Charlotte
@spriteacus.bsky.social
Chronic lurker, people at work message and ask me for ‘a hammer and sickle chat’ when they want to check something or get info on our policy. I’m in a union, byline times subscriber for years, my social media is very angry politics and some hobbies.
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'Tonight on BBC News, should we fight or capitulate like the worms we are? Joining us in the studio are a former US ambassador and a Nazi'
No, of course, it should just hand him $10bn
BBC declares it will fight the US President but should it?
As President Trump follows through on his threat to sue the BBC, what are the options for the corporation?
www.bbc.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
'Tonight on BBC News, should we fight or capitulate like the worms we are? Joining us in the studio are a former US ambassador and a Nazi'
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There is no problem made by humans that cannot be unmade.
December 15, 2025 at 3:47 AM
There is no problem made by humans that cannot be unmade.
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It's telling that the language that the political centre are using about Zack Polanski and his policies are *much* stronger than they've used for Nigel Farage or in relation to any of his policies.
Despite, as we know from a *lot* of polling, the fact that Green policies are not very divisive.
Despite, as we know from a *lot* of polling, the fact that Green policies are not very divisive.
December 11, 2025 at 9:22 AM
It's telling that the language that the political centre are using about Zack Polanski and his policies are *much* stronger than they've used for Nigel Farage or in relation to any of his policies.
Despite, as we know from a *lot* of polling, the fact that Green policies are not very divisive.
Despite, as we know from a *lot* of polling, the fact that Green policies are not very divisive.
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New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
December 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
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Is your local NHS trust using Palantir software?
Find out with our easy tool – then tell them what you think about it:
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Find out with our easy tool – then tell them what you think about it:
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December 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Is your local NHS trust using Palantir software?
Find out with our easy tool – then tell them what you think about it:
https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/&utm-source=Bluesky&utm_campaign=no-palantir-nhs&utm_medium=social_media&utm_content=05-12-2025
Find out with our easy tool – then tell them what you think about it:
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@stephenjenkinson.bsky.social do you know why there has been work to cut back / remove plant buffer between Baberton and the bypass for weeks? They are destroying wildlife and removing a worrying amount of the audio buffer between us and the bypass and there seems no end in sight?
December 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
@stephenjenkinson.bsky.social do you know why there has been work to cut back / remove plant buffer between Baberton and the bypass for weeks? They are destroying wildlife and removing a worrying amount of the audio buffer between us and the bypass and there seems no end in sight?
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The BBC says there is a “safety debate”.
There’s not really a debate if you a pedestrian.
Research: “children 82% more likely to be killed if struck by an SUV or LTV rather than smaller vehicle.”
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
There’s not really a debate if you a pedestrian.
Research: “children 82% more likely to be killed if struck by an SUV or LTV rather than smaller vehicle.”
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
Being hit by an SUV increases the likelihood of death or serious injury | LSHTM
The likelihood of a pedestrian or cyclist being fatally injured is 44% higher if they are hit by a sports utility vehicle (SUV) or light truck vehicle (LTV) compared with smaller passenger cars, new
www.lshtm.ac.uk
December 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
The BBC says there is a “safety debate”.
There’s not really a debate if you a pedestrian.
Research: “children 82% more likely to be killed if struck by an SUV or LTV rather than smaller vehicle.”
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
There’s not really a debate if you a pedestrian.
Research: “children 82% more likely to be killed if struck by an SUV or LTV rather than smaller vehicle.”
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
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Gen Z is spending more on essentials than previous generations, yet their wages aren't keeping up.
It's no wonder they aren't "spending like retailers need them to."
When 70% of the economy depends on consumer spending, people need money to spend. It's as simple as that.
It's no wonder they aren't "spending like retailers need them to."
When 70% of the economy depends on consumer spending, people need money to spend. It's as simple as that.
December 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Gen Z is spending more on essentials than previous generations, yet their wages aren't keeping up.
It's no wonder they aren't "spending like retailers need them to."
When 70% of the economy depends on consumer spending, people need money to spend. It's as simple as that.
It's no wonder they aren't "spending like retailers need them to."
When 70% of the economy depends on consumer spending, people need money to spend. It's as simple as that.
