Polly
@fraxinus24.bsky.social
Teaching, music, farming. UK.
Love the natural world, making things, being outdoors & keeping fit.
Love the natural world, making things, being outdoors & keeping fit.
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Polly
@fraxinus24.bsky.social
· Feb 17
I'm not political = I'm fine with things as they are 🙈🙉
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my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
December 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
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In a world where AI reshapes jobs and markets overnight, the real edge won’t be about hard skills; it will be emotional intelligence, empathy, and human connection. A strategy isn’t just a plan on paper; it’s a commitment to people.
December 6, 2025 at 5:59 AM
In a world where AI reshapes jobs and markets overnight, the real edge won’t be about hard skills; it will be emotional intelligence, empathy, and human connection. A strategy isn’t just a plan on paper; it’s a commitment to people.
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Talked to a pollster yesterday about why a party led by a spectacularly unpopular man who helped bring about the spectacularly unpopular Brexit is polling so well. His view: Reform is essentially a “**** it” button. He thinks the Green’s policy of being “**** it but without racism” might do well.
December 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Talked to a pollster yesterday about why a party led by a spectacularly unpopular man who helped bring about the spectacularly unpopular Brexit is polling so well. His view: Reform is essentially a “**** it” button. He thinks the Green’s policy of being “**** it but without racism” might do well.
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The stupidity is just breathtaking. So where are trans people, and anyone who doesn't look 'conforming' supposed to use the loo?
They really, really haven't thought this one through
They really, really haven't thought this one through
Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
November 24, 2025 at 9:37 AM
The stupidity is just breathtaking. So where are trans people, and anyone who doesn't look 'conforming' supposed to use the loo?
They really, really haven't thought this one through
They really, really haven't thought this one through
Dystopian
The i Paper is reporting that once the changes are brought in, the 20 year route will be applied to refugees who are already here.
I can't over emphasise the level of terror this will cause to our refugee population, and the lack of detail and timescale will make it very difficult to calm nerves.
I can't over emphasise the level of terror this will cause to our refugee population, and the lack of detail and timescale will make it very difficult to calm nerves.
November 19, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Dystopian
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This looks rather meaningful.
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
This looks rather meaningful.
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Can’t quite believe the Chancellor is seriously considering slashing support for home energy efficiency as a way to cut fuel bills 👀. Locking people into cold & leaky homes which will cost them more to heat & decimating the insulation industry at same time. Total madness 👇
Reeves considers cut to green levies in effort to reduce cost of energy bills
Exclusive: Chancellor hopes to save up to £170 from average bill but industry insiders say move would be ‘disastrous’
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Can’t quite believe the Chancellor is seriously considering slashing support for home energy efficiency as a way to cut fuel bills 👀. Locking people into cold & leaky homes which will cost them more to heat & decimating the insulation industry at same time. Total madness 👇
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Private Eye nailing it.
October 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Private Eye nailing it.
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Absolute bonkers...
This govt trapped itself into a spiral of complete idiocy
Also, solidarity with this woman for having to face arrest for simply disagreeing with govt policy
This govt trapped itself into a spiral of complete idiocy
Also, solidarity with this woman for having to face arrest for simply disagreeing with govt policy
October 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Absolute bonkers...
This govt trapped itself into a spiral of complete idiocy
Also, solidarity with this woman for having to face arrest for simply disagreeing with govt policy
This govt trapped itself into a spiral of complete idiocy
Also, solidarity with this woman for having to face arrest for simply disagreeing with govt policy
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Her card was very specifically dissenting against the government's actions.
It's a very very dark place that this road takes us to if dissenting government decisions is enough to get you arrested.
It's a very very dark place that this road takes us to if dissenting government decisions is enough to get you arrested.
October 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Her card was very specifically dissenting against the government's actions.
It's a very very dark place that this road takes us to if dissenting government decisions is enough to get you arrested.
It's a very very dark place that this road takes us to if dissenting government decisions is enough to get you arrested.
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Never trust someone that went to college telling you, you don't need to go to college.
September 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Never trust someone that went to college telling you, you don't need to go to college.
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Letter of the day (in the Times)
August 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Letter of the day (in the Times)
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There is no such thing as neutrality when it comes to documentary photography –it’s a myth. You always take sides, either consciously or subconsciously, and acknowledging that is essential if your work is to maintain any element of authenticity. There’s nothing worse than fake neutrality.
July 29, 2025 at 8:57 AM
There is no such thing as neutrality when it comes to documentary photography –it’s a myth. You always take sides, either consciously or subconsciously, and acknowledging that is essential if your work is to maintain any element of authenticity. There’s nothing worse than fake neutrality.
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Once again, if you are pointing to a mob and arguing that their violence is a justification for doing what you want, it’s your mob and your violence.
July 24, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Once again, if you are pointing to a mob and arguing that their violence is a justification for doing what you want, it’s your mob and your violence.
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Powerful words, and powerful New Statesman article, by former Supreme Court judge Jonathan Sumpton, on the horrors being administered in Gaza.
July 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Powerful words, and powerful New Statesman article, by former Supreme Court judge Jonathan Sumpton, on the horrors being administered in Gaza.
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Whatever righteous anger the Israeli gov't may have felt almost two years ago, whatever justification, whatever provocation, whatever sophistry - it has fallen away now. What is done is nakedly genocidal and cannot be borne.
I am sickened by it and sickened by how "normal" it's presented as. 2/2
I am sickened by it and sickened by how "normal" it's presented as. 2/2
July 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Whatever righteous anger the Israeli gov't may have felt almost two years ago, whatever justification, whatever provocation, whatever sophistry - it has fallen away now. What is done is nakedly genocidal and cannot be borne.
I am sickened by it and sickened by how "normal" it's presented as. 2/2
I am sickened by it and sickened by how "normal" it's presented as. 2/2
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Police in Canterbury today informed a protestor that the phrase "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" could be considered a declaration of support for Palestine Action and therefore a terrorism offence.
July 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Police in Canterbury today informed a protestor that the phrase "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" could be considered a declaration of support for Palestine Action and therefore a terrorism offence.
1984 as policy, not fiction. And this under a Labour government? Unforgivable.
There aren't enough prison spaces in the world to house everyone if this broad an approach to policing is adopted more widely.
Police in Canterbury today informed a protestor that the phrase "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" could be considered a declaration of support for Palestine Action and therefore a terrorism offence.
July 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
1984 as policy, not fiction. And this under a Labour government? Unforgivable.
So #GregWallace blames
- his autism for his toxic behaviour
- the #BBC for putting him in 'an unsafe environment'
The neurodiverse people I count as friends would never dream of behaving like him, or blame other people for their behaviour - and know how to say sorry
Yet more entitled 'talent' 🤢
- his autism for his toxic behaviour
- the #BBC for putting him in 'an unsafe environment'
The neurodiverse people I count as friends would never dream of behaving like him, or blame other people for their behaviour - and know how to say sorry
Yet more entitled 'talent' 🤢
July 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
So #GregWallace blames
- his autism for his toxic behaviour
- the #BBC for putting him in 'an unsafe environment'
The neurodiverse people I count as friends would never dream of behaving like him, or blame other people for their behaviour - and know how to say sorry
Yet more entitled 'talent' 🤢
- his autism for his toxic behaviour
- the #BBC for putting him in 'an unsafe environment'
The neurodiverse people I count as friends would never dream of behaving like him, or blame other people for their behaviour - and know how to say sorry
Yet more entitled 'talent' 🤢