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@sallynicholson.bsky.social
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Still young at heart. English/French. In France since 1995. Sod Brexshit! LIKES:- Lots of things ... My dog and walking, gardening, DIY (Some of these things are necessities!), Cooking (mostly vegan) and eating, painting, reading, politics, ecology ...

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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
He wants an excuse to nuke Iran
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
WTF is wrong with this man?! He really should be locked up! Why hasn't the law done it yet? Hold him for psychiatric assessment!
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Good luck #GREENS !!!
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
action.ciwf.fr/page/201738/...
action.ciwf.fr
Stop à l'élevage de pieuvre.
Signer la pétition CIWF. Gardez-les à l'état sauvage. Leur place est dans l'Océan.
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Stockpile food – and wash your hands: is that really how to prepare for environmental catastrophe? | George Monbiot www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Stockpile food – and wash your hands: is that really how to prepare for environmental catastrophe? | George Monbiot
The UK state is dumping its responsibilities on our doorsteps, while green-lighting policies that lead us closer to crisis, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The rich helping the rich ... As usual. As if the problem wasn't already a huge one!
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED?! Police routinely failing to investigate ‘revenge porn’ in England and Wales www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
theguardian.com
Police routinely failing to investigate ‘revenge porn’ in England and Wales
Lawyers launch super-complaint after research shows officers frequently dismiss image-based abuse
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Auschwitz ...
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Subject to abuse, including multiple rapes by different men, as well as beatings by her relatives. Pike later underwent nearly 30 years of solitary confinement while on death row. Christa Pike is conscious and speaking after botched execution attempt, lawyers say www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Christa Pike is conscious and speaking after botched execution attempt, lawyers say
The prisoner received two doses of pentobarbital as authorities tried to put her to death on 30 September
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/10/2026
Eva Marie Saint, star of North by Northwest and On the Waterfront, dies aged 102
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Eva Marie Saint, star of North by Northwest and On the Waterfront, dies aged 102
Landmark roles were in 50s classics directed by Elia Kazan and Alfred Hitchcock, before going on to play Superman’s adoptive mother in later life Eva Marie Saint, one of the last survivors of Hollywood’s golden age of the 1940s and 50s, has died aged 102. Her screen work spanned six decades: Saint made her screen debut opposite Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront, starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s celebrated thriller North by Northwest, and in one of her last screen appearances played Superman’s adoptive mother Martha Kent in the 2006 superhero film Superman Returns. A family spokesman said on Tuesday that Saint had died of natural causes at her home in Los Angeles. Continue reading...
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump keep your ignorant, fat face out of french politics! You know nothing and you're a shit stirring, racist old fecker! www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/1...
rnz.co.nz
Massive student protests are rocking France. Here’s why they’re angry
France is struggling to contain its biggest student protests in decades. What started as a demonstration in support of striking teachers at a suburban high school to the north of Paris has snowballed ...
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Both weapons (Grenades and rubber bullets)are used “nowhere else in Europe for protests,” “These grenades are supposed to be used only on the ground and only if the officer is truly completely surrounded… They are classified as weapons of war. www.connexionfrance.com/news/hundred...
connexionfrance.com
French lycée protests spread to nearly 2,000 schools
Parents and teachers join to protect pupils and limit violence
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000
Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second homes on rural communities
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
‘This is state violence’: Paris students rage at politicians and heavy-handed policing www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
theguardian.com
‘This is state violence’: Paris students rage at politicians and heavy-handed policing
Unprecedented protests that began in low-income suburb are turning ugly, with investigations under way into police brutality
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Why is man not licked up in a frigging psych ward! He's becoming more and more deranged. Luckily, I don't think the Iranians want to bomb America. I think they'd love to get Trump though.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Maxima @maxima-infinity.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thank goodness! The UK and Europe doesn't need them!
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Beth Humphreys 🌺 @producrgrl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
👇👇👇 Vote EARLY & BLUE! Up & down the ballot! 🌊 #nokings
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
secure.avaaz.org/campaign/fr/...
secure.avaaz.org
Soutenons Mediapart et la presse libre
Le RN n’a pas apprécié les révélations et attaque les journalistes. Refusons de les laisser intimider l'information indépendante. Ensemble, nous déclarons notre soutien à Mediapart et à tous les média...
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For all those people who keep prattling on about the lithium batteries in cars ... It takes time but the Chinese will always be ahead of the game. youtu.be/aXIf2dkT5z4?...
youtu.be
China’s Sodium Battery Breakthrough Just Made Lithium OBSOLETE
YouTube video by Tech In Check
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This breaks my heart.
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
THE FRENCH WILL PROBABLY LOVE IT! 😂 Tom Cruise’s Digger has flopped spectacularly – but I think it is a misunderstood masterpiece www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oc...
theguardian.com
Tom Cruise’s Digger has flopped spectacularly – but I think it is a misunderstood masterpiece
This article contains spoilers for Digger: Alejandro G Iñárritu’s film may be about to become one of the biggest bombs Hollywood has ever seen – but it is destined to be re-evaluated with time
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Rowan Atkinson to bring Mr Bean, Blackadder and more to West End in new show www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/o...
theguardian.com
Rowan Atkinson to bring Mr Bean, Blackadder and more to West End in new show
The actor will perform famous TV sketches – as well as new material created with Richard Curtis, Ben Elton and Howard Goodall – in Rowan Live, which opens in February
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Krasnov 🍃 @greennomad61.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Animals die a spiritual death before they are murdered. Their heart breaks, they are terrified beyond belief, and they are utterly saddened, shocked & disappointed in the humans that have failed to protect them for doing absolutely nothing wrong.
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Good decision!
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm so pleased about that. No jury trials are pure Trumpism ... Corrupt to the core.
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
An amazing young man using super clever technology! Just like my big brothers’: boy with cerebral palsy passes GCSEs with eye-tracking technology www.theguardian.com/education/20...
theguardian.com
‘Just like my big brothers’: boy with cerebral palsy passes GCSEs with eye-tracking technology
Patrick McCabe’s herculean feat shows limits and possibilities of special educational needs and disabilities system
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 02/10/2026
“We are calling on this government to put in place a three-year emergency brake on private rents, let wages begin to catch up with the rents that have outstripped them for far too long.” Zack Polanski on the fight for fairer, more affordable rents.
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Keep ALL religion out of schools and the public domain .... As they do in France.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 02/10/2026
Your 'doom quote' for today: "Coastal cities face three stark choices. First they can do little or nothing and become inundated. Second, they can protect themselves by flood control measures and great dikes—for as long as they can. Third, they can relocate." www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-floode...
thriftbooks.com
The Flooded Earth: Our Future In a World... book by Peter D. Ward
Buy a cheap copy of The Flooded Earth: Our Future In a World... book by Peter D. Ward. No matter what efforts we make to halt global warming, sea level rise will be an unavoidable part of our future. ...
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Keep God out of politics! Some of us don't believe in invisible friends!
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hitler and his nazi regime controlled the "spirituality" of Germans in the 1930s too... Don't know why that came to mind 😒 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
What to know about Hegseth’s new Office of Religious Affairs
“Our department is, you might say, putting on the full armor of God.”
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Was just on LBC with @mrjamesob.bsky.social to discuss Kemi Badenoch's banning of @bylinetimes.bsky.social from attending Conservative conference after calling such bans by Reform "authoritarian" and an assault on free speech bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/k...
bylinetimes.com
Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
😂 You couldn't make it up! Why doesn't she just swing on over to Reform with her pal Braverman who's equally as unpleasant!
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They ALL seem to be 'that type' ...
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🤣
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
All this from a President who thinks that living on 3000€ per month is hard ... www.connexionfrance.com/money/france...
connexionfrance.com
2027 French budget targets pensions: are foreign retirees affected?
Government is seeking €54 billion in budget savings
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He wants to cause trouble. It's his only aim in life. Pure evil ...
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Beth Humphreys 🌺 @producrgrl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
👇👇👇 Vote EARLY & BLUE! Up & down the ballot! 🌊 #nokings
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Astounding! I'm getting off social media today because my blood is already boiling!
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 01/10/2026
Who makes history? The people whose names fill the history books and the people whose names never make the pages. This Black History Month, we celebrate the Black Londoners whose contributions are woven into the story of our city. Black history is London’s history.
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Here we go again ... www.connexionfrance.com/news/stay-ho...
connexionfrance.com
‘Stay home’: Red alerts as flash-floods hit southern France
Up to 400mm of rain forecast, schools closed, transport cancelled
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Pirate Redux @pirateredux.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is exactly what he has always done. From migrant invasion and the influence of Brussels, to the Fairford Fiasco, he peddles fear and hatred by citing threats that do not fucking exist.
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm sure that Europe would gladly have the UK back, but they'd make it clear that there's no way out for a very long time. Can you imagine the sum in time and money that Brexshit cost Europe AND the UK? It's a joke.
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.change.org/p/norway-ban...
change.org
Sign the Petition
Norway: Ban Commercial Whaling 🇳🇴
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Andy Burnham is not ruling out a Labour general election pledge to rejoin the EU, Bloomberg reports.
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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
action.projectslingshot.com/en/petition-...
action.projectslingshot.com
Sign the petition: End Factory Farming
Factory farming is industrial-scale animal cruelty. Millions of animals are bred to grow unnaturally fast, confined so tightly they cannot move freely, and processed through mechanised systems where s...
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