K
@kalessandram.bsky.social
Left Leaning health professional, lover of animals, music, books and caring, kind compassionate people who question. Dislike tories and facists.
Also have MS.
Also have MS.
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I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday.
As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.
As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.
September 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday.
As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.
As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.
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SEVERE CONDITION CRITERIA
The Green Paper is diminished, but please lobby against the ‘severe condition criteria’—a dangerous, discriminatory UC change that will push new claimants into financial + psychological precarity.
Video cuts off due to Bluesky length but ends: please lobby!
#TakingThePIP
The Green Paper is diminished, but please lobby against the ‘severe condition criteria’—a dangerous, discriminatory UC change that will push new claimants into financial + psychological precarity.
Video cuts off due to Bluesky length but ends: please lobby!
#TakingThePIP
July 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
SEVERE CONDITION CRITERIA
The Green Paper is diminished, but please lobby against the ‘severe condition criteria’—a dangerous, discriminatory UC change that will push new claimants into financial + psychological precarity.
Video cuts off due to Bluesky length but ends: please lobby!
#TakingThePIP
The Green Paper is diminished, but please lobby against the ‘severe condition criteria’—a dangerous, discriminatory UC change that will push new claimants into financial + psychological precarity.
Video cuts off due to Bluesky length but ends: please lobby!
#TakingThePIP
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I just wish the Prime Minister's outrage about a Glastonbury band chanting "death to the IDF" was matched by outrage about the actually killing of Palestinians queueing for food - and a ban on parts for weapons used to assist such killing. #balance
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK’s sale of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel is lawful, high court rules
Rights group loses challenge despite government accepting they could be used in breach of humanitarian law in Gaza
www.theguardian.com
June 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I just wish the Prime Minister's outrage about a Glastonbury band chanting "death to the IDF" was matched by outrage about the actually killing of Palestinians queueing for food - and a ban on parts for weapons used to assist such killing. #balance
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Please read and consider sharing this excellent post from Roger Kline @rogerkline.bhttps://www.linkedin.com/pulse/canary-mine-whiff-mid-staffs-roger-kline-bwdee?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&utm_campaign=share_viasky.social
June 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Please read and consider sharing this excellent post from Roger Kline @rogerkline.bhttps://www.linkedin.com/pulse/canary-mine-whiff-mid-staffs-roger-kline-bwdee?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&utm_campaign=share_viasky.social
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Remembering Pope Francis: “We must not be taken aback by [numbers of asylum seekers], but rather view them as persons, seeing their faces and listening to their stories, trying to respond as best we can to their situation”.
Demonising immigrants obliterates our sense of shared humanity
David Wilson explains how migration has always been a part of human existence and Britain is no exception
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
April 27, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Remembering Pope Francis: “We must not be taken aback by [numbers of asylum seekers], but rather view them as persons, seeing their faces and listening to their stories, trying to respond as best we can to their situation”.
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This open letter to Starmer, Reeves & Kendall is excellent. If you or someone you care about is impacted by the impending disability #benefitcuts please read and add your name if you wish to. #PIP #accessibility #mentalhealth #disability #chronicillness #disabilityrights #wealthtax
April 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This open letter to Starmer, Reeves & Kendall is excellent. If you or someone you care about is impacted by the impending disability #benefitcuts please read and add your name if you wish to. #PIP #accessibility #mentalhealth #disability #chronicillness #disabilityrights #wealthtax
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“History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce.”
— Karl Marx
— Karl Marx
April 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
“History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce.”
— Karl Marx
— Karl Marx
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Government’s own impact assessment finds welfare cuts would drive 250,000 more people, including 50,000 children, into poverty.
800,000 current and future claimants will lose PIP. 150,000 lose carers allowance as a knock-on effect.
800,000 current and future claimants will lose PIP. 150,000 lose carers allowance as a knock-on effect.
March 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Government’s own impact assessment finds welfare cuts would drive 250,000 more people, including 50,000 children, into poverty.
800,000 current and future claimants will lose PIP. 150,000 lose carers allowance as a knock-on effect.
800,000 current and future claimants will lose PIP. 150,000 lose carers allowance as a knock-on effect.
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If you want to write to your Labour MP about disability benefit cuts but have limited spoons, here’s a template from @sensecharity.bsky.social you can use:
t.co/E8QB6EDi9o
Public backlash *does* work at times so let’s keep the pressure up. You too, non-disabled allies!
t.co/E8QB6EDi9o
Public backlash *does* work at times so let’s keep the pressure up. You too, non-disabled allies!
https://action.sense.org.uk/page/167765/action/1?ea.tracking.id=twt-org
t.co
March 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
If you want to write to your Labour MP about disability benefit cuts but have limited spoons, here’s a template from @sensecharity.bsky.social you can use:
t.co/E8QB6EDi9o
Public backlash *does* work at times so let’s keep the pressure up. You too, non-disabled allies!
t.co/E8QB6EDi9o
Public backlash *does* work at times so let’s keep the pressure up. You too, non-disabled allies!
