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jackdaw

@jackd4w.bsky.social
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Human rights. The 𝘪𝘯justice system, evolutionary biology, cannabis and technology. Not 𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘺 in that order. Occasional buddhist.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Irony died yesterday
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Feargal Sharkey just nailed the £100bn water industry nationalisation lie Sharing a "blistering" letter in the Guardian, Feargal Sharkey went further - calling out successive governments over their lies www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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Feargal Sharkey just nailed the £100bn water industry nationalisation lie
Sharing a blistering letter in the Guardian, Feargal Sharkey went further - calling out successive governments over their lies
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Sylvia @sylvia-suffragette.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Come on folks, there is work to be done and we have 4 years to do it
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jackdaw @jackd4w.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Why say 'killed' when he was murdered? Awdah Hathaleen was unarmed when shot and murdered by illegal settler Yinon Levi. The murderer will not be punished by Israeli courts. @theguardian.com #Palestine #Gaza #theGuardian #WestBank www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Palestinian who helped make Oscar-winning No Other Land killed in West Bank
Israeli settler Yinon Levi, whom Trump removed from US sanctions list, arrested after death of Awdah Hathaleen
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
We now have 300,000 people signed up and the establishment is clearly frightened. Westminster is broken, but the real crisis is inequality: just fifty families now own more wealth than half the population. Let’s change that together. Join us: yourparty.uk
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JOIN US: yourparty.uk
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The “appalling scenes in Gaza” have been enabled by the arms, surveillance & diplomatic cover Keir Starmer’s Labour government have provided to a genocidal apartheid state. He still refuses to call it a genocide because he is complicit in it. Keir Starmer belongs in The Hague.
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
In under 10 hours, 140,000 of you have signed up and sent a clear message: We’re not going to take this anymore. The time is now. Join us: yourparty.uk
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Tom Killick @killicktom.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Defend Our Juries tells Met Police it “may be committing offences under the Terrorism Act” in Parliament Square from 1pm on Saturday." Non-violent protesters would hold signs saying: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” @defendourjuries.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Ban on Palestine Action to take effect after legal challenge fails
Being a member of, or showing support for, the direct action protest group will be a criminal offence after judge’s decision
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
BREAKING: 27 Arrested underneath Gandhi statue in Parliament Sq for alleged supporting of a proscribed organisation. The group of 27 people, including a priest, an Emeritus Professor and a number of health professionals. Full Press Release: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
CONTINUED: After mass arrests at Parliament this morning, 27 individuals have been taken to multiple police stations. “We commend the Counter Terrorism police for their decisive action in protecting the people of London from some cardboard signs opposing the genocide in Gaza.“
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
The protestors have been arrested by the Metropolitan Police on suspicion of offences under the Terrorism Act 2000 and taken into custody. metro.co.uk/2025/07/05/p...
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Palestine Action supporters arrested after defying terror ban with protest
Police have made a number of arrests in central London.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
More than 20 people have been arrested in London after police said they were responding to a protest in support of the banned group Palestine Action. The Met Police said those arrested were being held on suspicion of offences under the Terrorism Act 2000. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Palestine Action: More than 20 arrested at protest, Metropolitan Police say
It comes after supporting the group was banned under terrorism legislation.
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Richard Sky blues PUSB @clydebl.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
vm.tiktok.com/ZNdyc4f4V/ #kneecap Kneecap Live stream from Glastonbury Stream on tiktok
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helenwilsonwales (@helenshealingjourney) is LIVE - TikTok LIVE
Knee Cap Live at Glastonbury | Watch helenwilsonwales (@helenshealingjourney)'s LIVE on TikTok and interact with others in real time.
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Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Kneecap is not the story. Genocide in Gaza is.
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jackdaw @jackd4w.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
"[SNS (Solutions Not Sides)...] is an absurd exercise in Orwellian Newspeak." bit.ly/3BiI13z
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Solutions Not Sides
There are several nefarious tactics used to support extreme actions of governments and their armed forces including Absolute inculcation of belief in justification of the actions Blatant, repeated,…
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jackdaw @jackd4w.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
"A grotesque sneering abomination. On his own he’d be nothing but he is backed financially by wealth hoarders and supported politically by almost all politicians and almost all media [...] We are in the unwiped-arse stage of capitalism." bit.ly/4ikrRHB
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Nigel Farage
Everything about Nigel Farage is disgusting, both personally and politically. Farage the person. Farage has one objective in life: The Grift.  Maximising his income is the sole motivator for everyt…
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Bluesky can suspend Nigel Farage in less than 36 hours. But the Police can't question him over the riots he incited, even after 5 months.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Other models are available. This article discusses some of them. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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General elections are a travesty of democracy – let’s give the people a real voice | George Monbiot
Our system is designed for the powerful to retain control. Participatory democracy and a lottery vote are just two ways to gain real representation, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
We've just published our latest report: COLLATERAL DAMAGE, highlighting the widespread poisoning of birds of prey in England by the misuse & abuse of rodenticides. Govt scheme to reduce exposure has failed. Read the report: wildjustice.org.uk/general/coll...
