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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 5h

Fetch me a magnum of Champagne and summon my best pig. We leave for the meadow at midday.

Terry Pratchett drinks a large bottle of Champagne with a big pig in a meadow

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 5h

'Blackberrying.' (1917) Harold Harvey used the theme of fruit picking throughout his career; the women and girls in the work of this period are absorbed in their own thoughts, something which reflects the preoccupations of the time with the ongoing war across the water in France

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just throwing it out there that on this site we probably don’t need to see what the worst people on the planet are saying on Twitter about the horrifying Arizona congressional candidate story.

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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Couples with £1 million and a family home will be able to avoid contributing anything to the collective good of their children’s and grandchildren’s country says Kemi Badenoch. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Couples would be able to leave £1m and family home exempt from inheritance tax under Tories, says Badenoch – UK politics live

Conservative leader says proposed measures would halve the number of families paying inheritance tax

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The Food Foundation @foodfoundation.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Everyone should be able to live in a 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗙𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗡𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗱 🌱🏘️🥘 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 about how national and local governments can make the most of this opportunity: foodfoundation.org.uk/news/good-fo... ➕ Plus, why citizens voices and experiences must be embedded in future food policy. #foodsystems

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Failures of privatisation. Royal Mail to cut up to 2,500 jobs Foreign-owned RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets even after regulator lowered them. Postage: 1st class, £1.80, 2nd class 91p. When privatized in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p. Poor service at triple price. Customers fleeced.

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Royal Mail plans to cut 2,500 head office jobs

The postal service firm wants to cut the head office and other jobs by the end of 2027.

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Nicola @gardennicola.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Teatime! Banana bread with dark chocolate chips. Having to wait until it cools down a bit. 😆 👩🏼‍🍳

A large golden loaf of banana bread on a cooling rack

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Woodblock print by Kasamatsu Shirō (Japan, 1898-1991) ‘Woods’ 1955. Dimensions 37.5 x 24.1 cm.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is almost certainly true, and the UK fails women refugees in multiple ways, including by refusing safe routes to come here, wrongly rejecting asylum claims, barring family reunion & not recognising trafficking victims promptly or at all. If only Mahmood had the power to do something about this

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Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana Mahmood

Home secretary warns people traffickers will exploit asylum seekers because they decide who comes to the UK

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Nicola @gardennicola.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Saw the film 'I can't be anyone but me' about Willie Mae Thornton today. Then some wonderful blues from my friend Carol Leeming. Thanks to her and Phoenix Leicester

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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We've had several Short-eared and Long-eared Owls (pictured) on the island of recent (photo Aaron Nugent) as the blog explains: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026

Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop severe bleeding. In many cases, oxygen can’t reach their brains and blood pools around their skulls. Yet driven by misinformation, more parents are refusing the injection. (Published May)

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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

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Nicola @gardennicola.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Went for the double! Covid vaccine in one arm, flu jab in the other. #proudface thank you #NHS 💙

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Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Join us 8–9 October for "The Prize Papers of the American War of Independence" at The National Archives, UK, and online. Explore newly catalogued documents from captured ships that reveal wartime lives and a global conflict. Register: www.eventbrite.de/e/the-prize-... #Rev250 #earlymodern #history

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The Prize Papers of the American War of Independence (Online)

An International Workshop on the UK Prize Papers and the American War of Independence: Wartime Lives, Capture, and Transnational Exchange

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This was the solution offered to me re the “problem” of me not yet getting a mid to high six figure grant.

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Kitchen Garden Magazine @growwithkg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🌱 Got a clever gardening tip, trick or shortcut that really works? Kitchen Garden Magazine wants to hear it for 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘀 — and there are 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗻! Email your tip to: kg.ed@kelsey.co.uk

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I strongly believe schools should bring children together rather than try to impose one religious identity on them. If you agree - please add your name and call on the Education Secretary to introduce inclusive assemblies for all, and to keep dangerous Christian Nationalism OUT of our schools.

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Hold My PomPoms Bitches @desertlove.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So we're not just imagining it. Are the Rich Really More Selfish and Mean Than Everyone Else? | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/out-...

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Are the Rich Really More Selfish and Mean Than Everyone Else?

The pricier the car, the less considerate the driver.

