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Mum, grandma and retired teacher currently attempting to learn to play the saxophone.

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This must be the third video of wonderful voices singing global scales I have seen, and each is mesmerising and has taught me things I didn't know. Such as: That these scales exist and how they, the bare backbone of tunes, reflect and unlock whole world regions' music. This is amazing.
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Kath @kathphillips.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Absolutely spot on but I'm a leo so don't believe in any of it.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
How times change. There was a coal mine in Bradford, inner-city Manchester, until 1968. The site is now partly occupied by the Etihad Stadium.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Workers in the Rain, painting by Mossley-born artist Lloyd George Higgins (1912-80). Inspired by Pennine textile communities, Lowry was his mentor.
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Oldham Weather @chadweather.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Weekly Blog. Done. ✅ oldhamweather.blog/2026/08/05/s...
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Some welcome rain for a time before warmer, possible hot, and drier weather returns – Thursday 6th August 2026 – Sunday 9th August 2026
Hi all, Thundery showers have been around recently and further showers around today, but some places stayed completely dry, others seeing some welcome downpours after a very dry July. The Met Offic…
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Kath @kathphillips.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy New Year
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Kath @kathphillips.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The holidays begin. Grandchildren finished school yesterday so off to the splash park today.
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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
It hurts how accurate this is
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Kath @kathphillips.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Well done Oldham. What a result!
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Shane @shane11.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
This.
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Kath @kathphillips.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
It's a hungry Caterpillar!
Partly eaten leaf with a little green Caterpillar.
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Kath @kathphillips.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
What is eating the leaves on my gooseberry bush?
Branches with gooseberries and stalks where the leaves have been eaten.
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Kath @kathphillips.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
They're all available on channel 4 site for free. I'm rewatching series 5 at the moment so I will know where I'm up to before I start series 6.
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
A glimmer of hope for Labour – its vote share rises to 36% if Reform is its main opponent (via @persuasionuk.bsky.social).
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Stupendously interesting, useful - and interactive - chart from @psurridge.bsky.social public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...
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How voters for each party view the other parties
A Flourish data visualization by Paula Surridge
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Oldham Times @oldhamtimes.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Hundreds of new homes and industrial space scheme planned near Oldham
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Hundreds of new homes and industrial space scheme planned near Oldham
Hundreds of new houses, new public green space and 140,440sq ft of employment floorspace has all been earmarked in a massive redevelopment scheme
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Oldham Weather @chadweather.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Sunny spells and warm today. Always cloudier to the north and west and some cloud will bubble up inland at times. Great week of very warm and sunny weather ahead.
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Kath @kathphillips.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Definitely willow. It was my daughters first video. We watched it so many times.
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Kath @kathphillips.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
It's really interesting. Very little is published by the press and I rely on what I and my friends find on blue sky and other platforms to fill in the details.
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Major breach on the Macclesfield Canal north of Bosley. The canal and towpath are going to be shut for quite some time.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The US and Canada mapped at equivalent European latitudes. (via Amazing Maps)
Map of US and Canada overlaid across Europe and North Africa
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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I hate the clocks going backwards and forwards. When I was young, we didn’t even have clocks. If we got hungry, we ate each other. We were poor, but we were happy. Good times. Not that we had time. It hadn’t been invented. We had to make our own time out of string and cholera.
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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
With his brief trip to Greenland over, Vance returns to the day job
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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 28/03/2025
Watch seismic waves from the M7.7 earthquake in Myanmar ripple across North America. This animation, called a Ground Motion Visualization (GMV), shows how the ground moved as detected by seismometers across the continent.
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Kath @kathphillips.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
In a pub in the 1970's. It was so exciting. There was a queue to go on it.
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Politics Phil @politicsphil.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
According to #OnlyConnect the flat earth society have members "around the globe"
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Beth Rigby @bethrigby.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
NEW POD is out. You can watch us in YouTube or find Electoral Dysfunction wherever you get your podcasts. This week, Ruth changes her view on how long Badenoch will survive as the Tory leader’s tenure bumps along. Plus Harriet on Reform & how Trump’s hitting UK politics youtu.be/DiW4so1YC9Y?...
