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CWP- Children & Adolescent Wellbeing practitioner-CAMHS/NHS. BSc Psychology OU. PG Dip Children & YP Psychological Wellbeing Anna Freud Centre-UCL ☘️Previously worked in KS3/2/1 & EYFS, with autistic students, ADHD, SEMH & SEND in schools. ADHD adult

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ACAMH - Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health @acamh.bsky.social · 17h
What if #schools could respond to distress more confidently? This training for school staff will introduce an evidence-based approach to support children and young people to manage their distress effectively. Book now to learn more! bit.ly/451MEKL
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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ACAMH - Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health @acamh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Working with young people experiencing #sleep difficulties? 😴 This evidence-based session with Professor Michael Gradisar will cover how clinicians can assess sleep difficulties and examine what current research tells us about why these problems occur. bit.ly/4q2vpCC
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We Are Better Than This @better-than-this.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oh, do check out their interview with Beeban Kidron on AI, British politics and workers rights (it is unexplicable for me that, so far, this only has 5.8K views). www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Ng...
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Big tech is destroying democracy | Beeban Kidron interview
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Children and Screens @childrenandscreens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From the latest #ScreenDeep: Renowned children’s digital rights advocate Baroness Beeban Kidron joins host Kris Perry to discuss real children feeling they've had a "lost childhood" due to a digital system of design and content that treats them as a commodity. Learn more 🎧 bit.ly/4qXRm6c
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Why the Internet Should be Made Safer for Children - Not the Other Way Around | Baroness Beeban Kidron - Children and Screens
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Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#ADHDAwarenessMonth Hard to focus = can't filter? Meh. In CRAE's SuPer study, ADHDers matched autistic, AuDHD and PNT adults on an attention task and showed no difficulty filtering out distractions at the simplest level. Autistic folk were seeing more. doi.org/10.1016/j.ac... 1/2
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Superior perceptual capacity is specific to autistic cognition
To systematically measure perceptual capacity for autistic, ADHD, autistic people with ADHD (AuDHD), and neurotypical adult populations, and to examin…
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Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The reports about the rapes at Cornell—and the lack of accountability—are sickening. So is the victim blaming: “If you don’t want to be raped, don’t go to a frat party.” Instead of telling girls and women to avoid harm, we should be raising boys and men not to commit it: Don’t. Rape. Women.
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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AppleInsider @appleinsider.com · 28/09/2026
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.
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Meta's new AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.
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Isabelle Finn-Kelcey @isabellefk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Being physically present in a classroom does not automatically mean that a child is included. True #inclusion means feeling psychologically safe, accepted, understood & connected.” Fab article by @jopavlopoulou.bsky.social ✨
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emotional-lit-cwp.bsky.social @emotional-lit-cwp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
It should really bother everyone more that these "AI" companies and the people that run them are always— ALWAYS— looking for ways to trick or coerce us into giving up more and more ourselves to them.
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Hidden Brain @hiddenbrain.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Left alone, the mind grabs the quickest, most satisfying story and calls it the truth. None of these techniques are automatic. That's the work.
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Steven Kapp @drstevenkapp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The UK is likely to try to reduce ADHD & autism diagnoses this week even though its own National Health Service funded a report saying ADHD is underdiagnosed & undertreated. Autism's criteria are already narrowed. See my anchor post & gifted article previewing UK report: inews.co.uk/news/claims-...
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ADHD is not being overdiagnosed, major Government report set to find
Landmark report expected to rule out mass overdiagnosis but warn support can be hard to obtain
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ACAMH - Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health @acamh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Can behaviour be understood without understanding the violence that surrounds it? In this podcast, @susanswingler.bsky.social explores why violence exposure between the ages of 12 and 14 is best understood in context rather than as an individual failing. bit.ly/4gOHMz5
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Martin Pratt @martinpratt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
📄 From #JCPP: Implications of cooccurring ADHD for the cognitive behavioural treatment of anxiety in autistic children 👉 doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.70010 #MentalHealthResearch
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Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
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ACAMH - Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health @acamh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Teenagers aren’t simply “night owls.” 💤 Explore the difference—and overlap—between #circadianrhythm influences and #insomnia in adolescent #sleep with Professor Michael Gradisar. Book now to learn how to assess, differentiate and intervene effectively. bit.ly/4q2vpCC
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Correction: A company marketing a cartoon character obtained the cooperation of an opportunistic journalist for an infomercial, and it failed.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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ACAMH - Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health @acamh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🧠 Another fantastic episode of Inside the Teen Brain is live! Takako Yeung joins @drjanegilmour.bsky.social to show how neuroscience can transform everyday teaching. Hint: the student–teacher relationship a powerful lever for both wellbeing and academic attainment. bit.ly/3U1fzwa
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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just published: "5 New FREE Resources ". Check it out and subscribe to get everything I'm making with @stimpunks.org autisticrealms.kit.com/posts/5-new-...