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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Audible listeners! No Friend to This House is on offer for £4.99. Meet Medea, victim of the original witch hunt… A Best Book of the Year from The Observer A Marie Claire Best Book of 2026 'An illuminating and often thrilling work of feminist reclamation' – The Guardian

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Burnham says he will replace the triple lock with a double lock of inflation or 2.5% whichever is greater (from 2030) - to help fund social care. Argues that many state pensioners have to pay for care charges and when National Care Service delivered they won't. #Lab26

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Jan @janstreit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ukrainian artist, Tatiana Yanovskaya-Sink

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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David Allan @davidallanphoto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Evening falls across Sunderland's river Wear and the glowing red horizontal band in the sky, opposite the setting sun, is called the 'Belt of Venus', caused by sunlight backscattered off particles high up in the atmosphere. #england #sunderland #landscape #evening #september #autumn #photography

Capturing the red afterglow in the eastern sky after the sun has set in the west. The narrow band of pinkish red is often referred to as the 'Belt of Venus', caused by sunlight being backscattered off dust, particles, and air molecules high up in the atmosphere. The darker area directly beneath the 'belt' is actually the Earth's shadow as it rises into the atmosphere.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#MondayNetwork - a regular appeal to any #skystorians with intersecting interests: food /nutrition, surviving climate change, environmental determinism, race science, exploration, acclimatisation & physiology, cit sci, Indigenous knowledge, & related topics to say hi or share link to your work! 🗃️

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David Hendy @davidhendy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The sky tonight in St Ives as the sun set was… just incredible (No filters, by the way)

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.net · 26/09/2026

Oooh ooh, is it getting house prices under control by regulating private/corporate landlords’ property ownership & building to ensure sufficient new housing stock for buyers?? *reads article* Oh. Burnham announces scheme to help first-time buyers onto housing ladder www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Andy Burnham announces scheme to help first-time buyers

The prime minister says he wants people without support from the "bank of mum and dad" to receive help.

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Nicola @gardennicola.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Turns out that hearing aids are brilliant but complicated. And my phone is too old to work properly with the app. 🤷🏼

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s brilliant to see two key government reviews will likely seek to end the pointless reassessment of many disabled people. I’ve written for years it’s a waste of resources and has a huge strain on disabled people forced into regularly proving their condition. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Severely disabled young people should get fast-track access to benefits, Milburn says

Alan Milburn said 16- to 24-year-olds with most complex needs should not have to keep proving they cannot work

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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 26/09/2026

With all the other potential charges available to them, up to and including attempted murder, why have the CPS chosen only to charge criminal damage?

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Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Guy sitting in front of me on the bus: mid 20s, sinewy speed-weasel affect, tats, vest, big chain necklaces, Ibiza tan, absolutely rocking out to whatever he’s listening to on his big DJ cans. And KNITTING. What the genuine fuck. I want to pat him on the head and beam in a nanna way

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Liberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There's still time to apply for the TCS London Marathon 2027 and run for Liberty. Every mile you run and every pound you raise will support Liberty's work to stand up for human rights, hold power to account, and defend freedom, dignity and equality. Apply before 30 September 👇

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Liberty London Marathon Challenge

Will you take on the challenge for human rights?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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Nicola @gardennicola.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In my favourite café in my favourite plant nursery. I find that even without my hearing aids (long story) I can eavesdrop other people's conversations. 😆

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This year has been brutal, and like most people you probably want to do more about climate change. But what, and how? Great news – I’ve written just the book for you! It’s called What One Person Can Do and it’s a clear and simple how-to guide, a roadmap to help you make influential changes...

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not to harp on this, but one man has now coordinated the disruption of a port, two separate attacks on the RNLI, and interference with the border force and the police have no further questions? And the Home Secretary has not noticed?

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Stewart Parsons @libraryfiend.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I have long enjoyed writing to my literary heroes. No more so than as a romantic book-mad 20year-old, pre library employment. Muriel Spark was quick to recommend the library as a source for her further reading faves to save me 'dipping into my dole'. How I treasure this letter #libraries

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’ve spent a lot of time speaking with people in left-behind towns across the country over the last few years. It’s clear that the policy bods and politicians in London have absolutely no idea what life is like in these places. For many the ‘broken Britain’ narrative simply reflects the reality of

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