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Helen J
@hjj5578.bsky.social
Retired civil servant 🇺🇦
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The second piece for this project, this one is called RAW, and it’s an oil painting (oil paint and oil stick) on a 20x25cm unframed and unvarnished canvas board. For sale at £75.00 inc P&P, UK delivery only. Get a piece of Haus Of Holly for your home!!
November 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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that summit could've been an email
August 15, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Independent bars and restaurants on Shoreditch’s Rivington Street and Redchurch Street are now able to offer outdoor dining and drinking for the first time ever.

I’m delighted to be able to support London’s fantastic restaurants and bars through our Summer Streets fund.
Shoreditch is the first of the mayor's Summer Streets areas to go car free this summer
Four areas in London are benefiting from the mayor's car-free scheme to go alfresco at the weekends.
www.hot-dinners.com
August 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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I'm having a rough go of it lately, and have been thinking: everyone is going through something, and you have no idea what it is, or how it's affecting them.

Quote post this is if you're going through something, and maybe we'll all realize that we aren't as alone as we feel right now.
August 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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By a fellow human being working incredibly hard to support themselves and secure a better life?
July 24, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Here's an unclaimed #buyastrangerabook offer from last week.

@catphoto.bsky.social has sent me some dosh and would like to buy someone a book up to £20 for anyone in a service industry/gig-economy job (restaurants, etc)

If this is you and there's a book you'd like, get in touch.

UK only.
July 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Keep your eyes peeled for these beautiful posters on London bus stops. More important check them out and give whatever help you can
July 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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“I know you think you’re being funny, but honestly Dave, it’s just hurtful.”
July 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Trump is now taking questions in front of the literal cages that will house migrants in DeSantis's new camp
July 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat.

My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you spread the word?
June 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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The cynical words of an old law professor seem again apt, sadly.

Domestic law is a matter of law.

Foreign laws are a matter of expert evidence.

International law is a matter of fiction.
June 22, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.
June 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.

Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they? Hello?
June 22, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
June 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history
January 31, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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do they have a Nobel Reckless Fucking Moron Prize? thank you for your attention to this matter
June 22, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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English People Encounter Pizza for the First Time

🧵
June 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Don’t come to Tasmania. It’s terrible.
June 21, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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There’s something about a comma butterfly. I mean, obviously it’s just an insect going about its business, impervious to human admiration or approval.

But on the other hand, what an intriguing thing – the colouring, the wing shape, the impression it gives of an antiquarian book’s marbled binding.
June 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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I share more of my journey with dogs and depression on my insta.

instagram.com/niall.harbison

A follow there would mean the world as it helps me help more dogs 🙏🥰
June 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Mortifying experience at Pulp last night but taking comfort that I’m not the worst person Jarvis Cocker has ever impersonated
June 20, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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If you allow yourselves to be used as a prop you don't get to go coy when called upon. You knew what he was and you could've said no. You didn't. So this is who you are, Juventus. We see you.
Trump asks the Juventus players standing behind him if women could make their team and tries to bait them into endorsing his transphobia
June 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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British decline in one story.

Any state which finds itself incapable of managing a project as basic as rolling out a 20th century tech between its biggest cities needs to ask itself some profound questions about what hope it has of managing the technologies of the 21st.
June 18, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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The magazine that published an apologia for a violent neo-nazi party has no moral high ground to lecture anyone else about their behaviour from
"Hey Sean, since everyone who actually reads went to Bluesky, we've been massively down on engagement. Can you knock off 800 words on why it's a miserable place that's failing? Hopefully, that should notch monthly figures up a bit. Thanks."
June 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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fair play, that’s a decent signing
May 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM