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Lindsey Bampton

@lindseybampton.bsky.social
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Safeguarding Adults Board & Safeguarding Children Partnership Manager. CofE National Safeguarding Panel member. Ex Probation Officer. ✅ Hiking, baking, afternoon naps, frozen margaritas, chess ❎ TV involving real life police or hospitals, liquorice

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Lindsey Bampton @lindseybampton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I hadn't realised that a member of Tri-Delta at Cornell broke this story. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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Cornell, Chi Phi Sued by Victim of Alleged Gang Rape, Drugging in 2024
A former Cornell student filed a lawsuit on Monday, alleging that she was gang raped after being coerced into consuming drugs by several men at the Chi Phi fraternity house at Cornell in 2024. 
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Liz St Clair @lemurskulls.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I assume the writer couldn’t find someone to go to lunch with them so they went alone, ordered one too many drinks, and wrote this.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.
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Lindsey Bampton @lindseybampton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Every time I try to authorise payments via my HSBC app the shopping site crashes by the time I switch back to it (even if it's only 20 seconds). What am I doing wrong?
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Lindsey Bampton @lindseybampton.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
What's going on with the #ReadingFestival big screens? We've had nearly an hour of Fontaines D.C. with no or only part picture. Seems to have just fixed itself with 5mins to go.
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Lindsey Bampton @lindseybampton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Everyone at the cinema looking around frowning at each other watching The Odyssey #UKAlert
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Lindsey Bampton @lindseybampton.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
For the solar eclipse today we dug out of the garage the pinhole camera that my husband made for our 3 and 4 year old children in 2015.
Pinhole camera with solar eclipse projected
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Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 12/08/2026
My fist as pinhole camera
Shadow of my raised fist against a wall. In the hole left between the fingers is the crescent of a partial (90%) solar eclipse
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Lindsey Bampton @lindseybampton.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
1/ Half way through our European road trip: 1,300 miles down, 1,200 miles to go. We've made it to beautiful Croatia. Six of us, three generations, in my 2010 Ford S-Max which we bought for £200 about three years ago...
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Lindsey Bampton @lindseybampton.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Has anyone else just finished clearing up a vase they smashed INSIDE a cupboard? Just me then.
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Awesome Slow Motion Glass Break
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Lindsey Bampton @lindseybampton.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Me wondering if the golden goal is still a thing #England
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lhur.bsky.social @lhur.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The only cabinet in British history to be fully state school educated and a load of people think they are posher than Farage. Unbelievable. The power of the rightwing press exhibit #8346
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Lindsey Bampton @lindseybampton.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Heard on the journey home today that Leicester (where I work) is the worst place in the country to survive a zombie attack and that Plymouth is the best (escape routes off the island and whatnot).
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Cool Cool Cool Zombie Commercial
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Lindsey Bampton @lindseybampton.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
A webinar on Monday discussing the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Cheshire West, and implications for health and social care. www.weightmans.com/media-centre...
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A New Dawn for Deprivation of Liberty
In an application by the Attorney General of Northern Ireland, the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court was handed down on 2 June 2026.
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Lindsey Bampton @lindseybampton.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Just finished my first audiobook. Had no idea you could get them free on Spotify. This one was read by Bob himself. Very enjoyable.
The Long Shoe by Bob Mortimer 'A Mystery with 3 or 4 Suspects'. There is a picture of an apartment block and a cat.
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Racist politicians whip up racist outrage. Widespread disorder ensues. The courts treat widespread disorder with the severity that they have always treated widespread disorder. Racist politicians cry “two-tier justice”, whipping up racist outrage. Rinse. Repeat. It’s so fucking tedious.
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Alex Ruck Keene @capacitylaw.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Supreme Court overrules Cheshire West In A Reference by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland of a devolution issue under paragraph 34 of Schedule 10 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998…...
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Supreme Court overrules Cheshire West
In A Reference by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland of a devolution issue under paragraph 34 of Schedule 10 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998 UKSC 16, a seven member Panel of the Supreme Court has unanimously overruled the 2014 majority decision in Cheshire West.   The judgment is long and detailed.  A summary by the Supreme Court can be found…
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𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔏𝔞𝔴𝔫𝔪𝔬𝔴𝔢𝔯 𝔐𝔞𝔫 @jabroxenbrodium.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I just reminded my wife of this saga and she said “let’s not talk about shrimptations”
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
TUC on Reform’s proposal to change working time laws & stop workers having to pay tax on overtime “Farage’s overtime tax proposal is just a cynical gimmick. “Working people don’t need politicians encouraging a culture of ever-longer hours. They need decent pay rises, secure jobs and strong rights"
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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
It's not 1536, but Anne Boleyn has taken over the news. Recently a team of computer scientists, electrical engineers and a historical novelist think they have discovered the “true face” of Anne (& her mother) by applying AI-based computational facial recognition to Holbein sketches. The catch? /1
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
It's kind of wild to me that the only share buttons Gov.uk offers are for X and Facebook. After *everything*. It's even on Govt press releases excoriating Grok and social media abuse
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has this day appointed Joshua Cameron Simons to be Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern.

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18 May 2026

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has this day appointed Joshua Cameron Simons to be Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern.

