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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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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 9h
I was diagnosed with breast cancer seven years ago today, after routine screening found early #lobular #breastcancer on the mammogram, no lump or visible breast changes. Several months of treatment (surgery x2 + radiotherapy) and I’ve not had a recurrence. The UK has excellent NHS cancer care.
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Rukhshana Media @rukhshanamedia.bsky.social · 12h
Afghanistan’s female teachers put up with low pay to defy Taliban rukhshana.com/en/afghanist...
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Afghanistan’s female teachers put up with low pay to defy Taliban  - Rukhshana Media
Rahima’s teaching salary is so meagre that sometimes she cannot even afford the fare to work, but her job in an Afghan girls.
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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Men stopping women from discussing our health isn't my understanding of progressive. The "left" wonders why it's losing this debate. "They unfurled a large trans flag while physiotherapist and campaigner Elaine Miller spoke via Zoom about female pelvic health." 🙄 www.dailymail.com/news/article...
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Green trans activists protest discussion about women's health
A member of the party's executive was in the 'intimidating' group that barged into the Green Party Women fringe in an attempt to 'prevent a speaker addressing the audience.
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Agree. They’re big on the woman-hating, and big on keeping scandals hushed up. Look up David and Ashton (Aimee) Challenor.
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Every puffin-lover in the UK should go to Skomer, an island off the Welsh coast, at least once. You can walk on a path through the area where the puffins land and burrow, and they’re padding around a few feet away. Fabulous. Go in April to see them burrowing, or July when they fly in with fish.
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yep! As was this: bsky.app/profile/futu...
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As I left my house this afternoon, i noticed that the patch of ivy I’ve been cultivating for several years was covered in both flowers and bees. Very pleasing and gratifying!
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Even before the full-on Trump/immigration madness, when I visited a friend in California in 2019, the guy at LAX passport control was so rude to me. And nastily sarcastic about my friend living in the wine region. I’ve visited friends in France, Germany, Belgium, Austria… nobody was rude to me.
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Shahan Miah @shahanshahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've just declared myself as a traitor by mistake #CelebrityTraitors #TheCelebrityTraitors
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Until less than 30 years, councils used to run residential homes, and people with early - intermediate dementia could live in them if otherwise in ok health. My MIL lived in a fantastic one for a while. Staff on proper contracts as council officers, so salary bands, pensions, promotions etc.
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
youtu.be/d23TGmzAw3A
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Four Lions - Dancing in the moonlight
YouTube video by Sinak4
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Me too.
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Horrendous. Poor girl 😔 He’s the kind of man that should just go in the mulch.
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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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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yes, anyone who views CSAM is as bad as those who create it. The ongoing headfuck for his now ex-wife and his former friends is that he only received a suspended sentence and no media covered the case. He’s now living with a new woman, in her house near a primary school, and now teaches adults.
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You THINK you’ve avoided spending time with creeps. Then you find out (as I did a year ago) that a man - a teacher, a family friend for 20 years, funny and kind - has been convicted for viewing child sex abuse material. It destroyed my confidence and mental health last autumn because he fooled us.
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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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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Arms strategically folded in an attempt to hide the waist.
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Haha when I found that photo of him, I found myself thinking of Gorillas in the Mist.
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ah. She’s a really excellent BBC Radio 6Music DJ and also hosts Desert Island Discs, and does a bit of telly. I really like her, she’s a great interviewer and has a very warm radio style. So I’m sad her brother is behaving like a festering dick.
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He’s Lauren Laverne’s brother and they were in the band together in the mid 90s, but I don’t think I was aware of them beyond one single.
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yep, I just looked him up. He’s 51.
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Was.
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yes, it clearly doesn’t matter to him that he’s a lecturer at SAE London. Apparently male lecturers can insult women younger than themselves for their appearance, and it’s absolutely fine.
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This Pete Gofton? A fine figure of a man.
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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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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Haha I like the Tescos Xmas carnage image! Yes, I’ll give it a few weeks before I try it again - hopefully some of the ‘wacky’ contestants will go early and Alison will calm down. Sadly the very amusing companion show, Extra Slice with Jo Brand and Tom Allen, has been axed. The replacement is dire.
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It was unwatchable. Goodness knows what the casting team and the editors thought they were doing this time, trying to blow up bizarre characters on episode 1, rather than allow personalities to emerge across the series. Especially as all this ep needed to do was integrate Nigella into the show.
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Absolutely. Even two years ago, the Guardian was reporting a huge rise in male crimes against women and girls on trains.
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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
Thank you! 🎉
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A couple of years ago I went to Reading Museum as I had a couple of spare hours before meeting someone. I didn’t even know it had a copy of the tapestry. I was the only person there - had the whole glorious thing to myself. No shuffling along in a jammed queue. And entrance was free!
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So what’s the solution, other than walking away which a) doesn’t work if you’re in a restaurant, lying on a beach etc and b) is part of the reaction the perverts want? Would it be an offence to flick water from your water bottle onto the wearer’s glasses and face, if you suspect he’s filming you?
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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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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The big question for me is how we reduce the huge amount of domestic violence that happens after football matches. This doesn’t happen after other sports. The govt has a ‘strategy and vision’ to halve violence against women and girls. Is adding alcohol into football stadiums going to help that?
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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
Unfortunately Daniel Thomas is such a very common name in the UK that some media organisations think using his AKA makes it clear which one. Another Dan Thomas, who was leader of Reform UK in Wales, has just had to stand down after being arrested on suspicion of assault and coercive behaviour.
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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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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yep. So many ways to express misogyny!
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