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Joseph Healy

@verde1957.bsky.social
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Retired UNITE member and active pensioner in Southwark Pensioners. Active socialist Dubliner Covid activist and veteran queer activist Hates Fascists, transphobes and anti vaxxers

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Boom bitch 💥
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
History’s most deadly plagues ranked – from Black Death, Spanish flu to COVID-19 • Black Death: 75–200M • Spanish Flu: 25–100M • Plague of Justinian: 15–100M • Smallpox: 25–56M • HIV/AIDS: ~45M • COVID-19: 7–38M • Third Plague: 12–15M • Cocoliztli: 5–15M • Antonine Plague: 5–10M • Cholera: 1.4–9M+
A screenshot of a news article from the Daily Star titled "History's most deadly plagues ranked – from Black Death, Spanish flu to Covid-19," updated on October 7, 2026.
The subheadline notes that a suspected Siberian lab-linked pneumonic plague outbreak and a 200-person quarantine have reignited interest in history's deadliest pandemics.
Below the text is a poignant photograph of young South African AIDS advocate Nkosi Johnson resting in a hospital bed with a nasal cannula, holding hands with his adoptive mother, Gail Johnson, who leans in close to look at him.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 07/10/2026
Have covid. As someone who ended up in a wheelchair because of long covid, always particularly scary for me.
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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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Joseph Healy @verde1957.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Going tomorrow to London Irish Centre for a reception for Irish #survivors of the terrible gulags of the Catholic Church- Magdalene Laundries and Industrial Schools and the organisations which support them. Will meet the new Irish ambassador for 1st time and also other survivors in the #Diaspora 🇮🇪⛪
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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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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The West is falling. So why has it been left to the Right to talk about it? My new book 'The Fall of the West: How They Really Lost It' is out now: www.penguin.co.uk/books/468587
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
When someone on the left says they can't stomach Labour and can't vote for them it's seen as a big problem with THAT voter and they shouldn't be such a childish nasty little shit, When someone says they can't stomach a leftwing party and shan't be voting for them it's the PARTY that needs to change.
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Romayne Phoenix @romaynephoenix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From Council Media Estate : ‘Zionism (a 130-year-old ideology) is not Judaism (a 3,500-year-old religion). An estimated 70-90% of Zionists are Christians. There are some Zionists of other faiths and of no faith. Therefore, anti-Zionism is not antisemitism’ open.substack.com/pub/councile...
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The media refuses to ask Palestinians if Zionism is racism. Apparently, only Zionist feelings count.
The most telling thing about the backlash against the Greens’ “Zionism is racism” motion is the refusal of the media to platform Palestinians.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Leader of party - that sold its own shrivelled soul to the devils of austerity and Brexit - will use her conference speech to slag off Labour (yawn) and make the only promise the Tories ever make - cutting taxes… They have nothing new or credible… or just plain nice… to say any more.
THE
TIMES
Wednesday October 7 2026

Badenoch promises tax cuts in 'battle for the soul of this nation'
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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
STEP 1️⃣: Don't vaccinate millions of Clinically Vulnerable people 🚫💉 STEP 2️⃣: Act confused when the next big Covid wave sends them to hospital 🌊🏥
dailymail.com
Covid hospitalisations up five-fold in a month, while cases double
Diagnoses of the bug are at their highest level since October 2025 and rising levels of Britons are being admitted for care. Figures show 950 admissions this August, which jumped to 4,939 in September...
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Kyiv. I am in my favorite bookstore. That means I crossed the Dnipro River. Trains of my metro line run across it again with some restrictions. Relief. I write more about how Kyiv and I live in the letters. Sunday Letter from Kyiv. Sounds good.
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
On our InterRail trip,we had an accidental Reformation-CounterReformation theme - from the site of Martin Luther's theological duel with Cardinal Cajetan at the Imperial Diet of Augsburg in 1518 - to the site of the inaugural procession of the Council of Trent at Chiesa della Santa Trinità in 1545
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The UK's state pension is not generous compared to others in Europe. Older people relying on the state pension have to get by on barely over £1000 a month. Andy Burnham’s plans to end the triple lock are unacceptable, morally wrong and the SNP will stand against them.
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Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Chad Gray cancels shows due to vocal issues and illness nextmosh.com/chad-gray-ca...
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Chad Gray cancels shows due to vocal issues & illness
Chad Gray has canceled his upcoming San Diego and Santa Ana solo shows as he deals with vocal issues and illness.
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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
40% of surveyed HIV organisations had run out of stocks of vital products, such as PrEP or HIV tests, as a result of cuts to international aid funding, led by Trump. More people will acquire HIV. More people will die of AIDS. “This is not a distant risk – it is already happening.”
theguardian.com
Shortages of crucial HIV medicines due to aid cuts are a ‘warning’, say experts
More than half of organisations providing HIV care surveyed by International Planned Parenthood Federation said they had run out of stock at some point during past 12 months
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Voters loathed the Tory party when they booted them out in 2024.They really needed to shake off their disgrace with humility and better ideas. They haven’t. They’ve doubled down. More Brexit, more austerity, more anti-immigration ugliness, more tedious arrogance… and no good reason to vote for them.
Party seems to have learnt nothing from 2024 defeat
John Oxley