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Electoral Dysfunction: Is it already over for Kemi Badenoch?
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
My petition about media regulation, including truthfulness and ownership, and covering traditional media and new media such as steaming, video channels and podcasts, has now gone live! If you want to see improvements of our media, then please sign and share! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Petition: Review traditional and social media regulation
Review media regulation, including social media, to consider the introduction of stricter regulations to ensure truthful reporting, accountability and integrity across all platforms, including newspap...
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Fact: by replacing your morning coffee with Green tea, you can lose up to 89% of what little joy you still have left in your life.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Snoopy knows
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Kath @kathphillips.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
It is so sad that my intelligent, 14 Yr old granddaughter can no longer attend school as she can't walk. The waiting list to see the consultant is 15 weeks. Too much time without education at this important time. Why doesn't her future matter?
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Kath @kathphillips.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
A saxophone. It looks cool and is quite easy to play.
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Pamela Marrache 🦋 🦋 🦋 @pamelamarrache.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
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George Peretz KC @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Thanks to @jamesomalley.co.uk for endorsing this idea on his Substack (which you should follow, btw). open.substack.com/pub/jamesoma...
It’s been a strange few days on social media, as the richest man in the world has spent most of his time not building rockets or even helping the incoming Trump administration. Instead, he’s been sending hundreds of tweets about “rape gangs” in Britain, supporting Tommy Robinson, and putting individual politicians, like Jess Phillips, in danger by levelling spurious allegations to an audience of 100m followers.
I’m genuinely not sure what the government’s response to this should be, given Musk’s closeness to Trump, who in just over two weeks will be in charge of our closest ally. So it’s basically a situation with no good outcomes. But I do think this suggestion from George Peretz is appealing: That in response to Musk’s nonsense, the government should duplicate its Twitter output on Bluesky.
As in the quoted section above, such a move would mean the government can nudge, in a small way, the incentives of which platform people should use. But I also think it would be an elegant diplomatic response, in lieu of doing anything that would directly burn our already limited pool of political capital with the next administration.
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CryptoSniper 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🦋💙 @cryptosniper.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Remember you can make a difference! Get a library card—even if you don’t plan to use it. Your registration helps secure funding for libraries, keeping them open and thriving for the entire community. Every card counts!
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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
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Kath @kathphillips.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
It snowed. Can't wait to make footprints in the snow.
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andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Overnight tonight we will mobilise the single biggest change to buses in the UK for decades as the remaining half of services in GM come back under public control. Thank you to everyone who has worked through Christmas and New Year to make this happen. 🙏🏻
Buses lined up at the temporary deport at Manchester Airport.Some of the team at the temporary depot at Manchester Airport.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Word of the Day is ‘hunch-weather’ (19th century): weather so cold it makes you hunch your shoulders when you walk outside.
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Simone Conradi @sconradi.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
A classic proof without words showing that 1+3+5+...+(2n-1)=n² taking advantage of the fact that 2025 is a square and therefore it's the sum of all odd numbers from 1 to 89! #MathArt #Mathematics #HappyNewYear Made with #python #matplotlib
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
For Maths fans, 2025 is a square. 45² = 45 x 45 = 2025 Also, 9² x 5² = 2025 40² + 20² + 5² = 2025 My favourite? 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025 #Mathematics #teaching #education
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Politics Phil @politicsphil.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
And for those resident in the UK, especially those in Clacton, this is the healthcare model that Nigel Fartage is promoting, to replace our NHS.
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Jim McMahon MP @jimmcmahon.co.uk · 01/01/2025
Wishing everyone a Happy New Year 2025 with peace and prosperity 🦉
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Kath @kathphillips.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Why is it that millionaire farmers get such a large amount of press coverage for such a few people.
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Kath @kathphillips.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
It's lovely to wake up to freshly fallen snow. Now I just need to find my gloves.
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Deliciously awkward moment created by this audience member.
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andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Today, with seven weeks to go until we complete the re-regulation of our buses, we are confirming the new simpler, flatter fare structure to apply from 5/1/25. 👇🏻
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
the Guardian is now officially on BlueSky @theguardian.com
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