@ginginlondon.bsky.social
Coffee drinking dog owning generally positive nosey London dweller.
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Once more for the haters...
December 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Once more for the haters...
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Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care
Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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If using camps was about reducing costs of hotels then they fail, as cost more
If it is about "community cohesion", they fail as still generate tensions
If it was about "safe accommodation", they fail as they are shown not to be.
Camps fail on absolutely every metric.
If it is about "community cohesion", they fail as still generate tensions
If it was about "safe accommodation", they fail as they are shown not to be.
Camps fail on absolutely every metric.
October 30, 2025 at 6:53 AM
If using camps was about reducing costs of hotels then they fail, as cost more
If it is about "community cohesion", they fail as still generate tensions
If it was about "safe accommodation", they fail as they are shown not to be.
Camps fail on absolutely every metric.
If it is about "community cohesion", they fail as still generate tensions
If it was about "safe accommodation", they fail as they are shown not to be.
Camps fail on absolutely every metric.
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Attention design teams! Help us turn this parking lot into a new urban park. The City of Toronto has launched an international design competition for a new park in Liberty Village. Details at tinyurl.com/5xzrwh6p
October 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Attention design teams! Help us turn this parking lot into a new urban park. The City of Toronto has launched an international design competition for a new park in Liberty Village. Details at tinyurl.com/5xzrwh6p
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Unfortunately The i Paper is making several reporters redundant today, and my role is one of them.
I'm very proud of the work I've published over the last three years, and I'm looking forward to continuing my reporting freelance.
Want to chat? Drop me an email, text or DM.
I'm very proud of the work I've published over the last three years, and I'm looking forward to continuing my reporting freelance.
Want to chat? Drop me an email, text or DM.
October 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Unfortunately The i Paper is making several reporters redundant today, and my role is one of them.
I'm very proud of the work I've published over the last three years, and I'm looking forward to continuing my reporting freelance.
Want to chat? Drop me an email, text or DM.
I'm very proud of the work I've published over the last three years, and I'm looking forward to continuing my reporting freelance.
Want to chat? Drop me an email, text or DM.
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My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.
October 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.
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My husband was detained by ICE today
Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away
I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away
I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
October 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
My husband was detained by ICE today
Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away
I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away
I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
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This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
October 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
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new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity.
"To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."
"To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."
How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women
"This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.
www.teenvogue.com
September 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity.
"To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."
"To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."
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I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/
September 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/
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Afghan cultural norms, enforced even in emergencies by the ruling Taliban, forbid physical contact between men and women who are not family members.
After Afghan Quake, Many Male Rescuers Helped Men but Not Women
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/w...
FYI @aloner.bsky.social
After Afghan Quake, Many Male Rescuers Helped Men but Not Women
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/w...
FYI @aloner.bsky.social
After Afghan Quake, Many Male Rescuers Helped Men but Not Women
www.nytimes.com
September 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Afghan cultural norms, enforced even in emergencies by the ruling Taliban, forbid physical contact between men and women who are not family members.
After Afghan Quake, Many Male Rescuers Helped Men but Not Women
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/w...
FYI @aloner.bsky.social
After Afghan Quake, Many Male Rescuers Helped Men but Not Women
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/w...
FYI @aloner.bsky.social
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BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.
‘I escaped a Russian prison — only to end up in an American jail’
Dozens of Russian dissidents have been expelled from the US and forcibly returned to Russia with the co-operation of immigration authorities
www.thetimes.com
September 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.
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Dispatches from the West Country: somebody’s painted 🏴s on a load of roundabouts in Penzance and the locals are furious because they also hate the English
September 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Dispatches from the West Country: somebody’s painted 🏴s on a load of roundabouts in Penzance and the locals are furious because they also hate the English
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Finding key information shared at council meetings takes time and effort. Today, we've launched a tool that allows you to search verbatim quotes from council meetings in the UK and Ireland, without the need to watch long recordings or sift through extensive notes. council-search.bellingcat.com
Bellingcat Council Meeting Transcript Search
Find verbatim quotes from council meetings in the UK and Ireland using this free open source research tool by Bellingcat.
council-search.bellingcat.com
August 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Finding key information shared at council meetings takes time and effort. Today, we've launched a tool that allows you to search verbatim quotes from council meetings in the UK and Ireland, without the need to watch long recordings or sift through extensive notes. council-search.bellingcat.com
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3. I'm constantly struck by the extent to which people take their freedoms for granted - the freedom of speech, the freedom to vote, workers' rights, weekends, holidays, pensions ... - as if they simply fell out of the sky.
