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Moira Macdonald

@nebhasikoro.bsky.social
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Feminist. Born 🇿🇦 Migrant from 🇿🇼 to UK #ClimateJustice #SocialJustice #BLM Pro circular economy #Democracy 🏏🏉 Glaucoma impacted vision - expect typos

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 18h
How do you monitor conflicts when data isn’t regularly collected? Explore techniques for conflict analysis, with case studies and methods focused on the Sahel and Sudan. Join us on the 27th of October 2026. www.bellingcat.com/workshops/co...
Learn our methods... Uncover the █████. bellingcat.com/workshopsLearn How To Monitor Conflicts Using Open Sources
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 21h
“Mark has been allowed to continue in the form he was in when he was 20, for his entire adult life, and the movie depicts how sad this is” Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen speaks to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about Zuckerberg, tech and The Social Reckoning www.thenerve.news/p/frances-ha...
‘We have a $1tn company acting desperate’: Frances Haugen (pictured in a green dress, in the middle of a black and white patterned floor, staring at the camera with her arms crossed) on Zuckerberg and The Social Reckoning
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 21h
Extreme weather, caused by the climate crisis, is affecting the UK’s public health and food supplies, driving up the cost-of-living crisis and devastating damaging natural habitats. This is an emergency, so why aren’t we treating it like one? [1/2]
Nadia Whittome MP on stage with three other people at the Nottingham Broadway cinema. A still from the National Emergency Briefing documentary viewing.
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 21h
That’s why the People’s Emergency Briefing is such an important film. I recently watched it at Broadway Cinema in Nottingham, then joined a panel to talk about why the @nebriefing.bsky.social campaign matters, and what the government must do to tackle the climate and nature crisis. [2/2]
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Layla Moran MP 🔶🕊️ @laylamoran.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The work of the Health and Social Care Select Committee influenced the government's Health Bill. Our amendment on ensuring local authority partner members remain in ICBs has been accepted. I raised the issue of Palantir and the need for a definition of "ready" for when HSSIB merges with the CQC.
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Women's Cricket Blog @womenscricblog.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Not playing county cricket as managing their workloads - Bell, Capsey, Ecclestone, Gibson, Jones, Smith. Just signed to play WBBL - Capsey, Ecclestone, Gibson, Jones
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Heather Clark @heatherjc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Simultaneously claiming to protect women and children while denying them the right to healthcare, the nasty little anti-abortion white supremacist from Airdrie who lives in NI stirring shit in Glasgow. www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...
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Notorious far-right extremist back in Scotland to fund anti-immigration protests
Ultra right winger Jim Dowson is drawn to Glasgow to help set up destabilising vigilante groups - and to get begging bowl out for US supporters
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Ingmar Rentzhog @ingmar.wsocial.eu · 23/08/2026
The climate demonstration in Stockholm is MASSIVE! I’m standing at the very end of the march, and we haven’t even started walking yet. Organisers say the people at the front have already reached the other side of Stockholm. This is what a movement looks like.
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kristofarian @kristofarian.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Science & Facts
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Women's Cricket Blog @womenscricblog.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Somerset squad missing Dean & Gibson, as well as retiree Heather Knight.
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Werner Boucher @wernerboucher.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Proteas squad for the 5 match T20i series against Zimbabwe. Matches will be played from 11 to 19 September at Bulawayo.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Two-thirds of UK news articles about wildfires this summer haven’t mentioned climate change - but ignoring it doesn’t make it go away, it just makes averting the worst of it even harder @eciu.net
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Two-thirds of UK news articles about wildfires this summer haven't mentioned climate change
Analysis from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit adds to concerns that national newspapers are failing to link this summer's extreme weather to climate change and the net-zero policies necessary to mitigate its drastic effects.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
NEW: It was a digital lynching. And the media is never going to hold itself to account for the role it played in Jason Arday’s death. But there are things we can do. This is a practical guide based on my own experience. broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-digital-...
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A Digital Lynching
A practical guide for individuals and organisations when the mobs gather
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Checkmate, Nige.
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 14/08/2026
Melanie Challenger's Alive aims to describe the living world very differently – by insisting on agency and purpose everywhere. Michael Marshall explores
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What is life? A provocative new book sets out to redefine it | New Scientist
Melanie Challenger's Alive aims to describe the living world very differently – by insisting on agency and purpose everywhere. Michael Marshall explores
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David Olusoga @davidolusoga.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The new series of A House Through Time - on at 9pm tonight - on BBC Two.
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Thangam Debbonaire @thangamdebbonaire.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Lee Anderson: “he was told there was some planned disruption”. “There has been a witch-hunt by the BBC, by the media”. Nah mate. He doesn’t want to be investigated. And now the investigation re-starts. It’s just to check if he’s stuck to the rules.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
For thousands of years, a solar eclipse has been a prophetic harbinger of a spectacular, epoch-making event. Just saying. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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Thangam Debbonaire @thangamdebbonaire.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Morning climate crisis warning: www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti... This is an international emergency. We politicians cannot duck this - mitigation and prevention of current/future effects are on us.
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UK weather: Drought likely to be extended this week as heatwave builds
With no significant rain forecast in the coming week, more areas of England could move into drought status, as Simon King explains.
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It really is a fabulous book which doesn’t shy away from examining how the women running women’s cricket for decades were every bit as regressive and elitist as their MCC counterparts in the men’s game, while still celebrating some true heroines I knew nothing about.
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Women's Cricket Blog @womenscricblog.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Just finished reading this. Raf's passion for women's cricket oozes from every word. It should be required reading for every current & future pro woman cricketer in England. CTTOI It would do the men good to read it too.
Women in Whites by Raf Nicholson
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Data centers
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Exeter City of Literature @exetercityoflit.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
More info about #SilentBookClub and our Exeter sessions ⬇️ www.exetercityofliterature.com/current-proj...
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Silent Book Club Exeter (UK) — Exeter City of Literature
Silent Book Club is a global community of readers and introverts, with more than 500 chapters in 50 countries around the world led by local volunteers. Exeter City of Literature began hosting the Exet...
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Exeter City of Literature @exetercityoflit.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Join us at Topsham Brewery down on Exeter’s Quay and 12 Bar Music & Social on Paris Street this August for chilled evenings of communal quiet reading from 6pm to 8pm! 🤫 🔹 Wednesday 5th August - Topsham Brewery 🔹 Monday 17th August - Topsham Brewery 🔸 Thursday 27th August - 12 Bar Music & Social
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At Number 1, it’s Perry Groves @abnormal4norfolk.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
If this happens we get to look forward to the conclusion of the Parliamentary inquiry & maybe another by-election.
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Elect Her @electheruk.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This year, our Fund Her grants supported 23 women as they stood for elected office across local government, the Senedd & the Scottish Parliament 💕 Removing financial barriers means more women can step forward & more voices can be heard 💪 Donate to Fund Her - www.elect-her.org.uk/fund-her
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Woman Veteran ☮️ @pamelaoplays.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
- 🌊💙 ☮️ #PamelasMondayMusings Public bathrooms? Whatever. Just wash your hands. -
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops. Food insecurity and higher prices would follow. Poor hit the hardest. Despite warnings, no plan for water shortages. Need reservoirs, water storage, better water management. Companies can't do national planning.
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‘Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops
Growers in dismay after scorching weather and lack of rain affect yields, sending wholesale prices rocketing
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 27/06/2026
he is not wrong
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Amanda Peters @abergirl2011.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Why on earth not just put the Emergency briefing film on bbc i player now? All this messing about trying to use it as a campaign tool (petitions to get the Govt to show it on all 4 channels, like some PSB from the 40s) is just game playing. If you want to reach 'ordinary' people, go where they are.
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 02/08/2026
To understand where climate change is heading, we have to look at the planet’s distant past and appreciate the disturbing uniqueness of our situation, says Bill McGuire
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Earth is heating up faster than at any time in its history | New Scientist
To understand where climate change is heading, we have to look at the planet’s distant past and appreciate the disturbing uniqueness of our situation, says Bill McGuire
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Can electoral lightning strike twice? #VoteBinface #Clacton
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
It was always unlawful, under the Highways Act 1980. But I don't suppose Suella would know that, being a lawyer, MP and former Attorney General.
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Hypocaust @hypocaust.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Back to back fifties for Sophia Dunkley (30 balls faced). This is her ninth 50+ score in The Hundred, the third most by any woman in the competition. #TheHundred espncricinfo.com/series/the-h... livestream youtube.com/watch?v=sE-j...
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Jeannette Eggers @jeannetteeggers.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Den ack så planerbara och tillförlitliga kärnkraften...
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
You gotta think even Telegraph readers aren't buying this shit as their holiday home near Bordeaux goes up in flames...
