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Julie Featherstone 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 💚 ✊🏿🌍 💙☮

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✨ Freelance designer & illustrator ✨ A Teessider in East London. See my folio + art: linktr.ee/juliechicago NO DMs & No 'Go Fund Me' requests!

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21h
Company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via British Virgin Islands. It could receive £23m public subsidy. BVI facilitates opacity and tax avoidance. Successive UK govts have defended the use of tax havens by wealthy elites.
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The Tory treasurer, an offshore company and Scotland’s biggest data centre plan
Scotland may be set to host one of the world’s most powerful data centres. The Conservative Party’s money man stands to benefit.
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 14h
Obvious... but great that ex military people with credibility are pointing it out, so that voters can take notice
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Julie Featherstone 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 💚 ✊🏿🌍 💙☮ @jujurants.bsky.social · 20h
I recreated my painting (pic 3) 'Everything's f**ked, so let's paint flowers' painting, as a digital drawing (1, 2) Quite pleased with it although it is always a bit less fun not throwing paint 🫟🤭 #artistsonbluesky #digitalillustration #floralart #eastlondonartist Site: www.juliechicago.co.uk
Close up of digital drawing of bright flowersFramed digital drawing of bright flowersMe with my painting at the tower gallery, london
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 10/10/2026
Trump: "If Republicans get in power, you're going to end up in a depression. These people are incompetent"
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump announces that the U.S. will buy Russian oil. This is just a few weeks after Trump signed the Lindsey Graham Russia Sanctions bill, which authorized him to place 100% tariffs on countries that are the biggest importers of Russian oil/gas. Are we going to tariff ourselves now?
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Julie Featherstone 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 💚 ✊🏿🌍 💙☮ @jujurants.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Julie Featherstone 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 💚 ✊🏿🌍 💙☮ @jujurants.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Stop our voices being cloned by AI Please sign petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...
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Petition: Strengthen copyright laws on our voices
Our voice is a key part of our identity and right now we feel it is inadequately protected by UK law! We are demanding every person in the UK have a clearer, more enforceable copyright ownership over ...
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Julie Featherstone 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 💚 ✊🏿🌍 💙☮ @jujurants.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#menston #daybreak
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Julie Featherstone 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 💚 ✊🏿🌍 💙☮ @jujurants.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Always inspiring spending time up North - Menston on the Leeds/Bradford border- the views from my brothers house were stunning 😍 #artistonbluesky #worksinprogress #northeast #painting #landscapes Website: www.juliefeatherstone.com
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North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk · 09/10/2026
The Seaham project builds on successful mine water heating schemes already operating in Gateshead and Wales, demonstrating how former mining regions can lead the transition to clean energy | Peter Morris
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Mine water energy heats Seaham homes
The Seaham project builds on successful mine water heating schemes already operating in Gateshead and Wales, demonstrating how former mining regions can lead the transition to clean energy
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error. Same error amplified by right-wing think-tanks, press It suited their ideological leanings. Future historians might say - planet earth and human life was shattered by a spreadsheet error.
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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Firing squad execution to be livestreamed, Pentagon says. Lost for words at the insanity in Trumpistan, a truly sick dictatorship. Like medieval times, executions offered as a public spectacle in a country that claims to be Christian. What next?
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Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed, Pentagon says
Pete Hegseth says the execution will be public, but a legal expert says the "unprecedented" decision is on "uncertain legal terrain".
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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No notes.
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Lady Di @ladydi2020.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Troubling times Vote Blue!! 💙 #Pinks
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Translation: Farage thinks he can make an electoral pact with the Tories and form a government. He doesn’t think he can win a majority in a PR system
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The 87 year old Disabled woman Maria del Carmen Abascal who was thrown out of her home of 70 years sparking the protests in Spain 14 days ago has died.
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Julie Featherstone 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 💚 ✊🏿🌍 💙☮ @jujurants.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Labour Council’s Palantir Investments Increased 1,200% During Gaza Genocide
Labour-run Camden Council’s investment holdings in Israel-linked tech firm Palantir have increased by more than 1,200% since October 2023, new figures show.
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How Labour Put Big Property Above Camden’s Local Residents | Steven Methven
As the Holborn and St Pancras byelection looms, Steven Methven looks at how Labour-run Camden council let corporations grow rich on human misery in the borough.
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💯this 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Kemi Badenoch is the most rightwing leader in Tory history. Isn’t it time she got some actual scrutiny? | Owen Jones
Farage’s scandals have allowed Badenoch to get her party back in the race. But her programme would be no less ruinous for our country, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger
The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition
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Jo Maas, Dutch Democrat ❤️, Nature Lover 💚 @jomaas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's GENOCIDE
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Julie Featherstone 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 💚 ✊🏿🌍 💙☮ @jujurants.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Pointless booking a 'quiet coach' these days, it seems people just can not STFU. Glad I've remembered headphones as trying to read otherwise would be impossible. Unbelievable non stop bullshit,, can't people just sit and be quiet for like an hour any more? I'm such a nanna 😂😡 #trains #lner
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Julie Featherstone 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 💚 ✊🏿🌍 💙☮ @jujurants.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What my (late) other half used to call Forest Gate (E7), every time he was over at my place 🥰🤭
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North West Bylines @northwestbylines.co.uk · 02/10/2026
Meanwhile at the Labour Party Conference:
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She's a 94 year old Jewish human rights lawyer. She's been arrested under terrorism legislation for opposing genocide. The least we can do is to listen.
