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Health policy and research. Passionate about social, economic, health, and disability justice. 💚 Socialist 🌹 trade unionist ✊ metalhead 🤘 (she/her)

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 13h
Except that is not what the report said at all, so it is no wonder that the public perception is massively off. The report, repeatedly states "On the basis of evidence available to us we cannot conclude that overdiagnosis is occurring at scale..." 1/ www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Independent review into mental health conditions, ADHD and autism: executive summary
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14h
this is as pure of a media-driven lie as you can get, an actively harmful attempt to limit medical treatment whipped up by a rancid little clique
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Hannah @policyhannah.bsky.social · 17h
It's chocolate, strawberries, rose petals and love heart candies 😍
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Hannah @policyhannah.bsky.social · 17h
Their Love Potion tea is one of my favourites, but I think it's only out around Valentine's Day. I need to remember to bulk buy it in February!
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Hannah @policyhannah.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
#NowSpinning Arch Enemy - War Eternal 🔥 #VinylSky #VinylCommunity #MetalSky
A silver record spins on a record player. Next to it is the album sleeve for War Eternal, which shows sinister, hooded rat and pig people holding an infant.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
OK, there is something very, very weird going on in the press right now. It certainly appears, from the outside, as if certain people are being very much protected in a way that was not afforded to certain other people! Let's start with the facts around Lola Salem... 🧵1/
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
young men (18-29) who spend >5 hours a day on social media are more likely to agree that advancing women’s and girls’ rights has gone too far than those who don’t use social media as much. no difference detected among young women. @eurcorrespond.bsky.social
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Owain Sutton @owainsutton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Blurring the lines between the disabled, the unemployed, the 'delinquent', and the criminal. With a sprinkling of "traditional family will save us". Full-on fascism propaganda.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I see the Times is going full on attack disabled individuals as scroungers and layabouts with no consideration for how PIP is not an "out of work benefit" and how for many it is essential support to actually work and live.
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'Pip is killing people': addicts spend benefits windfalls on drink and drugs

Experts tell The Times Welfare Inquiry how back payments to the vulnerable worth thousands raise the risk of overdoses and abuse

56m ago

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I spent my benefits on cocaine. Only my family saved me

