Frankie Bowbrick
@ladydogmum.bsky.social
I love reading, cookery, gardening and animals but not necessarily in that order. Views are all my own
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Everyone knows this, even the Labour government, which makes their stubborn refusal to do anything about it criminal neglect of our country and well being.
@sarahhall-labour.bsky.social @stellacreasy.bsky.social
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Labour’s Brexit denial is damaging the UK - it’s time to rejoin the customs union
Martin Shipton With Reform UK’s racist obsessions largely dominating the political discourse, it was refreshing to see a sensible legislative proposal getting some traction this week. The Liberal Demo...
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December 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Everyone knows this, even the Labour government, which makes their stubborn refusal to do anything about it criminal neglect of our country and well being.
@sarahhall-labour.bsky.social @stellacreasy.bsky.social
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@sarahhall-labour.bsky.social @stellacreasy.bsky.social
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Private equity firms preying on vets practices.
6 firms control 60% of UK practices. Same firms control pet food, insurance.
Wages down, fees up. Pet owners skipping meals to cover costs, hand pets to rescue organisations or euthanising them.
Change law. Only qualified vets to own vet practices.
6 firms control 60% of UK practices. Same firms control pet food, insurance.
Wages down, fees up. Pet owners skipping meals to cover costs, hand pets to rescue organisations or euthanising them.
Change law. Only qualified vets to own vet practices.
‘Fat cats’ preying on veterinary practices
Senedd hears private equity firms have been accused of collaring the market in a corporate 'feeding frenzy' that has seen local, independent vets…
www.southwalesargus.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Private equity firms preying on vets practices.
6 firms control 60% of UK practices. Same firms control pet food, insurance.
Wages down, fees up. Pet owners skipping meals to cover costs, hand pets to rescue organisations or euthanising them.
Change law. Only qualified vets to own vet practices.
6 firms control 60% of UK practices. Same firms control pet food, insurance.
Wages down, fees up. Pet owners skipping meals to cover costs, hand pets to rescue organisations or euthanising them.
Change law. Only qualified vets to own vet practices.
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No surprise: new analysis shows that heat pumps can deliver excellent performance even in older buildings with no meaningful correlation between building age & heat pump efficiency.
This is in line with my own experience of having a heat pump in a 1880 Victorian home with only modest insulation.
This is in line with my own experience of having a heat pump in a 1880 Victorian home with only modest insulation.
December 13, 2025 at 10:21 AM
No surprise: new analysis shows that heat pumps can deliver excellent performance even in older buildings with no meaningful correlation between building age & heat pump efficiency.
This is in line with my own experience of having a heat pump in a 1880 Victorian home with only modest insulation.
This is in line with my own experience of having a heat pump in a 1880 Victorian home with only modest insulation.
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Another excellent day at @rspbminsmere.bsky.social . Fieldfares, Redwings, Siskins in the north bushes, Temminck’s Stint, Golden Plovers, Snipe on the scrape, Bitterns, Marsh Harriers, Merlin from Bittern hide and finished with a spectacular Starling murmuration. . #UKBirding #SuffolkBirds
December 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Another excellent day at @rspbminsmere.bsky.social . Fieldfares, Redwings, Siskins in the north bushes, Temminck’s Stint, Golden Plovers, Snipe on the scrape, Bitterns, Marsh Harriers, Merlin from Bittern hide and finished with a spectacular Starling murmuration. . #UKBirding #SuffolkBirds
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Not very seasonal but a mixed media Cambridge May Week scene which I think sold at an exhibition (I'm forever sorting out and tidying up all the hundreds of photos of paintings on usb hard drives)
#art #mixedmedia
#art #mixedmedia
December 14, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Not very seasonal but a mixed media Cambridge May Week scene which I think sold at an exhibition (I'm forever sorting out and tidying up all the hundreds of photos of paintings on usb hard drives)
#art #mixedmedia
#art #mixedmedia
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Tommy 7-Names’s Carol service was a wash-out….
….oh dear, what a shame, never mind.
….oh dear, what a shame, never mind.
