Frances Ridley
@mimi-57.bsky.social
Getting on a bit, happily married mum and grandma (aka 'Mimi'). Concerned about the world we're passing on to our children and grandchildren, and want to make it better. Love the theatre, Ballet and Art.
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This is important.
russia’s full-scale war has already caused over UAH 6 trillion (about $144 billion) in environmental damage to Ukraine.
It’s the largest ecological destruction in Europe in modern history.
russia’s full-scale war has already caused over UAH 6 trillion (about $144 billion) in environmental damage to Ukraine.
It’s the largest ecological destruction in Europe in modern history.
December 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
This is important.
russia’s full-scale war has already caused over UAH 6 trillion (about $144 billion) in environmental damage to Ukraine.
It’s the largest ecological destruction in Europe in modern history.
russia’s full-scale war has already caused over UAH 6 trillion (about $144 billion) in environmental damage to Ukraine.
It’s the largest ecological destruction in Europe in modern history.
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Greetings from Kyiv.
I’m having a warcoffee,
reading the news about the ‘peace plan’.
And the feeling that it leads nowhere
becomes stronger and stronger,
despite all the loud and ‘promising’ words.
I’m having a warcoffee,
reading the news about the ‘peace plan’.
And the feeling that it leads nowhere
becomes stronger and stronger,
despite all the loud and ‘promising’ words.
November 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Greetings from Kyiv.
I’m having a warcoffee,
reading the news about the ‘peace plan’.
And the feeling that it leads nowhere
becomes stronger and stronger,
despite all the loud and ‘promising’ words.
I’m having a warcoffee,
reading the news about the ‘peace plan’.
And the feeling that it leads nowhere
becomes stronger and stronger,
despite all the loud and ‘promising’ words.
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All those journalists - led by Kuenssberg and Peston - who cheer-led Boris Johnson into Number 10 should be hanging their heads in shame today, and retiring tomorrow.
November 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
All those journalists - led by Kuenssberg and Peston - who cheer-led Boris Johnson into Number 10 should be hanging their heads in shame today, and retiring tomorrow.
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I’m angry.
They call it a “peace plan” -
I call it a plan to give up everything
We fight for.
Our land.
Our army.
Our sovereignty.
Our dignity.
No deal is worth that🇺🇦
They call it a “peace plan” -
I call it a plan to give up everything
We fight for.
Our land.
Our army.
Our sovereignty.
Our dignity.
No deal is worth that🇺🇦
November 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I’m angry.
They call it a “peace plan” -
I call it a plan to give up everything
We fight for.
Our land.
Our army.
Our sovereignty.
Our dignity.
No deal is worth that🇺🇦
They call it a “peace plan” -
I call it a plan to give up everything
We fight for.
Our land.
Our army.
Our sovereignty.
Our dignity.
No deal is worth that🇺🇦
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Greetings from Kyiv.
I’ve just listened to Zelenskyy’s address to the Ukrainian people.
My opinion?
This man knows what is right.
Ukraine is under enormous pressure from the current US administration.
Zelenskyy made it clear: he wants a decent peace. We all do.
Decent peace is not capitulation.
I’ve just listened to Zelenskyy’s address to the Ukrainian people.
My opinion?
This man knows what is right.
Ukraine is under enormous pressure from the current US administration.
Zelenskyy made it clear: he wants a decent peace. We all do.
Decent peace is not capitulation.
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Greetings from Kyiv.
I’ve just listened to Zelenskyy’s address to the Ukrainian people.
My opinion?
This man knows what is right.
Ukraine is under enormous pressure from the current US administration.
Zelenskyy made it clear: he wants a decent peace. We all do.
Decent peace is not capitulation.
I’ve just listened to Zelenskyy’s address to the Ukrainian people.
My opinion?
This man knows what is right.
Ukraine is under enormous pressure from the current US administration.
Zelenskyy made it clear: he wants a decent peace. We all do.
Decent peace is not capitulation.
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Piggy has signed off on the release of the Epstein files.
There is a loophole in the law that lets the DOJ withhold anything they deem is part of an active investigation.
It’s precisely what Piggy is counting on.
There is a loophole in the law that lets the DOJ withhold anything they deem is part of an active investigation.
It’s precisely what Piggy is counting on.
November 20, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Piggy has signed off on the release of the Epstein files.
There is a loophole in the law that lets the DOJ withhold anything they deem is part of an active investigation.
It’s precisely what Piggy is counting on.
There is a loophole in the law that lets the DOJ withhold anything they deem is part of an active investigation.
It’s precisely what Piggy is counting on.
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A gentle reminder –
if you’re new here,
or have been with me for a while but hesitated:
You can support my work on Patreon
and help me keep telling the world
about Ukraine’s history, culture, and daily life.
Of course, there are rewards too.
🇺🇦 www.patreon.com/strategywoman
if you’re new here,
or have been with me for a while but hesitated:
You can support my work on Patreon
and help me keep telling the world
about Ukraine’s history, culture, and daily life.
Of course, there are rewards too.
🇺🇦 www.patreon.com/strategywoman
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
A gentle reminder –
if you’re new here,
or have been with me for a while but hesitated:
You can support my work on Patreon
and help me keep telling the world
about Ukraine’s history, culture, and daily life.
Of course, there are rewards too.
🇺🇦 www.patreon.com/strategywoman
if you’re new here,
or have been with me for a while but hesitated:
You can support my work on Patreon
and help me keep telling the world
about Ukraine’s history, culture, and daily life.
Of course, there are rewards too.
🇺🇦 www.patreon.com/strategywoman
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Rosen: And on Halloween weekend, in the middle of a shutdown where they’re defunding SNAP, where children will go hungry—millions of them—they are gluttonously eating and partying and laughing at their voters, laughing at what they can do to screw the American people.
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Rosen: And on Halloween weekend, in the middle of a shutdown where they’re defunding SNAP, where children will go hungry—millions of them—they are gluttonously eating and partying and laughing at their voters, laughing at what they can do to screw the American people.
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Calls for Elon Musk to be investigated by British police after he spouts more lies about UK
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/calls-f...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/calls-f...
Calls for Elon Musk to be investigated by British police after he spouts more lies about UK
There have been calls for Elon Musk to be investigated by British police for incitement of violence after his latest claims about the UK.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Calls for Elon Musk to be investigated by British police after he spouts more lies about UK
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/calls-f...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/calls-f...
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Remember when russians swore they only hit “military targets”?
Cute times.
Now they don’t even pretend.
In the last attack, they aimed straight at our Civilian houses and power plants -
Dobrotvir TPP, Burshtyn TPP, Kalush CHP, Ladyzhyn TPP.
Cute times.
Now they don’t even pretend.
In the last attack, they aimed straight at our Civilian houses and power plants -
Dobrotvir TPP, Burshtyn TPP, Kalush CHP, Ladyzhyn TPP.
October 30, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Remember when russians swore they only hit “military targets”?
Cute times.
Now they don’t even pretend.
In the last attack, they aimed straight at our Civilian houses and power plants -
Dobrotvir TPP, Burshtyn TPP, Kalush CHP, Ladyzhyn TPP.
Cute times.
Now they don’t even pretend.
In the last attack, they aimed straight at our Civilian houses and power plants -
Dobrotvir TPP, Burshtyn TPP, Kalush CHP, Ladyzhyn TPP.
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Fomenting division. Again.
8647.
8647.
October 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Fomenting division. Again.
8647.
8647.
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As of the 27th Oct. 60% believe Brexit is being handled badly, 19% think it’s being handled well.
Come on @greenparty.org.uk and @zackpolanski.bsky.social this is an open goal of enormous potential.
You have the momentum at the moment, don’t lose it.
Come on @greenparty.org.uk and @zackpolanski.bsky.social this is an open goal of enormous potential.
You have the momentum at the moment, don’t lose it.
October 29, 2025 at 8:12 AM
As of the 27th Oct. 60% believe Brexit is being handled badly, 19% think it’s being handled well.
Come on @greenparty.org.uk and @zackpolanski.bsky.social this is an open goal of enormous potential.
You have the momentum at the moment, don’t lose it.
Come on @greenparty.org.uk and @zackpolanski.bsky.social this is an open goal of enormous potential.
You have the momentum at the moment, don’t lose it.
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The 37 ballroom donors won’t be remembered for generosity, but for funding a monument to authoritarian vanity during a shutdown, at a venue nicknamed after a sex trafficker, while Americans wonder how they’ll eat. History keeps receipts & their names aren’t coming off those walls
October 27, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The 37 ballroom donors won’t be remembered for generosity, but for funding a monument to authoritarian vanity during a shutdown, at a venue nicknamed after a sex trafficker, while Americans wonder how they’ll eat. History keeps receipts & their names aren’t coming off those walls
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Of course she has. The small matter of owing £122 million to UK taxpayers for her disgusting profiteering in a global pandemic means nothing to Michelle Mone.
NHS staff died in my hospital from the Covid they caught there - her dodgy PPE racket was vile.
NHS staff died in my hospital from the Covid they caught there - her dodgy PPE racket was vile.
October 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Of course she has. The small matter of owing £122 million to UK taxpayers for her disgusting profiteering in a global pandemic means nothing to Michelle Mone.
NHS staff died in my hospital from the Covid they caught there - her dodgy PPE racket was vile.
NHS staff died in my hospital from the Covid they caught there - her dodgy PPE racket was vile.
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🚨The IPP scandal is one of the most cruel, monumental and shocking injustices of the past half century. If you are not yet familiar with it watch this jaw dropping update.
PM Keir Starmer now has an opportunity to take the politics out of it and end this injustice.
youtu.be/HVOWDnYBzDI?...
PM Keir Starmer now has an opportunity to take the politics out of it and end this injustice.
youtu.be/HVOWDnYBzDI?...
🚨The SHOCKING IPP SCANDAL is one of the most cruel & inhumane injustices of the past half-century
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
October 27, 2025 at 7:17 AM
🚨The IPP scandal is one of the most cruel, monumental and shocking injustices of the past half century. If you are not yet familiar with it watch this jaw dropping update.
PM Keir Starmer now has an opportunity to take the politics out of it and end this injustice.
youtu.be/HVOWDnYBzDI?...
PM Keir Starmer now has an opportunity to take the politics out of it and end this injustice.
youtu.be/HVOWDnYBzDI?...
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Kyiv.
Dnipro River.
Fishermen.
I stood there
and lived that peaceful moment.
Dnipro River.
Fishermen.
I stood there
and lived that peaceful moment.
October 26, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Kyiv.
Dnipro River.
Fishermen.
I stood there
and lived that peaceful moment.
Dnipro River.
Fishermen.
I stood there
and lived that peaceful moment.
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I brought you light from Kyiv –
a city russians want
to drown in darkness.
No way.
a city russians want
to drown in darkness.
No way.
October 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I brought you light from Kyiv –
a city russians want
to drown in darkness.
No way.
a city russians want
to drown in darkness.
No way.
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Ted finally deleted this lie over 24 hours later. Only the 900th time he has posted a fake right-wing internet lie. You would think a US Senator would take a few minutes to make sure these things are legit, but we are talking about Ted Cruz.
October 21, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Ted finally deleted this lie over 24 hours later. Only the 900th time he has posted a fake right-wing internet lie. You would think a US Senator would take a few minutes to make sure these things are legit, but we are talking about Ted Cruz.
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🚨Covid Inquiry reveals yet ANOTHER former Minister has deleted all WhatsApp / text messages covering the pandemic years. 🤦♂️
Sir Gavin Williamson (former Education Secretary) revealed: "it is my practice to frequently delete such messages and not to enable back-ups"
Sir Gavin Williamson (former Education Secretary) revealed: "it is my practice to frequently delete such messages and not to enable back-ups"
October 20, 2025 at 10:26 AM
🚨Covid Inquiry reveals yet ANOTHER former Minister has deleted all WhatsApp / text messages covering the pandemic years. 🤦♂️
Sir Gavin Williamson (former Education Secretary) revealed: "it is my practice to frequently delete such messages and not to enable back-ups"
Sir Gavin Williamson (former Education Secretary) revealed: "it is my practice to frequently delete such messages and not to enable back-ups"
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I love showing you
these snippets of life in Kyiv.
May they remind you
that life goes on here.
Pumpkin season.
these snippets of life in Kyiv.
May they remind you
that life goes on here.
Pumpkin season.
October 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I love showing you
these snippets of life in Kyiv.
May they remind you
that life goes on here.
Pumpkin season.
these snippets of life in Kyiv.
May they remind you
that life goes on here.
Pumpkin season.
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If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence.
If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.
If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.
October 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence.
If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.
If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.
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Time for Ukrainian art.
I saw this piece at the exhibition
a few days ago.
🇺🇦 Viktor Gontariv
The Yard of My Childhood, 2006
I saw this piece at the exhibition
a few days ago.
🇺🇦 Viktor Gontariv
The Yard of My Childhood, 2006
October 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Time for Ukrainian art.
I saw this piece at the exhibition
a few days ago.
🇺🇦 Viktor Gontariv
The Yard of My Childhood, 2006
I saw this piece at the exhibition
a few days ago.
🇺🇦 Viktor Gontariv
The Yard of My Childhood, 2006