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Grooming gangs and csa are weaponised as part of certain bad faith actors attempts to make them seem race, religion or "integration" based. They aren't. Main offenders are actually white anyway. When you make them about race you risk ignoring other abusers like these.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
January 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Grooming gangs and csa are weaponised as part of certain bad faith actors attempts to make them seem race, religion or "integration" based. They aren't. Main offenders are actually white anyway. When you make them about race you risk ignoring other abusers like these.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Yep
I am ( & I’m atheist)
Bishop Marianne Edgar Budde said exactly what she should have said..
#IamWithHer
#BishopMarianBudde
I am ( & I’m atheist)
Bishop Marianne Edgar Budde said exactly what she should have said..
#IamWithHer
#BishopMarianBudde
January 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Yep
I am ( & I’m atheist)
Bishop Marianne Edgar Budde said exactly what she should have said..
#IamWithHer
#BishopMarianBudde
I am ( & I’m atheist)
Bishop Marianne Edgar Budde said exactly what she should have said..
#IamWithHer
#BishopMarianBudde
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Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.
‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.
Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.
Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
December 31, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.
‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.
Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.
Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
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NHS funding per patient is now more than 6% lower than in 2010.
The NHS does not have 'more money than ever' as is constantly repeated.
This is a lie, RP so everyone knows.
The NHS does not have 'more money than ever' as is constantly repeated.
This is a lie, RP so everyone knows.
December 1, 2024 at 6:11 PM
NHS funding per patient is now more than 6% lower than in 2010.
The NHS does not have 'more money than ever' as is constantly repeated.
This is a lie, RP so everyone knows.
The NHS does not have 'more money than ever' as is constantly repeated.
This is a lie, RP so everyone knows.
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#SocialConnections
#Research
Experiments prompting people to engage in more prosocial behaviour (e.g., acts of kindness) or simple social interactions (e.g., acting extroverted) have both shown promise in boosting well-being'
- Fritz et al., 2023
#Research
Experiments prompting people to engage in more prosocial behaviour (e.g., acts of kindness) or simple social interactions (e.g., acting extroverted) have both shown promise in boosting well-being'
- Fritz et al., 2023
in a world where you can be anything choose to be kind poster
ALT: in a world where you can be anything choose to be kind poster
media.tenor.com
November 29, 2024 at 7:35 AM
#SocialConnections
#Research
Experiments prompting people to engage in more prosocial behaviour (e.g., acts of kindness) or simple social interactions (e.g., acting extroverted) have both shown promise in boosting well-being'
- Fritz et al., 2023
#Research
Experiments prompting people to engage in more prosocial behaviour (e.g., acts of kindness) or simple social interactions (e.g., acting extroverted) have both shown promise in boosting well-being'
- Fritz et al., 2023
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Guardian and Observer journalists to strike over sale of the Observer
Guardian and Observer journalists to strike over sale of the Observer
Union says sale of Sunday paper to Tortoise would be a ‘betrayal of the Scott Trust’s commitment to the Observer’
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Guardian and Observer journalists to strike over sale of the Observer
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UK professionals, for your struggling CYP families:
Olio (free food app),
Too Good To Go (cheap food app),
Community Pantries / Shops where for like a £5 you get a decent amount of food you choose (it isn't a food bank). They need to search locally.
#FoodDignity #Psychology
Olio (free food app),
Too Good To Go (cheap food app),
Community Pantries / Shops where for like a £5 you get a decent amount of food you choose (it isn't a food bank). They need to search locally.
#FoodDignity #Psychology
November 19, 2024 at 5:56 AM
UK professionals, for your struggling CYP families:
Olio (free food app),
Too Good To Go (cheap food app),
Community Pantries / Shops where for like a £5 you get a decent amount of food you choose (it isn't a food bank). They need to search locally.
#FoodDignity #Psychology
Olio (free food app),
Too Good To Go (cheap food app),
Community Pantries / Shops where for like a £5 you get a decent amount of food you choose (it isn't a food bank). They need to search locally.
#FoodDignity #Psychology
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Beware, this "BBC Breaking News" account is fake. It's not an official BBC News account.
If BBC News ever joins this platform, it'll be publicised via official BBC platforms.
If BBC News ever joins this platform, it'll be publicised via official BBC platforms.
November 19, 2024 at 4:26 AM
Beware, this "BBC Breaking News" account is fake. It's not an official BBC News account.
If BBC News ever joins this platform, it'll be publicised via official BBC platforms.
If BBC News ever joins this platform, it'll be publicised via official BBC platforms.
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November 16, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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Well I went ahead and made one anyway. This is a starter pack for anyone out there with MS who feels like they might need to talk to others who also share this disease. It's also a place to talk about anything nice. Hope u don't mind the add & let me know if u want adding 🧡
go.bsky.app/NB3c3hg
go.bsky.app/NB3c3hg
November 15, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Well I went ahead and made one anyway. This is a starter pack for anyone out there with MS who feels like they might need to talk to others who also share this disease. It's also a place to talk about anything nice. Hope u don't mind the add & let me know if u want adding 🧡
go.bsky.app/NB3c3hg
go.bsky.app/NB3c3hg
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September 3, 2024 at 3:51 PM