Laura Bedford
@lauraweaves.bsky.social
Working in the Democratic Finance Scotland team at DTAS. Advocating for community wealth building, regenerative economics, kindness, a future for my kids. Weave, spin, knit and all things yarn. Hang out in the woods to keep me sane. 🌳🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
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‘Morrisons killed us’: UK’s most westerly village shop closes after half a century
Ferry Stores on #Ardnamurchan shuts its doors tomorrow after struggling with a decline in footfall and competition from home delivery vans
@libbybrooks.bsky.social reports 👇🏴
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Ferry Stores on #Ardnamurchan shuts its doors tomorrow after struggling with a decline in footfall and competition from home delivery vans
@libbybrooks.bsky.social reports 👇🏴
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Morrisons killed us’: UK’s most westerly village shop closes after half a century
The Ferry Stores, in the remote village of Kilchoan, will shut its doors after struggling to fight off the decline in footfall and the advent of home delivery services
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
‘Morrisons killed us’: UK’s most westerly village shop closes after half a century
Ferry Stores on #Ardnamurchan shuts its doors tomorrow after struggling with a decline in footfall and competition from home delivery vans
@libbybrooks.bsky.social reports 👇🏴
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Ferry Stores on #Ardnamurchan shuts its doors tomorrow after struggling with a decline in footfall and competition from home delivery vans
@libbybrooks.bsky.social reports 👇🏴
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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“The wealth gap is choking off growth, funnelling resources into property and financial assets rather than productive investment. It is worsening the housing crisis, which now stands as both a symptom and a driver of broader inequality”
@fairness.bsky.social
fairnessfoundation.com/risks-2025
@fairness.bsky.social
fairnessfoundation.com/risks-2025
Wealth Gap Risk Register 2025
An online resource that collates evidence about the impacts of wealth inequality, the solutions and public attitudes to all of the above
fairnessfoundation.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:22 AM
“The wealth gap is choking off growth, funnelling resources into property and financial assets rather than productive investment. It is worsening the housing crisis, which now stands as both a symptom and a driver of broader inequality”
@fairness.bsky.social
fairnessfoundation.com/risks-2025
@fairness.bsky.social
fairnessfoundation.com/risks-2025
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This is the essence of reporting "science" versus public health: stop putting people off discovering the joy of moving their bodies and being out in common space by telling them they're not optimising. Report science better, report joy more.
The best walking is the walking you actually do, not the optimal walking recommended by the latest scientific study (which will feed into the evidence base that informs longer term advice on physical activity)
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
One long walk beats short strolls for a healthy heart, study says
Walking for at least 15 minutes without stopping is ideal, according to new research.
www.bbc.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:39 AM
This is the essence of reporting "science" versus public health: stop putting people off discovering the joy of moving their bodies and being out in common space by telling them they're not optimising. Report science better, report joy more.
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"The group has represented clients in the United States who are opposed to abortion, gay and transgender rights and contraception coverage in health care."
Every anti-abortion group is also anti-trans. Period. Support their latter work and you support their former. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
Every anti-abortion group is also anti-trans. Period. Support their latter work and you support their former. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.
www.nytimes.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:06 AM
"The group has represented clients in the United States who are opposed to abortion, gay and transgender rights and contraception coverage in health care."
Every anti-abortion group is also anti-trans. Period. Support their latter work and you support their former. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
Every anti-abortion group is also anti-trans. Period. Support their latter work and you support their former. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
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We're joining the panel at the Democratic Business Summit 2025 - a one-day conference seeking to advance democracy across the UK business economy & develop and promote more awareness of how democratic business can transform our current economy.
Sign up 👇
www.democraticbusiness.org/events/summit
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www.democraticbusiness.org/events/summit
Democratic Business Summit 2025
This year’s Democratic Business Summit – a one-day conference to advance democracy across the UK business economy – is coming to Glasgow’s Barras Art & Design on 4th November 2025.
www.democraticbusiness.org
October 14, 2025 at 9:25 AM
We're joining the panel at the Democratic Business Summit 2025 - a one-day conference seeking to advance democracy across the UK business economy & develop and promote more awareness of how democratic business can transform our current economy.
