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Simon Opher @simonforstroud.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Missed my friend the Stroud Lido lobster this morning, but I enjoy the tradition of the conference swim.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think this is pretty hard to justify. The education reporters might I suppose argue that the Orr story is a politics one and hence goes to that desk. But we also have the student complaints, mentioned in the FT long read and apparently reopened this week.

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

But more of this sort of thing from ministers please

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

if only there was something the alleged government of the United Kingdom could do about party funding in the United Kingdom sadly they can't, poor smol govt uwu

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National Nurses United @nationalnurses.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Palantir is a digital weapons manufacturer that builds A.I.-powered tools for large-scale data collection and mass surveillance. They have no place in our society! Join our People vs. Palantir: Global Week of Action kickoff call on Sept 28: bit.ly/peoplevspalantir

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Spectator - for racists and rapists - they can have that for their next advert if they want

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I am feeling a little puzzled by Locality. Has anyone got experience of working with them from a grassroots organising perspective?

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███ACTED @vicjager.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton playing the guitar with 2-inch nails like it was nothing. Legend.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Basically living at / having my office at Stroud lido's new poolside cafe 😀

Sparkling spring-fed 50 metre pool with heritage 30s deco surround

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Stroud District Green Party @stroudgreens.org.uk · 22/08/2026

It was fantastic to see so many Greens at the re-opening of Stroud Lido last weekend. A massive thank you to all the councillors, council officers and of course @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social and other volunteers with Save Our Lido who helped make it possible.

Five Green councillors smiling at the camera in the sunshine in front of the re-opened Stroud Lido pool.

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Simon Opher @simonforstroud.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Celebrating the reopening of Stroud Lido this morning is the highlight of my summer. I'm looking forward to coming back for another swim soon, this time in my shorts! What a great result - thank you all!

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Jason Arday resigned from Jesus and the education faculty and asked people to stop nine days ago in his resignation letter That should have been the end of it, but instead it became a blood sport for the press and monetised social media alike - the money was too good, the attention too valuable

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026

This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
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We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
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Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Perhaps we ought to take a moment to reflect on how many white male cishet privately educated non disabled men have been given jobs and promoted without question based on fabricated CVs, unfounded self-confidence and an embellished life story & whether we’ve even heard of them.

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

For anyone who might need this: Contact details for the Samaritans. Options include calling, texting, and online help. Back to being offline. www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-h...

samaritans.org

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Yep, this too. This news made me burst into tears. People who want to hold onto privilege at all costs and don’t care who they weaponise or instrumentalise, did this. People who saw ways of furthering unrelated pet grudges. The institutions. The BBC. Naked racists. Smug liberals. RIP, Jason.

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Exactly this. His poor, poor family 😢😢😢 Killed by racist bastards.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Two possibilities: —Threads is becoming the dominant text-based social media app even though nobody you’ve ever met has ever used Threads —Meta is doing some funky math and just counting people who use their Instagram accounts as active Threads users

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Fortunately there was a very communal eclipse glasses and pinhole camera-sharing vibe at my nearest vantage point (but I still can’t help thinking about this…👇)

Triffid looms over couple - scene from Day of the Triffids

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

ITV came to Stroud to talk about our Lido, how lucky we are to have it, and how we have to fight to keep them (and build more!)

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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

As climate change accelerates, extreme heatwaves are becoming the new normal. Dublin and every Irish city need a heat action plan. Making our urban areas swimmable is no longer a luxury. It is a public health necessity. On @rteradio1.bsky.social this morning. @irishdocsenv.bsky.social

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Lidos, pools & clean canals: Do we need more safe outdoor swimming spots in Ireland?

Mary McMorrow Chief Executive Officer of Swim Ireland and Dr Ola, Nordrum, member of Doctors for the Environment.

