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Sharon Gaskin

@lady62.bsky.social
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I value honesty and kindness. Love my partner and our sproker Alfie. Work in social care and am often frustrated at the lack of resources. #FBPR

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Dougal D'Arcy @mrdarcydog.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Reminded of this
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
A violent criminal? A threat to society? A danger to democracy? No, no and no. This is someone being punished again and again for giving a damn about humanity and the living world. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Just Stop Oil protester, 78, has jail term extended after no suitable tag found
Exclusive: Gaie Delap told she will have to serve 20 more days that correspond to period of time at home after recall
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The @thebhf.bsky.social is now on @bsky.app. They do incredible work funding vital research into heart diseases, stroke and vascular dementia, and their risk factors like diabetes. Let’s help them build their BlueSky following
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5GW HotTakes @5gw.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Right side of history. #FireAid Benefit Concert www.npr.org/2025/01/17/g... Orange Dictator www.npr.org/2025/01/15/g...
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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Spread the word. ✊
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
“The Guardian view on Britain and Europe: Labour must bring it on” - Ed Davey and even Kemi Badenoch are talking about Brexit failure. Are we reaching a tipping point when mainstream politicians can finally start talking about the EU and undoing the damage? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on Britain and Europe: Labour must bring it on | Editorial
Editorial: Sir Ed Davey – and even Kemi Badenoch – are saying new things about post-Brexit challenges. It is time for Sir Keir Starmer to do likewise
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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
The Guardian view on Britain and Europe: Labour must bring it on Sir Ed Davey – and even Kemi Badenoch – are saying new things about post-Brexit challenges. It is time for Sir Keir Starmer to do likewise. Starmer will only move when voters force him. #RejoinEU www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on Britain and Europe: Labour must bring it on | Editorial
Editorial: Sir Ed Davey – and even Kemi Badenoch – are saying new things about post-Brexit challenges. It is time for Sir Keir Starmer to do likewise
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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 16/01/2025
🚨Breaking: DWP's 'misleading and unfair' consultation on disability benefit reforms unlawful, High Court rules www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
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DWP's consultation on disability benefit reforms unlawful, High Court rules
The DWP's consultation into plans to slash billions from disability benefits has been ruled unlawful in a damning High Court judgement.
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T-Rexit @t-rexit.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Attention American followers….🔽🔽🔽 👍
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Poverty takes toll. Britons turn to crowdfunding to meet funeral bills. Average funeral costs £9,797. Profiteering is rife. Cash-strapped families borrow, sell possessions, crowdfund to pay for funeral. Cruelty of capitalism - from cradle to the grave. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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‘Cost of dying’ in UK hits record level as bereaved turn to crowdfunding to meet bills
Latest SunLife study shows average total funeral cost at £9,797 with many selling off possessions to help pay
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auntmeme @auntmeme.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I am a human being who has worked hard my entire life, now retired. I do not follow any instructions from anyone but myself. I didn't vote for this nonsense, and he is not my president. I am part of the resistance. #wtpBLUERESISTS #DemVoice1 #VoteBlueforOurFuture
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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 15/01/2025
Dear BlueSkyers. Sadly I'm getting many reports of scammers pretending to be me here, incl messaging people with 'investments' . Pls share/help me spread word that, as you know, THIS IS MY ONLY BLUE SKY account (proved as my handle is an official MoneySavingExpert one). All others are scams
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Private school run in south London linked to 27% rise in air pollution. Rise caused by parents ferrying children in Range Rovers and SUVs, not using public transport. The rich cause most of the carbon emissions, don't bear the social cost. Tax the rich. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Private school run in south London linked to 27% rise in air pollution
Campaigners say pollution levels in street in Herne Hill were far higher when private schools were open
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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
The planet DOESN'T need more "successful" people. The planet desperately NEEDS more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers & lovers of ALL kinds.
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Theprogressive ✊️ @treadres.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Remember when Matt Hancock & Nadine Dorries (now ex MPs) chose to appear on TV realty shows for mega loot, and for weeks neglected their Parliamentary duties. That is still permitted. Must ban all second jobs for MPs. Must serve people, not their bank balance. leftfootforward.org/2025/01/mps-...
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MPs second jobs are institutionalised bribery. They should be banned.
