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G F Rose

@gfrose.bsky.social
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Gardener of thoughts and things. Into cooking, music, art, architecture, politics, sewing, and life drawing. Avid reader—especially fiction by women.

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G F Rose @gfrose.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/global-devel... Just the saddest, saddest thing.
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‘I lost my children, and I’m afraid of losing my baby again’: a day in the life of a pregnant woman in Gaza
Alaa lives in a tent pitched on the ruins of her house, which was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike that killed all three of her children. In one month, she will give birth again.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 03/06/2026
BREAKING: Lowestoft MP Jess Asato has launched High Court action against Elon Musk's AI company xAI over sexualised AI-generated images created using real people. The case could help determine where responsibility for AI-generated harm lies.
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New: Lowestoft MP sues Elon Musk’s AI company over image
Lowestoft MP Jess Asato has launched High Court action against xAI over sexually manipulated AI-generated images
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G F Rose @gfrose.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
www.reuters.com/world/middle... Unforgivable
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say
Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...
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G F Rose @gfrose.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I am so sick of ND being lumped in with MH by lazy, anti-science thinking. Also, not diagnosing something does not make it go away. Many, many people are greatly helped by SSRIs.
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G F Rose @gfrose.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Another "hot take" opinion that confuses ND and mental health diagnosis in the very first paragraph. Nice one Guardian. #uknews #adhd #mentalhealth www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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‘They’re selling everything as trauma’: how our emotional pain became a product | Katherine Rowland
In an economy that rewards confession and self-labeling, pain is no longer something to survive – but something to brand, sell, and curate
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Former oil and gas workers in Texas are now fighting to make the industry plug old empty wells, which are exhaling methane and vomiting toxic water (from fracking miles away) all over the state. Eye-opening story by @mollytaft.com www.motherjones.com/environment/...
For more than a century, oil companies have sunk wells in this desert looking for liquid gold, leaving countless scars behind. Dunlap showed me wells ensconced by rusted-red pipes and decrepit pumpjacks strewn about the desert. These thousands of forgotten wells are not just inert fossils of economic history. Many emit methane—a greenhouse gas that's nearly 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide -and leach chemicals, including benzene, a human carcinogen.
Recently, another problem has emerged: Old, dormant wells have begun mysteriously leaking-oozing brine onto the land-and shooting geysers of toxic water into the sky.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Prints below right by printmaker Ellen Heck, one of the many artists featured in the womensart book REFRAMING WOMEN PRINTMAKERS Gift others 🧡 or Gift yourself!! 🎁 Via any bookstore, e.g. www.waterstones.com/book/reframi...
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
You're not asking trans people. You're asking all people. This affects us all. Anyone could be barred from services based on appearance. Since, surprisingly we all have a fecking appearance www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance
The new code of practice on access to single-sex services cannot gain legal force until it gets sign-off from ministers.
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Doesn’t matter. “Starmer and Mahmood wanted to take jewellery from asylum seekers” is a mark those two will never be able to wash off and which the party as a whole will have to put in onerous work to remove.
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G F Rose @gfrose.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Nothing like punching your own voters in the face AND hurting the green transition! Great work Labour.
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Hundreds of thousands to lose heat pump subsidies in Reeves’s budget plan
Exclusive: Supporters say grants largely going to middle-class households, but experts warn move will slow transition from gas boilers
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Nolan Principles Matter. End the #GazaGenocide💔💙 @philildo.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Morning all #LabourIsDead The anti-wealth tax IFS is recommending reform of children's developmental/educational needs assessments, rather than increasing tax for the wealthiest 🤔 'Review' of SEND criteria incoming - for a system which already fails thousands 😠 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Send costs will rise by billions without reforms, ministers told
The Institute for Fiscal Studies says more than 200,000 extra children will need Send support by 2029.
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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Rachel Reeves, at IPPR, says the idea of the populist right that foreign workers depress domestic workers’ wages is simplistic and wrong…
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G F Rose @gfrose.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
More of this, please. London has felt a sad and angry place recently.
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G F Rose @gfrose.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Yes!
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 14/09/2025
I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday. As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.
Letter from Ed Davey to Keir Starmer condemning Elon Musk for inciting violence and urging unity to defend democracy.
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G F Rose @gfrose.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
www.theguardian.com/education/20... The drum roll of voices questioning autism diagnosis in the UK is growing. Rather than question the school system or austerity, they suggest that kids are not really disabled and don't "really need it" (cahms/ehcps).
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Overdiagnosis of children overlooks that growing up is ‘messy and uneven’, says Jeremy Hunt
Former health secretary wants to see an overhaul of special educational needs and disabilities system in England
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
'Breathing Space', etching by contemporary artist and printmaker  Janis Goodman #WomensArt
Print in blue and white looking up to a large bird flying in tbe sky which is in a space between the canopy of a forest
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Motherfucking wind farms…
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G F Rose @gfrose.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Jesus christ! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Toxic Pfas above proposed safety limits in almost all English waters tested
Exclusive: 110 of 117 bodies of water tested by Environment Agency would fail standards, with levels in fish 322 times the planned limit
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Loughborough University PR @lboropr.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
EXPERT COMMENT: Dr Ben Roberts, Senior Lecturer in Healthy Buildings, explains that with temperatures expected to hit 31°C in the coming days, it’s more important than ever to keep your home cool and comfortable #heatwave DOWNLOADABLE CONTENT: www.lboro.ac.uk/media-centre...
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 09/07/2025
this made me laugh so much
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 09/07/2025
"Polling points to a “perception gap”, with half of MPs underestimating levels of public support for the net zero target." "72% of people say they would support onshore windfarms being built in their local area, with 17% opposed, MPs assume the opposite."
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Politicians are retreating from net zero because they think the public doesn’t care. But they’re wrong | Rebecca Willis