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'...means the NHS must stop using the data unless it can provide a “compelling reason” to continue.' I BET they find a mysterious 'compelling reason' www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #nhs #palantir
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More than 44,000 file legal objections to Palantir NHS platform handling their data
Exclusive: Campaign comes amid backlash against tech company’s involvement with Israeli military and Trump’s ICE crackdown
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Julie Featherstone 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 💚 ✊🏿🌍 💙☮ @jujurants.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
GOOD (about f***g time too) let's hope it gets results for all those who suffered in this tragedy of greed and lies 💚💚💚 #grenfelltower #grenfell #corporatemanslaughter #greed www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Met Police submits Grenfell Tower fire investigation files to CPS
The force is seeking charges against 54 individuals and 20 companies over the 2017 tower block fire that killed 72 people.
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My God who knew they could start making things even uglier than the old brown NTL boxes hanging off buildings nationwide! Community Fibre was a teensy neat white box on front of my flat (although Im ground floor)-that looks horrendous?!
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump has dropped his $10bn charge against the BBC after he was told he would have to give the BBC his Financial Records. Not suspicious at all...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pensions are going up 3.9% because they have a Triple Lock NHS drug prices have been going up at an average rate of 5-7% a year, EVERY year, for the last 16 years We don't talk about this 'TRIPLE LOCK'. Which has cost the NHS tens of billions Because it is for the BILLIONAIRES
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For FUCKSAKE Some piece of shit we were against turns out to be also a HUGE waste of ££ and resources Fucking farcical FOI request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Trial of live facial recognition in London stations leads to a false positive and no arrests
Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pathetic Weak Sauce 😡
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Around hundred settlers in an organised pogrom attempt at Bituna, West of Ramallah
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 28/09/2026
GB News is under fire for their cruel commentary ... again. When will Ofcom wake up and take action? metro.co.uk/2026/09/26/gb-news-fire…
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GB News under fire after airing 'most revolting comment ever expressed on British TV'
A panelist wanted to discourage people seeking asylum.
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Julie Featherstone 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 💚 ✊🏿🌍 💙☮ @jujurants.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Julie Featherstone 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 💚 ✊🏿🌍 💙☮ @jujurants.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lovely ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJla... #pierrenovellie #theclearingpodcast #ukcomedy #autism
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Pierre Novellie’s Big Book of Hands
YouTube video by The Clearing Podcast with Katherine May
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youtu.be/_Hdpak9lHo0?...
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The Biggest Lie You've Been Told
YouTube video by Owen Jones
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WTF www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house
The new AI agent, Muse, was released last week and has been downloaded by 3 million users
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 28/09/2026
While Labour talks about change at its Conference, their actions in arming Israel and arresting people for supporting Palestine Action remain the same.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A Q&A I did recently with Ashoka and Forbes - Why Bellingcat Wants Everyone To Become An Investigator www.forbes.com/sites/ashoka...
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Why Bellingcat Wants Everyone To Become An Investigator
The founder of one of the world's best-known open-source investigation outfits on building it from a laptop, why anyone can do this work, and why democracies have misread the problem.
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100% (And who o EARTH are that 57% ?!!?) '43% of people believe arrests of those in support of Palestine Action have had a negative effect on freedom of speech in the UK' www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Failure to protect free speech could cost Labour votes at next election, says Liberty
Polling for rights group shows issue is concern for voters and many feel recent policies have had negative effect
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100% www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Failure to protect free speech could cost Labour votes at next election, says Liberty
Polling for rights group shows issue is concern for voters and many feel recent policies have had negative effect
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Genocide.
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Everything's up to 40% off ...ends soon www.redbubble.com/people/julie... #BSNM #redbubble #illustrations #tshirts
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Better than Brisket Eventually
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Glenn Moore @thenewsatglenn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Why is Chicken Tonight a perfectly fine brand name but Beef Soon isn’t
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Interest on Reserves: The £100bn UK Bank Subsidy You Fund. Banks making £50bn profits a year receive subsidies, long ended by the EU. UK Treasury will payout over £150bn over a five-year period from 2023 to 2028. No justification for handling billions to banks. End bank subsidies, help people.
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Interest on Reserves: The £100bn UK Bank Subsidy You Fund
The Bank of England has paid commercial banks £100bn in interest on reserves in three years. The EU stopped doing it in 2023 – Dale Vince says Britain must too.
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There's a moment early on that's just footage of Elon Musk balding and in khakis walking down an office hallway in the late 90s and the entire audience burst out laughing. If Musk is made aware of audience reactions like this I think he might actually crash out.
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