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Tasha

@drofnub.bsky.social
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Librarian, believer in society and social justice.

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shropsbadgergroup.bsky.social @shropsbadgergroup.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Family potter 2: Mum and two cubs #sparrowhawksett @badgertrust.bsky.social @badgercrowd.bsky.social @mammalsociety.bsky.social @mammalsocietyyouth.bsky.social @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social #wildlife #wildlifephotography #Badgers youtu.be/QyO4jj71Q6Y
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Family potter 2
YouTube video by BadgermanandRobin
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Tasha @drofnub.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Tragically, Jason Arday has died after a vicious press campaign over the last few weeks. The Government must urgently launch an inquiry into the rotten culture of the press, and any role it had in his death. hackedoff.org/campaign-actions/demand-an-inquiry-into-the-culture-of-the-press
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Demand an inquiry into the culture of the press
Jason Arday died after being relentlessly hounded by the press. Demand an inquiry into press culture now.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/05/2026
Man who pocketed tiles from medieval priory as boy returns them 60 years later
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Man who pocketed tiles from medieval priory as boy returns them 60 years later
Simon White comes clean after finding clay pieces in toffee tin, saying he took them as souvenir from Wenlock Priory Fragments of a priory’s medieval tiled floor that spent almost 60 years stashed in a toffee tin after being pocketed by a nine-year-old boy during a family outing have finally been handed back. The three pieces of decorative clay tiles, dating from the late 13th to early 14th century, were taken as a souvenir by Simon White during a family visit to Wenlock Priory in Shropshire in the late 1960s. Continue reading...
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Tasha @drofnub.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Birchmeadow centre Broseley 25/04 Claude Bourbon. Experience a stunning acoustic fusion of blues, jazz, folk, classical and Spanish guitar.
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Tasha @drofnub.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Bruce Springsteen releases anti-ICE song dedicated to Minneapolis
Singer says song is in response to ‘state terror’ visiting city, painting image of unrest due to ‘King Trump’s private army’
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Tasha @drofnub.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
A salutary lesson
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Jim Hawkins @jimallthetime.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
'It’s about ... when you hear a right-wing politician and feel like you are listening to a different species, as if you are alienated not just from their opinions but from any kind of shared emotional reality' The disturbing personality traits on the British right open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
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Dark Triad: The disturbing personality traits on the British right
A new survey hints at an alarming psychological distinction in political life
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/11/2025
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
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Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Tasha @drofnub.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
So "History won’t forgive us’ if UK falls behind in quantum computing race, says Tony Blair" I think there's worse things that history isn't going to forgive us for!!
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University of Wolverhampton Libraries @wlvunilibrary.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
TOP TIPS #7: We have short-loan laptops on all 3 of our libraries. You can take out these laptops for up to 6 hours at a time, and all you need if your campus card. So if your computer breaks down and you still have an assignment to submit, never fear, the library has your back.
A photo of our Lapsafe laptop lockers at Harrison Library.
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Tasha @drofnub.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Urgent appeal to identify suspect of racially aggravated rape in Walsall
Police release CCTV footage after man described as white and in his 30s attacked woman in her 20s in Park Hall area
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Jim Hawkins @jimallthetime.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Overcompensating much? ‘Mine’s so big it doesn’t even fit in the lines!’ 🙄
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Tasha @drofnub.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Is there a glimmer of light in the darkness? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Labour has succeeded only in strengthening Farage. The way is now open for Zack Polanski’s Greens | George Monbiot
By caving to the hard right and corporate greed, Labour has left a gaping hole the new Green party leader is best placed to fill, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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shropsbadgergroup.bsky.social @shropsbadgergroup.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Hi everyone, this is a new account and it's for Shropshire Badger Group ... we'll give Bluesky a go and see how easy it is for us to manage alongside our other accounts but it would be great if you could follow us #badger #badgers #wildlife #wildlifephotos #wildlifephotography #mammal #mammals
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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Please enjoy this Klimt Eastwood
The image is a piece of fan art titled "Klimt Eastwood," created by Carl Tétreault in 2016. 

