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Milvus, PeteW

@petemilvus.bsky.social
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Retired countryside-services manager ; into: Earth-sciences 🌍🏔️ ☔️ +natural history 🦆🦋🍄+green socialism💚🌹, peace🕊️☮️+justice⚖️; Not keen on greed🤑, neoliberalism🤥 or wars💀🩸 [or unexpected DMs]

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Major food companies like Taylor Farms thought Trump's attacks on food safety regulation and public health agencies would boost their profits. Now they're finding out how quickly "deregulation" can spiral out of control.
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Who Wins in Trump’s Deregulation Spree?
Protecting us from financial predators. Keeping our air and water clean. Making sure our food won’t make us sick.Regulat
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Dr. Alison Spalding @divaboomer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
GOOD. GOOD. GOOD. GOOD !!!!!!! Our Elections and election processes need tremendous protection and I’m glad & greatful any group is doing this on behalf of free and fair elections 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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The Sydney Morning Herald (unofficial) @smhaustralia.nzcow.com · 23/05/2026
📢 Sydney lawyer Jennifer Robinson has dedicated her career to defending human rights and taking on difficult cases. Her determination and compassion are skills that can’t be replaced by AI.
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Peace Prize win proves one person can have a huge impact
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purepapua.bsky.social @purepapua.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
For Decades She Has Defended West Papua. On 12 November 2026, Jennifer Robinson Will Be Honoured at Sydney Town Hall with the Sydney Peace Prize.
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2026 Jennifer Robinson - Sydney Peace Foundation
The 2026 Sydney Peace Prize awarded to Jennifer Robinson for her commitment to international law and dedication to upholding and promoting human rights
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Kathleen Eyckens @kathleeneyckens.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
An event in LSE about extreme heat for London Climate Action Week has had to be cancelled due to the extreme heat warning. Funny but not really.
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Milvus, PeteW @petemilvus.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Did you know a barrister is facing prison just for reminding a jury they have the right to vote with their conscience? This historic right has existed since 1670. We can't let it be silenced in court now. Add your name to help protect Britain's juries: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save Britain's Juries
Juries have had the right to acquit based on their conscience for centuries. Now, a barrister is facing jail just for mentioning it in court. Add your name to help save Britain's juries.
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Milvus, PeteW @petemilvus.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 23/11/2025
Greater Manchester ICB has again put off its adoption of an NHS data platform prescribed by the UK government and run by Palantir until there is more evidence that it will be in the “best interests” of the city's population 👀 www.theregister.com/2025/11/20/manc…
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Manchester defers joining Palantir NHS data platform again
: Care board still waiting for evidence that it will be in the best interests of the population
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Welfare cuts for the poor/disabled were not in Labour's election manifesto. PM Keir Starmer said: “those with the broadest shoulders should bear the heavier burden”. Then hit the poorest. Biggest cuts since those imposed by Tories in July 2015. There is no economic/moral justification.
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Why austerity is a political choice not an economic necessity
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Ch...
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Pickle-Lily 🥒🌸 @pickle-lily.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
As hate rises be the love
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LaneyVotesBlue @laneyvotesblue.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The people have spoken. Good morning everyone. 🗽🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 03/07/2025
Did you spot it? This government wants to use a PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP for Neighbourhood Health Centres in its 10 year NHS plan *Even though Private Finance Initiatives mean the NHS paying up to 27 x over for hospitals* Take 1 minute to say no weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-n...
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No new PFI in Neighbourhood Health Services | We Own It
Wes Streeting: do not use a “Public Private Partnership” to finance Neighbourhood Health Centres
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Farage's duplicity on Russia makes him totally unfit to lead our country Farage fears his desire to reach Downing Street might be thwarted by this simpering stance towards a bloodstained war criminal inews.co.uk/opinion/fara...
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Farage's duplicity on Russia makes him totally unfit to lead our country
Farage fears his desire to reach Downing Street might be thwarted by this simpering stance towards a bloodstained war criminal
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Reform reviews whether it underpaid VAT after Times investigation
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Reform reviews whether it underpaid VAT after Times investigation
Nigel Farage’s party could face fines as documents indicate it failed to notify HMRC that it was required to pay extra tax
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Four Reform UK councillors suspended for bringing party into 'disrepute' www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Four Reform UK councillors suspended for bringing party into 'disrepute'
A leaked council meeting video has sparked comparisons to the infamous Handforth Parish Council meeting during the pandemic that turned Jackie Weaver into a viral sensation
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Cam @millap.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Farrige gives the impression he doesn’t trust scientists, but was willing to believe a taxi driver in Buckinghamshire, that Sharia Law is coming to Britain. This guy wants to be PM?! You must be joking! Nice one @billybragg.bsky.social 👏 #bbcqt
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Milvus, PeteW @petemilvus.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
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A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation
For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences. They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...
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Brian Candeland @briancandeland.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
So do I
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Laurence Braithwaite @laurencepb.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Reginald D Hunter is in court tomorrow on trumped charges brought by the 'Campaign against anti-semitism' (they should be called 'Campaign for anti-semitism' because that is the effect they have). Please support Reginald www.crowdjustice.com/case/dont-le...
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Stand up to Israel lobby prosecution of comedian Reginald D. Hunter🎤
I am Reginald D. Hunter, fighting a private prosecution for my comedy.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The logic of being so unhappy about brown people in England that you move to Dubai also escapes me.
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Milvus, PeteW @petemilvus.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Sign the petition to Keir Starmer: Oppose Trump's war on Iran stoptrump.org.uk/petition-tru...
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Petition: Keir Starmer – Oppose Trump’s war on Iran
Stop Trump Coalition
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Rania @umyaznemo.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
While attacking Iran, Israel continues to bomb Gaza!
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Rania @umyaznemo.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
The 335 rounds fired by an Israeli tank on the car that Hind Rajab and her family were in.
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The Flexible Chef 🇪🇺 @theflexiblechef.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Reform UK Ltd are the new Blackshirts — and Farage is revelling in his role as their Oswald Mosley.
Image of two shady characters. Both claim to speak for the people of the street.
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Karen Wilson @simplycornwall.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
The Cornish giant, Tavy, leading a May Day procession through Calstock, yesterday. 🌸🥁🎉🌿🎻💫 #Cornwall
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Söphie Summers @sophiesummers.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
If you don't already, I highly recommend you follow @europeanpowell.bsky.social who has written about this.
A screenshot of a Bluesky account called @EuropeanPowell who has written extensively about Social Economic Zones (SEZ's).
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 07/04/2025
EXPOSED: Fake water nationalisation tag would still save £3 billion a year. University of Greenwich research shows how taking back control of our water delivers a better deal for the public. Sign our petition to bring water into public ownership: weownit.org.uk/act-now/lets...
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Gary Gifford @garygifford.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
It's rare when the best idea I've heard all day is also the funniest shit I've seen all day.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
🔴Starmer AI advisor has financial interests in almost 500 tech firms “The decision to withhold hundreds of declared interests from public scrutiny raises serious questions about whether it is robustly managing these potential conflicts.” New on DfS: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-s...
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Revealed: Starmer AI advisor has financial interests in almost 500 tech firms
“Raises serious questions about whether the department is robustly managing these potential conflicts.”
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
‘In face of’? Really?? Even the lede is hedged and fudgy NYT headline writers won’t change Trump policy But it’s a lot easier to rip apart a constitution when its supposed defenders are so passive www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...
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Trump Sends Hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador in Face of Judge’s Order
President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador announced that his country had taken in more than 200 prisoners whom the U.S. has accused of being part of the Tren de Aragua gang.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
There’s a book to be written on how anti Net zero became a totemic issue on the British right I wrote a long piece for @thetls.bsky.social a year ago on the money and influence campaign behind anti Net zero but it’s become even more pronounced since then www.the-tls.co.uk/science-tech...
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The Conservatives and Labour divide over environmental targets
On September 20, Rishi Sunak held a Downing Street press conference on his climate strategy. Flanked by Union flags – and standing behind a lectern that
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Andy Rowell @andy-rowell.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Agree @petergeoghegan.bsky.social. Its just the latest chapter of anti-green, climate denial sentiment stretching back decades. Look at Tufton Street & @iealondon.bsky.social and how they have always denied climate change and attacked greens. More on beginnings here www.routledge.com/Green-Backla...
