever penalty issued under the bloc’s flagship content moderation law
www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...
www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...
EU slaps €120M fine on Elon Musk’s X, straining ties with US
US vice president says EU should not be ‘attacking American companies over garbage.’
www.politico.eu
December 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The European Commission on Friday imposed a €120 million fine on Elon Musk’s X, the first-ever penalty issued under the bloc’s flagship content moderation law
www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...
www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...
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Welcome back to #FossilFriday!
Here is a Petoskey Stone which is Michigan's state stone. It is a colonial rugose coral known as Hexagonaria percarinata. This comes from the Middle Devonian (Givitian) Gravel Point Formation (Traverse Group). Each corallite that you see would have housed a polyp.
Here is a Petoskey Stone which is Michigan's state stone. It is a colonial rugose coral known as Hexagonaria percarinata. This comes from the Middle Devonian (Givitian) Gravel Point Formation (Traverse Group). Each corallite that you see would have housed a polyp.
December 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Welcome back to #FossilFriday!
Here is a Petoskey Stone which is Michigan's state stone. It is a colonial rugose coral known as Hexagonaria percarinata. This comes from the Middle Devonian (Givitian) Gravel Point Formation (Traverse Group). Each corallite that you see would have housed a polyp.
Here is a Petoskey Stone which is Michigan's state stone. It is a colonial rugose coral known as Hexagonaria percarinata. This comes from the Middle Devonian (Givitian) Gravel Point Formation (Traverse Group). Each corallite that you see would have housed a polyp.
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Just say you want garlic bread with cheese and be don’t with it
December 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Just say you want garlic bread with cheese and be don’t with it
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December 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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It’s really simple…
- Cap all political donations
- Ban foreign donations
- Strict conflict‑of‑interest & anti‑corruption laws with penalties
- No titles, honours or peerages for donors
- No govt contracts for donors
- Publish every donation/lobby meeting
…that’ll do it.
- Cap all political donations
- Ban foreign donations
- Strict conflict‑of‑interest & anti‑corruption laws with penalties
- No titles, honours or peerages for donors
- No govt contracts for donors
- Publish every donation/lobby meeting
…that’ll do it.
December 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
It’s really simple…
- Cap all political donations
- Ban foreign donations
- Strict conflict‑of‑interest & anti‑corruption laws with penalties
- No titles, honours or peerages for donors
- No govt contracts for donors
- Publish every donation/lobby meeting
…that’ll do it.
- Cap all political donations
- Ban foreign donations
- Strict conflict‑of‑interest & anti‑corruption laws with penalties
- No titles, honours or peerages for donors
- No govt contracts for donors
- Publish every donation/lobby meeting
…that’ll do it.
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Last chance to register for our webinar on the Earth Rover Program, starting at 14.00 GMT. Intro by the brilliant Kate Raworth, then explanations of the concept and the science by some of our scientists and technicians. Register to obtain link. Hope to see you there
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join the global launch of the Earth Rover Program and the release of our inaugural report, which explores how a new scientific concept, ‘soilsmology’, is shaking up our und...
We are delighted to invite you to the global launch of the Earth Rover Program and the release of our inaugural report, ‘Soilsmology: Transforming our Understanding of Soil’, which explores how an eme...
us02web.zoom.us
December 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Last chance to register for our webinar on the Earth Rover Program, starting at 14.00 GMT. Intro by the brilliant Kate Raworth, then explanations of the concept and the science by some of our scientists and technicians. Register to obtain link. Hope to see you there
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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We are happy to support @apresj20 by being a signatory on their open letter to the damaging op-ed in Le Mondeo that advocates & pushes a psychosomatic view of biological disease.
📢Opinion piece: “A Parallel Science of Symptoms: A Dangerous Impasse for Patients”
🤝Over 130 international signatories among which 30 professors and senior investigators (some 50 physicians) and more than 30 representatives of patients’ advocacy groups in France and abroad!
🤝Over 130 international signatories among which 30 professors and senior investigators (some 50 physicians) and more than 30 representatives of patients’ advocacy groups in France and abroad!
December 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
We are happy to support @apresj20 by being a signatory on their open letter to the damaging op-ed in Le Mondeo that advocates & pushes a psychosomatic view of biological disease.
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News Release 4-Dec-2025
To treat long COVID, we must learn from historical chronic illnesses, medical researchers say
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Lots of discussion of ME/CFS in full paper
#PAIS #MEcfs #LongCovid
To treat long COVID, we must learn from historical chronic illnesses, medical researchers say
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Lots of discussion of ME/CFS in full paper
#PAIS #MEcfs #LongCovid
December 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
News Release 4-Dec-2025
To treat long COVID, we must learn from historical chronic illnesses, medical researchers say
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Lots of discussion of ME/CFS in full paper
#PAIS #MEcfs #LongCovid
To treat long COVID, we must learn from historical chronic illnesses, medical researchers say
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Lots of discussion of ME/CFS in full paper
#PAIS #MEcfs #LongCovid
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Business profits are made in part because we have a healthy and reasonably well educated workforce.
If it takes an extra 0.5% of your profits to keep your workers healthy, fed and warm that should be ok, shouldn’t it?
Minimum Wage goes up in April by 50p per person per hour.
If it takes an extra 0.5% of your profits to keep your workers healthy, fed and warm that should be ok, shouldn’t it?
Minimum Wage goes up in April by 50p per person per hour.
December 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Business profits are made in part because we have a healthy and reasonably well educated workforce.
If it takes an extra 0.5% of your profits to keep your workers healthy, fed and warm that should be ok, shouldn’t it?
Minimum Wage goes up in April by 50p per person per hour.
If it takes an extra 0.5% of your profits to keep your workers healthy, fed and warm that should be ok, shouldn’t it?
Minimum Wage goes up in April by 50p per person per hour.
Sir Bradley Wiggins, daredevil stair rail mountaineer and very silly cat. Died too young, hit by car. The Bradster is sorely missed especially at Christmas.
December 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Sir Bradley Wiggins, daredevil stair rail mountaineer and very silly cat. Died too young, hit by car. The Bradster is sorely missed especially at Christmas.
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Reports now said that Kegbreath told Admiral Holsey that the military will follow all order & not to question any of them. Holsey stated the strikes are illegal & Kegbreath said do it or step down & retired. Holsey step down & retired.
allaboutlawyer.com/admiral-alvi...
allaboutlawyer.com/admiral-alvi...
Admiral Alvin Holsey Retires Friday After Clash With Hegseth Over Venezuela Strikes
Admiral Alvin Holsey retires December 12, 2025 after one year leading SOUTHCOM. Breaking news on tensions with Hegseth over Caribbean strikes.
allaboutlawyer.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Reports now said that Kegbreath told Admiral Holsey that the military will follow all order & not to question any of them. Holsey stated the strikes are illegal & Kegbreath said do it or step down & retired. Holsey step down & retired.
allaboutlawyer.com/admiral-alvi...
allaboutlawyer.com/admiral-alvi...
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The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
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Finally someone says it.
Daisy Cooper, "In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker that arrived on a boat"
"Today we have 46,000 a year"
"And do you know why?"
"Brexit"
"Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage"
*audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT
"Today we have 46,000 a year"
"And do you know why?"
"Brexit"
"Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage"
*audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT
December 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Finally someone says it.
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A reminder that if the touchpad on your laptop isn't working and you have cats, it was probably a cat stepping on Fn with one cat pad and and your touchpad toggle F key with another.
F-ing cats.
F-ing cats.
December 4, 2025 at 11:58 AM
A reminder that if the touchpad on your laptop isn't working and you have cats, it was probably a cat stepping on Fn with one cat pad and and your touchpad toggle F key with another.
F-ing cats.
F-ing cats.
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5th December 2025 07.43
December 5, 2025 at 7:50 AM
5th December 2025 07.43
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A rather magnifique Porte du Jour
December 5, 2025 at 10:13 AM
A rather magnifique Porte du Jour
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1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:55 AM
1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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“In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker who arrived on a boat. Today we have 46,000 a year and do you know why? It was because of the botched Brexit deal pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage should be here apologising”
Daisy Cooper
Daisy Cooper
December 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
“In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker who arrived on a boat. Today we have 46,000 a year and do you know why? It was because of the botched Brexit deal pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage should be here apologising”
Daisy Cooper
Daisy Cooper
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My thoughts are with Chris Mason at this difficult time.
Good news if Farage refuses to go on the BBC. Except for the BBC. Whatever will they do?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage turns on broadcasters over racism allegations as number of claims hits 28
Reform leader suggests he would boycott BBC, saying he has had letter from Dulwich pupils defending him
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:38 PM
My thoughts are with Chris Mason at this difficult time.
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#ME #LongCovid #Lyme #POTS #PEM #LivesWeCannotLive
@meassociation.org.uk
@longcovidsupport.bsky.social
#Justice4ME
@ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social
@decodemestudy.bsky.social
@thelancet.com
@nhsengland.bsky.social
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
@profstevegriffin.bsky.social
@davidjoffe64.bsky.social
@meassociation.org.uk
@longcovidsupport.bsky.social
#Justice4ME
@ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social
@decodemestudy.bsky.social
@thelancet.com
@nhsengland.bsky.social
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
@profstevegriffin.bsky.social
@davidjoffe64.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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I think one of the weirdest things to come out of the UK is the idea that you explicitly should segregate, denigrate, isolate and discriminate against an entire group of people, as long as you do it with "respect and dignity."
December 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I think one of the weirdest things to come out of the UK is the idea that you explicitly should segregate, denigrate, isolate and discriminate against an entire group of people, as long as you do it with "respect and dignity."
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There are some lovely snowflakes in Hooke’s Micrographia too:
December 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
There are some lovely snowflakes in Hooke’s Micrographia too:
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A west of Ireland #painting. "Sligo Mountains" was finished and sold last year. It came out of cycle trips along the Sligo coast when I enjoyed being escorted by the Ox Mountains towards Ballysadare and Sligo town. I've also been up into them by those woods yonder. Beautiful. #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear
November 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
A west of Ireland #painting. "Sligo Mountains" was finished and sold last year. It came out of cycle trips along the Sligo coast when I enjoyed being escorted by the Ox Mountains towards Ballysadare and Sligo town. I've also been up into them by those woods yonder. Beautiful. #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear
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"the Student Loans Company (the taxman in plastic glasses and fake moustache)"
www.economist.com/britain/2025... new guy just dropped
December 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
"the Student Loans Company (the taxman in plastic glasses and fake moustache)"