Amanda
@dr-amanda.bsky.social
Molecular Biologist
Mum to 2 boys (teen and tween)
Owned by 2 beautiful, black cats
Politically very left-leaning
Brexit is a pile of steaming crap
Abhor inequality of every kind
Mum to 2 boys (teen and tween)
Owned by 2 beautiful, black cats
Politically very left-leaning
Brexit is a pile of steaming crap
Abhor inequality of every kind
Pinned
Amanda
@dr-amanda.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Hi there! Been straddling between here and the other place for a while now and it seems you’re all finally here! I follow back as long as you’re not posting right-wing, conspiracies or vaccine and climate change denial nonsense
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
September 25, 2025 at 2:40 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-...
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For the US to side with Russia and North Korea to oppose a UN resolution condemning the illegal invasion of Ukraine defies all common sense and adds insult to the countless injuries suffered by the brave Ukrainian people. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/24/p...
US joins Russia to vote against UN resolution condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine | CNN Politics
The United States joined Russia to vote against a UN General Assembly resolution condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine Monday in a stunning shift from years of US policy.
edition.cnn.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM
For the US to side with Russia and North Korea to oppose a UN resolution condemning the illegal invasion of Ukraine defies all common sense and adds insult to the countless injuries suffered by the brave Ukrainian people. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/24/p...
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The far right becoming the official opposition in Germany and the US siding with North Korea at the UN.
If the warning signs weren’t clear enough, then surely they must be now?
If the warning signs weren’t clear enough, then surely they must be now?
February 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The far right becoming the official opposition in Germany and the US siding with North Korea at the UN.
If the warning signs weren’t clear enough, then surely they must be now?
If the warning signs weren’t clear enough, then surely they must be now?
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former leader of Reform UK in Wales has appeared in court accused of accepting bribes in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament that would benefit Russia, a court has heard
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
former leader of Reform UK in Wales has appeared in court accused of accepting bribes in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament that would benefit Russia, a court has heard
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ex-Reform UK Wales leader accused of taking Russian bribes
The ex-MEP and former UKIP Wales leader made favourable statements about Russia for money, a court hears.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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former leader of Reform UK in Wales has appeared in court accused of accepting bribes in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament that would benefit Russia, a court has heard
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
former leader of Reform UK in Wales has appeared in court accused of accepting bribes in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament that would benefit Russia, a court has heard
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I am asked, a lot, about how Labour could effectively combat Reform without pushing further to the right, and basically just reinforcing Reform's messaging. So, buckle up, here's a thread on it. Disclaimer though, this a simplified thread of a complex issue, and even then it is going to be long. 1/
February 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I am asked, a lot, about how Labour could effectively combat Reform without pushing further to the right, and basically just reinforcing Reform's messaging. So, buckle up, here's a thread on it. Disclaimer though, this a simplified thread of a complex issue, and even then it is going to be long. 1/
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Another week begins my friends as we step closer to spring. There’s not much to lift us at the moment but we must do all we can to support others and be the light in the dark world. Find pockets of happiness where you can my love to all.♥️
February 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Another week begins my friends as we step closer to spring. There’s not much to lift us at the moment but we must do all we can to support others and be the light in the dark world. Find pockets of happiness where you can my love to all.♥️
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Happy Monday lovely phone family. I hope you got time for yourselves at the weekend, even if you were working. There are some fantastically kind folk in this community, which is why I love it so much. I always feel so blessed to be connected to you all ❤️
Have a brilliant day 😘
#HaveCourageAndBeKind
Have a brilliant day 😘
#HaveCourageAndBeKind
February 10, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Happy Monday lovely phone family. I hope you got time for yourselves at the weekend, even if you were working. There are some fantastically kind folk in this community, which is why I love it so much. I always feel so blessed to be connected to you all ❤️
Have a brilliant day 😘
#HaveCourageAndBeKind
Have a brilliant day 😘
#HaveCourageAndBeKind
What? Really?
The word 'symposium' comes from a Greek term for a drinking party, should you be looking for a truthful excuse to knock off early.
February 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
What? Really?
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“I told you if you hold on to clothes long enough they come back in fashion”
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
February 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
“I told you if you hold on to clothes long enough they come back in fashion”
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Thrilling, baffling yet energising - What fresh economic opportunities might Genghis Khan's monumental million-skull structure portend for Merv?
