JuneSim63 💚
@junesim63.bsky.social
Retired researcher living in Nottinghamshire, England. Native of Hull.
#Socialism #Politics #Cats #Gardening #ClassicalMusic #Environment #GreenParty
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#Socialism #Politics #Cats #Gardening #ClassicalMusic #Environment #GreenParty
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We've created a simple tool so you can find out whether your local NHS trust is using Palantir's software and asking them to resist Wes Streeting's push to sign up for it. goodlaw.social/zr8w
Stop Palantir in the NHS | Good Law Project
NHS trusts are rolling out Palantir software, but we’re fighting back
goodlaw.social
December 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
We've created a simple tool so you can find out whether your local NHS trust is using Palantir's software and asking them to resist Wes Streeting's push to sign up for it. goodlaw.social/zr8w
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Senior MPs including Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick and Darren Jones are claiming tens of thousands of pounds a year in taxpayer-funded rent expenses while either calling for or implementing benefit cuts on the poorest
By me, for the Big Issue www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
By me, for the Big Issue www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
Revealed: MPs rack up huge rent expenses while pushing through cuts to benefits
MPs are allowed to rent a second home, but while they are simultaneously cutting benefits for the vulnerable, the cost feels hard to swallow.
www.bigissue.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Senior MPs including Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick and Darren Jones are claiming tens of thousands of pounds a year in taxpayer-funded rent expenses while either calling for or implementing benefit cuts on the poorest
By me, for the Big Issue www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
By me, for the Big Issue www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
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A reminder that one of Wes Streeting's junior ministers is talking enthusiastically about 'cashing in' on NHS data (www.ft.com/content/0531...).
December 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
A reminder that one of Wes Streeting's junior ministers is talking enthusiastically about 'cashing in' on NHS data (www.ft.com/content/0531...).
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With over 80% of all of Gaza’s buildings damaged or destroyed, hundreds of thousands are living in tents & makeshift shelters that offer little protection from cold winds & heavy rains. Aid groups, including Save the Children, warned today that winter is pushing an already dire crisis even further.
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
With over 80% of all of Gaza’s buildings damaged or destroyed, hundreds of thousands are living in tents & makeshift shelters that offer little protection from cold winds & heavy rains. Aid groups, including Save the Children, warned today that winter is pushing an already dire crisis even further.
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Ending the two-child limit is welcome — but 1 in 10 children will still miss out because the overall benefit cap remains.
We cannot ignore this cap keeps families in poverty while multimillionaires and billionaires escape meaningful taxation.
#ChildPoverty #FairTax
We cannot ignore this cap keeps families in poverty while multimillionaires and billionaires escape meaningful taxation.
#ChildPoverty #FairTax
December 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Ending the two-child limit is welcome — but 1 in 10 children will still miss out because the overall benefit cap remains.
We cannot ignore this cap keeps families in poverty while multimillionaires and billionaires escape meaningful taxation.
#ChildPoverty #FairTax
We cannot ignore this cap keeps families in poverty while multimillionaires and billionaires escape meaningful taxation.
#ChildPoverty #FairTax
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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A Home Office spokesperson said: “This government is committed to protecting genuine refugees who are fleeing war & danger”.
This isn’t a serious response. The no of people they’ve resettled under the Mandate scheme in last yr is smaller than a 5 a side team.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This isn’t a serious response. The no of people they’ve resettled under the Mandate scheme in last yr is smaller than a 5 a side team.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Number of refugees allowed to settle in UK under UN schemes falls 26% in a year
Refugee Council says Home Office figures show safe and legal pathways are ‘disappearing when most needed’
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:24 AM
A Home Office spokesperson said: “This government is committed to protecting genuine refugees who are fleeing war & danger”.
This isn’t a serious response. The no of people they’ve resettled under the Mandate scheme in last yr is smaller than a 5 a side team.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This isn’t a serious response. The no of people they’ve resettled under the Mandate scheme in last yr is smaller than a 5 a side team.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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A lot of small sellers are suffering following the BBC article advising not to buy from social media due to the amount of Black Friday scams.
We are little, this is the only way we can advertise. You don't have to trust my link, you can look up Folksy.com and find my shop 'The Wee Owl Art'
We are little, this is the only way we can advertise. You don't have to trust my link, you can look up Folksy.com and find my shop 'The Wee Owl Art'
November 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM
A lot of small sellers are suffering following the BBC article advising not to buy from social media due to the amount of Black Friday scams.
We are little, this is the only way we can advertise. You don't have to trust my link, you can look up Folksy.com and find my shop 'The Wee Owl Art'
We are little, this is the only way we can advertise. You don't have to trust my link, you can look up Folksy.com and find my shop 'The Wee Owl Art'
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Last week I checked in on a friend, someone who I thought would be one of the very last immigrants (who have any other options) to leave Germany, only to find that they and their family are already in the process of leaving. Their explicit reason: the rise of fascism. Very, very disturbing times.
December 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Last week I checked in on a friend, someone who I thought would be one of the very last immigrants (who have any other options) to leave Germany, only to find that they and their family are already in the process of leaving. Their explicit reason: the rise of fascism. Very, very disturbing times.
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Sovereignty? Democracy? Sorry, but we can't afford those anymore. We'll be sued if we try to defend them.
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Sovereignty? Democracy? Sorry, but we can't afford those anymore. We'll be sued if we try to defend them.
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Starting today, States are meeting in Kenya to negotiate enviro policies ahead of #UNEA7, incl. a key proposal by the Colombian government on environmental protection in mining.
This could open up the path to a new global mining, and bring real change.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...
This could open up the path to a new global mining, and bring real change.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...
An Opportunity to Address Mining Abuses Globally
When 29-year-old Norbert Amoya went to fetch water from a river in northern Zambia earlier this year, he found large numbers of dead fish and the water had a strange smell. The cause was a major minin...
www.hrw.org
December 1, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Starting today, States are meeting in Kenya to negotiate enviro policies ahead of #UNEA7, incl. a key proposal by the Colombian government on environmental protection in mining.
This could open up the path to a new global mining, and bring real change.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...
This could open up the path to a new global mining, and bring real change.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...
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Day 30 of hunger strikes in UK prisons:
Demanding shutdown of Elbit Systems, deproscription and immediate bail.
The largest since 1981, ignored by government and media.
All the while people here can’t afford bills, food or rent …yet are forced to subsidise Israeli arms dealers.
Demanding shutdown of Elbit Systems, deproscription and immediate bail.
The largest since 1981, ignored by government and media.
All the while people here can’t afford bills, food or rent …yet are forced to subsidise Israeli arms dealers.
December 1, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Day 30 of hunger strikes in UK prisons:
Demanding shutdown of Elbit Systems, deproscription and immediate bail.
The largest since 1981, ignored by government and media.
All the while people here can’t afford bills, food or rent …yet are forced to subsidise Israeli arms dealers.
Demanding shutdown of Elbit Systems, deproscription and immediate bail.
The largest since 1981, ignored by government and media.
All the while people here can’t afford bills, food or rent …yet are forced to subsidise Israeli arms dealers.
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"This is the exact kind of hatred that allowed the Nazis to exterminate 6 million Jews and other ‘unacceptable’ minorities." - we often say it, but I don't think people realize how dangerously close we are
The wife of a Tory MP. No one posts something like that by mistake. Strip away the constraints of what’s societally acceptable, and you see what’s really underneath. This is the exact kind of hatred that allowed the Nazis to exterminate 6 million Jews and other ‘unacceptable’ minorities.
December 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
"This is the exact kind of hatred that allowed the Nazis to exterminate 6 million Jews and other ‘unacceptable’ minorities." - we often say it, but I don't think people realize how dangerously close we are
"History shows that racism never disappeared from public life. Rather, it assumed different shapes, some of which are harder to discern than others"
Good from Lars Cornelisson on the long history of racism in the UK.
#Racism #UKPolitics
theconversation.com/racism-never...
Good from Lars Cornelisson on the long history of racism in the UK.
#Racism #UKPolitics
theconversation.com/racism-never...
Racism never went away – it simply changed shape
When the language of racism lost scientific legitimacy, it changed shape and began targeting cultures instead.
theconversation.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:47 AM
"History shows that racism never disappeared from public life. Rather, it assumed different shapes, some of which are harder to discern than others"
Good from Lars Cornelisson on the long history of racism in the UK.
#Racism #UKPolitics
theconversation.com/racism-never...
Good from Lars Cornelisson on the long history of racism in the UK.
#Racism #UKPolitics
theconversation.com/racism-never...
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More attacks on worker’s rights, environmental protections and access to justice all in the name of growth…
Growth in what?
Growth in what?
Stirring stuff from the PM today. Stuff off, Gloomsters!
December 1, 2025 at 8:24 AM
More attacks on worker’s rights, environmental protections and access to justice all in the name of growth…
Growth in what?
Growth in what?
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Our economic woes are caused by Brexit, (Ukraine), Covid, Brexit’s ugly baby - our dismal immigration policy, Truss budget, 14yrs of austerity…
All rightwing policies.
