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@samartetc.bsky.social
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British and Irish Citizen based in Gloucestershire. Loves art, photography, nature, hiking, cinema, literature, history, travel... and coffee.

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Sam @samartetc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My alarm clock, San Zeno neighbourhood, Verona Italy #verona #italy
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Sam @samartetc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wandering through Brescia and came across the former Church of San Barnaba. One of the things I love about Italy: you can be simply wandering around and suddenly find yourself standing in front of something like this. #Italy #Brescia #Lombardy #ItalianArchitecture #Baroque #TravelPhotography
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Sam @samartetc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I was lucky enough to visit Verona recently, and San Zeno Maggiore was a highlight from the neighborhood I was staying in. A masterpiece of Italian Romanesque architecture, dating largely from the 11th–12th centuries. #Verona #SanZeno #Italy #Romanesque #MedievalArchitecture #ItalianArchitecture
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Dignity in Dying @dignityindying.org.uk · 08/09/2026
Today we launch our new report - Out of the Shadows: Why legalising assisted dying is safer than the status quo.
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Sam @samartetc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Enjoying the shade up in the Gods at 'Smallpox Hill' between Dursley and Uley in Gloucestershire #blueskyphotography #gloucestershire
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Sam @samartetc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Not a bad spot for a sit down #stinchcombe #gloucestershire #blueskyphotography
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Sam @samartetc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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I've signed. Will you? Add your name to help make wildfire prevention and climate resilience a national priority, and stand with the communities affected by wildfires.
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Sam @samartetc.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Hey, I signed this @friends-earth.bsky.social petition to ask Andy Burnham to clean up the water pollution crisis. Add your name too? foe.uk/n1lsx
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Make 2026 the year polluters clean up their act
Sign the petition Last year, the government promised to crack down on water pollution. But without public pressure, its plans could once again let big polluters off the hook. We should all be able to ...
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Sam @samartetc.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Petition: Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate & nature risks The UK faces growing risks from climate & nature breakdown - from extreme weather to economic disruption & national security threats. Govt .should hold an emergency briefing from leading experts. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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Petition: Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks
The UK faces growing risks from climate and nature breakdown - from extreme weather to economic disruption and national security threats. Yet the public has never been given a clear national briefing ...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This is the new talking point from Reform supporters over on X. In other news, Nigel Farage has yet to hold a single in-person MP surgery in his constituency in the almost two years since he was elected
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Dignity in Dying @dignityindying.org.uk · 21/05/2026
Today is the private members' bill ballot. Your MP needs to see this message: You voted for choice. For compassion. You listened to dying people and made a promise. An unelected few tried to break your promise. Don’t let them. It’s time to back the bill again. Share and tag your MP.👇
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
When politicians reject measured facts and basic physics in favor of the propaganda narrative of the fossil fuel lobby, they are throwing the people and their home land under the bus.
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
A Harvard study just published estimates Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children. That is his legacy in this world.
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UK News 🇬🇧 @news-flows-uk.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Want to help garden birds? Don't feed them in warmer months, says RSPB The UK's largest bird charity has issued new guidance advising people to stop using feeders to help wildlife thrive.
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Want to help garden birds? Don't feed them in warmer months, says RSPB
The UK's largest bird charity has issued new guidance advising people to stop using feeders to help wildlife thrive.
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Dignity in Dying @dignityindying.org.uk · 24/04/2026
This is not the end. We won't stop fighting until every dying person has choice.
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Sarah Wootton @sarahwootton.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Disappointed but defiant as I stand with the loved ones of those campaigners who have died while a small number of unelected Peers have run down the clock, denying dying people choice. This issue is not going away
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Dignity in Dying @dignityindying.org.uk · 22/04/2026
Hundreds rallied in Parliament Square today with one message: bring back the assisted dying Bill. Backed by MPs and the public, it’s being blocked by a handful of unelected Peers. This is delay - not defeat. Democracy must prevail.
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Joe O’Brien @pnamblath.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
#OTD 10 April 1998, the Good Friday Agreement was signed, marking a step towards ending decades of violence in Northern Ireland. #SpéirGhorm #speirgorm #IrishHistory
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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
In the interests of balance, it should be noted that Roosevelt was not a convicted felon or ever accused of raping children.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 21/02/2026
A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...
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Sam @samartetc.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Really interesting analysis in the Observer this morning of the number and nature of amendments to the assisted dying bill and whether it counts as filibustering. On Friday they discussed the effect of AI for an hour… before that amendment was withdrawn. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
They murdered a nurse who cared for military veterans & then called him a terrorist.
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Irish Independent @independent.ie · 25/01/2026
Former US President Barack Obama has said the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis should be a 'wake-up call to every American' that the country’s core values are coming under attack
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Barack Obama says Alex Pretti’s shooting shows American values ‘under assault’ as killing sparks calls to pull ICE officers out of Minnesota
Former US President Barack Obama has said the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis should be a “wake-up call to every American” that the country’s core values are coming under attack.