Sign up 👇
www.democraticbusiness.org/events/summit
Sign up 👇
www.democraticbusiness.org/events/summit
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"For the next 15 years, give us a subsidy from public money, and remove the disincentive for us to stop dumping raw sewage, so our creditors are rescued from the consequences of their own greed" is not, I have to say, the world's most appealing pitch. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Thames Water creditors ask for up to 15 years’ leniency from river pollution rules
Lenders say a ‘full return to legal, regulatory and environmental compliance’ under new rescue plan would not be completed until at least 2035-2040
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
"For the next 15 years, give us a subsidy from public money, and remove the disincentive for us to stop dumping raw sewage, so our creditors are rescued from the consequences of their own greed" is not, I have to say, the world's most appealing pitch. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Yup: "80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding."
For more on this listen to "Carbon Bros," the latest season of @drilledmedia.bsky.social with @amywestervelt.bsky.social
For more on this listen to "Carbon Bros," the latest season of @drilledmedia.bsky.social with @amywestervelt.bsky.social
Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos.
It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.
heated.world/p/fossil-fue...
It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.
heated.world/p/fossil-fue...
Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement
An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.
heated.world
September 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Yup: "80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding."
For more on this listen to "Carbon Bros," the latest season of @drilledmedia.bsky.social with @amywestervelt.bsky.social
For more on this listen to "Carbon Bros," the latest season of @drilledmedia.bsky.social with @amywestervelt.bsky.social
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If I understand capitalism correctly, it was by being very clever, and working much harder than anybody else. Right?
Right?
Right?
September 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
If I understand capitalism correctly, it was by being very clever, and working much harder than anybody else. Right?
Right?
Right?
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If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.
September 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.
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Bisexual Awareness Week, also known as #BiWeek, is an annual celebration held from September 16–23. It is an extension of Celebrate Bisexuality Day. The celebration promotes cultural acceptance of the bisexual community, as well as attempts to create a platform for advocating bisexual rights.
September 17, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Bisexual Awareness Week, also known as #BiWeek, is an annual celebration held from September 16–23. It is an extension of Celebrate Bisexuality Day. The celebration promotes cultural acceptance of the bisexual community, as well as attempts to create a platform for advocating bisexual rights.
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We're joining the panel at the Democratic Business Summit 2025 - a one-day conference seeking to advance democracy across the UK business economy & develop and promote more awareness of how democratic business can transform our current economy.
Sign up 👇
www.democraticbusiness.org/events/summit
Sign up 👇
www.democraticbusiness.org/events/summit
Democratic Business Summit 2025
This year’s Democratic Business Summit – a one-day conference to advance democracy across the UK business economy – is coming to Glasgow’s Barras Art & Design on 4th November 2025.
www.democraticbusiness.org
September 16, 2025 at 8:54 AM
We're joining the panel at the Democratic Business Summit 2025 - a one-day conference seeking to advance democracy across the UK business economy & develop and promote more awareness of how democratic business can transform our current economy.
Sign up 👇
www.democraticbusiness.org/events/summit
Sign up 👇
www.democraticbusiness.org/events/summit
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📢 We’ve partnered with @dtascotland.bsky.social to bring you a free webinar about the Community Shares finance guide, aimed at organisations that have run community share offers and are based in Scotland.
🗓️ 8 Oct, 10:00–11:30
💻 Online via Zoom.
Register here: buff.ly/8dY5Gxp
#comshares #Scotland
🗓️ 8 Oct, 10:00–11:30
💻 Online via Zoom.
Register here: buff.ly/8dY5Gxp
#comshares #Scotland
September 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
📢 We’ve partnered with @dtascotland.bsky.social to bring you a free webinar about the Community Shares finance guide, aimed at organisations that have run community share offers and are based in Scotland.
🗓️ 8 Oct, 10:00–11:30
💻 Online via Zoom.
Register here: buff.ly/8dY5Gxp
#comshares #Scotland
🗓️ 8 Oct, 10:00–11:30
💻 Online via Zoom.
Register here: buff.ly/8dY5Gxp
#comshares #Scotland
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Governments should not wait for international bodies to state the blindingly obvious before acting but now the UN has Labour must use every means at its disposal to stop the wicked genocide.
September 16, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Governments should not wait for international bodies to state the blindingly obvious before acting but now the UN has Labour must use every means at its disposal to stop the wicked genocide.
