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Sarah
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Feminist who was once described as "looking like a sensible person". Nurse working in prison health. Loves all things folklore, folk music and nature.
My views are all my own.
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It's #ImpactWeek here at the Howard League. We're reflecting on the many ways your support for the charity has made a difference in an extraordinary year for criminal justice in England and Wales.

This video features some of our media appearances in 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqMIBPI7nyA
December 19, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Congratulations to @alearuf.bsky.social for winning this year's @univie.ac.at Faculty of Psychology Postdoc Award 👏 💐 ✨ A proud moment for #HPGVienna, and we are already curious about the results of your study!
psychologie.univie.ac.at/news-medienb...
psychologie.univie.ac.at
December 19, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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#NotAHeron Humankind understand so so little about what goes on inside the heads of the other Beings upon Planet Earth.
Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.
December 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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The Oxenham Arms pub in South Zeal, Devon, boasts the unusual distinction of having been constructed by 12th Century monks around a prehistoric standing stone.

If you’re lucky and visit at the right time of day, as I did today, you might also see it being recharged with sacred energy by the sun.
December 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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This entire weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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"This man has not yet been identified but he has been hailed as a hero"

It's over three hours after the world found out his name is Ahmed el Ahmed, but BBC news still don't know 🤷‍♀️
December 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Even in platforming our success - there's still more spin.

We're not backing "small boat migrants."

We're backing people - including people who are in desperate circumstances.

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December 14, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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"The virus can lead to brain swelling, which can cause lasting damage, including blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...
December 14, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Who needs BlueSky politics when you have #StandingStoneSunday? 🥰🥳

Back to winter 2022 for this chilly view of the Buwch a'r Llo standing stone pair on moorland near Pendant, Aberystwyth, Wales - a truly ancient locale

📷 My own, Feb 2022
December 14, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Chief executives are now paid hundreds of times more than the people who actually create value in their companies. This is not innovation or entrepreneurship – it is extraction.

In this video, I explain how fair pay ratios could be enforced through the tax system.

youtu.be/X5jvx5ytcuE?...
Why Are CEOs Paid So Much More Than You?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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December 14, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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this feels apt to repost
I suspect this article framing is a way to criticise the upcoming doctors' strikes.

The real cause for alarm for me is that the NHS is going into this winter stressed and stretched *yet again*.

We should have a health system that can cope much better with winter pressures and we just don’t. 7/8
December 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Seeking asylum is not illegal.

People entering the country by irregular means without any other option are not breaking the law.

The Govenrment should be showing humanity not further brutality
December 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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The conflation of "foreign criminals" and "illegal migrants" is disgusting.

Vile when some people don't have a safe route to flee from the utter detestation & brutality of war.

It's all grim enough without the Labour Government pushing further misinformation.
The Home Office continues to use language that its own data refutes
December 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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This is obscene.

That others in politics can’t or won’t say that this is obscene hits at the heart of the problems we face.

We are the 99.999%.

Tax the super rich.

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December 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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A depressing milestone on the TrumpActionTracker - 2000 logged actions since January.

www.trumpactiontracker.info

Shortly about to be 2002 as I have a couple more to add tonight :-/
December 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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New analysis shows:

That there are now more people alive in the UK that voted Remain in 2016 than those who voted Leave in 2016.

The "will of the people" expressed by direct vote in 2016... has changed.
The majority opposed to Brexit has reached eight million
Ministers need courage to keep it that way
kellnerp.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.

New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
December 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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The editors announce the launch of NEJM Clinician, a new digital publication for clinicians, by clinicians. Read the editorial: nej.md/4roG5vK

#MedSky
December 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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X has blocked the European Commission from making adverts on its platform - a move which comes a few days after it fined Elon Musk's site €120m (£105m) over its blue tick badges

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Elon Musk's X bans European Commission from making ads after €120m fine
The EU regulator had fined the social media platform over its
www.bbc.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Costa is embarking on the first real political push-back from European leaders. Hope more is to come:
December 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Zack Polanski, "Labour are a government of cowards because you won't tell people the truth about migration"

"Migration is a positive thing for our country"

"We need migration"

"We need fair and managed migration"

"And that's what will change this conversation"

*huge clap* #BBCQT
December 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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The most powerful diagnostic tools available to doctors are Time and Hindsight.

One is underutilised, the other is overly & poorly utilised.

Both are invaluable to medical education.

#medsky
December 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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You might have missed yet another attack on DEI and universities in the US - this time cutting out 38 universities from the US Diplomacy Lab

youtube.com/shorts/pC33H...
Only one kind of person is allowed to do diplomacy now
YouTube video by Professor Christina Pagel
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December 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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"In the ashes of war... Europe pulled together to create collaborative bodies designed to prevent a repeat of the horrors of Nazi Germany.

One such body was the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)."
Remembrance: 75 years of the ECHR
The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) celebrates its 75th birthday this month – like all elders, it has a lifetime of wisdom to share
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM