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Ms M 💚🌱💙🦊🌳🦔🌸🐞🧶♾️ @themorganic.bsky.social · 50m

They have really lost their way. Or didn’t know where to start in the first place.

The rot started under Blair with tuition fees then Tory removal of bursaries. Many nurses & midwives were mature students with families. Who wants to saddle their family with debt?

Big disaster.

Ms M 💚🌱💙🦊🌳🦔🌸🐞🧶♾️ @themorganic.bsky.social · 10h

Humans are horrible to animals.

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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 1d

www.opendemocracy.net/en/digital-i...

I have no idea who these people are in government. They are nothing like any Labour government I’ve ever known.

Digital ID will put UK on a dangerous path – just ask India

I spent years reporting on digital IDs like the Brit Card. This is what I found

www.opendemocracy.net

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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 19h

Lyme, ME/CFS, endometriosis, long COVID, coeliac disease, adenomyosis, fibromyalgia & all the other conditions where there's actually nothing wrong with us, but we just enjoy pretending to be ill. For fuck's sake. It's like we've regressed to the 1960s when my mum was accused of being a malingerer.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

Just as we are beginning to understand the biochemical basis of this horrendous condition, the government appoints the man perhaps most responsible for the mischaracterisation of ME/CFS – Simon Wesseley - to its *overdiagnosis* commission. www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk

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Ms M 💚🌱💙🦊🌳🦔🌸🐞🧶♾️ @themorganic.bsky.social · 17h

And, as often is the case, it’s women who are ignored and issues labelled ‘psychological’ - because male bodies are still considered the ‘standard’ human body.

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Ms M 💚🌱💙🦊🌳🦔🌸🐞🧶♾️ @themorganic.bsky.social · 19h

Potential ‘converts’ could also be disaffected former ‘moderate’ Labour voters.

I’m reading loud and clear from this that Lib Dem’s are actually centre-slightly-right, not centre-slightly-left. It’s no wonder Greens are hoovering up so many new members from Labour instead.

Interesting times.

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Ms M 💚🌱💙🦊🌳🦔🌸🐞🧶♾️ @themorganic.bsky.social · 20h

Thank you.

Ms M 💚🌱💙🦊🌳🦔🌸🐞🧶♾️ @themorganic.bsky.social · 20h

My point was to imply that a party actively recruiting Conservatives is not really very progressive but more of the same. That is not attracting me in the slightest.

Yes, it is my choice who I vote for and I‘m afraid I won’t be switching to Lib Dems, lovely though I know many members are.

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Ms M 💚🌱💙🦊🌳🦔🌸🐞🧶♾️ @themorganic.bsky.social · 20h

People can vote for who they like.

But I won’t be voting Lib Dem now.

Ms M 💚🌱💙🦊🌳🦔🌸🐞🧶♾️ @themorganic.bsky.social · 20h

Well, in theory I’m one of those. I’m obviously too ‘left leaning’ to be worthy of winning over.

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Ms M 💚🌱💙🦊🌳🦔🌸🐞🧶♾️ @themorganic.bsky.social · 22h

The fact that Lib Dem’s are actively recruiting support from those whose ethos does not chime with mine.

Evidently it’s not the party for me.

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Ms M 💚🌱💙🦊🌳🦔🌸🐞🧶♾️ @themorganic.bsky.social · 22h

Tory Badenoch warning that large employers are leaving the country.

Well, maybe that’s a good opportunity for smaller, new home-grown businesses to start up.

Several of my family members already freelance, as established companies are failing & the environment does not suit their way of being.

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Ms M 💚🌱💙🦊🌳🦔🌸🐞🧶♾️ @themorganic.bsky.social · 23h

Oh god, Badenoch is asserting that thousands of immigrants will flock here because they don’t have our standard of living.

No mention of war & climate impacts being drivers, or thoughts on how to help.

It’s all ‘me me me’ with Conservatives, isn’t it?

a colorful background with the words 100 % selfish on it

Alt: a colorful background with the words 100 % selfish on it

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Norwich FoE @norwichfoe.bsky.social · 1d

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Ms M 💚🌱💙🦊🌳🦔🌸🐞🧶♾️ @themorganic.bsky.social · 23h

Please don’t use the word ‘suffer’. It’s not a painful disease. It’s a difference in processing and thinking, which has innumerable benefits.

Ms M 💚🌱💙🦊🌳🦔🌸🐞🧶♾️ @themorganic.bsky.social · 23h

Naga Munchetty will discuss #dyslexia on her @bbc5live.bsky.social show shortly.

This is a subject close to my heart & my family experience. Dyslexics favour visual thinking over language & have amazing skills that most don’t appreciate.

We need neurodiversity. Let’s start valuing & supporting it.

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Alt: Image of a neon edged cube glowing with a black background. This is to symbolise dyslexic 3D thinking.

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Ms M 💚🌱💙🦊🌳🦔🌸🐞🧶♾️ @themorganic.bsky.social · 23h

Why do BBC channels, news and presenters not post on BlueSky?

Even the few who have accounts aren’t using them. If they’re relying on the ‘dark channel’ they’re really not getting a balanced view of the public‘s experiences.

I feel excluded from contributing to something I pay a licence fee for.

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Alt: A vintage BBC logo with a blue and green globe

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Ms M 💚🌱💙🦊🌳🦔🌸🐞🧶♾️ @themorganic.bsky.social · 23h

The plural is more accurately descriptive currently! 😆

Thanks.😊

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Ms M 💚🌱💙🦊🌳🦔🌸🐞🧶♾️ @themorganic.bsky.social · 23h

It certainly comes to something when others are seemingly implicitly campaigning to keep bad things!

Do you know who produced this graphic?

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Trees For Streets @treesforstreets.bsky.social · 1d

Emma, a serial tree sponsor in West Harrow, has been hard at work, transforming her street from a grey concrete jungle to a tree-lined haven 🌲🌳

Read about Emma's motivations and how we helped her make a difference on our website 👉 www.treesforstreets.org/sponsor-stor...

Sponsor Stories: Emma - Trees for Streets

Sometimes one person can make a big difference. Serial tree sponsor Emma is almost singlehandedly regreening her street in West Harrow

https://www.treesforstreets.org/sponsor-stories-emma/"

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Ms M 💚🌱💙🦊🌳🦔🌸🐞🧶♾️ @themorganic.bsky.social · 1d

Oh dear. I’m afraid that’s a prospect that would drive me away from Lib Dems as an alternative.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

www.theguardian.com

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Ms M 💚🌱💙🦊🌳🦔🌸🐞🧶♾️ @themorganic.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting, Tory rep on @bbc5live.bsky.social referred to having to use ‘nationalised’ policies to support the U.K. during Covid pandemic and then ‘get back to Conservative’ ethos afterwards.

That’s basically admitting conservatism doesn’t work in an emergency. What use are they?

They’re toast 😬

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Ms M 💚🌱💙🦊🌳🦔🌸🐞🧶♾️ @themorganic.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed!

Ms M 💚🌱💙🦊🌳🦔🌸🐞🧶♾️ @themorganic.bsky.social · 1d

Horrible woman.

These people know the cost of everything & the value of nothing.

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