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Helen Laird

@helenlaird.bsky.social
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EM A&E consultant (ER attending). NHS. Leadership. Bit political. Anti-racist. Screenwriter. Medical script consultant. She/her 🏳️‍🌈 Trans ally 🏳️‍⚧️ #scriptsky

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💀🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊👻 @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Tell me about your #AwesomeCharacters Does your character have a plan? Are they the type to have a multistage plan worked out in advance? Do they prefer to wing it? Or are they purely reacting to circumstances? Does their plan need to adjust over time? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
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Roadmap Writers @roadmapwriters.com · 23h
As part of our ongoing effort to champion industry advancement for creatives within the BIPOC* community, we’re proud to announce the Screenwriters of Color Retreat Scholarship for our International Spring 2027 Retreat in Barbados! Check out the scholarships in the link below 👇
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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
UPDATE: it was an existing fan script that was fleshed out with AI graphics, so not 'AI generated' at all.
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Helen Laird @helenlaird.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
First transatlantic flight in a looong time. 9 hours of back to back movies. Starting with Hail Mary. Next on the list Sinners. I am too behind!
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Helen Laird @helenlaird.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Travelling without the kids for the first time in a while. Get chatting to a fella waiting for a bus. Within 5 mins he mentions he was stopped with a knife at a landmark security and he has a girlfriend. You guys, I think maybe he’s just not that into me.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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Helen Laird @helenlaird.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Promising Young Woman was a documentary.
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Christopher Mintz-Plasse: I Thought We Had A Connection
Alt: Christopher Mintz-Plasse: I Thought We Had A Connection. Scene from the film “Promising Young Woman” where a woman avenges her friend who was gang raped by a group of men at a college party.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amazing contrast to Starmer's buttoned up style as Burnham delivers his speech stripped to the waist and covered in peanut butter, repeatedly diving into the audience
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Phoenix Black @phoenixblack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Anyone want to show us their look book? Add in 🧵 #filmmaking #screenwriting
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bonnie Greer making a fool of Nick Griffin on *that* Question Time. RIP Bonnie. youtu.be/afE05e6n4Zk?...
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Bonnie Greer OBE & Nick Griffin, BNP on Question Time 22.10.09
YouTube video by I'mPOSSIBLE.
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Helen Laird @helenlaird.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’m so sad about Bonnie Greer. Such powerful and eloquent speaker who commanded a room with her quiet dignity.
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Not a renter in Bristol Central but know someone who is? Please share this with them 👇🙏 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Carla Denyer launches survey to assess impact of high rents
Bristol is the least affordable city to rent in England
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I've said it before and I'll keep saying it, I find fascinating that there has been no meaningful progress on reparations for chattel slavery when the legacy of this crime is all around us, every day. We're still walking around with your names lol
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I've been saying for years they walk amongst us. What we see isn't nearly as scary as what we don't see. That's personally why I react very strongly when I see it!!
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
PITCH: Queer Eye for the RNLI - a bunch of gays act as bodyguards for the lifeboat workers, protecting them from the fash, perhaps falling in love a little too.
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Helen Laird @helenlaird.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I ❤️ the RNLI. Masked, fascist blackshirts can get in the sea. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Abuse of RNLI volunteers 'wholly unacceptable', chief says
Peter Sparkes says there has been "deliberate misinformation" spread about the charity.
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Sirry 🌍✊🏿🏳️‍🌈📚 @profalang.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Demanding that Mamdani not attend the 9/11 commemoration at the WTC is racist and Islamophobic. Let’s just call it what it is.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I believe the RNLI are responding to legitimate concerns that people might drown.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The Goddess Queen is out today!
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LaDarrion Williams @itsladarrion.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
To the kid back in Alabama who read Percy Jackson and told himself he’d write a book series with a character who looks like him one day… You did it, kid. #booksky
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Pretend it's Thursday
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It should be career ending to say one race is inferior to another race. For fucks sake!! These people should be pariahs!
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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Fed up with people shirking responsibility by arguing that the UK causes just 1% of emissions? Here are two fantastic analogies from a primary school teacher, Mark in Coventry, who called Sheila Fogerty on @lbc.co.uk - one involving dog poo 😆 Other arguments here: www.nebriefing.org/mp-dialogue
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/08/2026
👀 Just received a new blurb for my upcoming book, "How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking)"! This is the first review from a fellow physicist, so it means a lot to me. I'm very grateful to Carlo for such kind words! 😃
"Katie Mack's writing on physics is always a joy: not just because of the wit, and the charming lightness, but especially because she describes science as it really is, not the sanitized version which is often presented. If you want to know how a great scientist of today really thinks about reality, read this!"
— Carlo Rovelli, author of On the Equality of All Things
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
They can't put his name in the headline? Or that he's a proud racist?
A BBC headline: academic who accused Jason Arday of plagiarism suspended by University
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"The team found that the greater the proportion of enslaved people in a county in 1860, the bigger the mortality gap between Black & white people in the 2010s, even after controlling for common factors tied to health inequalities, such as rurality or pop. density" www.science.org/content/arti...
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Slavery linked to mortality gap between Black and white Americans today
New study is among the first to quantify and explain slavery’s influence in contemporary U.S. health disparities
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Sophia Vahdati - Writer @sophiavahdati.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
A multiracial teen grapples with her illegal dual heritage in a world where eye colour determines status, elemental affinity and who you're allowed to love. If her secret is discovered, she'll be executed by the Empire – but if she keeps on hiding then she'll never be free. #Pub #MENApit #DY
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Neil Miles @neilsmiles.com · 17/08/2026
29th August 1985 - An excited Michael Fish gets to deploy the rarely seen red number as the temperature gets up to an incredible 26 degrees in London!
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Marina Purkiss, "188 articles on this man, Jason Arday, who was not a public figure, over 9 days" "It was a blood sport for The Telegraph, The Times, The Spectator" "They have blood on their hands for this man"
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
As you all know, I am not a fan of the Home Secretary. But this is ridiculous. If we're going down this route, we should demand the prior marks for every Home Secretary, not just the current brown one. 1/
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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 16/08/2026
The best kind of person is one who will sit and read their book while you’re reading your book and everything is calm and you have a sense that in spite of everything, it’s all going to be alright.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
From this review- “Think of all the diligent, decent black academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having Arday as a figurehead” - no, think of *why* black academics are held collectively responsible in ways that white academics are not
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Nigel Farage straight up lied about why he didn't go to the declaration and not one publication I read called him a liar. Not one. 'Essex Police said, he said' bullshit. No enquiry about E and D putting him in the position that he's in. No race theorists saying this is typical behaviour of his race
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Helen Laird @helenlaird.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
So my question about this. It’s rhetorical by the way if you’re *that* guy, is how many white profs lie through their teeth and plagerise and get publicly hounded out of their jobs, investigated by the police and driven to suicide?! Do better. Fuck sake! Poor guy. Double standards.
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Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead
Emergency services said a man was found "unresponsive" at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon.
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Do you know how many books you can buy for £250k? How much holiday childcare you could fund? This by-election should be seen as a scandal
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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 14/08/2026
Parliamentary investigation resumes into Nigel Farage hours after he wins Clacton by-election HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH WANKER www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...
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Parliamentary investigation resumes into Nigel Farage hours after he wins Clacton by-election - live updates
The Reform UK leader won the contest, which was boycotted by major political parties, but didn't attend the declaration.
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Helen Laird @helenlaird.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
BEHOLD I MacGyver’d the eclipse it with my Birkenstocks on a ferry. I may have forgotten eclipse glasses but baby I can improvise!
Shadow of 4 little pin hole eclipses through my Birkenstock strap pinhole eclipse viewer.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
@MNateShyamalan
Entomologist here. Great question! It may seem surprising that the scientific community could miss an entire bug species after all this time, especially when it’s THIS big. The answer might surprise you more. Let’s dive in (1/?)

