Alison Dark
@bluebootsboom.bsky.social
Married Mum and cat lover. Knitting 🧶, crochet, sewing 🪡,
allotment gardening 🌱🫛🥕👩🏻🌾, wildlife, country walks, music, art, theatre 🎭
LGBTQIA+ ally, humanist, politically left.
allotment gardening 🌱🫛🥕👩🏻🌾, wildlife, country walks, music, art, theatre 🎭
LGBTQIA+ ally, humanist, politically left.
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A former RSPB chief just voted against £30 swift bricks that could help save a collapsing species.
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
A former RSPB chief just voted against £30 swift bricks that could help save a collapsing species.
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Who wants to tell him?
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Who wants to tell him?
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The BBC employ roughly twice as many people as the UK fishing industry. You'd think people would question Farage's patriotism and intentions wanting it shut down.
November 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The BBC employ roughly twice as many people as the UK fishing industry. You'd think people would question Farage's patriotism and intentions wanting it shut down.
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Save Our BBC
I've just signed the petition calling on the government to stop their attack on our BBC. We need an independent national broadcaster we can trust. Please sign and share today.
you.38degrees.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
She gave us so much. RIP Patricia Routledge and thank you for the entertainment 🎭🎶😂😭
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Keeping Up Appearances actor Patricia Routledge dies aged 96
The actor was best known for her role as the pretentious housewife Hyacinth Bucket, and for the series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 10:13 AM
She gave us so much. RIP Patricia Routledge and thank you for the entertainment 🎭🎶😂😭
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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This is why Badenoch and Farage are idiots. They blame net zero for rising costs when data is clear: it is our reliance on gas and the way electricity prices are set by the cost of gas. Despite over 50% of UK electric is now produced by much cheaper wind and solar (FT) images.ft.com/v3/image/raw...
October 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This is why Badenoch and Farage are idiots. They blame net zero for rising costs when data is clear: it is our reliance on gas and the way electricity prices are set by the cost of gas. Despite over 50% of UK electric is now produced by much cheaper wind and solar (FT) images.ft.com/v3/image/raw...
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation
For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences.
They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...
you.38degrees.org.uk
October 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
This is big: Spain's state broadcasters have said they'll boycott Eurovision unless Israel is banned. We need the BBC to do the same to up the pressure on the competition's bosses. Sign the petition now:
September 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
This is big: Spain's state broadcasters have said they'll boycott Eurovision unless Israel is banned. We need the BBC to do the same to up the pressure on the competition's bosses. Sign the petition now:
We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name
notinourname.org.uk
September 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
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Beautiful 1860s Victorian butterfly, which was used to store small packets of sewing needles on the underside of the wings. This was a collaboration between a London-based drapers company and a sewing needle manufacturer. On exhibit at Tatter Blue, a Brooklyn textile museum.
IG tatterbluelibrary
IG tatterbluelibrary
August 31, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Beautiful 1860s Victorian butterfly, which was used to store small packets of sewing needles on the underside of the wings. This was a collaboration between a London-based drapers company and a sewing needle manufacturer. On exhibit at Tatter Blue, a Brooklyn textile museum.
IG tatterbluelibrary
IG tatterbluelibrary
Ocado handed out 221 million plastic bags last year! 😱 Sign the petition and tell them to ditch single-use bags for good. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/oc...
Ocado: Ditch the plastic bag
In 2024, single-use plastic bag sales in England rose for the first time since the carrier bag levy was introduced in 2015 - a 7% increase, reaching 437 million bags. Shockingly, Ocado alone was respo...
you.38degrees.org.uk
September 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Ocado handed out 221 million plastic bags last year! 😱 Sign the petition and tell them to ditch single-use bags for good. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/oc...
Nigel Farage’s Reform wants to bring back fracking in England. We need to lock the current ban in law. Join me and tell the Prime Minister: make the fracking ban permanent.
@friends_earth 👇
foe.uk/ksojs
@friends_earth 👇
foe.uk/ksojs
Tell Keir Starmer to make the fracking ban permanent
Nigel Farage's Reform party has declared it wants to “drill baby drill” if it wins the next general election. There’s a temporary pause on fracking in England, but it’s not even written into law. So i...
foe.uk
August 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Nigel Farage’s Reform wants to bring back fracking in England. We need to lock the current ban in law. Join me and tell the Prime Minister: make the fracking ban permanent.
@friends_earth 👇
foe.uk/ksojs
@friends_earth 👇
foe.uk/ksojs
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It’s very simple👇🏼
July 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
It’s very simple👇🏼
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🚨 This morning we turned the street outside Labour Party Headquarters in London into Jabaliya camp in Gaza.
Listen to @ahmedmasoud02.bsky.social talking about what the Israeli army did to his neighourhood and family.
Listen to @ahmedmasoud02.bsky.social talking about what the Israeli army did to his neighourhood and family.
July 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🚨 This morning we turned the street outside Labour Party Headquarters in London into Jabaliya camp in Gaza.
Listen to @ahmedmasoud02.bsky.social talking about what the Israeli army did to his neighourhood and family.
Listen to @ahmedmasoud02.bsky.social talking about what the Israeli army did to his neighourhood and family.
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Bombing for peace is like burning books to promote literacy.
June 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Bombing for peace is like burning books to promote literacy.
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World War 3!? Whose idea was that? | First Dog on the Moon
World War 3!? Whose idea was that? | First Dog on the Moon
The world is up in arms and maybe even ending! What is going on. I’m frightened!
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June 23, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”
June 22, 2025 at 2:03 AM
AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”
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juvenile starlings really are the messy toddlers of the avian visitors in my garden 😂 Fat ball bits everywhere but the blackbirds and robins are there for it! #wildlife #birds #simplepleasures
June 15, 2025 at 10:17 AM
juvenile starlings really are the messy toddlers of the avian visitors in my garden 😂 Fat ball bits everywhere but the blackbirds and robins are there for it! #wildlife #birds #simplepleasures
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For those in need of a smile, a reminder that one 19th-century name for a penguin was ‘arsefoot’.
June 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
For those in need of a smile, a reminder that one 19th-century name for a penguin was ‘arsefoot’.
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