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Rob Parsons

@robparsons.bsky.social
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Educational jack of all trades. #COYS. Carer for #pwme. Born in the NHS at 312 ppm CO₂. Author of Nanotales, available at ko-fi.com/s/19f8a3feeb

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ringmerlibrary.bsky.social @ringmerlibrary.bsky.social · 6h
Soupercalifragilisticexpialidocious!! Soup, and books, and jigsaw sale this Saturday 10th Oct 12 noon – 2 pm at the village hall all in aid of Ringmer Library
A bowl of very tasty and warm looking soup topped with scattered seeds and herbs and a slice of lemon.
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Rob Parsons @robparsons.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@netflix.com Hey Netflix, your new interface was designed by AI wasn't it? That's all I'm saying.
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 22/09/2026
This is a fight for the future of our country. For liberty, equality and community. For the values we hold dear. This is the fight of our lives. And we are going to win it.
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wey hey!! Two cheers. Hurrah! I’m almost, but not, quite, mildly excited that something might not be ruled out in a few years time. Way to go, Andy. Bold, bravely ambivalent, solidly ambiguous, resolutely vague leadership, at last. 🙄🙄🙄 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Andy Burnham does not rule out Brexit reversal being in next Labour manifesto
PM says immediate focus is on rebuilding bridges with EU as he prepares for first meeting with Ursula von der Leyen
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Birds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I.... I need to update my will.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There is no middle ground with the kind of people who attack the RNLI. We don’t need to ‘listen’ to them. We need to tell them where to go.
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Rob Parsons @robparsons.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I think we're entitled to ask what the fuck are the police doing about this? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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RNLI closes Portsmouth lifeboat station after huge anti-migrant protests
RNLI volunteers were branded ‘traitors’ after bringing migrants ashore
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Only one clear strong voice against racism and xenophobia swirling around Piddington #Newsnight I hope she's ok, Othered in her own home for being decent
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Our green spaces belong to all of us, and we want everyone to feel welcome in them." Introducing our new Wild About Inclusion Lead, Anna Shamoon.  sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/articles… #NationalInclusionWeek 📷Anna Shamoon
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“We believe that power does not belong to the strongest, the richest or the loudest, but to all of us. That democracies have the freedom to choose with whom to work.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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European Union opens door for Canada to become first associate member
Commission president says partnership will create ‘common prosperity’ based on shared democratic values
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
maga has basically become the bjp- a party of mediocres resentful that theyre being judged on merit
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Rob Parsons @robparsons.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is very true. Sometimes alt text is just a chore - one I undertake willingly - but sometimes it's a joy finding the right words to express the picture.
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Po-LINA-tergeist 👻 لينا @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Just leaving this here
Unpopular opinion: The fact that they can quickly install data centers nationally means they could've been updating infrastructure which they claimed was too difficult and expensive.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Crypto billionaires don’t become crypto billionaires by being generous or altruistic. They become crypto billionaires by being greedy, selfish, amoral, dishonest, untrustworthy shites. They don’t give away money for the common good. Is that who should control our politics?
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Rob Parsons @robparsons.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
There are occasions, not many of them, but they do happen, when the real naked visceral truth is expressed on social media. This is one of them. 👇 Wake up, Labour Party, and bloody well do something.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
A trans man in the UK has been banned in the workplace restrooms after he was forced to use the women's restrooms to comply with the new EHRC guidance. The women complained because he is visibly male and so they told him he can't use any bathroom.
A screenshot of a Reddit post from the r/LegalAdviceUK subreddit by user Dijstraanon, titled "FtM transgender facing two different issues at work? England."
The post text reads:
"Brother in law is trans FtM and presents fully as a man. He's now facing an impossible situation at work with his employer telling him that due to recent legislation he must use the toilet of his birth gender. BUT several female colleagues have raised a grievance about him using their gendered toilet.
His employer has told him that he cannot use the toilet while he is at work until they sort it out and cannot give him a timeframe to do so. They do [cut off] have disabled separate toilets.
In the mean time one of his female colleagues has accused him of sexual harassment because he was used their gendered toilet. His menstrual cycle meant he needed to use the toilet.
He's been with the employer for just over 5 years but only in this location for 18 months. The location is mainly male with just a handful of females, and his workshop only has male toilets.
I do not know how to support him and as he's not in a union there is no one to turn too right now."
The post has an orange "Comments Moderated" tag, 169 upvotes, and 134 comments.
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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“Fundamental is belief in the freedom of every individual. That is threatened from many directions: by over-mighty states, by private concentrations of power, by the actions of other individuals or by circumstances which leave the individual without access to power or opportunity." Alan Beith
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Ilikecaketoo (UK) @ilikecaketoo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Disgraceful that the RNLI have to say this today, but here we are 😞. If you would like to donate👇🏻. rnli.org/support-us/g... #RNLI #RNLISavesLives
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I’m not sure why it’s impossible for a Labour politician to say that racism is not a “legitimate concern”. You cannot and will not ever be enough for your enemies. If you move, they’ll move further. So don’t move.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A suggested statement for Andy Burnham.
‘The British public decided in the 1930s that they would not tolerate black-shirted militias marching through their streets. They would cherish robust political argument; they would not accept thuggery and intimidation. When Oswald Mosley led his Blackshirts to Cable Street, local people turned them back. A new law – introduced by a Liberal, backed by Labour and carried by a Conservative majority – banned private militias, political uniforms and ‘the use or display of physical force in promoting any political object’. The British people are as determined today as in the 1930s that they will not accept the methods of Mussolini and the Munich Beer Hall. This government will uphold the law and defend the traditions of British democracy’.
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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
That the government's response to a large-scale fascist mobilisation is to say stuff like "the right to protest is fundamental" and "we already *are* stopping the boats" is in itself the story of how we got here.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Kent police said 'no arrests were made' of the people who blocked a port and roads. There's your two-tier policing, folks www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
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Port of Dover delays: Disruption as masked 'stop the boats' protesters block roads
Hundreds of demonstrators, wearing black with their faces covered, caused delays to traffic reaching the port.
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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Hatred draws itself on your face and it doesn't use nice pens" is such a wonderful epigram
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 01/09/2026
It’s time to stop the Spex Offenders. Nobody should be secretly filmed through smart glasses and have it shared with millions online. Liberal Democrats are demanding stronger safeguards, including a ban on convicted sex offenders being able to purchase them.
Political campaign poster by the Liberal Democrats showing a close-up of eyeglasses with the word "STOP" across the lenses and the headline "Stop the Spex Offenders''
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ringmerlibrary.bsky.social @ringmerlibrary.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
#WeAreReading Lesley Thomson's The Shrine "Martin was an entirely ordinary man. Ordinary men are not necessarily nice."
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Rob Parsons @robparsons.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Endorsements work. One woman bought Nanotales today because "if @ellygriffiths.bsky.social endorses it, it must be good. Thanks, Elly!!! (See Nanotales at ko-fi.com/s/19f8a3feeb)
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Nanotales - Rob Parsons's Ko-fi Shop
A book of short stories, mostly fantasy. Fundraising for St Peter and St James hospice. What happens when responsibility catches up with Eric? How d...
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ringmerlibrary.bsky.social @ringmerlibrary.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
#WeAreReading Holly Bourne's You Could Be So Pretty "I'm being everything I've ever feared. Looking like myself, acting myself, being myself - the self I've carefully zipped up every morning to stop it coming out..."
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The real issue isn't left versus right. It's critical thinking versus a system that depends on you never developing it.
—Sofo Archon
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Michael Hamilton 🇯🇲 @michaelham1973.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Europe owes its security to Ukraine. Right now, Ukrainians are paying the ultimate price for our hesitation and inaction. We have not done enough, and we must step up immediately. The longer we delay, the higher the cost for all of us
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Rob Parsons @robparsons.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Slava Ukraini.
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ringmerlibrary.bsky.social @ringmerlibrary.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
#WeAreReading Tess Sharpe's The Girls I've Been. "I hate the whole 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger' thing... What didn't kill me didn't make me stronger. It made me a victim. But I made me stronger. I made me a survivor."
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Rob Parsons @robparsons.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"The populists want people to look upwards for a saviour. Liberals should ask them to look around – at each other, their communities, and what they could achieve with the power to act." Very good piece. www.libdemvoice.org/roz-savage-m...
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Roz Savage MP writes: Liberalism is having a Moment. But does it have a future?
Liberalism seems to be going through an identity crisis. Within a few months, three very different thinkers have published books asking the same question: what has happened to Liberalism, and what wou...
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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
We're with Paddy. “The simple liberal demand that every citizen should be enabled to live their life to the full.” Paddy Ashdown
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ringmerlibrary.bsky.social @ringmerlibrary.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
#WeAreReading Tess Sharpe The Girls I've Been "I didn't fall for her like a ton of bricks. I fell like I was a star and she was the end of the world."
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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Dear government, don’t send startling, high-pitched alerts about wildfires to ordinary people's phones. Send them to the CEOs of fossil fuel companies and make them impossible to switch off until they stop the destructive plunder that's contributing to climate change.
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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“The virtues in democratic life – community, solidarity, trust, civic friendship – these virtues are not like commodities that are depleted with use. They are, rather, the muscles that develop and grow stronger with use.” Michael Sandel
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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
the British press hounds people to their death on a semi regular basis and i think perhaps we should stop them doing that
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
🚨🚨Good news: #AI detectors, human and otherwise, are about to get their biggest boost ever with new EU "watermarking" requirements that came into effect this month. Big tech is also falling in line. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/arti...
politico.eu
Hiding your use of AI is about to get much harder — thanks to Brussels
The EU is requiring “watermarking” to signal that content was made with artificial intelligence. Big Tech is falling in line.
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Rob Parsons @robparsons.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Me too
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Emma Lightfoot @emmalightfoot.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Seems highly likely. Exclusion in the name of "equalities". The parallels with the 1930s are truly terrifying, especially the idea that cis white women need protection from the dangerous "other".
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 13/08/2026
Either way, he beats a Bin or he loses to a bin. The claim that he is beating the "establishment" is worthless. It's a Bin-Bin situation. [I apologize]
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Rob Parsons @robparsons.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Who'd have thought it 👇
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Rob Parsons @robparsons.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
That would certainly make you an outlier.
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ringmerlibrary.bsky.social @ringmerlibrary.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
We have a challenge for our mature readers as well as our children! The August Book Challenge!! Take out and read three books, and you're in with a chance of the prize.
A drawing of three books. The spines of the books say "August" "Book" "Challenge". The front says "Read and return three books from Ringmer VIllage Library this summer and - enter the - PRIZE DRAW. If you're between 11 - 101. It's as easy as 1-2-3."
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Rob Parsons @robparsons.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
They say Count Binface isn't canvassing. I have evidence to the contrary.
A garden scene with a bench and three chairs arranged sociably, with a bin in attendance. The bin is probably explaining the Binface manifesto commitment to have Clacton host the 2028 Eurovision contest.
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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best. So, let us be alert — alert in a twofold sense: Since #Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since #Hiroshima we know what is at stake." Viktor Frankl, Auschwitz survivor
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MEAction UK @meactionuk.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The most severely ill people with ME have nowhere to go, no treatment, no ward, no NHS service. They need a specialised service and virtual wards to be commissioned now! Your MP can help by lobbying Yvette Cooper, the new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.
Severe ME Awareness Week. Lobby your MP! Text is in front of an image of very severe people with ME projected onto a wall with graffiti with the London Eye in the background,
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