Reposted by MartineHumanists UK @humanists.uk · 09/10/2026Help us write to Foreign Secretary calling for Anojan's release. Sign our petition. Anojan Sivarasa has been condemned to die because of a post made on Facebook, and time is running out. humanists.uk/action/deman...humanists.ukDemand an end to barbaric blasphemy lawsNo one should be executed for ‘blasphemy’ A 24 year old Sri Lankan migrant worker has been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia over a comment he posted on Facebook. Add your name and call on the UK… 1123
Reposted by MartineMartin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 08/10/2026Please submit your small ideas for fixing Britain to the Small-Ideas.org website. It’s a new charitable initiative I’ve set up to try and make sure life’s potholes don’t get ignored. Working with two charities and a cross party panel to turn your ideas into policy then try and make it happen. 37189109
Reposted by MartineSinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Genuinely: where is the Prime Minister? Critical infrastructure has been occupied by a fascist paramilitary, volunteers who save people's lives have been threatened and it seems to have gone unremarked upon. 29966377
Martine @crazybuslady.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Yes, BBC were reporting a few days ago how far right were eyeing up government roles ... absolutely no report of the left coalition win🤨 030
Martine @crazybuslady.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Today I sold a bookcase, scrubbed the bathroom grout and packed up dvds … small steps to moving house🫤 010
Reposted by MartineDaily Stoic @daily-stoic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Stoicism Is About Staying Human 0174
Martine @crazybuslady.bsky.social · 08/09/2026poems.com/poem/a-frien... Today's poem broke my heart just a little #poetry #friendshippoems.comA FriendshipI gave Alex my ruined piano. 030
Martine @crazybuslady.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Delight of the day, autumn flowering cyclamen 🙂 #delight #Devon #mumsgarden 011
Martine @crazybuslady.bsky.social · 29/08/2026It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it - Mary Oliver My sister died yesterday and I am in it without her. She had been on the cusp for weeks and we had stopped believing she would leave.What am I supposed to do now🥺 #braintumour 000
Martine @crazybuslady.bsky.social · 27/08/2026‘Narcissus Garden’, my favourite of Yayoi Kusama’s work on Naoshima , such a sad loss of a wonderfully creative human being #YayoiKusama #Naoshima #Japan 040
Reposted by MartineOliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Just as the 10 pledges which got Keir Starmer elected Labour leader, were ditched before he was PM, so Andy Burnham's radical ideas giving a popular leftish reputation are disappearing into the fog of expediency, the need to satisfy Labour's billionaire funders meme via Electoral Reform Society 1219
Martine @crazybuslady.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Delight of the Day, ‘Eustace and Hilda’ by L P Hartley from the library today, earliest legible entry on the old style card is 18/6/69🙂 #Delight #libraries #Torquay #EustaceandHilda 020
Martine @crazybuslady.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Slow Slow Quick, quick Slow My breath dances with yours following your pauses holding waiting for you to breathe again waiting for you to stop. #braintumour 000
Reposted by MartineOliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 16/08/2026"A workhouse scene from only 136yrs ago in Britain. What we all need to realise is that the ruling elites' mindset is *no* different today. We only got concessions from them because a longer lived & educated workforce became necessary for industrialised warfare in the 20th century." via Mike Hall 410543
Martine @crazybuslady.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Offloading Positioning the patient to alternate sides across the day To prevent pressure on the delicate tissues She looks so peaceful Curled slightly foetal With one hand against her face She stirs slightly When I rest my hand on her shoulder To say good morning #braintumour 000
Martine @crazybuslady.bsky.social · 12/08/202634 degrees, the official melting point for jelly babies on the passenger seat of a Ford Fiesta 🥵 1112
Reposted by MartineThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 07/08/2026How divided is the UK really? Here’s a way to find out | Brendan Coxtheguardian.comHow divided is the UK really? Here’s a way to find out | Brendan CoxSocial media-fuelled riots and a fractured political system make us feel more divided than ever, but is that so? Our study hopes to reveal what bring us together – and pushes us apart, says Brendan Cox, co-founder of the Together Coalition 9134
Martine @crazybuslady.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Sat Nav 1980s style, got me from North Wales across to the M5 today🙂 #lowtechsolutions (though it was of course right onto the A442 to Kidderminster 🫤) 020
Martine @crazybuslady.bsky.social · 04/08/2026stoptrump.org.uk/mp-north-sea/stoptrump.org.ukWrite to your MP: Say No to Trump on North Sea oilStop Trump Coalition 000
Martine @crazybuslady.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I've just signed "Tell Andy Burnham to launch a National Commission on Electoral Reform" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/na... @OpenBritainHQactionstorm.org 010
Martine @crazybuslady.bsky.social · 22/07/2026A frontal lobe tumour Her short term memory the first to go Then confusion followed by the waning of need or desire to say anything. She was cheated cheated cheated of the chance to make the most of the time remaining to her. There is only this moment then this one then this one #braintumour 020
