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Katie Knight

@katieknight.bsky.social
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PEM consultant. RCPCH #climatechange working group. Founder/lead editor @paediatricfoam, co-founder @womenspeakersHC. Feminist. She/her #medsky

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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
BREAKING 🚨: reports suggest Andy Burnham could approve new oil and gas fields, including Rosebank. Is he REALLY going to cave into the demands of the profiteering oil giants and Trump? Or is he going to stand with people facing soaring bills and a worsening climate crisis?
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Katie Knight @katieknight.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Fossil fuel companies keep making billions while floods, fires and heatwaves are getting worse. It’s ordinary people like us paying the price. Want to make them pay? Add your name to the petition urging the government to tax fossil fuel giants - it only takes a minute. act.gp/3P0Bf9y
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Tired of paying for a crisis we didn’t cause? Add your name
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Katie Knight @katieknight.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
www.paediatricfoam.com/2026/05/scur...
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Can You C It? Scurvy in a child with autism — a diagnostic dilemma
Dr Naveed Haider, Dr Simon Scammell A young child with autism comes to your ED. He’s been limping for weeks. He’s already seen orthopaedics. His blood tests came back normal. His hip X-ray looked f…
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
the price of oil surging means you can burn your shein clothes, extract the oil, and make more money than you paid
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Katie Knight @katieknight.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...
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End the sewage pollution scandal
We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...
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Katie Knight @katieknight.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Dirty Business on channel 4 😡🤬 Prison is too good for the water execs who allowed (and CONTINUE to allow) this to happen. Renationalise water now you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 23/02/2026
"Consider this fact: England...is pretty much the only country in the world whose entire water industry is fully privatised". Spot on from Graham Hiscott in he Daily Mirror. Watch Channel 4's 'Dirty Business' tonight. It's brilliant, and you'll be outraged. vist.ly/4sib8
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This one hits hard.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
🚨Now closing on 60,000 signatures! Let’s keep going! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party
When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Just heard an AI ethicist talk about how important it is that we say ‘MEN are using Grok to undress images of babies, children and women’ not ‘Grok is….’. Grok isn’t responsible for the action, the men enabling & using it for this repulsive purpose are. Small but important bit of linguistic accuracy
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Katie Knight @katieknight.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
MEN are doing this. MEN. Grok is the tool, the behaviour is MALE violence against women - stop framing this as an action of a non sentient being and letting the PAEDOPHILE HUMANS pass the blame 🫠
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Isn't it refreshing when someone actually does nuance and detail? H/t @andyverity.bsky.social at the BBC!
How will the government fund scrapping the two child benefit cap? Talks about the fact it's important to remember public finances are not like household finances.
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TeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I’m so glad I always put the sizing in the description of the clothing 🤣 Vinted decided to reclassify all their sizes and totally fucked it. #Vinted #UpdatesThatWentWrong
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Katie Knight @katieknight.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
www.paediatricfoam.com/2025/10/righ... @paediatricfoam.bsky.social #paedsky #meded #foamed
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Right iliac fossa pain – but why?
Dr Charlotte Smith, Dr Emily Cadman Abdominal pain is such a common problem in paediatric A&E and there are so many possible diagnoses, ranging from the minor to the life-threatening. Right ili…
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Something extraordinary is happening. +6000 new members in ONE SINGLE day. @greenparty.org.uk just hit 130,000 members and rising!!! Join.greenparty.org.uk
Harriet, Zack, Mothin and Rachel
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
We need to change everything. Step 1 - join.greenparty.org.uk
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Mark the date: an incredible landmark as #solar power becomes EU's number one source of electricity in June 2025. Everything is impossible – until it's done. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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Solar tops EU power mix for first time in June, Ember says
Solar power was the European Union's largest source of electricity for the first time in June, overtaking nuclear and wind while coal's contribution fell to an all-time low, data from energy think tank Ember showed on Thursday.
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Jacob Simon (says) @jacobsimonsays.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
If you need to cleanse your feed, here's what's going right: 📉 Norway halved ppl experiencing homelessness (RtbC) ✈️ 8 nations to tax 1% flyers to help developing nations (FC) 🦦 Giant river otters re-released into Argentina’s (Mongabay) 🪏 Community win: silver_lavender99 started a neighbor garden
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
If we don't contest this full-frontal assault on our freedom, far worse will come. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Palestine Action isn’t a danger to British democracy – but Yvette Cooper is | George Monbiot
The home secretary is apparently an admirer of the suffragettes. I have no doubt that if they were active today she would proscribe them, too, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Good to inject a touch of humor in anti-#ICE protests. iCE fishing…
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Dr. Manhattan @thenewthinker.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
this is gold 🤣. the political clarity is unmatched. i need the daily digest.
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PaediatricFOAM.com @paediatricfoam.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
www.paediatricfoam.com/2023/12/lgbt... How can we best support LGBTQ parents within paediatric care? #LGBT #LGBTQ #pride #pridemonth #foamed #pedsky #paedsky #ukpaedsky
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Supporting LGBTQ+ parents within paediatric care
Understanding and supporting LGBTQ+ parents within paediatric care Dr Ilana Levene & Dr Rhiannon Furr Safiyah has come to paediatric outpatients with her mothers. She has a heart murmur and the…
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 12/05/2025
christ, what a day to be an immigrant cursed with the ability to read
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Women Speakers in Healthcare (womenspeakersHC) @womenspeakershc.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
(1/3) The world has been watching Gaza in horror for the last 19 months. 55000 people killed. 70% of them children. 117,792 people injured. The highest number of paediatric amputees anywhere in the world.
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Since privitisation of water in England. Profits extracted in dividends: £78,200,000,000 Average water bill price risen above inflation: 40% Spot the connection 👀
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 27/04/2025
🚨🚈Take 1 minute to add your name: weownit.org.uk/act-now/take... Demand that the government fully nationalise our railway.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
At this juncture I’d like to point out: * we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing * there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world * a united approach could stop the climate crisis But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 19/04/2025
Maybe we should honor the women who were real astronauts. From left to right are Shannon W. Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher, and Sally K. Ride. NASA selected all six women as their first female astronaut candidates in January 1978.
From left to right are Shannon W. Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher, and Sally K. Ride. NASA selected all six women as their first female astronaut candidates in January 1978.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 15/04/2025
“If taking back control of steel can get MPs into work on a Saturday, why not mail, rail, energy and water? Government has proven it can act decisively if it needs to. It's time to put these industries in service of the British public.” @cathobbs.bsky.social 🔥 www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
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'British Steel crisis highlights UK risk of foreign ownership in key sectors'
MPs have long had concerns about the amount of Chinese investment in the UK's critical infrastructure.
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 14/04/2025
Pertussis cases are up 1500% since 2021 due to declining vaccinations & there were at least a dozen deaths in the US last year. Over 700 cases & multiple measles deaths already this year. These are preventable diseases that no one should get let alone die from.
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Katie Knight @katieknight.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...
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Put Public Ownership of Water Back on the Table
Privatisation of water isn’t failing - it is the failure. The Government is mid-way through a major review of the water sector. But so far, it has refused to consider a potential solution that’s backe...
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 31/03/2025
"What we're seeing is the failure of privatisation. We're seeing a prioritisation of dividend returns over the long-term environmental protection of places like Windermere" Spot on @savewindermere.bsky.social 👏🏾 Regulation has failed. We need public ownership NOW! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Record number of illegal sewage spills in Windermere last year
Campaigners identified 140 illegal spill days into the beauty spot in 2024
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Haringey Green Party @haringeygreens.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
If you live within the St Ann's ward and are eligible to vote in the upcoming by-election on April 10th then please make sure that you are actually *registered* to vote before the end of tomorrow (March 25th) - link to check or sign up is www.gov.uk/register-to-... #GetGreensElected
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Register to vote
Register to vote to take part in elections in the UK. Includes how to get on the electoral register and how to update your address on the register.
