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@mrshadenuff.bsky.social
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Time for change. Time for hope, logic and learning. Let’s try.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Welsh artist Gwen John, Self Portrait, 1902 #womensart
Painted portrait of a white woman, upper half facing forwards in a red top, hair tied back, against a dark background
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R. Souissi @rsouissivibes.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Under President Trump's domestic spending agenda passed by Congress, the Kennedy Center will receive $257 million. That is six times what it normally gets from Congress annually. But no money for Medicare
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
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Reuters @reuters.com · 05/06/2025
China's approvals of coal power plants grow after 2024 decline reut.rs/3ZfPdq6
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China's approvals of coal power plants grow after 2024 decline
China approved 11.29 gigawatts (GW) of new coal power plants in the first three months of 2025, already exceeding the 10.34 GW approved in the first half of 2024, a new Greenpeace report showed on Thursday.
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If I were in charge @mrshadenuff.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
The right is creeping across Europe.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
'One man band' by contemporary English printmaker Gail Brodholt #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
Print in vivid colours featuring the entrance to a London tube station as people enter and outside to the right a man with a guitar stands
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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
An early morning walk yielded a flowering Lizard Orchid and several Burnt Orchids. Later the Col de Pennes wowed us with a mix of dry grassland and woodland flowers, Short-tailed Eagle and argumentative Duke of Burgundy butterflies @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social @beardybirder.bsky.social
Lizard Orchid Himantoglossum hircinum just coming into flower Two spikes of Burnt Orchid Neotinea ustulataRound-headed Rampion Phyteuma orbiculare
Duke of Burgundy butterfly resting on a leaf of Italian Maple Acer opalus
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Elizabeth Catlett, Sharecropper, 1952, two colour lino cut. The US artist utilised printmaking with extreme skill to explore themes of her fellow African Americans in a 20th century era of Civil Rights activism #womensart
Print featuring the head and shoulders of an older Black woman with angular features looking sliight right wearing a hat with wide brim and a green jacket closed with a pin
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Anemones, 1925 woodcut by Australian artist Margaret Preston #WomensArt
Print with stylised different coloured blooms in a pink jug
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/04/2025
Canada’s liberal party, led by Mark Carney, secures election victory after dramatic reversal of fortune
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Canada’s liberal party, led by Mark Carney, secures election victory after dramatic reversal of fortune
Party written off months ago secures fourth term in stunning comeback after Donald Trump’s threats boosted campaign * Results tracker * Joy for Liberals: follow the election results live Canada’s Liberal party has won a fourth term, capping a miraculous political resurrection for the party – and marking a landmark victory for former central banker and political novice Mark Carney as he prepares to face off against US president Donald Trump. Late on Monday, the Liberals had won or were leading in enough seats to prevent any other party from forming government, according to the national broadcaster CBC. As results from Canada’s Atlantic provinces and vote-rich Quebec and Ontario came in late on Monday, supporters at the Liberals’ election night party erupted in cheers. Continue reading...
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If I were in charge @mrshadenuff.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Keep going and move forward. We’ll get there. Ben E. King - Stand By Me youtu.be/hwZNL7QVJjE via @YouTube
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Ben E. King - Stand By Me (Audio)
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
The refusal of the Egyptian authorities to free this peaceful activist triggered Laila's act of maternal determination. Listen to Laila Souief: A Mother’s Life on Radio 4 at 1.30pm Pres Michael Segalov Prod Michael Segalov and Andrea Rangecroft www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 📸 Misan Harriman
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Since last September, 68-year-old Laila Soueif has been on hunger strike. Laila is the mother of Alaa Abdel Fattah, a British national imprisoned in Egypt for the best part of 12 years. He’s one of Egypt's highest profile pro-democracy political prisoners who was due to be released in late 2024…
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
UK Parliament recalled tomorrow for emergency debate on the future of British Steel. Must be permanent nationalisation, not temporary where public purse nurses the company and it is then sold to private sector. Need industrial strategy: Can't rescue steel/others without controlling energy costs.
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The forgotten art of letter-writing 😁
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 24/03/2025
Tokyo's cherry blossom season has kicked off, with the Meteorological Agency declaring that a cherry tree at Yasukuni Shrine had bloomed on Monday, five days earlier than last year.
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Cherry blossom season kicks off in Tokyo after warm weekend
At approximately 2 p.m. Monday, the Meteorological Agency announced that its reference Somei-Yoshino cherry tree at Yasukuni Shrine was officially in bloom.