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Green Backlash: Global Subversion of the Environment Movement
The tide is turning against environmentalism as the political right, industry and governments fight back. Green Backlash is a controversial expose of the anti-environmental movement. Tracing the rise ...
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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
70,000 signatures to ban driven grouse shooting petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Thank you! Please sign & share to help get this petition a parliamentary debate at 100,000.
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Petition: Ban driven grouse shooting
Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; we think grouse shooting is economically insignifi...
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
An astoundingly well-preserved 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian wig made from human hair! Worn by a lady called Merit, it was placed in her tomb for use in the afterlife. I saw this remarkable artefact last week at the Museo Egizio in Turin. 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photos shows a well-preserved ancient Egyptian Wig, dated c. 1425–1353 BC. It is made of dark brown human hair. Wig dimensions 30 cm x 45 cm. The locks of human hair were sewn together and braided. The hair is parted in the middle and curled into ringlets that end with braids on either side of the face and on the back of the neck. This type of hairdo was often decorated with flowers and diadems, which were very fashionable in the mid- 18th dynasty, as can be seen in paintings and statues of the period. 

The wig belonged to a high-ranking lady called Merit, who was the wife of Kha, ‘chief of works’ (foreman) who supervised the royal tomb construction workers. The intact tomb of Kha and Merit (TT8) was discovered in 1906 by Italian archaeologist Ernesto Schiaparelli, at the Theban necropolis at the workers village of Deir-el-Medina The wig was contained in a shrine-shaped wig box crafted from acacia wood with Merit’s name written in hieroglyphs on the outside.
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AntifaPuddin’Pop @antifapuddinpop.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I am the mother of three sons. I would sell my soul to the devil to save each of them. Especially if I recognized the devil.
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Flic @flic.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Horrific!! It’s a hostile takeover.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Elon Musk’s staffers have gained unauthorized access to sensitive government employee data by installing a server at the OPM. They now have access to USAJOBS, the federal hiring portal where applicants submit personal details such as Social Security numbers, home addresses, and employment histories.
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Chloe Kilgore @chloekilgore.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
A few days ago, I asked Grok if it was possible that Elon et al. were not familiar with previous coding systems and if they were misreading the numbers, and it came back with this:
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Not one Reform MP bothered to turn up in the House of Commons last week for the debate on tackling violence against women and girls. I wonder what was more important?
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pamelajustice.bsky.social @pamelajustice.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Bees are one the best pollinators on earth. Without them, our crops and fruit won’t get pollinated and our food supply will dwindle. Please sign the petition to ban pesticides at 🆘 change.org/SaveTheBee 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🌍❤️
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Marine TRÉBAUL @beeasmarine.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
ooh my goodness watch at my tiny house & my tiny garden (200m2, 4.000 plants), every month. 👼🏻 ⚠️ 84% of wild 🌱 depend on the pollinators ↔️ without top interactions beetween our blue & green lungs, it's extinct. 👉 They maintain 80% of ecosystems, vector of life. ‼ Support👉 change.org/SaveTheBee 🆘🐝
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Baldbirder: Ross Newham @baldbirder.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
It was late by the time I got to the Ring-necked Duck on Fonthill Lake, Tisbury, yesterday… A lovely adult drake at an amazing location - worth the diversion! #RareBirdsUK
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
#rarebirdsUK
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Paul Arnheim-Projekt @paula-projekt.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
It is absolutely disgusting that it's necessary to protect such decent people in this way! The US is turning into Gilead because of institutionalized sexism caused by organized religion; US citizens chose #orangedecibyte #DementiaDon because he's a man! #DontObeyInAdvance, #safedemocracy, #resist!
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Left: Laura Kuenssberg suggests that Dominic Raab left parliament of his own volition Right: Dominic Raab was forced to resign after being found guilty of bullying Why is an MP who resigned because he was found guilty of bullying, on a flagship Sunday morning news chat show?
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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Please stop telling me to be more patient with Keir Starmer and the NHS. Look at the stats. Every single day they fail to take action, more patients needlessly die. Why are you OK with that?
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TorinnKimbatuul @torinnkimbatuul.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
I feel that this is the proper response to the contrarians here:
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Christina @christinawit.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
We never learned from history
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