Gwen Forkin-Richardson
@gwened02.bsky.social
Mum to 2 boys and a Bruce, EDI specialist, coach, EFT Practitioner.
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This year, we helped local partners in Bradford, Wigan and Knowsley bring neighbours together for amazing community events. People reconnected and HOPE grew. With your donation, we can roll this out to more towns across the country in 2026.
secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/182892/...
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HOPE not hate | End of year Appeal | Help us support communities under pressure
Across the UK, people are doing everything they can to hold their communities together. With your support, we can help them go even further in 2026.
secure.hopenothate.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
This year, we helped local partners in Bradford, Wigan and Knowsley bring neighbours together for amazing community events. People reconnected and HOPE grew. With your donation, we can roll this out to more towns across the country in 2026.
secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/182892/...
secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/182892/...
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Incredible scenes on BBC Look North.
November 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Incredible scenes on BBC Look North.
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Yeah, but voters do care, Mahmood, they care a lot
They care that you’re tearing children away from the only home they’ve ever known and sentencing them to years of fear, instability, and trauma
They care that violent racist criminals like Tommy Robinson are applauding your policies
They care that you’re tearing children away from the only home they’ve ever known and sentencing them to years of fear, instability, and trauma
They care that violent racist criminals like Tommy Robinson are applauding your policies
Green MP Carla Denyer accuses Shabana Mahmood of trying to "out Reform Reform" and says "toxic racist narratives and the scapegoating of migrants" are to blame for "tearing our country apart" not migrants.
Mahmood: "I couldn't care less what any other political party has to say about these matters"
Mahmood: "I couldn't care less what any other political party has to say about these matters"
November 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Yeah, but voters do care, Mahmood, they care a lot
They care that you’re tearing children away from the only home they’ve ever known and sentencing them to years of fear, instability, and trauma
They care that violent racist criminals like Tommy Robinson are applauding your policies
They care that you’re tearing children away from the only home they’ve ever known and sentencing them to years of fear, instability, and trauma
They care that violent racist criminals like Tommy Robinson are applauding your policies
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Empirical support for the idea of "crank magnetism,” which describes the phenomenon where belief in one type of conspiracy or pseudoscience attracts multiple types:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
June 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Empirical support for the idea of "crank magnetism,” which describes the phenomenon where belief in one type of conspiracy or pseudoscience attracts multiple types:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Happy Father’s Day @berniebanter.bsky.social
June 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Happy Father’s Day @berniebanter.bsky.social
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The Heavenly Chorus has the king of harmony.
Farewell Brian, I’m sparing in my use of ‘genius’ and ‘legend’ but if those words didn’t apply to Brian, they never applied to any musician.
You changed music and music changed the world.
There’ll never be another.
youtube.com/watch?v=7oRb...
Farewell Brian, I’m sparing in my use of ‘genius’ and ‘legend’ but if those words didn’t apply to Brian, they never applied to any musician.
You changed music and music changed the world.
There’ll never be another.
youtube.com/watch?v=7oRb...
The Beach Boys- California Girls (1965)
YouTube video by Daniel Allen
youtube.com
June 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The Heavenly Chorus has the king of harmony.
Farewell Brian, I’m sparing in my use of ‘genius’ and ‘legend’ but if those words didn’t apply to Brian, they never applied to any musician.
You changed music and music changed the world.
There’ll never be another.
youtube.com/watch?v=7oRb...
Farewell Brian, I’m sparing in my use of ‘genius’ and ‘legend’ but if those words didn’t apply to Brian, they never applied to any musician.
You changed music and music changed the world.
There’ll never be another.
youtube.com/watch?v=7oRb...
Connections
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Connections
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May 31, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Nigel Farage says abortion laws are “utterly ludicrous.”
MPs are watching.
We have days to show them: the public backs abortion rights.
Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
MPs are watching.
We have days to show them: the public backs abortion rights.
Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
Decriminalise abortion and make it a protected human right.
Women’s rights are under threat from the far right.
Nigel Farage just called our abortion laws “utterly ludicrous” – and now MPs are watching him.
A vote in Parliament could finally make abortion a pr...
you.38degrees.org.uk
May 31, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Nigel Farage says abortion laws are “utterly ludicrous.”
MPs are watching.
We have days to show them: the public backs abortion rights.
Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
MPs are watching.
We have days to show them: the public backs abortion rights.
Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
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This is a brand new letter by “Not in Our Name - Women”, a collective group of cisgender women who support the transgender community and object to the false divide between women’s rights and transgender rights.
If you’re a cis woman you can sign your support here ⤵️
If you’re a cis woman you can sign your support here ⤵️
Sign the Petition
Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community
www.change.org
May 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This is a brand new letter by “Not in Our Name - Women”, a collective group of cisgender women who support the transgender community and object to the false divide between women’s rights and transgender rights.
