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Katie Breathwick

@breathwick.bsky.social
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Classic FM…ex-LBC. Rants about climate and politics. Podcast: You’re Wrong About #ADHD. 2 whippets, 1 husband who kills people for a living. Board: The Watermill Theatre Patron: The Women’s Prize linktr.ee/yourewrongaboutadhd

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Omg Kate Garraway gagged her with that question
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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Poor Sir Simon. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 'remarkable national recovery' he refers to is a myth. The 1980s was when our national decline started. I wonder where he gets his information? 99-percent.org/back-to-the-...
A post suggesting that the 1980s saw a national recovery from the previous period -- entirely inconsistent with the facts.
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Katie Breathwick @breathwick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wait: stirrup leggings? Are we back there again? Please god.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Avg GDP growth 1945-79: 2.8% Since then: 1.6% And this apparently "broken, economically stagnant" basket case kept its AAA status right through the Winter of Discontent We lost it under Cameron, and it fell again under May, then Johnson, and then Truss: i.e. the whole time Clarke was in govt
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A bit like net migration figures being lower, the fact that UK economic growth has been higher than expected cuts against the narrative but can’t be ignored forever. Maybe (probably) I was wrong and Labour did have a theory of growth after all.
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Katie Breathwick @breathwick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Agreed.
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Katie Breathwick @breathwick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wow. What a speech 👏👏 #burnham #labour #conference
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/09/2026
Nearly two centuries after “Jane Eyre” first defied the conventions of Victorian England, China is requiring a new generation of teenagers to read her story. The book is widely celebrated in China for its themes of independence and equality between women and men.
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Why China Is Requiring Ninth Graders to Read ‘Jane Eyre’
The Victorian heroine has long been celebrated in China for her independence and insistence on equality.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
US social media companies are interfering in the Brazilian elections in favour of the Far Right’s Flávio Bolsonaro. Meta is the latest. It’s just blocked the campaign account of President Lula in the final stretch of the election.
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Meta restringe la cuenta de Lula y su partido alerta por posible injerencia extranjera
De cara a las elecciones en Brasil, Lula enfrenta a Meta por restringir su cuenta mientras su partido alerta por posible injerencia extranjera.
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 26/09/2026
I don’t know how your weekend is going so far but I know this clip will make it considerably better.
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Katie Breathwick @breathwick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Things I was frightened of as a child: 1. The Wolf from the Ladybird Little Red Riding Hood 2. Leeches 3. The piranhas in the deep end of St Margaret’s baths in Leicester 4. The man with the purple fingernail from that Hammer Horror 5. The Wolf from Peter and the Wolf 6. Thunder
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Ember @ember-energy.org · 25/09/2026
Rooftop solar is taking off in the UK 🏠☀️ OVER SIXTY UK parliamentary constituencies now have rooftop solar on more than a tenth of all homes. This is a huge jump from just 5 constituencies in 2022 🇬🇧 ember-energy.org/lat...
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 22/09/2026
Film studios shun women, but men make them less money, report shows
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Film studios shun women but men make them less money, report shows
A new report reveals movies by female screenwriters are often overlooked for financial opportunities even though they make studios more money than those written by their male counterparts.
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Toby Lloyd @tobylloyd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Spot on. The best alternative (sadly rejected in 2019) was to link Heathrow and Gatwick by high speed rail, making them 20 mins apart and so functionally one airport. And the full HS4 line would have reduced the need for flying too by allowing direct Manchester-Paris trains too.
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Katie Breathwick @breathwick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Who is this guy? It’s so beautifully delivered.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
new idea "one email a day" you should only be able to send or read one email a day
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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
July 31, 1981 - GORE: . . . It is difficult to come to grips with this issue... my first reaction to it several years ago was one of disbelief..... but it has not gone away. The evidence continues to indicate that this nation may be on the way to a natural disaster of unprecedented proportions. 4/9
CO2 Newsletter vol. 3 no 1 page 4
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John Lyon @johnlyon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The first rule of Overexplaining Club is you do not talk about Overexplaining Club because this is a secret club and we want it to stay a secret, but if you talk about it then people will know it exists, thus ruining the secrecy.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Mark Carney: “I would now like to inform you that the teleprompter has ceased to function. Unlike a certain world leader, I do not view this as a conspiracy.”
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Dominic Biondi @domdab.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I don't think that most people realize that we're not talking about the Earth coming back from a point of no return....the Earth will be fine. The problem is that the Earth will not be habitable for humans.
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John Fitz Rogers @johnfitzrogers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For the record, the Kennedy Center was profitable before 2025. Like all buildings, it needs upkeep. But it is not, and never has been, a danger to the public. I am extremely worried that the building will be demolished just to satisfy one man's vanity. I never thought I'd see this America.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"The same people who were rending their garments when Lord Alli bought a dress for Starmer's wife, screeching 'WHAT INFLUENCE IS HE BUYING?' now look voters in the eyes and insist the crypto bros giving them £72m want nothing in return. By all means, take the donation, but stop taking the piss."
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
10 September 1930 | An Italian Jewish woman, Liliana Segre, was born in Milan. In January 1944, she was deported to #Auschwitz with her father Alberto who perished in the camp in April 1944. Liliana survived. Today she turns 96.
Black and white photo of a smiling man holding a young child, both dressed in light-colored clothes.
Elderly womanwith white hair wearing a black blazer and a light pink scarf, posing against a neutral background.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There are so many stories lately about people who died by suicide after falling into emotionally manipulative patterns with chatbots. We rarely get to hear how the people who loved them are coping after an unimaginable, senseless loss. This is one of their stories: www.404media.co/austin-gordo...
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'Tell Everyone:' A Man Died by Suicide After Talking to ChatGPT. His Former Partner Wants to Warn the World About AI
