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Tracy Saunders

@tracysaunders.bsky.social
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Quality Assurance Consultant, Chief Wine Ponce and Baking Ninja! Also an enthusiastic amateur artist. Based in the beautiful Garden of England!

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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 13h
IT'S WEDNESDAY! It's #buyastrangerabook day. A groovy kind of day all round.. 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. UK only It's a thing! Look. www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...
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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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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you could take a minute to read this and, if it takes your fancy, then re-post it… I’d be so grateful. 🙏🏻 I’m doing my utmost to #SaveSquareChapelArts for the good people of Halifax & far beyond, and I need all the help you lovely lot can give me. Thank you! x www.canncomms.co.uk/post/actor-a...
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Actor and long-standing Patron, Reece Dinsdale fronts new campaign to save Halifax’s Square Chapel Arts Centre
Photo credit: Reece Dinsdale in the cinema/studio space at Square Chapel (photo by Ant Robling)Reece Dinsdale leads Square Chapel rescue mission: “It’s time to bring it home”Award-Winning Actor, Write...
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Oonagh @okeating.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This takes less than a minute and the deadline is tonight. Can you respond to Ofwat's consultation to demand they BLOCK the water bill hike. If water companies can't survive without hiking our bills, let them go bust and bring them into public ownership. weownit.org.uk/NoBillHike
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Ofwat: No to water bills hike, let them go bust - Respond by midnight on Thursday 24th September
Demand that Ofwat says no to bill hikes. Let water companies go bust and bring them into public ownership for nothing.
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Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Oh, Viz.
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Libby @captainlibatron.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The organ donation register is here: register.organdonation.nhs.uk/start/
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Register or update your decision - NHS Organ Donation
Use this form to register a decision about what you want to happen to your organs and tissue when you die.
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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
just learned this today
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My tour has sold out so far but I'm not going to lie, I appear to be as popular in Canterbury as an AI data centre so if you come to that one, we'll probably be able to all have a cup of tea and a chat after. thegulbenkian.co.uk/events/micha...
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Michael Spicer - Hope all's well
Michael Spicer, the online sensation who brought you the award-winning viral hit The Room Next Door, brings another hilarious and brilliantly entertaining
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
IT'S WEDNESDAY! It's #buyastrangerabook day. A groovy kind of day all round.. 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. UK only It's a thing! Look. www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...
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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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Everyone’s Favourite Jim @jimmeruk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Cunts have just stolen my bike from the garage and fucked my garage door. If anyone sees this around Croydon, let me know.
Norco Threshold A1 with orange Brooks bartape and saddle.
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Tracy Saunders @tracysaunders.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Shame to see Otto spouting absolute shite. I'm in central Canterbury, no power problems at all (don't want to jinx it) and lots of people round here aren't Reform voters. Have posted a reply to him to correct but am now anticipating a pile on. What are you supposed to do???
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is a cool way to support the amazing RNLI. They're called "Betty's 5p pots". You can pick them up at RNLI shops (or you can use a jar of your own!) You collect your 5p's in it & when it's full, you drop it into them and they replace it with a new pot. Just thought i'd mention it.
A small jam jar, with a Lifeboats sticker on the lid. Next to it is two 5p pieces.
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I don’t know if Big Andy & the rest of the government are aware of this but groups of organised and uniformed fascists don’t sit down and hang up their blackshirts after demonstrating the ability to shut down towns & parade their hatred
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Today’s poem is called ‘Love Excels’.
[image description: a poem embedded in an Excel spreadsheet with the words contained within individual cells. Line 3 has words in a single merged cell. Line 4 has text wrapping applied. Line 8 has filters applied to each word]

Love Excels

Let’s spread ourselves on sheets of love
and turn our data into poetry.
Our cells shall merge themselves together
As you wrap your text around me.

Our sum is greater than our parts,
let’s crunch our figures without compunction.
Remove this filter from my heart –
you give me form and function.

We shall frolic among the formulae,
pivot our tables now and often.
I will total all your rows
and you can add my column.

