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Helen

@futurestand.bsky.social
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Environmental socialist, anti-racist, singer, feminist, teacher, optimist. Art, theatre, museums, gigs, birds, natural history.

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Enchantra Sand📚🌻 @enchantrasand.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And so many men are so shocked when told - yes, your granny. Yes, every woman you've ever known.
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No use for balaclavas and Sports Direct black clothes for quite some time, lads. Maybe find a new way over winter to help make Britain great - plenty of volunteering and fundraising opportunities out there in your local communities. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Daniel Thomas refused bail over alleged boat damage in Channel
Daniel Thomas is remanded in custody after appearing at Portsmouth Crown Court.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/09/2026
Former snooker world champion Graeme Dott jailed for child sexual abuse
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Former snooker world champion Graeme Dott jailed for child sexual abuse
Dott, 49, receives seven-year sentence after abusing a boy and a girl in what judge says was ‘gross violation of trust’ The former snooker world champion Graeme Dott has been jailed for seven years at the high court in Edinburgh after being convicted of sexually abusing two children. In August, Dott was found guilty of sexually abusing a boy and a girl after a five-day trial at Glasgow high court. The court heard that the 2006 world champion inappropriately touched and exposed himself to both children. He denied the charges but was convicted of two counts of lewd, indecent and libidinous behaviour by a majority verdict. Continue reading...
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nearly 40% of survivors who report to their schools are pushed out in one way or another—usually, at the urging of school staff who want them to leave. (In comparison, less than 1% of perpetrators are suspended or expelled.)
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kat is right about all of this. One of the reasons that college sexual violence is uniquely devastating is because it changes the victim’s entire future.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The school notebook of the 14-year-old boy killed by Russia in Kyiv today. The Russian strike killed him in the middle of the day, in his own room. His desk still had the notebook with unfinished homework.
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Ajit G. @ajit4g.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"You can still kill many people ..." On the night of September 24, two people died in the capital. Despite damage from the Russian attack, Maternity Hospital No. 2 assisted with nine deliveries. Doctors continue to receive patients around the clock. 🙏 unn.ua/en/news/a-ba...
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A boy was born at a maternity hospital in Kyiv during the explosions
УНН Slider ✎ Despite damage from the Russian attack, Maternity Hospital No. 2 assisted with nine deliveries. One boy was born in a shelter.
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Pervert glasses are being used for criminal behaviour by schoolboys as well as by adult men across the world. They not only secretly film but also actively harrass girls and women, then post videos of the harassment and the women’s reactions - including fear, upset and anger - on social media.
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 24/09/2026
this is the guy i reposted the other day who interviewed meta employees with pervert glasses - meta have taken his video down for “harassment”. which makes it one of the most effective pieces of satire in recent memory
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
An excellent letter from the director of a rape crisis centre. What on earth is wrong with the kind of men who are so eager to throw women’s rights away?
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Politics UK @politicsuk.com · 23/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Danny Tommo has been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and recklessly endangering life at sea after knifing a migrant boat in the English Channel
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh that’s definitely going to help with the government’s supposed target of reducing domestic violence 🙄
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/09/2026
Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 15 years after sexual assault conviction
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Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 15 years after sexual assault conviction
Sentencing comes after years of appeals and retrials in the case involving former TV production assistant Miriam Haley
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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/2026
1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.
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Beelbeebub @beelbeebub.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The BBC do (at least now) have a story up on main page www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Interestingly it was a french coast guard official on the boat. It would be peak funny if the french requested extradition.
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Police looking at video of anti-migrant activist slashing at boat with knife
Daniel Thomas, known to his supporters as Danny Tommo, livestreamed a video of the alleged incident.
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Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This should be a matter for child protection services, and prevent.