The Conservative Party is keen to show it is now ready to return to government, two and a half years after a
historic defeat.Their self-soothing explanation posits that defeat came from not being able to do what they wanted 

No such pivot is happening at the current conference. The Tories have come to Birmingham calling for a return to orthodoxy, with similar lines about cutting benefits and regulation. Even so, they seem trapped by the same contradictions
- pledging to cut benefits, but not the winter fuel payments and triple lock on pensions that go to their voters.
There is no "hug-a-hoodie" moment in Birmingham. The Conservative Party is not indicating that it has changed or seeking to broaden its appeal. It is doing the opposite: it is a party returning to its core, restating all the old ideas voters have rejected but louder.
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The Daily Britain @thedailybritain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🚨 NEW POLLING: Labour appears to be winning young voters back under Andy Burnham. Support among 18 to 24-year-olds has climbed from just 14% when Keir Starmer stood down in June to 27% now, according to polling tracked by The Independent. Reform UK is on just 7% among the same age group.
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 05/10/2026
📢A new megapoll has found that 53.4% of people in the UK want to stay in the ECHR versus 24.2% of people against👇 🔗 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o... via @theguardian.com The ECHR is on the side of the people, and vice versa.
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Half of UK wants to rejoin EU and backing it could drive up Labour vote, megapoll finds
Exclusive: Findings will bolster those in No 10 who want to negotiate on re-entry but some senior figures remain wary
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Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Kansas records more than 200 tuberculosis cases in 2026: KDHE www.ksnt.com/news/kansas/...
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Kansas records more than 200 tuberculosis cases in 2026: KDHE
TOPEKA (KSNT) – State health officials have recorded over 200 cases of tuberculosis in Kansas so far this year following a major outbreak. Staff with the Kansas Department of Health and Envir…
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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is obviously a worrying development, especially considering the fact that air travel was involved. I am considerably more concerned by the ongoing outbreak of Ebola in this region than I am by current events in Russia. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Kenya confirms first case of Ebola Bundibugyo virus
The patient had been living in DR Congo, where more than 4,000 people have died from the disease this year.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Devoid of ideas, Tories vow return to Thatcherite policies. They want to cut social spending, build prisons, cut taxes for the rich, free childcare for individuals earning £1m. What will they privatise, sell to foreign investors? No ideas on infrastructure investment, regulation of capitalism.
independent.co.uk
Kemi Badenoch positions herself as modern day Thatcher and vows to revive Tories
The Tory leader dismissed suggestions that her focus on cutting benefits and building more prisons signalled a return of the ‘nasty party’
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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 06/10/2026
With respect to the Times’ claim that ‘£100,000 is not the lavish payday it used to be’: yes it fucking is. The fact that these knobs can write that shows just how lazy & out of touch Times journalists are. Just how difficult is it to visit the ONS website & check? Too hard for the chump below.
The Times.
[Profile picture of a smug twat.]
BEN WILKINSON 
It's about time high earners had a tax
break A salary of £100,000 is not the lavish payday it used to be — politicians need to
stop penalising the aspirational
Ben Wilkinson, Head of Money
Monday October 05 2026, 6.25pm, The Sunday Times
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Douglas Murray hasn't just been wrong. He's been catastrophically wrong - over and over and over again.
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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I wish we had a tenth of the spirit of the French when it comes to things like this. We just passively accept degraded services year on year.
LIVE Protesters start fires and clash with police as school demonstrations spread across France