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Wes Streeting insists that NHS health records are not for sale. But handing them to a company like Palantir shatters any chance of public trust, warns our data lead Duncan McCann:
https://goodlaw.social/i1o0
https://goodlaw.social/i1o0
December 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Wes Streeting insists that NHS health records are not for sale. But handing them to a company like Palantir shatters any chance of public trust, warns our data lead Duncan McCann:
https://goodlaw.social/i1o0
https://goodlaw.social/i1o0
PFI is expensive and funnels money out of the NHS in the long term. We are still paying off the last PFI deals and don’t far more than we received. This is a quick way to make a difference now!
NHS private finance diverts money away from healthcare, towards the pockets of private shareholders.
Cat Eccles MP’s motion can force the government to drop their NHS private finance plans from the Autumn Budget.
✉️Take 2 mins now to email your MP to sign the motion and protect patients.
Cat Eccles MP’s motion can force the government to drop their NHS private finance plans from the Autumn Budget.
✉️Take 2 mins now to email your MP to sign the motion and protect patients.
November 21, 2025 at 8:16 AM
PFI is expensive and funnels money out of the NHS in the long term. We are still paying off the last PFI deals and don’t far more than we received. This is a quick way to make a difference now!
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If the EHRC had their way we'd see all women forced back into wearing only skirts and dresses and wearing their hair long lest they be suspected of being trans and banned from going to the toilet.
That's what this is suggesting. Masculine women being denied access alongside trans people.
That's what this is suggesting. Masculine women being denied access alongside trans people.
![The guidance said that if transgender people are excluded from a space, organisations should consider whether there is a suitable alternative for them and that it would not be proportionate to leave them without essential services, such as access to lavatories.
But it also outlines how in some cases that may not be possible owing to the physical constraints of buildings or high costs. It said: “It may be that offering alternative arrangements is not reasonably possible […] this may be because of the type of service being provided, the needs of the service users, the physical constraints of any building, or because of the disproportionate financial costs associated with making those arrangements.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:movr4wsu2du5xbmeragyr5cx/bafkreigp3qse73rzhl2czgxgbmpzectwrb4hdwxk44fm52m7l7cu36mwaa@jpeg)
November 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
If the EHRC had their way we'd see all women forced back into wearing only skirts and dresses and wearing their hair long lest they be suspected of being trans and banned from going to the toilet.
That's what this is suggesting. Masculine women being denied access alongside trans people.
That's what this is suggesting. Masculine women being denied access alongside trans people.
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Your choice is quite literally a bipartisan cabal of pedophilic drone-wielding genocidal oligarchs that suck each other off in depraved games of domination and blackmail, or, socialism and a habitable planet, and you're struggling with that choice?! Dafuq is wrong you?
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Your choice is quite literally a bipartisan cabal of pedophilic drone-wielding genocidal oligarchs that suck each other off in depraved games of domination and blackmail, or, socialism and a habitable planet, and you're struggling with that choice?! Dafuq is wrong you?
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We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data.
Government’s last chance to keep control of digital
Digital sovereignty isn’t optional anymore. We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data.
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⏰ The Autumn Budget is coming & the future of the NHS is at stake.
We’re a small team doing big work, so we need your support to fund research exposing private partnerships & hold politicians accountable.
💙 Support our crowdfunder & tag 5 friends.
Link in bio 💕
We’re a small team doing big work, so we need your support to fund research exposing private partnerships & hold politicians accountable.
💙 Support our crowdfunder & tag 5 friends.
Link in bio 💕
November 10, 2025 at 8:33 AM
⏰ The Autumn Budget is coming & the future of the NHS is at stake.
We’re a small team doing big work, so we need your support to fund research exposing private partnerships & hold politicians accountable.
💙 Support our crowdfunder & tag 5 friends.
Link in bio 💕
We’re a small team doing big work, so we need your support to fund research exposing private partnerships & hold politicians accountable.
💙 Support our crowdfunder & tag 5 friends.
Link in bio 💕
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The prediction was always that when boomers aged, they would force massive improvements to health care and elder services. Instead, the rich ones access private care, and the rest seem resigned to humiliating decline at the hands of rapacious capitalism.
November 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The prediction was always that when boomers aged, they would force massive improvements to health care and elder services. Instead, the rich ones access private care, and the rest seem resigned to humiliating decline at the hands of rapacious capitalism.
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Teenagers near us letting off fireworks: in a children's playground, near houses, lighting them up and then running away, not caring how they are aimed.
It's your annual reminder that: FIREWORKS SHOULD NOT BE SOLD TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
It's your annual reminder that: FIREWORKS SHOULD NOT BE SOLD TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
November 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Teenagers near us letting off fireworks: in a children's playground, near houses, lighting them up and then running away, not caring how they are aimed.
It's your annual reminder that: FIREWORKS SHOULD NOT BE SOLD TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
It's your annual reminder that: FIREWORKS SHOULD NOT BE SOLD TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
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💷 Private healthcare interests are shaping public health policy, again!
EveryDoctor’s new exposé shows that Labour’s NHS plans were influenced by private execs with profit on their minds.
The NHS deserves better.
👉 everydoctor.org.uk/talking-poin...
EveryDoctor’s new exposé shows that Labour’s NHS plans were influenced by private execs with profit on their minds.
The NHS deserves better.
👉 everydoctor.org.uk/talking-poin...
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 AM
💷 Private healthcare interests are shaping public health policy, again!
EveryDoctor’s new exposé shows that Labour’s NHS plans were influenced by private execs with profit on their minds.
The NHS deserves better.
👉 everydoctor.org.uk/talking-poin...
EveryDoctor’s new exposé shows that Labour’s NHS plans were influenced by private execs with profit on their minds.
The NHS deserves better.
👉 everydoctor.org.uk/talking-poin...
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The line is always “if you care about trans people and people of colour you’ll vote Labour to stop reform” but Labour have done reform policy and stance to those groups. It’s an absolutely hilariously bad argument.
October 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The line is always “if you care about trans people and people of colour you’ll vote Labour to stop reform” but Labour have done reform policy and stance to those groups. It’s an absolutely hilariously bad argument.
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It's good practice to lead with what you are doing rather than with what others aren't. Share what you are doing and invite others to join you.
October 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
It's good practice to lead with what you are doing rather than with what others aren't. Share what you are doing and invite others to join you.
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Heading home from a terrific @scottishgreens.org conference, and I've been delighted to see our new leadership team take to the stage with such confidence.
200 days to go, till what could be our best election ever! Join us: members.greens.scot/join
200 days to go, till what could be our best election ever! Join us: members.greens.scot/join
October 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Heading home from a terrific @scottishgreens.org conference, and I've been delighted to see our new leadership team take to the stage with such confidence.
200 days to go, till what could be our best election ever! Join us: members.greens.scot/join
200 days to go, till what could be our best election ever! Join us: members.greens.scot/join
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Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."
Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first
Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...
nation.cymru
October 16, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."
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The global network of the radical right is a threat to our democracy. 🚨
@libdemdaisy.bsky.social on Musk and Tommy Robinson: "It is outrageous that a man who has so much control over what people read online could be funding someone who stokes far right extremism on our streets."
@libdemdaisy.bsky.social on Musk and Tommy Robinson: "It is outrageous that a man who has so much control over what people read online could be funding someone who stokes far right extremism on our streets."
October 15, 2025 at 11:43 AM
The global network of the radical right is a threat to our democracy. 🚨
@libdemdaisy.bsky.social on Musk and Tommy Robinson: "It is outrageous that a man who has so much control over what people read online could be funding someone who stokes far right extremism on our streets."
@libdemdaisy.bsky.social on Musk and Tommy Robinson: "It is outrageous that a man who has so much control over what people read online could be funding someone who stokes far right extremism on our streets."
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Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”
October 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”
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The NHS faces unprecedented challenges. But NHS staff and patients are on the same team, and together our voices are powerful. By signing the EveryDoctor Charter, you’re joining others who believe in an NHS that remains true to its core principles. everydoctor.org.uk/stand-with-n...
October 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
The NHS faces unprecedented challenges. But NHS staff and patients are on the same team, and together our voices are powerful. By signing the EveryDoctor Charter, you’re joining others who believe in an NHS that remains true to its core principles. everydoctor.org.uk/stand-with-n...