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Rosi Sexton

@rosisexton.bsky.social
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A collection of random hyperfoci held together by anxiety & sticky tape. Osteopath, climber, maths PhD, pianist, former professional MMA fighter. Dabbled in politics (Green). Passionate about health, health inequality, mental health, neurodivergence.

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Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Look, at this point *everyone* agrees we should spend more time away from screens, children and teens especially, outdoors even. But it's not going to work if you say teens should never do physically boisterous stuff in large groups. They're gonna do it anyway because it's thrilling and fun!
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Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Something's got to give. You have to either stop pretending you genuinely want teens to go outside and do things, or you have to massively increase the amount of funding and, crucially, *space* for activities for young people – some of which will be self-organised and, yes, a little bit scary.
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
When people use AI for writing assistance, it can shift their political attitudes by autocompleting sentences in biased ways. Yet people are often unaware of the AI bias & it's influence This is not merely about the facts presented, but how autocomplete worlds www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Students own the copyright in their work. Unless they have given explicit individual consent to share that copyrighted material with a commercial company we simply do not have the right to do this. I doubt the company points this out. Article via @risu.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The Yorkshire Dales school using AI to mark mock exams
Headteacher Julia Polley says students get quicker and more detailed feedback, without teacher bias.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
everyone is understandably insanely stressed out right now. we could all probably use a little extra grace in our day to day interactions
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Rosi Sexton @rosisexton.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
@robfordmancs.bsky.social Hi Rob - what's the best way to drop you a message?
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
The real issue here is that Tice has not, as far as we know, broken any law, & has paid the tax HMRC says he owes. If you and this Labour govt think "aggressive tax avoidance" should be stopped, as you all said before the election, it is now in your power to end it. But you won't. Why?
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The baffling thing about this age is how this utter chump gets routinely held to much lower standards than anybody else anywhere just by normalising being an utter chump & everyone just accepting that's how it is and who he is
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Jon Loveridge @jonloveridge.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
For sometime now the arguments against renewable energy have been almost entirely motivated by narrow, greed driven interests. If you can reduce dependency on fossil fuels for more stable, less scarce, cleaner alternatives, it’s really very hard to see the downsides IMO
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
That Starmer keeps Mahmood in post shows this is not just the actions of an inhumane Home Secretary, but a deeper rooted ideology of hostility and xenophobia within this government. No-one benefits from blocking Chevening scholars. This is cruelty for sake of it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Home Office

Home Office refuses to exempt exceptional students from tough immigration rules

Exclusive: Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper concerned about student visa ban on female Chevening scholars from volatile countries such as Afghanistan