57m ago

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Hannah @policyhannah.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Are you fed up that government departments are continuing to share important information on platforms like X? Ask your MP to support the 'Public sector comms, decentralised platforms & local journalism' EDM by @sianberry.bsky.social 👇 action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp... @openrightsgroup.org
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Tell your MP: Government must move away from toxic social media platforms
What’s going on? Tell your MP to support the 'Public sector communications, decentralised platforms and local journalism' EDM (Early Day Motion) 411, tabled by Siân Berry MP. No member of the public s...
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Over the past two weeks, I’ve been following the attempts to smear the Jane Doe in the Cornell University gang rape case and redirect blame from the seven fraternity men onto her. As usual, this campaign is built on a mountain of lies and misogyny. spitfirenews.com/p/cornell-ja...
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Debunking the smear campaign against the Cornell Jane Doe
Authorities, media outlets, and pundits are lying about this woman. But only her credibility is getting judged.
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The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
‘A voice told me I was in hell’: the unthinkable reality of post-partum psychosis As the trial of Lindsay Clancy makes headlines around the world, Catherine Cho looks back at her own dark times and remembers the many kindnesses that ensured both she and her son survived bit.ly/4yDc4vi
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‘A voice told me I was in hell’: the unthinkable reality ...
As the trial of Lindsay Clancy makes headlines around the world, a writer looks back at her own dark times and remembers the many kindnesses that ensured both she and her son survived
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Hannah @policyhannah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ooh, Einvigi are really good - thanks for the recommendation!
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Hannah @policyhannah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What's good this #NewMusicFriday? Bonus points for melodeath or blackgaze 🙏 #MetalSky
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Hannah @policyhannah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Millions of graduates are being ripped off by sky-high student loan interest rates. It's time for Burnham to fix this unfair system in the upcoming Budget so balances stop growing faster than they're paid off. Sign if you agree 👇 @rethinkrepayment.bsky.social you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/an...
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Tell Andy Burnham: Fix the broken student loans system in this Budget
Millions of graduates are being ripped off by sky-high interest rates, with balances growing faster than they can be paid off! Add your name to demand fairer student loan terms in the upcoming Budget.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
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Hannah @policyhannah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Fascisation: A Centrist Project. While the political mainstream insists that only the AfD puts society at risk of authoritarian or fascist regression, the last few years say otherwise. The authoritarian turn, which can be understood as a process of fascisation, is enabled by crises internal to liberal democracies: immiseration through declining wages and rising prices, spiralling inequality, the degradation of public infrastructure, a sense that the future has been foreclosed. It is driven not only by the far right’s openly fascist answers to these crises but also by the supposedly liberal centre, which has internalised and normalised new forms of anti-migrant state racism, partly out of conviction and partly out of panic. In trying to weaken the AfD by mimicking it, the centre has predictably only strengthened it.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There are so many crimes in this thread you have to wonder what the police and Home Secretary think they are doing at this point.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I get why people are asking “what have we become?” but the answer is “exactly what you’d expect from a decade and a half of the press reciting the spicier bits of Mein Kampf at the public, and our whole ruling class agreeing we need to crack down on the lesser races and their Bolshevik allies”.
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Hannah @policyhannah.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’m sure someone has written something more articulate and insightful about the ‘crisis of masculinity’, men trying to find worth and purpose, racialised masculinities, etc. I’m just feeling pissed off by women’s trauma being exploited by those who wouldn’t lift a finger to improve women’s lives.
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Hannah @policyhannah.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Allows men to try claim a part of masculinity - protector - without doing the work. Cheer for rapist footballers, watch wife-beating actors, listen to the music of abusers, stay friends with them. Let women and their causes fall. But stick on a mask, join a mob and you can feel like a hero.
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Hannah @policyhannah.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Obviously the anti-immigration/racism plays the leading part, but I think there’s a real hero complex element to it too. It’s allowing men to play out that fantasy of being a hero and protecting others, in a way that doesn’t actually inconvenience them or affect their standing among other men.
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Hannah @policyhannah.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Been thinking about the phenomenon - articulated by Daniel Sloss and many others - of men’s desire/fantasy to beat up/kill a rapist, but not to do the work in preventing one. Can’t help but think this plays a part in the ‘stop the boats’ etc movement. youtu.be/0uZFHpEh5So?...
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Comedian Daniel Sloss Tells Men to Hold Other Men Accountable
YouTube video by NowThis Impact
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Any lives lost due to this closure should be laid firmly at the feet of the far-right agitators who caused this. The way in which anti-asylum activists are putting more and more people at risk should be a wake up call that it is time to genuinely combat them, rather than pandering to their ideology.
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Genuinely: where is the Prime Minister? Critical infrastructure has been occupied by a fascist paramilitary, volunteers who save people's lives have been threatened and it seems to have gone unremarked upon.
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Hannah @policyhannah.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Now why would a dental hospital only have one sugar free drink option, compared to half a dozen full sugar ones?
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...
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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
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Hannah @policyhannah.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Simpsons: Eerily Beautiful Nuclear Glow
Alt: Gif of Marge and Homer Simpson bathed in green light. Marge says, "It's eerily beautiful. But are you sure this is safe?"
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
An angry mob of racists went knocking door-to-door in a hotel so that they could yell at and potentially violently attack teenage cricket players who they thought were refugees and the local police apparently concluded that this was totally fine.
« About 30 to 40 people congregated at the Marriot Hotel in Cosham, Portsmouth, on Tuesday evening after false rumours circulated that a coach carrying migrants had arrived.
Sumair Syed, chief operating officer of the Pakistan Cricket Board, said the team reported people "knocking on their doors" during the incident, but the players "behaved responsibly and didn't escalate the situation".
Hampshire Police said officers found no offences had been committed, and the crowd dispersed by about 21:00 BST.
The team went on to play a scheduled match the following day, Syed said. »
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Hannah @policyhannah.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I still can't see Emperor without misreading it as CropCrop
Band patch for Emperor. The spidery writing doesn't make it obvious at first.
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
‘Reassured them’, ‘left respectfully’ - fuck them and the councillor, presumably he’d have let them stay if it was asylum seekers and not cricketers. This normalisation of vigilantes needs calling out.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026
Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"?
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The urge to normalize far right paramilitaries turns the public broadcaster into a propaganda outlet for the far right paramilitaries. This is not hyperbole, but just what is happening.
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Like suing Amnesty International, for example.
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Street fascism doesn't start with beatings. It starts with an intimidating show of force. To call that "peaceful" is absurd.
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
When you have the government choosing to be soft with paramilitaries you invite more paramilitaries. You’d think the lessons of Weimar were clear people? You crush the paramilitaries because you can’t control them once they are endemic.
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
When I lived in the UK none of my concerns e.g. affordable housing, climate action, increases in welfare spending, scrapping tuition fees, an ethical foreign policy, were ever framed as legitimate concerns. lnstead I was routinely told to fuck off by most political parties for having such concerns.
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Anandamide @anandamide.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
According to Byline, Orr is at Cambridge to recruit and cultivate far right students, some of whom he houses at his private residence - a massive safeguarding breach bylinetimes.com/2026/07/09/p...
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Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed
The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...
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Hannah @policyhannah.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I stumbled across this Reddit thread and they were one of the suggestions listed. Think I'll be working my way through the other names I don't know for a while! www.reddit.com/r/blackgaze/...
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From the blackgaze community on Reddit: What albums would you say are the “big 4” of blackgaze?
Explore this post and more from the blackgaze community
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Hannah @policyhannah.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Got this on repeat today, shoegaze/post-black metal/blackgaze. Plantgazer - Show Me a Dinosaur 💚 #MetalSky showmeadinosaur.bandcamp.com/album/plantg...
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Plantgazer, by Show Me a Dinosaur
7 track album
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Remember: it could be someone you know.
[Scene is a parody of a 1970s Public Information Film. A young girl is going home from school.] 

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[She leaves the school gates]. 

VOICEOVER:

The world today
is full of people.

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You meet lots of them every day. 

[The girl crosses the road with the help of a LOLLIPOP MAN]

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LOLLIPOP MAN says ’to camera’ [girl’s POV]:

Mind ‘ow you go, love.

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But every time you meet one,

[She gets on a bus]

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BUS DRIVER [also talking to camera]:

That’ll be 40p, please

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[She enters a sweet shop]

You must always think to yourself:

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[The kindly looking woman behind the counter hands her a bag of pick n mix]
 
KINDLY WOMAN:
There y’are, sweet’art...

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[Voiceover again]:

Could *they* be a person who leaves one-star reviews for things when they get sent the wrong item?

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[The woman picks up a smartphone to write something]

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[Cut to a view of her phone screen, it is an Amazon review page for Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro]: 
 
Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
[one star]
THIS ISN’T A PRIT STICK

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[Woman looks ‘to camera’ at the girl, sinisterly]

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[Girl’s terrified face behind the ad’s final text line]:

Always have one-star-reviewers-of-things-for-not-being-other-things sense.

[Ends]
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"would mean, for example, that Jewell would not be able to breastfeed in the future" this person is TWENTY NINE YEARS OLD and the BBC is scaremongering about their choice not to breastfeed a baby that they do not have and have given no indication of ever wanting to have
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The reality of being trans in the UK is of a brutalisation and a trauma that is forcibly reopened on at best a weekly basis. I think it is difficult for anyone who is not trans to grasp what an overwhelming nightmare it is to spend a single day in this country while trans.
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Hannah @policyhannah.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The inimitable Devin Townsend 🧡 #MetalSky
Devin wearing a black T-shirt and grey trousers, holding an acoustic guitar and singing.
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Hannah @policyhannah.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"Women who have missed a cervical screening appointment in England are to be offered HPV self-testing kits by the NHS." Great stuff! This has been a long time coming and is a really important option for those who find clinician-led testing difficult or inaccessible 👏 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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HPV home-testing kits now available for women who have missed cervical screening
Nearly four million women in England can order a self-testing kits to check for high-risk HPV.
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Hannah @policyhannah.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"Women who have missed a cervical screening appointment in England are to be offered HPV self-testing kits by the NHS." Great stuff! This has been a long time coming and is a really important option for those who find clinician-led testing difficult or inaccessible 👏 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
HPV home-testing kits now available for women who have missed cervical screening
Nearly four million women in England can order a self-testing kits to check for high-risk HPV.
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Hannah @policyhannah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Did also fall in love with Gothenburg 🌅
Early sunset over a river, there’s a tall ship in the foreground and cranes in the background
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Hannah @policyhannah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Reckon we might have to go back next year and just pray that they put on more than 6 food trucks for 15,000 people 🤞
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Hannah @policyhannah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
However, In Flames were phenomenal so it’s hard to stay mad 🔥 Excellent set, great lighting and pyro. Guest vocals from Matt Heafy and Mikael Stanne, and some very heartfelt tributes to Tomas Lindberg. #MetalSky
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