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@whynotnow.bsky.social
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UK based I moved from X for obvious reasons and was trying out Bluesky and Threads to see how it goes. Due to Zuckerberg's appalling actions, this is my only home now. I'm not a 'follow me and I'll follow you' kind of person. Don't be offended if I don't.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Word of the day is one I mention often. To have the ‘mubble-fubbles’, in the 16th century, was to experience a fit of despondency or low spirits - another name for the Sunday blues.
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███ACTED @vicjager.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Possibly the best clap back against ignorant antivaxxers.
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The Orkney News @theorkneynews.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
And we have learned nothing. Still poor ventilation in halls and public places.
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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
And so it begins… You can’t appease these people. They only respond to decisive limits. Don’t implement them and they’ll take the piss. We are already in a democratic recession. Labour’s inaction won’t just screw them, it’ll screw us all. Our elections will be bought.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come. ‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair. Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
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Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Happy New Year to you 🤍🤍 2025 bring it on Had enough now of pathetic excuses and the March of the hate-fuelled far right wrong 'uns and grifters I believe we can change the course of our history And it begins in 2025 👍🏼👍🏼
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Jill Hayward @frdragonspouse.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
In the days of the paper reviews on BBC News, I took to googling any contributor I didn't know and/or where their employer/affiliation wasn't stated. 9 times out of ten they were from a right of centre think tank.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
I think that ship has sailed! Should feature in most LBC ‘best of 2024’s though…
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Gerry McGregor @gerrymc.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Mass demonstrations in Georgia by the people who want to join the EU, and Iceland having a referendum on whether to join or not. UK is the except by leaving. Insane by us.
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The Orkney News @theorkneynews.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
On 29th December 1835 the Treaty of New Echota was signed between the US government and representatives of a minority Cherokee political faction to cede all lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the USA The Treaty of New Echota #OnThisDay theorkneynews.scot/2024/12/29/t...
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The Treaty of New Echota #OnThisDay
On 29th December 1835 the Treaty of New Echota was signed between the US government and representatives of a minority Cherokee political faction to cede all lands of the Cherokee east of the Missis…
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Quackery Detector @quackdetector.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
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Thomas P Seager, PhD  @seagertp

In homeopathy, agent concentrations administered are so dilute that they couldn't possibly create a physiological response.
As far as I'm concerned, that's the benefit.
Homeopathy displaces iatrogenic injury from antibiotics, chemo, or other dangerous medical interventions.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Make Jacob’s day by making your New Year's resolution joining a union youtu.be/jg0D2yNiqHM?...
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Let’s make Jacob’s day and join a union today
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
As I’ve said before, we need to make @bsky.app the biggest social media platform on the planet. We need to do it with speed & we need to do it with urgency & then we need to use it with truth & justice to send Elon Musk packing www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
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Elon Musk pens German newspaper opinion piece supporting far-right AfD party
Billionaire Trump adviser said his ‘significant investments’ in the country justified his wading into German politics
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
For many, many years, the Icelandic population were against joining the EU. Now that has flipped over, thanks mailing to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. And their new government has just announced a referendum on EU accession talks. Read more here —> open.substack.com/pub/mikegals...
Polling of Icelanders on for (blue) /against (orange) joining the EU.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
I’m not in a very charitable mood with them either, to tell the truth.
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
I always feel for the retail workers who have to work on Christmas Eve. It feels as if these stores remain open on Christmas Eve to rake in one extra day of holiday profit. I wish they would sacrifice that one extra day of profit so that retail workers could spend the day with their loved ones.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Thames Water diverted millions of pounds pledged for environmental clean-ups to pay bonuses & dividends 187 criminal convictions since 1989, routinely dumps sewage in rivers/seas, neglects investment. Protected by successive govts, customers fleeced. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Revealed: Thames Water diverted ‘cash for clean-ups’ to help pay bonuses
Exclusive: UK’s biggest water company assessed risks before cutting back on cost of environmental work, investigation shows
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Thames Water intentionally diverted millions of pounds pledged for environmental clean-ups towards other costs including bonuses and dividends www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Revealed: Thames Water diverted ‘cash for clean-ups’ to help pay bonuses
Exclusive: UK’s biggest water company assessed risks before cutting back on cost of environmental work, investigation shows
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Good morning, dawn patrol
Dawn in Cheshire
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
This is appalling. How can Badenoch possibly justify this and what an indictment of this archaic system
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Bob @bobrmitchell.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
I can’t wait! The public can now expect to find out the reasons Boris Johnson officially provided for nominating Charlotte Owen and Ross Kempsell to the House of Lords, rosenbaum.org.uk/foi-tribunal...
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FOI Tribunal orders release of Owen and Kempsell peerage citations – Martin Rosenbaum
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Brian Moore @brianmoore666.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
This actually relates to the previous government, and it also says Ofwat were culpable. Shockingly poor headline. - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Government has broken the law on sewage, says watchdog
The OEP has ruled that it allowed excessive sewage into England's rivers and seas.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 17/12/2024
Just a reminder that in 2019, RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine misinformation campaign helped cause a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people, mostly kids. Do you really want him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services?
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
This needs to be taken very seriously. All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Make sure your family’s vaccines are up to date. These fools may wind up revoking access to important ones.
Tweet from @RepublicanVotersAgainstTrump, Text: "Q: 'What do you say to people that are worried that [RFK Jr's] views on vaccines will translate into policies that will make their kids left safe?' Trump: 'There are problems. We don’t do as well as a lot of other nations, and those nations use nothing.'" Below is a photo of Trump standing at a podium.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 17/12/2024
New Christmas lights just went up in Clacton. (Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The media’s dangerous embrace of Farage: a critical look at BBC’s Question Time yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...
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The media’s dangerous embrace of Farage: a critical look at BBC’s Question Time
The BBC’s platforming of Nigel Farage on Question Time promotes divisive and misleading rhetoric, distorting the debate on immigration
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 12/12/2024
The whole point of the GMC is to keep patients safe from harm. But what if, like OFWAT & OFCOM, it’s turning into another politically-neutered, failing regulator? I cannot stand silently by as the GMC fails patients in the PA debacle. Here’s why 👇 app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/68829/...
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Why Britain’s doctors are in revolt
To save the NHS money, the General Medical Council has been pushing the use of physician associates in place of qualified doctors—and putting patients at risk
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
🚨BIG NEWS!🚨 MANIFESTO PLEDGE FULFILLED! I am officially bringing CEEFAX back! On Christmas Day. At 9pm. On BBC Radio 4. I appreciate this presents a challenge, but it’s a challenge I accept. Get ready for the festive treat Earth needs: CEEFAX STRIKES BACK! With Count Binface
Ceefax Strikes Back with Count Binface
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
If you are anti-Brexit and pro EU and want to find some extra followers. RT and reply to this post and add each other. No fun speaking to yourself.
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The Orkney News @theorkneynews.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Kirkwall Community Centre where you can sit back and appreciate some art whilst having an all day breakfast #Orkney
Painting of Kirkwall by Stanley Cutter of the harbour and skyline on the right. On the left big decorated Christmas tree. In front comfy leather sofas and coffee tables
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
🚨Add your name to the petition now and show Wes Streeting YOU stand against new #PFI in our #NHS weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell...
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Tell Wes Streeting - NO new PFI in our NHS!
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
“The Office of National Statistics (ONS) has been working on a new alternative to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a measure of economic activity.” 👏👏👏 About time too! GDP is simplistic, misleading - and the politicians who worship “GDP growth” as a sacred cow are usually wildly misled.
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Rethinking how we measure economic activity
The Office of National Statistics has announced an alternative to GDP; Christopher May assesses the value of the new economic metric
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Paul Briley @paulbriley.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Private healthcare is lobbying Wes Streeting to sign a new PFI deal with them. Time is running out to ask Wes Streeting to say NO. Please add your name to this petition now. #NoNewPFI #nhs weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell...
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Tell Wes Streeting - NO new PFI in our NHS!
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I'm constantly reporting cars that park in my local disabled bay with no blue badge. I then watch from my flat window for the warden to issue a ticket and then for the person discovering their £30 fine whilst clutching a Greggs and having a meltdown. I can't stop doing it.
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The Orkney News @theorkneynews.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
HES has awarded £21,000 to Wessex Archaeology and Dendrochronicle to carry out further research of the Sanday Wreck Funding Provides Research Opportunity for Sanday Shipwreck: “an incredible and rare finding" theorkneynews.scot/2024/12/07/f...