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This week marks #RememberACharity Week, a national campaign that encourages people to consider leaving a gift to a charity in their will.
To coincide with this, @dtascotland.bsky.social is reflecting on the learnings from our recent Local Legacy Giving Pilot...
To coincide with this, @dtascotland.bsky.social is reflecting on the learnings from our recent Local Legacy Giving Pilot...
September 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
This week marks #RememberACharity Week, a national campaign that encourages people to consider leaving a gift to a charity in their will.
To coincide with this, @dtascotland.bsky.social is reflecting on the learnings from our recent Local Legacy Giving Pilot...
To coincide with this, @dtascotland.bsky.social is reflecting on the learnings from our recent Local Legacy Giving Pilot...
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Congratulations to Cory Doctorow, for coining an all-too-useful word.
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
September 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Congratulations to Cory Doctorow, for coining an all-too-useful word.
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Had a fun time writing about bread and circuses vs. bread and roses and whether in crises we're allowed to have fun. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/circuses-vs-...
Circuses vs. Roses: Notes on Pleasure and Scold Culture
Someone made this extra-grumpy meme about the fact that football player and podcaster Travis Kelce proposed to pop superstar Taylor Swift and now they're engaged, or rather about the fact that of cour...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Had a fun time writing about bread and circuses vs. bread and roses and whether in crises we're allowed to have fun. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/circuses-vs-...
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There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation. Which is why it makes my head explode when people surrender in advance verbally, which they do all the time about politics.
On Not Surrendering in Advance, or During, or At Any Point Thereafter
There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation in that context. Words have power. They not ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation. Which is why it makes my head explode when people surrender in advance verbally, which they do all the time about politics.
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Yet another privatised utilities scandal has just reared its ugly head
It turns out it's not just private water companies causing environmental damage through spillages. Electricity companies are doing the same - and it's only just been exposed.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
It turns out it's not just private water companies causing environmental damage through spillages. Electricity companies are doing the same - and it's only just been exposed.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Yet another privatised energy scandal has just reared its ugly head
It turns out it's not just private water companies causing environmental damage through spillages. Privatised energy companies are too.
www.thecanary.co
August 14, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Yet another privatised utilities scandal has just reared its ugly head
It turns out it's not just private water companies causing environmental damage through spillages. Electricity companies are doing the same - and it's only just been exposed.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
It turns out it's not just private water companies causing environmental damage through spillages. Electricity companies are doing the same - and it's only just been exposed.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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The Home Office says ADS had “nothing whatsoever” to do with the decision to ban Palestine Action. Campaigners say the lobbying shows the arms industry’s “uniquely privileged access” to government
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August 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The Home Office says ADS had “nothing whatsoever” to do with the decision to ban Palestine Action. Campaigners say the lobbying shows the arms industry’s “uniquely privileged access” to government
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"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
Epstein Is Only the Tip of the Iceberg: The Trump Protection Machine and the Epidemic of Violence Against Women
On July 2, the jury delivered a guilty verdict on some of the charges against music mogul Sean Combs for his decades of horrific sexual abuse of women with the help of his extensive staff and deep poc...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
July 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
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I wrote a memorial essay in praise of the great Joanna Macy over there at my newsletter.....
In Honor of Joanna Macy, 1929-2025
I write while staying in one of the great forests of British Columbia, a forest in which the inextricability of life from death is gorgeously evident. Several kinds of fern spring from this soil, some...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
July 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I wrote a memorial essay in praise of the great Joanna Macy over there at my newsletter.....
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And today I wrote about the overthrow of tyrants.
Today Is the Original No Kings Day/Happy Bastille Day
Yesterday I wrote, "The United States is being destroyed from within, and mainstream journalism isn't making that clear. It's when you assemble the whole picture that you have to raise the question if...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
July 15, 2025 at 3:44 AM
And today I wrote about the overthrow of tyrants.
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The richest are thriving while we're struggling, and that inequality is undermining all of the UK. Instead of cutting support for the most vulnerable, we should be taxing the rich.
June 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The richest are thriving while we're struggling, and that inequality is undermining all of the UK. Instead of cutting support for the most vulnerable, we should be taxing the rich.