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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cried today listening to a VM from a friend with Long Covid/ME whose life is now unrecognizable to me & to herself. The physical & cognitive cost of even watching a movie or reading a book is immense, all while working in an indifferent capitalist world & disbelieving society. Appreciate this piece.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics. Like Blair, Cameron, Clegg, Mandelson, hired to open govt networks to companies and corporate capture of the state. They sell political capital built with public money. What do we get in return?
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Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics | Clive Lewis
When a former Labour deputy leader joins a firm built on surveillance and military targeting, it deepens public cynicism – and democracy depends on trust, says Labour MP Clive Lewis
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 25/09/2026
Rights groups accuse UN of hosting a 'war criminal' as delegations walk out during Israeli prime minister's speech aje.news/80r71e
Rights groups accuse UN of hosting a 'war criminal' as delegations walk out during Israeli prime minister's speech
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Across the world, sometimes peaceful street protesters are cable tied and arrested, elsewhere, despite challenging behaviour, they are not. Inside the UN, Netanyahu can spill his mendacious messages (does he not know we have SEEN 'settler violence') in person, while Abbas cannot enter the US.
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Have no need or wish to read this as need no reminder, having Long Covid. Hope you talked about those persecuted as 'NEETs'. At least I had a life, though made elderly before my time, but how hopeless and abandoned must young people feel in this situation 😪😪
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BethU @beth-u.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Banks have had £100bn in subsidies in last 3 years. Hear politicians shouting about cutting welfare bill but never hear about cutting subsidies to many private enterprises.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Datacentre are being foisted on people living in low/medium income areas, not in wealthy areas. Resulting in excessive use of water, energy; pollution and environmental damage. Very few long-term jobs are generated. Watch the Minister's reply.
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
👏 to Anne Pullin of White Knights Blood Bikes just on BBC Radio Leeds. Leading dedicated volunteers to cover out of hours transport of blood, plasma and other urgent medical supplies between hospitals and hospices, patients and medics. Check out this vital service where you live. whiteknights.org.uk
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Whiteknights Yorkshire Blood Bikes | Charity Providing Free Medical Transport Services
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 16/09/2026
Israel lacking respect for dead buried in Gaza rubble: UN aje.news/yxowvi
Israel lacking respect for dead buried in Gaza rubble: UN
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If Totnes decided, in an unofficial referendum, to join the EU, I wonder how many pages of coverage the BBC would give to a cat that can play a banjo?
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Never forget the years when people were forced to walk away from their unreachable children and relatives, trapped under rubble, and how a people came to be sheltering within and without dangerous structures that continue to be damaged by military action. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Israel/ OPT: Catastrophic wave of mass displacement under inhumane conditions as Israel obliterates Gaza City
As Israel steps up its cataclysmic onslaught, it appears hell-bent on obliterating Gaza City, deliberately driving out its entire population, levelling large swathes of the city, and seizing full cont...
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Also the nation's clamour on BBC impartiality. Nandy:
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Keegan conveniently forgets that Brexit was a major cause of uplift in the cost of living when prices rocketed afterwards 'never to return to previous levels, with a cumulative effect'. #politicslive
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
All gorgeous!
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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Share this post with your friends & family to say THANK YOU for the incredible, lifesaving work the RNLI does every single day! We want to make it clear that the recent hateful attacks on the RNLI do not represent how we feel as a country. These people calling RNLI heroes “scum” don't speak for us.
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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know…
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The RNLI always have lovely Christmas cards and gifts in case you wanted to give and share your support for them. shop.rnli.org
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Surely only one further step to donning 'border security' outfits bought online and dragging people off the streets.
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Dear the BBC, you used to learn place names properly. I understand that compliance with Reform distate for supporting foreign language is essential to your messaging, (except of course for Faraaage) but I have seen very few 'Bayeux' scores in your subtitling. Noted 'bio' and 'by a' in the past hour.
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Agreed, have seen debate about some common goods with common sense between progressive speakers. The more of them we elect, the more their voices can unite where possible, and the more they can act on our behalf.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
#GetGreensElected - it takes a team effort and whow what a team!
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Reminder of the 2024 General Election result in Holborn and St Pancras. Labour Keir Starmer 18,884 Independent Andrew Feinstein 7,312 Green David Stansell 4,030 For some reason, the BBC is suggesting that Greens were his main opposition 🤔
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APPG for Fair Elections @appgfairelections.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Today is the third reading of the Representation of the People Bill. The biggest amendment to the bill - signed by over 170 MPs from across the House - calls for a National Commission on Electoral Reform. Our voting system needs an urgent review. We hope the government listens.
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
'We give up so quickly on our prime ministers because they give up so quickly on us.'
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
@benking01.bsky.social Saw this Totnes footpath/environment/school funding story. www.instagram.com/reel/DcjlYSh...
