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LoveDaisyPetals/Mary-Ellen
@lovedaisypetals.bsky.social
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I believe in and speak up for all that's just & fair & right & see all the causes we care about as #PetalsOfTheSameDaisy with the same root cause, greed and money, and the same solution: LOVE and UNITY.

#LoveIsTheAnswer

https://loveanddaisypetals.com
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October 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Listen to the scientists.
Act now!
Demand change
based on the science.
#SocialJusticeIsClimateJustice
#SaveLivesTogether
#ClimateJusticeNow
#LeaveItInTheGround
#ThereIsNoPlanetB
#RebelForLife
@scientistrebellion.bsky.social @scientistsforxr.earth @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social
Screenshot taken from a short video documentary on YouTube, by Greenpeace UK: 'What's Racism Got To Do With Environmental Destruction' The screenshot shows a person, the documentary presenter, with a bookshelf in the background and the words: Racism and Environmental Destruction They're Linked
October 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Our words, actions & choices are powerful.

Having always been very careful with your purchasing, is no doubt part of the change quietly happening in response to us exercising 'consumer choice'.

E.g. eggs.
The public, alerted to the cruelty of battery eggs, chose 'freerange'.

Retailers responded.
Key dates for UK supermarkets and free-range eggs Marks & Spencer:Was selling 100% free-range eggs in 1997 and committed to doing so for all products by 2002.  Sainsbury's:Committed to 100% cage-free eggs by 2009 and for ingredients by 2012.  Morrisons:Became the first of the "big four" supermarkets to go entirely free-range in February 2020, five years ahead of their original target.  Waitrose:Already sold only free-range eggs by 2020.  Tesco, Asda, Aldi, and Lidl:These "big six" retailers were still selling "barn eggs" in 2020 and continued to commit to moving to cage-free over the subsequent years. 
October 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Thank you for sharing your research, insights and knowledge on Freeports, SEZs and AI Growth Zones, etc., @europeanpowell.bsky.social.

If only the 'journalists' at our so called 'Free Press' had the guts to be real journalists and expose and #TellTheTruth about this, Palestine, Welfare Cuts, etc.
October 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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It makes perfect sense, when seen from their point of view: from the point of view of money, not the cost to the economy, i.e. the people, but of breaking the economy. Of attacking truth and knowledge sharing, and silencing truth sharers.
80+ libraries are already closed.
100s of thousands are dead.
Part of a poem titled: MONEY Money talks and money silences. Money buys souls and forges alliances.... Money destroys and money makes whole. Money will grasp at your very soul. Money commits murder, in plain sight. Money denies justice, to those in the right. Money they say makes the world go around. Money instead, razes Life to the ground. Money's man's greatest illusion and folly. Money affords the rich, 'space travel' for a jolly. Mony's amassed by the insatiably needy, On the backs of the poor, whom they call greedy.... A stark black & white image.   White writing on black reads:   R.I.P. 10,600 PEOPLE DEAD all within 6 weeks of being declared Fit For Work Source: DWP 2011   120,000 EXCESS DEATHS due to Health and Social Care Cuts "Economic Murder" Source: BMJ - British Medical Journal 2017   130,000 PREVENTABLE DEATHS due to Austerity and Cuts to public health budgets and preventative services. Source: IPPR Institute of Public Policy Research 2019   6 out of 10 COVID DEATHS were Disabled People Source: ONS Office of National Statistics 2020   1,062,334 PREMATURE DEATHS linked to Poverty and Austerity of disabled, disadvantaged and deprived people Source: Institute of Health Equity at UCL 2024   Beneath this, on a white background, edged with decorative gold scrolls, is a message, above the DPAC logo of a black triangle and 4 differently coloured hands holding a rainbow coloured disc:   Please join/support us to #FightBack against this horrific injustice #DisabledPeopleDemand www.dpac.uk.net Screenshot of part of a post by @EuropeanPowell With the heading: Checkmate UK Freeports AI Zones and the Rise of the Sovereign Corporation. "The UK is being quietly carved up into enclaves of deregulation that are sold as engines of growth. Behind the official press releases about 12 Freeports, 74 Special Economic Zones, and now AI Growth Zones (200 bids on sites to date), there is a deeper shift taking place. It is a shift that moves power away from citizens and parliament and into the hands of global finance. The UK is being quietly carved up into enclaves of deregulation that are sold as engines of growth. Behind the official press releases about 12 Freeports, 74 Special Economic Zones, and now AI Growth Zones (200 bids on sites to date), there is a deeper shift taking place. It is a shift that moves power away from citizens and parliament and into the hands of global finance."
October 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
lovedaisypetals.bsky.social
Needed these reminders from 'The Big One' to remind myself of the importance of listening to the children's voices and of the interconnectedness & intersectionality of everything, and that it all matters.
@greenpeaceuk.bsky.social @extinctionrebellion.uk @xrlondon.bsky.social @scientistsforxr.earth
Activism Corner sign announcing Saturday's talks and music in the Greenpeace tent at 'The Big One', April 2023. Sign at 'The Big One' in April 2023, from Greenpeace UK saying: LISTEN TO THE KIDS THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THEM Child at The Big One in April 2023, holding a cardboard sign decorated with a tree, heart, bee and flower and the words: STOP KILLING US Child at 'The Big One', holding a handmade placard of a dinosaur with a message asking: "US NEXT?" 'The Big One' was a 3 day event, organised by Extinction Rebellion, with the support of Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, the Unions, DPAC etc., in April 2023.
September 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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What about no guns at all?

What about building, investing in and normalising #PeaceNotWar and #LifeBeforeProfit?

#StopArmingIsrael
#DivestFromDeath
#EndAllWars
#EndAllGenocides

#KillTheArmsTradeNotPeople

@stwc.bsky.social @stopthearmstrade.bsky.social @cnduk.bsky.social @bdsmovement.bsky.social
Photo by Peter Marshall. Taken outside Twickenham Rugby Stadium, on a cold 23rd January 2023. Photo is of a disabled and well wrapped, peaceful, peace protestor, in a wheelchair, protesting against The International Armoured Vehicles 2023 Arms Fair. The protestor is holding a handmade wooden sign saying: KILL THE ARMS TRADE NOT PEOPLE. Just behind her is a sign with a stylised black and white Peace Dove, with an olive branch in its beak and the word PEACE written in multicoloured capitals below it. In the background and across the road, part of the Rugby Stadium can be seen, as well as other peaceful, peace protestors, with several Palestine flags in their hands as well as flying above as bunting. A local transport red bus is partially visible too. Photo by Mary-Ellen. Taken outside Twickenham Rugby Stadium, on a cold 23rd January 2023. Photo is of a well wrapped, disabled, peaceful, peace protestor in a wheelchair, protesting against The International Armoured Vehicles 2023 Arms Fair. The protestor is wearing a matching red hat and gloves, a Palestinian Keffiyeh and has a patterened pink bag on her lap. She is holding a handmade wooden sign saying: BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS? SUPPLYING WEAPONS = USING WEAPONS
September 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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@europeanpowell.bsky.social sheds a vital light on the dangers the UK-US Post Brexit trade deal poses for us.

Know this.
Share this.
Fight this.

Hold the MSM and journalists to account for not telling the truth and thus endangering all our lives.

@goodlawproject.org @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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They forget: they and all their oil, gold, money, etc, comes from and returns to #Nature.

Stop the War on Nature

We are Nature defending itself

#DefendTheDefenders
#ProtectTheProtectors

#StopEcocide
#MakeThePollutersPay

@extinctionrebellion.uk @xrlondon.bsky.social @defendourjuries.bsky.social
August 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
lovedaisypetals.bsky.social
Money talks and money silences
Money buys souls and forges alliances...
Money talks and money silences Money buys souls and forges alliances... A poem about MONEY, by Mary-Ellen
August 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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As long as our lives are not safe in their hands and are already being cut short, in our hundreds of thousands, legalising #AssistedSuicide is like giving a killer bigger and more guns with a #LicenceToKill.

#AssistUsToLiveNotToDie

In 2017, the @bmj.com quite rightly called it #EconomicMurder.
R.I.P. 10,600 PEOPLE DEAD all within 6 weeks of being declared Fit For Work Source: DWP 2011   120,000 EXCESS DEATHS due to Health and Social Care Cuts "Economic Murder" Source: BMJ - British Medical Journal 2017   130,000 PREVENTABLE DEATHS due to Austerity and Cuts to public health budgets and preventative services. Source: IPPR Institute of Public Policy Research 2019   6 out of 10 COVID DEATHS were Disabled People Source: ONS Office of National Statistics 2020   1,062,334 PREMATURE DEATHS linked to Poverty and Austerity of disabled, disadvantaged and deprived people Source: Institute of Health Equity at UCL 2024   Beneath this, on a white background, edged with decorative gold scrolls, is a message, above the DPAC logo of a black triangle and 4 differently coloured hands holding a rainbow coloured disc:   Please join/support us to #FightBack against this horrific injustice #DisabledPeopleDemand www.dpac.uk.net Book cover of "The War on Disabled People" by Ellen Clifford, with a person on crutches standing behind the Title of the award winning book. Info graphic on a blue background, with 7 figures holding placards on the right, one with red shoes and a red placard, saying: Say NO to Assisted Suicide NO NO NO NO On the left is the following in black lettering: To legalise Assisted Suicide whilst the crisis in Social Care deepens, would not deliver choice, only fear, abuse and coercion. NO to Assisted Suicide. 'There could never be sufficient safeguards that would protect disabled people from the fear and coercion to end their lives.' Message is on a a red disc against a blue background with people, placards and the DPAC logo.
July 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
lovedaisypetals.bsky.social
This! Exactly this!

"The environment isn't 'an issue'.

It is life itself" @charliejgardner.bsky.social

The issue is, that consumed by their greed, the 1% who are ruthlessly exploiting and killing our people, peace and planet have forgotten we are not separate from #Nature, but part of #Her.
A photo of a green banner stretched across a tree, with blue skies above and green grass below and the sun shining through the branches of the tree. The banner's message is written in capitals, in large black lettering. 'STOP THE WAR ON NATURE WE ARE NATURE DEFENDING ITSELF'
June 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Any chance I can get you to join me at Small World Festival to experience my favourite solar powered festival as well as talk about these incredibly important issues in the Small World Speakers Forum and Campaigns Space, David?
If not this month, then perhaps at the Summer one, 21st to 25th, August?
Colorful poster for the Small World Spring Festival 2025, featuring whimsical landscapes and a castle, and glorious sun, for the festival held in Headcorn, Kent, from May 22-26.
May 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Let's get this straight: no one, absolutely no one, is here illegally.

No one is illegal.

Earth is #Home to #AllOfLifeOnEarth.

If anyone is "illegal" it is the white supremacist colonisers and thieves of the lands and resources from #IndigenousPeople and the #WorkingClass.

@loucalvey.bsky.social
Photo of a long, slightly curved wall, painted black, with yellow graffiti lettering saying: NO HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL
April 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
lovedaisypetals.bsky.social
Follow the money and it soon becomes crystal clear how money is behind every recession, disaster, catastrophe and crisis and how they're turned into wealth and power transferring opportunities, from the many, particularly the poorest, to the super rich.

#EndInequality

#SystemChangeNotClimateChange
Book cover image: The Wall Street Journal Guide to Investing in the Apocalypse Make Money by Seeing Opportunity Where Others See Peril James Altucher & Douglas. R. Sease
April 8, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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The War On Disabled People, by
@ellenclifford.bsky.social, winner of the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing Award 2021.
Ellen from @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social, is a phenomenal, articulate & passionate, disabled, #DisabilityRights activist and expert on the impacts of the cuts & austerity.
Book cover of "The War on Disabled People" by Ellen Clifford, with a person on crutches standing behind the Title of the award winning book.
April 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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From 2019, when the word #Brexit, was filling the news without saying anything of the real dangers we were facing, including because of & via Brexit.
Thank you for shining your brilliant light on it all, David.🙏
I can't believe how increasingly awful it all is and yet the majority still don't know.😱
Woman sat in a chair holding a homemade banner of white writing on black. It says: BREXIT is a DISTRACTION To prevent our reaction to the #Neoliberal, #Fascist, #Destruction of our #Planet #People #Peace
March 30, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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#WelfareNotWarfare

#UniteForJustice

#UniteForYOURWelfareState and #HumanRights.

#FightBack!

Join us on Wednesday 26th March, 11am.

#HandsOffDisabilityBenefits
(Image is on black background with light Green Text Text reads Balls To The Spring Statement  with image of a football next to text Photo is of a lady sitting in mobility scooter facing a line of police officers with balls being thrown at them Text underneath picture says Join DPAC and protest the Spring Statement Wednesday 26th March 2025 11am Meet outside Downing Street Whitehall, London SW1A 2AA   Then March to Parliament and Lobby your MP!
March 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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On Thursday, I'm doing a 24hr fast in solidarity with Dr Laila Soueif's #HungerStrike for her son, Alaa Abd el-Fattah.
#JournalismIsNotACrime
Help Laila raise the awareness & support she needs to #FreeAlaa and save both their lives.

@monasosh.bsky.social
@freealaa.bsky.social @amnestyuk.bsky.social
Woman in a wheelchair holding an Amnesty placard of a man and a baby. The man is #AlaaAbdElFattah. The woman is wearing a black hat with a red flower, with flowers and giant colourful flower petals all around her, each with a different cause written on it in white text. Equality and Human Rights are written on the front two petals.
March 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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#WelfareNotWarfare
📣Calling EVERYONE!
Protest against Rachel Reeves Spring Statement and Disability Benefit Cuts

Join @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social
Wednesday 26th March, 11am.
10 Downing Street
Whitehall
SW1A 2AA

@xrlondon.bsky.social @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social @cnduk.bsky.social @stwc.bsky.social
💥 #WelfareNotWarfare 💥 (Image is on black background with light Green Text) Text reads: Balls To The Spring Statement with image of a football next to text Photo is of a lady sitting in mobility scooter facing a line of police officers with balls being thrown at them Text underneath picture says: Join DPAC and protest the Spring Statement Wednesday 26th March 2025 11am Meet outside Downing Street Whitehall, London SW1A 2AA March to Parliament and Lobby your MP! #WelfareNotWarfare
March 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Photo of the Million Women Rise "Never Forgotten" double-decker access bus, parked at Trafalgar Square. The access bus was available for any woman who needed it, throughout the Million Women Rise March in London on Saturday 8th March, International Women's Day 2025.
March 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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DWP's dreaded brown envelope arrived today.

It informs me:
"You need to claim Universal Credit
You will soon stop getting ESA."

I must apply for UC, at a rate that's due to be cut, as disabled people like me are unfit for work and seen as worthless burdens, worthy only of disability benefit cuts.
The dreaded brown envelope from the DWP. The letter inside the dreaded brown envelope from the DWP. "You need to claim Universal Credit" "Your benefit payments will end 2 weeks after you make your Universal Credit claim."
March 7, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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#FreePalestine
#JusticeForPalestine
I wasn't able to join the march, but proudly attended the rally & listened to the phenomenal speakers outside the US Embassy today in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
#PalestinianLivesMatter
#EndTheZionistOccupation
@pscupdates.bsky.social @stwc.bsky.social
Palestine supporting protestor in the middle of the road in front of the police vans blocking the street on Nine Elms Lane at the end of the March and Rally for a #FreePalestine on Saturday 15th February 2025. The stage and organisers vans can be seen behind the police vans. The person is sat in an electric wheelchair dressed in red and black and wearing a black and white Palestinian Keffiyeh, embroideredwiththePalestinianflag. She is holding two placards, with the words: FREE PALESTINE and HANDS OFF GAZA. Photo taken from behind a partially visible person in a wheelchair, who is holding a Stop The War Campaign placard, saying: Stop Arming Israel. In front of her is the stage for the Free Palestine Rally in Nine Elms Lane, London, on Saturday 15th February 2025. Above the stage is a large screen with the speaker and interpretor and the Palestinian flag and behind them, the slogan: STOP ARMING ISRAEL To the lower right of the image, is a DPAC banner also only partially visible. The banner reads: Disabled People Against Cuts Rights Not Charity
February 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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How lovely for you, Mark.

I miss my darling little terriers, Crinkle and Angus, but have been adopted by Micky, who has unofficially, but very definitely taken over the role of my emotional support animal, from them.

Happy Valentine's Day to you and Mabel.

Love,
Mary-Ellen x 💖🌼💖
February 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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My 1st video upload to @bsky.app.
My 1st attempt at #Haiku since school.
Hope it helps distract from any triskaidekaphobia &/or the black dog of depression and frees/grounds us in the joy of the little things.

Dandelions

Weeds of seed kisses.
Ah! Such honeyed, golden food,
Bumble bee larders.
February 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM