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@fe2o3girl.bsky.social
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fe2o3girl.bsky.social
We are going to see lots of posts from companies celebrating International Women’s Day.
Use this tool to check if UK companies are paying women less than men.

gender-pay-gap.service.gov.uk
Search and compare gender pay gap data - Gender pay gap service - GOV.UKSearch
gender-pay-gap.service.gov.uk
March 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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humanists.uk
Since February 2024, hundreds of people have received life-saving support from our pioneering #faithtofaithless helpline – the first UK-based phone service dedicated to helping those leaving high-control religious groups. 🧵
Faith to Faithless. Our helpline provides emotional support to anyone leaving or who has left a high-control religious group. You're not alone, please visit humanists.uk/ftfvideo Faith to Faithless. Across the UK, many people every year make the decision to leave a religion that, up until then, may have provided them with a home, a job, and their entire network of family and friends. Faith to Faithless. Our helpline provides emotional support to anyone leaving or who has left a high-control religious group. You're not alone, please visit humanists.uk/ftfvideo Faith to Faithless. Our team understands the many forms of abuse, isolation, and emotional hardship people face, and the daunting challenge of 'starting again'. They can help you navigate even the most treacherous paths. Faith to Faithless. Across the UK, many people every year make the decision to leave a religion that, up until then, may have provided them with a home, a job, and their entire network of family and friends. Faith to Faithless. Our helpline provides emotional support to anyone leaving or who has left a high-control religious group. You're not alone, please visit humanists.uk/ftfvideo
March 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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humanists.uk
Leaving a high-control religious group can be one of the most painful experiences anyone can face. That's where our service #FaithtoFaithless comes in. We help people leaving high-control religious groups. Our beautiful animation – launching today – brings these deeply personal stories to life. 🧵
March 3, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
HOW YOU CAN HELP:
✅ Spend your money at small businesses, especially those owned by underrepresented entrepreneurs
✅ Share this message with your networks—word of mouth is powerful
✅ Stand together in financial solidarity to create real economic change
February 28, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
Tomorrow, February 28, let’s disrupt the status quo by spending ONLY at businesses that uplift our communities.

That means:
🚫 No gas from corporate giants
🚫 No fast food chains
🚫 No big-box retailers (Target, Walmart, Amazon, etc.)
February 28, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
tomcox.substack.com/p/cat-horosc...
Cat Horoscopes
Aries This week you will see a ghost but nobody will notice when you look startled about it since you look like that a lot of the time already anyway.
tomcox.substack.com
February 20, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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russincheshire.bsky.social
Go to Google
Search "Gulf of Mexico"
Click the 3 little dots next to "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)"
Choose "Send feedback"
Click "Gulf of America"
Click "Inaccurate content"
Click "Incorrect"
Tell Google the correct name
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of...
Gulf of Mexico - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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majorityquiet.bsky.social
As we approach Valentine's Day, the QM team will be sharing valuable information about different types of domestic abuse and where you can go for support.

Today - "Coercive Control"

#DomesticAbuseAwareness #DomesticAbuse #KnowTheSigns #QuietMajority #UK #England #Scotland #NorthernIreland #Wales
February 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
fe2o3girl.bsky.social
At Rode Hall in Cheshire there is an amazing variety of flowers already in bloom including the beautifully scented Daphne Bholua.
Daphne Bolua clusters of little pink flowers that smell AMAZING A clump of snowdrops with trees in the background A metal unicorn peeping out between shrubs in front of trees A teeny tiny iris only 3 inches tall.
February 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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tuc.org.uk
We revealed Nigel Farage’s voting record to his constituents in Clacton.

They weren’t happy.
February 10, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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humanistsociety.bsky.social
"Humanists do the right thing even though no-one is watching." We're so proud of our celebrant Senga Ishaq who delivered Time for Reflection at Holyrood today. It's the 1st time since 2022 and only 4th time this parliamentary session (2021-26) a humanist has been offered the Time for Reflection slot
February 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
I admit that my main reason for being here is a shamelessly attempt to lure people to subscribe to my Substack, which is where my actual writing is. It's here, if you'd like a look: tomcox.substack.com
My Substack homepage.
January 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
Thought for the day (too long for Bluesky).
I do wonder what people are trying to achieve by travelling the internet telling strangers that they’re wrong to like the music they like. If we all did that every time we saw a musical opinion we disagreed with, none of us would ever sleep. By saying “This music you have been so foolishly, publicly vulnerable to announce that you love is in fact a load of garbage!” you’re not going to make people suddenly reply “My god, oh hippest tastemaker. Thank you for making me see the error of my ways. Please guide me deeper on my journey with your profound and right-thinking wisdom.” It’s just a boring waste of time. If you disagree with something, that’s fine, but it is possible to just stay quiet about it and focus your energy on something more positive. Many of us manage that kind of restraint every day. Nobody is paying you to be a music critic. You’re putting nothing positive out into the world by killing people’s joy. All you are doing is saying “Hello, I have never met you, but I am superior to and cooler than you because I dislike a piece of art that gives you pleasure.” And nobody properly cool ever does that.
January 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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warrenoates1.bsky.social
Its not even been a day and almost 600 people have signed my media regulation petition.

I'm blown away by the level of support. It reaches every corner of the UK!

Thank you! And please keep signing and sharing!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
January 21, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
Yesterday the Bookseller ran a piece on the reasons why I - and other authors attached to my publisher - have not been paid.

www.thebookseller.com/news/exclusi...
Exclusive: Unbound faces 'financial uncertainty' as authors wait for delayed payments
Crowdfunding publisher Unbound’s new CEO has expressed her "deepest regret" after authors and freelance contributors reported missed and late payments for their work.
www.thebookseller.com
January 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
I am trying my best to not see this as eight years of the hardest and best creative work of my life down the drain, but it's difficult right now.

Massive thanks to those who have asked how they can support me through this almighty cock-up. Subscribing to my Substack helps a lot (link is in my bio).
January 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
I've removed the paywall permanently from this piece, which is a chapter from my novel Villager, told entirely in the form of an online village message board. If you like it, you'll probably like the book. If you don't, you won't... tomcox.substack.com/p/the-villag...
A photograph of the sun setting over the River Severn, as viewed from an ancient hill fort in Gloucestershire, but which I'm passing off as the landscape in my novel Villager - inaccurately, since the book is set in Devon, although more specifically is also set on a moor that is supposed to serve as a parallel universe version of Dartmoor, with its own legends, ghosts and lost psychedelic music.
January 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
fe2o3girl.bsky.social
Not me looking at the Connections category thinking “that’s not a bird…..oh SWAN!”
NY Times Puzzle Connections screenshot. Birds plus letter: crowd, gully, puffing, swank.
January 15, 2025 at 10:40 AM
fe2o3girl.bsky.social
Post a picture you took, no description
December 21, 2024 at 12:21 AM
fe2o3girl.bsky.social
“Fearless Creativity” a late strong contender for phrase of the year.
December 3, 2024 at 12:42 PM
fe2o3girl.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/badges/games...
Play The Mini Crossword
All the fun of the larger New York Times Crossword, but you can solve it in seconds.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2024 at 10:58 PM
fe2o3girl.bsky.social
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Create a public consultation on freedom of speech and disinformation
We believe that lies, fraud, and media toxicity threaten our way of life. We think new mechanisms are needed to preserve confidence. How else can people know what to trust?
petition.parliament.uk
November 20, 2024 at 1:28 PM