Reposted by MartineCarol Carman @carolcarman.bsky.social · 21/07/2026My publisher (me) tells me I must relentlessly promote my books this week as it's #SPAAW or #SelfPublishedAuthorsAwarenessWeek so please buy my books. If you like Terry Pratchett-type comic fantasy, this is for you. 'Every page sizzles with fun.' Thanks #booksky #books mccawmedia.co.uk/landing-page/ 2174
Martine @crazybuslady.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Such a little life A little eye open A little drink A little bite A little wash A little teeth clean A little hair brush A little foot rub A little roll over A little blanket But not a little sleep A long long sleep Everything else gets smaller but not the sleep 🥺 #braintumour 001
Martine @crazybuslady.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Life is utterly shit, but at least there are bumblebees on the lavender🥰 #delight #bumblebees 000
Martine @crazybuslady.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I've just signed up to the We Own It email newsletter - they're campaigning for public ownership of public services. weownit.org.uk/news/andy-bu... @weownit.org.ukweownit.org.ukAndy Burnham must show Trump’s Big Pharma deal the Red CardUS private pharma companies are set to benefit from a secretive trade deal on drug imports which could result in a more lethal outcome than the COVID-19 pandemic. 000
Reposted by Martinemax koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 06/07/2026The nice things about books: once you own them, you own them, forever. No one will be eye tracking your reading habits. No one will make money of you reading the book as many times as you'd like. And the very same book can be read by generations to come. It can last centuries, literally. It's great. 27971208
Reposted by MartineSara Hummingbird @sarahumm.bsky.social · 05/07/2026I live in Brighton & know front line NHS workers. They are aghast at what is happening to the trans community. Those who study medicine & are well informed are outraged. Labour is bringing in a new leader who will be keeping to the party line. Please email & say that you stand with trans people.goodlawproject.orgI stand with trans people | Good Law Project 37423
Martine @crazybuslady.bsky.social · 04/07/2026In spite of everything still wishing America many happy returns of the day🙂theguardian.comBurning flags, busty blondes and bison skulls: 48 photographs that capture America at 250From the gold rush to civil rights, the moon landing to 9/11, the US has always understood, mythologised and sold itself through the power of the still image 011
Martine @crazybuslady.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Fourteen Years in Prison for Quoting Hamas? New Law Could Criminalise Journalists open.substack.com/pub/zeteouk/...open.substack.comFourteen Years in Prison for Quoting Hamas? New Law Could Criminalise JournalistsStarmer is rushing legislation through parliament that experts say threatens free speech, public interest journalism and international humanitarian aid. 000
Reposted by MartineGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Few people understand the scope of the powers UK governments have granted themselves, to criminalise us as terrorists for expressing an opinion. Fewer still understand how illiberal the Court of Appeal judgement is. But @davidallengreen.bsky.social does.🧵 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...prospectmagazine.co.ukWhat the Palestine Action appeal decision tells us about terrorism lawAn already broad law is now matched with broad ministerial powers 501730938
Reposted by MartinePaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Whilst the media commemorates 10 years since Brexit, it’s worth recalling that one of the principal causes of Brexit was the abject failure of the media to call out the lies and the liars. 871753589
Martine @crazybuslady.bsky.social · 23/06/2026The tragedy of Keir Starmer open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/... For people who might be interest, thoughtful analysis of where it all went wrong🫤open.substack.comThe tragedy of Keir StarmerA graceful and dignified end to a bitterly disappointing premiership. 000
Martine @crazybuslady.bsky.social · 18/06/2026www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... A thoughtful and articulate young person.theguardian.comI’m a 14-year-old trans athlete. No one should face the vicious attacks I have faced | Lina HaagaPeople understand gender differently, and I was taught to respect all ideas. But the vitriol I recently experienced was not a healthy debate 000
Reposted by MartineArvindjadwa @arvindjadwa.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Sometimes, the most powerful statement is not a speech. It's a name. Then another name. And another. According to widely shared reports, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi participated in a memorial event where the names of children lost during the Gaza war were read aloud over the course of several hours. 12371192
Martine @crazybuslady.bsky.social · 17/06/2026www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 🫤theguardian.comBritish teens vs the looming social media ban! Who will be victorious? | First Dog on the MoonAustralia’s ban doesn’t seem to be working but the UK is planning to do their own anyway. Good luck! 000
Reposted by Martinemichaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 10/06/2026www.theguardian.com/society/2026...theguardian.com‘You’re treated like this is the end’: Meet the dementia rebels – diagnosed and determined to change people’s mindsFew things are more feared than a dementia diagnosis. Now people living with the condition are fighting against damaging stereotypes and demanding proper medical support 042
Reposted by MartineArm-Wap #VoteLeaveLies #Rejoin #FBPE #NAFO @arm-wap.bsky.social · 09/06/2026A petition worth signing to try and prevent those who have something to hide from becoming cllrs and MPs. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75... #Reform #ReformPartyLtd #Farage 40441261