After allegedly becoming emotionally reliant on ChatGPT, Austin died at 40 years old, leaving behind family and friends who loved him. Megan wants everyone to know what happened.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)
You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.
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Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We have made a full documentary about what really happened at Reform conference. If you only watch a bit of it please make it these 39 seconds. You won't regret it.
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Every single damn day men kill their family members, including an incident just last week where a man in MT killed 8 members of his family — 4 of them children. But you barely heard a peep about it in the national conversation. Men killing their families is so common there’s a name for it… 1/
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It's not often you can pinpoint real, positive change a journalist has caused. But as Turkmeni sources state, @dpcarrington.bsky.social's persistent and probing coverage of this issue has been critical to a change of policy, with massive implications. Big congrats www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Breakthrough’ as Turkmenistan starts fixing ‘mindboggling’ methane mega-leaks
Secretive state begins repairs on ageing facilities after being revealed as worst country for leaks of potent greenhouse gas
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Katie Jane @kj-zurda.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The source in this story is a man from Brownsburg who has been here 25 years. His wife and 5 children are still here. 💔
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Katie Breathwick @breathwick.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Good on you Nepal. #climatecrisis www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...
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Nepal floods latest: Foreign minister calls for 'global effort' to address climate change after devastating flash floods
A glacier collapse likely sparked Wednesday's floods in the Himalayan border region, killing at least 626 people, authorities say.
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A truly biblical hailstorm brought an abrupt end to our holiday outside Zurich yesterday. I wonder if the climate is changing ?
Windscreen shattered in multiple places by giant hail
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Just as world leaders decide to ignore climate change, everything climate scientists predicted is coming true.
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The devastating forces behind the deadly Himalayan flood
Torrent that tore through settlements near Nepal’s border with China comes as scientists warn climate change is increasing risks
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 28/08/2026
Can we name flash floods after oil and companies the same way we do for tropical storms? Just go down the list in alphabetical order.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"we project a sharp rise in the number of glaciers disappearing worldwide, peaking between 2041 and 2055 with up to ~4,000 glaciers vanishing annually." #ClimateEmergency
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Peak glacier extinction in the mid-twenty-first century - Nature Climate Change
Many mountain glaciers will disappear with warming. Here the authors assess how many glaciers will disappear per year under different warming scenarios, finding that a peak in glacier loss will happen...
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Katie Breathwick @breathwick.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I haven’t watched the documentary. I’ve dipped into the noise surrounding it and I just feel really sad. #adhd 1/7
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Katie Breathwick @breathwick.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Hello Channel 4. Let me know when you’ve commissioned the doc about the nearly 7m+ on anti-depressants in England. Amazing the culture war (with your help) has come for us ADHDers, when there are less than half a million of us on meds. But thanks for stirring up the hate. @channel4news.bsky.social
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Katie Breathwick @breathwick.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“This article was amended on 19 August 2026 to add that the programme in its credits noted that Mason went back on his medication” tells you everything you need to know about this ‘review’. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Rising number of people seeking ADHD diagnosis without treatment, say experts
Psychiatrists in Channel 4 documentary argue it is more a ‘social construct’ than a medical condition
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Katie Breathwick @breathwick.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
And booze and sleeping pills. The undiagnosed in the generation above me were walking zombies.
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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Sometimes I think the ultra-wealthy don’t need to be made to pay tax, they just need to be made to count their money at the rate of a dollar a second until they’re done before they’re allowed to do anything else.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
ROSIE: “.. I'm back in the spotlight all thanks to President Ompa J. Loompa, who is watching us this evening from inside a catering cart. You know, I couldn't have done it without you, sweetie. You brought me back just like you did with fascism and the measles." $DIS
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Leona Scream @editor.scot · 12/08/2026
It’s actually worse than this.
Daily Mail headline: 
DR MAX PEMBERTON: I was diagnosed with ADHD even though I know I don't have it. I swallowed the same drug thousands of children take every day... and this is the terrifying effect it had on me. We're getting everything so wrong
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Katie Breathwick @breathwick.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This is worth looking at again under the circumstances
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Katie Breathwick @breathwick.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Is Badenoch a plant by the Labour Party to ensure the Tories’ destruction?
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InesParaMotion @inesdunoir.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
In just 22 days, around 249 articles were reportedly published about him in the British media. By comparison, NewsCord found 119 UK media mentions of Peter Mandelson in the weeks after Epstein files exposed further details of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. ( More in comments)
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Matt @itsmattagain.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Man without ADHD tries uppers for the first time: I mean honestly we're scraping the barrel on this now surely. I'm not diabetic. If I took insulin the affects would be far worse.
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Katie Breathwick @breathwick.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Wow
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Andy Bruce (Reuters) @bruceandy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Taken together, Q1 and Q2 2026 marked the strongest two quarters of per capita UK GDP growth for four years.
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Politicians out there wondering what people want & hope for? It's this. "Mamdani's mayoralty is fascinating bc half of what it does consists of really cool things that seemed impossible, & the other half is the most obvious stuff that leaves you wondering what the f*ck the previous ones were doing"
Meme showing Mamdani and street-side rubbish containers in New York. Above it says:

NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani is installing modern garbage bins so that trash doesn't just pile up on the streets.

Below, @evagreybird commented:
"Mamdani's mayoralty is fascinating because half of what it does consists of really cool things that seemed impossible, and the other half is the most obvious stuff that leaves you wondering what the f*ck the previous ones were doing"
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