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Was redhead 😊 Still likes lots of things

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Beta Papa @betapapa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Who cares about this clown ? Also - isn't ELP legally trained? To rely on this muppet for your legal advice is quite something 🙄
The unelected spokesman for nobody claiming that the assembly should collapse because some old men don't get to march down the road of their choice.
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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We need a health minister to put in place stuff to secure an ailing maternity service that delivers 1700-1800 babies annually, from collapse. When Stormont collapses, women delivering on the roadside will be of no concern to those who picked open a 30 year old wound, just to keep feeling important
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Do not run educacioun lyke a businesse. A businesse ys meant to make a profit. Educacioun ys meant to make the future. A businesse ys ther to deliver a goode or servyce to customers. Educacioun ys ther to empower citizens. A businesse ys for private benefit. Educacioun ys for the common good.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Cameron’s austerity model built on a Harvard paper “Growth in a Time of Debt” that suggested the Keynesian model (that Gov should spend in times of recession to promote growth) was erroneous and that Governments should reduce debt. But there was a problem that took some time to uncover
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is important too from @thenerve.news. If you read that viral news piece from one anonymous student reproduced in Unherd, Times & Telegraph & pumped out as FB/Insta ads, you need to read this. What Professor Jason Arday's students actually thought: www.thenerve.news/p/jason-arda...
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Students remember Jason Arday: ‘People would say how much they were looking forward to his classes’
A viral article by an anonymous student suggested the academic was a “terrible” teacher. Undergraduates at Durham, where he taught between 2019 and 2022, tell fellow alumna Michaela Makusha that their...
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Mark Pickens @airshipwriter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The side effects of global heating continue to show up in awful ways. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/w...
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England’s Ancient Trees Are Dying in the Heat
Extreme temperatures and drought are adding to the stress on oak trees that have lived for hundreds of years and play a key role in the national imagination.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The allegations of plagiarism that Cofnas surfaced? Liverpool John Moores had already investigated & cleared him & is *still* not being included in most articles. Jason Stanley explains why again there was a basic failure of journalistic understanding & why people took Cofnas’s framing over LJM’s
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Maybe if the AI people yell at me for the 5 millionth time about how I’m not using their dogshit technology that has made everyone’s lives worse I’ll finally start liking it for no conceivable reason.
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My thoughts on the press that hounded Jason Arday to his death… And my personal message to Julia Hartley-Brewer.
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“A big employer who uses the water of 50,000 people … which only hires about ten people is not an employer. They are an extraction.” futurism.com/future-socie...
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Man at City Council Meeting Makes Devastating Case Against Proposed Local Data Center
A former programmer spoke up during a city council meeting in a small town in Ohio, making a well-articulated argument against data centers.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
There's a video of the machine cutting open books, including clearly old and rare books, and it feels so violent. We do not have to accept this shit.
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Good grief, this hits home.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
You know what really bugs me? We cant own anything. Everything is a subscription....like literally everything. You cant buy Microsoft Office. You have to purchase a subscription for a year. You literally have to pay for everything FOREVER Isn't anyone else bothered by this.
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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
While gathering nectar, bees create something unique almost as a side effect:honey—a substance that, when stored correctly, never spoils.Every cell of their honeycomb holds a piece of eternity. It is a silent promise that even the smallest creatures can have the greatest impact on life on our planet
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David Leask @leaskyd.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I am not sure that we appreciate how much hostility there is from the far right to the learning and speaking of languages. 1/2 www.thetimes.com/article/9a33...
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Language centre closes after ‘far-right intimidation’
The director of the Language Hub in Glasgow claimed the premises were no longer safe for staff after a ‘surveillance’ campaign by anti-migration activists
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Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)
In others, notably ADHD and autism, rising diagnoses and referrals appear to exceed changes in underlying epidemiological prevalence and are likely to reflect a combination of:

improved recognition
changing help-seeking behaviour
institutional incentives
pressures within existing service pathways
Across both ADHD and autism, best currently available population-based estimates remain relatively stable, while administrative diagnoses, self-identification and recorded service demand have increased substantially. In autism, the evidence also points to particularly rapid growth in identified need within educational systems, including increasing identification among girls and among young people without learning disability.These patterns suggest that rising demand is not simply the result of increasing prevalence, but of several processes operating simultaneously, including:

real increases in distress in some groups
improved recognition of previously unmet need
changing expectations about support
systems that frequently rely on formal diagnosis as the primary route to assistance
Across the system, support is too often accessed through pathways that are slow, fragmented and heavily dependent on diagnostic categorisation. While diagnosis remains essential for some forms of clinical decision-making, the evidence suggests that current arrangements do not always provide the most effective or efficient way of identifying and responding to need. In particular, where access to support depends heavily on formal diagnosis, demand for diagnostic assessment can increase more rapidly than systems are able to respond, generating long waiting times, duplication of assessment and pressure on specialist services.