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Katie Knight @katieknight.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Tax. The. Rich
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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 16/03/2025
"…doctors had been turned into "factory workers" in an effort to deliver ever-increasing productivity." A NHS doctor dies by suicide every 3 weeks. A nurse attempts suicide daily. Who cares for the carers? The lonely death of Dr Jagdip Sidhu www.the-londoner.co.uk/nhs-doctor-s...
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The lonely death of Dr Jagdip Sidhu
He was a rising star of the NHS. Could his work have contributed to his death?
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 07/03/2025
#Thames #Water is on the brink of collapse. Treasury officials are planning for what comes next. We’ve written to the government to urge them to meet us to discuss public ownership. 82% of us want this solution. The time is now! weownit.org.uk/news/treasur...
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Treasury plans for Thames Water collapse - our letter to government calling for public ownership | We Own It
As the government plans for the imminent collapse of Thames Water, we have written to the Chancellor and Environment Secretary to urge them to meet with us to discuss public ownership.
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Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
"free/cheap university tuition is an unaffordable luxury" *Meanwhile the Home office spending actual taxpayers money considering putting a wave machine in the channel to deter small boats*
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
A timely moment to remember that Donald Trump dodged the draft & JD Vance wondered a few short years ago whether he would turn out to be 'America's Hitler'...
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 27/02/2025
🚨BREAKING - Steve Reed has just launched the biggest review into the water sector since privatisation. But wait…..he says the commission can’t even consider public ownership. 🤯 We need to act quickly to change his mind. ⏰ Sign our petition now ✍️ weownit.org.uk/act-now/stev...
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Steve Reed: include public ownership as an option in your independent commission on the water sector. | We Own It
Steve Reed must put public ownership back on the table.
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petemartin1981.bsky.social @petemartin1981.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
“Why are bills going up?” Because you’ve royally fucked up everything and need to pay the shareholders their wedge and as usual it’s us that have to foot that bill.
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The data could not be more clear: our public services will collapse without immigration. People desperately need to come here & we desperately need people, too. Me, for @metrouk.bsky.social metro.co.uk/2025/02/19/n...
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Nigel Farage is worried about birth rates - there’s an obvious solution
Without migration, the UK population drops by 20 million by 2100.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Trump says the USA has given $350bn to Ukraine, and Europe has given only $100bn. Europe has given $132.3bn to Ukraine, which is more than the USA has given ($114bn). As a % of GDP, Estonia, Denmark, Lithuania and Latvia have each individually outspent the USA.
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 19/02/2025
Calling Zelensky a “Dictator” must be where the line is drawn. It is my sincere hope that the whole political spectrum in the United Kingdom will speak with one voice in opposition to Trump’s lies.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
That's a risk we'll just have to take
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 08/02/2025
Call your R reps. If you have a regional accent, make the most of it. Tell them you didn't vote for CANCER and ask them what the hell they're gonna do to stop Musk and Trump. reps.fyi
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Enough is enough. Time to stop rewarding failure. Share holders have taken £2,800,000,000 in 11 years. Now they ask for £10,000,000,000 from us? No. Renationalise Thames water. Now. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Thames Water may need £10bn investment to repair finances, high court hears
Struggling company may require significantly more resources than roughly £6.3bn it previously indicated
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PaediatricFOAM.com @paediatricfoam.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
go.bsky.app/EXGXX4D
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 30/01/2025
New runways at London airports would result in cumulative emissions of around 92m tonnes of extra CO2e by 2050, if the number of flights increases in line with their operating company targets. Carbon Brief’s analysis covered by Anushka Asthana on @itvpeston.bsky.social ➡️ buff.ly/3WJ9Ut1
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Katie Knight @katieknight.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Impressive (terrifying) new site, with live data on #sewage discharges into rivers. If this doesn't shame the water companies, what will... www.sewagemap.co.uk?asset_id=CAN... #waterpollution @thameswater.bsky.social
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Sewage Map
Real-Time Sewage Discharge Monitoring | Sewage Map - Stay Updated on Sewage Pollution
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