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Today’s reading - enjoying Dan Evans’ book very much, then got to the page about a classic ethnography of small farmers in Norfolk

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practical sense and learning on the job. And like the shopkeeper, the small farmers were active politically. They were motivated by a deep hatred of taxation on land (and on inheritance), and shared the shopkeeper's hatred of big business, expressing great hostility to industrialization and what they perceived as meddling in rural affairs by outsiders and planners (i.e., the specific rural manifestation of the traditional hatred of bureaucracy). Of particular note was the farmer's "us and them" siege mentality, created by this isolated, precarious existence. They voted Tory but, like the shopkeeper, could not be said to support the status quo or be dyed-in-the- wool Tories. Their precarity meant that they were generally angry at everything, and this anger was directed both up and down: "Us', in this case, was the 'little man' striving to earn an honest living against the predatory demands

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The BBC & the Home Office, calling pogroms & riots, “disorder” and “protest”, and the Home Office foregrounding the rioters “concerns”. Utter cowardice on the part of the BBC & the Home Office, too frit to stand up and name what the far right is doing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Further arrests in Thetford as disorder continues for third night

The arrests follow disorder linked to anti-immigration protests in the Norfolk market town.

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

There’s a lot of conspiracy theory stuff in Thetford, too. Regular festivals where 20 minute cities and climate change denial are discussed alongside various cosmic woo. eastangliabylines.co.uk/regions/norf...

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Is this the angriest town in Britain?

Jeering comments on road death of ‘foreign’ boy is another sign of fury and social schism in a Norfolk town

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is a really inadequate Home Office statement in these circumstancds It empathises with this protest as expressing legitimate concerns, singles out violence against police, and simply fails to say "violence threatening asylum seekers, migrants & other minorities is shocking + wrong"

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

There’s not a lot of point having laws against discrimination if someone can come along with an algorithmic black box and ignore it. Why is this legal?

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

god, I don’t thlink I ever actually heard this at the time. What a silly politician Yvette Cooper is m.youtube.com/watch?v=sf_z...

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Listen: Yvette Cooper encourages Brits to hang flags anywhere

YouTube video by OldQueenTV

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I wonder if Yvette Cooper will ever admit her response to flags on lampposts (accurately quoted below) was a mistake.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I recall we had a period of time where the response of Starmer and Cooper to concerns about these groups was ‘I like flags’

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Jim Caris @jimcaris.eurosky.social · 05/08/2026

The fact this completely aligns with the US far-right government and its demands that US client (vassal) states remove any "woke" considerations from public procurement is, I'm sure, entirely coincidental. Ahem. edition.cnn.com/2025/04/01/b...

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US embassies to contractors worldwide: Cancel any diversity programs or risk going unpaid | CNN Business

US embassies have sent letters to contractors in their host countries demanding they certify that they do not run any diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs that violate President Donald Trump...

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Should the state be allowed to use public money to carry on promoting better social and environmental outcomes? What are you, some kind of insane communist?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Great to be on #JeremyVine #BBCRadio2 talking #lidos this afternoon, can’t wait to get into our 50m spring-fed 1930s gem in #Stroud, opening August 15 after a community fight back against planned closure (from 1hour36) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Jeremy Vine - 04/08/2026 - BBC Sounds

Jeremy and guests discuss the news headlines and talk to the people making them.

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Rachel Gilmour, MP for Tiverton and Minehead @rachelgilmourld.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

From today, EU citizens have a legal right to know when they're talking to a bot or looking at a deepfake, backed by fines of up to €15m. Thanks to Brexit, we're missing out on this protection.

digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

wrecking my otherwise potentially slightly viral thread with a gratuitous dig at the centrists at the end, *again*, will I ever learn 😢

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I don’t know why (or if, or when) it became illegal to take account of a company’s “values and ethics”- seems to me that considering whether a company founder holds values like “democracy sucks”, might be a good idea before handing massive chunks of public money & security apparatus to them?

Palantir claims that Khan's office blocked the contract unlawfully and "irrationally," citing comments attributed to the mayor's spokesperson which referred to the company's
unspecified "values and ethics.

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Disappointed by an all-male panel on how to fight the far right, which goes on about the billionaire media baddies & setting up your own media, but says v little about the need to show up in your community to fight for & protect public spaces & local services so that ppl aren’t so atomised & angry

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

1988: Climate scientist James Hansen tells US Senate that climate change means more extreme, weather, eg both droughts & torrential rains Smart people: hm, better build reservoirs 1989: Margaret Thatcher privatises English & Welsh water, thus leaving the building of reservoirs to market forces

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