If you’re a cis woman you can sign your support here ⤵️
If you’re a cis woman you can sign your support here ⤵️
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Black smoke signifies that no pope has been chosen, white smoke shows that a new pontiff has been elected and a mix of yellow and blue smoke indicates that Leeds have been promoted #lufc
May 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Black smoke signifies that no pope has been chosen, white smoke shows that a new pontiff has been elected and a mix of yellow and blue smoke indicates that Leeds have been promoted #lufc
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Said it before and I'll say it again:
Men who don't believe women even have the right to their own bodies are telling you that the Supreme Court judgement is a huge victory for women's rights and feminism.
And they're managing to keep a straight face while they do it.
Men who don't believe women even have the right to their own bodies are telling you that the Supreme Court judgement is a huge victory for women's rights and feminism.
And they're managing to keep a straight face while they do it.
April 20, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Said it before and I'll say it again:
Men who don't believe women even have the right to their own bodies are telling you that the Supreme Court judgement is a huge victory for women's rights and feminism.
And they're managing to keep a straight face while they do it.
Men who don't believe women even have the right to their own bodies are telling you that the Supreme Court judgement is a huge victory for women's rights and feminism.
And they're managing to keep a straight face while they do it.
Stand up for trans rights 🏳️⚧️
Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the rollback of trans rights in the UK.https://goodlawproject.org/s/851fc4
Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the rollback of trans rights in the UK.https://goodlawproject.org/s/851fc4
April 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Stand up for trans rights 🏳️⚧️
Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the rollback of trans rights in the UK.https://goodlawproject.org/s/851fc4
Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the rollback of trans rights in the UK.https://goodlawproject.org/s/851fc4
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April 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Oh take me down to the haiku city
Where the grass is green and the girls Ah fuck it.
#NationalHaikuDay
Where the grass is green and the girls Ah fuck it.
#NationalHaikuDay
April 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Oh take me down to the haiku city
Where the grass is green and the girls Ah fuck it.
#NationalHaikuDay
Where the grass is green and the girls Ah fuck it.
#NationalHaikuDay
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One hundred years of Young People Today: a thread.
2001: Rude and selfish, stuck in front of the TV all day 1/
2001: Rude and selfish, stuck in front of the TV all day 1/
March 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
One hundred years of Young People Today: a thread.
2001: Rude and selfish, stuck in front of the TV all day 1/
2001: Rude and selfish, stuck in front of the TV all day 1/
International Women’s Day: a reminder of why today’s needed, the pay gap, VAWG, rolling back of rights
Don’t be down, focus on what you CAN do:
Widen your reading to inc. women of colour
Show women their impact
When you speak think who’s voice you can elevate
When we come together magic happens ✨
Don’t be down, focus on what you CAN do:
Widen your reading to inc. women of colour
Show women their impact
When you speak think who’s voice you can elevate
When we come together magic happens ✨
March 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
International Women’s Day: a reminder of why today’s needed, the pay gap, VAWG, rolling back of rights
Don’t be down, focus on what you CAN do:
Widen your reading to inc. women of colour
Show women their impact
When you speak think who’s voice you can elevate
When we come together magic happens ✨
Don’t be down, focus on what you CAN do:
Widen your reading to inc. women of colour
Show women their impact
When you speak think who’s voice you can elevate
When we come together magic happens ✨
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Well, Dazzler, mine died so people could live anywhere, work anywhere, worship whatever god they wanted to (or not) and follow their own heart without being judged by a virgin baby fascist who only knows about dying from fucking Jack Hawkins movies and Pathè Newsreels.
February 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Well, Dazzler, mine died so people could live anywhere, work anywhere, worship whatever god they wanted to (or not) and follow their own heart without being judged by a virgin baby fascist who only knows about dying from fucking Jack Hawkins movies and Pathè Newsreels.
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There’s a reason everything feels like chaos right now. It’s not an accident—it’s a strategy. What Trump & his enablers are doing follows the Shock Doctrine: create relentless crises, overload people’s ability to process events, then exploit the confusion to consolidate power.
#ShockDoctrine
There’s a reason everything feels like chaos right now. It’s not an accident—it’s a strategy. What Trump & his enablers are doing follows the Shock Doctrine: create relentless crises, overload people’s ability to process events, then exploit the confusion to consolidate power.
#ShockDoctrine
February 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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There’s a reason everything feels like chaos right now. It’s not an accident—it’s a strategy. What Trump & his enablers are doing follows the Shock Doctrine: create relentless crises, overload people’s ability to process events, then exploit the confusion to consolidate power.
#ShockDoctrine
There’s a reason everything feels like chaos right now. It’s not an accident—it’s a strategy. What Trump & his enablers are doing follows the Shock Doctrine: create relentless crises, overload people’s ability to process events, then exploit the confusion to consolidate power.
#ShockDoctrine
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