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Sarah JC

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She/her writer, creative, animal-lover, puppeteer

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Vince Gomez @vincegomez.com · 04/08/2026
In 1946 Britain's debt stood near 250% of GDP. Bread was still rationed. Within two years the government had opened the NHS and launched the largest house building programme in its history. Today, at just under 95%, ministers say that we cannot afford to do anything close to this. Why?
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Asomein @asomein.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I've literally had to sell my soul to the highest bidder just to keep up with the bills. It's like, I get it, adulting is hard, but can't we just, like, have a universal basic income or something?
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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.
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Horror Tree @horrortree.com · 04/08/2026
Your story must begin with: "Lawrence was the last to arrive." The First Line – Winter 2026 is accepting fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. 💰 Pays up to $50 📅 Deadline: Nov. 1, 2026 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #SubmissionCall #WritingCommunity
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Devon Ellington @devonellington.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Intent for the Week - Focus: devonellington.wordpress.com/2026/08/03/m... #Writing #WritingCommunity #Freelance #Playwrighting #Art
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Mon. Aug. 3, 2026: Intent for the Week — Focus
image courtesy of erd Altmann from Pixabay Monday, August 3, 2026 Waning Moon Pluto, Neptune, Saturn, Chiron Retrograde Rainy and ridiculously humid New week, new month, we’re in the final st…
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Jane Rushton @janerushtonart.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Morning light looking past Knoydart to Skye
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Labour Movement for Europe @labour4europe.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Those Reform plans in full: - Torpedo our largest trading relationship - ⁠Leave millions of EU citizens in limbo - ⁠Sell out Brits living abroad - ⁠Spend years negotiating another Brexit mess Thanks Nigel 👍 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Nigel Farage 'risks trade war' with Brussels over major benefit cut plans
Reform leader Nigel Farage says he would end Universal Credit payments for EU citizens - leading to warnings it would spark a trade war with Brussels and push up prices
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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
"Starmer, Mahmood, and McSweeney are testing to destruction the idea that stealing the far right's clothes will win the far right votes. They are about to be disappointed."
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From Reform-Lite to Reform-Plus
Do you remember the lies Keir Starmer told to secure Labour's leadership? Under pledge six, 'Defend immigrants' rights', among other things ...
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
The government claims it wants to stop small boats crossing the Channel, yet its new policies will make it harder for refugees to bring their spouses and children safely. This will push more women and children onto dangerous dinghies. I asked the Home Secretary if this is really what she supports.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Labour MP Brian Leishman: "The Government has surrendered to... the vile rhetoric of Reform. Does the Home Secretary not see that removing the legal obligation to support asylum seekers who will be otherwise destitute, is as far away from Labour Party principles and values as we can get?"
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 14/11/2025
✍️ Government’s last chance to keep control of digital Digital sovereignty isn’t optional anymore. We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data By Philip O'Brien
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Government’s last chance to keep control of digital
Digital sovereignty isn’t optional anymore. We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data
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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The Horizon IT system directly led to more than 900 wrongful prosecutions of sub-postmasters. The news that the Post Office have just agreed to pay them £41million to keep using Horizon - whilst the victims are still fighting to get the compensation - is an outrage.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Nigel Farage said their flagship council in Kent would be a "shop window" for how they would run the country. Just months after taking over they're now set to slash multiple council committees as they struggle to fill posts after sacking nine of their own councillors bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/r...
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Reform Council in Chaos as It Prepares to Slash Scrutiny Committees Following Wave of Councillor Suspensions
EXCLUSIVE: Reform's flagship Kent administration is planning to shut down multiple council committees as it struggles to fill posts after suspending nine of its own councillors
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Mick Waddington is Reform UK's candidate in the Barnoldswick, Pendle by-election. He's "campaiging to protect Pendle's care homes". No one seems to have told him that Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close their care homes and day centres: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Thank you to the Irish Independent for this article and this is why so many folks are off sick. Sadly now six of my friends have long covid. This is a national crisis behind closed doors. www.independent.ie/life/health-...
