Rachel
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Rachel
@avaguearchive.bsky.social
· Mar 31
Me when I'm doing some banger posts
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Take action to demand that the UK government resists corporate influence and backs policies that prioritise people and planet at #COP30:
secure.waronwant.org/page/180845/...
secure.waronwant.org/page/180845/...
Corporations are Burning the Amazon: Act Now
Take action ahead of COP30
secure.waronwant.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Take action to demand that the UK government resists corporate influence and backs policies that prioritise people and planet at #COP30:
secure.waronwant.org/page/180845/...
secure.waronwant.org/page/180845/...
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I have wrote to my MP calling for Housing Benefits to be uprated in the Budget. Will you join me in supporting @independentage.bsky.social by writing to your MP?
campaigns.independentage.org/page/180937/...
campaigns.independentage.org/page/180937/...
Take action to improve the cost of renting
We are calling on the Chancellor to use the Budget to improve Housing Benefits to help older renters afford the cost of essentials. Will you join me in writing to your MP?
campaigns.independentage.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I have wrote to my MP calling for Housing Benefits to be uprated in the Budget. Will you join me in supporting @independentage.bsky.social by writing to your MP?
campaigns.independentage.org/page/180937/...
campaigns.independentage.org/page/180937/...
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#COP30 is a critical opportunity to help save our forests. 💚
Help us make sure that our leaders seize the chance to protect them at COP30.
Send an email to your MP.👉 tinyurl.com/yeew7bz5
Help us make sure that our leaders seize the chance to protect them at COP30.
Send an email to your MP.👉 tinyurl.com/yeew7bz5
A chance to protect our precious forests
Tell your MP that the UK government must seize the moment to protect forests at COP30.
www.wwf.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
#COP30 is a critical opportunity to help save our forests. 💚
Help us make sure that our leaders seize the chance to protect them at COP30.
Send an email to your MP.👉 tinyurl.com/yeew7bz5
Help us make sure that our leaders seize the chance to protect them at COP30.
Send an email to your MP.👉 tinyurl.com/yeew7bz5
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Such is the power of @zackpolanski.bsky.social that he's prompted the Daily Express(!) to write a totally respectful article about the meaning of the white poppy
www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2131...
www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2131...
Meaning of a white poppy and white poppy symbolism as Zack Polanski wears one
Green party leader Zack Polanski was seen sporting a white poppy alongside a red one for Remembrance Sunday today - but what does a white poppy mean?
www.express.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Such is the power of @zackpolanski.bsky.social that he's prompted the Daily Express(!) to write a totally respectful article about the meaning of the white poppy
www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2131...
www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2131...
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not teaching people to question authority at a young age makes it all the harder to realize the myriad ways in which you are your own authority and need to question yourself. america—esp white middle/upper class—is simultaneously riddled with anxiety, inferiority, naiveté, and ego.
November 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
not teaching people to question authority at a young age makes it all the harder to realize the myriad ways in which you are your own authority and need to question yourself. america—esp white middle/upper class—is simultaneously riddled with anxiety, inferiority, naiveté, and ego.
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Hundreds of MPs and peers are already signed up to attend to hear from scientists , economists and security experts – is your MP attending ? Check now at nebriefing.org
#NEB2025 🇬🇧
#NEB2025 🇬🇧
National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature
An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...
nebriefing.org
November 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Hundreds of MPs and peers are already signed up to attend to hear from scientists , economists and security experts – is your MP attending ? Check now at nebriefing.org
#NEB2025 🇬🇧
#NEB2025 🇬🇧
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This might have been true 20 years ago. Unfortunately it is no longer the case. As the people whose actual memories of war have died, we've replaced sombre remembrance with fascist purity tests and crass celebrations of violence.
One of the most precious things about Remembrance is that it sets no political tests.
It asks only that we "remember", and that we do so in the silence of our own thoughts.
It doesn't dictate what we remember, how we remember or what lessons we draw.
That's between ourselves and our conscience.🧵
It asks only that we "remember", and that we do so in the silence of our own thoughts.
It doesn't dictate what we remember, how we remember or what lessons we draw.
That's between ourselves and our conscience.🧵
November 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
This might have been true 20 years ago. Unfortunately it is no longer the case. As the people whose actual memories of war have died, we've replaced sombre remembrance with fascist purity tests and crass celebrations of violence.
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Are you done watching billionaires hoard wealth and power while the world drowns in growing inequality and climate chaos?
Sign the petition now to #TaxTheSuperRich
👉 act.gp/4lVgNBc
Sign the petition now to #TaxTheSuperRich
👉 act.gp/4lVgNBc
November 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Are you done watching billionaires hoard wealth and power while the world drowns in growing inequality and climate chaos?
Sign the petition now to #TaxTheSuperRich
👉 act.gp/4lVgNBc
Sign the petition now to #TaxTheSuperRich
👉 act.gp/4lVgNBc
This is the one thing we choose to take inspiration from Denmark on? But of course
Denmark steals possessions of people seeking asylum, as policy. It returns people to situations where they are killed.
Mahmood is copying some of the worst policies going.
Labour once again showing it's just another anti-asylum, anti-human rights, government. #r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Mahmood is copying some of the worst policies going.
Labour once again showing it's just another anti-asylum, anti-human rights, government. #r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
UK seeks inspiration from Denmark to shake up immigration system
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is taking cues from some of the toughest migration laws in Europe.
www.bbc.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This is the one thing we choose to take inspiration from Denmark on? But of course
If your dark circles/tired eyes product is so great, test it on people with ME, you cowards
(as a person with ME I am allowed to make this joke)
(especially as I have done said testing for these bitches and not one product has stood up)
(as a person with ME I am allowed to make this joke)
(especially as I have done said testing for these bitches and not one product has stood up)
November 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
If your dark circles/tired eyes product is so great, test it on people with ME, you cowards
(as a person with ME I am allowed to make this joke)
(especially as I have done said testing for these bitches and not one product has stood up)
(as a person with ME I am allowed to make this joke)
(especially as I have done said testing for these bitches and not one product has stood up)
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
I just hope we’re prepared for not one country to help us or even give a shit when we end up being the ones in need, because it’d be the only reasonable response
November 7, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I just hope we’re prepared for not one country to help us or even give a shit when we end up being the ones in need, because it’d be the only reasonable response
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Not only does the UK government waste vast sums of money on demonising those seeking asylum, now it appears that they are complicit in quite a number needing it in the first place. Choosing to save money over a genocide, again. #r4today
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
UK rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite warning of possible genocide
Exclusive: British government adopted ‘least ambitious’ option months before RSF’s massacres in El Fasher
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Not only does the UK government waste vast sums of money on demonising those seeking asylum, now it appears that they are complicit in quite a number needing it in the first place. Choosing to save money over a genocide, again. #r4today
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Awoke to read that the UK chose ‘the least ambitious’ of 4 ‘atrocity prevention plans’ for Sudan b/c money, then that Badenoch is reinstating the Tory cash-for-access ‘advisory board’, then that Tesla shareholders approved $1TRILLION pay for Musk & chanted his name… wanna die before it’s even 7:30am
November 7, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Awoke to read that the UK chose ‘the least ambitious’ of 4 ‘atrocity prevention plans’ for Sudan b/c money, then that Badenoch is reinstating the Tory cash-for-access ‘advisory board’, then that Tesla shareholders approved $1TRILLION pay for Musk & chanted his name… wanna die before it’s even 7:30am
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In case you’re wondering - no, that teensy-weensy global pandemic thing isn’t mentioned, the institutional forgetting continues. I would argue this is deliberate and tactical.
The function of this piece is ultimately eugenicist and I don’t say that likely. This is the case for the modern workhouse
The function of this piece is ultimately eugenicist and I don’t say that likely. This is the case for the modern workhouse
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
UK ‘sliding into avoidable crisis’, major review into workplace sickness warns
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
www.independent.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 10:13 AM
In case you’re wondering - no, that teensy-weensy global pandemic thing isn’t mentioned, the institutional forgetting continues. I would argue this is deliberate and tactical.
The function of this piece is ultimately eugenicist and I don’t say that likely. This is the case for the modern workhouse
The function of this piece is ultimately eugenicist and I don’t say that likely. This is the case for the modern workhouse
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The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
November 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!
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And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.
WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
November 5, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.
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BIDEN WON THE 2020 ELECTION BY PRETENDING HE WAS BERNIE SANDERS FFS WHEN WILL YOU LEARN
Mamdani wins NYC. Progressive Democrats outperformed their moderate colleagues just about everywhere in the 2024 election. Bernie Sanders still polls as the most popular active politician in the US.
THE ESTABLISHMENT: “The left can’t stop losing, centrism is the way.”
THE ESTABLISHMENT: “The left can’t stop losing, centrism is the way.”
November 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
BIDEN WON THE 2020 ELECTION BY PRETENDING HE WAS BERNIE SANDERS FFS WHEN WILL YOU LEARN
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A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
November 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
Jfc here we go
November 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Jfc here we go
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Seeing UK Labour try to claim Zohran Mamdani’s victory as a win for their political stances etc, is darkly funny, given that if he was British, he would have been hounded out of Labour asap, that not a single thing one his platform they would be onboard with.
November 5, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Seeing UK Labour try to claim Zohran Mamdani’s victory as a win for their political stances etc, is darkly funny, given that if he was British, he would have been hounded out of Labour asap, that not a single thing one his platform they would be onboard with.
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In Finland they’ve been taught how to spot fake news as part of a critical thinking curriculum since 2014 including how to spot a doctored photo, check for inconsistencies as well as countering misinformation that sows division. We are more than 10 years behind on this.
School pupils are to be taught how to tackle conspiracy theories, spot 'fake news' & root out misinformation. The Daily Mail, ajudged by Wikipedia to be an unreliable new source, is furious. You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to work out why.
November 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
In Finland they’ve been taught how to spot fake news as part of a critical thinking curriculum since 2014 including how to spot a doctored photo, check for inconsistencies as well as countering misinformation that sows division. We are more than 10 years behind on this.
Oh my Jesusing god did I really just have to block my ex on VINTED after a search for a t-shirt of a 00s alt UK rock band returned no pleasing results but one MOST DISPLEASING vendor
November 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Oh my Jesusing god did I really just have to block my ex on VINTED after a search for a t-shirt of a 00s alt UK rock band returned no pleasing results but one MOST DISPLEASING vendor
Lostprophets currently have 572,400+ monthly listeners on Spotify. Right now. Over half a million. Even if there were nothing else terrible in the world… I feel like this damns humanity on its own.
November 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Lostprophets currently have 572,400+ monthly listeners on Spotify. Right now. Over half a million. Even if there were nothing else terrible in the world… I feel like this damns humanity on its own.
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Saw a news report yesterday about children as young as 9 being given weight loss jabs on the NHS, and I think it shows just how utterly bullshit the “lack of research into long term impacts” excuse for banning puberty blockers for trans kids really was. It’s purely ideological.
November 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Saw a news report yesterday about children as young as 9 being given weight loss jabs on the NHS, and I think it shows just how utterly bullshit the “lack of research into long term impacts” excuse for banning puberty blockers for trans kids really was. It’s purely ideological.