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Gillian Ottaway

@gillianottaway.bsky.social
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Here for nature, science, arts, language and fun posts. Not fond of bigots. (she/her)

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?
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Gillian Ottaway @gillianottaway.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Guys, I’m beginning to suspect the #Farage protests are not about protecting women and children
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Gillian Ottaway @gillianottaway.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
On a TOTALLY unrelated note as the weather changes, hat pins are great as scarf pins to keep the fabric from flapping in the wind. So many uses they should always be kept handy.
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Gillian Ottaway @gillianottaway.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
“First language” meaning they are at least bilingual. Are we upset that kids are too bright now?
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Gillian Ottaway @gillianottaway.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
I’ve heard you get arrested just for being an English serial killer these days. It’s woke PC gone mad
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Gillian Ottaway @gillianottaway.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
For the Epsteinth time, can’t the man have a meeting where he rolls over sovereign territory of another country to a foreign invading power without it being discussed. The man will need a vacation to a nice secluded island soon. He clearly wants us to make a move on to other topics. Any suggestions?
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Kemi Badenoch hates ppl who break rules so much she accused a fellow pupil of cheating during an exam at school and got them expelled👇🏼🙄 Oddly she didn’t say a word about #ToriesPartyingAsPeopleDied breaking Covid Rules❌ That she broke the law and hacked Harriet Harman’s website❌ #KemiThickAsS*t 🙄
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Kemi Badenoch reveals how she told on exam cheat as teenager
The Tory leader speaks about her background and values in an interview with the BBC's Amol Rajan.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I am generally a big fan of the BBC - but this is a truly terrible 'both sides' *push notification* to send out to people in this country about this news event
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
In 2016, Ghislaine Maxwell falsely stated, under oath, that she was not aware that Jeffrey Epstein recruited underage girls for sex (you know, the ones she was actually recruiting on his behalf). She was charged with two counts of perjury for this. Remind me why we give a shit what she says now?
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Alison Bennett @alisonebennett.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
🫗Southern Water nearly doubled their CEO's salary, despite causing 12,000 hours of sewage spills in 2024. With Lib Dem colleagues and I have written to the Secretary of State and Minister for Water and Flooding, urging them to dismantle Ofwat and hold Southern accountable.
Alison signed a letter to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Minister for Water and Flooding about scraping Ofwat and holding water companies to account.
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Gillian Ottaway @gillianottaway.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I want one 🥰
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Numerous varieties of trees at Winkworth Arboretum. #Scape #Treescape #LandscapePhotography #ForestFriday #Surrey
The foreground has bracken and shrubs. This is an area of mainly deciduous trees of many shades of green and many different shapes. The sky is blue mottled with white fluffy clouds. 
I have always thought Winkworth was at its most beautiful in autumn but this year I have really appreciated the greens of summer.
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Gillian Ottaway @gillianottaway.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
We were all having a nice day and then you attacked 😂 I need a minute, ooft
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a bald man with a mustache is wearing a suit and tie and covering his mouth with his hands .
Alt: Steve Harvey is wearing a suit and tie and covering his mouth with his hand and slowly shaking his head side to side while wide eyed in disbelief.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Also buried in all the coverage is the fact that Trump is using the office of the presidency to promote his personal business. Absolutely nauseating level of corruption, and it's a shame Starmer (and von der Leyen) agreed to participate in it by appearing there.
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Gillian Ottaway @gillianottaway.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
They’re planning on lighting everything on fire to see which blazes bright enough to dwarf the Epstein inferno
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Gillian Ottaway @gillianottaway.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The one and only acceptable on screen portrayal of Holmes and Watson (Jeremy Brett & David Burke). Perfection I will not be taking feedback on this. But Moriarty has been reborn
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a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a bbc one logo
Alt: Clip from the more recent TV program “Sherlock” showing Andrew Scott brilliantly playing Moriarty. In a suit and tie is standing in the court dock, chewing gum and raising his eyebrows.
