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Clare aka GingerKnits

@claresdraws.bsky.social
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Illustrator, storyteller, student, wildlife geek, crafty type, ally, looong Covider She/her they/them Illustration portfolio here: clarestorry.com Pathways Into Kids Illustration mentee 2022-2024

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Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social · 5h
Yesterday we celebrated National Poetry Day. I confess poetry is not my main area of expertise so I particularly look forward to everyone’s recommendations. What great children’s poems/poetry books would you suggest for #KidsBooksFriday? #KidLitUK #KidLit #UKKidLit #Poetry #ChildrensPoems
Book cover for Poems on Toast by Attie Lime illustrated by Emily Ford. Book cover for A Great Big Cuddle by Michael Rosen, illustrated by Chris RiddleBook cover for Poetry Prompts: All sorts of ways for start a poem by Joseph Coelho, illustrated by Georgie Burkett, Grasya Oliyko, Amanda Quartey and Viola Wang.Book cover for Being Me: Poems about Thoughts, Worries and Feelings by Liz Brownlee, Matt Goodfellow and Laura Mucha, illustrated by Victoria Jane Wheeler
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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hm.
Washington Post Instagram post

Photo of a person with head bowed.

Overlaid text reads:

1 in 6
Americans are exhausted
'most days, report finds

And it's worse for women and young adultsA UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
7 CIDRAP
Long COVID may affect 1 in 6 infected patients
Laine Bergeson, June 1, 2026
Topics: COVID-19
Lacheev / iStock

Photo of a person with head bowed.
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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Covid Infections Can’t Be Causing Long Term Health Problems, Because Look Over There At The Squirrel
A squirrel

Headline:
Covid Infections Can’t Be Causing Long Term Health Problems, Because Look Over There At The Squirrel
Story by Burt Gusset and Hamilton Pork

