Ruth
@sugarglider.bsky.social
Wildly swerving between cozy pictures of sewing projects and cats, and what some people call 'politics'.
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Ruth
@sugarglider.bsky.social
· Mar 5
I made a boycott American products list for the UK, because I was so frustrated with the incorrect ones circling. And found the character limit for Alt Text whilst I was at it. I love my US folk but I can't be spending my money with your companies at the moment.
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This right here is the beginnings of the result of what DOGE was really up to. Not *really* slashing stuff, but getting access to as many government citizen databases and joining them to be able to target people quickly and comprehensively across all their exposure to the federal government.
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:38 PM
This right here is the beginnings of the result of what DOGE was really up to. Not *really* slashing stuff, but getting access to as many government citizen databases and joining them to be able to target people quickly and comprehensively across all their exposure to the federal government.
Went to sleep with a bad headache, woke up with a worse one (or a migraine). Have reached the stage where I have taken all the different drugs and am reduced to trying whatever weird tricks I can find on the internet, so I'd anyone has any suggestions I'm all ears!
January 30, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Went to sleep with a bad headache, woke up with a worse one (or a migraine). Have reached the stage where I have taken all the different drugs and am reduced to trying whatever weird tricks I can find on the internet, so I'd anyone has any suggestions I'm all ears!
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A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:55 AM
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
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Same Tory MPs, same austerity-led ideology, same failure.
January 28, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Same Tory MPs, same austerity-led ideology, same failure.
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NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure.
It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯
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It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯
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www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
January 28, 2026 at 11:32 AM
NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure.
It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯
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www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯
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www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
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Big thanks to Reform for helping us keep out Reform in Gorton & Denton.
January 27, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Big thanks to Reform for helping us keep out Reform in Gorton & Denton.
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🗓️ It's 30 days to the parliamentary by-election - and 100 days to the May local elections.
Help us win in Manchester, the Senedd, and all around the country.
Join us. And join in. ⤵️
🎥 @jeremyclancy.bsky.social
Help us win in Manchester, the Senedd, and all around the country.
Join us. And join in. ⤵️
🎥 @jeremyclancy.bsky.social
January 27, 2026 at 12:31 PM
🗓️ It's 30 days to the parliamentary by-election - and 100 days to the May local elections.
Help us win in Manchester, the Senedd, and all around the country.
Join us. And join in. ⤵️
🎥 @jeremyclancy.bsky.social
Help us win in Manchester, the Senedd, and all around the country.
Join us. And join in. ⤵️
🎥 @jeremyclancy.bsky.social
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NEW Nerve investigation reveals extent of Palantir's enmeshment in UK state operations
Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert
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Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert
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January 27, 2026 at 2:57 PM
NEW Nerve investigation reveals extent of Palantir's enmeshment in UK state operations
Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert
🔗⏬
Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert
🔗⏬
This guy can absolutely get in the bin.
Matthew Goodwin choosing this moment to stand in Gorton & Denton, tells you exactly what he’s about.
He can smell the media attention, like a bloodhound.
He can smell the media attention, like a bloodhound.
January 27, 2026 at 3:00 PM
This guy can absolutely get in the bin.
As a therapist, when we say 'sit with your feelings', we don't mean the fear and horror and anxiety of the current political situation. Don't sit with those feelings. Act on them.
January 27, 2026 at 10:31 AM
As a therapist, when we say 'sit with your feelings', we don't mean the fear and horror and anxiety of the current political situation. Don't sit with those feelings. Act on them.
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Maintaining the integrity of therapy - what it is & how we do it, is arguably even more essential in difficult & uncertain times. The ethos & ethics of psychotherapy + counselling needs to be preserved for us to keep existing as a profession, & for our work to have meaning.
#TherapistsConnect
#TherapistsConnect
January 26, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Maintaining the integrity of therapy - what it is & how we do it, is arguably even more essential in difficult & uncertain times. The ethos & ethics of psychotherapy + counselling needs to be preserved for us to keep existing as a profession, & for our work to have meaning.
#TherapistsConnect
#TherapistsConnect
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GET VACCINATED
Not good.
WHO meeting notes that the UK has lost its measles elimination status.
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
WHO meeting notes that the UK has lost its measles elimination status.
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
Rapid Reaction: UK loses measles elimination status | LSHTM
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced today (26 January 2026) that the UK has lost its measles elimination status.The decision is based on data showing 2,911 laboratory confirmed measles cases
www.lshtm.ac.uk
January 26, 2026 at 5:20 PM
GET VACCINATED
As a therapist I am out here begging you to please drink a glass of water.
January 26, 2026 at 3:58 PM
As a therapist I am out here begging you to please drink a glass of water.
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Babe, what’s wrong you’ve barely touched your Tory leftovers?
January 26, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Babe, what’s wrong you’ve barely touched your Tory leftovers?