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5 New FREE Resources
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The McPin Foundation @mcpinfoundation.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This youth mental health day, one way to help build future you is by getting involved in research as a young person. Develop skills & confidence & work alongside peers w lived experience. Hear more about youth involvement work & paths into research from our @mcpinypnetwork.bsky.social team here! 👇
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ACAMH - Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health @acamh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🎓 Join internationally renowned expert @profsamch.bsky.social for an in-depth programme on supporting anxious parents. Learn how to help parents reduce accommodating behaviours, build resilience, & promote long-term emotional wellbeing in anxious children. bit.ly/4yjsNTI
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Steven Kapp @drstevenkapp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
@autisticsociety.bsky.social's review that autism is genetic aligns with research that autism is a lifelong neurodivergence (www.frontiersin.org/journals/int...) - as the National Autistic Society said, people are born autistic and remain autistic for life. 1/
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Frontiers | Sensory–movement underpinnings of lifelong neurodivergence: getting a grip on autism
While the autism diagnosis emphasizes “deficits” in social communication, the article advances that sensory–movement differences underpin autism through a re...
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Steven Kapp @drstevenkapp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Other research shows that camouflaging and self-presentation in people with high ADHD traits but few autistic traits was related to better mental health, but camouflaging in people with high autistic traits was related to poor well-being, especially for women. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... 3/
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Camouflaging, internalized stigma, and mental health in the general population
Camouflaging, the strategies that some autistic people use to hide their differences, has been hypothesized to trigger mental health ramifications. Camouflaging might reflect ubiquitous impression man...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/09/2026
This mofo hesitates way too damn long. You can imagine what his plans are.
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Digital Civics @digitalcivics.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"... a social media ban is an exhaustible resource. Expending it without initiating long-term, large-scale educational and regulatory plans cannot succeed, undermines government credibility, and compromises future action..." #SocialMediaBan #Edusky policyreview.info/articles/new...
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We are giving Big Tech what they want: the strategic blunder of under-16 social media bans
Under-16 social media bans may seem like a reasonable response that forestalls consequences, but, in ways we have yet to appreciate, they may prove a strategic blunder, serving the best interests of t...
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"The symptoms of #ADHD are just normal behaviours!" If you or anyone you know has been confronted with this argument as to why ADHD is 'not a thing', I made this for you. And yes, this IS my professional opinion.
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Dean Burnett on Instagram: ""The symptoms of #ADHD are just normal behaviours!" That's what many claim, at least. This is the rationale for dismissing it as a genuine medical condition, like @channel4 did in 'The Great ADHD Myth?' But is that true? Or is it just a deeply cynical, and clearly deliberate, misrepresentation of how diagnosis and symptoms actually work? [Hint: its the second thing] #neurodivergence #symptoms #medicine #diagnosis"
2 likes, 0 comments - drdeanburnett on September 9, 2026: ""The symptoms of #ADHD are just normal behaviours!" That's what many claim, at least. This is the rationale for dismissing it as a genuine medical condition, like @channel4 did in 'The Great ADHD Myth?' But is that true? Or is it just a deeply cynical, and clearly deliberate, misrepresentation of how diagnosis and symptoms actually work? [Hint: its the second thing] #neurodivergence #symptoms #medicine #diagnosis".
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ACAMH - Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health @acamh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
How does social media affect the teenage brain? Find out more FAQs on "Digital Media, Peer Influence, and Teen Mental Health" at bit.ly/4wiuCzE
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Laura Hellfeld of Neurodivergent Nurse Consulting @laurahellfeld.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's all about dyspraxia today, tomorrow and Thursday. Here's some articles that I'll be signposting the groups to: laurahellfeld.substack.com/p/talking-wi... #dyspraxia #parenting #neurodiversity
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Talking with Your Young Person About Dyspraxia: Gentle Conversations and Respectful Support
This resource was created to support parents and carers attending the workshop
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Kylie Falcione @kyliefalcione.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
What happens in a teen's brain as gaming problems develop? Full Article Here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... Thank you to the amazing author team: @musamalik.bsky.social @b-wheeler.bsky.social @medianeuro.bsky.social
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David Gray-Hammond (NeuroHub Community) @neurohubcommunity.org · 07/09/2026
Our new Neurodivergent Gudie To The Mental Health Act (England), an over 100 page deep dive! ko-fi.com/s/ad440407b8 #ActuallyAutistic #autism #MentalHealth #MentalHealthAct #ADHD
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A Neurodivergent Guide To The Mental Health Act (England) - NeuroHub Community's Ko-fi Shop
An extensive guide for neurodivergent people to the Mental Health Act in England and how it applies to neurodivergent people
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Martin Pratt @martinpratt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
📄 From #CAMH: Scoping review: potential harm from school‐based group mental health interventions 👉 doi.org/10.1111/camh.12760 #MentalHealthResearch
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Child and Adolescent Mental Health
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ACAMH - Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health @acamh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
In this talk, @victoriapile.bsky.social and @drjanegilmour.bsky.social explore #depression through the lens of the teenage brain and consider a shift toward targeting specific symptoms and psychological mechanisms, such as self-compassion, sleep, and emotional mental imagery. bit.ly/4wI0eOQ
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot
It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It’s clear as climate catastrophe that AI is an existential threat and that the tipping point is right now. It’s also clear that no one is going to stop it. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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‘We’re plausibly close to crossing the line’: are warnings of uncontrollable AI coming true?