February 3, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Thrilling, baffling yet energising - What fresh economic opportunities might Genghis Khan's monumental million-skull structure portend for Merv?
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Some questions for Elon Musk courtesy of the late Tony Benn:
What power have you got?
Where did you get it from?
In whose interests do you use it?
To whom are you accountable?
And how do we get rid of you?
What power have you got?
Where did you get it from?
In whose interests do you use it?
To whom are you accountable?
And how do we get rid of you?
February 2, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Some questions for Elon Musk courtesy of the late Tony Benn:
What power have you got?
Where did you get it from?
In whose interests do you use it?
To whom are you accountable?
And how do we get rid of you?
What power have you got?
Where did you get it from?
In whose interests do you use it?
To whom are you accountable?
And how do we get rid of you?
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Meta is renewing its threats against employees, telling them today that they will hunt for leakers and tolerate zero leaks.
Want to know how that is going? Three Meta employees who I’ve never spoken to before just cold messaged/emailed me offering me to be sources.
Want to know how that is going? Three Meta employees who I’ve never spoken to before just cold messaged/emailed me offering me to be sources.
January 30, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Meta is renewing its threats against employees, telling them today that they will hunt for leakers and tolerate zero leaks.
Want to know how that is going? Three Meta employees who I’ve never spoken to before just cold messaged/emailed me offering me to be sources.
Want to know how that is going? Three Meta employees who I’ve never spoken to before just cold messaged/emailed me offering me to be sources.
Aww
This is Lucy. She likes to bring her human random objects every time they take a bath. 13/10 a thoughtful queen
January 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Aww
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💥 Mind, the leading mental health charity, has quit X.
It's here as @mindcharity.bsky.social.
It had over 500,000 followers on the other place.
It's here as @mindcharity.bsky.social.
It had over 500,000 followers on the other place.
January 29, 2025 at 11:58 AM
💥 Mind, the leading mental health charity, has quit X.
It's here as @mindcharity.bsky.social.
It had over 500,000 followers on the other place.
It's here as @mindcharity.bsky.social.
It had over 500,000 followers on the other place.
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Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.
January 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.
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I asked DeepSeek three questions:
- How does China treat the Uyghur Muslims?
- Is Taiwan part of China?
- What happened in Tiananmen Square in the 1980s?
Here are DeepSeek's answers:
- How does China treat the Uyghur Muslims?
- Is Taiwan part of China?
- What happened in Tiananmen Square in the 1980s?
Here are DeepSeek's answers:
January 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
I asked DeepSeek three questions:
- How does China treat the Uyghur Muslims?
- Is Taiwan part of China?
- What happened in Tiananmen Square in the 1980s?
Here are DeepSeek's answers:
- How does China treat the Uyghur Muslims?
- Is Taiwan part of China?
- What happened in Tiananmen Square in the 1980s?
Here are DeepSeek's answers:
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As a historian, the scale and sinister brutality of the Holocaust terrifies me. And as a descendent of people who were sent to Auschwitz, hearing this testimony always brings me to tears
This is my own family story, which I’m ashamed to say I only learned in 2017 www.gregjenner.com/my-family-an...
This is my own family story, which I’m ashamed to say I only learned in 2017 www.gregjenner.com/my-family-an...
Discovering My Family's Holocaust History (it's been a strange week...)
A blog about my own family's painful revelations coinciding with awful statements about the Holocaust by Marine Le Pen, Sean Spicer, and Ken Livingstone
www.gregjenner.com
January 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
As a historian, the scale and sinister brutality of the Holocaust terrifies me. And as a descendent of people who were sent to Auschwitz, hearing this testimony always brings me to tears
This is my own family story, which I’m ashamed to say I only learned in 2017 www.gregjenner.com/my-family-an...
This is my own family story, which I’m ashamed to say I only learned in 2017 www.gregjenner.com/my-family-an...
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We never imagined that 80 years after the liberation of #Auschwitz we would see such appalling levels of antisemitism and Islamophobia, and a resurgence of the far right, in Europe.