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can I ask a question: how does something like this go undiscovered until now

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Scientists have discovered a giant new species of stick insect in Australia, which is over 15 inches long and researchers say may be the heaviest insect in the country.

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he look like stick (2/2)
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The Guardian once asked me 'what one change would you make to achieve Black equality in Britain?' and it feels appropriate to share my answer again
Athena Kugblenu: Allow Black people to be mediocre too!
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I would like to replace #blackexcellence with #blackmediocrity. True equality is when our talent:recognition ratio is allowed to be as broad as white people’s. Lewis Hamilton had to win two Formula One titles before he bagged BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2014; Greg Rusedski only had to get battered by Pat Rafter to win his. Kwasi Kwarteng steered the economy towards an iceberg and got sacked. Jeremy Hunt drove the NHS over a cliff, now he’s chancellor. Don’t get me started on how many football clubs get ruined by freshly retired white footballers while very qualified Black managers are overlooked. When the arc of the moral universe bends towards Black people failing upwards as their peers do, we will be in the promised land.
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Abby Vesoulis @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
And here's our big July 18 investigation that helped spark this insane news cycle in which I am now reporting on a blue bunny... (8/Fin.) www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I just saw a piece in @thebookseller.com about this fundraiser - to protect and share a collection of over one million Black books in the UK, a labour of love by one collector, Baba Pepukayi, but a vital resource for the nation. www.gofundme.com/f/save-1-mil... Please share, and donate if you can.
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Donate to Save 1 Million Black Books, organized by Black British Book Festival
Save 1 Million Black Books One of Britain's Largest Collections of Black Books… Black British Book Festival needs your support for Save 1 Million Black Books
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.
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Emma Thompson adapting feminist retelling of Iliad for big screen
The actress told the Hay Festival she is writing a film version of Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to draw attention to sexual abuse in war zones
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Thank you for helping me on my journey to survive depression 💚
Mychal smiles while holding a copy of Jenny Lawson’s HOW TO BE OKAY WHEN NOTHING IS OKAY
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Helen Laird @helenlaird.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
When I grew up I had a poster of Christopher Reeve as superman on my wall. If I’d grown up now it would for sure have been Milly Alcock. Coolest of the Supes. #Supergirl
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Helen Laird @helenlaird.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Yes we garbage can.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Poster promoting Count Binface, in the famous Obama style
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Helen Laird @helenlaird.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It’s on. Binface vs Bungface.
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Referring to Palestine, Egyptian football coach Hossam Hassan: "In the country where kids are being killed, they wear the jerseys of Argentina, Barcelona, City, Real Madrid. These kids love you and they love football. But they are being killed and you're still silent." Preach.
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