Photo from Unsplash
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.
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Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A family friend has just had a new wee baby which has sent me down a rabbit hole of the best books for babies. So for this week’s #KidsBooksFriday what books would you particularly recommend for reading with babies? #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit
Book cover for Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlberg Book cover for Little Miss Austen: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Alison Oliver. Book cover for You… by Emma DoddBook cover for A Great Big Cuddle: Poems for the Very Young by Michael Rosen and Chris Riddell
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Paul Cornell @paulcornell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My company @cosmiclighthouse.co.uk is putting out a Murderbot graphic novel, All Systems Red, with a new @marthawells.com Mb short story too! @ericaschultz42.bsky.social @garyerskine.bsky.social @stillwintercraft.bsky.social @simonbowland.bsky.social ! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos...
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Coming soon: Murderbot: The First Graphic Novel | Multi-award-winning SF!
The official adaptation of the international bestselling multi-award-winning ALL SYSTEMS RED, part of The Murderbot Diaries series.
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Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This week’s #KidsBooksFriday is inspired by the great Dolly Parton. So whether it’s books about kindness, generosity, gratitude, inclusivity, positivity, hope, self-belief, or something else, let’s share books that embody Dolly’s spirit and legacy. #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit #BeMoreDolly
Image of Dolly Parton holding children’s books with her quote “You can never get enough books into the hands of enough children”. Featuring the logo of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, a charity that gives out millions of books to kids who need them across the world. Book cover for You Choose by Nick Sherratt and Pippa GoodhartBook cover for Invisible by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and Gabriella EpsteinBook cover for Safiyyah’s War by Hiba Noor Khan.
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
(3/3) Dolly called and asked if there was any way to help with this tragedy. Abumrad replied she was on a vaccine research team but it was expensive and they were still seeking grants. When Dolly heard this she replied "Well I have money" and donated $1m. Abumrad's team produced the Moderna vaccine.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is what the billionaire press and many politicians were campaigning so hard to destroy. Their freedom to drive took precedence over our children's freedom to thrive. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds
Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Given that 'The Great #ADHD Myth?" airs tonight, I'll flag up that @channel4tv.bsky.social still hasn't answered these important questions Presumably because they're fully aware that it's a deeply dangerous and cynical endeavour that'll do genuine harm to many, but don't want to have to admit it
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Clare aka GingerKnits @claresdraws.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name, thank you: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
goodlawproject.org
Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
UK residents - we need to keep fighting the good fight against generative AI, those who support it, and those who refuse to condemn it. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data
We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I’ve always been very uncomfortable with how ready the consensus is that environmental protestors ought to be policed through spying. The main ‘dangers’ posed by these people aren’t actually real dangers for the most part, whereas the harm caused TO them is horrendous.
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nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social @nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A pleasure to help put this campaign together with the Good Night Out Campaign 🏳️‍⚧️ With the EHRC Code about to roll out, please put these posters up in your venues and help us spread the message: Pee in Peace 💖 #PeeInPeace #GoodNightOut #TransRights #TransInclusion
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Clare aka GingerKnits @claresdraws.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Fed up with climate breakdown? Me too. Here's an easy action: call on our new PM to take action against the destructive fossils fuel giants. Please sign this Greenpeace petition. Thanks. greenpeace.movement-action.org/p/uk-governm...
greenpeace.movement-action.org
If you agree that Big Oil giants shouldn't profit from our pain, add your name.
Sign the petition now.
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Amy 🌤️ @cloudsandsunshine.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
#LongCovidKids
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 17/07/2026
This genuinely makes me tear up, it’s so perfectly decent
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Clare aka GingerKnits @claresdraws.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Please sign this Surfers Against Sewage petition "End the sewage pollution scandal" - details in the link. Thank you you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...
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End the sewage pollution scandal
Did you watch Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action!
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Clare aka GingerKnits @claresdraws.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Cool (pun intended) project showing temperature variation from the recent 50 year average. This is for London. You can look up where you live. showyourstripes.info/b/europe/uni... #showyourstripes
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Show Your Stripes
Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe
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The lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Names for Tic-tac-toe in Europe. Are Estonia and Orkney connected somehow?
Map with various overly literal English translations
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
There's probably never been a better time to remind you that when David Hockney first took his Mum to California she remarked 'all this lovely weather and nobody puts their washing out'.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Something I think about a lot is how both STAR WARS and RAIDERS were conceived by Lucas and Spielberg as intentionally cheesy — even-to-the-point-of-parody — throwbacks to old adventure serials but made them so well that audiences five decades ago and now unironically appreciate them as drama
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Jess Bradley @jessbradley.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
IT'S HERE!! Squid Bits: That's a Nice Hat is out today! I hope everyone enjoys my brain whimsies and finds some bits in there that make them chuckle, snort, guffaw or titter politely.
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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Let’s spend Pride month sharing this everywhere, and getting it to 10k signatures. Section 28 did terrible harm. Lessons need to be learned.
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Clare aka GingerKnits @claresdraws.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I’ve just signed Greenpeace’s petition calling on the Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper to stop selling arms to Israel. British arms are fuelling the killing - can you join me and call for a ban? act.gp/3UMfusO
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Stop British-made weapons being used in Gaza
With each day that passes more lives are lost in this conflict, and weapons sold by the UK are fuelling the fire. British weapons should NOT be used to commit possible war crimes in Gaza.
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YO Comics Fair @yocomicsfair.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
🚀 YO COMICS FAIR IS BACK! We are thrilled to announce that Yo Comics Fair, a comic fair FOR kids and BY kids, is back at South London's @stanleyarts.uk on MARCH 22nd 2026! Woo hoo! See you there! www.yocomicsfair.co.uk
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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 22/02/2026
Posters are free - we just ask you to cover postage and packaging costs. 🚇
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Clord TC, illustration creaturo @clordtc.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
looking at my big christmas window painting again, cos i'm still proud of it
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Clare aka GingerKnits @claresdraws.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Counting the number of times I hear the word unprecedented on the news today.
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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
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Jimmie Wright @theartanchor.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows
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Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent
When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The deadline for responding to this consultation (about whether we should shovel even greater heaps of bureaucratic misery onto immigrants in the hope of pacifying racists) is midnight on Thursday 12th:
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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
While I don’t know if any Muppets break the second fourth wall on Television or Movies … There is this one camera test where Kermit and Fozzie ad lib being abstract entities …
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Muppet Movie 1979 camera test: The banter is so hilariously improvised.
YouTube video by LifeIsSublime
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 732: When times are bleak, art shines a light. Shine on. You’re not alone.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
This post right here. ⬇️
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Lest we forget. Robert Jenrick, the Tory defector and new chum of Nigel the jew-baiter, had a mural of Mickey Mouse at a refugee centre painted over. It had been put there to help calm the children as they arrived at the place.
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Clare aka GingerKnits @claresdraws.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I popped into the Oval Office while visiting my US family. Sorted everything out. Happy 2026 from your benevolent leader. x
White spec-wearing ginger haired woman smiles into the camera with a mock up of Jimmy Carter's Oval Office in the background.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
One year since I posted this. One year since everybody treated it like a joke. One year of watching my back. Tell me: have you seen much of Harry Styles this past year? Tim Davie's gone a bit quiet too, hasn't he?
A comic for the Guardian by Stephen Collins on New Years Eve 2024. Script as follows:

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THE SCENE: is BBC Television centre or wherever that is these days. HARRY STYLES is getting out of a limo to enter a studio. An autograph-hunting FAN accosts him. 