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Thangam Debbonaire @thangamdebbonaire.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
At last! A recognition that the so-called “choice” for people who can’t get or can’t afford social care was never a choice. As so many peers tried to get acknowledged during the debate.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Care workers should be 'best paid' as Burnham seeks to overhaul social care crisis. Problems multiplied by privatisation of social care. Low wages/investment, profits, poor care. Billions taken out of public purse to profits. Can't address crisis without ending privatisation.
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Social Care In England As Unfair As US Healthcare, Says Burnham
The Prime Minister has said that social care in England is “as unfair as American health care” as he pledged to do what successive governments have...
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Hypocaust @hypocaust.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
For all the much-touted marketing genius of the new private owners, a league of 8 teams now has 2 sides called London who both play in blue.
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Hypocaust @hypocaust.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
'From Wetherby to Lord's - A 40-Year Journey of Women's Cricket' bestofcricket.substack.com/p/from-wethe...
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From Wetherby to Lord's - A 40-Year Journey of Women's Cricket
What does the Lord's Test mean? How did we get here?
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Chi Onwurah @chionwurah.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Great to visit British Airways’ newly refurbished Newcastle office. BA is a major North East employer supporting customers across the globe with 700 staff at this site. Continued investment in local jobs, skills and careers highlights #Newcastle’s talent and potential.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Ah, I had thought that the Tories were jumping on poor journalism from the Times re immigration - in fact the party was the *original source* of the false claims, which the paper neglected to check or clearly attribute. Incompetent, unprofessional, dubious, and xenophobic behaviour all round.
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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Very pleased to announce that the People's Emergency Briefing now comes with an Arabic subtitles option. With huge thanks to Manal Awadallah Hassan, Abbas Delfiyeh, and Stephanie Boyle 🙏 How to host a screening: www.nebriefing.org/host-the-film
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National Emergency Briefing
An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from nine leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 25/07/2026
Several people are injured at an LGBTQ+ parade in Berlin after a car drove into a crowd, prompting police to call off the event.
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Several people are injured at Berlin's LGBTQ+ march after a car drives into the crowd
Berlin police have called off the LGBTQ+ pride parade in the German capital, hours after the event had begun, saying it was because several people had been injured.
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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Often referred to as the Nobel Prize of mathematics, Fields Medals are awarded every four years to between two and four mathematicians under 40, recognizing both achievement and potential. www.npr.org/2026/07/23/g...
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In a first, Chinese woman wins the prestigious Fields Medal
Despite criticisms of a brain drain from China to the U.S., the awards come at a time when several high-profile Chinese scholars have returned home, some citing an increasingly hostile academic enviro...
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Jeni Tennison @jenitennison.com · 23/07/2026
Exhibit A: British Gas explains how it's the customers' fault that they're cutting 1,300 call centre staff - people just prefer chat bots! Exhibit B: Trustpilot summary of reviews of British Gas customer service: frustration of being forced into online channels and unable to speak to a person.
But Chris O’Shea, the company’s chief executive, insisted that the changes were being made because customers preferred to take their queries to digital channels rather than people.

“AI isn’t driving these particular job reductions; that’s mainly due to changing customer behaviour,” he said. “What we’re seeing just now is over 90% of our customers actually use digital channels in the first instance, and we’ve seen a 20% reduction in customer calls, so this simply reflects the changing customer behaviour.

“We’ve got to reflect the changes in customer behaviour. We expect to grow more jobs around our digital interface, and maybe having fewer people on the phones.”Customers consistently note ambiguous experiences with customer service, with many praising the helpfulness, professionalism, and clear communication from agents and engineers, who explained everything and resolved issues quickly. Reviewers appreciated the ease of booking appointments, prompt confirmations, and the availability of out-of-hours support. However, a significant number of consumers expressed frustration with the inability to speak to a person, being redirected to online channels, and a lack of follow-through on promised callbacks. Many also reported issues with conflicting information, unaddressed complaints, and a perceived lack of care or understanding from customer service representatives, leading to prolonged unresolved problems and financial concerns.
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Thangam Debbonaire @thangamdebbonaire.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The world is on fire. The political imperative to tackle climate change and nature crisis urgently should be obvious but needs regular repetition. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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More than 200,000 people flee or lock down as wildfires sweep France and Spain
‘Highly unpredictable’ blaze forces evacuation of Cap Ferret on French coast and Spain declares national emergency
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Thangam Debbonaire @thangamdebbonaire.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
This👇🏽
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