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Sejal Sukhadwala @sejalsukhadwala.bsky.social · 50m
BTW the name 'curry leaves' is nothing to do with their supposed "curry-like flavour" as is commonly assumed. The word 'curry' is based on Tamil word 'kari' which means, among other things, 'black'. 'Kari' here refers to this sweet variety of neem being darker in colour than bitter neem.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18h
If people don't want to pay tax to make this country function and help out the rest of society and particularly those who need help most... then maybe they should move to Dubai and stop bleating about it. Really sick to death of it.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 17h
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Kavey 😁 @kavey.bsky.social · 22h
Quick request -- though I know it's not how social media works really😭! If you buy a cookbook after reading one of my cookbook reviews, I would be super super super grateful if you could leave a brief comment on the review post itself (on Kavey Eats). #bookreview #cookbooks #foodsky 1/2
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22h
Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos, sculpture with Azores crocheted lace #WomensArt
Photo of a sculpture resembling a snake covered in green lace
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Farage is certainly no friend of working people ...." via Wanda Lozinska
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
UK median pay of employee is £31884 a year, net £26476. Working-age adult needs to earn £31500 to reach minimum income standard . Lone parent with 2 children needs £67600. Couple with 2 children needs £77400. Can't get growth without redistribution. Chancellor must cut tax on the poorest 50%.
leftfootforward.org
This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population
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Finn @thegoblinpoet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ngl "2 doggers, a lad out on the rob for diesel, a fly tipper and an actual terrorist get swept up into an international incident" would be a really funny premise for a slice of life British comedy
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Mark Monro | He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
On the plus side for the press, with all this going on at RAF Fairford, they can continue to completely ignore two women and a child dying in the Channel - where we are repeatedly informed by racists that no women or children are trying to cross.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Miliband: "To the millions in this country.. who have been moved & outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people, we hear you. You were right" So scrap the proscription of Palestine Action. End all arms exports to Israel. Impose sanctions on the Israeli govt & economy.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Whether I mask or not, when I see someone else masking, I do not descend into a gibbering rage and start frothing at the mouth because woke/anti-science (choose your fighter), because it’s NOT MY BUSINESS. It’s very easy to mind your own fucking business.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 27/09/2026
okay SO this is one of my favourite Silly Topics, which is of course that 40 weeks does not equal nine months! but let's do some maths because we're on the topic
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blurses @blurses.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What does Burnham think he'll have after the 2029 election that he doesn't have now? You're already PM with a big majority lad. You can just do things, if you really want to.
Labour conference 2026:

Andy Burnham to fight next election with plan for NHS-style care service.

PM says he is willing to expend political capital to bring in universal service for England funded by ‘everybody
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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bron99.bsky.social @bron99.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
‘kin hell
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
No, Netanyahu wasn’t arrested during his UN visit, but those protesting against him were - www.middleeasteye.net/news/no-netan…
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No, Netanyahu wasn’t arrested during his UN visit, but those protesting against him were
Protesters criticised New York City Mayor Mamdani’s reversal of campaign pledge to arrest Israeli prime minister
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 26/09/2026
It often feels after reading these essays and post-mortems like Labour's target voter is a functionally literate 55-year-old miner, living in a company cottage with an outside toilet. And somehow, nobody seems to have noticed that he died in 1983.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I can’t think of many government funding schemes that are run like Glastonbury tickets (first come first served). A lot of unhappy farmers. Defra might consider partial randomisation as we use for our small grants scheme. At least everyone gets a fair shot www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Worse than the scramble for Oasis tickets’: England’s sustainable farming funds run out in just six hours
Entire £253m budget for 2026 allocated in less than a day, leaving thousands of farmers disappointed
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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bron99.bsky.social @bron99.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Love it ehen the good guys win www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When was the last time our Secretary of State for Culture displayed anything approaching this degree of public enthusiasm for our world-class arts industry? Has she been seen anywhere? Given impending charter renewal... did she even bother to visit a single prom?
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
January 2025 🤷‍♀️
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yes, there are technical, formal legal reasons why terrorism law is applied to protesters carrying placards, but not to political activists slashing boats. But stepping back, there is something wrong with a legal regime which criminalises one more than the other. A triumph of form over function.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 23/09/2026
I think once black clad men are interfering with rescues at sea, we are past "legitimate concerns". Once they're attacking boats, and risking the lives of everyone on board, it's just thuggery. The Home Secretary's statement is on the side of criminals. There's no other way to read it.
