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@suetthemam.bsky.social
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Too much politics! But also knitting. And cats of course. Cambs and Norfolk.

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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anyone else had a couple of letters from DHSC inviting them to supply info on their kids' eating habits, or a sample of adult residents pee over 24 hours, in exchange for vouchers? Yeah like I'll just tell Palantir everything they want for £20! /s
Photo of a letter from Dept of Health & Social Care requesting a questionnaire, then 2 visits from 'trained biomedical fieldworkers' to collect 24 hours of pee.  'Discreetly' is misspelled. In exchange get a £20 voucher.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Drax’s planned datacentre to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood to produce its electricity, nearly double the CO2 emissions of all flights from London Gatwick airport. Drax, a highly profitable company gets subsidies to burn wood and produce electricity How many lives will it ruin?
theguardian.com
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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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I put my knitting down and looked on Ravelry. So many lovely designs!
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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ate you on Ravelry? I'd love to see your work.
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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Is it your own design, or somebody else's?
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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is gorgeous!
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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thank you so much Malcolm! So thoughtful of you to save me all that googling. I'll have a proper look and make a plan.
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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yes, it was bought by Broken Spoon, which has been buying up all the Internet companies that used to be good to bleed the remaining users. They fire employees and replace them with a small team using AI, then radically increase the subscription fee - and they have your data hostage. Same with Vimeo
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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Bending Spoons marks the *global* private-equity translation of the old Internet's remnants into ugly capital: AOL, Airtable, Vimeo, WeTransfer, Meetup, Streamyard, Remini, and now Evernote. They read @doctorow.pluralistic.net and decided to be the late stage of enshittification coming for us all.
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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 30/09/2026
Amazon is ramping up its program to give delivery drivers smart glasses. The device captures still images constantly from the moment the driver leaves his van and walks to your door, potentially thousands per shift. You can’t opt out www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
bloomberg.com
Amazon Drivers’ Smart Glasses Are Going to Be an Image Problem
Coming soon up a garden path near you: an Amazon.com Inc. driver wearing smart glasses, almost constantly taking pictures and sending them back to the company to be analyzed by humans and fed into an ...
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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I've lived in Kings Lynn and Ely, so I've been past Downham many times. I must visit the town sometime.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🟣 SUBSTACK Hot Type: ‘Holy Fascism’ By Heidi Cuda Read below. ↓
bylinesupplement.com
Hot Type: ‘Holy Fascism’
Heidi Siegmund Cuda reflects on how the Trump regime’s cynical use of ‘God’ as cover for its greedy, bloody, and criminal actions mirrors fascist regimes, both past and present
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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
4 October 1936. Battle of Cable Street took place in Cable Street, Whitechapel, London. It was a clash between the Metropolitan Police, protecting a march by the British Union of Fascists (BUF) led by Sir Oswald Mosley and various anti-fascist and Jewish demonstrators.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
UK chancellor to meet bank bosses for a pre-budget summit to discuss possible tax raid. Banks profiteering but resent windfall tax. Any chance of ending bank subsidies? Any chance of meeting pensioners, disabled, sick, poor to hear their concerns?
news.sky.com
Healey summons UK bank chiefs to pre-budget summit next week
The chancellor, John Healey, has called in the CEOs of lenders including Barclays, Lloyds and NatWest for talks ahead of his crucial budget statement.
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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bit different to the sunflowers an all that.
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Great Fen @greatfen.org.uk · 02/10/2026
Looking for an opportunity to gain practical conservation skills and meet likeminded young people? Join our Youth Rangers🌿 Our next monthly session is on Wednesday 28th October! 🫵 Aged 11-17 and want to get involved? 🔗 For more info & to book upcoming sessions check the events link below
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🔴 We asked Tony Blair's think tank about charging businesses £500k for political access at party conferences and why one of its sponsor's logos disappeared after our reporting last week on TBI's alleged cash for access scheme This is what they said
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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Tony Blair Institute - closely associated with Trump & now using Trumpian plays to avoid scrutiny of their dodgy dealings. #TBI
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Burnham could change tax relief on pension contributions for his projects. Gross tax relief in 2024-2025 was £83.9bn. 71% went to 7.7m additional & higher rate taxpayers. 29% to 30.4m basic rate taxpayers. Giving relief to all at 20% leaves £14.5bn spare for social care. But equality/equity?
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
UK public sector bodies spent £17bn with offshore-owned private equity firms last year. The same vultures received £31bn public sector contracts. Profiteering, low wages, tax dodging, asset-stripping is their business model. Enriched by public money. How many have politicians on payroll?
gmb.org.uk
£17 billion taxpayer cash went to offshore private equity last year
We need to buy British, GMB tells Labour conference
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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Such a beautiful walk up from town though, along by the river. And I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, which is pretty hilly 😂
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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It would be hilarious, if it wasn't that the rest of us are having to pay for this stupid game of out-Faraging the frog faced idiot!
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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My daughter graduated from Winch in 2019. It was always a joy to visit her there. Even when she 'made me' trek up St Catherine's Hill!
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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yup. Cheaper to buy a pie, but there'll be less meat, and more unnecessary additions.