Students, parents, and unions are protesting at what they say is under-investment in education - with hundreds of schools closed either fully or partially.
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The Daily Britain @thedailybritain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage has strongly hinted Reform UK's internal investigation will CLEAR two senior aides suspended following Channel 4's undercover donations investigation. Asked about the inquiry today, Farage said: "It's been done. It'll be out in public very soon."
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Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fourth COVID-19 Vaccine Dose Cuts Long COVID Risk by Nearly a Third in Immune Population bioengineer.org/fourth-covid...
bioengineer.org
Fourth COVID-19 Vaccine Dose Cuts Long COVID Risk by Nearly a Third in
Even as the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic has faded into memory, one question has continued to trouble clinicians and public health planners alike: does an additional booster dose still offer
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Nurse! He's out of bed again!" I'd normally be quite worried for a weird little man with an unhealthy obsession about rubber dinghies... But you can be damn certain that if parliament is sitting for any length of time, Nigel won't be there! 🤣
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We were right about all the big calls.  The West’s elites were wrong. My new book The Fall of the West: How They Really Lost It is out today! Get a copy here: www.penguin.co.uk/books/468587
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump moves 9,000 troops to Middle East after threatening to hit Iran ‘very hard’. Distraction from Trump's economic failures, midterm blues, capitulation to China, court rebukes, tariff and press wars, self-aggrandizement, family fortunes from corruption Why does US Congress not check his abuses?
independent.co.uk
Trump moves 9,000 troops to Middle East after threatening to hit Iran - latest
The US president said the war will end ‘one way or another’
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
She peddles disinformation that can, if followed have fatal results, yet gets a luxury paid for visit to UK. Shameful that people profit from exploiting others in this way
theguardian.com
‘Self-healing’ coach who was banned from working in Australia to speak in UK
Barbara O’Neill has previously claimed that cancer is a fungus that can be treated with bicarbonate soda
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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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Another Europe Is Possible @anothereurope.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's ON! Andy Burnham says the UK could go 'all the way' and we agree. Our NC member @seemasyeda.bsky.social spoke to Nick Campbell on BBC5 this morning. It makes sense - for the climate, for peace, for our rights, for the economy, let's get back in:
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
US forces to leave Iraq despite fears Iran will exploit withdrawal. All over the world illegal US wars have killed millions, fermented instability, bitterness and possibilities of extremist regimes. Corporations profited. When will US and its allies realise that they can't rule the world?
news.sky.com
US forces to leave last bases in Iraq despite fears Iran will exploit withdrawal
Iraqi security experts have warned the departure could give Tehran and its allies free rein while also risking a comeback from ISIS.
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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Jr. told a MAHA summit that AI could provide a medical “second opinion” better informed than any doctor and could “free us from medical tyranny.” He encouraged Americans to use AI to challenge public-heal... TAT: [Attacking science | Controlling information]
futurism.com
RFK Jr Announcing That AI Is Now Better Than Human Doctors Shows That He Is a Buffoon Who Is Ruining Trust in American Health Institutions
RFK Jr. said that AI models are now better informed than any doctor, proclaiming the tech will "free us from medical tyranny."
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Millions of UK workers withdrawing from pension schemes to make ends meet Consequence of low wages and high cost of living forcing people into hardship choices - living now v income in retirement. They will have lower private pension in later life and state pension isn't enough even now.
bbc.co.uk
Why Gen Z are opting out of workplace pensions
A growing number of people are opting out of these schemes due to cost-of-living pressures.
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Fransglobal @fransglobal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Riding the DART train along Killiney Bay, Dublin 🇮🇪
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
When what we call in Dublin "the bleedin' obvious" solutions are staring you straight in the face but idelogy, corruption & bribery blind you from seeing them
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
That thug sabotaging rescue efforts, racist riots, flags on lampposts, pink ladies wanting to burn down hotels, doxxing charity workers, ICE-style deportation plans, threats to scrap the Equality Act and leave the ECHR… “legitimate concerns” No. A tornado of hate and prejudice set off by Farage.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 23/09/2026
Macron positions himself as Trump's opposite in last UN speech
lemonde.fr
Macron positions himself as Trump's opposite in last UN speech
The French president delivered a forceful defense of multilateralism and international law in the face of 'a new age of barbarism.' His remarks contrasted starkly with those made hours earlier by the American leader.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Rebuilding our relationship with the EU “is the cheapest way to boost the economy, the fastest way to unite Europe in the face of security threats and the best way to get leverage on a global system that no longer has an American anchor.” So obvious it hurts. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Brexit has left Britain ‘impotent – a bobbing cork in the sea,’ says David Miliband
Exclusive: Former foreign secretary adds to mounting pressure for a new UK deal with EU to repair Brexit damage
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LordSteveyPofStoke @lordsteveyp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

OSWALD MOSELY  NIGEL FARAGE
THE SAME STORY, SEPARATED BY 80 YEARS... WEALTHY FAMILY, PUBLIC SCHOOL
EX-TORY, PART OF THE ESTABLISHMENT
POPS UP DURING A RECESSION CAUSED BY BANKERS 
FORMS NATIONALIST AUTHORITARIAN POLITICAL PARTY 
CLAIMS TO SPEAK FOR THE MAN IN THE STREET
BLAMES MINORITIES AT THE BOTTOM FOR THE PROBLEMS CAUSED BY PEOPLE AT THE TOP
Anti-
REFORM
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
While waiting for Trump to enter the signing of the US-Denmark-Greenland agreement at the UN, they chose “Send in the Clowns” as the background music. Yes, it’s real.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
"A brand new CNN poll shows President Trump at an all time low in his approval rating... look at his net approval rating now with pure independents - it's negative 71 points! I mean, these are the deep depths of the ocean. You never see numbers like these. An 86 point shift away from the president!"
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I had a massive bust-up over North Sea gas and oil with Lord Jackson on Politics Live today. "It shocks me to the core that sopmeone so ignorant, so ill-informed, sits in the House of Lords." I just wish I could figure out how to clip it. From 20'47" www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Two - Politics Live, 23/09/2026
The big political issues of the day.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Large part of the UK press has been on the wrong side of history, fuelling hatred, social divisions, supporting authoritarianism. Their support for the current Blackshirts has a history (see below) as they continue to support the far-right stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8672...
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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Today is #ADayWithHIV. Our visibility, as people living with HIV, challenges the ignorance and fear that results in stigma. On 22 Sept every year those of us who feel able to do so share something about our lives. So this is me, shamelessly HIV+. Oh yeah, and the ‘tache has gone… for now.
Me, working out this morning in pink vest, with a smile and a shaved lip.
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