Cathy Holroyd
@miniosiris.bsky.social
Retired nurse. Lover of science fiction, fantasy, films, TV, musicals, reading, and running.
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The term that keeps coming to my mind is urgent "de-thatcherisation", whether it be healthcare, transport, energy etc. The reversal of the 45 year policy that has done nothing but sap money out of people's pockets into the hands of the rich, and giving them shitter and shitter services in return.
July 11, 2025 at 9:36 AM
The term that keeps coming to my mind is urgent "de-thatcherisation", whether it be healthcare, transport, energy etc. The reversal of the 45 year policy that has done nothing but sap money out of people's pockets into the hands of the rich, and giving them shitter and shitter services in return.
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I've just realised I've topped 30K followers, thank you all, but as I'm poor I can only do a UK giveaway as a thank you
You have to like, and share this post and be following me to be in with a change to win one of two bear pins
No competition accounts and UK only, end midnight BST 8th June
You have to like, and share this post and be following me to be in with a change to win one of two bear pins
No competition accounts and UK only, end midnight BST 8th June
June 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I've just realised I've topped 30K followers, thank you all, but as I'm poor I can only do a UK giveaway as a thank you
You have to like, and share this post and be following me to be in with a change to win one of two bear pins
No competition accounts and UK only, end midnight BST 8th June
You have to like, and share this post and be following me to be in with a change to win one of two bear pins
No competition accounts and UK only, end midnight BST 8th June
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🧵NOT BY ME, this is a post from someone who wants to remain anonymous but works extensively with trans people pre-transition. They were asked by someone “why do you think that’s so much [coverage of trans people] in the news at the moment?”
This was their response:
This was their response:
April 20, 2025 at 7:54 AM
🧵NOT BY ME, this is a post from someone who wants to remain anonymous but works extensively with trans people pre-transition. They were asked by someone “why do you think that’s so much [coverage of trans people] in the news at the moment?”
This was their response:
This was their response:
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The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.
February 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.
Very pissed off. Bought Andor Season 1 4k steel book set. All 3 of the 4k discs have picture break up/freezing issues without any sign of surface disc damage. Bluray discs played OK, fortunately, but we paid for the 4k release. The cards enclosed were also damaged by the case centre spindle.
February 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Very pissed off. Bought Andor Season 1 4k steel book set. All 3 of the 4k discs have picture break up/freezing issues without any sign of surface disc damage. Bluray discs played OK, fortunately, but we paid for the 4k release. The cards enclosed were also damaged by the case centre spindle.
I completed my Cowell (100 different parkrun locations) at Black Park parkrun this morning. Running in the woods on Imbolc at the location of many Hammer Horror films seemed a perfect fit.
February 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I completed my Cowell (100 different parkrun locations) at Black Park parkrun this morning. Running in the woods on Imbolc at the location of many Hammer Horror films seemed a perfect fit.
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😡Sarah in London says:
"My bill has gone up £20 a month and I have had a substantial water leak on my road for 6 weeks which is not scheduled to be fixed for another month.
I am literally watching them waste the water I am paying for"
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW
"My bill has gone up £20 a month and I have had a substantial water leak on my road for 6 weeks which is not scheduled to be fixed for another month.
I am literally watching them waste the water I am paying for"
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW
January 31, 2025 at 11:33 AM
😡Sarah in London says:
"My bill has gone up £20 a month and I have had a substantial water leak on my road for 6 weeks which is not scheduled to be fixed for another month.
I am literally watching them waste the water I am paying for"
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW
"My bill has gone up £20 a month and I have had a substantial water leak on my road for 6 weeks which is not scheduled to be fixed for another month.
I am literally watching them waste the water I am paying for"
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW
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@linkara.bsky.social Can I get a repost for something that may affect your UK followers? One of the best cinemas in London is under threat from a greedy landlord and needs help. #SaveThePCC
Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat!
We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...