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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I slow cooked a beef casserole yesterday. Enough for mum & I for a couple of days. I had to bulk it with lentils, because the pack of stewing beef was 430g, not 500g. That's at least 3-4 chunks of beef! And I bet it cost as much as 500g was last year. All these crises are caused by corporate greed!
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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If it can keep ads, bots, and trolls out, and stay human, it'll be a force for good. Like Bluesky.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In 2021, income tax personal allowance was frozen at £12,570. If aligned with inflation, it would now be £16,070. A minimum wage earner in England will pay extra £980 in income tax & NIC in 2026-27. Govt can easily increase personal allowance by £3,000, worth £600 to basic rate taxpayer.
leftfootforward.org
This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population
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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You want to talk to 'Boris' then 🫩🤣
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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh well if you say she's lovely, and she's a knitter, and as she's a Sue, I fully understand your mistake 🤣 We're practically the same person, albeit from opposite sides of the Pond.
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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I beg your pardon! Really!! 😂
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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My daughter works for Boots, but I really can't be bothered with their faff! I just put the blister packs in the collection box in store. I can't help thinking there's an element of data mining with recording each item item on the app first. Bugger that!
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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is the result of my daughter scanning her water bottles, crates, and cans into a machine at the supermarket in Germany. She got €10.75. Apparently this gives homeless people an income, collecting other people's rubbish too. Why do we not have this??!!
Machine showing pictures of bottles, cans, and a crate; and €10.75. Text in German
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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Tell me you watched Apocalypse Now! 🤣
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Neoliberals want to end the triple-lock on state pension They inflict low wages, consign millions to poverty. Govt spending on state pension as % of GDP in G7 countries. Italy 12.8 France 12 Germany 9.8 Japan 8.9 USA 6.6 Canada 4.7 UK 4.7 UK has one of the least generous pensions in the G7.
adviserservices.fidelity.co.uk
How does the UK State Pension measure up globally?
A global comparison of State Pension provision highlights the onus on individuals in the UK to build pension savings for their retirement, rather than leaving
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Guardian joins the campaign to abolish the state pension triple-lock. Portrays it as a old v young, social security v defence spending issue. Silence on corporate welfare, tax perks of the rich, maldistribution of wealth, low govt spend on state pension, how future retirees will survive.
theguardian.com
Britain needs cash and everyone knows we should break the pensions triple lock. Where is the courage? | Gaby Hinsliff
The issue cannot be avoided any longer. Andy Burnham and his chancellor must face the fear of a pensioner backlash, and find a fair solution, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
She doesn't even say what upsets her about it, so readers can insert their rant of choice! Awful woman.
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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Well there's one benefit; until I read your email I didn't realise you were on here! I love the #bloomscrolling, wildflowers beautifully photographed, birds from around the world, obscure mosses, knitting, and lovely people. And no ads!!! And occasional politics ofc.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 21/09/2026
And yes, the fact that we still have the government using X is unacceptable - the right time to leave was when Musk’s robot started making non-consensual sexualised images of woman and girls. Easy as that.
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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Nah, even the women are 'men of the people' and behave in equally awful ways
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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Brilliant story 🤣🤣🤣
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
lrb.co.uk
Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So those £36million 'donations' to Reform UK were actually speculative investments ... "Analysis seen by The Independent reveals the wealthiest crypto investors would get £100million a year in tax relief from Nigel Farage’s party" trib.al/P2B8D6C
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"In mainland China a 100-day campaign has been launched to prepare for extreme weather and help safeguard harvests against the opposing extremes of drought and intense rainfall" And in the UK????? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
‘Forcing a reckoning’: How Asia is preparing for a ‘supersized’ El Niño
From Sri Lanka to South Korea, governments are preparing for droughts, wildfires, typhoons and floods – with climate plans facing their biggest challenge to date
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 17/09/2026
The new wild cat species is about the size of a domestic kitten and lives in Bolivia.
nbcnews.to
New wild cat species is identified for first time in 100 years, researchers say
A type of tiger cat, the animal is smaller than a house cat, slender and spotted. It lives in the Bolivian cloud forest.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
US Justice Dept and Reform donor Ben Delo. Pled guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act. Built a company designed to flout US law; willfully failed to implement and maintain even basic anti-money laundering policies. $10 million criminal fine. 30 months of probation, waived by Trump.
justice.gov
 
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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
You don't think this is some kind of sabotage? Cos it certainly doesn't look good! #ReformAreNotYourFriends BBC News - Reform receives second £36m donation in two days as crypto investor matches record www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Reform receives second £36m donation in two days as crypto investor matches record
Christopher Harborne says he has equalled a donation from Ben Delo - the single largest gift to a UK political party.
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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Oh wow! That evoked a smell and a feeling, and I've no idea now what they mean. I'm pretty sure that book was on a shelf in my infants school.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
French EDF Energy in talks to buy British So Energy as UK supply market consolidates. EDF is owned by the French govt. UK profits exported to reduce French household energy bills. Nationalisation of energy would give UK govt more economic options.
euronews.com
French EDF Energy in talks to acquire smaller British rival So Energy
France's EDF Energy is reportedly in discussions to buy So Energy, the smaller British supplier whose Irish parent company has put it up for sale, in a deal that would add to a renewed wave of consoli...
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