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Peter Stefanovic

@peterstefanovic.bsky.social

🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM

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Gail Myerscough

@gailmyerscough.co.uk

It's been a bit quiet lately when it should be picking up for Christmas.
If you're shopping for gifts, have a look at what I do.
Everything I make is designed here in Manchester and manufactured in the UK.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

Gail Myerscough | Surface Pattern Designer & Illustrator | Manchester

Discover a world of bold and colourful prints, homewares and stationery by Gail Myerscough, a surface pattern designer and illustrator. Designed in Manchester, made in the UK.

www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

November 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM

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Gail Myerscough

@gailmyerscough.co.uk

What the husband @mjowen174.bsky.social says is true.
It’s been a bit quiet in my shop lately.
If you’re looking for #Christmas cards and gifts please have a look at my website.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
A repost would be lovely too.

A grid featuring nine images of prints, a phone case, a cushion, a T-shirt and Christmas cards and wrap.

November 12, 2025 at 9:52 AM

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Richard Morris

@ahistoryinart.bsky.social

'Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead.' In the summer of 1821, John Constable began making direct studies in the open air of cloud formations. These were mostly made from the high ground at Hampstead village - an ideal observation point.

November 2, 2025 at 8:07 AM

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Jack Tindale

@jacktindale.bsky.social

I've read this story five times and I literally do not know what it is trying to say.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Britain one of least ‘nature-connected’ nations in world – with Nepal the most

Others languishing near bottom of 61-country study include Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan and Spain

www.theguardian.com

November 1, 2025 at 9:58 AM

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Réforme

@reformehebdo.bsky.social

Un documentaire sur les 70 ans de Présence protestante

Dimanche 19 octobre, à 10h sur France2, un #documentaire revient sur l’histoire de l’émission télévisée Présence protestante. #protestantisme @francetelevisions.bsky.social

www.reforme.net/culture/prog...

Un documentaire sur les 70 ans de Présence protestante

Dimanche 19 octobre, à 10h sur France2, un documentaire revient sur l’histoire de l’émission télévisée Présence protestante.

www.reforme.net

October 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM

Occitanophile

@petitejoueuse.bsky.social

@irishrainforest.bsky.social Good to see you on Arte this morning.

September 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM

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John D. Lewis

@johndlewis.bsky.social

News judgements are failing at The Guardian: I am astonished that on the home page of its website this morning, there is no mention of the Ballymena troubles and the need for Northern Ireland to ask UK police forces to send reinforcements.

June 12, 2025 at 7:19 AM

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TheBossRoss

@thebossross.bsky.social

The same shirt in the same size (116 fits 5-6 yr olds), but one for boys and one for girls. Look at the difference. No wonder even young girls develop issues with body weight and size...

Miss Beany @whatthebean.bsky.social · May 15

Friendly reminder, dass die gleiche Größe bei „Jungs“ und „Mädchen“ komplett unterschiedlich geschnitten ist.
Ist beides 116/122 🤡
Und wir wundern uns, warum selbst kleine Mädchen schon Probleme mit ihrem Körper haben.

2 Shirts liegen übereinander, das grüne untere ist deutlich länger und weiter geschnitten als das rosafarbene darüber.

May 31, 2025 at 6:55 AM

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CheminsdeFerTC

@cheminsdefertc.bsky.social

france.tv/documentaires/documentaires-histoire/6946582-des-trains-dans-la-guerre.html
Le rythme régulier des trains et les destins cabossés des gens engloutis dans la guerre. => #Ukraine.
Un film d'Emmanuel Carrère et Lucas Menget

Des trains dans la guerre en replay - 25 nuances de doc

L'Ukraine est un pays de trains. Comme tous les pays de l'ex-empire soviétique, le pays a développé un réseau ferroviaire immense, puissant, relativement rap...

france.tv

March 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM

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La Croix

@la-croix.com

« Des trains dans la guerre » sur LCP : voyage au cœur de l’Ukraine meurtrie

La Chaîne parlementaire (LCP) rediffuse ce mardi 20 mai, à 20 h 32, le documentaire Des trains dans la guerre, déjà disponible sur la plateforme france.tv. Un important voyage sur les chemins de fers ukrainiens, où se croisent des concitoyens que le conflit affecte chacun à sa manière.

www.la-croix.com

May 20, 2025 at 4:58 AM

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Adam Brandt

@adambrandt.bsky.social

Please read and kindly consider signing in support of academics at Newcastle University (including from our team in Applied Linguistics & Communication) who are facing the threat of redundancy this summer:
www.change.org/p/end-unnece...

Sign the Petition

End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

www.change.org

May 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM

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Annette Dittert

@annettedittert.bsky.social

Well put. Sadly.

Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · May 12

My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration

Slightly amended so I can fit this here:

I am writing to you as an immigrant who chose to make the UK my home. As someone who is now also a British citizen. And as a German-born historian who understands where the complete normalisation of the far right can end. I write to say: For shame!

I first came to the UK in the 1990s for a visit with my grandmother. Objectively, much was backwards here. No mixer taps in the bathroom; awful ‘bread’; and strings had to be pulled to switch on lights. But however I felt about this, my own string had been pulled: I loved this Cool Britannia. It was quite possibly then that I decided that the UK was to be my home. When I arrived to settle here permanently, I made a choice: to contribute my skills, my knowledge—all I have to offer—to this country rather than another one.

I am deeply disgusted by your comment today that immigration has done ‘incalculable damage’ to the country.

This is the language of the far right. It is insulting, hateful & will fuel xenophobia. And it is just wrong.

Migration is a normal part of the human existence. None of us would be where we are without it. Open your fridge and you will see migration. Immigrants help make the UK tick every single day, whether we clean toilets in our hospitals or provide care for the elderly; whether we empty our bins or carry out cancer research. We are mothers, sons-in-law, aunts and uncles, friends, neighbours and colleagues.

I ask you not tell me that you do not mean me. I know that you do not—at least not primarily—mean a white woman from Europe who has a PhD. But who do you mean? And, much more importantly, who do you think those racists who were engaged in riots on our streets last summer think you mean?

Anti-immigration narratives have defined UK policymaking for the best part of two decades. And fundamentally so. They were the key driver in delivering Brexit, for example, and, as such, have directly limited the rights and opportunities of British citizens.

This obsessive focus on immigration as the ‘problem’—that is the real problem. And it is consistently delivering poor outcomes for the UK. Instead of tackling this, you are choosing to consolidate it, sowing divisions along the way.

You may point me to polling and tell me that this is what voters want. Do they? I am not surprised at all that over 50% of voters might say they want to see immigration reduced if that is the question they are being asked. What we need to know is what they would answer to the question: “Would you like to see immigration reduced? What this would mean for you and your local community is XYZ.” That is not how surveys can ask questions, but governments absolutely can choose to make policy using such a more informed position.

Prime Minister, you continue to talk a lot about making the tough choices. But let’s be clear: setting immigrants up as the ‘other’, as a scapegoat—describing us as a threat ‘pulling the country apart’, a ‘squalid chapter’, a risk that might make the UK an ‘island of strangers’—these are not tough choices at all. These are the easy choices. They are the choices that populists make who have no solutions to the real problems a country faces.

What I would like to know, Prime Minister, is what you will do when your policies lead to the implosion of the UK’s Higher Education sector. What you will tell communities when they can no longer provide any care for the elderly.

The policies you announced today will not solve anything at all. They will have exclusively negative impacts. For those immediately affected; for our communities; and for our economy.

Being pro-immigration—it is progressive, yes, but the much more crucial point is that it is also the most pro-UK policy approach that any politician in the country can pursue. And you are choosing to do the opposite. This, Prime Minister, is the real damage—and it will be very calculable indeed.

Tanja Bueltmann

May 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO

@nickreeves.bsky.social

Please repost, if like me, you will never accept Brexit.

It harms the British people. It was obtained through foreign interference and by far the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history, and it robs us of freedom and citizenship.

#RejoinEU

May 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM

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The Atlantic

@theatlantic.com

The Trump administration’s many erasures—its gutting of agencies, cuts to jobs, deletions of government documents—show how absence can do the work of propaganda, doubling as a threat, Megan Garber wrote in February:

Control. Alt. Delete.

Government via keyword is not “efficiency.” It is an abuse of power.

bit.ly

April 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM

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@jmcresists.bsky.social

Brave and brilliant. Must watch to the end from a journalist who survived Nigel Farage instructing us how to fight 🍄 now.

This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED

YouTube video by TED

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April 16, 2025 at 8:14 AM

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Squaloflife 📸🎶🐈🍽🥾

@squaloflife.bsky.social

#UnJourUnePhoto
#Photoapril2025
#photography

10/04. Dentelle

April 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM

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Times Higher Education (THE)

@timeshighered.bsky.social

Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work

#AcademicSky #EduSky

X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research

Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover

www.timeshighereducation.com

April 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM

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Willsh

@willsh.bsky.social

These prints by Gail are one of my favourite things about the Smithery office - please do have a look at her wonderful shop.

Three prints by Gail Myerscough on the Smithery office wall

March 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM

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Jason Colavito

@jasoncolavito.bsky.social

Not being British, I have no opinion on UK government policy, but I can say that food writer and MasterChef judge William Sitwell could only have failed to find any value in Latin through sheer obstinate incuriosity. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03...

The loss of Latin from schools is a triumph, not a tragedy

The ancient language has little relevance in today’s society so the end of the project to teach it in state institutions should be welcomed

www.telegraph.co.uk

March 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM

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KS_1968

@karenroberts.bsky.social

Dreadful headline. My daughter loves Latin & wants to do it with Russian at Uni.Her Latin helps her pick up other languages as well as enriching her writing in english.She's lucky she's at a private school. State school kids shld have same opportunity to learn it.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03...

The loss of Latin from schools is a triumph, not a tragedy

The ancient language has little relevance in today’s society so the end of the project to teach it in state institutions should be welcomed

www.telegraph.co.uk

March 8, 2025 at 7:57 AM

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libwomanontario.bsky.social

@libwomanontario.bsky.social

nails it.

Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · Mar 7

🚨🚨 Brave contender for speech of the year. Every word of it rings true to me.

Claude Malhuret is a proper role model for European politicians in these chaotic and existential times for Europe.

Take 8 minutes of your time and listen carefully. It is worth it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIK9...

Speech againt Trump, by french senator, Claude Malhuret. ( English subtitles )

YouTube video by Alain Cazes

www.youtube.com

March 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM

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Dave Vetter

@davidrvetter.bsky.social

Musk states "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy". Charles Darwin, who actually researched this stuff, showed it was empathy, specifically, that enabled humanity to flourish.