The next phase of the review will therefore focus on clarifying the relationship between distress, diagnosis and need, and on examining how systems might respond more effectively to these patterns. A central objective will be to identify opportunities for developing more coherent, evidence-informed care pathways that enable support to be provided earlier and more proportionately, while ensuring that specialist services are available in a timely and appropriate manner for those whose needs are most complex.
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
In Belfast, French far right have been given the VIP treatment by loyalists, and graffitiing walls with misogynstic and racist messages
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French far right and loyalists team up for pro-rape hate message
In Belfast, French far right have been given the VIP treatment by loyalists, and graffitiing walls with misogynstic and racist messages
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coppertop44.bsky.social @coppertop44.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This is such an infuriating read. How cheaply they treated lives.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
"Climate Scientists Aghast at How Bad Things Are Getting, and So Fast" "Extreme events are so far outside anything we have expected." futurism.com/science-ener...
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Climate Scientists Aghast at How Bad Things Are Getting, and So Fast
Climate scientists, who have long watched as global warming rears its ugly head, are astonished at accelerating temperatures.
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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Every bee helps keep our world alive by pollinating the plants that grow the fruits, vegetables, and flowers we depend on. Protecting bees means protecting nature, our food supply, and future generations. 🌍 Save the bees today—because every tomorrow depends on them.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I’m trying to care. Truly, I am. But, so far, nothing is working . . .
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Ruth Fox @ruthfox.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
🧵 Amid all the speculation about Nigel Farage's 2pm statement, it's worth noting paragraph 40 of the Procedural Protocol to the MPs' Code of Conduct. If he announces he's resigning and seeking a by-election, that would not automatically end the investigation into whether he breached the Code in...
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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
We spend billions of dollars to find life on other Planets.... And trillions of Dollars killing the life on this one!
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Our Home: Earth Spinning in Space
ALT: Our Home: Earth Spinning in Space
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Elaine Crory @elainecrory.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
An additional victim, a report that went nowhere, colleagues perpetuating a cover up...needs a full public inquiry because the drip drip of information is turning this into political drama rather than a story about a predatory paedophile protected by people in power
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which was gutted last year. If Bezos can spend $500M on a yacht, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
*Whispers* Amazon doesn't need your money, but your local independent bookstore does.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Vince McMahon reaction meme, with the judge showing increasingly dramatic impressed faces. 

First panel: Peatland rewettung improves drainage (he looks interested)

Second panel: It also sequesters carbon (he looks excited)

Third panel: It can also be a solar farm (he looks ecstatic)

Fourth panel: The solar panels increase wildlife! (He’s glowing red and gaping with glowing eyes)
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Please be the first amongst the thousands to like, comment and repost this message if you believe that our remaining forest in the Amazon and in the Congo basin must be protected for climate action and environmental sustainability. No to deforestation and ecocide.
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Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I often bash the media, but credit to Sky News for putting names & faces to the students & teachers murdered in this horrific air strike. Every name is a story of another ruined life 💔
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Auschwitz Survivors commemorated the 86th anniversary of the deportation of the first group of Polish prisoners to Auschwitz. This moment marked the beginning of the operation of this German Nazi concentration camp, which later became also an extermination center.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I really don’t understand true greed. If I was worth $1 trillion, you’d have to physically stop me from solving as many of the world’s problems as possible. Everyone would have a home, food on the table, proper healthcare, happiness. I just don’t get it.
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Sam🏳️‍🌈🌊🏳️‍⚧️ @separker.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I'm sick of listening to people sanewashing his enormous wealth, built on the backs of people struggling to survive. F#ck him. #USDemocracy
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The Verge @theverge.com · 12/06/2026
If you were to count out a million seconds, it would take you 11 and a half days. A billion seconds would take you 31.7 years. But a trillion seconds would take 31,700 years — to reach that point today, you would have needed to start counting around the time that neanderthals went extinct.
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A trillion dollars is a stupid amount of money
No one man should have all that power.
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A tracker co-created by prof Brooke Nichols projected over 780,000 deaths m-mostly of children-due to Trump’s early-2025 USAID cuts, caused by malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, and more. These deaths were widely predicted from the beginning, a direct, known, & undeniable consequence of DOGE’s actions.
A tracker co-created by prof Brooke Nichols projected over 780,000 deaths — mostly of children — due to Trump’s early-2025 USAID cuts, caused by malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, and more. These deaths were widely predicted from the beginning, a direct, known, and undeniable consequence of DOGE’s actions.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Never forget that as Elon Musk became a trillionaire today, it is estimated that 750,000 people have died as a result of his cutting of USAID. The majority of those deaths were children.
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Way hay - let’s all celebrate!!!!! Such an advancement for MAN-kind!
Isn't it brilliant that one man gets to be a trillionaire instead of everyone having food
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A FIFA referee has spent more time in federal custody for being Somali than anybody on epstein's list for raping kids.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Not that we need more evidence of genocidal intent to recognise what we are seeing. But deliberately shooting children? That's about as clear as it gets. #Gaza www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...
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Gunshot wounds in Palestinian children indicate targeted fire
Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted. This emerges from research by de Volkskrant, ...
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
“Do you, Peter Phillips, take NHS Nurse to be your lawfully wedded wife?”
BBC News headline: Royals turn out for Peter Phillips and NHS nurse’s wedding
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Jason M Ernst @jason-m-ernst.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Space is uninhabitable. The Moon is uninhabitable. Mars is uninhabitable. Where do people think we’re going when Earth’s ecosystems collapse? Why do people think they’ll be evacuated even if there is somewhere to go? Why do rich people think wealth matters on a dead planet? W.T.F? 🌏
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Carl Ott @bubba687.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
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👣Coco👣 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
We Will We Will Rock You... 🌈
Freddie Mercury on stage in front of thousands of people
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
It's hard to convey just how monstrous the privatisation of children's care homes has become. Highly vulnerable children have been turned into cash machines, with devastating impacts on their wellbeing. Please sit down before reading this week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Horrific, unregulated, and very profitable. The companies making cash from England’s children in care | George Monbiot
Councils are sending vulnerable kids to homes ran by money-grabbing cowboys and private-equity vultures, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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