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hipkitten.bsky.social
@hipkitten.bsky.social
She/her. Proud woke heathen.

Religion is nonsense. Animals are better than us. Brexit was always doomed to fail. Ignoring posts about Dumb Don and his cronies.

Gofundme accounts or DMs will be blocked.
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U.S. pals:
Do. Not. Donate. To. Salvation. Army.

There are better charities out there. Much better.
December 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Recognising that this is our one and only life gives kindness a terrible urgency. We don't have an eternity to make things right or to offer comfort – we only have now. To be kind is to acknowledge the precious, fleeting nature of everyone else's existence.
Spreading more kindness this December
Humanists UK is encouraging supporters this year to download Action for Happiness’s 2025 Do Good December calendar, which offers simple daily ideas for small acts of kindness to create a better world....
humanists.uk
December 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Worth a read - a beautiful touching love story.
For the latest in our series inviting public figures on a walk of significance, the Virgin founder chose a route from early in his life, covering the beginnings of his company and the start of his lifelong romance with his wife, Joan, who died last week.
https://bit.ly/4iqsXC8
Richard Branson: ‘I fell in love with a gorgeous girl who worked in a little bric-a-brac shopʼ | The Observer
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November 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Has your business been Snowballed yet? ❄️

As seen on Dragons’ Den — with offer of investment from all five Dragons.

A Snowball Assessment is rapidly becoming the UK’s new standard for accessibility.

www.snowballassessment.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
“An entire stage of life - the messy, social and formative experience of being a teenager - is under attack by Silicon Valley.”
Big tech has our attention and now it wants our affection. We must resist | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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It would take peers 20 years to get through all the amendments at this pace.

When an unelected chamber deliberately stalls a bill backed by the Commons, it does more than delay legislation; it undermines representative democracy.

#AssistedDyingBill

humanists.uk/2025/11/21/a...
House of Lords will talk out the Assisted Dying Bill unless changes are made
The House of Lords will talk out the Assisted Dying Bill, causing it to fail, unless they speed up the debate. Humanists UK and My Death, My Decision are dismayed that the unelected House is frustrati...
humanists.uk
November 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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A Government of cowards.

Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.

They can't get away with this.

Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Shabana Mahmood puts the signs up: Britain is full. No blacks, no dogs, no Irish
Shabana Mahmood puts the signs up: Britain is full. No blacks, no dogs, no Irish
We had always given sanctuary to those who needed it, she said, only now we would kick them out as soon as possible
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
One to watch - documentary on propaganda in Russian schools www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Storyville - Mr Nobody Against Putin
A Storyville documentary that follows a Russian schoolteacher as he risks everything to expose rising militarism in his classroom.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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The best, succinct, and simplest statement about right and left politics. The right start with fear the Zack Polanski starts with hope, facts, and science. Every Reform supporter should watch this short, Zack makes it clear and simple.
youtube.com/shorts/LQZom...
Whether it's Zohran Mamdani or Claudia Sheinbaum, there is a progressive movement rejecting fascism
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Seven peers, 587 amendments to the #AssistedDyingBill between them. This volume of amendments is not about improving the Bill, it’s about blocking it – a deliberate attempt to derail a compassionate, popular reform that the public overwhelmingly support.

humanists.uk/2025/11/14/s...
Seven Assisted Dying Bill opponents table 587 amendments between them
Today, members of the House of Lords will debate the Terminally Ill Adults Bill for the first sitting of Committee Stage. Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, Baroness Grey-Thompson, Lord Carlile of Berriew,…
humanists.uk
November 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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A warning. Reform run Lancashire county council plan to close down council run care homes and day centres to move residents into private sector-one of Reform’s social care cabinet members in the council owns a private care company
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres
Questions about potential conflict of interest as council’s cabinet member for social care owns private care company
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Dutch voters have been seduced by positivity – liberals elsewhere, take note | Simon van Teutem
Dutch voters have been seduced by positivity – liberals elsewhere, take note | Simon van Teutem
By selling hope alongside progressive patriotism, the centrist D66 party widened its appeal and beat the far right, says Dutch journalist Simon van Teutem
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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The Tories can shout at me all they like, but the truth is their Brexit deal it is hurting our country and Labour won’t do anything about it.

Today I urged the Prime Minister to actually fix it.
October 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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'Get rid of the migrants or I'll become a migrant' is quite the argument
October 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…
October 20, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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"Sir Keir Starmer has been warned that Labour is being deserted by a so-called Green wave of left-wing voters who are disillusioned with the party’s shift to the right on welfare, migration and transgender rights."

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Starmer warned of ‘Green wave’ exodus over Reform obsession
Labour may soon be ‘haemorrhaging’ left-wing voters to the Green Party, which is surging in polls, amid disillusionment with the party’s shift to the right
www.thetimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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From 1.30pm tomorrow, @paulettehamiltonmp.bsky.social will be making a statement in Westminster Hall on our Black Maternal Health Report. The report finds that Black women in England continue to face unacceptable disparities in maternity outcomes.

Watch ⬇️

www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
Black women are 2.3 times more likely to die in pregnancy, childbirth or the postnatal period

Our new report calls for change across England’s maternity services and demands that the voices of Black women are no longer ignored.

Read our report ⬇️

committees.parliament.uk/committee/81...
October 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Freed Palestinian prisoners embrace their families – with tears, relief and fresh bruises trib.al/p1hac2o
Freed Palestinian prisoners embrace their families – with...
Celebrations erupted for the gaunt men who were released from Israeli jails as part of the ceasefire deal. But many others remain in detention
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October 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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“The failings are systemic.” Police officers and health professionals, she believes, failed to understand the extent of the impact that domestic abuse and coercive control can have on a woman’s life, health and presentation.
October 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Amazon abuses both traders and customers to claw back all the value for themselves – and become a giant pile of shit #enshittification
October 5, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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BREAKING: A High Court judgment has found that faith-based admissions in state schools can result in ‘indirect race discrimination.’ The UK Government accepted it ‘would not be surprising’. It certainly should not come as a surprise, we've been warning about this for years.
September 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM