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Katy Cooper

@decsop1.bsky.social
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Singing, cycling and cricket. (For NCDs/health stuff, hop over to @healthkaty.)

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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 20h
Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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Raf Nicholson @rafnicholson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Shame on you Ollie Pope, Luke Wood, Moeen Ali, Reece Topley, James Vince, Tom Kohler-Cadmore and Laurie Evans for caring more about the money in your own pockets than the human rights of women and girls. This was a personal choice by you, and you chose wrong.
bbc.co.uk
England players told to think of 'daughters, sisters or mothers' before committing to Afghanistan Premier League T20 tournament
English cricketers aiming to play in a men's T20 franchise tournament organised by the Afghanistan Cricket Board have been urged to think about their "daughters, sisters or mothers".
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Katy Cooper @decsop1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You have *got* to be kidding me? The cost of living is an acute problem for SO many and absolutely needs attention, but is this really the best we can do in the midst of a climate crisis? Tax the rich just a tiny bit more! - it’s not hard. Try it! Reconsidering my #LibDem membership on many levels.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The White House Correspondents Association is about to send Trump a strongly worded dinner menu
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Katy Cooper @decsop1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ahhhh #TOTP 1981. Wasn’t sure I’d know any of them but there is the Chicken Song….
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Skellyton 🦇 @infinitefinite.blog · 04/03/2026
my retirement plan is the collapse of civilization
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Katy Cooper @decsop1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is hilarious. And speaks well of all three.
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The Rest Is Politics @therestpolitics.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
How Ed Miliband's late mum was at the forefront of his mind during his statement on Israel-Palestine.
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The anthropic whistleblower is like "no other activity has the potential to create human extinction." Well, speaking as someone who works for a climate think tank, I can think of one
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you would like to add your voice to tens of thousands of people thanking RNLI volunteers for their work, 38 Degrees have organised this open letter to express public support (at a time when a hateful fringe have been intimidating & abusing RNLI volunteers) act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...
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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 08/09/2026
She was only six years old. In 1960, Ruby Bridges helped desegregate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans, escorted by federal marshals. That little girl turns 72 today. Happy Birthday, Ruby Bridges. ♥️ #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
Side-by-side photos of Ruby Bridges as an adult and as a six-year-old child. The childhood image shows Ruby smiling in the doorway of William Frantz Elementary School in 1960, wearing a plaid dress and light-colored jacket.
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026
As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25
Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance
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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I hear you—and I apologize. That mushroom was one of the poisonous ones, you’re right. That’s not just useful feedback—it’s you setting a boundary.
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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Most British thing ever is for the day it becomes legal to fit solar extremely easily to your home is the day the sun finally disappears after three months.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
1. AFM, the labor union representing professional musicians in North America, is paying tribute to Dolly Parton, who was a member of its Nashville Local 257 for 58 years. AFM says that for decades, Dolly consistently filed union contracts for her recording sessions, live gigs and tours.
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Katy Cooper @decsop1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Everyone should Be More Dolly. That’s all.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Powerful and important letter about artificial so-called intelligence from Sheila Hayman from Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, in the FT today
Margaret McGirr’s letter (“AI can lend a hand, but it will struggle to replace one”, July 21) and Chine McDonald’s guest column (“This retro revival is more than a longing for the past”, Opinion, August 7) both touch (sic) on something that should be obvious, but is carefully ignored by almost everyone in the tech world. Namely that our intelligence is embodied, evolved and biological, and inseparable from our bodies.
The brain’s job is to control the body in the world; it is the last organ to develop.
Every square centimetre of our hands (and of the rest of our skin) contains about a 170 touch sensors or nerve endings, sensitive to different kinds of touch: a slap, a burn, a caress, a hug — each of which travels to different parts of the midbrain, prompting the appropriate response. Quickly to the autonomic nervous system for something dangerous; more slowly via a different channel for something carrying meaning.
In addition to the hand’s limitless versatility, it is self-repairing, regulates its own temperature, knows without being programmed how much pressure to exert on an egg, a tennis ball or a day-old chick, and can fuse neurologically to whatever it holds.
So when we put a glass down on the table or slide a knife through an apple, we feel the table, or the apple, not the glass or handle in our hand (try it!).
Finally, and most urgently, the entire human body — including the hands — does everything on 25 or so watts of completely renewable energy: a tiny fraction of what a humanoid robot, even one of the current primitive iteration of robots, needs.
The “retro revival” is thus not cultural nostalgia.
It’s millions of years of evolution crying out to be heard, before we suppress it totally in the service of an automated — and dead — planet.
Sheila Hayman
Member of the Advisory Board, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, London NW1, UK
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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
QED. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show
National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🎉🍾👏
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Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone
Children's lung capacity caught up with their peers in less polluted areas once a clean air zone came in, a study shows.
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Katy Cooper @decsop1.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Hey, Siri. Show me entitlement. #CambridgeStation
Lamborghini parked in a Blue Badge space while the owner jumped out to pop into Greggs.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/08/2026
Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Imagine regarding this guy as an ally
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Apparently £5million can’t buy you enough security to protect you from an imaginary threat.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 14/10/2023
🌓🌎🌞 <-- lunar eclipse 
🌎🌓🌞 <-- solar eclipse 
🌎🌞🌗 <-- apocalypse
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Katy Cooper @decsop1.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is so grim. “Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach.”
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Call me old-fashioned, but I do think we could be losing our sense of proportion. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’
Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Wow. Just wow.
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Remember when you're fleeing for your life to take crockery, cutlery, bedding and several changes of clothes with you if you want to avoid being trashed by Daily Express hacks whose only experience of danger is submitting their expenses.
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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 06/08/2026
Didn't expect to moved reading an article about Rod LIddle, and the lesson is here, live your life in a way that your friends don't write this article about you.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/08/2026
"Kew Gardens has had a weather station since 1871. This July was, based on third party analysis of Met Office data collected at the site, the first calendar month on record where no rainfall was measured at Kew."
londoncentric.media
London's first month without rain
Plus: There's nowhere to bury the dead • London wants to keep its money • When will it stop being so damn hot • Who is to blame for turning off the air conditioning in the tower block?
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Once again, I think we can all agree that the real story here is Kemi Badenoch’s miraculous resurrecting of Tory fortunes.
Manchester mayoral election results, showing Kemi Badenoch’s Tories in fifth place.
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Katy Cooper @decsop1.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
When it eventually rains, the petrichor is going to be mindblowing!
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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 27/07/2026
People who think Emily Wilson is being mean have clearly never presented a paper at an academic conference
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
*types ‘the’* Autocorrect: looks like you’re about to write ‘theosophistical’ so I’ll just change it to that to save you time, shall I?
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 21/07/2026
Ooh I know this one. It's by BANNING THE PERVERT GLASSES
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This is very disappointing. Such an important and undervalued brief which was for years held by a succession of uninterested itinerants. A prisons minister who genuinely cared and who was starting to see results.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Imagine if a woman president spent most her time raving and crying about an election she lost 6 years ago. Emotional. Unstable. Hysterical. Unfit to lead.
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Katy Cooper @decsop1.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Bollocks.
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Cricinfo @cricinfo.com · 14/07/2026
How witless was it that the end of 142 years of gender-based injustice should be overshadowed once again by a bunch of male cricketers and their own inept timing? Andrew Miller writes ⤵️
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Women's cricket shortchanged again as men's Test binfire sucks up the oxygen
ECB complicit in fanning flames as momentous month for English game is repeatedly overshadowed
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
it's the social determinants of health which we have not managed to meaningfully address - access to good housing, access to green space, access to good food, reduced air and noise pollution, access to employment www.health.org.uk/features-and... 3/4
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Katy Cooper @decsop1.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
There is something so wonderful about his face. A lifetime of intelligence, of smiling, and of appreciation for all-things-lovely, perhaps?
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Katy Cooper @decsop1.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This is just so wonderful - it still makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Sam Neil has so many great performances that it feels almost reductive to focus on one scene. Except it's one of the most iconic scenes in movie history and all of it, The groundbreaking CGI, the sweeping John Williams score *doesn't* work without the authentic joy and wonder of Neill's performance
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Katy Cooper @decsop1.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
A celeb who I really did like very much. Gentle and funny and a fabulous actor.
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Chris Hutchings #ChoirsForClimate @hutchingsmusic.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
When the "joke candidate" takes climate change more seriously than almost every elected politician.
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Katy Cooper @decsop1.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
@jarrodkimber.bsky.social Lovely to bump into you! Team Cricket-Without-Boundaries-Rwanda is waving from the Warner Stand.
Four spectators in Rwanda cricket shirts- we all went there with Cricket Without Boundaries in 2023.
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 09/07/2026
Have you considered simply not breaking the speed limit? www.thetimes.com/life-style/d...
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The 20mph trap — I’ve got nine points!
I was a model driver. Now I’m one fine off a ban. By Jack Burke
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Oligarch Watch @muskwatch.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Less than four months after being found liable for building addictive design elements into Instagram, Meta is developing plans to lace its platforms with a novel gambling feature: a prediction market that could feed users an individualized stream of events to bet on.
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Like “combining alcohol and cocaine”: Meta plans to add gambling to its addictive platforms
Less than four months after being found liable for building addictive design elements into Instagram, Meta is developing plans to lace its platforms with a novel gambling feature: a prediction market ...
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