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Gillian Ottaway @gillianottaway.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Not many people actually need to speak with their MP. Just so long as they hold the same headline views, he keeps the seat. And they’ll swamp it with emotion grabbing PR
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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 12/07/2025
For my nerdy crafty pals, this is clearly for you
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Gillian Ottaway @gillianottaway.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
They class the state pension as a benefit
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I am in WARWICK this Friday - fewer tickets sold than usual - it is always a joy to visit (and here is a grave that was winking at me) www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/war...
The winking grave
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
A British news channel has said it has nothing to apologise for after a right-wing commentator and comedian suggested the best way to cut the number of disabled people claiming benefits was to starve, or even shoot, them. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/gb-news-says...
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GB News says it has nothing to apologise for, after guest suggests starving disabled benefit claimants
A British news channel has said it has nothing to apologise for after a right-wing commentator and comedian suggested the best way to cut the number of disabled people claiming benefits was to star…
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 05/07/2025
The problem for those who make performative cruelty the centrepiece of their governing strategy is that you have to endlessly escalate he spectacle or your audience gets bored and starts to notice that for all your vicious sadism against the Other, you're not actually making THEIR lives any better.
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Gillian Ottaway @gillianottaway.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Then I want getting angry added to the definition of ‘sub standard performance’ Not losing temper, not throwing a rage, just visibly holding back anger
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John Rowan @jrowanbxl.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I've never seen this story in any of the (many) things that have been written about the filming of 'Jaws'. But my source is pretty trustworthy, I think. Anyway, if you haven't seen Ian Shaw's play "The Shark Is Broken", about his father and the making of 'Jaws', it is terrific.
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Gillian Ottaway @gillianottaway.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Add a hedgehog hole in the fence and get a lot more than you planned
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606AlfieConn @606alfieconn.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Party of the workers they said!
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Gillian Ottaway @gillianottaway.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
“The doorbell rang at a time of day when I don’t like to open” Hard relate 😂 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Man in Norway wakes to find huge container ship in garden
Johan Helberg says he was
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Gillian Ottaway @gillianottaway.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
More of this, please. Short direct answers. The ease of the false messages is how we got here and needs to be part of the solution.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Morning Bluesky. Lots of room for tactical voting in the UK mayoral elections to keep the Far Right out this week. Here for instance: Hull & East Yorkshire Mayoral Voting Intention: Campbell (RFM): 27% Handley (CON): 24% Ross (LDM): 22% Pinder (LAB): 17% Harrison (GRN): 7% Halstead (Yorks): 4%
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Charles Tallack @charlestallack.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Sarah Neville in the FT on lunch with Amanda Pritchard: "The NHS contributes between 10 and 20 per cent to people’s health, she says — a figure I find startlingly low" This widely quoted figure is startlingly low because it's probably wrong.🧵 www.ft.com/content/5cf4...
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Jane Chilton 🇺🇦 @janechilton.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Amazing renewable energy technology. A simple solution, and a first in Europe. Top work by the diving team. Here’s my film - in two parts due to BlueSky time limits 🎬 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💧 #renewables #innovation #climate #greenenergy #netzero #scotland Part 1
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Gillian Ottaway @gillianottaway.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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Gillian Ottaway @gillianottaway.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
This guy gets it 😂 I vote we bring him in as an intermediary with the ‘why don’t women date me’ guys
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Gillian Ottaway @gillianottaway.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
To be fair, I do see a duck
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a close up of a man 's face with the words david works below
Alt: Scene from the film No Country For Old Men. Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) wearing a denim jacket over a brown shirt, fairly long brown hair that is almost a bob hair cut, looks to the left of camera, tilts his head slightly forward, purses his lips and raises his eyebrows.
