Rebecca Manson Jones
@justrmj.bsky.social
Intersectional feminist, artistic director Spare Tyre inclusive theatre, sometime political candidate, environmentalist, living with Long Covid, neurodivergent. Live in a city belong by the sea. Part mermaid Www.sparetyre.org. This is my own nonsense.
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Rebecca Manson Jones
@justrmj.bsky.social
· May 22
Wins the internet today. This in a post is how to fix the world. A simple lesson we teach children. That adults of all stripes should and could relearn. This culture of division is a choice. #ChooseLove
Been a bit quiet of late. Been learning at the sharp end what happens when a hacker gets into your life. Update your passwords now. Stop what you are doing and do this now. Prevention is much better than the other thing. #OnlineSafety.
a cartoon character from the peanuts movie is making an angry face .
Alt: a cartoon character from the peanuts movie is making an angry face .
media.tenor.com
August 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Been a bit quiet of late. Been learning at the sharp end what happens when a hacker gets into your life. Update your passwords now. Stop what you are doing and do this now. Prevention is much better than the other thing. #OnlineSafety.
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More sad news out of Florida: The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission today voted to approve annual Florida black bear hunting seasons set to begin this December.
Hunting could do real damage to Florida’s recovering population of black bears.
Hunting could do real damage to Florida’s recovering population of black bears.
August 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
More sad news out of Florida: The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission today voted to approve annual Florida black bear hunting seasons set to begin this December.
Hunting could do real damage to Florida’s recovering population of black bears.
Hunting could do real damage to Florida’s recovering population of black bears.
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This all day and every day. #EndVAWG
I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.
The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.
Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.
Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
August 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This all day and every day. #EndVAWG
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For the next four weeks, we are lifting the 9.30am rule on older and disabled people’s bus passes.
We hope it will help people over the summer as well as provide valuable data on whether we have the capacity and finances to make it permanent.
Please help spread the word! 🙏🏻
We hope it will help people over the summer as well as provide valuable data on whether we have the capacity and finances to make it permanent.
Please help spread the word! 🙏🏻
August 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
For the next four weeks, we are lifting the 9.30am rule on older and disabled people’s bus passes.
We hope it will help people over the summer as well as provide valuable data on whether we have the capacity and finances to make it permanent.
Please help spread the word! 🙏🏻
We hope it will help people over the summer as well as provide valuable data on whether we have the capacity and finances to make it permanent.
Please help spread the word! 🙏🏻
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“The Lancet paper found that spending by USAID from 2001 to 2021 had saved roughly 92mn lives, 30mn of them children. It predicted that, unless the abrupt funding cuts were reversed, roughly 14mn additional people would die in the five years to 2030.”
What the closure of USAID is really costing the world
The abrupt withdrawal of American funding has stranded millions of patients and will be felt by countries for years to come
www.ft.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
“The Lancet paper found that spending by USAID from 2001 to 2021 had saved roughly 92mn lives, 30mn of them children. It predicted that, unless the abrupt funding cuts were reversed, roughly 14mn additional people would die in the five years to 2030.”
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#GreensElect - Guardian is seeking questions to put to @greenparty.org.uk leadership contenders
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Share your question for the Green party leadership candidates
Let us know what questions you’d like us to put to the Green party of England and Wales candidates and we’ll publish some of them and their answers
www.theguardian.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
#GreensElect - Guardian is seeking questions to put to @greenparty.org.uk leadership contenders
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Wondery fired 110 producers today. The latest in a bunch of cuts that have decimated long form narrative podcasting. I have noodled for years now on the way forward and I really see independent shows as the only way. Some of my producers lost side gigs from this. It’s really hard out here!
August 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Wondery fired 110 producers today. The latest in a bunch of cuts that have decimated long form narrative podcasting. I have noodled for years now on the way forward and I really see independent shows as the only way. Some of my producers lost side gigs from this. It’s really hard out here!
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The headline here should say:
"Number of private schools increases by 35 - showing fears of an exodus to be unfounded".
(The increase is mentioned way down the article.)
www.thetimes.com/article/19ef...
"Number of private schools increases by 35 - showing fears of an exodus to be unfounded".
(The increase is mentioned way down the article.)
www.thetimes.com/article/19ef...
More than fifty private schools shut since Labour put VAT on fees
Department for Education defends ending tax breaks for independent institutions, after parents lost a legal battle at the High Court this year — view map
www.thetimes.com
August 4, 2025 at 7:22 AM
The headline here should say:
"Number of private schools increases by 35 - showing fears of an exodus to be unfounded".
(The increase is mentioned way down the article.)
www.thetimes.com/article/19ef...
"Number of private schools increases by 35 - showing fears of an exodus to be unfounded".
(The increase is mentioned way down the article.)
www.thetimes.com/article/19ef...
