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Amanda

@stilhere.bsky.social
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Several interesting careers. Anti-fascist tree hugger. Horticulture, politics, climate etc. Trained by Rodney the Podengo.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 11/10/2026
🚨Our new research reveals the UK could rejoin the EU within a single Parliament. Reports that accession would take a decade are wide of the mark. Read more in the @financialtimes.com 👇 www.ft.com/content/3aa9...
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UK could be fast-tracked back into EU, pro-Brussels group argues
Best for Britain says alignment between London and bloc would speed up any rejoining process as Andy Burnham prepares ‘options’
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Boothby Graffoe @boothbygraffoe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ofwat appoints Grant Thornton to help improve South East Water performance l £6m wasted. Similar exercise at Thames Water yielded zilch. SEW has £1.7bn debt, can't raise new money, loses 100m litres of water a day to leaks, customers fleeced for decades. End the scam. Nationalise water.
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Ofwat lines up independent monitor for troubled South East Water
The water regulator plans to appoint Grant Thornton to a multimillion-pound contract overseeing the utility's performance and turnaround plan, Sky News learns.
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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anita72.bsky.social @anita72.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 06/10/2026
🚨The government is looking for UK alternatives to Palantir to run the NHS data platform, the FT reports. This follows a week of protests in 40+ places across England and a rally of hundreds at Palantir's London HQ. Help keep the pressue up: nopalantirinthenhs.com
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“The only sensible solution at this point is a moratorium on datacentres until very basic questions about how many we need, what for, where, and how pollution will be avoided are answered satisfactorily by the government” - @olliehayes.bsky.social 👏
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Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
via CND
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Couldn't agree more 👇
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#BigTobacco - the merchants of death will always seek to shape-shift into angles. Legislators and regulators need to do much better at keeping up with them www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Proportion of people in Great Britain vaping who never smoked doubles in four years
More than 1 million people in Great Britain now vape despite having never regularly smoked, ONS data shows
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 07/10/2026
"The Israeli government exploited the trauma, the pain, the fear of the Israelis after the October 7 massacre to change the status quo from conflict management to ethnic cleansing," says Maoz Inon, who lost his parents in the October 7 attack.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/10/2026
Study: Shock gloves traumatized Army volunteers
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Study: Shock gloves traumatized Army volunteers
After tests, military personnel said "just seeing the glove" that ICE plans to adopt scared them into obedience.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Camille Claudel (1864-1943), French sculptor who was known as 'Rodin's muse', but who many assert was a more accomplished talent, and who was committed to an asylum for 30 years despite her apparent sanity #womensart
Monochrome photograph featuring the head and shoulders of a white woman with a lace collar and wavy dark hair tied back
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 07/10/2026
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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Andriy Kozyr fell in action defending Ukraine. In 2022, he returned from Poland to defend our homeland. His wife Alina, daughter Yelyzaveta, son Denys, and daughter-in-law Nina, along with family and fellow villagers, were all murdered by the Iskander missile in that nightmarish attack.
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Wade Garrett @930wadegarrett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Another afternoon cookout…wow
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You knew the elections were fixed in Brazil. In less than 24 hours it is proved. www.rawstory.com/brazil-26780...
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Suspected Trump election interference sparks police raids in Brazil: report
Computer equipment and communications were seized in Brazil’s largest city as part of a new Brazilian investigation announced Sunday into “possible external interference by the United States” in the n...
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 05/10/2026
In one week, MPs will debate rejoining the EU in Parliament. Rejoining the EU would boost our economy, and the majority of Brits want it. Use our tool to ask your MP to attend:
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Tell your MP: 628 constituencies want EU membership. Only 4 don't. - Best for Britain
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Andrew Hesselden @andrewhesselden.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What could Freedom of Movement give British children back? The choice to study in Paris. Take a job in Berlin. Start a business in Barcelona. Fall in love in Rome. Brexit narrowed their horizons. Britain can choose to open them again.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 05/10/2026
The PM said 'all the options' for our future relationship with Europe are on the table. Our research shows that only EU membership makes sense. Newxt week, MPs will debate rejoining the EU. Ask your MP to attend: bestforbritain.org/take-action/tell…
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I visited the Amazon rainforest a year ago ahead of the cop conference in Belem. Historically the only thing that has stopped deforestation has been electing Lula da Silva has Brazilian president. www.economist.com/the-americas...
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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Amanda @stilhere.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I applaud the bravery of these protesters. #peoplepower
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Dylan Hayward @dylanhayward.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There’s a difference between sharing someone’s journalism and taking it to make your own content. I’ve had my work lifted multiple times by this content creator. It’s particularly frustrating when he talks about his views growing as local news fades away, while using the work of local journalists.
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ah yes, those trade deals…to replace the 8% loss in GDP caused by Brexit the U.K. has new trade deals worth about a 0.5% increase in GDP🤦‍♂️ #RejoinEU / #JoinEU #BrexitFail
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For a long time I have heard rumours of secret flights into Dubai: plane loads of complete nutcases. I have never believed it and still don’t. If true, it should bring down Isabel Oakeshott as she is one. 🤪
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Brett Shaw @brettshaw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 04/10/2026
🚨 An online tracker by Best For Britain reveals 51 Reform UK councillors have quit, defected or been suspended since May amid questions about Nigel Farage's leadership.
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Blow to Nigel Farage as Reform sheds 51 newly-elected councillors in five months
EXCLUSIVE: An online tracker by Best For Britain reveals 51 Reform UK councillors have quit, defected or been suspended
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Funny how things are so much simpler in opposition. Now the Tories are claiming they can do all the things they failed to do during 14 years in office.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Full marks to Bobby J for not bothering to mention that this was entirely due to being given £45 million from the Labour government and told to do it. Even a Reform council couldn't fuck that up.
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WIRED @wired.com · 02/10/2026
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hey btw did anyone get a copy of the wire transfer where Junior *totally* paid the Putin oligarch back for his wedding party? LOL 😂
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
McDonald's is now reportedly pressuring franchisees to use AI to price food. Its CEO raked in $20.6M last year, over 1,000x the median McDonald's worker pay of $19,020. And they remain one of the largest employers of Medicaid and SNAP recipients. I'm not lovin' it.
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Alan @gammacounter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Someone took an xray of a bunch of USB drives and it came out kind of menacing.
Xray 5 usb dives
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Simon Clarke MP was born on 28 September 1984. That's all you need to know. #r4today
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs"
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The ongoing scandal of water privatisation The litany of illegal breaches is breathtaking. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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South West Water fined £8m for hundreds of sewage spills in Cornwall and Devon
District judge orders record fine for region and says incidents of pollution cannot be tolerated
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Ben from Spookily Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My brother did a back-of-the-envelope calculation based on current estimates that suggested the amount of biological material required to make the oil to produce a single plastic tree protector was approximately equivalent to two oak trees.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Putin’s reward for bombing hospitals, schools, apartment buildings, public parks and museums and killing children is to get invited to the G20 Summit by Marco Rubio.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I must say I’m very disappointed in the police over their dealing with the RAF Fairford incident. By announcing that the suspects are British nationals, they have completely undermined the stream of made up bollocks from myself and every other right wing gobshite on Twitter.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Over 120,000 people marched across France calling for action to halt global heating. www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...
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Thousands march for climate across France: 'I wish there were more of us, after the summer we've just had'
From Bordeaux to Paris, organizers say 120,000 people took part in 260 demonstrations 'for the climate, for life, for peace, for social justice.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every bit of this 👇
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/09/2026
Naomi Smith: This is a signal that the political class is finally catching up with where voters have been for a long time. Read here: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/polit…
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
While listening to council meetings in Montreal, local mayor Sue Montgomery decided to knit in red when men spoke and in green when women spoke, when similar numbers of both attended. Day 1 results.... #WomensArt
Photo of uneven knitting with much larger amounts of red yarn than green
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thinking of people of Bangkok. Yes, they are used to floods, but this is huge scale. "The capital recorded 487mm of rain between Sept 1 and 25, compared to an average of 269mm for the same period from 1991 to 2020" #ClimateEmergency www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/gen...
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All 50 Bangkok districts declared disaster areas
All 50 districts of Bangkok were declared disaster zones on Saturday after almost 48 hours of heavy rain that caused widespread flooding, traffic problems and disruptions to daily life.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 27/09/2026
Someone's getting sent to Slough House.
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