December 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Tommy 7-Names’s Carol service was a wash-out….
….oh dear, what a shame, never mind.
….oh dear, what a shame, never mind.
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December 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Here’s Zia Yusuf mocking Conservatives for telling everyone how “dumb everything they did in power was”.
He was a member of the Conservatives until August 2024… so through the whole time of them being in power.
How “dumb”.
He was a member of the Conservatives until August 2024… so through the whole time of them being in power.
How “dumb”.
December 14, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Here’s Zia Yusuf mocking Conservatives for telling everyone how “dumb everything they did in power was”.
He was a member of the Conservatives until August 2024… so through the whole time of them being in power.
How “dumb”.
He was a member of the Conservatives until August 2024… so through the whole time of them being in power.
How “dumb”.
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Reform UK is now claiming to be the largest party/business in the UK with 270,000 members, surpassing Labour.
Membership figures mean nothing, as we saw during the Corbyn years. What counts is how many will get out to persuade people on the doorstep at election time.
Membership figures mean nothing, as we saw during the Corbyn years. What counts is how many will get out to persuade people on the doorstep at election time.
December 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Reform UK is now claiming to be the largest party/business in the UK with 270,000 members, surpassing Labour.
Membership figures mean nothing, as we saw during the Corbyn years. What counts is how many will get out to persuade people on the doorstep at election time.
Membership figures mean nothing, as we saw during the Corbyn years. What counts is how many will get out to persuade people on the doorstep at election time.
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I’m always inspired by the young people I meet through our @obamafoundation.bsky.social Voyagers and Scholars programs. Together, they’re creating change and tackling some of the world’s most pressing challenges.
December 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I’m always inspired by the young people I meet through our @obamafoundation.bsky.social Voyagers and Scholars programs. Together, they’re creating change and tackling some of the world’s most pressing challenges.
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Here is a bit of my resignation speech from last night
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Here is a bit of my resignation speech from last night
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Getting ready for Christmas
December 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Getting ready for Christmas
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⚡️ SHOCKING! Chris Bryant’s huge Brexit admission:
🫨16,000 fewer 🇬🇧 biz exporters after Brexit. Brexit crippled 🇬🇧 biz
That’s why
France/Germany are outperforming 🇬🇧
👉growth is weaker
👉wages are under pressure
Brexit used sovereignty as bait to deliver self-harm which benefits Russian 🇷🇺 aggression.
🫨16,000 fewer 🇬🇧 biz exporters after Brexit. Brexit crippled 🇬🇧 biz
That’s why
France/Germany are outperforming 🇬🇧
👉growth is weaker
👉wages are under pressure
Brexit used sovereignty as bait to deliver self-harm which benefits Russian 🇷🇺 aggression.
December 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
⚡️ SHOCKING! Chris Bryant’s huge Brexit admission:
🫨16,000 fewer 🇬🇧 biz exporters after Brexit. Brexit crippled 🇬🇧 biz
That’s why
France/Germany are outperforming 🇬🇧
👉growth is weaker
👉wages are under pressure
Brexit used sovereignty as bait to deliver self-harm which benefits Russian 🇷🇺 aggression.
🫨16,000 fewer 🇬🇧 biz exporters after Brexit. Brexit crippled 🇬🇧 biz
That’s why
France/Germany are outperforming 🇬🇧
👉growth is weaker
👉wages are under pressure
Brexit used sovereignty as bait to deliver self-harm which benefits Russian 🇷🇺 aggression.
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GB News grilled me apparently?
Only problem with this is I've never been on their nonsense channel.
They lie - obsessively.
Help us grow an alternative to all the bollocks:
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Only problem with this is I've never been on their nonsense channel.
They lie - obsessively.
Help us grow an alternative to all the bollocks:
Join.greenparty.org.uk
December 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
GB News grilled me apparently?
Only problem with this is I've never been on their nonsense channel.
They lie - obsessively.
Help us grow an alternative to all the bollocks:
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Only problem with this is I've never been on their nonsense channel.
They lie - obsessively.
Help us grow an alternative to all the bollocks:
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Tyson is shutting down its Lexington, Nebraska plant in January 2026. That’s 3,200 workers gone in one shot, the largest plant shutdown in company history.
Blame Trump’s tariff chaos and the lowest cattle inventories in decades. Tariffs jack up costs. Supply shrinks. Plants close. Towns hollow out.
Blame Trump’s tariff chaos and the lowest cattle inventories in decades. Tariffs jack up costs. Supply shrinks. Plants close. Towns hollow out.
December 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Tyson is shutting down its Lexington, Nebraska plant in January 2026. That’s 3,200 workers gone in one shot, the largest plant shutdown in company history.
Blame Trump’s tariff chaos and the lowest cattle inventories in decades. Tariffs jack up costs. Supply shrinks. Plants close. Towns hollow out.
Blame Trump’s tariff chaos and the lowest cattle inventories in decades. Tariffs jack up costs. Supply shrinks. Plants close. Towns hollow out.
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ICE have awakened a very polite sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.
I genuinely don't know if this is a "Minnesotan" thing or an "old guy of a certain age" thing but in case it's Minnesotan and people need an anger translator: this guy is so angry he could just about set something on fire with his mind.
This one isn’t downloadable but if you have TikTok go watch it. Well worth your time www.tiktok.com/t/ZTr4gRL7v/
December 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
ICE have awakened a very polite sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.
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I made a Xmas wreath with cuttings from the garden! ☺️🌱
December 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I made a Xmas wreath with cuttings from the garden! ☺️🌱
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Hi Senator. Glad you're posting to Bluesky. But kinda weird that you're trying to kill Section 230 at the same time which would make it very difficult for Bluesky to exist. Maybe think through that a bit more carefully?
What possible use could there be to adding these two bozos to that conversation? More gangster gong show? Just what Ukraine needs, right? So shaming for U.S.
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Secret meetings between FBI and Ukraine negotiator spark concern
FBI Director Kash Patel and his deputy, Dan Bongino, have met with Ukraine’s top delegate amid a U.S. pressure campaign on Kyiv to trade land for peace.
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December 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Hi Senator. Glad you're posting to Bluesky. But kinda weird that you're trying to kill Section 230 at the same time which would make it very difficult for Bluesky to exist. Maybe think through that a bit more carefully?
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Anyway.
If you insist on having a stroke, do it in a country with universal health care.
If you insist on having a stroke, do it in a country with universal health care.
a man in a suit and tie says just saying in front of a map
ALT: a man in a suit and tie says just saying in front of a map
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December 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Anyway.
If you insist on having a stroke, do it in a country with universal health care.
If you insist on having a stroke, do it in a country with universal health care.
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All Republicans in Congress are faced with a choice. They either stand with Trump, Vance and Putin, or they stand with Ukraine, Europe, most Americans, and the civilized world. Of course, there is also a 3rd option which most of them usually choose - cowardly silence.
December 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
All Republicans in Congress are faced with a choice. They either stand with Trump, Vance and Putin, or they stand with Ukraine, Europe, most Americans, and the civilized world. Of course, there is also a 3rd option which most of them usually choose - cowardly silence.
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The RFK, jr effect.
December 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The RFK, jr effect.
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Fox is blaming RFK Jr. for the measles outbreak. They promoted him, supported his nomination, and now they are turning on him. 🙄
December 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Fox is blaming RFK Jr. for the measles outbreak. They promoted him, supported his nomination, and now they are turning on him. 🙄
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It’s simple. Other countries don’t have this many guns. Other countries don’t have this many senseless bloodbaths that too many government officials don’t do anything to prevent.
My heart breaks for the victims, their families and friends, and the entire Brown community.
My heart breaks for the victims, their families and friends, and the entire Brown community.
December 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
It’s simple. Other countries don’t have this many guns. Other countries don’t have this many senseless bloodbaths that too many government officials don’t do anything to prevent.
My heart breaks for the victims, their families and friends, and the entire Brown community.
My heart breaks for the victims, their families and friends, and the entire Brown community.
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