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Great to meet Luke Taylor MP for Sutton and Cheam today in #Parliament as part of the @climatecoaliton's @CAFOD @resultsuk #ActNowChangeForever lobby.
July 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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For Women's History Month, may we all remember and summon the courage of Rachel Carson, who wrote Silent Spring to inform the world what DDT was doing to the songbirds, raptors,and by extension, us. While battling cancer, she stood her ground against savage attacks by the chemical industry...
Rachel Carson
March 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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lethalityjane.bsky.social
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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jamesmartinsj.bsky.social
In its simplest terms, the apparent demise of #USAID is the result of the world's richest man ending a program that helps millions of poor people. You don't need a Ph.D. in moral theology to see why this is an evil. You can just read Jesus's parables on the rich and the poor.
February 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
On this holocaust memorial day let us resist any talk of 'us and them' and anything which would divide us.
Let us call it out wherever we hear or see it.
#holocaust
January 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 4.
December 9, 2024 at 1:53 PM
hoose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 3.

#BookSky

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#Books

#BookChallenge
December 4, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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chrisgpackham.bsky.social
Wales this weekend – climate collapse happening before our very eyes .

We need to get serious . It’s why I’m petitioning for a ban on fossil fuel ads .

lovera.ge/ban-ffa 🧵
matthewtodd.bsky.social Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · Nov 24
This is not Valencia, this is the town Tenbury Wells UK. There are very real consequences for all of us of ignoring 40 years of warnings from NASA & the world’s leading scientists. Reminder: as the planet heats, the atmosphere holds more moisture meaning rainfall intensity increases. #climatechange
November 24, 2024 at 8:59 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
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#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
November 25, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
November 24, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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cortneymckee.bsky.social
Public library attacks are coming to your local library. Get a card & use it, or you might just lose it.
November 15, 2024 at 12:41 AM
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txcat61.bsky.social
#This
November 14, 2024 at 7:23 AM
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thehardyboycats.bsky.social
Snoring
An extreme closeup of a cat sleeping on his back on a white duvet. He's got tabby haunches, tail and forehead, a Christmas tree shaped splotch on his nose and the rest of him is white. One dainty paw is resting on his chest and the other is flung out, showing off his black toe beans. He looks warm and cozy. #CatsOfBluesky
November 14, 2024 at 1:04 PM
So let the wild rumpus begin! Thanks for the follow, @silvanarscj.bsky.social @mccrimmons.bsky.social - now I'm fair romping along with 2 followers!!!
November 14, 2024 at 11:15 PM
My first Bluesky post:
From next Sunday's Gospel:
'Know that God is near at the very gates'
It certainly felt that God was near on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne last month
November 14, 2024 at 11:11 PM