Judith Sawyer
@judsawyer.bsky.social
Red/Green politics, Feminism,🇪🇺 amateur operatics, Dr Who, skeptical interest in paranormal. DMs not in use as I can't be arsed with verification (might change mind).
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Tickets are now on sale for Hereford Musical Theatre Company's 2025 Christmas concert! Price £12.50, venue Tomkins Theatre on Whitecross Road, near Holy Trinity Church. #Hereford #Herefordshire #HMTC 🎄❄️☃️
Minister of State for Border Security & Asylum Alex Norris is doing a cracking job of deterring me from voting Labour in the local elections in less than 6 months.
November 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Minister of State for Border Security & Asylum Alex Norris is doing a cracking job of deterring me from voting Labour in the local elections in less than 6 months.
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“Let’s try and make it so that everyone has everything they need.”
“But isn’t that unfair to the people who ALREADY have everything they need?”
“But isn’t that unfair to the people who ALREADY have everything they need?”
November 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
“Let’s try and make it so that everyone has everything they need.”
“But isn’t that unfair to the people who ALREADY have everything they need?”
“But isn’t that unfair to the people who ALREADY have everything they need?”
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Tehran launches cloud-seeding as taps run dry.
Iran begins cloud seeding to induce rain during worst drought in decades
Iran’s largest lake has largely dried out and people are resorting to praying for rain in some areas
www.bbc.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Tehran launches cloud-seeding as taps run dry.
Not for the first time, climate change has scuppered a nice day off work for a train trip that I'd had planned for tomorrow. 🙁I suppose I could go somewhere I have been before/where museums are shut on Mondays.
November 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Not for the first time, climate change has scuppered a nice day off work for a train trip that I'd had planned for tomorrow. 🙁I suppose I could go somewhere I have been before/where museums are shut on Mondays.
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Road transport is replacing trains between ##Exeter St Davids and ##Barnstaple: disruption is expected until the end of the day
National Rail Disruptions
Road transport is replacing trains between #Exeter St Davids and #Barnstaple: disruption is expected until the end of the day
www.nationalrail.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Road transport is replacing trains between ##Exeter St Davids and ##Barnstaple: disruption is expected until the end of the day
Tickets are now on sale for Hereford Musical Theatre Company's 2025 Christmas concert! Price £12.50, venue Tomkins Theatre on Whitecross Road, near Holy Trinity Church. #Hereford #Herefordshire #HMTC 🎄❄️☃️
November 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Tickets are now on sale for Hereford Musical Theatre Company's 2025 Christmas concert! Price £12.50, venue Tomkins Theatre on Whitecross Road, near Holy Trinity Church. #Hereford #Herefordshire #HMTC 🎄❄️☃️
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Hereford Musical Theatre Co's next shows are: Christmas concert 2025 13th December, Tomkins Theatre HR4 0DH #Hereford #Herefordshire 'Newsies' by the youth group March 2026. 'Jekyll & Hyde' June 2026. 'Scrooge' at the Courtyard November 2026 #Newsies #JekyllAndHyde #ScroogeTheMusical #Scrooge #HMTC
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Hereford Musical Theatre Co's next shows are: Christmas concert 2025 13th December, Tomkins Theatre HR4 0DH #Hereford #Herefordshire 'Newsies' by the youth group March 2026. 'Jekyll & Hyde' June 2026. 'Scrooge' at the Courtyard November 2026 #Newsies #JekyllAndHyde #ScroogeTheMusical #Scrooge #HMTC
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Hereford Musical Theatre Co welcomes new members! No experience necessary and there is no audition to join #Hereford #Herefordshire #Amdram #MusicalTheatre #HMTC Subs £60 per calendar year or £25 for under-25s 🎭🎤🎹 Rehearsals Tuesdays 7.30pm Whitecross Rd HR4 0DH 🗓️(Website under construction)
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Hereford Musical Theatre Co welcomes new members! No experience necessary and there is no audition to join #Hereford #Herefordshire #Amdram #MusicalTheatre #HMTC Subs £60 per calendar year or £25 for under-25s 🎭🎤🎹 Rehearsals Tuesdays 7.30pm Whitecross Rd HR4 0DH 🗓️(Website under construction)
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November 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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When your mind goes blank but the thoughts still race.
November 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
When your mind goes blank but the thoughts still race.
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This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 6:43 AM
This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Oh Mandy / You came and you sprayed without taking / But I sent you away
November 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Oh Mandy / You came and you sprayed without taking / But I sent you away
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#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 214
32°C is in or around the upper limit of temperatures at which #bumblebees will tend to forage - a temperature that many species in the Northern Hemisphere will experience more and more as #climate breakdown really kicks in.
#bees
#nature
#science
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 214
32°C is in or around the upper limit of temperatures at which #bumblebees will tend to forage - a temperature that many species in the Northern Hemisphere will experience more and more as #climate breakdown really kicks in.
#bees
#nature
#science
November 15, 2025 at 12:10 AM
#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 214
32°C is in or around the upper limit of temperatures at which #bumblebees will tend to forage - a temperature that many species in the Northern Hemisphere will experience more and more as #climate breakdown really kicks in.
#bees
#nature
#science
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 214
32°C is in or around the upper limit of temperatures at which #bumblebees will tend to forage - a temperature that many species in the Northern Hemisphere will experience more and more as #climate breakdown really kicks in.
#bees
#nature
#science
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The governments of Norway, the U.K., the Netherlands and Germany, along with several philanthropies and donors, have renewed a $1.8 billion pledge over the next five years to help recognize, manage and protect Indigenous and other traditional community land.
Donors renew $1.8 billion pledge for Indigenous land rights
The governments of four countries, along with several philanthropies and donors, have renewed a $1.8 billion pledge over the next five years to help recognize, manage and protect Indigenous and other…
news.mongabay.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The governments of Norway, the U.K., the Netherlands and Germany, along with several philanthropies and donors, have renewed a $1.8 billion pledge over the next five years to help recognize, manage and protect Indigenous and other traditional community land.
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"Your life has no direction."
"Yes it does."
"What?"
"Untoward."
"Yes it does."
"What?"
"Untoward."
November 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
"Your life has no direction."
"Yes it does."
"What?"
"Untoward."
"Yes it does."
"What?"
"Untoward."
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Iran's capital faces unprecedented water shortages and even possible evacuation. What changes could help?
->The Conversation | #water shortage | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai
->The Conversation | #water shortage | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai
Iran's capital faces unprecedented water shortages and even possible evacuation. What changes could help?
Iran is facing its most severe water crisis in more than six decades. Major dams supplying drinking water to provinces with millions of residents are nearly empty, and groundwater reserves have been depleted. Many cities have endured an entire autumn...
theconversation.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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NEW! NEW! NEW! The next entry in the Kings Of Christmas series, this time dedicated to Tesco, covering most of their Christmas ads from 1978 right up to the new one that has just dropped! At 52 mins long, that takes the total duration to 16 hours! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlWRO5RBPug
Tesco: The Kings of Christmas | 1978-2025 Christmas ads | Festive Vibes
The story of Tesco's Christmas adverts.Subscribe, Like and Comment! We'll be producing more videos like this soon!Follow us on social media!Bluesky: FestiveV...
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
NEW! NEW! NEW! The next entry in the Kings Of Christmas series, this time dedicated to Tesco, covering most of their Christmas ads from 1978 right up to the new one that has just dropped! At 52 mins long, that takes the total duration to 16 hours! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlWRO5RBPug
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South Yorkshire station closes due to flood risk https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2025/11/south-yorkshire-station-closes-due-to-flood-risk.html #disruption #lancashire #NationalRail #NetworkRail #northern #rotherham #RotherhamCentral #SouthYorkshire #yorkshire
South Yorkshire station closes due to flood risk
Due to the flood risk associated with Storm Claudia, Network Rail has announced that Rotherham Central station will have no services.
www.railadvent.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
South Yorkshire station closes due to flood risk https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2025/11/south-yorkshire-station-closes-due-to-flood-risk.html #disruption #lancashire #NationalRail #NetworkRail #northern #rotherham #RotherhamCentral #SouthYorkshire #yorkshire
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November 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Last two days for 'Sunset Boulevard' in Hereford! On tonight (Friday 14th November 2025), tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow night at the Courtyard. 🎺Live band! www.courtyard.org.uk/events/hmtc-... #Hereford #Herefordshire #MusicalTheatre #SunsetBoulevard
November 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Last two days for 'Sunset Boulevard' in Hereford! On tonight (Friday 14th November 2025), tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow night at the Courtyard. 🎺Live band! www.courtyard.org.uk/events/hmtc-... #Hereford #Herefordshire #MusicalTheatre #SunsetBoulevard
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NEW: I wrote about British churches installing heat pumps, in some cases in 1,000-year-old buildings! Decarbonisation may not be easy, but many view it as an act of faith.
This is a special feature to mark The Reengineer’s first anniversary! Spread the word! 🥳
www.thereengineer.pro/p/let-there-...
This is a special feature to mark The Reengineer’s first anniversary! Spread the word! 🥳
www.thereengineer.pro/p/let-there-...
Let there be warmth! The British churches putting their faith in heat pumps
Ancient buildings and old bones aren’t getting in the way of decarbonisation
www.thereengineer.pro
November 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
NEW: I wrote about British churches installing heat pumps, in some cases in 1,000-year-old buildings! Decarbonisation may not be easy, but many view it as an act of faith.
This is a special feature to mark The Reengineer’s first anniversary! Spread the word! 🥳
www.thereengineer.pro/p/let-there-...
This is a special feature to mark The Reengineer’s first anniversary! Spread the word! 🥳
www.thereengineer.pro/p/let-there-...
Hereford Cathedral seeks musical director. Deadline: 2nd December 2025 #Hereford #Herefordshire #MusicJobs www.herefordcathedral.org/news/directo...
Director of Music Vacancy
Deadline for applications Tuesday 2 December
www.herefordcathedral.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Hereford Cathedral seeks musical director. Deadline: 2nd December 2025 #Hereford #Herefordshire #MusicJobs www.herefordcathedral.org/news/directo...
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Schrödinger's housing: simultaneously too expensive for American citizens, but cheap enough for illegal immigrants to afford.
(H/T @officer-blackavar.bsky.social)
(H/T @officer-blackavar.bsky.social)
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Schrödinger's housing: simultaneously too expensive for American citizens, but cheap enough for illegal immigrants to afford.
(H/T @officer-blackavar.bsky.social)
(H/T @officer-blackavar.bsky.social)
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Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Getting annoyed this evening at people being vague. It doesn't help me and it doesn't even help the people being vague.
November 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Getting annoyed this evening at people being vague. It doesn't help me and it doesn't even help the people being vague.