Quite mad that our media acts as if Labour’s budget is the end of days, when they failed to adequately scrutinise any of
that👆shit.
All rightwing policies.
Quite mad that our media acts as if Labour’s budget is the end of days, when they failed to adequately scrutinise any of
that👆shit.
December 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Our economic woes are caused by Brexit, (Ukraine), Covid, Brexit’s ugly baby - our dismal immigration policy, Truss budget, 14yrs of austerity…
All rightwing policies.
Quite mad that our media acts as if Labour’s budget is the end of days, when they failed to adequately scrutinise any of
that👆shit.
All rightwing policies.
Quite mad that our media acts as if Labour’s budget is the end of days, when they failed to adequately scrutinise any of
that👆shit.
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Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.
November 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.
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A member of the cabinet briefing against Rachel Reeves? Who could have foreseen that the Labour right, a bunch of unprincipled backstabbing politicians (who believe in nothing but self advancement & hating the left) would behave like this once in power?
December 1, 2025 at 8:08 AM
A member of the cabinet briefing against Rachel Reeves? Who could have foreseen that the Labour right, a bunch of unprincipled backstabbing politicians (who believe in nothing but self advancement & hating the left) would behave like this once in power?
France’s business community is racing to make inroads with the National Rally, the far-right party tipped to win the Elysée Palace in the 2027 elections.
France’s business leaders scramble to shape far right’s agenda as election looms
The business community wants the far right to become more market-friendly, but there’s a long way to go.
www.politico.eu
December 1, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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#WATCH | "Keep talking about Gaza", says Humza Yousaf because the israeli genocide is still continuing, but with less cameras pointing at it
(Sarah Wilkinson)
(Sarah Wilkinson)
November 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
#WATCH | "Keep talking about Gaza", says Humza Yousaf because the israeli genocide is still continuing, but with less cameras pointing at it
(Sarah Wilkinson)
(Sarah Wilkinson)
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If Smol Paul has made you laugh today or over the last 5 years and you can chip in a bit to our rescue for disabled, difficult and different kitties, he and I would both appreciate it enormously ❤️
www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...
www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...
Donate to Holly's Merry Moggies cat rescue (registered charity number 1215708, woo!)
Thank you for helping us help the disabled, different, and 'difficult' kitties of Nottingham and beyond, often when no one else would.
Seeing the difference in a kitty who thought there was no hope ...
www.paypal.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
If Smol Paul has made you laugh today or over the last 5 years and you can chip in a bit to our rescue for disabled, difficult and different kitties, he and I would both appreciate it enormously ❤️
www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...
www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...
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Suppose we'd better all donate more period products to the foodbank now that a charity that donated them to those who couldn't afford it has closed - an event *checks notes* celebrated by the lobby groups that every aspect of the UK press wants you to know is better at feminism than the rest of us
November 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Suppose we'd better all donate more period products to the foodbank now that a charity that donated them to those who couldn't afford it has closed - an event *checks notes* celebrated by the lobby groups that every aspect of the UK press wants you to know is better at feminism than the rest of us
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Heads up, journalists!
Another cache of Epstein emails is being released.
It is separate from the cache that Bloomberg received.
The new cache contains approximately 20,900 unredacted emails and file attachments sent and received by Jeffrey Epstein over nineteen years and the cases against him.
Another cache of Epstein emails is being released.
It is separate from the cache that Bloomberg received.
The new cache contains approximately 20,900 unredacted emails and file attachments sent and received by Jeffrey Epstein over nineteen years and the cases against him.
Epstein emails - Distributed Denial of Secrets
Approximately 20,900 unredacted emails and file attachments sent and received by Jeffrey Epstein over nineteen years, providing previously unknown details of Epstein's activities and the cases against...
ddosecrets.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Great piece about how the MAGA/MAHA academics running the federal public health agencies—& dismantling public health—“manufactured doubt” about science during the pandemic, using tobacco industry-type tactics (see also blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/09/...)
Archived version at archive.ph/2021.11.09-1...
Archived version at archive.ph/2021.11.09-1...
And as a blast from that terrible past, the motivations are sadly often backed by interests that reward this behavior with power and money. I still think we have not done enough to train scientists to counter the doubt machine... www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Scientists: don’t feed the doubt machine
From climate to COVID, naivety about how science is hijacked promotes more of the same.
www.nature.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Great piece about how the MAGA/MAHA academics running the federal public health agencies—& dismantling public health—“manufactured doubt” about science during the pandemic, using tobacco industry-type tactics (see also blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/09/...)
Archived version at archive.ph/2021.11.09-1...
Archived version at archive.ph/2021.11.09-1...