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Funding Provides Research Opportunity for Sanday Shipwreck: “an incredible and rare finding”
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has awarded £21,000 to Wessex Archaeology and Dendrochronicle to carry out further research of the Sanday Wreck, an intact section of shipwreck timbers uncovered…
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Nearly half the 1.5m UK children growing up in poverty in the private rental sector are pushed into it by housing costs. Private renters paying three times as much as mortgagor for the same housing. Yet govts cut real wages/benefits, don't curb profiteering morningstaronline.co.uk/article/priv...
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Private rental costs drive hundreds of thousands of children into poverty
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Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Please sign to protect our NHS from even more Private Healthcare contracts" ⏬
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
One week in...Have you been enjoying our #RSPBAdvent? Let’s see who's behind today's door! 🎄✨
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Just when you thought it couldn’t possibly get any worse… ‘Brexit problem’: UK tap water safety at risk after testing labs shut down www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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‘Brexit problem’: UK tap water safety at risk after testing labs shut down
Exclusive: EU countries will share laboratory capacity but UK rules mean products cannot be tested abroad
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
💧 Now Brexit is putting UK tap water safety at risk 💦 water companies are unable to use products to clean water as all the laboratories that test and certify the chemicals have shut down. 💧 Europe is harmonising standards for EU members by December 2026 1/2 www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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‘Brexit problem’: UK tap water safety at risk after testing labs shut down
Exclusive: EU countries will share laboratory capacity but UK rules mean products cannot be tested abroad
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Paula McGowan OBE @oliverscampaign.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
#Oliverscampaign I fully stand by @BaronessHollins & this report PLEASE SHARE Baroness Hollins' final report: My heart breaks - solitary confinement in hospital has no therapeutic benefit for people with a learning disability and autistic people www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Baroness Hollins' final report: My heart breaks - solitary confinement in hospital has no therapeutic benefit for people with a learning disability and autistic people
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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Top Tory donor and peer stripped of CBE after harassing journalist www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Top Tory donor and peer stripped of CBE after harassing journalist
The Tory peer was ennobled in 2019 in Theresa May’s resignation honours list and has donated around £1.5m to the Tories
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Anthony Stevens 🇪🇺 🇯🇲 💙 @anthonyfstevens.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
🚨* First steps toward repairing Britain's broken economy? Reeves & Reynolds: #UK wants to lower trade barriers in a number of sectors & push for #Britain to permanently align with #EU rules in areas such as pharmaceuticals, cars & agriculture. 🇬🇧 🌹 🇪🇺 www.europesays.com/1668431/
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Rachel Reeves to pledge ‘ambitious’ economic partnership with EU
Rachel Reeves will on Monday lay the ground in Brussels for an “ambitious” new economic partnership with the
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The Orkney News @theorkneynews.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Feeling cold with northerly winds becoming strong with some coastal gales. Maximum temperature 6 °C. Weather Forecast: Further rain Saturday morning, drier in afternoon. Cold, quite windy. theorkneynews.scot/2024/12/07/w...
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Weather Forecast: Further rain Saturday morning, drier in afternoon. Cold, quite windy.
Information from The Met Office Today 7th December: Cloudy with outbreaks of rain in the morning then becoming generally drier and brighter in the late afternoon with the odd shower persisting. Fee…
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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
"I have been aware of United Healthcare for..30 years. They are renowned..for their..emphasis on not funding psychiatric care.. Physicians like me have been railing against United Healthcare..for decades. And nobody... cares." @gdspeedskates.bsky.social real-psychiatry.blogspot.com/2024/12/soci...
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Social Media Discovers Managed Care and Rages - Or Not?
psychiatry blog, George Dawson MD, Real Psychiatry
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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
When I was in an NHS hospital for my serious illness 16 years ago, I had my own telly in my isolation room. I watched an episode of US Law & Order on a freeview channel, about a chap who did a kidnapping because his daughter had been refused a treatment by his health insurer. He ended up acquitted.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Had a postman called Pat on the show yesterday & completely failed to clock it. For shame. On the other hand, spotted that rascal @realdomjoly.bsky.social roaming the corridors & got him in the studio to confirm/claim that he was not the crazy farmer from a couple of weeks ago…
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Bluesky
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
🚨THIS WEEKEND please join me & The British Heart Foundation in inspiring the nation to learn LIFE SAVING CPR❤️🙏 450,000 people have now engaged with the FREE online training course to learn CPR in JUST 15 MINUTES! Sadly many of us will witness a cardiac arrest in our lifetime - let’s be ready
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