#HolocaustMemorialDay
#HolocaustMemorialDay
January 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
We never imagined that 80 years after the liberation of #Auschwitz we would see such appalling levels of antisemitism and Islamophobia, and a resurgence of the far right, in Europe.
#HolocaustMemorialDay
#HolocaustMemorialDay
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I thought this looked dodgy and here’s the excellent Chris P with the goods on why it’s dodgy.
Generally if a poll finding is unusual enough to get journalists writing a marmalade dropping headline, there’s probably something amiss with the poll.
Generally if a poll finding is unusual enough to get journalists writing a marmalade dropping headline, there’s probably something amiss with the poll.
I think we should take this story from the Times today (and picked up by many other outlets) with an enormous pinch of salt for two reason (mini thread):
www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...
www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...
Gen Z doubts about democracy laid bare in ‘worrying’ survey
More than half believe the UK should be a dictatorship and there’s a stark gender divide over equality, research for Channel 4 shows
www.thetimes.com
January 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I thought this looked dodgy and here’s the excellent Chris P with the goods on why it’s dodgy.
Generally if a poll finding is unusual enough to get journalists writing a marmalade dropping headline, there’s probably something amiss with the poll.
Generally if a poll finding is unusual enough to get journalists writing a marmalade dropping headline, there’s probably something amiss with the poll.
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Lord Heseltine has called for the UK to rejoin the EU, saying that Brexiteers sold Britain a “pack of lies”. He said that the UK should be “at the heart of Europe” and rejoining would be “in the best interests of a generation of young British people”.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Lord Heseltine brands Brexit a ‘pack of lies’ and calls for Britain to rejoin EU
The former deputy prime minister’s intervention came as it emerged Sir Keir Starmer will snub the fifth anniversary of Brexit on Friday – choosing instead to focus on his ongoing reset of relations with the EU
www.independent.co.uk
January 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Lord Heseltine has called for the UK to rejoin the EU, saying that Brexiteers sold Britain a “pack of lies”. He said that the UK should be “at the heart of Europe” and rejoining would be “in the best interests of a generation of young British people”.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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The vile, sadistic crimes of this rape gang will not make national headlines, or trend on twitter for days. Govt will not have to account for failures to protect its victims.
And all of us are less safe, because there is a concerted campaign for us to focus only on perpetrators with brown skin.
And all of us are less safe, because there is a concerted campaign for us to focus only on perpetrators with brown skin.
Grooming gangs and csa are weaponised as part of certain bad faith actors attempts to make them seem race, religion or "integration" based. They aren't. Main offenders are actually white anyway. When you make them about race you risk ignoring other abusers like these.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
January 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The vile, sadistic crimes of this rape gang will not make national headlines, or trend on twitter for days. Govt will not have to account for failures to protect its victims.
And all of us are less safe, because there is a concerted campaign for us to focus only on perpetrators with brown skin.
And all of us are less safe, because there is a concerted campaign for us to focus only on perpetrators with brown skin.
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Grooming gangs and csa are weaponised as part of certain bad faith actors attempts to make them seem race, religion or "integration" based. They aren't. Main offenders are actually white anyway. When you make them about race you risk ignoring other abusers like these.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
January 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Grooming gangs and csa are weaponised as part of certain bad faith actors attempts to make them seem race, religion or "integration" based. They aren't. Main offenders are actually white anyway. When you make them about race you risk ignoring other abusers like these.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Oh this is good
I wrote this about the media's first big test of Trump 2.0, and how poorly it scored. On the tedious, vital work of seeing what's in front of our faces for the next four years.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Week one in Trumpland: The first step is seeing what’s in front of our faces
We should resist the voices attempting to tell us it’s all fine
www.irishexaminer.com
January 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Oh this is good
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🧵Grind culture is toxic. Grind culture doesn't just wear down a to-do list, it wears down the grinder. Capitalism fosters grind culture because in capitalism we are replaceable. But you are not replaceable. There is only one YOU in the whole of the universe. Embrace balance, peace, rest and quiet.
January 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
🧵Grind culture is toxic. Grind culture doesn't just wear down a to-do list, it wears down the grinder. Capitalism fosters grind culture because in capitalism we are replaceable. But you are not replaceable. There is only one YOU in the whole of the universe. Embrace balance, peace, rest and quiet.