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Beeches over water are beautiful 😜 too late 😊
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Dr Rae Duncan @sunny-rae1.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I think we need to discuss morally questionable societal norms when we have ££ to invest on a full blown advertising campaign for MAID like it’s a free holiday, but aren’t investing the appropriate amount to ££ for research,treatment & support to improve lives of the chronically disabled community
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Listened to stony faced pundits and presenter on Sky overnight talking about the social burden of #NEET young people with no mention of prevention, only sanctions against them. As if #ForeverCovid promised better. Listen to @sunnyrae1.bsky.social @longcovidkids.bsky.social youtu.be/k0mojFpAU00?...
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Dr Rae Duncan on Children, COVID-19, Clean Air & Prevention | Online Briefing with Dr David Nabarro
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Dr Rae Duncan @sunny-rae1.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
We tried to warn and ask for clean air from early on…we asked repeatedly..and were ignored….repeatedly by those with the power to institute the changes we need to keep us all safer….we will keep knocking on those closed doors until they either open or we knock them down…Please also keep knocking 🙏
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We should put this sign on every politician's desk
What would Dolly do?
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Agreed. Love Beeches, but beyond that the interest of the bank they spring from, the way they lead off and the path below them, all invite the viewer into the green.
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
All lovely, love the carpet of snowdrops and the moving water. But maybe the church wins for the interest across the scene
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Why indeed?! 😂 But also please tell me you didn't really chew the back of your hand midway through scraping fox mess? Like all those TV pathologists, including Ms Scully, who allow a previously busy blue gloved hand to rest on their mouth or to pass across their eyes 🤢
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Steve Griffin @profstevegriffin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Also, had the government been pro-, not reactive, the lockdowns needn't have been as harsh, long, or numerous.
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Steve Griffin @profstevegriffin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Lewis, the COVID measures had profound impacts, of course. However, the extent of the damage was due to a decade of austerity and NHS cuts. The poverty gap is obscene and we were reactive, not proactive. Also, schools open vs closed was a false binary, the solution was to make them safe.
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Dr Tony Juniper Chair of Natural England described fire breaks/flood protection as naturalistic wetland reservoirs, with grazed vegetation, rejecting monocultures in favour of mosaic landscapes where raised water tables retain moisture #Today See progress at #Knepp www.instagram.com/reel/Db8Kt7O...
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
And uses manipulative language to spin concern about something that didn't happen.
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Consider this. Over 1 in 4 of Clacton's voters would prefer to have a bin as their MP than the LEADER of Reform.
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I came here to suggest that our media not reporting clearly who 'settlers' are will confuse casual listeners about the perpetrators of violence in the West Bank. Could not possibly be their intent could it? And look, of course Al Jazeera make it clear 👏 #ChangeTheMedia
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Almost total eclipse over the River Dart from opposite and just upstream of Old Mill Creek on 11th August 1999. Photos taken between 10.59 and 11.15. Small birds tumbled down through shrubs to roost, gulls took off en masse, flying downstream out to sea. Moon shadow rolled over like a thundercloud.
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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londonedition on Instagram: "Still love this ad 😂 @jaffacakesofficial @mcvitiesofficial #partialsolareclipse #london #jaffacakes #memes #eclipseView all 582 co…"
Still love this ad 😂 @jaffacakesofficial @mcvitiesofficial #partialsolareclipse #london #jaffacakes #memes #eclipse
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John Watson @dr-lungs.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Reminder ahead of tomorrow's solar eclipse. It is very dangerous to look directly at the Sun. Same applies to the Mail, the Express and the Telegraph.
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Alighting and disembarking involve steps from the South Embankment, and Castle rocks at Stumpy Steps though. High tide better? Fewer steps? Oh the easy privilege of able bodied memories scampering all over the place! You can check access out in review photos/vids.
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I had another street view stroll around the area last night. So much is obscured by new building. Found a spot with a fenced in bench!
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
You probably know this, but you can hop onto the Lower Ferry as a foot passenger, which gives some views that are difficult on land. There is also the Castle Ferry boat from over there, that takes you out to the castle and vantage points, small coves there, some steep access though.
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
👏👏👏 Agreed. Stuck in PEM 🤢 since overdoing last Friday in the middle of a 'busy' preparatory time. Family reunion next weekend, so much that 'ought' to be done, and would love to be able do. Removed and removing as much required activity as possible, juggled with continual heat! Cognitive wipeout 😵‍💫
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Spent several summers there from the late 90s. Is the Mayflower engraving still on the Ship's window? Lovely views across to Warfleet and out of the Dart's mouth from above there and downstream. More built up along the coastal path route now methinks. Uphill walks though.
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Hope not up and down with heavy bags, many places are up long flights of steps in Kingswear.
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Squashes like the shade of their large leaves. Which wither in heat . .
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
'The Inquiry’s independent expert on attendance, Professor Emerita Gillean McCluskey, confirmed how abnormal England’s approach was' . .
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