A spate of serious safety incidents have increased fears about the power and impenetrability of the most advanced models
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🧵 1/13 🔦 What the Government won't tell you on climate. 🔒 It buried its own intelligence report on ecological breakdown 👉 bsky.app/profile/geor... 📈 Now it won't tell us how it sets carbon budgets that let emissions roll on ⚖️ So we are taking it to Court 👉 www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-...
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Carbon Reckoning: Holding the Government to Its Own Climate Law
Carbon Reckoning are a science based group, committed to the strongest possible action to require the UK sets climate policy commensurate with the scale of the crisis we face.
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Anna Freud @annafreudcharity.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Do you love, or work with an autistic person but just need more help in supporting them? We’re commissioned by @england.nhs.uk to offer free, online coaching sessions through Autism Central: www.autismcentral.nhs.uk/one-one
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One-to-one | Autism Central
Online coaching sessions for parents and families supporting autistic people in England. The sessions are NHS funded, and provide practical guidance to navigate services.
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Dr David Robert Grimes @drg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Gentle reminder: unless medically directed, you don't need supplements. They are foodstuffs, not medicines, and are cheap - a month's supply of collagen is ~1 euro wholesale. So how are some Irish doctors justifying charging €250 quid A MONTH for them? That's a good bloody question.. a short🧵..
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Ben Potts @ben-potts.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A journal editorial asked whether autism has lost its meaning. A documentary asked whether ADHD is real. My new blog post is about what that does to the people who then say nothing. blogs.city.ac.uk/needs/autism...
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Autism and ADHD Under Attack: What It Costs to Be Doubted in Public
What this summer's arguments about autism and ADHD do to diagnosis, stigma and whether people tell anyone.
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 01/09/2026
Autistic people can really truly benefit from alone time, especially when social and sensory environments are too much . Finding quiet spaces and/or engaging with intense interests can be helpful, as can making socializing less overwhelming. New research: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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Julia Feldman, PhD @julia-feldman.info · 31/08/2026
📢 New in Journal of Attention Disorders! Two preschool ADHD symptoms are the strongest predictors of a current or future ADHD diagnosis: 🏃‍♀️ Being “on the go” 💥 Interrupts or intrudes Read the full (open access!) paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 🧪 #PsychSciSky #Psychiatry #devpsy
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Associations Between ADHD Symptoms and Diagnosis Across the Preschool Period - Julia S. Feldman, Arianna Schiff, Oliver Lindhiem, Heather M. Joseph, 2026
Objective: The purpose of the study was to examine which attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms at ages 3 to 5 are most strongly associated wi...
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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
Image of Sundar Pichai and the Gmail logo
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
#boycottsainsburys
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Burnham received donations from David Sainsbury before running for PM. Now this 'Labour' government is colluding with Sainsburys,who are making low paid workers redundant & replacing them with teenage working for nothing. Thatcher would be proud of you @uklabour.bsky.social x.com/Phil_Jones01...
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Phil Jones (@Phil_Jones01) on X
Participants will receive no wages, though Sainsbury's has stated that lunch and travel costs will be covered where necessary. @sainsburys @MayorofLondon @andyburnham - the unions and TUC should be in...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 31/08/2026
Advanced AI threatens global financial stability, says Bank of England boss
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Advanced AI threatens global financial stability, says Bank of England boss
Andrew Bailey warns G20 members about risk of cyber-disruption spreading ‘across jurisdictions’ The Bank of England’s governor, Andrew Bailey, has joined the throng of figures warning about the global risks posed by the most advanced artificial intelligence technology. In a two-page letter sent to international finance ministers and central bank governors as part of his role as chair of the international Financial Stability Board (FSB), Bailey said “frontier” AI models were “showing increasingly sophisticated autonomy and problem-solving abilities, as well as threat capabilities”. Continue reading...
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Robert Newton @roberttnewton.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Seems to me like a worthwhile petition to sign petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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Petition: Ban foreign media ownership, enact a social media levy & new regulatory reform
Pass law to ban foreign & offshore ownership of UK media, enact a social-media levy to distribute media ownership across society & fund independent, local & cooperative-owned media. We believe democra...
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