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A credible Times report in 2025 would say "private schools carry on .... fears unfounded so far ... number of schools up ... pupil numbers down marginally, as predicted by IFS, but not matching fears of sector + media" and then discuss the reasons the sector could swallow a marginal change
August 4, 2025 at 7:57 AM
A credible Times report in 2025 would say "private schools carry on .... fears unfounded so far ... number of schools up ... pupil numbers down marginally, as predicted by IFS, but not matching fears of sector + media" and then discuss the reasons the sector could swallow a marginal change
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A truly remarkable resource. ⬇️ Please check out 'South Asian Britain' a free database that explores South Asian lives in the UK. It felt really special to research some of the entries, even for the very short time I worked with this amazing team! @remakingbritain.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social 👏 👏👏
We are proud to announce that South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories, a landmark educational website on the histories of South Asians in Britain, is now live!
Visit southasianbritain.org
@qmul.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social #AHRC @uobartsmatter.bsky.social
Visit southasianbritain.org
@qmul.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social #AHRC @uobartsmatter.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 10:50 AM
A truly remarkable resource. ⬇️ Please check out 'South Asian Britain' a free database that explores South Asian lives in the UK. It felt really special to research some of the entries, even for the very short time I worked with this amazing team! @remakingbritain.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social 👏 👏👏
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What have we become? Where is compassion? These bigots do not represent the majority of UK people....but how do we counter their hateful attitudes?
"Some of the younger children... were not as afraid. But the tearful, frightened eyes of a ten-year-old girl clinging to her father’s chest told a different story.
The terrifying chants of young men echoing through the hotel – “Send them out!” – filled the air like an ominous drumbeat."
The terrifying chants of young men echoing through the hotel – “Send them out!” – filled the air like an ominous drumbeat."
Exclusive: Inside the Diss hotel – a refugee’s view of the anti-refugee crowd outside
Families fleeing danger thought they'd found safety, until protesters gathered outside their hotel, chanting for their removal
eastangliabylines.co.uk
August 4, 2025 at 6:12 AM
What have we become? Where is compassion? These bigots do not represent the majority of UK people....but how do we counter their hateful attitudes?
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Important (if depressing) to remember that the kind of authoritarian race-baiting expressed by Jenrick on Today (eg presenting all refugees as sexual predators and promising to deport all of them) was taboo in British politics for decades. Yet I doubt any Tory will publicly criticise him
August 4, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Important (if depressing) to remember that the kind of authoritarian race-baiting expressed by Jenrick on Today (eg presenting all refugees as sexual predators and promising to deport all of them) was taboo in British politics for decades. Yet I doubt any Tory will publicly criticise him
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Unsolicited Writing Advice, no: 167: SELF PUBLISHING.
As trad publishing becomes increasingly unsatisfactory for many, with advances plummeting and authors being asked to do more and more of what was once the publisher's job, more and more people are looking at self-publishing.
As trad publishing becomes increasingly unsatisfactory for many, with advances plummeting and authors being asked to do more and more of what was once the publisher's job, more and more people are looking at self-publishing.
August 3, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Unsolicited Writing Advice, no: 167: SELF PUBLISHING.
As trad publishing becomes increasingly unsatisfactory for many, with advances plummeting and authors being asked to do more and more of what was once the publisher's job, more and more people are looking at self-publishing.
As trad publishing becomes increasingly unsatisfactory for many, with advances plummeting and authors being asked to do more and more of what was once the publisher's job, more and more people are looking at self-publishing.
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It's just really hard to process that huge swathes of the Israeli public are doing The Zone Of interest on a national scale.
Two Nice Jewish Boys är en väletablerad och populär engelskspråkig podcast i Israel. Ta en liten stund och lyssna på det här. Det ger en inblick israeliskt samhällsliv men inte minst på vad det är de av våra makthavare som stödjer Israel siktar på för samhällsutveckling.
August 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
It's just really hard to process that huge swathes of the Israeli public are doing The Zone Of interest on a national scale.
Always good to start the week with à song. May his memory be a blessing.
Farewell Tom Lehrer and thank you: I’ve listened to and laughed with you all my life. And five years ago he made all his songs (including dozens that he never recorded) public domain because he thought he’d made enough money from them. Here’s a perfect, bitingly brutal song. youtu.be/zCluI87gQ3I?...
Tom Lehrer - National Brotherhood Week - When You Are Old and Gray - with intro
YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
youtu.be
July 28, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Always good to start the week with à song. May his memory be a blessing.
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The youngest's nursery's fees are going up 15% from Sept.
Which will mean, after tax, once I've paid for her to be in nursery I will take home around £25.
And we wonder why young people aren't having children and struggling to get on the property ladder 🪜
Which will mean, after tax, once I've paid for her to be in nursery I will take home around £25.
