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Elisabeth Geake

@geaky.bsky.social
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Writer, editor, carer, a bit political 💚, quite geeky of course. Born @ 320 ppm. She, her. 🇬🇧

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Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
After years of work, St Lawrence's, Gumfreston has reopened and we have been delighted by the wonderful comments left by visitors. 1/6
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Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I won't pretend this isn't a very difficult moment, but so proud of Greens who continue to stand up for trans rights in councils across the UK. This time it was our turn in Oxford! Amazing work by @maxmorris.bsky.social who drafted and proposed the motion www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/2661155...
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'Abuse' and 'intimidation' described as city approves trans rights plan
An Oxford plan to protect trans and non-binary people's rights has been passed amid "abuse" and "intimidation" in a "manufactured moral panic".
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Elisabeth Geake @geaky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wins Bluesky today
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There aren't many days when you can kayak off Start Point, renowned for one of Britain's most dangerous tidal races. But yesterday the stars aligned, so I bunked off work. Delighted to see Rupert Kirkwood (the Lone Kayaker) out there. He took this picture of me +1. Before you ask: yes, it's real. 🧵
In my kayak, watching a bluefin tuna leaping beside me.
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Elisabeth Geake @geaky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Brilliant episode, so clearly explained.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, working at a desk. A brain next to her says, "We need to take breaks!"
The second panel zooms in on Sarah's face. She is annoyed. She says, "What if I don't listen to you?"
The third panel shows the brain smiling.
The fourth panel shows the brain reaching towards a lever. The brain says, "I'LL MAKE YOU."
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Elisabeth Geake @geaky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The nuance in these 3 numbers is important
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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 24/09/2026
We are a very old building. We have lots of keys. We have lots of keys that don’t open anything. Join us for a one off installment of, “Keys of the Merchant Adventurers’ Hall that are pretty but completely useless”. 🔑 🧵
We are looking at two pewter plates with an assortment of large brass and iron keys in various shapes and sizes.
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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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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Oxford Maternity Library is looking for volunteers in order to continue operating. It is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit service, loaning good quality pregnancy and breastfeeding-friendly clothing for low cost, running for over ten years at Florence Park Community Centre.
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Hire Maternity Clothes in Oxford | Oxford Maternity Clothes Library
Hire good-quality, low-cost maternity and nursing clothes from Oxford Maternity Clothes Library. We run monthly libraries at Florence Park Community Centre.
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Give Like Dolly: Oxford charity Peeple is inviting families to dress as Dolly Parton next Friday to celebrate the late country singer's Imagination Library. Peeple delivers free books to children under five in Littlemore, Rose Hill, Blackbird Leys, and Berinsfield. peeple.org.uk/support-us/s...
crocodile and baby, reading a book.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You can read my latest piece in @theguardian.com here 2027 is going to be grim www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The incoming ‘super’ El Niño will create chaos around the world. And we are far from ready for it | Bill McGuire
One of the biggest upheavals in a millennium is on its way, strengthened by the climate crisis. We need leaders who make things better not worse, says climate professor Bill McGuire
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Elisabeth Geake @geaky.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Please fill in this very short survey
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It's very easy to wear a suit and tie in any major city, even if the aesthetic has mostly disappeared from daily life, because there are people outside wearing pink tutus with Army boots. As usual, your liberation is connected to other people's liberation.
Bobby Mars on Twitter writes: "If you wear a collared shirt and nice shoes out to the bar in the rust belt, multiple people will ask you if you just came from a wedding. Aesthetic standards for men’s attire are horrendously low"
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Elisabeth Geake @geaky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fascinating and enraging. I listened to the podcast version here: pca.st/episode/be01...
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Elisabeth Geake @geaky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Making important points at the Dispatch Cushion
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now
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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The fact something as fundamental and superb as the RNLI is a charity is one of the most magical and strange things about Britain. You can support them here. rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Jay Wolf @jayxwolf.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
casually proposing "raccoon protocol" as shorthand for "obvious and infuriating AI horseshit"
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"Water use was commercially confidential." No, that is not acceptable. If you are using a scarce, essential, valuable _public_ resource, you have to be transparent about it, and prepared to justify it www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Revealed: how companies ‘secretly’ use billions of litres of public water in drought-hit England
Exclusive: As millions of people face hosepipe bans, many companies are not required to report, let alone cut, use of public supply
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Elisabeth Geake @geaky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Absolutely. Rotating food stocks and especially water is an onerous task (lived experience here). Getting the right mix of food you’d be able to stomach in a crisis, and food you’d could face when you’re rotating is hard too. Can’t govt experts help us?
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
An alien's take on the Bayeux Tapestry.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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SANTA CLAUS @santaclausalaska.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
FUN FACT If we switched to all renewable energy, the number of ships crossing the ocean would fall almost in half, slashing global CO2 emissions. Because those ships are JUST carrying coal, oil and gas. ~ Bill McKibben SUPPORT ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES!
Fun Fact: If we switched to all renewable energy, the number of ships crossing the ocean would fall almost in half, slashing global CO2 emissions. Because those ships are just carrying coal, oil and gas.
- Bill McKibben, Climate Activist
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
One of the biggest lies politicians sell us is that work is the way out of poverty. Most people receiving benefits are IN WORK. We will never end this “cost of living crisis” until employers are made to pay people liveable wages rather than wages that are subsidised by taxpayers.
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Elisabeth Geake @geaky.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
No matter who or what you are, @bucksarchives.bsky.social has your back
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Elisabeth Geake @geaky.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Super cool
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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The Treasury is asking for ideas for the Autumn Budget. Here are our asks 👇🏼 Please join us in responding to the survey and tell the Government that future transport investment must prioritise sustainable solutions over poor value road expansions. transportactionnetwork.org.uk/autumn-budge...
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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Dear government, don’t send startling, high-pitched alerts about wildfires to ordinary people's phones. Send them to the CEOs of fossil fuel companies and make them impossible to switch off until they stop the destructive plunder that's contributing to climate change.
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Elisabeth Geake @geaky.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If you read one thing today, make it this.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Accurately predicting an individual's health arc is a dream that has not been previously possible. Now we're headed there, thanks to a new @nature.com paper by Sarah Urbut and team. Our conversation and annotations in the new Ground Truths erictopol.substack.com/p/predicting...
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Predicting Your Health Arc
Sarah Urbut MD, PhD Takes Us Through Her Landmark Nature Paper
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The next time a climate change denier comes at you with that excuse:
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Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
A town sign seen through a train window.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Now do the cost of continued reliance on gas... www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Net zero ‘will cost households £1,400 a year by 2030’
Cost of decarbonising the energy network and upgrading the grid is ‘unsustainable’, according to the Prosperity Institute think tank
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Short-sighted. Jodrell punches well above its weight - internationally.
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Short-sighted, stupid cuts to the UKRI budget include shutting down Jodrell Bank, the icon of British astronomy. (Many other cuts too, including 20% to our brand new @vrubinobs.bsky.social). Interesting politically to shut down a major facility in...um..Manchester 🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 26/07/2026
I would really like to see contributions to this on the defanging of the Human Rights Act 1998 by the judiciary, and how legislation might be used to strengthen human rights protections.
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Elisabeth Geake @geaky.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
If you listen to one thing today, make it this!
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Raluca Terry-Enescu @ralucahippie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Hi NHS, those Palantir guys sound deeply un-fun. If you're looking for the next tech enterprise to crunch your data, consider a plucky little start-up built by Healthwatch people. Our platform is gorgeous and we don't have an ominous lair...um, office. We work from home. With cats.
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Project Drawdown @projectdrawdown.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
You are not the only one who cares about climate, and here is the proof! 🌍 In just a few weeks since the launch of the community portal, 258 of you have completed over 2000 actions. Let's see who else we can get up on the map! Summer of '26 is a great time to 👉 jointheshift.earth #climateaction
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Elisabeth Geake @geaky.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I didn’t know you could do this.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A transport company forced drivers to bike their own routes. Feeling a car scrape past at speed changed how they drive forever.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
It feels ridiculous to be told my entire life the importance of reducing my energy usage and switching to stuff like LED bulbs and then read reports of energy prices spiking in many US communities due to data centers.
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Elisabeth Geake @geaky.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Successful cat rescue AND instructions for anyone else whose cat goes missing ❤️
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Nature deserves legal rights that are prioritised above all others because human life depends on nature. 🌱Like and share if you support the Nature's Rights Bill🌱 Write to your MP asking them to support the bill. Template email you can send: nataliebennett.org/2026/06/29/t... writetothem.com
I support the Nature's Rights Bill.
Human life depends on nature.
Find out more: natures-rights.org
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
What *actually* works — right here, right now — to address climate change? Here you go. This is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking research and analysis from the Project Drawdown team.
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Wrong in every regard. First, asylum seekers are fellow human beings and should be treated as such. Concentrating them in camps amplifies the Far Right's prejudice and bigotry. Second, military barracks should be being upgraded and filled with military personnel, given Russia's plans for the UK.
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Lyndsey @lyndseydoob.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
If you can, please sign & share Foxglove's petition to Andy Burnham: if you become our next PM, get Palantir out of our NHS. A secretive US spy tech firm with deep Trump ties has no business holding our health data: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/an...
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Sign the petition to Andy Burnham: If you become our next Prime Minister, please get Palantir out of our NHS.
ADD YOUR NAME NOW!
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