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Absolute fury at this: United Utilities refusing to disclose data about sewage it's releasing into Windermere, because it's "not in the public interest." Ditto data on ammonia checks from a UU Cunsey Beck plant; site of a 2022 mass fish-kill from pollution. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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United Utilities refuses to hand over data on sewage discharges into Windermere
Water company claims information is not in the public interest despite widespread pollution of UK waters
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Iain_L @havoc1971.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
She's 100% correct too
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jackdaw @jackd4w.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
"Entanglement of liberals and fascists is a dance, a co-dependency and a consensus." bit.ly/4exNrVK
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Dystopian Britain III
– Entanglement of liberals and fascists is a dance, a co-dependency and a consensus.  Fascists fortify their illusory ideology by presenting everything they say and do as a battle against lib…
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 13/11/2024
We're just 700 short of the magic 20,000 and at the rate we are growing on BlueSky that could be tomorrow. Please spread the word about our unique brand of citizen journalism here on BlueSky.
Screenshot of Bylines Network bio showing 19.3k followers
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I hear it is far nicer over here! Message received. Words of the day start tomorrow.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
A long overdue and welcome decision.
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dave43law.bsky.social @dave43law.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
This is the problem of having the politically illiterate running the country Zero diplomacy - just inflammatory rhetoric like at home Whatever happened to looking for peace?
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dave ❄️ 🥕 🧻 @davemacleod.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
if only Greta Thunberg had swanned off with £29M rather than banging on about the planet burning up
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Chirpy Chet @chirpychet.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Tamworth, this is your Tory candidate. Make sure you keep him OUT 👇👇 Tory by-election candidate posted chart telling parents who can’t feed kids to 'f*** off' #Tamworth #TacticalVoting
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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
This is for real. I know the building. Boris Johnson’s work ethic and habit writ large. Quite a few others too I would imagine, not least Michael Gove. Ha!
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
New Conservative Party Conference slogan just dropped
Rishi Sunak at a podium with a slogan that reads "Short Term Thinking For Political Gain*
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jackdaw @jackd4w.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
"Every time a Tory minister claims the government is “investing” in something they mean they are handing public money to a racketeer.  Every time.  There are no exceptions.  Every scheme is a scam – “levelling-up,” Towns Fund, HS2, “forty new hospitals.”"
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Rishi Sunak is a patronising thief
Conservatism is defined as enablement of distribution of wealth to the wealthiest.  Wealth distribution must be continuous.  It is never satiated and is as intense as is practically achievable.  E...
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Kneel Downe @kneeldowne.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
The Conservative party have just Instigated a war against clear thinking, scientifically led people. It worked for them with Brexit and they hope they can once again bribe the bigots. Make no mistake, this is actual war. The victim this time is not the UK. Its the whole fucking planet. The future.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
National Trust Members! The organisation needs you and your votes to head off efforts to take over the board by candidates promoted by Farage & REES Mogg These are who NOT to vote for I shall take you through voting & the NT memberahip board’s recommended candidates next. It doesn’t take long!
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jackdaw @jackd4w.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
It's time to ban the Conservative Party. They're a criminal organisation.
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One of Tories’ biggest ever donors profited from £135m of NHS contracts
Exclusive: Frank Hester, who gave Rishi Sunak’s party £5m this summer, is thought to have made huge sums from DHSC contracts
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Kaylyn Saucedo - MarzGhoul @marzgurl.com · 19/09/2023
This is imperfect, but the Sky Follower Bridge extension for Google Chrome is turning out to be the best way for me to actually find the people I followed on Twitter and now have Bluesky accounts. chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/s…
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dave ❄️ 🥕 🧻 @davemacleod.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
Yes possibly because they don’t want to be killed by concrete
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Dreffed @dreffed.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
See the sea Mistakes erased New canvas
Swanage bay
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/09/2023
i am eating a turkish kofte wrap for lunch. please share to raise awareness
a griddled lavash bread wrap stuffed with kebab meat, lettuce, tomatoes, and sauce. comes with french fries on a checkered red wrapper
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 19/09/2023
A new study suggests that fully remote workers may produce less than half the climate-warming emissions of people who spend their days in offices. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
Chart showing emissions from different work models calculated as daily carbon footprint per capita, in kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalents.
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jackdaw @jackd4w.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
Enough Is Enough, it's time for evidence-based policy on #Cannabis. Lobbyists with undeclared financial interests have influenced government policy to the detriment of public health and welfare.
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Demand an Investigation into the Home Office's Cannabis Policy and...
Lack of Public Discourse: The Home Office's refusal to engage in open, transparent, and inclusive conversations about cannabis policy denies the British public the opportunity to voice their...
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jackdaw @jackd4w.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
ACMD recommended decrim. of cannabis possession in 2016. FoI requests denied but now leaked to Guardian. Home Office says: "no safe way to take illegal drugs, which devastate lives, ruin families and damage communities, we have no plans to consider legalisation or decriminalisation of drugs."
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UK drug advisers recommended decriminalising possession in 2016, leak reveals
Exclusive: Guardian has seen copy of 27-page report that Home Office attempted to keep confidential
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jackdaw @jackd4w.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
Feels a lot like authoritarianism. The Tories really have us under the boot heel.
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Protester who held sign outside London climate trial prosecuted
Trudi Warner, 68, prosecuted for contempt of court after protest outside London court
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Andrew Waye, PhD @cannabis-scientist.bsky.social · 15/09/2023
Cannabis use among recently treated cancer patients: perceptions and experiences link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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