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Willowade

@willowade.bsky.social
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40something Clan Matriarch to Lifelings & friends 🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) Nurturing these amazing people to stand up for what they believe in. 💖 Ft my #FurBabies 🐾🐾🐾 #NeuroDiverse

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Willowade @willowade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Eek! Glad I checked the 1730 train wasn’t cancelled. Apparently we are on bus replacement that was leaving at 1703 and it was 1654 when I checked 😳 thankfully made the bus so will not pay through the nose for a cab just so i can meet the 1900 start for 12 hour shift 😩
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Willowade @willowade.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Over eight hours into a twelve hour shift and I have only booked in 21 drivers. Next sailing is not until 07:50 by which time I will be well away! At least, I hope to be!!
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Willowade @willowade.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Stepped out for a moment and was so glorious outside I decided to sod the chores in the house and tidy up out there instead. Great timing as garden waste collection is tomorrow. 😅 Unfortunately, I M now back in the house having to do chores. 😔
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 01/09/2026
This is deliberate. And it's illegal. “This level of criminality shows that water companies do not believe they, or the government, will ever do anything meaningful to stop them.” www.theguardian.com/business/2026/s…
theguardian.com
Dry weather sewage discharges soar as water companies face scrutiny
Exclusive: 7,280 suspected illegal spills in rivers and sea recorded in first five months of 2026
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Willowade @willowade.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Asher is at doggy daycare on the farm this morning and Merlin has been missing him so he’s picked me for company instead 😍
On a patterned fuchsia bedding, a Fluffy Siamese cross cat is laying on its side with its paws up looking adorably cute
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.
Telegraph article: John Cleese: I trust Rupert Lowe more than any other leader
Monty Python star backs the Restore Britain founder in a series of social media posts
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Willowade @willowade.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Explaining to call staff my daughter’s blood group may have been incorrectly noted. BOTH my parents are AB+ and I am B+ I have no O allele in my blood. Their father is O+ but as I will have given each of my children a B allele, they should ALL show as B+ My child is recorded as O+ 😳
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Andy Burnham to make it harder for people to claim benefits, vows to ‘get serious’ about cutting welfare bill. Silence on corporate welfare. 37.8% of Universal Credit claimants are in work. Due to hikes in retirement age, many seniors can't work, claim benefits. Women will be hardest hit.
independent.co.uk
Burnham to make some benefits conditional and ‘get serious’ about cutting welfare
New prime minister has also warned that ‘the NHS will collapse’ unless he fixes social care
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Flounder Cat @floundercat.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We want to inspire others to dance with their pets! We challenge YOU to do this dance with your dog or cat (or fish). Just teach them the routine below, film it, and then challenge some friends so they can join in the fun too! *Be sure to tag ⁨@floundercat⁩ and ⁨@Thesupercollies⁩
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Willowade @willowade.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Heading in fur night three of four. Thankfully my work wife will be in tonight so hoping that will make the night go at a better pace. 😁
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Willowade @willowade.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Night shifts are wild. Yesterday, after shift 1 of 4, practically comatose. But today, woke up after nap, sorted the front garden, had a long chat with new neighbour, then came in and baked cup cakes AND cleared the kitchen (inc the prev nights dishes) while cakes were in the oven. 😅
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Willowade @willowade.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Heading to an old family friends restaurant for a meal to celebrate my mum who will be turning 80 this week. 🥳🥳
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Willowade @willowade.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
So, yday my sis asked in fam group chat if any takers for a rehoming a dog. Kids begged but I said out how bro desperately needs a pet when my mum casually mentions that if she is given the dog for her b’day next week, no one (my dad) can really say anything. 😂 so Asher may have a new cousin soon 😍
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Terrible news: the Court of Appeal has just ruled that the Government’s ban on Palestine Action is lawful. PA is now likely to lodge an appeal before the Supreme Court. So the mass arrests of peaceful people sitting with cardboard signs will continue. Because that is what terrorism looks like ...
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/06/2026
I think every politician who proposes to ban anything on the internet for teens should be required to propose, as an alternate, a free and accessible and all weather space for teens to hang out in their own hometown
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Willowade @willowade.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Had a lovely weekend making flowery headbands with my kids and goddaughter. So much fun being together and bringing some of our own sunshine in what was an overcast day 🥰
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Willowade @willowade.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Managed to cut the lawn after finding my hedge trimmer in daughter’s bedroom. (She was holding it while k was decorating my own room). Glad to have made a start despite the rain today but the nettles definitely fought back as I am covered in stings 😩 I may clean out the fire pit for later 🤔
Pile of wild flower cuttings in front of lawn that has just been trimmed. There is a pale grey table on the right with a hula hoop behind it but that is just junk I keep in the garden and has no relevance to the post. My hand. Brown skin covered in slightly raised bumps from nettle stings that have a pink hue developing due to rash
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Willowade @willowade.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
These last six weeks in my world have been utterly crazy but in a good way, for a change. Amongst the Lifelings we have had; a new job, TWO newly emerged adults in home, a graduation, a new driver, and a winner of a national creative competition for sustainability. 🥳
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
"Our community is scared and exhausted but we are fighting back." It's important that all of us who stand with the LGBTIQA+ community support the Good Law project in their appeal against the high court decision. Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️ greenparty.org.uk/2026/05/22/s...