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Lindsey Bampton @lindseybampton.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Bluesky is there a website - I imagine a bit like Wikipedia - where far right myths and propaganda are debunked? It would be super helpful if there was. The misinformation is out there but the facts to challenge them aren't always as readily available when needed.
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Lindsey Bampton @lindseybampton.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Been doing a fair bit of motorway driving the last few days. A reminder for those who need it: Highway code Motorways: Lane discipline Rule 264 Keep in the left lane unless overtaking You're welcome 🚗
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
It's Sunday! And that means it's time to shake things up with a little grown-up show and tell! So show us something neat and tell us about it! Something you made, something you did, something you're proud of. Friends, pets, family. Anything really! Go on, show us!
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Lindsey Bampton @lindseybampton.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Seatfrog referral here for anyone looking for one seatfrog.mention-me.com/m/ol/le5pf-a... #SeatFrog
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Lindsey Bampton @lindseybampton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
It's GCSE revision time in our house and I've been cajoled into joining in by taking a past paper. I was allowed no revision and my last maths lesson was in 1997.
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Lindsey Bampton @lindseybampton.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The children are 14 and 15 but I've still hid mini eggs around the house for them to find. You're never too old for that, right?
Our black lop-eared bunny kissing a Lindt golden bunny.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
The legal powers for wide "executive orders" are already there, waiting to be (mis)used. And the current government is doing nothing to guard against the risk of such future (mis)use by an illiberal government.
The possibly third constitutional super-power is the sheer range and wealth of discretionary powers of the government not under the Royal Prerogative but already existing under perhaps thousands of legislative provisions.

Some of these provisions under Acts of Parliament even allow ministers to change the law by ministerial discretion, as well as to issue statutory instruments and other instruments (such as statutory guidance) with legal effect.

Every successive government has added more of these provisions, even if they complained about them in opposition.

And it would be open to a government under the first constitutional super-power - the doctrine of parliamentary supremacy - to add even more of these powers

One suspects various “think-tanks” are already collating the discretionary powers that already exist, ready to arm - DOGE-style - an incoming radical and illiberal government.

Such an incoming government would not need to break the law - for the law already will provide almost all the powers such a government could want.
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Lindsey Bampton @lindseybampton.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Morning Bluesky. I am human, I promise, but I don't know what they're asking me to do?!
Let's prove you're human. Solve a puzzle so we know you're not a robot.
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Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 11/03/2026
The Guardian has deployed an anonymous messaging system for whistleblowers to contact journalists, designed by my colleagues including @lambda.bsky.social. It’s very elegant hackaday.com/2026/03/09/s...
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Secure Communication, Buried In A News App
Cryptography is a funny thing. Supposedly, if you do the right kind of maths to a message, you can send it off to somebody else, and as long as they’re the only one that knows a secret little…
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Kyiv. Late evening. Air defence is shooting down drones. I say it like, “The weather is fine outside, just cloudy.” That’s what four years have done to us. Protect peace. Don’t let war become normal.
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Lindsey Bampton @lindseybampton.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Yum! Just made these and they're delicious. Happy St David's Day 🌼
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Lindsey Bampton @lindseybampton.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Bluesky. I think my husband hates me. He just called me when he knows I'm on a train 😳
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I show you Kyiv. I tell you about our life here. Slowly, I’m getting back to educating you about Ukraine. We survived this winter (it seems). Of course, there will be more attacks, more challenges. I’ll do my best to remind you that we are more than this bloody war.
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Lindsey Bampton @lindseybampton.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I have to wonder would travel insurance cover the cost of the additional medication I'd need? That's assuming I'd be allowed access to medication whilst detained which is a big assumption. I couldn't take the risk. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The whole civil service will now be managed as well as the Ministry of Justice has been in recent years.
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Lindsey Bampton @lindseybampton.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Including the sell off of probation despite the risk to the public. That did not work out well. Urgh what an awful appointment here by Starmer. What was he thinking? 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Lindsey Bampton @lindseybampton.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Chessguessr #1339 1/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 chessguessr.com
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Lindsey Bampton @lindseybampton.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Happy Pancake Day Bluesky! This year we have a choice of (i) mango and passion fruit coulis (ii) maple syrup and (iii) good old lemon and sugar
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a man with dreadlocks says it 's pancake day
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Antonia Romeo is the wrong choice for Cabinet secretary. A government which was serious about improving its performance would not select her. iandunt.substack.com/p/how-one-hi...
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Rebecca Montacute @beckymontacute.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
And 4 trains later we have arrived! London to the Austrian Alps by train 🇦🇹 🚆
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Lindsey Bampton @lindseybampton.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Some removed again already apparently
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Lindsey Bampton @lindseybampton.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I have just shared my experiences of childbirth through the National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation call for evidence. You can too here: www.matneoinv.org.uk/call-for-evi...
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Call for Evidence - National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation
Baroness Amos is asking women and families across England to share their experiences of maternity and neonatal care through a public Call for Evidence.
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
And another declaration from a medical doctor who was on scene and attempted to treat the man who was shot. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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#109 in Tincher v. Noem (D. Minnesota, 0:25-cv-04669) – CourtListener.com
DECLARATION of Witness No. 2 re 108 Declaration in Support by John Biestman, Alan Crenshaw, Janet Lee, Abdikadir Noor, Susan Tincher, Lucia Webb . (Fisher, Caitlinrose) (Entered: 01/24/2026)
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
JUST IN: Lawyers file declaration in federal court from first-hand witness to immigration agents' shooting of a US citizen onlookers today. Minneapolis Mayor Frey said details would be used to bolster case for ousting ICE from city. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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TincherSealedWitnessDec012426.PDF
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Lindsey Bampton @lindseybampton.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
You can complain to the BBC here. I have. www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
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Make A Complaint | Contact the BBC
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Lindsey Bampton @lindseybampton.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Why does Faraaz call Rachel grandma? He did it at the dam too #TheTraitors #Uncloaked
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Lindsey Bampton @lindseybampton.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Loving Jade's hair. Think I need this haircut #TheTraitors
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Lindsey Bampton @lindseybampton.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Bluesky, I have read my first book of the year 📖
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