Shirley
@shirleyrl.bsky.social
Born 1951 Lambeth, London SE11. Now live next to the North Sea, Norfolk UK. Married to Richard since 1970. Mum to Jack (works in space stuff). Archaeology, Star Trek🖖 Freedom and equality for all. Imagine...... if you can.
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Ed Davey is the only party leader who consistently makes sense
Why is the Prime Minister ignoring his own Chief Economic Advisor, who recommended a Customs Union with the EU to boost growth?
Instead he's choosing to hike taxes in a cost of living crisis.
Instead he's choosing to hike taxes in a cost of living crisis.
December 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Ed Davey is the only party leader who consistently makes sense
Beautiful
A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
December 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Beautiful
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
WTF!!!! THANK YOU UK GOVERNMENT FOR YOUR STUPID, CRUEL, NON IMPLEMENTABLE ACTIONS. SHAME ON YOU!
WTF!!!! THANK YOU UK GOVERNMENT FOR YOUR STUPID, CRUEL, NON IMPLEMENTABLE ACTIONS. SHAME ON YOU!
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
WTF!!!! THANK YOU UK GOVERNMENT FOR YOUR STUPID, CRUEL, NON IMPLEMENTABLE ACTIONS. SHAME ON YOU!
WTF!!!! THANK YOU UK GOVERNMENT FOR YOUR STUPID, CRUEL, NON IMPLEMENTABLE ACTIONS. SHAME ON YOU!
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I’m so happy to see this. The lack of journalistic solidarity & collective action over the killing of journalists in Gaza has been distressing.
Will @nujofficial.bsky.social step up & follow this lead?
Will @nujofficial.bsky.social step up & follow this lead?
French journalist unions file legal case against Israel over lack of access to Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/french-journalists-unions-file-legal-case-against-israel-over-lack
French journalist unions file legal case against Israel over lack of access to Gaza
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>Two French journalist unions filed a legal case against Israel for obstructing the work of their journalists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, AFP reported on Tuesday.</p>
<p>The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the French Journalists' Union filed the complaint with the Paris anti-terror prosecutor's office last week, accusing Israel of "obstructing the freedom to inform".</p>
<p>The complaint mentioned a journalist being pursued by around 50 Israelis armed with "guns, cans of petrol and sticks" while reporting in the West Bank, all in the presence of the Israeli army.</p>
<p>Israel has not allowed international journalists into the Gaza Strip since the start of the war in October 2023, except when embedded with Israeli forces.</p>
<p>IFJ general secretary Anthony Bellanger said, "For more than two years, the IFJ has been calling for the borders to be opened to the foreign press so that they can relieve our colleagues who are exhausted by two years of war."</p>
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www.middleeasteye.net
December 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I’m so happy to see this. The lack of journalistic solidarity & collective action over the killing of journalists in Gaza has been distressing.
Will @nujofficial.bsky.social step up & follow this lead?
Will @nujofficial.bsky.social step up & follow this lead?
Yay!🙂
Yes! Solar Opposites is coming to Netflix UK on 15 December. Finally, another @mikemcmahan.bsky.social masterpiece to watch. It won't make up for the loss of Lower Decks, but it'll help.
a cartoon of two aliens shaking hands with a hulu logo in the corner
Alt: Korvo and Terry dancing together
media.tenor.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Yay!🙂
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He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”
Damming
Brutal. This alone should end the political careers of those that created Brexit.
Nigel Farage’s Legacy — Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)… confirms the Treasury’s 2016 analysis, claiming a relative fall in GDP of between 6% and 8%.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)… confirms the Treasury’s 2016 analysis, claiming a relative fall in GDP of between 6% and 8%.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...
December 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Damming
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Day 42 of inserting a random Muppet into a random Star Trek screenshot
#StarTrek #StarTrekDiscovery #TheMuppets #SesameStreet
#StarTrek #StarTrekDiscovery #TheMuppets #SesameStreet
December 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Day 42 of inserting a random Muppet into a random Star Trek screenshot
#StarTrek #StarTrekDiscovery #TheMuppets #SesameStreet
#StarTrek #StarTrekDiscovery #TheMuppets #SesameStreet
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December 2, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me: two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree. Ate them.
December 2, 2025 at 9:01 AM
On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me: two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree. Ate them.
The trouble is that the idiot who did this will probably never know the damage they caused, plus the closure of the M5.
"The fire was reportedly started when a cigarette was thrown from a passing vehicle and hit a trailer carrying hay." uk.news.yahoo.com/m5-fire-moto...
M5 fire: Motorway closed after 'cigarette thrown from car starts blaze'
The fire was reportedly started when a cigarette was thrown from a passing vehicle and hit a trailer carrying hay
uk.news.yahoo.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The trouble is that the idiot who did this will probably never know the damage they caused, plus the closure of the M5.
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Some don’t understand that demonising refugees& asylum seekers is a red line for any healthy nation. As a group of people, like any other, they include the brilliant, good & bad, but labelling them as lesser humans undeserving of compassion, safety & equality is definitely bad for the whole country.
December 1, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Some don’t understand that demonising refugees& asylum seekers is a red line for any healthy nation. As a group of people, like any other, they include the brilliant, good & bad, but labelling them as lesser humans undeserving of compassion, safety & equality is definitely bad for the whole country.
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‘The data shows that just one dose cuts the chances of measles by about 95%, and two doses do even better.’
Timely review of the data on measles vaccines from @ourworldindata.org
ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...
Timely review of the data on measles vaccines from @ourworldindata.org
ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...
How effective and safe are measles vaccines?
Data from large meta-analyses show that measles vaccination is highly effective and safe, giving a 95% reduction in the risk of measles.
ourworldindata.org
April 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
‘The data shows that just one dose cuts the chances of measles by about 95%, and two doses do even better.’
Timely review of the data on measles vaccines from @ourworldindata.org
ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...
Timely review of the data on measles vaccines from @ourworldindata.org
ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...
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In London, flu cases are three times higher than this time last year.
Protect yourself by getting your flu vaccine so you can make the most of Christmas and the festive season.
Check if you’re eligible and book your appointment:
www.nhs.uk/nhs-services...
Protect yourself by getting your flu vaccine so you can make the most of Christmas and the festive season.
Check if you’re eligible and book your appointment:
www.nhs.uk/nhs-services...
December 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
In London, flu cases are three times higher than this time last year.
Protect yourself by getting your flu vaccine so you can make the most of Christmas and the festive season.
Check if you’re eligible and book your appointment:
www.nhs.uk/nhs-services...
Protect yourself by getting your flu vaccine so you can make the most of Christmas and the festive season.
Check if you’re eligible and book your appointment:
www.nhs.uk/nhs-services...
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COVID is a systemic disease that can harm the brain, heart, immune system and more.
Every reinfection increases the risk of Long COVID, chronic illness, disability and even death.
If people understood the real danger, they’d take prevention seriously instead of accepting repeated infections.
Every reinfection increases the risk of Long COVID, chronic illness, disability and even death.
If people understood the real danger, they’d take prevention seriously instead of accepting repeated infections.
December 2, 2025 at 5:55 AM
COVID is a systemic disease that can harm the brain, heart, immune system and more.
Every reinfection increases the risk of Long COVID, chronic illness, disability and even death.
If people understood the real danger, they’d take prevention seriously instead of accepting repeated infections.
Every reinfection increases the risk of Long COVID, chronic illness, disability and even death.
If people understood the real danger, they’d take prevention seriously instead of accepting repeated infections.
Oh dear
Dear BBC
Watching the programme *Civilisations: Rise and Fall - Egypt* and wanted to know what in the name of zarking fardwarks are these outfits?
If only there was a way of knowing what Roman legionaries in the late 1st century BC actually wore 🤔
#Archaeology
Watching the programme *Civilisations: Rise and Fall - Egypt* and wanted to know what in the name of zarking fardwarks are these outfits?
If only there was a way of knowing what Roman legionaries in the late 1st century BC actually wore 🤔
#Archaeology
December 2, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Oh dear
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Another shed roof fox ! Have you spotted a fox atop a roof ? If so , please share it !
Thanks to @billiegee.bsky.social for today's #FoxOfTheDay
Thanks to @billiegee.bsky.social for today's #FoxOfTheDay
December 2, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Another shed roof fox ! Have you spotted a fox atop a roof ? If so , please share it !
Thanks to @billiegee.bsky.social for today's #FoxOfTheDay
Thanks to @billiegee.bsky.social for today's #FoxOfTheDay
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Somewhere in a Roman brickyard, around 1800 years ago, a fresh tile was drying ahead of firing - until a dog trotted straight across it.
Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2
📷me
Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2
📷me
December 2, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Somewhere in a Roman brickyard, around 1800 years ago, a fresh tile was drying ahead of firing - until a dog trotted straight across it.
Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2
📷me
Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2
📷me
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What’s the point of Keir Starmer employing an economics advisor if he ignores her on the biggest economic issue of the day?
December 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
What’s the point of Keir Starmer employing an economics advisor if he ignores her on the biggest economic issue of the day?
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I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
December 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
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I can’t read, but I’m pretty sure this package is for me!
December 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I can’t read, but I’m pretty sure this package is for me!
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Day 41 of inserting a random Muppet (or three) into a random Star Trek screenshot
#StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #TheMuppets #TheMuppetShow
#StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #TheMuppets #TheMuppetShow
December 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Day 41 of inserting a random Muppet (or three) into a random Star Trek screenshot
#StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #TheMuppets #TheMuppetShow
#StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #TheMuppets #TheMuppetShow
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December 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM