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Reader, knitter, dog-owned, atheist. Everything is political. No you're not getting profile photos even if it means you think I'm a bot.
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Jazzlet @jazzlet.bsky.social · Aug 14
A thing I've been mulling over for a while:
- if you have a favourite airport in your country you are flying too much.
- if you can rate airports all over your continent you are flying way too much
- if you can rate airports all over the world you are flying way WAY too much
Climate change is real
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goodlawproject.bsky.social
🌟 WIN 🌟

After we lodged a complaint against the rightwing lobby group Policy Exchange, the Charity Commission has now launched a formal compliance case.

https://goodlawproject.org/charities-regulator-opens-case-against-policy-exchange
After Good Law Project lodged a complaint against the rightwing lobby group Policy Exchange, the Charity Commission has launched a formal compliance case.
After Good Law Project lodged a complaint against the rightwing lobby group Policy Exchange, the Charity Commission has launched a formal compliance case.
goodlawproject.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Thieving bastards the lot of them, though this happens to be the lot that provide my water and sewerage facilities.
premnsikka.bsky.social Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11h
Water company United Utilities enjoys 131% rise in profits after bills go up £112.

UU has 205+ criminal convictions.

Loses over 175bn litres of water to leaks. In 2024 dumped sewage 450,778 hours in rivers//akes. No exec prosecuted/fined

Rewarded with higher price and profit.
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Water company enjoys 131% rise in profits after bills go up £112
United Utilities, whose executives are barred from receiving bonuses because of pollution record, will pay out most of the increase in dividends
www.thetimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Reform has received more than £2.3 million from the oil & gas sector, 92% of it's donations. Wes Streeting and other Cabinet ministers have reveived significant donations from the private health sector. We have to reform party finances to get politicians working for us not just these businesses.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 12h
Reform UK energy plans crumble under scrutiny

Reform UK rails against net zero, but the evidence shows green jobs and growth are already powering the UK economy

By Brian McHugh
Reform UK energy plans crumble under scrutiny
Reform UK rails against net zero, but the evidence shows green jobs and growth are already powering the UK economy
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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troytassier.bsky.social
Great article here:

“The fact that children in 2025 are suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is not just a public health failure. It is a moral failure. Access to vaccines is not a privilege — it is a human right.”

@madhupai.bsky.social
Kids have a right to vaccinations. Let's bring in the lawyers
Children suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is a moral failure. Access to vaccines is a human right.
www.statnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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sophiecarr.bsky.social
Sunrise behind an iceberg on Fellsfjara beach last week.

#Iceland
An iceberg with beautiful scalloped patterns on its surface sits on a black sand beach. A wave recedes around it back to the sea. Behind is the sun rising, reflecting orange on the beach. The sky is grey and peachy.
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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tjalamont.bsky.social
Apropos of nothing in particular, here is a very small weevil posing majestically. (Brazil)
#Bugsky 🐙🌿
A macro photo of a weevil, in profile, upper left in the frame atop a fuzzy gray-green leaf. The weevil is orange with a coating of sparse yellow hairs, some of which are dense enough to form spots.
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
There really are a lot of us who won't share if you don't use alt text.
softmossdog.bsky.social bug catcher jd 🐛 @softmossdog.bsky.social · Oct 6
Artists PLEASE I am begging you to use alt text on your art. I want to support you and RT your art but I'm not going to if it does have alt text, and there are so, so many people who feel the same
November 14, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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jjonesn.bsky.social
According to this 50,000 people in the US died of Covid in 2024. It seems like an extraordinarily high figure for something that is no longer supposed to be a concern - even if you leave LC aside.
sabivm.bsky.social Sabina Vohra-Miller @sabivm.bsky.social · 1d
Why you should continue to get the COVID-19 vaccine every year!
WHY YOU SHOULD CONTINUE TO GET THE COVID-19 VACCINE EVERY YEAR 01. COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to be high in the elderly (over age 65) and very young (under age 2). In 2024, nearly 50,000 people died in the US from COVID-19 and it is still the third leading cause of death in adults and eighth in children. 02. Among children and adolescents ages 6 months-17 years hospitalized with COVID-19, 41% had no underlying health conditions. In adults, COVID-19 related hospitalizations increases with underlying medical conditions. 03. Most adults hospitalized with COVID-19 had received no COVID-19 vaccine since September 2022. In children, majority of those hospitalized were not vaccinated. 04. While efficacy on protection against infection is low due to the evolving variants and does also wane, studies have shown the updated vaccines are still nearly 60% effective against hospitalization and death. 05. Studies show that those who were vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine and get infected are less likely to develop post-COVID conditions such as Long Covid and MIS-C compared to those who are unvaccinated. 06. Despite what some disinformation spreaders say, the COVID-19 vaccine is very safe. On myocarditis, countless studies have shown that the risk is significantly higher and more severe with infection compared to the lower incidence with the vaccines. Sabina Vohra-Miller
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
::also raising hand::
azteclady.bsky.social azteclady @azteclady.bsky.social · 19h
::raising hand:: There are plenty of us who would love to spread the word about your art/book/thing you make, but will not do so for images without alt-text. Accessibility matters.