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 23/01/2026
Write to peers. Tell them what you think. Support assisted dying. A small number of peers are about to kill the #AssistedDyingBill. Not only would this be undemocratic and an abuse of their power, it would come as a uninimagable tragedy to terminally ill people. humanists.uk/action/ask-t...
humanists.uk
Ask the House of Lords to support assisted dying
Help us support the Assisted Dying Bill and stop the filibustering in the House of Lords. Raise the issue and send a message to peers today.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
All those who wrongly believe that nature collapse might be 'sad', but won't really affect them in any way, badly need to wake up. Nature isn't just 'nice to have'. Planet Earth is only liveable – for *us* too – due to the regulating effects of natural ecosystems. share.google/NoVLRatfUoH5...
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Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn
Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt
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Sam @samartetc.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
🚨 NHS England is rolling out Palantir software for our health records - handing huge power to a US firm with a track record in surveillance, military technology and human rights abuses. Email your local Trust and say NO to Palantir in the NHS: notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...
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Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Jenrick in today's Times; Farage back then. Trying to coherently analyse the new right will give you a migraine
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
The very stable geniuses of British politics should not be allowed to forget their sycophancy towards Trump.
Various headlines in which Jacob Rees-Mogg, Liz Truss, Daniel Hannan, Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage endorse Donald Trump.
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Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I think the White House badly underestimates the strength of the pan-European folk memory of 1930s appeasement, and how deep it still cuts. I suppose this is what happens when you learn in school that WW2 started in 1941 in Hawaii.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
2026 is seeing that the U.S. Army is mobilizing a unit specialized for winter conditions, but not knowing if the intended mission is violent repression of an American city or stealing territory from a U.S. treaty ally.
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Sam @samartetc.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Tell UK, EU, and other regulators: Stop Grok’s sex abuse images now. actions.eko.org/pages/uk-eu-...
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UK, EU, and other regulators: Stop Grok’s sex abuse images now.
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, is allowing users to nudify images of children and women as well as putting them in sexualised positions. But rather than stopping this flood of vile content, Musk is mak...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels. 10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C 20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
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World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Don't forget to check for hedgehogs this Bonfire Night! 🦔🔥
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
If the model here is that you let a private company conquer a country, co-opt local elites to exploit it for profit and govern it by force, while providing no public services and never worrying about elections, then, yes - this is a really good analogy, Mr Kruger.
"Britain used to administer an empire from a company building around Downing Street in the 1820s,” the Reform MP for East Wiltshire said during a press conference, arguing that in the past the number of staff needed to run departments was far fewer than today."
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Sam @samartetc.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Prostate cancer affects tens of thousands of men each year - including one in four Black men - yet routine screenings for men at risk still aren’t available. Sign the petition now calling for routine screenings for all men at risk of developing prostate cancer: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ro...
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Introduce routine prostate cancer screenings for all at risk!
Despite prostate cancer affecting tens of thousands of men each year - including one in four Black men - routine screenings for men at risk still aren’t available. But right now the UK National Scree...
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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
🔴NEW🔴 Thread 🧵 @bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12
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‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem
Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...
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404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2025
The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
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Sarah Wootton @sarahwootton.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The number of supporters here today is testament to how important the choice of assisted dying is to so many #letuschoose
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Kirk was a racist who thought black people shouldn’t be pilots. He thought women should be subservient to men. He hated MLK and the Civil Rights Act. He didn’t care about political violence against Paul Pelosi and Democrats. All his own words. You can deplore the shooting without honoring the man.
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Steve Anglesey @sanglesey.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Nigel Farage, lying to Congress here. The New World, the magazine I edit, was banned from Reform's conference this morning, three months after they accepted our request for a press pass
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Barbara Neuhoff @barbaraneuhoff.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"
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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
There’s a HUGE Elon Musk shaped hole in the Government’s new plans to improve our elections: shady billionaires like Musk can still donate massive amounts of money with no cap: effectively buying our democracy. Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
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Take Big Money Out of Our Politics
British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...
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Dignity in Dying @dignityindying.org.uk · 17/06/2025
This Friday, MPs will vote on the assisted dying Bill. It all comes down to this - Tag your MP and ask them to vote yes. If it passes, the Bill continues its journey in the House of Lords - if not, it falls. This could be our last chance to secure a compassionate law.
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Simon Price @simonprice.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Without going into undue detail, all I will say is… Suede. What a fucking band, eh? Best in the world. Status reaffirmed.
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Sam @samartetc.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Early morning, Utrecht, Netherlands #utrecht #netherlands #dutchasfuck #mornings
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Sam @samartetc.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
The Dom Tower, Utrecht #domtower #Utrecht #Netherlands #blueskyphotography #blueskyphotographers
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