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Matthew Hocking

@matthoc.bsky.social
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Trying to live more slowly, an occupational therapist in dementia amongst other things. All views shared are strictly my own.

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Lucy Worsley @lucyworsley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Every 19th May, roses arrive at the Tower of London for Anne Boleyn. Nobody puts their name to them, & they've been coming for well over a century. I have a theory, involving a lawyer's office and an admirer who’s been dead for a long time. NEW POST😊 lucyworsley.substack.com/p/who-sends-...
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Who sends Anne Boleyn red roses every year?
Every 19 May, a mysterious wreath arrives at the Tower of London for the queen Henry VIII beheaded. This is the story of the woman who said ‘no’
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 13h
Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......
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Jackie @jackiethewise-ish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We need more men calling out misogyny, willing to stand with women, and take action. goodlawproject.org/s/748822
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It’s time for men to speak up - and act | Good Law Project
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Keir Harding @keirwales.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#bpdawarenessweek
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Jiggy Sevilla @jig30.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/artic...
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Europe's Best Bike Trails
Across the continent, rail-trail conversions and other greenways offer travelers a way to slow down and immerse themselves in cobblestone squares, historic cathedrals, and other wonders.
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The Green Runners @thegreenrunners.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Join us for our Nottingham Local Meet Up. Runners welcome, walkers welcome! 💚 to see you there ⏰️ 17 Oct 08:45 📍 Colwick parkrun 🤝 Meet Weirfields Recreation Ground pavilion 🚆 Sustainable travel options in alt-text 🟢 Look for Kev & his badges. Post run we plan to litter pick 🗑 followed by ☕️
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🚂 The railway station is located approximately 0.8 miles from the start, and Beeston bus and tram interchange is 1.3 miles away.

🚌 The CT4N 18 bus (between Stapleford and Nottingham, via Beeston) provides the closest bus point stopping at the Meadow Road shops (0.5 miles from the start).
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Hiro Ohta @xlix.me · 29/09/2026
Trains are not always on time. Neither is life. We go on anyway.
PHOTO by Viktor Mogilat. Night fog settles over a railway station. On the left, a commuter train slides past in a soft blur, its rows of windows glowing warm amber, beneath overhead wires that cross a rust-colored sky. On the right, a long empty platform stretches toward a small shelter, where a single lamp pours a pale beam through the mist. A lone figure stands beside the shelter, head bowed, as a dark fence runs alongside. Light and fog rest together.
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Hannah - OT in Deaf mental health @hannahtheot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please share this unique opportunity, ideal for a deaf BSL user aspiring to be a psychologist, everyone in our team uses BSL. Hearing BSL users can also apply.
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Dementia Community @dementiacommunity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
📢 1 Week to go! Future Planning and Dementia: Plan for Tomorrow, Live for Today 🗓 5 October | ⏰ 2-3pm (UK) Learn about advance care planning and Lasting Powers of Attorney with Zoe Harris, Dani Ayre & Clare Fuller. 👉 Register: buff.ly/2Uc0Bly #DementiaCare
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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 27/09/2026
The account of the anti-gender movement in the UK shows that the coordinated anti-trans campaign began in 2017; it wasn’t a feature of public life a decade ago. Reject the fiction that it has “always been this way”. We can build something better. drive.google.com/file/d/1Tnhz...
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Hate Review 2026 - United Kingdom.pdf
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On CNN's Amanpour Astra answered the question that’s on lots of people’s minds this week: How should we understand all of the Silicon Valley executives and engineers warning that AI might destroy humanity? Her advice: watch what they do more than what they say. @astra.bsky.social
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EuroVelo @eurovelo.com · 23/09/2026
The summer of 2026 has shown that we’ve already stretched the limits of our planet far beyond what it can sustain. How can cycling tourism not only avoid doing extra harm, but also participate in environmental protection and biodiversity recovery? en.eurovelo.com/news/2026-09...
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Cycle routes and climate change: Can EuroVelo participate in biodiversity recovery?
The summer of 2026 has shown, even more clearly than before, that we’ve already stretched the limits of our planet far beyond what it can sustain. Heat waves, droughts, forest fires, floods – it’s imp...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Intending to write another column about the treatment of #ME/CFS patients this week, pegged to new research findings on the biological basis. My question for sufferers: Are any of you still being offered inappropriate (psych/GET etc) "treatments"? Please email george at monbiot dot info. Thanks.
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Matthew Hocking @matthoc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A short walk from ours is the local park, couldn’t not stop and ponder given the early morning view.
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The Big Solar Co-op @bigsolarcoop.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
From factories to schools, leisure centres to steelworks, golf clubs to community centres, we already collectively own 22 solar rooftops and have over 40 sites signed up and ready to install over the next 2 years. Want to know more? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf45...
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Invest in community solar with the Big Solar Co-op
YouTube video by Big Solar Co-op
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Matthew Hocking @matthoc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We saw The National 3-4 years ago at the Manchester Bowl, this song from 2007 resinates powerfully in 2026 #weneedmorehumansinpower open.spotify.com/track/65aZDJ...
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Fake Empire
The National · Boxer · Song · 2007
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 17/09/2026
Dinner in Amsterdam. Breakfast in Vienna. Lunch in Budapest. No early-morning rush to the airport. No security queues. Just the gentle rhythm of the rails, the quiet joy of watching new landscapes roll by and a comfortable night’s rest on the ÖBB Nightjet. Sometimes the journey is the destination.
Photographs of an overnight train journey from Amsterdam to Budapest via Vienna, including a segment on the ÖBB Nightjet in a specially-designed sleeping pod.Photographs of an overnight train journey from Amsterdam to Budapest via Vienna, including a segment on the ÖBB Nightjet in a specially-designed sleeping pod.Photographs of an overnight train journey from Amsterdam to Budapest via Vienna, including a segment on the ÖBB Nightjet in a specially-designed sleeping pod.Photographs of an overnight train journey from Amsterdam to Budapest via Vienna, including a segment on the ÖBB Nightjet in a specially-designed sleeping pod.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A macho culture of performative selfishness might start on the roads, through racing, rolling coal, ever bigger SUVs ... But it doesn't end there. If we want to live in a decent country which values human life, we need to change this culture. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Driving that’s too fast, too dangerous and utterly lawless: why do we tolerate this petro-masculinity? | George Monbiot
In towns and in the countryside, I see 4x4s and pick up trucks driven without care or consicence. It’s a Magafication of transport, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Jill Turner @jillhturner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Crikey!
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Chris @chrisedge81.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
UK inpatient mental health OTs — I need your help! 🧠 I’m recruiting OTs for a short survey exploring MOHO-based assessment in practice. It takes just a few minutes, and you can also enter a cash prize draw 💷 🔗 livpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0C… Please share with eligible OTs too!
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
This is a tax guy. His advice could be the difference between someone having their assets seized & maybe going to jail, or not. Now imagine having to worry about racist shit in every interaction you have with any person in authority. Every doctor & nurse, every cop, every lawyer & judge, every boss
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Politicians on the centre-left and centre-right simply don't seem to understand they are in an existential battle for the future of British democracy.
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Steve Hyndside @stevehyndside.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It never does. But the apology from @thetimes.com to @mothinali.bsky.social should travel as far as the original article.
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Matthew Hocking @matthoc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Quite the tune open.spotify.com/track/0y6CoV...
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Looking at Your Pager
KH · Looking at Your Pager · Song · 2022
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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Where Roman Coins Have Been Found Around The World brilliantmaps.com/roman-coi...
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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Thank you so much to the hundreds of trans people and allies who joined today's mass lobby! The queue stretched across both sides of the road outside Parliament, and so many MPs participated in meetings and responded to green cards. Together, we delivered a powerful message for change 🏳️‍⚧️
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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I have more meetings in Halifax today. 🤞 I’m doing all I can to save this place for the Arts and the good people of West Yorkshire… and even further afield. In saving such places, we ALL win! 🙏🏻 Please RT. Thank you. #SaveSquareChapelArts #Halifax
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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I explain how passes work on Eurostar here: www.seat61.com/interrail-an... And how to reserve trains when using an Interrail pass all over Europe here: www.seat61.com/interrail-an...
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How to use an InterRail or Eurail pass on Eurostar
Eurostar passholder fares and how to buy them.
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Provenance Integrity Institute @provenanceii.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"These 4,400-year-old objects, inscribed with previously unknown symbols, may represent a proto-alphabet, suggesting an earlier and geographically distinct origin of writing than once assumed." indiandefencereview.com/worlds-oldes...
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World’s Oldest Alphabet? 4,400-Year-Old Script Unearthed in Syrian Tomb
A set of ancient clay cylinders discovered in Syria may hold the earliest known example of alphabetic writing, predating Egypt’s script by centuries.
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Matthew Hocking @matthoc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Every now and then my running route takes me over this small pedestrian bridge, whilst not one of Gustav Eiffel’s it shares some of his construction features. #staffordshire #running
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This letter is currently on 74,000 signatures. If you want to let these brave, selfless people know how appreciated they are, please join me in signing it. Thank you, #RNLI ❤️ act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...
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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Finally they came for the Daily Mail and my irony meter just packed up and left and I never heard from it again.
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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 08/09/2026
"A woman was viciously attacked and senior party figures found it funny. The message sent by Farage and Jenrick is clear: violence is an acceptable response to criticism," writes @mrjamesob.bsky.social Read more: trib.al/yNG6d5Y
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
An RNLI lifeboat guy here, and as I’ve been saying for many years now: why is it that the public have been subjected to hate campaigns against hated enemies including rescue services, Stonewall, Amnesty International, the left of the Labour Party, the National Trust, the Proms and Match of the Day?
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Let me tell you about the Overton window:
A white, middle-aged, middle-class, clergyman in the Church of England, who volunteers with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is a radical leftist seeking to bring down Western society.
That is how far it has shifted.
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The Lewy Body Society @lewybodysociety.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Our chief executive hosted a webinar on Capgras syndrome, feat Prof Iracema Leroi, clinical academic at the Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin and a consultant geriatric psychiatrist at St James Hospital, Dublin and Rachel Thompson, Consultant Admiral Nurse for Lewy body dementia.
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Capgras syndrome in Lewy body dementia
A recording of a live webinar held on 19th July 2021 In Lewy body dementia, problems such as hallucinations and delusions often arise. In some cases, these may present as ‘delusions of…
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#Denmark built so much wind that some blustery hours the turbines out-produce what the whole country is using. When that happens, the extra power doesn’t sit idle. It moves through Denmark’s links into the wider European network and heads to neighbors like Germany, Norway, Sweden. #ActOnClimate
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Dementia Community @dementiacommunity.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🎟️ 4 Days Left! Grab your discounted ticket now for the 20th UK Dementia Congress! ✔️ 10% off for Individual Community Members ✔️ 30% off for Investor Members ✔️ Concessionary tickets are available ⏳ Ends 11 Sept 👉https://buff.ly/QoNv4ZC #UKDC2026 #Dementia
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philsmithcross.bsky.social @philsmithcross.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Matthew Hocking @matthoc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
What sort of a hold do the fossil fuel industries have over govts? Does actively near eradicating oil and gas threaten economic collapse? Are there exemplars of nations who have actively uncoupled? A complex topic, but a crucial one. #wecandobetter
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It is always the same betrayal: the public interest is sacrificed for the sake of immensely wealthy people. And Andy Burnham has already gone and done it. My column on how Burnham needs to defy the ultra-rich if he's not to follow Starmer out of the door. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Andy Burnham has already made a mistake that will cost him his premiership: he lost his nerve over political donations | George Monbiot
Being subservient to the interests of the wealthy now means that his hands are tied, and he will be unable to tackle Britain’s most pressing issues, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
NEW: French researcher Stephanie Lamy exposes the network of “race realists” who hunted Jason Arday like prey, and the media that fell into his trap. If you think the news cycle has “moved on” from this story, ask yourself why? broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-killin...
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The killing of a black man
A French researcher exposes the network of “race realists” who hunted Jason Arday like prey and the media who fell into their trap
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Matthew Hocking @matthoc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
With #parkrun tourism growing it’s good to know that you can incorporate lower carbon travel to complete the A-Zed. #running
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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 01/09/2026
Dr Natacha Kennedy: "The government’s guide to harming trans children in school" "Labour’s anti-trans “guidance” is many orders of magnitude worse than Margaret Thatcher’s Section 28 ever was"
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Dr Natacha Kennedy: "The government’s guide to harming trans children in school"
Words by Dr Natacha Kennedy, a trans academic from Goldsmiths University  There’s no point in beating about the bush, the government’s new anti-trans “guidance” for schools is about harming trans chi...
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 01/09/2026
Ever wondered why a project vision hasn't translated to positive impact? Time to rethink your narrative! Join Melissa for this @eurovelo.com workshop: 🚲 We Need Good Stories: Creating compelling narratives to encourage cycling tourism 📆 1 October @ 11:00 👉 Register: euroveloconference.com/2026/
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Andrea Egan UNISON General Secretary @andreaegangs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Today I met with our trans, non-binary and gender diverse members. So many members have written to us explaining that the updated EHRC guidance is unworkable. I will work with our trans non-binary and gender diverse members to change the law for legal gender recognition.
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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
IT WAS NEVER THE IMMGRANTS IN SMALL BOATS The world is 700% richer than in 1970 but the average person is only 8% richer Because the richest 0.01% are 4000% richer We are all being robbed every second of every day, and it doesn't matter how much profit or growth there is It will never reach you
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 30/08/2026
Almost 150,000 people have demanded a public inquiry into Jason Arday's tragic death. Join them 👇 goodlawproject.org/petition/jason-a…
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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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Matthew Hocking @matthoc.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It’s felt like a while since I’ve been out on a longer run, very missed! #summerrain #running #staffordshire
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