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January 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
@linkara.bsky.social Can I get a repost for something that may affect your UK followers? One of the best cinemas in London is under threat from a greedy landlord and needs help. #SaveThePCC
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There are NO excuses for giving money to Amazon.
January 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
There are NO excuses for giving money to Amazon.
Took the opportunity to face Paul S-H while wearing my Bring Back the Stats 250 shirt this morning. Was surprised he was prepared to have a picture with me to be honest. #parkrun #BringBackTheStats
January 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Took the opportunity to face Paul S-H while wearing my Bring Back the Stats 250 shirt this morning. Was surprised he was prepared to have a picture with me to be honest. #parkrun #BringBackTheStats
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If you want to see Michelle Mone kicked out of the House of Lords and arrested until she pays the £232,000,000 she owes give this a RT.
If you want Rishi Sunak's involvement in the £14,900,000,000 PPE Fraud he covered up investigated, LIKE.
If you want Rishi Sunak's involvement in the £14,900,000,000 PPE Fraud he covered up investigated, LIKE.
January 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
If you want to see Michelle Mone kicked out of the House of Lords and arrested until she pays the £232,000,000 she owes give this a RT.
If you want Rishi Sunak's involvement in the £14,900,000,000 PPE Fraud he covered up investigated, LIKE.
If you want Rishi Sunak's involvement in the £14,900,000,000 PPE Fraud he covered up investigated, LIKE.
Banksy nailing it as usual.
January 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Banksy nailing it as usual.
I have just signed up for Loops. I was never on or interested in TikTok, but I thought l would give this a go.
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January 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I have just signed up for Loops. I was never on or interested in TikTok, but I thought l would give this a go.
loops.video/@miniosiris
loops.video/@miniosiris
My 250 runs, Bring Back the Stats shirt got its first outing today. Started conversations with runners unaware of the controversy and were disgusted by HQ response to the meeting last year. Here's hoping the meeting next week helps to change the current situation. #BringBackTheStats
January 18, 2025 at 11:15 AM
My 250 runs, Bring Back the Stats shirt got its first outing today. Started conversations with runners unaware of the controversy and were disgusted by HQ response to the meeting last year. Here's hoping the meeting next week helps to change the current situation. #BringBackTheStats
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Since 1997 there have been no less than 25 commissions, select committee inquiries & white papers on social care.
Labour - who admit social care is in crisis, & that the NHS cannot be fixed without it - just responded by...
... announcing the 26th one 😳
Labour - who admit social care is in crisis, & that the NHS cannot be fixed without it - just responded by...
... announcing the 26th one 😳
January 3, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Since 1997 there have been no less than 25 commissions, select committee inquiries & white papers on social care.
Labour - who admit social care is in crisis, & that the NHS cannot be fixed without it - just responded by...
... announcing the 26th one 😳
Labour - who admit social care is in crisis, & that the NHS cannot be fixed without it - just responded by...
... announcing the 26th one 😳
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Sometimes I feel hopeless about what is happening to the NHS and what people are doing about it. I think we either need to go all in, find the millions of people who care and get a *lot* louder, or we give up.
I want to go all in, but I can’t go all in alone. Share if you think we need to fight.
I want to go all in, but I can’t go all in alone. Share if you think we need to fight.
January 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Sometimes I feel hopeless about what is happening to the NHS and what people are doing about it. I think we either need to go all in, find the millions of people who care and get a *lot* louder, or we give up.
I want to go all in, but I can’t go all in alone. Share if you think we need to fight.
I want to go all in, but I can’t go all in alone. Share if you think we need to fight.
I was supposed to get up at 06:15 to drive for an hour in sub zero temperatures for a 3 hour race in sub zero temperatures. Funny enough, l turned off my alarm and went back to sleep in my warm bed.
January 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I was supposed to get up at 06:15 to drive for an hour in sub zero temperatures for a 3 hour race in sub zero temperatures. Funny enough, l turned off my alarm and went back to sleep in my warm bed.