Brian Bilston
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This Neo-Nazi is attempting to target RNLI volunteers. The police have to act, and the Prime Minister should be making a public statement.
Neo Nazi attempts to target RNLI volunteers
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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The fact something as fundamental and superb as the RNLI is a charity is one of the most magical and strange things about Britain. You can support them here. rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 08/09/2026
Easy to follow guide from the British press
An elderly lady being carried away by the police, labelled intimidating, and two black clad, balaclava wearing men standing in front of someone’s car, staring at them.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Any person or organisation questioning their actions or loyalty to this country should be corrected and ostracised. Anyone can drown, but no one should. rnli.org/support-us
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Charity Support For The RNLI - Save Lives At Sea Your Way
Discover ways you can get involved and provide charity support for the RNLI. As a charity, we rely on the support of people like you to save lives at sea.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Since its foundation in 1824 the bravery of Royal National Lifeboat Institution volunteers has saved more than 146,700 lives at sea. Hundreds of those volunteers have died attempting to save others. They are the best of us.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you would like to add your voice to tens of thousands of people thanking RNLI volunteers for their work, 38 Degrees have organised this open letter to express public support (at a time when a hateful fringe have been intimidating & abusing RNLI volunteers) act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...
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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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Jane Hill @janehill.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Ovarian Cancer Action, the charity I’m fundraising for, aren’t on Bluesky, so in a moment I’ll post some stuff from one of their Facebook posts. But in the meantime, this graphic is why I go on about it so much…

GYNAE CANCER
AWARENESS MONTH
The 5 gynaecological cancers from highest to lowest survival rate

Womb (Uterine)
Cervical
Vulval
Vaginal
Ovarian
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 05/09/2026
My cousin’s shirt took me a second. He said “it’s great because anyone who would be offended by it couldn’t understand it anyway.”
A shirt with the following words in rainbow colors:
Fluorine
Uranium
Carbon
Potassium
Titanium
Rubidium
Uranium
Magnesium
Platinum
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Mikeado @mikeado.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Got two tickets for Pulp at Wythenshawe Park tomorrow going spare. £140 face value but would take £100. How many people are even on Bluesky to see this? Not shifting these, am I.
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Just remembered the Dolly Parton bus.
The National Express 925 bus service between Woking Station and Heathrow Airport.
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It's #buyastrangerabook day. And @electrarhodes.bsky.social has sent me £50 to buy books for people, as a celebration of Dolly Parton. So, if there's a particular book you're after, just let us know. UK only
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
More #buyastrangerabook loveliness. In honour of Dolly's most fantastic imagination library, @helenliz.bsky.social will buy any kids book (one per kid), that you'd like. Check out the offer and get in touch if there's a particular book you're after. UK only.
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Tracy Saunders @tracysaunders.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If you're interested in good food and wine content, the latest YouTube video on Adam Byatt's channel is a fascinating long form chat with The Wine Guy Tom Gilbey. Well worth a watch.
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Elanor @elanorandthearts.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
CALLING LONDONERS 📣 My friend has spent FIVE YEARS developing her play—a queer horror story—and she's hardly sold any tickets. She's travelling down from Leeds and I'm devastated 🥺 The Haunting of Verity Evans, The Hope Theatre, 25th–26th August. I hope you'll join me! Please share if you can't!
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A Bluesky user has written to me to ask me to stop mentioning my books on here. I wonder... Should I continue trying my best to make a living in a tough world via the writing I've spent decades putting my heart & soul into? Or should I obey them? Nah. I'm going to continue mentioning my books.
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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Can you help us reach more people than ever before? Respond to our Trans Lives Survey today, and share on your social media, so we can get a full picture of the experiences and views of trans people in the UK. Take the survey here: form.typeform.com/to/BRppksJ3 #TransLives #TransSurvey #Trans
A pink and blue graphic with a black and white cartoon of some people on the bottom. 

Text reads: TransActual is launching its biggest survey for the trans community yet!

TRANS LIVES SURVEY

2026

We want to hear about your experiences as a trans person living in the UK.

It's quick, anonymous, and will help us campaign for our community!
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I do a thing called Big Green Book Club. It's a subscription service where, based on the kind of books you enjoy, I individually pick, wrap and post out a book for you each month. Kids & adults. 3,6 & 12 month options. I think I do OK. Details HERE www.biggreenbookshop.com/book-club/in...
A dozen or so piles of different books, each with an envelope sticking out of them. Seven piles of neatly packed up books. 

These are the books I chose to send out to each individual subscriber of Th Big Green Book Club
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.
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Bertha Mason @thornfieldhall.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
In the aftermath of yesterday's unannounced emergency alerts, I thought it might be useful to repost the Women's Aid instructions for turning these alerts off and preventing alarms that might reveal the hiding place of spare phones kept by vulnerable people. womensaid.org.uk/uk-emergency...
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UK emergency alerts: How to stay safe - Women’s Aid
UK emergency alerts: How to stay safe   A nationwide test of the UK’s emergency alert service will take place at 3pm on Sunday 7 September 2025. The alerts will warn you if there’s a danger to life ne...
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lasha3D @lasha3d.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
looking for a job Rt if you can 🙏
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Lots of unclaimed #buyastrangerabook offers! 8 lovely offers today and only one has gone! So loads left I'm going out to watch a pram race now (yes!). I'll be back in an hour or so. Check the hashtag, ask for books please and offer books please? UK only www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...
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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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Newham Bookshop @newhambookshop.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Please read and share widely.
Newham Bookshop facing 32% rent increase with £20K due immediately.
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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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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Psst.. anyone wanna buy a book? Anything you like. Hardbacks, paperbacks. I can even get hold of some of that spiral bound stuff, if that's what you're into. No questions asked. Discreet delivery. Nobody will know. Email biggreenbooks@gmail.com for some hot book buying action.
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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The DWP are asking for people to contribute evidence for a forthcoming review of Carers Allowance and how it operates. Admittedly this is niche, but please spread the word so it reaches the right people. www.gov.uk/government/c...
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Carer's Allowance: call for evidence
This call for evidence is being administered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to gather information and views to build on the Department’s existing evidence. What we hear will help shape ...
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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x
A crappy photoshop paint image with a red star on blue, in comic sans is the message 'some people on the internet aren't American'
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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
If you listened to Lento during the dry days and nights of July, could you show your support with a coffee? 🎧❤️🎧 ko-fi.com/radiolento Every donation helps to cover our hosting and production costs. Thank you.
tall grasses in a field. yellows and greens. summer.
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
IT'S WEDNESDAY! It's #buyastrangerabook day! The grooviest day of all. 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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Chortle @chortle.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Live At The Apollo is dead
dlvr.it
Live At The Apollo is dead
BBC axes stand-up showcase after 22 years
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Let's play "Guess How Many Books I Sell Today". I'm working until about 10pm, so there's plenty of time for book sales! Nearest guess wins a book of their choice, up to about a tenner or thereabouts. Reply with your guess before 1.45pm (and please repost). GOOD LUCK! #ghmbist
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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
This concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.
When I was at one of my lowest (mental) points in life, I couldn't get out of bed some days. I had no energy or motivation and was barely getting by.

I had therapy once per week, and on this particular week I didn't have much to 'bring' to the session. He asked how my week was and I really had nothing to say.

'What are you struggling with?' he asked.

I gestured around me and said 'I dunno man. Life.'

Not satisfied with my answer, he said 'No, what exactly are you worried about right now? What feels overwhelming? When you go home after this session, what issue will be staring at you?'

I knew the answer, but it was so ridiculous that I didn't want to say it. I wanted to have something more substantial.
Something more profound.

But I didn't.

So I told him, 'Honestly? The dishes. It's stupid, I know, but the more I look at them the more I CAN'T do them because I'll have to scrub them before I put them in the dishwasher, because the dishwasher sucks, and I just can't stand and scrub the dishes.'

I felt like an idiot even saying it.

What kind of grown ass woman is undone by a stack of dishes? There are people out there with *actual* problems, and I'm whining to my therapist about dishes?

But he nodded in understanding and then said:

'RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE.'I began to tell him that you're not supposed to, but he stopped me.

'Why the hell aren't you supposed to? If you don't want to scrub the dishes and your dishwasher sucks, run it twice. Run it three times, who cares?! Rules do not exist.'

It blew my mind in a way that I don't think I can properly express.

That day, I went home and tossed my smelly dishes haphazardly into the dishwasher and ran it three times.

I felt like I had conquered a dragon.

The next day, I took a shower lying down.

A few days later. I folded my laundry and put them wherever the fuck they fit.

There were no longer arbitrary rules I had to follow, and it gave me the freedom to make accomplishments again.

Now that I'm in a healthier place, I rinse off my dishes and put them in the dishwasher properly. I shower standing up. I sort my laundry.

But at a time when living was a struggle instead of a blessing, I learned an incredibly important lesson:

THERE ARE NO RULES. RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE!!!"
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 26/07/2026
150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.
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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Did you know that there are 64 full episodes on our YouTube channel? And video extras. And curated playlists so you can explore rain, sea or sleep safe listens. Like and subscribe. 👍❤️ Share. 🔁 Comment. 🗨️
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297 Sonorous rural woodland before an approaching storm
YouTube video by Radio Lento
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Tracy Saunders @tracysaunders.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Hi @seanayling.bsky.social I'm wanting to message you but I can't as I assume you're not following me? Could you please DM me so I can reply? Ta!
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