(and if you don't know why, or how to start, here you go, to brief primers)
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
White male privilege encapsulated.
zingherpolisci.bsky.social Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 2d
Fireable offenses for Harvard president: bad faith allegations over half a footnote in something published two decades ago.
Non-fireable offenses for Harvard president: being good buddies with the most notorious child sex trafficker in the country.
bakerdphd.bsky.social Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2d
Why hello there former US Treasury Secretary, president of Harvard, and director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers.

Sharing with alt so we can all bask in his hidden insights that we are NOT allowed to share.

And here's the source link:
oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
November 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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greenleejw.bsky.social
Looks useful, but they may not cover an important topic: if you need a #map for your book, where do you go? Many authors, faced with that question, have no idea where to start.

If that’s you, I can help! I draw maps for a living, and specialize in maps for academic books.

surprisedeelmaps.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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drtobydriver.bsky.social
Such an imaginative lead for heritage in Scotland. I saw similar graphic novel artists used to illustrate the Ad Gefrin Anglo Saxon museum in Northumberland in May. A hugely effective new way to communicate archaeology 👏👏

www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...
Archaeologists and Game Designers Collaborate to Create “Basically the Best Book on the Picts Ever Written” - Dig It!
Carved in Stone: A Storyteller’s Guide to the Picts is an illustrated and comprehensive book for anyone interested in Scotland’s past, including those who play tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs). Fol...
www.digitscotland.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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gdanmitchell.com
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“Oak And Granite, Autumn” — Autumn black oak leaves against Yosemite Valley granite cliffs.

I like oak trees and oak leaves,but they…continues: gdanmitchell.com/2025/11/12/o...

#Tree #Autumn #fall #foliage #yosemite #nationalpark #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #photo #photography
November 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
Solvitur ambulando is my favourite Latin phrase. It means "it is solved by walking".
A photograph I took quite early on New Year's Day, 2019, while walking on the Isle of Purpeck, not long before I did a tweet using it, and the same caption. I imagine it won't have as much impact here, since loads of people have since reused it, and the phrase is now more widely known. It is still very very true, though. Lots of things are solved by walking. Although not everything, obviously.
November 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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sbworkersunited.org
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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rleggos.bsky.social
So when the aurora borealis is faint enough, you can capture its glow with the Milky Way 😍

Berthoud Pass, CO last night
Milky Way to the left and red glow to the right above mountains with just a little snow on them in a very starry sky. I didn't use a star tracker and this was a 30 second exposure so some star trailing is visible.
November 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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indyfromspace.bsky.social
The opposite of woke is pedophile
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Lots of lovely photos. Really lots, and really lovely.
princejvstin.com Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 4d
Feel like I need to deploy some photography for a mood break. I do need to process photos from the trip I just did (all credit to @bryanhansel.com for leading an excellent workshop even if conditions weren't what we wanted), so these will be from the past. I'd add as I have time and there's interest
November 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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loxy.bsky.social
No auroras here due to the freezing fog, but it means we have had another cool phenomenon.

Hoar frost. And it’s particularly long and spiky.
Hoar frost on the mesh of a hockey net Hoar frost on a branch of berries with houses behind Hoar frost on the metal chain of a swing Flash on a branch of hoar frost on a tree
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Hope not Hate do incredible work, and they are looking for people to work for them!
hopenothate.org.uk HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 1d
✊ We are hiring!

The HOPE not hate team is growing and we’re looking to recruit for the following roles:

• Investigative Journalist (Europe)
• Community Tensions Researcher

Find out more and apply here: hopenothate.org.uk/about-us/car...
November 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
They're right, and they don't say it, but it's in their interest too, quite apart from the fact that extreme wealth inequality is destabilising to society, their future workers are literally growing up stunted physically and intellectually. Austerity is sabotaging our future.
November 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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bulloch.photography
Almost surreal. The water really is this colour, if you don’t believe me I’ll find the video to prove it! The reflection of a small but very beautiful waterfall near Bovec, Slovenia, in the green pool at its base.

#photography #landscapephotography #photographers #slovenia
Looking into a pool of water, with autumn leaves floating on the surface and the reflection of a waterfall in the top left. Due to the limestone rock and shady location the water appears deep green.
November 12, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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chadbourn.bsky.social
Reform in Kent are “a threat to public safety”, the Fire Brigades Union said.

Reform haven’t signed off on fire brigade budgets, “failed to govern and lead the fire service” and haven’t even met with the fire service which is one of their responsibilities.
Reform leader branded “captain chaos” as Kent fire authority in disarray
The Fire Brigades Union has slammed the record of Reform’s ‘flagship council’ as it emerged that Kent and Medway Fire Authority was in disarray following the removal of five councillors, including its...
www.fbu.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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drstevetaylor.bsky.social
Underpaying Doctors is applauded by NHS Managers
today as Wes Streeting spoke to NHS Employers

Yet having a workforce willing & happy to work is their responsibility

Strikes are the final resort of employees who aren’t listened to

www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/pay-...
November 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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athenakugblenu.bsky.social
Here is a flyer for the show with accurate representations of the comedians
Stand up for Women Fundraising for Amnesty Internation Line up: Shazia Mirza, Anna Hale, Athena Kugblenu, Michelle Shaughnessy, Rosie WIlby and Kyrah Gray 24 November, 7pm The Queens Head, Essex Road, London
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM