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Niki @nikim.bsky.social · 6h

I have a client who works for a major pub chain and she says that young people don’t drink any more. They sell more non alcoholic drinks than alcoholic drinks

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 22h

This is actually one of the best news pieces I've read in mainstream media about our circumstances. It carefully lays out the scale of the catastrophe we're potentially facing, and the utter unseriousness of those elected to do something about it

Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 22h

This makes me want to go full gorilla mode www.theguardian.com/environment/...

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

www.theguardian.com

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Niki @nikim.bsky.social · 22h

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 23h

⬇️ Almost 2,000 companies experienced medicine shortages last year because of Brexit.

🏥 The NHS has been badly damaged by Brexit. Increased cost of medicines, staff shortages and fewer doctors.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/keir-starmer-drugs-medicine-nhs-7zfhkjzls

Billions more to be spent on medicine as Keir Starmer scraps rules

NHS chiefs and Treasury at loggerheads over who will pay pharmaceutical companies more money for the most up-to-date and effective medicines

www.thetimes.com

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Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social · 23h

Despite thundery downpours and days of hot sun, repairs have continued at St Andrew’s, South Runcton, Norfolk.

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📷 An autumnal St Andrew's, South Runcton before repairs began

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23h

Omar Yaghi, the new Nobel Laureate, was born to a Palestinian refugee family.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi will share the prize. Their structures can "capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyse chemical reactions," the committee said. n.pr/4nOvwQs

Research on metal-organic frameworks gets the chemistry Nobel Prize

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi will share the prize. Their structures can "capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyse chemical reactions," the committee said.

n.pr

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 1d

It also brings in billions to the U.K. because we have exceptionally well trained actors, film & theatre technicians, costume designers & stylists, plus state of the art studios.
We have a thriving music industry, world renowned art comedy & dance, plus massively popular festivals, gigs & events.

💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Wonder how many of these politicians enjoy a night at the theatre, a film or read a book. See, mate! You may not like it, but the arts and humanities is and always was intended to be accessible to everyone. You just tried to appropriate it for yourselves and your ilk.

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lynnechester cathedral 🎶🗽 @lynnh1.bsky.social · 1d

Wow. Pam Bondi brought attack notes to the hearing today. Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst captured them in these stunning photos that show her plan entire time was to try to smear Democratic senators — not provide actual information.

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💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Also why we’re fighting to allow others have their creative ‘voices’ seen and heard. Who wants to live in a world where people are treated like machines whose soul purpose for being is mass production and their lives deemed as meaningless, unless you’re mega wealthy. #ScriptSkyUK #WritingCommunity

💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Sharing this again. Clearly with arts and humanities under sustained attack from politicians we need to keep reminding ourselves not only why we do this but why we keep fighting to do it. #ScriptSkyUK #ScriptSky #WritingCommunity

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

At some point these imbeciles are going to realise that arts courses are *funding* the courses they do like and if they cut those places unis will just go bankrupt so no maths or science either.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The party even more dangerous than Starmers labour - UK's answer to Putin's communists

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Niki @nikim.bsky.social · 1d

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Niki @nikim.bsky.social · 1d

I did ask 🤷‍♀️

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Niki @nikim.bsky.social · 1d

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

Do watch this. It’s very good. Sound absolutely on.

Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 1d

Robert Jenrick and his wiggy puppet

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 1d

This is such a hard article to read. The blood boils all over again.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Stephen Lawrence killer admits role but refuses to name accomplices

David Norris, speaking at a parole hearing, becomes the first of the teenager's killers to publicly admit his role in the 1993 attack.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Niki @nikim.bsky.social · 1d

People who are neurodivergent are disproportionately affected

Niki @nikim.bsky.social · 1d

The pandemic has caused a mental health crisis which everyone is trying to ignore

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 1d

A paean to privatised public transport.

Today I had to go from Stockport to Salisbury. So I bought a ticket

Stockport > Bristol > Salisbury

The drive to Stockport should have taken 35 minutes. Satnav said it would take 2 hours, and I'd miss my train.

So I went to Macclesfield, where I found...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Nearly 3000 new members in the 24 hours since the Party Political Broadcast.

Extraordinary.

Hope is returning. 💚🚀

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Niki @nikim.bsky.social · 1d

Surprise masturbator?

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

It’s Jack Whitehall night in Riyadh - everyone will be there - oh, except Asaad bin Nasser al-Ghamdi, a teacher that criticised the government that is paying Jack and so is in prison for 20 years

www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

I think you'll find in the USA where the problem is the worst they HAVENT been educating people for a long, long time.

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