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Nick Davies @njdavies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Great to hear the PM say “We are going to be much prouder in standing up for our values and the rule of law” re foreign information warfare. I wonder if he or the Home Secretary might consider doing the same when it comes to masked vigilantes shutting down infrastructure and harassing the RNLI
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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 23/09/2026
We are the people who have grown to the exact height where belt loops and door handles are at the same level and we shall not be silenced.
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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.openaccessgovernment.org/movies-writt...
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Movies written by women make more money, yet budgets go to male filmmakers
Movies written by women generate substantially higher median profits and returns on investment (ROI) than male-only productions
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I am Ian. I battle robots. @ianbattlesrobot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#Reform #Farage
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
'Poppy' c.1852 by Anna Atkins, UK pioneer in botany and photography whose photographs created by cyanotype process were among the first ever to be published in a book #WomensArt
Image of a white poppy plant against a blue background
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Pascal Jacquemain @jacquep.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism | Meta | The Guardian share.google/Q1Sd67WjvJfx...
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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism
Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 20/09/2026
y’all don’t go looking for this but. one thing I really wish everyone would internalise is that we’re not gonna win against the puritans, or the fascists, or anyone else, by accepting any part of their premise as valid. they do not have legit concerns
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Samuel Karlin @samuelkarlin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I agree. Does your Prime Minister agree? Because he's been remarkably quiet on the subject of black-clad thugs in masks terrorising ethnic minority people on our streets.
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MTDomain 🦋 @mtdomain.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"purchased the vessel to interfere with Border Force operations" Now tell me why he isn't considered a criminal and a terrorist.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As the RNLI warns their supporters that their personal information may have been hacked, following their volunteers having their tyres slashed, and a lifeboat station having to close to keep volunteers safe, I ask once again where is Prime Minister Andy Burnham? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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RNLI warns supporters their personal information may have been hacked
Data raid comes amid targeting of lifeboat charity by far-right agitators who object to migrant boat rescues
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bron99.bsky.social @bron99.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Definitely shame
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Former PM Rishi Sunak in the Sunday Times challenges the rise of ethno-nationalism in British politics, as an argument within the right about Britishness being about ancestry, DNA and ethnicity www.thetimes.com/article/e89d...
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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026
They don't need to be proscribed to be banned and have injuctions placed on them to stop them going anywhere near her or her family. Her fellow villagers need to step up and condemn this loudly and clearly or be shown to be the racist bigots their silly little declaration of Independence was about.
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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
While thugs were attacking lifeboats a woman in the area spoke to Newsnight about how terrifying it had suddenly become for her and her husband as a mixed race couple. The Pink Ladies got her address and gave it to Tommy Robinson who has doxed her. WHAT ARE THE GOVERNMENT DOING ABOUT THE FAR RIGHT??
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/09/2026
🤔 Nigel Farage leads a political party. He’s a sitting MP. And he now hosts his own weekly primetime show on GB News. 🚨Broadcasters are required to present news in an impartial manner, without political bias. 👇 Add your name to demand that Ofcom takes immediate action.
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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Companies pay employer national insurance (ENI) on director pay. Partners in limited liability partnerships (LLPs) share profit, instead of salary. LLPs don't pay ENI on that. £150k ENI for every £1m of profit shared is avoided. Big four law firms alone avoided paying £4bn. Must end this perk.
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Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...
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Nick Burdett @nickburdett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Buying flags to support the RNLI during WW1. How times have changed.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“There can be no more trying to pretend there’s a respectable anti-immigration position which is meaningfully distinguishable from far right thuggery” We must actively make racism shameful again. Because this is where it has led and it’s unforgivable. No more indulging ignorance and hate.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 18/09/2026
TAKE ACTION🚨 Add your name to demand that Ofcom takes immediate action. Sign the petition here: bestforbritain.org/petition/farage-…
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 18/09/2026
It is incredibly important that political violence does not succeed. The far-right mob that shut down Portsmouth wanted this outcome. If the state wishes to avoid more of these actions, it needs to make sure this RNLI branch reopens *immediately*, or as close to that as humanly possible.
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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 17/09/2026
A senior Microsoft executive believes AI built on the work of others will be seen as “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday.
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Tom Irwin @tomirwin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Buy RNLI gear shop.rnli.org
A blue RNLI hoodie with the organisation's name emblazoned in red on the front.
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
WHERE IS THE UK GOVERNMENT?
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