Shiromi 🇨🇦
@blimundaseyes.bsky.social
Activist, mum, misanthrope. Ex- @amnesty.org now freelance @ https://writingeditingwords.com/. My novel PLASTIC EMOTIONS out w/ @influxpress.bsky.social & @penguinindia
Pinned
Shiromi 🇨🇦
@blimundaseyes.bsky.social
· Mar 14
My 1st post on Bluesky... from a recent trip to Sri Lanka's brilliant Galle Literary Festival where I discussed Plastic Emotions, my novel about pioneering Lankan architect, #MinnetteDeSilva. #srilanka #architecture #books
This poor child was murdered bc the whole system failed her. Am I surprised? No. I've been fighting systemic failures on an epic level -- failures that have destroyed my family. Inquiry after inquiry. Report after report. And still, no one learns any lessons. EVER.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Council visited wrong house before Sara Sharif's murder - report
Neighbours say they were reluctant to report abuse because they
www.bbc.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This poor child was murdered bc the whole system failed her. Am I surprised? No. I've been fighting systemic failures on an epic level -- failures that have destroyed my family. Inquiry after inquiry. Report after report. And still, no one learns any lessons. EVER.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reposted by Shiromi 🇨🇦
OCD can be utter hell, and yet it still gets trivialised by many, including in the media and by people who should know better.
BBC News - Reports of OCD among under 25s triple in 10 years - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Reports of OCD among under 25s triple in 10 years - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reports of OCD among under 25s triple in 10 years
More 16-24 year olds in England say they have symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder - BBC analysis finds.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM
OCD can be utter hell, and yet it still gets trivialised by many, including in the media and by people who should know better.
BBC News - Reports of OCD among under 25s triple in 10 years - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Reports of OCD among under 25s triple in 10 years - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@labouruk.bsky.social
Why is this not considered a terrorist attack? Enlighten me. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Why is this not considered a terrorist attack? Enlighten me. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Peacehaven: Police release photos of mosque arson suspects
The images are of two people in balaclavas seen outside the mosque before the large blaze spread.
www.bbc.com
October 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
@labouruk.bsky.social
Why is this not considered a terrorist attack? Enlighten me. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Why is this not considered a terrorist attack? Enlighten me. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Reposted by Shiromi 🇨🇦
holy shit. lmao www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Liberal Bruce Fanjoy topples Pierre Poilievre in Carleton | CBC News
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is projected to lose his longtime rural Ottawa seat to Liberal Bruce Fanjoy.
www.cbc.ca
April 29, 2025 at 11:54 AM
holy shit. lmao www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Reposted by Shiromi 🇨🇦
This is a regime of the bullies, by the bigots, for the billionaires. All you need to know.
The world’s richest people added $304 billion to their combined net worth, the largest one-day gain in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, after Trump pledged to pause tariffs for some countries
Billionaires Score Best-Ever Day as Stocks Soar on Tariff Pause
The world’s wealthiest people added $304 billion to their combined net worth on Wednesday — the largest one-day gain in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index — as stock markets soared after ...
www.bloomberg.com
April 9, 2025 at 10:50 PM
This is a regime of the bullies, by the bigots, for the billionaires. All you need to know.
Reposted by Shiromi 🇨🇦
Ministers are silent, but PIP cuts won’t just hurt disabled people — carers will suffer too.
PIP is a passport to support like Carer’s Allowance & council tax reductions. Losing it could cost carers thousands a year, pushing families deeper into poverty.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
PIP is a passport to support like Carer’s Allowance & council tax reductions. Losing it could cost carers thousands a year, pushing families deeper into poverty.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Some disabled people could lose £10k a year in benefits by end of decade
Experts say planned cuts will deliver series of ‘painful income shocks’ for many
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Ministers are silent, but PIP cuts won’t just hurt disabled people — carers will suffer too.
PIP is a passport to support like Carer’s Allowance & council tax reductions. Losing it could cost carers thousands a year, pushing families deeper into poverty.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
PIP is a passport to support like Carer’s Allowance & council tax reductions. Losing it could cost carers thousands a year, pushing families deeper into poverty.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
March 23, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Reposted by Shiromi 🇨🇦
This is a seminal moment: a Labour government cutting disability benefits. Not just continuing Tory levels. Cutting.
This comes after a week of speculation, itself an act of cruelty by a government toying with people’s dignity.
These cuts are disgraceful - and they will cost lives.
This comes after a week of speculation, itself an act of cruelty by a government toying with people’s dignity.
These cuts are disgraceful - and they will cost lives.
March 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This is a seminal moment: a Labour government cutting disability benefits. Not just continuing Tory levels. Cutting.
This comes after a week of speculation, itself an act of cruelty by a government toying with people’s dignity.
These cuts are disgraceful - and they will cost lives.
This comes after a week of speculation, itself an act of cruelty by a government toying with people’s dignity.
These cuts are disgraceful - and they will cost lives.
"In the majority of those cases, our researchers found that detainees had no criminal records and no evidence of gang tattoos. None had been convicted of any crime at the time of their deaths."
We cannot look away.
This is what it means to have a regime of the bullies, by the bigots, for the billionaires claim the power to seize and sequester whomever they select and send them to another dictator's hell camps.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/20/t...
This is what it means to have a regime of the bullies, by the bigots, for the billionaires claim the power to seize and sequester whomever they select and send them to another dictator's hell camps.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/20/t...
The Horror Inside the Salvadoran Prisons Where Trump Is Sending Migrants
Human rights organizations have gathered credible evidence of systematic corruption, torture, and killings.
foreignpolicy.com
March 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
"In the majority of those cases, our researchers found that detainees had no criminal records and no evidence of gang tattoos. None had been convicted of any crime at the time of their deaths."
My 1st post on Bluesky... from a recent trip to Sri Lanka's brilliant Galle Literary Festival where I discussed Plastic Emotions, my novel about pioneering Lankan architect, #MinnetteDeSilva. #srilanka #architecture #books
March 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
My 1st post on Bluesky... from a recent trip to Sri Lanka's brilliant Galle Literary Festival where I discussed Plastic Emotions, my novel about pioneering Lankan architect, #MinnetteDeSilva. #srilanka #architecture #books