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Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The future looks dire for the Government's own living standards milestones. ❌ The last thing they should have done with this under threat is move to restrict the incomes of disabled people through £5 billion worth of disability benefits cuts 4/5
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If I were in charge @mrshadenuff.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
There’s just not enough attention to environmental protection until it’s too late.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/03/2025
Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.
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Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency
One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos…
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Just Lynn 💙🦋✌️🇺🇦 @shoredweller7.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
'Cat and flowers' by Scottish artist Elizabeth Blackadder #WomensArt
Print featuring a crouched black cat facing right and looking out left, next to some red and blue flowers
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If I were in charge @mrshadenuff.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
For everyone struggling with the news this week. Take a moment and breathe.
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Today was the day the idea of America died. The free world stands with Ukraine and Zelensky. America has crossed to the other side. What was seen in the White House can never be unseen. Or undone. There is actually no coming back from this disgrace.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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IrishStar.com @irishstar.com · 20/02/2025
Mike Pence has lashed out at Donald Trump in an embarrassing X post after the US president announced Ukraine started the war with Russia.
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Mike Pence humiliates Donald Trump with post on Ukraine war
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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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Urban Dragonfly @urbandragonfly.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
THIS MUST GO VIRAL - YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO - ON EVERY SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Contemporary UK printmaker Vanessa Lubach #WomensArt
Print featuring a glass jar in a saucer on a wooden surface in an interior, in the jar are flowers, including two yellow dandilions and four primrose blossoms, the flowers make a shadow on the pale wall behind in a ray of sunlight
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Jack Wallington @jackwallington.com · 24/01/2025
Against the odds, a lone daisy flowering yesterday. Strangely we don’t have very many common daisies on our farm, I wondered if it was to do with acidity.
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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Great thread on a new study that shows despite differences in soil carbon stocks in fields around the country, the carbon stored under hedges is consistently significantly higher! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Consistent soil organic carbon accumulation under hedges driven by increase in light particulate organic matter
Hedgerow planting is recommended by biodiversity policies and those that promote the inclusion of woody plants in agricultural landscapes to sequester…
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Very British Problems @soverybritish.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
“I’m a bit under the weather” Translation: I don't appear to have a pulse.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Probably just me, but I'm struggling to remember any of the times Kemi Badenoch called for an inquiry into grooming gangs when she was Minister for Women and Equality.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Lawyers for Liz Truss have asked me to stop saying Liz Truss crashed the economy. I only said Liz Truss crashed the economy because Liz Truss did crash the economy. If she wanted me to not say Liz Truss crashed the economy, she shouldn’t have crashed the economy. Please don’t share.
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If I were in charge @mrshadenuff.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Get ready. Especially writers, journalists and activists. @carolecadwalla.bsky.social wrote this over a month ago and she knows a thing or two about big fights. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
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If I were in charge @mrshadenuff.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Banish blue Tuesday, you’ll have to keep going until the end.
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Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Good night sweet owl I will return tomorrow with my brushes to finish your portrait #birds #art #painting #barnOwl #owls
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Axel Kacoutié @axelkacoutie.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
i think it’s safe to say a lot of us will be keeping the audio adventure flame alive thanks to Short Cuts 🌱
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Alison @alisontolley.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Icy trees!!!!
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Garden Spot @bbrusch2.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
#Shakespeare
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Trussell @trusselluk.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
❗ 2025 is the year we need to see the government invest in social security to help turn the tide on hunger in the UK. It’s not right that so many people receiving Universal Credit are going without food and other essentials. And it doesn’t have to be this way.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
BREAKING: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced his resignation news.sky.com/story/canada...
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Canada's prime minister Justin Trudeau resigns and suspends parliament until March
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced his resignation.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Andy Burnham, "I have called for a major program of council house building, different to social housing" "If you allow councils to build homes that people can truly afford, that gives them more control over the housing situation in their areas" Well said @andyburnham.bsky.social 👏
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Mike Kegil @mikekegil.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
I stand by this.
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Dom Joly @realdomjoly.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Happy New Year
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Guy Thomas 〓〓 @guywrites.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Please know that your best today was good enough. Know that your criticism of yourself is just your own intrusive thoughts. There is no such thing as normal. And reality is just our perception. You are beautiful as you are. Namaste 🙏 #Cornwall #calm #peace #mindfulness #life #love #kindness
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