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Sarah Woolley @sarahwoolley.bsky.social · 28m

E2 soon to be N22 in a few months

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Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · 10d

I can't begin to describe how accurate this is.

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Sarah Woolley @sarahwoolley.bsky.social · 4h

What does it do to a child’s wellbeing when you tell them they’re going to rule over everyone some day because they have magic blood?

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Sarah Woolley @sarahwoolley.bsky.social · 4h

Sure, but if she’s an early years expert then why does she subject her own children to the British press and The Firm? Giving pictures of your kids to the Daily Mail is freak behaviour www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Kate warns too much screen time damages family life

The Princess of Wales says that smartphones and digital devices are causing an

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sarah Woolley @sarahwoolley.bsky.social · 4h

Literally thought of putting up posters in Sure Start centres in bubble writing asking “ARE YOU NORMAL, WOULD YOU LIKE A COFFEE?”

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Sarah Woolley @sarahwoolley.bsky.social · 4h

If you’re a parent in London interested in mutual aid and community organising that benefits children and their families then I’m always up for a chat as I’m struggling to meet other parents who are into that instead of say, raw milk and being anti-vax

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 1d

not to merge discourses but a reason ppl get mad re: the bari weiss of it all is bc most actual journalists toil in anonymity & will quit on principle rather than to set up a lucrative rightward heel turn, but there's never money for them. this person may well never work in journalism again.

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 1d

one of these journalists is 25 and had worked in public-radio newsrooms in alaska since she was 18. just a really brave thing to do at that point in her career, especially in that media landscape and broader economy

Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 1d

This is notable www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

www.nytimes.com

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 2d

Incredibly dangerous for a senior politician to suggest that there's some zero-sum game to be played between mourning the losses of Oct7 and protesting an ongoing genocide. And incredibly cynical given that the protests are directed at his own complicity

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Keir Starmer calls student protests on 7 October anniversary ‘un-British’

Prime minister urges students not to protest on the second anniversary of Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel

www.theguardian.com

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love & barley 🐸🌶️🪏🎃 @loveandbarley.bsky.social · 2d

give greta thunberg a gundam

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Sarah Woolley @sarahwoolley.bsky.social · 2d

bdsmovement.net/boycott-stan...

Boycott “Standing Together” for Whitewashing Israel’s Genocide and Apartheid

“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” — Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid leader

bdsmovement.net

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 4d

Also love the idea that you can "stop traffic" in Soho, which assumes that the [motor] traffic was ever moving in the first place.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 4d

For those who take a niche interest in the Americanisation of UK rightwing politics, formerly Tory-linked student group Turning Point are increasingly going down the Charlie Kirk-type evangelical path.

[Not the point, but I love the idea of 2025 Soho being some hotbed of sin]

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 3d

GNU Jilly Cooper. Jilly and dad were friends and the only person I’ve known to call him ‘Tel’. Hope they’re both having a big drink somewhere.

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Clever Mia @readvesna.com · 5d

greta ily what an outfit

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 5d

Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years.

This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 5d

This amazing article from @vic-parsons.bsky.social via @wearequeeraf.com shows the absolute criminal state of trans healthcare in the UK.

Scotland has a 224 year wait for a first appointment. Yes, you read that right.

www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

Latest waiting times for gender identity clinics in the UK

Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

www.wearequeeraf.com

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Chrissy Brand @chrissyfirebrand.bsky.social · 5d

Statement from Jewish Bloc for Palestine

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alice says Palestinians in Gaza aren’t scammers! @bluwhalien.bsky.social · 7d

Every single march I’ve been on has had a big Jewish presence - and Jewish speakers. I even saw an ex Israeli bloc consisting of ex Israelis who have left the colony once. And then of course there are the Holocaust survivors and their descendants, and the Orthodox protestors. Fogarty has no shame.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5d

And again: the reason politics and media are this reckless, hateful and deliberately inflammatory is all down to decisions that were made in 2018-19 about what is acceptable conduct in public life, and we are all going to live with the consequences of that for a very long time.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5d

I think we can look back to the contents of the Forde Report, because he was quite blunt about what this type of behaviour is.

pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 5d

Again, are we saying that all Jews in the UK are representative and responsible for the actions of a completely separate country on another continent who are reviled the world over, hence the protests? are you arguing they’re the same thing? seems like you are.

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 5d

The Online Safety Act sure has made being online more dangerous.

The Verge @theverge.com · 5d

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 6d

Pete Davidson just became the only victim of 9/11 to get reparations from the Saudi regime.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 7d

Shame on you for publishing this @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Like Lyra Mckee, firebrand US activist Charlie Kirk died totally unaware of how many ‘best friends’ he had in the world...
Belfast Telegraph 2 Oct 2025 JOHN LAVERTY

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 7d

Reminder: this paper said their initial reporting of abuse rings in northern England were a declaration of war upon multiculturalism and liberalism. I’m not even paraphrasing, that was the language used. That was in 2011, and it didn’t get better after that.

Jonathan Portes
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The Times finds it "unacceptable" that people who came here legally in 2021 and have been living and working here since should allowed to stay.
The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism
archive.ph/TFZY9
There is a more pressing issue. Ministers must ensure that the vast numbers of immigrants who arrived in the so-called Boriswave of 2020-21 are not automatically absorbed into the permanent population. They are about to cross the the five-year threshold into ILR, yet Labour continues to dither. Ms Mahmood must freeze the status of this huge cohort while a new residency regime is finalised. A million or more extra permanent residents in these islands, let in on the nod, is simply unacceptable. Finally, the home secretary must acquaint herself, and the public, with an accurate estimate of the actual number of foreign nationals living here, what taxes they pay and what services they consume. Without hard data, all the political parties are fumbling around in
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the dark.

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