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Long-Covid is still here. I can’t walk, cook, work, socialise or live independently – and I am not alone
The country, and the rest of the world, was in the grip of a global pandemic, so when Lydia Fischer Dooley, developed a dry cough, fatigue, weakness and lack of appetite at the start of 2022, she righ...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The number of homeless people in England is higher than official government data suggests, according to new research from the charity Crisis www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Homelessness figures higher than data suggests, research shows
Official data for England underestimates the scale of the problem, according to research for charity Crisis says.
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Our story on the Drinking Water Inspectorate ordering water companies to act on PFAS in drinking water sources made it to BBC Radio 4 PM yesterday, with Prof Patrick Byrne explaining some of the ways forever chemicals can affect people's health. More here: www.bbc.com/news/article...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Tommy Robinson "I wish the UK had a leader like Benjamin Netanyahu." Even out of all the disgusting things he has said, this is the most disgusting.
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Prof Stephen Whittle @profstephenwhittle.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
A reminder that the public consultation on proposed changes to the service specification for children and young people's gender services, which launched in August is still open, so there is still time to share your views if you haven’t already. www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation...
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NHS Children and Young People’s Gender Service Specification - NHS England - Citizen Space
This site contains surveys and consultations that are run by NHS England.
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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
For the first time ever, a majority of supporters of all parties support changing the voting system. This includes Conservative supporters. Join our call on the 27 of October to hear Nigel Evans talk about why FPTP no longer delivers for the British public: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Bold Politics @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
An actual, real life, nuanced discussion about Brexit!!
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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Thank you for your submissions! Our flash fiction contest is now CLOSED🚫 ...JUST KIDDING! Sorry if we got your Goat(Man) 🐐🧌 There's just THREE WEEKS LEFT to submit your flash fiction! October's theme is FOLKFLORE. You have until the end of the month to submit! www.patreon.com/posts/octobe...
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two people standing in a dark forest with a caption that says we kicked goatman off the bridge it 's ours now !
Alt: The iconic moment from Buzzfeed Unsolved where Shane and Ryan in full ghost-hunting gear announce, "We kicked Goatman off the bridge. It's ours now!"
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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
This is good reporting on the disaster in Alaska if you're looking for a reliable summary. This is a bigger disaster than I think most are realizing. 1500 people have been displaced by the flooding with an exceptionally complicated response and recovery. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...
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Rescue crews airlift hundreds out of rural Alaskan villages after powerful storm
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Sarah JC @sarahjc.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Writers, forest.plotsummit.com starts this weekend.
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Escape the Plot Forest 2025
The online summit for plotting your story
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Nigel Farage fans were asked why they vote Reform UK without mentioning immigration and the furious responses spoke volumes www.thepoke.com/2025/10/16/n...
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Nigel Farage fans were asked why they vote Reform UK without mentioning immigration and the furious responses spoke volumes
There’s no doubting the surge in support for Reform UK, in the opinion polls at least, although the number of their MPs remains five right now. We mention them again – slightly heavy heart, obviously ...
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Reform UK leadership in Somerset think it’s understandable that a councillor pissed on someone’s driveway because of ‘shortage of public toilets’ There are numerous pubs, a Tesco superstore and a public toilet near where he did it. www.wsfp.co.uk/news/politic...
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Councillor caught urinating in public space while canvassing in Alcombe
The councillor was canvassing on behalf of a candidate ahead of the upcoming Dunster by-election for Somerset Council
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
This is beautiful @zackpolanski.bsky.social
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
In the USA the Israelis pay American Politicians $52,000,000 a year to keep them on side. In the UK it isn't even £1,000,000. But as you can see they all fall over each other to do their bidding. Traitors.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 17/10/2025
“Make Brexit work” has failed. Former MEP Andrew Duff says only an independent Royal Commission can cut through political denial and chart a path back towards Europe.
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The case for a Royal Commission on Britain and Europe
Britain’s post-Brexit paralysis demands independent scrutiny. A Royal Commission could finally confront the evidence politicians avoid
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Before the last election, Russ Vought proclaimed that 2024 "will rival 1776 and 1860" and he declared that Trump is "nothing more than a gift of God" youtu.be/w1LuV82l0vs?...
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Russell Vought: The Shadow President
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 16/10/2025
This is such a good corrective by @chrisgiles.ft.com to the "working-age welfare spending is exploding/out-of-control" narrative that more & more people seem to see as an incontrovertible fact www.ft.com/content/ee67...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Nigel Farage now says that any suggestion he's been soft on Putin is "just nonsense". Here's a quick reminder of what he's said in the past
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Libraries in Reform UK run Staffordshire are being forced to close. They are refusing to hire much needed staff and refusing over time or paying for staff to be covered. This is resulting in libraries closing because of too few staff, despite there being available staff to cover. #Farageheit411
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Russians Offered Business Deals to Brexit’s Biggest Backer . www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/w...
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Russians Offered Business Deals to Brexit’s Biggest Backer (Published 2018)
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BuDS Disability Service @buds-disability.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
The Covid wave in England has reached Very High levels of risk, with around 1 in every 103 people in England infected as of 12 October. Now is the time to take maximum precautions against catching Covid. buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...
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Covid-19 Risk Assessment: Week Ending 12 October 2025
Covid-19 Risk Assessment: Week Ending 12 October 2025
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 15/10/2025
New polling shows that Reform would get a hefty outright majority, and that Your Party would win 13 seats based on the current level of public interest. Yes, yes, snapshot in time. Yes, yes, GE far away. Blah blah blah excuses. Wake up and face reality! www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/blogs/ec_vip...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Nearly 30% of your Energy bill is profit, and that's just for the big companies. If Energy was nationalised bills could be nearly halved overnight, the infrastructure is only worth £109.5bn. Time for a compulsory purchase order.
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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
BREAKING: Equinor has admitted that the massive Rosebank oil and gas field in the UK would cause vast climate damage. *Pretends to be shocked* 😲 The UK government must STOP Rosebank, and instead focus on creating jobs in North Sea renewables!
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
What a terrific thread. Thank you @oddthisday.bsky.social for taking the time to tell the story, and so well.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 15/10/2025
Cryptocurrency isn’t freedom, writes Prof Richard Murphy. It’s deregulation dressed up as liberation. Behind the rhetoric lies the same old story: profit for the few, risk for the many.
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Cryptocurrency: lawlessness disguised as liberty
Cryptocurrency is sold as radical innovation and financial liberation. In reality, it’s an old familiar story: fraud
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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
BREAKING: Scottish police found Palestine Action’s activities below level for ‘terrorism’ ban www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
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BREAKING: Scottish police found Palestine Action’s activities below level for 'terrorism' ban
Details of meetings obtained by The National show Police Scotland found Palestine Action's activities far below the level of terrorism
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
IT'S WEDNESDAY! It's #buyastrangerabook day. The best of all the days. I'll give out TWO books. FOR FREE. If you'd like one, let me know. Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know. It's a thing! Look. www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi... UK only
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Buy A Stranger A Book. #buyastrangerabook - Stuff you might like... - Big Green Bookshop. @biggreenbooks on Twitter. Cheese fan. My Mum says hi.
The Big Green Bookshop an independent online bookshop in selling awesome titles by awesome authors to awesome people
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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?
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The Star, Sheffield @thestar.co.uk · 15/10/2025
A Sheffield MP has put forward 10 alternative sites for housing in 'affluent' areas of the city in a bid to prevent swathes of green belt being used #Sheffield www.thestar.co.uk/news/environ...
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MP lists 10 sites in 'affluent' areas which could be used for new homes - full list
A Sheffield MP has launched a scathing attack on the “utterly unfair” and “completely rushed” process to find housing sites on Sheffield’s green belt.
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I absolutely agree with this👇🏼👇🏼 Vets bills have rocketed by 50-60% since 2015 was £1,000 to have a bad tooth out for our dog (doesn’t cost anyway near that for humans) and with other treatment despite insurance we got a £3,000 bill A driver has been Corporations buying up vets to fleece owners❗️😡
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Vets should be made to publish prices, competition watchdog says
Vet prices have risen at nearly twice the rate of inflation, the Competition and Markets Authority found.
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