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Gillian Ottaway @gillianottaway.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Throw back to March 2022 when I was isolating with Covid and my husband was making my meals
Menu
22nd March COVID Menu
Starters
None
Main course
Beans on toast
Fajita pasta leftovers
Pizza chips and salad
Chilli con carne
Dessert 
Blue Ribband
Kit Kat
Breakaway
Yorkie
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Gillian Ottaway @gillianottaway.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Every sibling in the world recognised “I’m not touching you” fight 😂
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Gillian Ottaway @gillianottaway.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
⚠️ Warning: once you get over the initial shock, DO NOT try and reason why that order. Reason and logic have no place here.
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
At least we all now know exactly what a woman is A woman is someone a 61 year old male billionaire decides is worthy of a 10 minute ride in space as part of a publicity stunt. A very useful metric.
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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...
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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This cat. She looks like a rogue taxidermist has tried to sew a cat’s head to a polar bear’s body.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Are Muslims really banning dogs in parks? 🤔 Let’s look at this perfect example of how rage baiting works, and how disinformation spreads, sticks, and fuels division, even years after being debunked… 🧵1/22 (1/1)
Twitter post asking: Should we be told where we can walk out
dogs?
Yes or No
Above a screenshot of a news headline: 'This is an Islamic area now. Don't walk your dogs here': Police probe sign in east London park
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Gillian Ottaway @gillianottaway.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Tweet from Ed Burmila @gin_and_tacos dated 2018
It’s almost like people with tons of capital benefit from running the economy into a huge recession every decade or two so they can buy up assets on the cheap and consolidate even more wealth into a small number of hands
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
British Steel shut site after Richard Tice's firm threatened to hike rent www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-worl...
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British Steel shut site after Richard Tice's firm threatened to hike rent
Richard Tice has called for the government to save British Steel but the former boss of the firm is a director of Quidnet REIT, which bought the firm's site in Darlington in 2022
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Joanna Krahe @jolk.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
For those feeling powerless in these chaotic times this is a must watch. www.youtube.com/watch?si=qjc...
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This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
YouTube video by TED
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company IG 3sixteen
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I defy anyone to look at this and still say integration isn't working in the UK.
Picture of Morrison's "Mrs Unis Haggis Pakora with a spicy chilli dip"
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
“Oil and gas billionaires just bought themselves an exemption from Trump’s tariffs. While the rest of us have to deal with skyrocketing prices and rising temperatures, they’re sitting on their thrones and raking in billions. We need an end to this oligarchy now.”
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‘Oligarchy’: Trump exempts big oil donors from tariffs package
Trump’s new 10% universal tariffs will not apply to many fossil fuel products in sign of his fealty, advocates say
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Libraries Unlimited @librariesunlimited.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Our wonderful patron @robinince.bsky.social wrote this poem for our staff and customers to read out. We wanted to show that life's better with a library - we hope you agree! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPt9...
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Life's Better With A Library
YouTube video by Libraries Unlimited
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Gillian Ottaway @gillianottaway.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Welcome to your new American billionaire status
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Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I very, very much wish Patrick Gathara was over here. His #BREAKING tweets, reporting US and European news using the kind of language we use to report on the Middle East and Africa are often funny, but always brilliant.
#BREAKING Police in the gun-strewn, sub-Canadian American nation, the most populous in the Caucasian block, say attacker may not have been acting alone. US media, which is tightly controlled by handful of wealthy elites, reports he hails from separatist border region of Texas.#BREAKING Transport chaos across banana-exporting republic of US ahead of Caucasian New Year as millions of migrant workers travel home for traditional Thanksgiving festival during which indigenous bird is ritually consumed to mark genocide of Native American population.#BREAKING At least 3 dead and millions without power as powerful storm pummels US southeastern jungle state of Florida, a stronghold of aging whitewing Shite Christianist rebels who have been battling since 2021 to depose internationally recognized gerontocratic Joe Biden regime.#BREAKING Ruling centre-white worker's party in reclusive, troubled UK bans words 'genocide' and 'apartheid' during party conference as Keir Starmer regime deepens brutal crackdown on anti-genocide sentiment that has seen loyalist police arrest journalists and disrupt protests.
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