Chants of "let them drown" sung by a child
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Endangering another during a journey by sea; criminal damage; carrying an offensive weapon; possession of a bladed article; conduct endangering ships or individuals; unlawfully and intentionally destroying a ship breaching section 11 of the aviation and maritime security act;
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Liam Connolly @connolly-lg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I want my country back. By that, I mean a country where I would be confident that a thug who livestreamed himself stabbing an RNLI dingy on an active operation would a) Be universally condemned b) Be swiftly arrested, put on trial and if found guilty, face many years in jail. I miss that country.
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TVP World @tvpworld.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A 10-year-old girl sustained head injuries after being attacked with a hatchet by an 11-year-old boy at a primary school in northeastern Poland.
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Poland: Girl, 10, suffers head injuries in school hatchet attack
A parent of one of the school's other pupils restrained the attacker, who was aged just 11.
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steveflynn37 @steveflynn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Aaaaand. That thing that never happens appears to have happened yet again. And these idiots still describe them as “she”. Ffs
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Rukhshana Media @rukhshanamedia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
First, the Taliban shut down their real lives, Now, Afghan women’s virtual lives are also under threat rukhshana.com/en/first-the...
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First, the Taliban shut down their real lives, Now, Afghan women’s virtual lives are also under threat - Rukhshana Media
she thinks reported her to the authorities, but she references a word often used to justify the control of women.
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Aaargh! It’s great that medical misogyny has been properly researched like this, but reading about it makes me want to hit things. As the article mentions, it’s not even just that women receive less treatment, we also get ‘accused’ of being anxious. Aaaaaaaargh! www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Women with same health conditions as men ‘less likely to be offered active treatment’
Men with heart, kidney or liver conditions more likely to be offered intervention compared with women, global analysis finds
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Out of 13,000 British agents for the Special Operations Executive who worked secretly in Nazi-occupied countries in WW2, 3,000 were women. Such bravery and such a vital role for supporting the local resistance groups to disrupt Nazi operations, and getting intel to the UK government.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Nancy Mitford updated.
Sign with arrow in one direction saying Non EU and the other EU.
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I often think that people - especially men - need to be reminded of this. Women were imprisoned and beaten up for demanding equal rights, just a blink of an eye ago. We don’t have some luxury, privileged position in society, as men’s rights activists would have us believe.
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MargaretH @margaretj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is not new, we have known about this for decades. With many maternity services underfunded and struggling any initiative to improve response to domestic abuse needs to be organised effectively and properly resourced. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Thousands of pregnant women in England are reporting domestic abuse. Midwives are struggling to cope
Exclusive: Analysis ‘lays bare’ something midwives already know from their day-to-day work, says professional association’s leader
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Paging former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson. @tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A beautiful, devastating thread about RNLI and community. Absolute heroes.
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oh my god, this is absolutely horrendous. The poor women - to learn that part of you was amputated when it shouldn’t have been. A life of mental trauma now to add to the physical. The National Crime Agency and Durham Police are involved so I won’t comment further on the case.
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Syrian music icon Assala returns to the stage in Damascus tonight for the first time in 15 years, following years of exile under Assad. Her emotional entrance was met with the song: “Keep your head up high, you’re a free Syrian.”
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Noonie❤️ Fella 🇺🇦 @noonienounou.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Tomi 🇺🇦🇫🇮🇪🇺 (@TallbarFIN) on X
Canadians, it is time to embrace your European roots. 😉🇨🇦🇪🇺
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/09/2026
Lifeboat station in Portsmouth forced to temporarily shut after far-right action
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Lifeboat station in Portsmouth forced to temporarily shut after far-right action
RNLI facility had been affected by attempts by activists to stop asylum seekers landing in boats from the Channel A lifeboat station on the south coast of England near the spot where far-right activists tried to stop asylum seekers landing has been forced to temporarily close, it has emerged. The station in Portsmouth shut after it and other sites run by the RNLI were targeted by people objecting to the lifeboat charity going to the aid of people trying to get to the UK on small boats. Continue reading...