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Discharging a patient from hospital shouldn’t be complicated
However increasing cuts in community funding, social care & community staff has created delays
42% fewer district nurses
14% fewer community beds
NI employers & staff costs for the community sector has made this worse
#Medsky
However increasing cuts in community funding, social care & community staff has created delays
42% fewer district nurses
14% fewer community beds
NI employers & staff costs for the community sector has made this worse
#Medsky
January 11, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Discharging a patient from hospital shouldn’t be complicated
However increasing cuts in community funding, social care & community staff has created delays
42% fewer district nurses
14% fewer community beds
NI employers & staff costs for the community sector has made this worse
#Medsky
However increasing cuts in community funding, social care & community staff has created delays
42% fewer district nurses
14% fewer community beds
NI employers & staff costs for the community sector has made this worse
#Medsky
It is so nice seeing more of my friends shifting from other platforms to here. I have now dropped my Xitter and Insta accounts. Stepping back from Facebook more and using this and Mastodon more. Now on PixelFed for photos.
January 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
It is so nice seeing more of my friends shifting from other platforms to here. I have now dropped my Xitter and Insta accounts. Stepping back from Facebook more and using this and Mastodon more. Now on PixelFed for photos.
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1/ 🚨 Conspiracy theories about the 2024 election miss the bigger picture.
The truth? It wasn’t one night, one hack, or one fraud. It was a system rigged in plain sight – right in front of us. The playbook was out in the open for years. But hardly anyone paid attention.
Here’s how they did it... 🧵
The truth? It wasn’t one night, one hack, or one fraud. It was a system rigged in plain sight – right in front of us. The playbook was out in the open for years. But hardly anyone paid attention.
Here’s how they did it... 🧵
November 21, 2024 at 3:46 AM
1/ 🚨 Conspiracy theories about the 2024 election miss the bigger picture.
The truth? It wasn’t one night, one hack, or one fraud. It was a system rigged in plain sight – right in front of us. The playbook was out in the open for years. But hardly anyone paid attention.
Here’s how they did it... 🧵
The truth? It wasn’t one night, one hack, or one fraud. It was a system rigged in plain sight – right in front of us. The playbook was out in the open for years. But hardly anyone paid attention.
Here’s how they did it... 🧵
Just come out of the first showing of Wicked Part 1 at the lmax. OMG, it did not disappoint in any way.
November 22, 2024 at 3:38 PM
Just come out of the first showing of Wicked Part 1 at the lmax. OMG, it did not disappoint in any way.
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As BlueSky has just hit 20mil users, we thought we'd introduce ourselves!
We're the Talyllyn Railway - running from Tywyn on the Welsh Coast up into the mountains towards Abergynolwyn & Nant Gwernol.
In 1951 we became the World's First Preserved #Railway, starting the Heritage Railway movement!
We're the Talyllyn Railway - running from Tywyn on the Welsh Coast up into the mountains towards Abergynolwyn & Nant Gwernol.
In 1951 we became the World's First Preserved #Railway, starting the Heritage Railway movement!
November 19, 2024 at 4:24 PM
As BlueSky has just hit 20mil users, we thought we'd introduce ourselves!
We're the Talyllyn Railway - running from Tywyn on the Welsh Coast up into the mountains towards Abergynolwyn & Nant Gwernol.
In 1951 we became the World's First Preserved #Railway, starting the Heritage Railway movement!
We're the Talyllyn Railway - running from Tywyn on the Welsh Coast up into the mountains towards Abergynolwyn & Nant Gwernol.
In 1951 we became the World's First Preserved #Railway, starting the Heritage Railway movement!
Had a lovely walk with Paul around Wakehurst Place this morning.
November 15, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Had a lovely walk with Paul around Wakehurst Place this morning.
So l bit the bullet and joined Bluesky. Gradually finding my other social media friends on here to follow.
November 13, 2024 at 12:43 PM
So l bit the bullet and joined Bluesky. Gradually finding my other social media friends on here to follow.