They were achieved at great cost by our political ancestors.
They were achieved at great cost by our political ancestors.
July 29, 2025 at 9:11 AM
3. I'm constantly struck by the extent to which people take their freedoms for granted - the freedom of speech, the freedom to vote, workers' rights, weekends, holidays, pensions ... - as if they simply fell out of the sky.
They were achieved at great cost by our political ancestors.
They were achieved at great cost by our political ancestors.
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NEW: The death shadow cast by Musk.
“When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.”
The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children.
Don’t ever forget.
“When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.”
The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children.
Don’t ever forget.
In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal
The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
NEW: The death shadow cast by Musk.
“When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.”
The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children.
Don’t ever forget.
“When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.”
The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children.
Don’t ever forget.
One of the Gallagher brothers held door open for me at Fenwicks on Bond Street (RIP)
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM
One of the Gallagher brothers held door open for me at Fenwicks on Bond Street (RIP)
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Hello! I’m still very actively and urgently looking for new full-time work (or regular freelance), ideally in the charity sector, creative production, digital media, or community management.
I’m completely broke and am going to lose my house very soon if I don’t find something. Wheeeeeee.
I’m completely broke and am going to lose my house very soon if I don’t find something. Wheeeeeee.
Hello! I’m still very actively and urgently looking for new full-time work… | Matt Collins
Hello! I’m still very actively and urgently looking for new full-time work (or regular freelance), ideally in the charity sector, creative production, digital media, or community management.
Over the...
www.linkedin.com
May 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Hello! I’m still very actively and urgently looking for new full-time work (or regular freelance), ideally in the charity sector, creative production, digital media, or community management.
I’m completely broke and am going to lose my house very soon if I don’t find something. Wheeeeeee.
I’m completely broke and am going to lose my house very soon if I don’t find something. Wheeeeeee.
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It’s World Press Freedom Day. A lot of journalists quite literally put their lives on the line to bring truth from the depths of repressive regimes. Here are a few to remember, who have been kidnapped, forcibly disappeared or held hostage.
May 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
It’s World Press Freedom Day. A lot of journalists quite literally put their lives on the line to bring truth from the depths of repressive regimes. Here are a few to remember, who have been kidnapped, forcibly disappeared or held hostage.
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Masked ICE agents snatched Rümeysa Öztürk off the street for writing an op-ed in support of Palestinian rights.
We're working for her immediate release from detention.
We're working for her immediate release from detention.
Writing an Op-Ed is Not Grounds for Deportation | ACLU
The U.S. government’s escalating attacks on noncitizens’ right to free speech, including our client Rümeysa Öztürk, should scare us all.
www.aclu.org
April 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Masked ICE agents snatched Rümeysa Öztürk off the street for writing an op-ed in support of Palestinian rights.
We're working for her immediate release from detention.
We're working for her immediate release from detention.
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Vaccines save lives. Pass it on.
It’s #WorldImmunizationWeek
Vaccines have saved 154 million lives in the last 50 years. That’s 6 lives every minute.
A reminder of what is #HumanlyPossible. Science saves lives.
#VaccinesWork
bit.ly/wiw2025
Vaccines have saved 154 million lives in the last 50 years. That’s 6 lives every minute.
A reminder of what is #HumanlyPossible. Science saves lives.
#VaccinesWork
bit.ly/wiw2025
April 24, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Vaccines save lives. Pass it on.
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The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account:
Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social
Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social
March 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account:
Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social
Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social
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People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.
March 18, 2025 at 4:51 AM
People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.
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A UK citizen has been detained by ICE at the Canadian border.
Her possessions confiscated, she’s being held in a cell with limited access to the outside world and no idea when she will be allowed to return home.
Stop traveling to the U.S. Vote with your dollar & protect yourself.
Her possessions confiscated, she’s being held in a cell with limited access to the outside world and no idea when she will be allowed to return home.
Stop traveling to the U.S. Vote with your dollar & protect yourself.
Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
March 10, 2025 at 3:29 AM
A UK citizen has been detained by ICE at the Canadian border.
Her possessions confiscated, she’s being held in a cell with limited access to the outside world and no idea when she will be allowed to return home.
Stop traveling to the U.S. Vote with your dollar & protect yourself.
Her possessions confiscated, she’s being held in a cell with limited access to the outside world and no idea when she will be allowed to return home.
Stop traveling to the U.S. Vote with your dollar & protect yourself.