Pippa Crerar Political editor

Tue 10 Mar 2026

The Home Office rejected an appeal from the foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, that would have protected outstanding students in some of the world's most dangerous countries from changes to the UK's immigration system, the Guardian understands.
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
FACTS: Net Zero barely nudges your bill. Fossil‑fuel wars send it through the roof. So when Farage and his ilk slags off renewables while fanning conflict, remember who actually hikes your costs.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
If Reform had won, Labour's statement would be that this result is a stark reminder we need to listen and learn from voters who rightly feel betrayed by modern politics. But the Greens won by a comfortable margin, so it's: these voters are stupid and also sinister and, ugh, Muslims
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Rosi Sexton @rosisexton.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Absolutely, 100% this. Creating an environment in which patients can feel safe and heard is so important, and yet so rarely prioritised in healthcare.
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Cao Wen Toh #7291 @caowentoh.eurosky.social · 06/03/2026
Las instrucciones del Eurosky👇
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Emily Thornberry’s words on Radio 4 in response to the Green win in Gorton and Denton. This is why wins like this are so important, whatever you may think of the Greens (much like the immigration rebellion brewing).
"I dread even saying this... but I think that we've ended up in the wrong place on trans, and we've done that by treading very self-consciously and not actually following our hearts, which is that trans people are on the margins, they are vulnerable.
"If the Labour Party doesn't look after trans people, what are we about?
"They're most likely to get beaten up. They're the ones who are most likely to have prejudice against them. We should not be indulging in anything that marginalises them even more."
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Rosi Sexton @rosisexton.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
This! People often tut at Greens who feel very negatively towards Labour - but remember that we've been dealing with exactly this attitude (locally and nationally) for years.
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Rosi Sexton @rosisexton.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Labour after coming third in a 'two horse race': "just one more attack on immigrants will do it..."
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 27/02/2026
Dunno Ed, if I had to pick a party in Gorton that's "playing with fire" I think I might take a closer look at the Blood and Soil chaps micro-parsing who gets to call themselves English and flirting with Great Replacement Theory, not the nice Greens lady encouraging brown people to vote.
Spectator headline "The Green party is playing with fire in Gorton" by Ed West.
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Look, I know apparently no one in British politics can count, but my very white neighbours who all had Vote Green signs outside their houses *might* have had something to do with the result.
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Rosi Sexton @rosisexton.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
If you're having a tough day, remember that at least you're not a Labour MP being sent out to explain to the media how your party came 3rd in a two horse race. 🤷‍♀️
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Just to add to this, the people that teenagers most often need privacy from is their parents, because their parents have the most power over them. I realise this may be an unpopular view, but it's true. It's also their *right*.
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 26/02/2026
My proposal for cleaning up political donations: No corporate donations, at all. Companies aren’t people. All donations (over, say, £500) must be from UK resident tax payers and limited to the amount they personally paid in UK income tax (not capital gains or whatever) in the previous tax year.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 26/02/2026
It wanted to start a SubStack after redundancy!? Lads, you've successfully simulated a middle-aged journalist.
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River @riverlorien.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
SEND plans: 'good intentions, progressive instincts – and a terrifying loss of rights' 'But what happens if power passes to a party whose senior figures not only endorse the “overdiagnosis” myth, but have lately been heard suggesting that Send children might be educated in empty churches?'
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Labour's anti-immigration policy isn't based on 'grimy reality', it's based on right-wing lies about immigrants. 'Grimy reality' would be acknowledging the real and positive impact of immigration, and making policies accordingly. Labour's not based in reality. It's based on lies.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Telling me the Greens are like Reform won’t make me think that the Greens are like Reform, it’ll make me think you’re desperate. And morons.
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David Thomas @glendore.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Yes. Exactly what happened in Caerffili. Labour lied blatantly throughout the campaign. We didn't listen, voted Plaid, and beat Reform.
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The BMJ @bmj.com · 16/02/2026
"One conclusion is clear, and it is this: a population’s health is primarily in the hands of the government, and it is a responsibility that politicians must embrace fully." @kamranabbasi.bsky.social in Editor's Choice bit.ly/40cMzRJ
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Ultraprocessed foods, Palantir, and political donations: how governments enable health system exploitation
The Epstein scandal tells us much about how power is acquired, leveraged, and abused. One of the more sobering lessons is the mechanism by which governments are influenced and corrupted. We trust gove...
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
it's bleakly hilarious to have people complaining that using the word "nazi" to describe people calling for racial cleansing and forced breeding is "rendering the word meaningless," while supporters of the US government use the word "communist" to describe having a functioning healthcare system
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marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
one of the weird things about Hannah Spencer Discourse is that the media have spent decades telling us that getting a degree is a waste of time and if you want decent pay you should be a plumber. but it turns out that any sign you actually get decent pay is proof you’re not really a plumber.
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Rosi Sexton @rosisexton.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I don't know who needs to hear this, but you don't need to be middle class to water your plants with Keir Starmer's tears. Just vote Green in Gorton and Denton on Thursday! @hannahspence.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
something abled people don't get is you can have just one day a week where you are too sick to work, and that's enough to disqualify you from nearly all full-time jobs. it doesn't take a lot
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
The Representation of the People Bill doesn't cap political donations. Super-rich can buy/bribe political parties to protect their interests. The poor can't. The bottom 50% of the population owns less than 5% of wealth and the bottom 20% has only 0.5%. 24m live below minimum living standards.
leftfootforward.org
We need to get serious about tackling corruption through political donations
The government's reforms are welcome but they won't end political corruption
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Rosi Sexton @rosisexton.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
At this point, Labour is a protection racket cosplaying as a political party. @makevotesmatter.bsky.social @electoralreform.bsky.social
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Haris K @hkjjjk.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
But 'Government tax receipts slightly bigger than expected in month where everyone does their tax return' doesn't make for quite such a good headline.
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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 19/02/2026
BBC complaint of the day: One week before a crucial by-election that Greens are favourites to win, Question Time has on a Tory, a Reform MP who was also a Tory until recently, a Labour MP and 'centrist' journalist Jon Sopel. My complaint follows. Get yours in now? www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
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Make A Complaint | Contact the BBC
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Rosi Sexton @rosisexton.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Goodwin: "I can't help that Tommy Robinson endorsed my campaign" I'm no political strategist, but have you tried... saying things he might disagree with?
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
"They’ve attacked all these people, in a desperate attempt to make clear to racists and social conservatives that they hear them. If the racists and social conservatives were actually going to vote for them this would merely seem abhorrent. When they clearly aren’t, it’s stupid too."
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Everybody Hates Keir
How did Starmer go from landslide to endgame in under two years? Also this week: the most murderous mammal on earth; and every thought I have about an insane train plan.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Fighting age man flees his homeland to seek asylum on overcrowded island.
Far-right thug Tommy
Robinson flees UK after police
warning over terror threat
Far-right thug Tommy Robinson took to social
media this evening to proclaim himself a 'priority
target' for ISIS, adding he had fled the UK after
receiving a call from Bedfordshire Police
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I never really sign stuff. But this was different. It's not about trying to facilitate or block a particular party's route to power. It's about an electoral system that's unsuited to the political realities we face today and risks giving us government after government with no convincing mandate.
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Over 50 Academics Warn That Voting System Is Not Fit For Multi-Party Politics
Dozens of academics have written to the government to warn that the current voting system risks producing distorted results on an 'unprecedented' s...
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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Our current voting system leads to: 🐎 narrative of two horse races 😨 fear tactics don’t vote for this or you’ll get that 🗳️ gaming the system with tactical advice I’m elected to @londonassembly.bsky.social We’ve had proportional voting for 25 AMs to represent Londoners for 25 years. It works.
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Rosi Sexton @rosisexton.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
"The polls say Labour are ahead in G&D" "Which polls are those?" "Oh, you wouldn't know them, they went to a different school..."
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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
🚨BREAKING NEWS 🚨 50 leading academics, former senior public officials and politics, law and policy experts warn about the risks of First Past the Post. Letter in @politicshome.bsky.social today 👇
politicshome.com
Over 50 Academics Warn That Voting System Is Not Fit For Multi-Party Politics
Dozens of academics have written to the government to warn that the current voting system risks producing distorted results on an 'unprecedented' s...
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Rosi Sexton @rosisexton.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
"Green Party leader loves dogs" may not be the savage attack the Daily Fail thinks it is. 😅
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Mike Cookson 🔶 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mikecookson.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
Screenshot of Tommy Ten Names, claiming he's afraid and fleeing the UK.
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stroudadrian.bsky.social @stroudadrian.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped. Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented. Tell Keir Starmer to change this. actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...
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The Representation of the People Bill MUST scrap First Past the Post
First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped. Yet the new Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our rotten voting system, which lea...
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