'Preventing MPs from selling their souls to the highest bidder is a necessary step in democratising parliament.'
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FloofMcGoof @floofmcgoof.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
If the TikTok ban is permitted to stand, what makes anyone believe the “government” won’t go after other platforms like YouTube? It’s never been about ownership; it’s about the ability to suppress unflattering news cycles. TikTok provides a global outlet to document that which many want suppressed.
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Lisa Frances @lisafrances.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 12/01/2025
'The richest 1%, which includes 77 million people such as billionaires and millionaires, surpassed their share of the carbon budget in the first 10 days of 2025. By comparison, someone in the poorest 50% of the global population would use up just their share in 1,022 days.' #GreenSky
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Wealthiest 1% Have Used Up Their Share of World’s Carbon Budget in Just 10 Days, Analysis Finds - EcoWatch
The wealthiest 1% of people in the world have already exhausted their share of the global carbon budget in the first 10 days of the new year.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
57 companies are responsible for 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions since 2016. These companies include fossil fuel giants like Chevron, Shell, and BP, who have been raking in record profits. The profits of Big Oil should not be more important than the future of our planet.
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Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016
Analysis reveals many big producers increased output of fossil fuels and related emissions in seven years after Paris climate deal
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Olivia Barber @oliviarosebarb.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Almost half of the Brits believe that investing in arms manufacturers is unethical, according to a new @yougov.co.uk poll. A majority of Labour and Lib Dem voters oppose investment in arms manufacturers, while only 28% of Tory voters think it's unethical. leftfootforward.org/2025/01/almo...
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Almost half of Brits say investing in arms manufacturers is unethical
It's not all about money...
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Sean | Drowned in Sound @drownedinsound.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
8.7m voters – around 30% of all votes cast – didn’t vote for Labour, Conservatives or the Liberal Democrats – but only elected 45 MPs. Proportional representation – so that people actually get what they vote for – would be the first step to restoring people’s faith in our system.
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 09/01/2025
The Los Angeles wildfires are climate disasters compounded #Climate
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The Los Angeles wildfires are climate disasters compounded
Conditions for a January firestorm in Los Angeles like this have not existed before now, writes a meteorologist and climate journalist
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 08/01/2025
👏 Heroes with ladles: the chefs of Gaza risking death to save lives Amid the rubble and chaos, Gaza’s volunteers, medics, and teachers are risking everything to feed, heal, and educate a besieged people By David Goff @tubbyewe.bsky.social
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Heroes with ladles: the chefs of Gaza risking death to save lives
Amid the rubble and chaos, Gaza’s volunteers, medics, and teachers are risking everything to feed, heal, and educate a besieged people
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
This is how human life on earth ends; in a #ClimateCatastrophe forced on us by our myopic selfishness & greed, & by political leaders ignoring the need for urgent change because the ££ cost of preventative action was deemed too high, & the returns on capital not high enough. 3/3 #r4today
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Jess Phillips: abuse by Elon Musk 'turned my world upside down'
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 06/01/2025
By "killed" he means "murdered by a genocidal occupying force that it suits Western politicians to support". #Gaza
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
2023-24: 804,936 courses of NHS England treatment for people with iron deficiency anaemia, up from 721,650. 191,927 admissions for lack of iron, up 11% on 2022-23. Work doesn't pay enough. People can't afford good food. Will nay govt redistribute income/wealth? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Hospital admissions for lack of vitamins soaring in England, NHS figures show
Admissions for vitamin or iron deficiencies up by more than 10% year on year and as much as tenfold on 1998-99
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
111,000 Britons a year die in poverty. 128,000 died in fuel poverty, including 110,000 pensioners. Govts cut real wages/benefits; underinvest in healthcare, won't curb corporate profiteering. Govts serve the rich/corporations, others pay with their lives. www.mariecurie.org.uk/globalassets...
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Wowzer, JC going full antisemitic - trying to throw the entirety of global Jewry under the bus to stop anyone having a breath of sympathy for any Palestinians. This is not even helpful to Israel. It’s pure desperation to assist a murderous Netanyahu.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Seems very clear now that Musk is rolling the pitch for a donation to Reform UK. Via Politico:
WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING: It appears that Elon Musk discovered Tommy Robinson and is now a super fan (surprise, surprise). Musk waded into U.K. politics again early this morning, with a call on X to “free Tommy Robinson” and by sharing a bunch of the convicted criminal’s videos. He also claimed Labour opposed an inquiry into the Oldham grooming gang (as reported by GB News) because “it will show that those in power were complicit in the cover-up.”

And there’s more: Musk followed this up by implying Starmer did not do enough to prosecute grooming gangs when he was director of public prosecutions between 2008 and 2013. It is only fair to point out that the PM in fact began the prosecutions of the Rochdale grooming gang in 2013 and also launched reforms to how the CPS handles child sex abuse cases — but Musk doesn’t exactly like to let the truth get in the way of a good yarn these days.
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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 02/01/2025
There is no part of this article that isn’t outright evil or flatly horrifying
A 2021 study by the advocacy group Unchained at Last found that 300,000 minors were married between 2000 and 2018 in the United States.
According to the group, 60,000 of those marriages involved an age difference that would have otherwise been considered a sex crime.

Remember, this is yet incomplete data as 10 states do not adequately report this data. But there's yet another element of horror to this situation. In many
states, children who are married cannot divorce-making child marriage a daunting one way ticket. As divorce lawyer Nancy Zalusky Berg explains:

A minor can't file for a divorce because they're not considered old enough to do it. That's because marriage is considered a contract, and most laws stipulate that only adults can enter into contracts. So, if a minor wants to change their marriage contract, they need an adult to help them do it.
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💙 KG-S for democracy ✊ @kgso.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Climate change article from 122 years ago.. what does this show? Science is real! We trust our governments too much to take care of our world. It’s time to take action!
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Thank you @No1GhostDog for day 9 of the #12DaysofFoxmas ! #FoxOfTheDay
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Looks like it's not gender neutral toilets. What a surprise...
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Rusty Rascal @rustyrascal.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
C’mon peeps, one last push please, we’ve got it to 47/53…..
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War on Want @waronwant.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Why are we calling Israel's attacks on the Palestinian people genocide❓ Read our article to find out about The Genocide Convention, and how Israel's acts fall under it: buff.ly/4gKTOGL
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End UK Support for Israel's War Crimes
The UK is complicit in Israel's genocide and war crimes against the Palestinian people
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Day 8 of the #12DaysofFoxmas - shared by @NaturehawkPhoto #FoxOfTheDay
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Sharon Gaskin @lady62.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Aiding and abetting genocide, getting into bed with Black Rock! Empty words and false promises!
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 31/12/2024
#Gaza
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Christian Thiels @christianthiels.eurosky.social · 31/12/2024
Good morning everybody to the last day of the year. May 2025 be a better year for all of us: mankind and our fellow creatures (like the pretty jay in the picture) Less violence, more freedom, less selfishness, more caring about each other. Might sound naive but you have to be optimistic, right?
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RICHARD FORD @richardfordshow.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
I feel that the flag needs to be waved a bit this morning… It’s that time of day to state unequivocally that not only do we wish to be a part of Europe… …but those who sought to remove us from the advantageous lives that we once experienced should be duly investigated, and consequently locked up!
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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Three separate reports published this month by leading international human rights and medical groups have detailed the same horrifying story: that Israel is well advanced in its genocide of the Palestinian population in Gaza. open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
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Another expert report finds Israel is committing genocide. The West yawns
Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, and Medecins Sans Frontieres are all agreed. But the Gaza genocide is now just another routine news item, buried on the inside pages
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Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
www.theguardian.com/money/2024/d... Quelle surprise. Privatisation stinks literally. Our Water shouldn't be privatised.
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Water bills for households in England and Wales to rise by £31 a year
Regulator agrees to increase amount firms can charge so they can fund fixing leaky pipes and cut pollution
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Yes, we need the govt to block loopholes and stop the billionaires’ takeover of this country too… BUT we also can’t leave it to government. We need to build up our own community power & ground game against Farage. Join European Movement UK and share —> www.europeanmovement.co.uk/membership
Picture of Musk, Farage & Candy.
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