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Sian Berry MP responds to EHRC single-sex space guidance - Green Party
Sian Berry MP said:“While some consideration seems to have been given to the utter impracticality of implementing the previous version of this code, under the demands of the Supreme Court judgment, th...
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Willowade @willowade.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Far right newspapers are trying to run a smear campaign against Misan Harriman. We can't let them. Add your name to the open letter, and stand against hate and division. goodlawproject.org/s/4ca10b
goodlawproject.org
Misan Harriman Handraiser | Good Law Project
Far right newspapers are trying to run a smear campaign against Misan Harriman. Add your name to the open letter, and stand against hate and division.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
ChatGPT is shedding users fast. Since yesterday alone, estimates suggest more than a million accounts have been deleted and the boycott continues to gain momentum. Incredible work, everyone!
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
THIS. This right here. There are many anti-UBI people who's core anger about the idea stems from jealousy that Others might not suffer like they did/do, and jealousy that the people who do "menial" labor will be treated equally to them
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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 15/11/2025
I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge. Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots. A thread 🧵 1/8 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Remember: what Trump and his administration are doing is only possible because Congress and the Supreme Court have abdicated their proper constitutional functions of check and balance.
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Nathalie Tocci @nathalietocci.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Europe’s failure to condemn Trump’s illegal aggression in Venezuela isn’t just wrong – it’s stupid. My piece @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Europe’s failure to condemn Trump’s illegal aggression in Venezuela isn’t just wrong – it’s stupid | Nathalie Tocci
The more European countries act as colonies, unable and unwilling to stand up to Trump, the more they’ll be treated as such, says Guardian Europe columnist Nathalie Tocci
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Your fact of the day: The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in six American citizens suffers a food-borne illness annually. In the UK, the figure is one in 132. bylinetimes.com/2020/02/28/f...
bylinetimes.com
Fowl Play: How US Chicken Imports will Pollute Britain's Poor
Since joining the EU British food has gone from bog-awful to top-notch, but Otto English reveals how a US Trade deal will unravel 40 years of progress.
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
There are still a few spaces left on my botanical (10) & bird illustration (24) & mental health w'shops in January I'll teach you how to draw🌿🌱 or🐦‍⬛👇 AND how creative activity alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health I'm an molecular cell biologist & illustrator: workshops.emmamitchell.uk
cornflowers, sweet peas and Russian sage on a Kraft paper sketch book with my drawings of them alongside and the pen I used nearbyMy pen and ink drawings of 5 much loved Uk garden birds: wren, long tailed tit, coal tit, redwing & blackcapMy drawing of 3 long tailed tits in a winter hawthorn 5 plant varieties that flower or bear berries in the winter on white sketchbook paper with my illustrations of them alongside and the pen I used nearby
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
“an estimate from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) last month that branded medicines could soon cost the NHS an extra £3bn a year. That £3bn extra does not buy us anything – it is more money for the same medicines.” - thank you Labour www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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What will be the cost of Keir Starmer’s new medicines deal with Donald Trump? British lives | Aditya Chakrabortty
More than £3bn that could have been used for UK patients will go to big pharma for its branded products, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
🔴NEW🔴 Changes to family reunion rules mean "new level of cruelty" for refugee families, experts warn. www.opendemocracy.net/en/uk-govern... @opendemocracy.net
opendemocracy.net
UK asylum proposals add ‘new layer of cruelty’, expert warns
The decision to end the automatic right to family reunion will intensify vulnerable refugees’ trauma and suffering
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
1. We've had a huge response to the launch of the Earth Rover Program, above all from small farmers, especially in Africa. Farmers all over the world are highly attuned to the need for a better understanding of soil, and have immediately seen the potential. 🧵 1/10 www.earthroverprogram.org
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The Earth Rover Program
The Earth Rover Program unites scientists, farmers, and innovators to monitor, understand, and restore soils worldwide. Advancing food security, climate resilience, and biodiversity through open scien...
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Laura McInerney @missmc.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
The exact people now saying "Nigel Farage was young and foolish at school" (to excuse his racism, bullying and harassment of fellow pupils at Dulwich College) are the same people who said "Shamima Begum was old enough to know what she was doing".
Crick (Michael, who wrote a biography on Nigel Farage) believes that there is a clear line to be drawn between Farage the sixth-former and Farage the politician. "So much of his character is the same as you can see at Dulwich," he says. "The boy who's desperate for attention, who loves debating, who loves division. The English nationalism, the interest - almost obsession - with immigration, the admiration for Enoch Powell, the free-market Thatcherism; all of that began at Dulwich."
Much of the public has already made up its mind on Farage. In as much as this story cuts through to the wider elector-ate, some will think it deeply unfair to judge Farage on his adolescence; while others will see it as fair game and reflective of the man he later became.
But there will be many who are still undecided on Farage and, for this last camp, his belligerent response to the allegations will be a test.
He has the polling support. He has the Tory defections. He has the money now too. But does he have the ability to woo and keep voters who once found him unsavoury?
Farage is unlikely to change tack now.
"He's got to be true to him-self," says the senior Reform source. "There is precious little point in apologising to people like Ed Davey."
Additional Reporting:
Harry Yorke
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Retrospective legislation, ex post facto laws, moving the goalposts after the fact, taking law abiding people and making them criminals. This should not happen in any country.
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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
One of the things I hope will be remembered re “gender critical” politics is that they were mostly good at forcing exclusion and basically nothing else. No serious investment into women’s charities or institutes, no desire to really partake in VAWG nor any effort to improve public toilets
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onion person @junlper.beer · 04/12/2025
getting the onion newspaper is worth it alone for the ads
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Jadey Character @lampjaded.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
If you're pitching AI as the answer to everything and NOT pitching Basic Income or the like at the same time, you're not promoting a Star Trek future; you're promoting any number of shitty dystopias instead.
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leafie @teamleafie.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
A pilot training project has exposed alarming deficiencies in police understanding of medical cannabis regulations, with 88 per cent of officers knowing little or nothing about the 2018 law change that legalised cannabis prescribing.
leafie.co.uk
UK police ‘inadequately trained’ on medical cannabis law, research shows - leafie
A pilot training project has exposed alarming deficiencies in police understanding of medical cannabis regulations, with 88 per cent of officers knowing little or nothing about the 2018 law change that legalised cannabis prescribing – leading to wrongful arrests and medication confiscation from legally prescribed patients.
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Willowade @willowade.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Teens have had fun decorating their advent calendars. This was an absolute bargain and I’m super excited about seeing them again next year!! (Middle one is using a more intricate design idea so is taking longer but we never intended for them to be rushed)
Three sets of wooden advent calander with 24 drawers each that have been decorated in bright colours with Christmassy & winter designs
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All On The Board @allontheboard.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Talking saves lives and we need to be honest about our mental health. It’s alright for boys and men to cry. Mental heath is just as important as physical health. #InternationalMensDay #MentalHealth
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
My granddad was a refugee, my wife, our close friends and those of our kids are either immigrants or the children of immigrants. Do ministers ever think about the message their rhetoric on "handouts" and "golden tickets" for migrants sends about whether this is a government for people like us?
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 15/11/2025
"If you don't let me punch you in the face, the other guy will kick you in the nuts" doesn't seem like a sustainable political message.
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Sheo @sheologian.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
“I’m not being homophobic” My brother in cheez-its if you are making 2 men doing a sex act a “gotcha” or a punchline you are absolutely being homophobic
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Willowade @willowade.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Made it to YALC and got tx for the signings I most wanted. 😁
Two slips of paper with the names of Laini Taylor on one and Jay McGuiness on the other.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The soft pedaling language being used to describe the men in the Epstein files is enraging. They didn’t “have sex with underage girls”. They raped them. Sex implies consent. The survivors deserve better than this. Use the correct language. Say what these men did.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
It absolutely beggars belief that with all the evidence we have of climate change there are still people who deny it exists. While countries like the USA roll back what little moves there have been to tackle it, the situation is getting pretty dire for the planet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
8. Anyway, please remember, amid all the noise about the prisons crisis, that it is caused not by rising crime or rising population. It is caused by rising demands from people who do not represent this country and do not have our interests at heart. Thank you. 8/8
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han olliver @hanolliver.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I was talking with my partner the other day as we prepped another grocery list about how all the cheap staple meals my mom made when we had no money are now no longer inexpensive—yes, some items are cheaper than others, but the cost of groceries are now so prohibitive that *everything* is pricey.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Sharing this to pin it: For non/new followers, hello! I'm Josiah. I'm a UK political journalist from Cornwall & based in the South West. I also report regularly from Westminster. My work focuses on democracy, social movements, & Britain's political system. Get in touch: linktr.ee/josiahmortimer
Me in the sun with a newspaper. My natural habitat. Pinky purple t-shirt and shades.
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