And we wonder why young people aren't having children and struggling to get on the property ladder 🪜
July 26, 2025 at 10:46 AM
The youngest's nursery's fees are going up 15% from Sept.
Which will mean, after tax, once I've paid for her to be in nursery I will take home around £25.
And we wonder why young people aren't having children and struggling to get on the property ladder 🪜
Which will mean, after tax, once I've paid for her to be in nursery I will take home around £25.
And we wonder why young people aren't having children and struggling to get on the property ladder 🪜
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The Big Freelancer Survey 2025 - Report, 'Who's taking the hit?' is out now.
The data provided by thousands of respondents since 2020 presents a clear - and deeply concerning - picture of the situation in which UK arts freelancers find themselves.
freelancersmaketheatrework.com/bigfreelance...
The data provided by thousands of respondents since 2020 presents a clear - and deeply concerning - picture of the situation in which UK arts freelancers find themselves.
freelancersmaketheatrework.com/bigfreelance...
July 26, 2025 at 8:12 AM
The Big Freelancer Survey 2025 - Report, 'Who's taking the hit?' is out now.
The data provided by thousands of respondents since 2020 presents a clear - and deeply concerning - picture of the situation in which UK arts freelancers find themselves.
freelancersmaketheatrework.com/bigfreelance...
The data provided by thousands of respondents since 2020 presents a clear - and deeply concerning - picture of the situation in which UK arts freelancers find themselves.
freelancersmaketheatrework.com/bigfreelance...
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Green Party MP Siân Berry and Mandu Reid, former leader of the Women’s Equality Party, have joined forces to call for universal free childcare to help struggling parents www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Two ex-party leaders make major demand for universal free childcare
Green Party MP Siân Berry and Mandu Reid, former leader of the Women’s Equality Party, have joined forces to call for universal free childcare to help struggling parents
www.mirror.co.uk
July 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Green Party MP Siân Berry and Mandu Reid, former leader of the Women’s Equality Party, have joined forces to call for universal free childcare to help struggling parents www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Really unpleasant piece in yesterday's Times railing about older women "showing flesh" in summertime: written by an older woman, enthusiastically boosted by more older women, sickened by the sight of bare arms in the elderly.
Huh. The tank top it is, then.
Huh. The tank top it is, then.
July 25, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Really unpleasant piece in yesterday's Times railing about older women "showing flesh" in summertime: written by an older woman, enthusiastically boosted by more older women, sickened by the sight of bare arms in the elderly.
Huh. The tank top it is, then.
Huh. The tank top it is, then.
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TODAY - Friday 25 July
6PM in Downing St, & in towns across the UK
6PM in Downing St, & in towns across the UK
July 25, 2025 at 8:07 AM
TODAY - Friday 25 July
6PM in Downing St, & in towns across the UK
6PM in Downing St, & in towns across the UK
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Fears UK gas stockpile to drop for winter as British Gas owner Centrica plans sell-off.
Centrica makes huge profits but demands subsidies ... or else.
Privatisation leaves govts with fewer options, held to ransom by corporations.
Centrica makes huge profits but demands subsidies ... or else.
Privatisation leaves govts with fewer options, held to ransom by corporations.
Fears UK gas stockpile to drop for winter as British Gas owner plans sell-off
Centrica keen to stem losses from North Sea Rough storage after company profits halve
www.theguardian.com
July 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Fears UK gas stockpile to drop for winter as British Gas owner Centrica plans sell-off.
Centrica makes huge profits but demands subsidies ... or else.
Privatisation leaves govts with fewer options, held to ransom by corporations.
Centrica makes huge profits but demands subsidies ... or else.
Privatisation leaves govts with fewer options, held to ransom by corporations.
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Generally, the Guardian's been a good resource, but their actions re: the Observer were trash. Reposting this to celebrate independent media and reporting rising from the ashes of those actions.
Earlier this year, I lost my beloved job at my beloved Observer when the Guardian, in its great wisdom, gave the newspaper away to a podcast company...who promptly sacked me.
So, forgive my delight today, in being nominated for FIVE awards in the British Podcast Awards!!
1/
So, forgive my delight today, in being nominated for FIVE awards in the British Podcast Awards!!
1/
July 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Generally, the Guardian's been a good resource, but their actions re: the Observer were trash. Reposting this to celebrate independent media and reporting rising from the ashes of those actions.
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Thanks Portsmouth Creates for the chance to catch up with progress at Playland. A great new hub for the city’s emerging cultural organisations and freelance creative workforce.
July 25, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Thanks Portsmouth Creates for the chance to catch up with progress at Playland. A great new hub for the city’s emerging cultural organisations and freelance creative workforce.
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🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!
Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14
Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14
July 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!
Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14
Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14