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Women for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Immigration and Asylum Bill is back in parliament, with MPs hearing evidence on the impact of the Bill. We know it will have a disproportionately harmful impact on women seeking safety here. Here’s what happened and our concerns 👇 www.refugeewomen.co.uk/immigration-... 1/🧵
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Women for Refugee Women - Our response to the Immigration and Asylum Bill announced on 30 June 2026
We are deeply concerned by the Immigration and Asylum Bill announced on 30 June 2026 by the Home Secretary.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just Zia Yusuf having a pop at his parents.
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callthistea.bsky.social @callthistea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“The husband's offending against his wife, who he was married to for decades, took place over a period going back to 2004, while the accusations involving the other men range from September 2018 to November 2025.” The husband has admitted to 60 offences. It took 20mins to read them out.
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Another one bites the dust.
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
An excellent read about how West German far-right politicians have convinced many East Germans to vote for them: paying them fake kindness and attention, capitalising on decades of disappointment following the too-rapid and unfair reunification after 1989. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I know why many east Germans vote AfD. And no, it’s not an inherited longing for dictatorship | Carolin Würfel
Grievance politics has grown in the east of the country where I was born. But west Germans have hard questions to answer too, says writer Carolin Würfel
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14/09/2026
British man accused of drugging and raping wife over two decades admits 60 offences
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British man accused of drugging and raping wife over two decades admits 60 offences
Man, who cannot be named to protect anonymity of his victim, admits scores of criminal offences A man has pleaded guilty to drugging and sexually assaulting his wife over a period of 20 years as he admitted 60 criminal offences. The man, who cannot be named in order to protect the anonymity of his victim, is in his 60s and before his arrest lived in Stockport, Greater Manchester. Continue reading...
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
ICYMI. This is the list of sex crimes against children and women that were committed by male users of mixed-sex swimming pool changing facilities in Scotland, over just two years from 2023-2025. No sex crimes at all were recorded in single-sex changing rooms. Single-sex = ESSENTIAL for safeguarding.
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Brap @brap.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.dailymail.com/news/article... Latest in safeguarding fail. What is wrong with these people?
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Fury as NSPCC say male teachers can supervise girls in changing rooms
The child protection charity has removed a policy that adults supervising pupils while they change should be the same sex as the children from its latest safeguarding briefing.
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Give us single-sex facilities back! “Incidents [between 2023-2025] occurred at venues with shared facilities. No crimes were recorded at centres with single-sex facilities but incidents were reported at pools which had mixed-sex “village-style” shared showers and changing facilities.” 1/2
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Telibarb 🐾🐾 @telibarb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This.
Ray Campbell:

BBC News's Simon Jones says the RNLI is 'facing increased scrutiny'. It isn't 'increased scrutiny' they're facing; it's threats of violence and intimidation. This framing shows us how the BBC not only misinforms its audiences, but encourages scum like "Danny Tommo" and his clown army.

The BBC is part of the problem.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“You do my dad's legacy and the legacy of all these victims no honor by using this tragedy to spread hate…I've had to grow up and spend the past 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers and sisters, to hate on people who don't look like them."
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Last weekend Kent police described a far-right protest in Dover as "spontaneous". They've now admitted they were warned the night before - likely by a resident of the small village were several hundred men dumped their cars, camped out then boarded vans to Dover: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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How balaclava-clad activists swarmed a quiet Kentish village
Police failed to follow up on a tip-off before hundreds descended on Preston, using it as a staging post for anti-immigration protests across the south
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11/2001 I was a freshman in high school in Alabama, I wore a hijab. In gym class my teacher wheeled in a screen. Something horrible was happening. I watched, mouth agape as the second tower hit. We were silent. As that period reached an end, my name was announced on the loud speaker. 1/
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
More RNLI related news: the Old Lifeboat Museum in Poole has had to temporarily close because volunteers there were getting abuse. The stupidity of the balaclava mob and supporters makes my head explode. Are they so twisted that they seriously get a dopamine hit from abusing museum volunteers?
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