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in times of turmoil it is very easy to feel like theres nothing you can do to help, especially if you are far away, but i promise buckaroo EVERYTHING helps. there is direct action like donating money or protesting, and there is cultural action like creating art and cultivating atmosphere of change
January 26, 2026 at 2:44 PM
in times of turmoil it is very easy to feel like theres nothing you can do to help, especially if you are far away, but i promise buckaroo EVERYTHING helps. there is direct action like donating money or protesting, and there is cultural action like creating art and cultivating atmosphere of change
The current socio-economic-political situation is...poor. Look too hard and we all feel anxious and frozen, I think. But action is the antimatter of anxiety. Even small things can help us stay rooted in our own morals and values, and not be slowly erroded by the horrors.
January 26, 2026 at 1:31 PM
The current socio-economic-political situation is...poor. Look too hard and we all feel anxious and frozen, I think. But action is the antimatter of anxiety. Even small things can help us stay rooted in our own morals and values, and not be slowly erroded by the horrors.
Anyone have one for the UK?
Danes, tired of being pushed around by Donald Trump, are turning to mobile apps to boycott everyday products associated with the US.
Trump-Weary Danes Turn to Technology in Boycott of US Brands
Vegemite, the yeasty spread from Australia, gets a passing green checkmark. So does a French bottle of Chateauneuf-du-Pape. But Diet Coke, a favorite of President Donald Trump? To that, a popular new mobile app in Denmark assigns a failing red X — a message to shoppers to put that American stuff back on the shelf.
bloom.bg
January 24, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Anyone have one for the UK?
Even Andy Burnham as leader of the Labour party is probably not enough to bring me back to the fold anymore. Maybe a couple of years ago. One year even. But it's too late now.
January 23, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Even Andy Burnham as leader of the Labour party is probably not enough to bring me back to the fold anymore. Maybe a couple of years ago. One year even. But it's too late now.
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The Far Right activist who calls himself Tommy Robinson is funded by right wing US pro-Israel groups, Middle East Eye reports.
These include the Shillman Foundation, the think tank of the late David Horowitz and Daniel Pipes’ Middle East Forum.
These include the Shillman Foundation, the think tank of the late David Horowitz and Daniel Pipes’ Middle East Forum.
Watch this to find out who funds Tommy Robinson | Long Story Short
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
www.youtube.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:46 AM
The Far Right activist who calls himself Tommy Robinson is funded by right wing US pro-Israel groups, Middle East Eye reports.
These include the Shillman Foundation, the think tank of the late David Horowitz and Daniel Pipes’ Middle East Forum.
These include the Shillman Foundation, the think tank of the late David Horowitz and Daniel Pipes’ Middle East Forum.
Need to email my MP to ask whether he's still a member of Labour Friends of Israel, but I've already emailed him this week via EFF to ask him to support digital sovereignty (to give us greater safety from the US), and two emails in one week seems a bit much, right?
January 22, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Need to email my MP to ask whether he's still a member of Labour Friends of Israel, but I've already emailed him this week via EFF to ask him to support digital sovereignty (to give us greater safety from the US), and two emails in one week seems a bit much, right?
It can be done. It's not just about stopping Reform gaining new seats, we can actually take away seats they already won.
Horsley (Derbyshire) Council By-Election Result:
🌍 GRN: 43.6% (+16.7)
➡️ RFM: 35.5% (+0.6)
🌳 CON: 13.9% (-9.0)
🌹 LAB: 3.8% (-6.5)
☑️ ADV: 1.9% (New)
🔶 LDM: 1.4% (-2.0)
No Ind (-1.7) as previous.
Green GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
🌍 GRN: 43.6% (+16.7)
➡️ RFM: 35.5% (+0.6)
🌳 CON: 13.9% (-9.0)
🌹 LAB: 3.8% (-6.5)
☑️ ADV: 1.9% (New)
🔶 LDM: 1.4% (-2.0)
No Ind (-1.7) as previous.
Green GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
January 22, 2026 at 10:55 PM
It can be done. It's not just about stopping Reform gaining new seats, we can actually take away seats they already won.
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Pro-Palestine activist on hunger strike says he will begin refusing water https://aje.news/5s4k9f
January 22, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Pro-Palestine activist on hunger strike says he will begin refusing water https://aje.news/5s4k9f
I can't believe I'm in a position if actually rooting for the boss of RyanAir, who is an absolute tosser as far as I can tell. Elon Musk really is an awful human being.
January 21, 2026 at 5:29 PM
I can't believe I'm in a position if actually rooting for the boss of RyanAir, who is an absolute tosser as far as I can tell. Elon Musk really is an awful human being.
Rescued a sad, abandoned mini fir tree from an office bin today. I think I'm going to plant it up into my scrappy back yard and then I'll have my very own Christmas tree!
January 20, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Rescued a sad, abandoned mini fir tree from an office bin today. I think I'm going to plant it up into my scrappy back yard and then I'll have my very own Christmas tree!
Amazon's tax avoidance has probably cost the UK a billion pounds in just the last two years. Imagine if we had that money to spend on our schools, hospitals and communities?
January 19, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Amazon's tax avoidance has probably cost the UK a billion pounds in just the last two years. Imagine if we had that money to spend on our schools, hospitals and communities?