Our research shows people are strongly in favour of measures to tackle the climate crisis. They just need to be listened to, says professor of energy and climate governance Rebecca Willis
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
If you're going to attack immigration levels in 2022-3, you need to say something about provision for Ukraine & Hong Kong (which Labour backed). Blaming a "one-nation experiment in open borders" is not levelling with voters or restoring trust. It's telling the kind of lie on which populism thrives
Extract from Keir Starmer's foreword to the government's White Paper on immigration: "In 2023, under the previous government, inward migration exploded to over a million people a year – four times the level compared with 2019. This was a political choice that was never put before the British people. In fact, quite the opposite – the previous government repeatedly promised inward migration would be brought under control. Instead, Britain became a one-nation experiment in open borders".
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Christy Somos @christysomos.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I know we say it as a reality check - “touch grass” But yesterday I spent hours in the garden and it made me feel better 🤷🏻‍♀️ Go touch some dirt. Say thanks to a tree. Plant something for the pollinators. Log off.
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G F Rose @gfrose.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Amazing lists this year. A few on the fiction list I've not picked up yet! Can't wait to get started.
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H S Norup @hsnorup.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Aww thank you! Let me know if she likes it and I’ll be happy to send her a bookplate and postcard. 🧚💚 You can find out more about the first book here: www.hsnorup.com/into-the-fae...
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Into The Faerie Hill
The moment Alfred arrives at his granny’s cottage, he feels like he’s being watched. The surrounding forests teem with unfamiliar life—even odd little faerie creatures only Alfred can see. It’s onl…
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The worst element of what happened this week isn't even about immigration specifically. It's that Starmer surrendered against populism.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
A comprehensive comms success.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Elbows up, Canada.
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G F Rose @gfrose.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... "The party of work" So, let's punish those with a proven disability
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‘There is no moral case’: Labour divided over prospect of benefit cuts
Some feel the party is moving away from the working class, but others argue ministers must show new Labour voters the system can work
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Pages & Tea @pagesandtea.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Re-reading the first Emily Wilde book was a great idea - I enjoyed it just as much second time around and now I can't wait to get started on the next in the series... #BookSky #AmReading 💙📚
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com
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Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky
It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...
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G F Rose @gfrose.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Does anyone else have that terrible, inevitable sinking feeling? Like when the government was in denial about Covid in early 2019... something terrible is coming around. #putin #trump #Europe #ukpolitics #Ukraine #usa
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Temperatures at North Pole soar to 20C above average and above the melting point of ice #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Temperatures at north pole 20C above average and beyond ice melting point
Scientists say unusually mild temperatures linked to low-pressure system over Iceland directing strong flow of warm air towards north pole
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G F Rose @gfrose.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
www.tortoisemedia.com/listen/the-s... Oh my God. Just fuck. What the hell. Genuinely thought it wasn't going to be so bad, but it just got worse and worse!
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Goodbye mum: the ruthless fight for child custody
One of the most difficult questions facing a judge in the family court is which parent should have custody of a child. To help them answer that, judges rely on independent experts to provide an impart...
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The Daily Beans Podcast @dailybeanspod.com · 22/01/2025
This is how you do it...
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Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
... the number of posts tagged to major subjects on BBC News in the last year. Elon Musk: 181 Xi Jinping, leader of nearly 1 in 5 people worldwide: 33 Mark Zuckerberg: 14 Bangladesh, home to 175 million people: 92 Why? What's the point? Everyone else (the NS included) has an excuse... (4/5)
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Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 09/01/2025
Journalists will be able to report from any family court in England and Wales from 27 January after a successful pilot. A transparency order protecting anonymity must be granted but the presumption is now that this will be granted "unless there is a legitimate reason not to"
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Update: Journalists to be able to report from any family court in England and Wales
Journalists will be allowed to report from 19 family courts in England and Wales in a major expansion of a pilot scheme to boost transparency
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/01/2025
I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
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G F Rose @gfrose.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
An amazing interview, I had to rewind and listen again!
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G F Rose @gfrose.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The only Syrians who should be forcefully escorted back to Syria are the ones hiding in Moscow. The absolute *state* of Europe right now.
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Alix Kroeger @alixkroeger.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Syria's state media is denying rumors that President Bashar Assad has left the country, says he is performing his duties in the capital Damascus
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G F Rose @gfrose.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Hello there, 👋. Reclining Bunny in the moon.
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Balderdash @balderdash.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
5 reasons why The Shining is a Christmas movie 1. Snow 2. Red rum 3. Hyperactive kids 4. Big snuggly jumpers 5. Huge family row ending with someone putting an axe through the door.
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Calbear @calbeargirl.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
@goodwilllibrarian.bsky.social
Destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. 

If you use your library, please share. 

Picture of library aisle filled with books.
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C.J. Tudor - Author @cjtudor.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
As I have somehow surpassed 7k followers on here I thought it might be nice to do a giveaway: All 7 of my books to one lovely winner. Just share and like to be in with a chance! 😁📚
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G F Rose @gfrose.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
My sewing effort for E'S nativity role, Mary. Now I just need a stylish, yet holy, headscarf/ veil. #craft #sewing #preschool #primaryschool #nativity
Home-made mary Outfit for a preschool nativity.
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G F Rose @gfrose.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Polly, our lovable lab-doodle, is a furry enigma wrapped in a chaotic whirlwind. One moment, she's the epitome of canine wisdom, gazing at us with soulful eyes that could melt the iciest of hearts. The next, she's a tornado of fur and mischief, wreaking havoc on unsuspecting socks. #dogsofbluesky
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