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Philip Payne

@philipsw16.bsky.social
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Retired librarian, gay, interested in history, travel, politics, gardening, genealogy etc 🏳️‍🌈. Originally from Leicester, now in London.

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KimberCanada @kimberleybsb.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Actually, yes, this and a fantastic set of encyclopedias
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MidwestHedonist @midwesthedonist.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Spread the love and acceptance #pridemonth
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
BREAKING NEWS: New water aerobics class gets off to a great start.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
The BBC is institutionally biased towards the right and the far right, and here's the proof: the results of an almost perfect before-and-after experiment. My column today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear a podcast about heat pumps? | George Monbiot
The broadcaster behaves like Starmer’s government: suppress the left, cave to your critics, and undermine your own survival, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Sunderland Lollipops @sunderlandlolly.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I get that the pope is an important person to around 9% of the UK, who identify as Catholic, but is there nothing else going on in the world apart from the death of an 88 yr old? It's complete media overload. #Pope
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North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk · 23/04/2025
Why St George of England? A humorous look at the St George tradition northeastbylines.co.uk/culture/why-...
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Why St George of England?
A humorous look at the St George tradition
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iniseoghain.bsky.social @iniseoghain.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC." And it's the mistake that the Labour Party is making. Trying to appease those who hate the Labour party and will never vote for it.
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rainbowmigration.bsky.social @rainbowmigration.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🌈In honour of #LesbianVisibilityWeek, we want to highlight a blog written by a lesbian woman from Uganda with refugee status in the UK, who we supported in seeking safety here. Read the full blog: buff.ly/lZPU1Hb
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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 08/04/2025
News | Aboriginal community co-curates exhibition at Manchester Museum following repatriation – ongoing collaboration formed after museum returned 174 objects to Warnindilyakwa people in 2023
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Aboriginal community co-curates exhibition at Manchester Museum following repatriation - Museums Association
Ongoing collaboration formed after museum returned 174 objects to Warnindilyakwa people in 2023
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CatWoman @catwomanresists.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
😁😁😁
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 28/03/2025
We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham
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Paul 🏳️‍🌈 @paulcolam.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
How can we ever forget !
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 17/03/2025
Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space. Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Adolf Hitler helping one of his biggest donors sell a car in 1938. History doesn't change it just repeats.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Trump claims he's the only US president who was shot. Six US presidents have been shot. Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley and John F. Kennedy, Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. The first four died as a result.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
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Peter Cook: Brexorcist in Chief: Reboot Britain @brexitrage.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
In case of confusion
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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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Donald Tusk @donald-tusk.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The EU wasn’t formed to screw anyone. Quite the opposite. It was formed to maintain peace, to build respect among our nations, to create free and fair trade, and to strengthen our transatlantic friendship. As simple as that. 🇪🇺🇺🇸
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Wow! The number of @bsky.app users just passed 32 MILLION! 👏 LETS DO THIS!
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
In Westminster it's all about who you know
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
74% of Brits also believed it was ‘reasonable’ to postpone elections during a war with just 12% saying it was ‘unreasonable’
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
On Library Lovers Day, enjoy this optimistic 1950s magazine cover “Stand aside television. The library holds the stage as the curtain rises on this new age of the written word” (1957) Artist: DL Mays
At the centre of a bright and bustling library, the librarian sets like the smiling captain of a spaceship at the controls. Numerous school children examine the books in the library and seem completely absorbed.
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rainbowmigration.bsky.social @rainbowmigration.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Joel organised Nigeria’s first Pride in 2019. He came to the UK to seek safety, but the Home Office detained him when he arrived. This government urgently needs to recognise the dangers LGBTQI+ people face. ✍️ Help #EndLGBTQIDetention: buff.ly/4hHaRu1 #NoPrideInDetention
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Privatisation Robbery. UK's second-class letters may be delivered only every other day, not on Saturdays. Already worse in many areas. Royal Mail fails to meet any targets. 1st class stamp £1.65; 2nd class 85p When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Royal Mail: Second-class letters may be delivered every other day
The regulator says reforming postal services could save the loss-making Royal Mail up to £425m.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 24/01/2025
The truth of January 6th can't be erased. Watch the pardoned criminals brutally attacking police inside the Capitol and see what some call 'patriotism.' No spin, just facts. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/revisiting...
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Revisiting January 6th: The Truth in Motion (Videos Of Pardoned Criminals)
Uncovering the Lies, Confronting the Violence, and Standing Firm for Democracy
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Dave Winer @scripting.com · 24/01/2025
I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget.