It depicts actor and director Clint Eastwood in a style inspired by the Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt, specifically referencing Klimt's "The Kiss".
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/06/2025
Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Malik
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Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Malik
The political centre sees the US and Israel’s war on Iran as a crisis to be managed, while the gap between their detached politics and bloody rhetoric widens, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Government policy is to grow the gambling industry. That means more addiction and more suicide. Time for a rethink. - @endgamblingads.bsky.social & @mzc.bsky.social
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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 06/05/2025
In a recent study, scientists discovered that trees communicate during an eclipse.
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Scientists discover trees communicate like Tolkien's Ents during eclipse
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Jim Hawkins @jimallthetime.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Don’t normalise Farage. He is anything but normal uk.themedialeader.com/dont-normali...
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Don’t normalise Farage. He is anything but normal - The Media Leader
News outlets must properly interrogate Farage and Reform on how effectively they run things, not report uncritically on the social division they stir.
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Stop Hate, it divides us all @0lozzamac0.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Please sign and share this petition: Protect hares and their young from shooting during the breeding season petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
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Petition: Protect hares and their young from shooting during the breeding season
We call on the Government to stop the shooting of hares during their peak breeding season, by establishing a legally enforceable close season for hares in England and Wales, from 1st February to 30th ...
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Tasha @drofnub.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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For whom the bell tolls: hunt for missing piece of Shrewsbury’s industrial history
Quest to restore sound that called child workers to Flaxmill Maltings building, which paved way for modern high-rises
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Tasha @drofnub.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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Ben Jennings on the emergence of Keir Cameron – cartoon
Two prime ministers, separated by time and politics, come together in cuts and reforms
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Tasha @drofnub.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Not to be missed...how does he get away with it?
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Jim Hawkins @jimallthetime.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻
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Tasha @drofnub.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio... we can't let this happen. Radio drama is such an important medium for our playwrights.
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BBC radio drama is in grave danger. Without it we may lose the next generation of writing talent
Hundreds of hours of original plays have been cut from the corporation’s programming in recent years. If the trend continues, a valuable training ground for writers will be lost
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Sixteen Films @kenloach16films.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
ON FALLING the new film from the Ken Loach & Sixteen Films team Out in Cinemas March 7th (early tickets here: conic.film/films/onfalling) The film is about precarity, exploitation and loneliness in the modern world. Please share and help us get the word out.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Let's face it, they'd be better off moving lock stock and barrel to India while just keeping satellite campuses in the UK. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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UK universities look to open campuses in India amid financial woes at home
Branches aim to tap into huge domestic market in face of changing visa regimes and international competition
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Tasha @drofnub.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts | Letters
Letters: Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley, and Dr Ronan McLaverty-Head and another letter writer comment on cuts at Ca...
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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
First we saw Lampeter gutted & now the humanities at Cardiff. The Archaeology department was my undergrad Alma Mater & I've always been so proud of that and every opportunity they gave me. Solidarity with them & their colleagues as they face what's coming from above. Senseless, souless, vandalism 🏺
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Tasha @drofnub.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I love the fact that @pperry.bsky.social column is number 2 at the moment in Guardians most viewed. It's my first port of call on a Sunday. Always something to take away from her answers no matter what the question.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
More than 60 universities and higher education institutions in Germany have announced their departure from X In a joint statement, the universities condemned the platform for amplifying far-right populist content, calling it “unacceptable” www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/ov...
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Over 60 German universities quit social media platform X
Platform accused of failing to uphold values of diversity, freedom, and scholarship - Anadolu Ajansı
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Matt Edwards @greenmattbfd.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
⚠️ #Potholes are dangerous for everyone: pedestrians, people on bikes and drivers. 📉 Decades of underinvestment has left our roads some of the worst in Europe. 🚙 Also factor in heavier vehicles and increased traffic. 🚧 Labour must fund Councils properly so they can make roads safer for everyone.
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Pothole compensation claims more than double in a year
Pothole compensation claims to local authorities more than doubled last year, a report from RAC reve...
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Tasha @drofnub.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... An interesting read.
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To turn Britain around, we need a proper understanding of life for poorer workers | Torsten Bell
Research shows that despite higher rates of employment, lower income families are being squeezed by housing and living costs
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Tasha @drofnub.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Well I've decided to come over here now and here I am!
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