Anne Williams
@seenthelight.bsky.social
Retired art school lecturer in fine art and documentary photography
Obsessed with politics, plants and hiking
Addictive and eclectic reader
Somewhat reluctant owner of a non-therapy cat
Obsessed with politics, plants and hiking
Addictive and eclectic reader
Somewhat reluctant owner of a non-therapy cat
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Protecting democracy from big money: Why the UK's new elections strategy doesn't go far enough www.transparency.org.uk/news/protect...
Protecting democracy from big money: Why the UK's new elections strategy doesn't go far enough
www.transparency.org.uk
February 8, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Protecting democracy from big money: Why the UK's new elections strategy doesn't go far enough www.transparency.org.uk/news/protect...
There seems to be absolutely no consideration of what future all these thousands of potentially redundant civil service workers can expect in terms of what jobs will be open to them, will they have to undertake career changes.
March 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
There seems to be absolutely no consideration of what future all these thousands of potentially redundant civil service workers can expect in terms of what jobs will be open to them, will they have to undertake career changes.
DeepSeek doesn’t seem to know Trump won the US election - it says its knowledge cut off was July 2024….
February 16, 2025 at 12:23 PM
DeepSeek doesn’t seem to know Trump won the US election - it says its knowledge cut off was July 2024….
I’m sorry, but ’Climate Popularism’, which is the title of the report, is just groan-inducing clunky, and doomed as a title for anything.
www.newstatesman.com/environment/...
www.newstatesman.com/environment/...
It’s time for climate populism
As politics turns against net zero, we need to mobilise a genuine mass movement against ecological catastrophe.
www.newstatesman.com
February 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I’m sorry, but ’Climate Popularism’, which is the title of the report, is just groan-inducing clunky, and doomed as a title for anything.
www.newstatesman.com/environment/...
www.newstatesman.com/environment/...
January 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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We were seeing a 98% drop in exposure over on Twitter. The censorship was so extreme we thought it best to start over somewhere else. We chose Bluesky.
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December 20, 2024 at 11:36 PM
We were seeing a 98% drop in exposure over on Twitter. The censorship was so extreme we thought it best to start over somewhere else. We chose Bluesky.
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"Okay, get some snaps of that Mangione character, but you better not pull any bullshit where he looks like the subject in a 16th century painting called 'Christ taken at the Garden of Gethsemane'."
"Okay, now don't be mad but..."
"Okay, now don't be mad but..."
December 19, 2024 at 9:25 PM
"Okay, get some snaps of that Mangione character, but you better not pull any bullshit where he looks like the subject in a 16th century painting called 'Christ taken at the Garden of Gethsemane'."
"Okay, now don't be mad but..."
"Okay, now don't be mad but..."
At the end of the world, we’ll still be singing George Michael’s ‘Last Christmas’
December 8, 2024 at 9:30 AM
At the end of the world, we’ll still be singing George Michael’s ‘Last Christmas’
‘Life changing injuries’ is what’s up. Is there any other personal medical info that can be bandied around in public? It’s a complete breach of patient confidentiality. Whatever happened to the far less intrusive ‘critical’, which has no similarly implicit future predictive potential.
November 25, 2024 at 1:43 PM
‘Life changing injuries’ is what’s up. Is there any other personal medical info that can be bandied around in public? It’s a complete breach of patient confidentiality. Whatever happened to the far less intrusive ‘critical’, which has no similarly implicit future predictive potential.
Verso needs our help! Their distributor collapsed and left them with a huge hole in their finances. Please donate to support this iconic and influential publisher!
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Update 1: One Week Left! Thank You · Comrades! Verso Needs Your Support for Radical Publishing
To date more than 3,750 comrades have stepped forward to back this campaign, pledging more than £200,000 in support of Verso’s publishing. We are deeply grateful to our readers, authors, and friends f...
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October 16, 2024 at 6:17 AM
Verso needs our help! Their distributor collapsed and left them with a huge hole in their finances. Please donate to support this iconic and influential publisher!
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I hope all those wildlife photography competitions and organisations are taking note, including the RPS
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘You could single-handedly push it to extinction’: how social media is putting our rarest wildlife at risk
From breeding spots overrun by visitors to photographers disturbing endangered species, experts say the rarer the find is, the bigger the problem
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2024 at 7:37 AM
I hope all those wildlife photography competitions and organisations are taking note, including the RPS
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Hmmm time for a bit of customer pressure maybe? Considering most of their customers are women too. Are we really still in the era of women working for pin money and men being the breadwinner? Unserious. Get real and get fair Next.
www.theguardian.com/business/art...
www.theguardian.com/business/art...
‘People tend to think these battles have been won’: Next equal pay claimant on fight for recognition
Helen Scarsbrook says company, which is appealing against the ruling, hasn’t recognised value of female shop floor staff
www.theguardian.com
September 1, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Hmmm time for a bit of customer pressure maybe? Considering most of their customers are women too. Are we really still in the era of women working for pin money and men being the breadwinner? Unserious. Get real and get fair Next.
www.theguardian.com/business/art...
www.theguardian.com/business/art...
Thames Water is a disgrace, currently trying to blame customers for demanding low prices rather than serial mismanagement and corporate greed.
www.theguardian.com/business/nil...
www.theguardian.com/business/nil...
Thames Water’s ‘difficult choices’ must include pain for bondholders | Nils Pratley
Customers know bills have to rise, but shareholders should also pay, as they would at a conventional company that overextended itself
www.theguardian.com
August 29, 2024 at 6:58 AM
Thames Water is a disgrace, currently trying to blame customers for demanding low prices rather than serial mismanagement and corporate greed.
www.theguardian.com/business/nil...
www.theguardian.com/business/nil...