Also, a DATE STAMP  appears ‘on screen’, like it used to do in the X-files, reading: 

OCTOBER, 2024: Maidstone Studios, England

FAN 1:
That’s Harry Styles!

FAN 2 [Approaching Harry]: 
Can I have a selfie, Harry?

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FAN:
What are you doing at Maidstone Studios on this finbe day in mid October, Harry?

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HARRY STYLES:
Why, I’ve come here in mid-October to record ‘Jools Holland’s New Year Hoote-‘

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*FSHW*
[Harry Styles is suddenly vaporised by a LASER BEAM]

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[We see the culprit; a hi tech flying DRONE has zapped Mr Styles to death. The drone has a camera eye on the front of it]

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[Cut to: JOOLS HOLLAND in his Hootenanny lair, watching a screen which has just alerted him to the elimination of Styles]

[Legend on screen]:
ARTIST ELIMINATED

HOLLAND:
Goddamn it

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HOLLAND:
Why can’t they keep their mouths SHUT?

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HOLLAND:
Tim Davie! 

TIM DAVIE [Director General of the BBC]:
Y-yes Jools?

HOLLAND:
Who’ve we got left for this year?

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TIM DAVIE:
The Boomtown Rats, one of Sister Sledge and Marc Almond 

HOLLAND:
Almond *again*?

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TIM DAVIE:
We’re running out of artists to call, sir…

M-must we keep killing… so many…?

HOLLAND:
You know the rules, Davie. The secret of the Hootenanny must be protected at all costs. All who divulge it…

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HOLLAND [close up on his evil face, eye twitching]:
Must be eliminated
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Mike Z @mikez.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
On the first night of winter, St. Nautilus flies through the air, pelting good children with candy and dousing the naughty ones in ink.
A drawing of a cephalopod in a Santa hat hovering over a town, dropping candy.
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Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
The ‘People’s Reform Party’ pissed £16k up the wall on helicopter joyrides and £5k on a chauffeur for Anne Widdecombe in 2024. 2025’ll be worse. Donate if you like being mugged off by posh hate tourists from Dubai cosplaying as “working people."
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Clare aka GingerKnits @claresdraws.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Cracking list 👇
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
A poster on 8.5 x 11 inch paper saga Fishtown fish facts: red lipped catfish or of ocephalus Darwini. Then a pic of that freaky fish with 4 limbs it rests on the ground and then the words “stg this fish real red-lipped batfish walk ocean floor with they flippers RLBF have RBF, not they fault
RLBF have a bioluminescent lure that glows to attract dinner 
RLBF lipgloss is popping, RLBF lipgloss is cool, all the fish keep jockin, they chase RLBF after school
RLBF got scales like armor and shine bright like a diamond
Red-lipped batfish will teach you how to dougie, I can promise u that.

@yaboyni
Take a moment
And and realize the moment 
You took has already passed
Thank you
See you next time
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ProfDoc David Evans @david-t-evans.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Signing this @ukparliament.parliament.uk without a doubt! My husband (with #Type1Diabetes) and I ( #asthma) paid £95 each for the #Covidvaccine - because we want to protect ourselves and others from this dreadful illness & its sequelae #LongCovid It makes good sense to be #Covid vaccinated!
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The lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Eradicating malaria by 2040 would cost between $90 billion and $120 www.cfr.org/backgrounder...
cfr.org
Can Malaria Be Eradicated?
A leading killer among diseases is now targeted for eradication by the middle of this century. Efforts to combat malaria are costly and challenging.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
You can’t tell if someone is disabled just by looking at them. There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”. You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not. People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share! Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
Part of our 2025 Advent Calendar, a black and white line drawing showing my version of Bigfoots wearing wintery clothes and bearing various wrapped Christmas presents.
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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 29/11/2025
Fun fact: most of our memories are reconstructed on retrieval which makes episodic memory extra fallible as retrieving them the wrong way, through manipulation, context, or fallibility, can modify the memory going forward Which is to say that we’re going to see more of this.
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Cartoon of a window on legs with a mad smile running off towards the right pursued by a small group of people calling COME BACK! Caption: THE OVERTON WINDOW
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