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
We need Levinson 2.0 Repost if you agree 🔄 bylinetimes.com/2025/01/22/g...
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Government Confirms No Leveson 2 Inquiry Into the Press - After 'Monumental' Admission of Wrongdoing By News UK in Prince Harry Case
Murdoch's newspaper group apologises for 15 years of privacy breaches in landmark settlement – but the Prime Minister's office quickly dismisses calls for a fresh investigation
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Wow — there are now more than 29 MILLION users on Bluesky! Spread the word!! 💙🦋 bsky-users.theo.io
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
"Once a hub for news, debate, and connection, Twitter has devolved into a cesspit of hate and chaos. Today, I’m sending my final tweet."
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Goodbye to Twitter. Good riddance to X.
"Once a hub for news, debate, and connection, Twitter has devolved into a cesspit of hate and chaos. Today, I’m sending my final tweet."
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
You might expect that one of the world's biggest media organisations admitting to illegal practices in accessing private information about a member of the royal family and a government minister would be front page news across the board, but apparently not.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This sounds grimly plausible theconcernedbird.substack.com/p/elon-musks...
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Asylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
This is a story of incredible resilience. It's also a story of the unnecessary suffering our asylum system makes people endure. People will always need to seek safety, but this suffering is a choice our Governments have made: they can and must choose something better.
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Six days on a small boat in rough seas: my terrifying, death-defying escape from the Taliban
In an instant, Sam Pordale went from a world of privilege to becoming a refugee in imminent danger. He talks about how he lost everything and began to rebuild his life
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks bylinetimes.com/2024/12/21/b...
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The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks
The broadcaster provides an oversized platform for representatives from opaquely-funded libertarian lobby groups, says media academic Julian Petley
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SeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
29th December 2024 07.43
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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Not enough credit is given to former Lib Dem MP Lynne Featherstone who was the architect of the UK’s same sex marriage law with the help of the LGBT community. This may have been the most significant change to British society in 20 years which is why the Tories keep trying to lay claim to it.
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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Indeed- and while we are on the subject of “grassroots” organisations… maybe broadcasters and newspapers might like to stop quoting people from supposed “think tanks” that refuse to say who funds them. What are they hiding? I have no idea. And that’s the point… who funds them and why?
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University of York Library @uoylibrary.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
We've written a Researcher's Guide to Bluesky! It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide... >> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024... 🧵 below
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The Researcher’s Guide to Bluesky – The Library, Learning, Archives and Wellbeing Blog
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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 12/10/2024
Exciting south london literary news: Waterstones are opening new branches in Streatham and Lewisham www.thebookseller.com/news/waterst...
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Waterstones to open two new south London shops in time for Christmas
Waterstones is opening two more new London shops, in addition to its return to Oxford Street.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
As the US elections have proved, our politics is distorted by billionaire press owners and big tech broligarchy. People live in information bubbles, starved of truth. The resistance begins here 👉 subscribe.bylinetimes.com
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 06/10/2024
Universities are in crisis, but their contribution to the economy and society is often misunderstood. A new report sets the record straight | Stephen McNair
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Is this the recipe to save our universities?
Universities are in crisis, but their contribution to the economy and society is often misunderstood. A new report sets the record straight
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Andrew Kelly @andrewkelly.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
‘Going to a library made me discover my passion for reading but it also, much later, made me discover something even more important to me: an appreciation of human variety and bonds.’ www.thetimes.com/article/6656...
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Public libraries are precious, they taught me about my neighbours
Communal spaces are in decline but a healthy society needs institutions that transform strangers into fellow travellers
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
The UK has lost one in 20 libraries since 2016, either by closing them completely or moving them over to volunteer-run groups. The poorest areas were around four times more likely to permanently lose a local library than the richest www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Public libraries in 'crisis' as councils cut services
Deprived communities lost more libraries since 2016 than richer areas did, the BBC finds
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Jenny Nicholls @jenster.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
Great story about a heroine librarian, attacked by book-banning parents she thought were friends. “The crazy thing about this case is they get to wave the freedom of speech flag in the lawsuit, but what started all this is they want to ban books,” said Jones’s lawyer www.nytimes.com/2024/09/03/b...
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From School Librarian to Activist: ‘The Hate Level and the Vitriol Is Unreal’
Amid a surge in book bans nationwide, the librarian Amanda Jones was targeted by vicious threats. So she decided to fight back.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 31/08/2024
Who better to comment on demeaning the office of MP than the person who served her constituents by eating kangaroo bollocks in the jungle.
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