Jo
@pingiarcher.bsky.social
Adore penguins
Very poor archer
Part time Clinical Nurse Specialist
West Midlands
Very poor archer
Part time Clinical Nurse Specialist
West Midlands
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Stunning views of this magnificent Peregrine Falcon at Clevedon yesterday! 😍
I only looked up because I heard a Raven calling overhead, and saw the Falcon dive-bombing the Raven! 😮😀🐦
#birds 🪶
You can buy my brand new 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle 'Puffin Party' here;
www.carlbovis.com/jigsaw-puzzles
I only looked up because I heard a Raven calling overhead, and saw the Falcon dive-bombing the Raven! 😮😀🐦
#birds 🪶
You can buy my brand new 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle 'Puffin Party' here;
www.carlbovis.com/jigsaw-puzzles
November 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Stunning views of this magnificent Peregrine Falcon at Clevedon yesterday! 😍
I only looked up because I heard a Raven calling overhead, and saw the Falcon dive-bombing the Raven! 😮😀🐦
#birds 🪶
You can buy my brand new 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle 'Puffin Party' here;
www.carlbovis.com/jigsaw-puzzles
I only looked up because I heard a Raven calling overhead, and saw the Falcon dive-bombing the Raven! 😮😀🐦
#birds 🪶
You can buy my brand new 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle 'Puffin Party' here;
www.carlbovis.com/jigsaw-puzzles
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Germany to classify date rape drugs as weapons in trials reut.rs/4rfi22a
Germany to classify date rape drugs as weapons in trials
Germany plans to treat the use of date rape drugs like the use of a weapon in prosecutions, as part of broader measures to ensure justice for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, said Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt on Friday.
reut.rs
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Germany to classify date rape drugs as weapons in trials reut.rs/4rfi22a
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Red Cross to shed nearly 3,000 jobs, scale back budget amid donor fatigue reut.rs/4oUq7ri
Red Cross to shed nearly 3,000 jobs, scale back budget amid donor fatigue
The International Committee of the Red Cross will reduce its 2026 budget by nearly a fifth to 1.8 billion Swiss francs ($2.2 billion) and cut 2,900 jobs, it said in a statement on Friday, as its top donor the United States and others pare back support.
reut.rs
November 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Red Cross to shed nearly 3,000 jobs, scale back budget amid donor fatigue reut.rs/4oUq7ri
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“Prioritising mental health, prevention and place based support in the North will deliver lasting returns in prosperity and wellbeing”
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/p...
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/p...
Poor health in the North costing the UK billions in lost productivity
Closing the health gap between the North and the rest of England could put an extra £18.4 billion into the economy per year, according to new research by academics from Newcastle University, The Unive...
www.manchester.ac.uk
November 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
“Prioritising mental health, prevention and place based support in the North will deliver lasting returns in prosperity and wellbeing”
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/p...
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/p...
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Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social
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Britain has set a new wind generation record.
"At 7:30pm on 11 November wind turbines...provided enough clean electricity to power more than 22 million homes"
"Wind was delivering 43.6% of all power on the system which means three quarters of Britain’s homes were effectively running on wind alone"
"At 7:30pm on 11 November wind turbines...provided enough clean electricity to power more than 22 million homes"
"Wind was delivering 43.6% of all power on the system which means three quarters of Britain’s homes were effectively running on wind alone"
Windpower sets new record for baseload - Energy Live News
Wind supplied 43% of all power last week setting a new record of 22.7 GW
www.energylivenews.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Britain has set a new wind generation record.
"At 7:30pm on 11 November wind turbines...provided enough clean electricity to power more than 22 million homes"
"Wind was delivering 43.6% of all power on the system which means three quarters of Britain’s homes were effectively running on wind alone"
"At 7:30pm on 11 November wind turbines...provided enough clean electricity to power more than 22 million homes"
"Wind was delivering 43.6% of all power on the system which means three quarters of Britain’s homes were effectively running on wind alone"
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Keir Starmer has demanded an investigation into links between Reform UK and Russia following the jailing of the party's former Wales leader for accepting pro-Russian bribes
news.sky.com/story/starme...
news.sky.com/story/starme...
Starmer demands investigation into Reform-Russia links after party's ex-Wales leader jailed
The former leader of Reform in Wales, Nathan Gill, has been jailed for 10-and-a-half years after being paid £40,000 to make pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament.
news.sky.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Keir Starmer has demanded an investigation into links between Reform UK and Russia following the jailing of the party's former Wales leader for accepting pro-Russian bribes
news.sky.com/story/starme...
news.sky.com/story/starme...
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Public Law Project's latest report finds that the average universal credit sanction is hundreds of pounds more than a criminal fine.
Universal credit sanctions more 'severe' and 'damaging' than criminal fines
www.bigissue.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Public Law Project's latest report finds that the average universal credit sanction is hundreds of pounds more than a criminal fine.
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Leeds and West Yorkshire weirdies! We are bringing the @scarredforlife.bsky.social Folk Horror show to @oldwoollen.bsky.social in Farsley on Thu 12th Feb - one of our favourite venues, we had an absolute blast last time around. Join ussss.... oldwoollen.seetickets.com/event/scarre...
November 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Leeds and West Yorkshire weirdies! We are bringing the @scarredforlife.bsky.social Folk Horror show to @oldwoollen.bsky.social in Farsley on Thu 12th Feb - one of our favourite venues, we had an absolute blast last time around. Join ussss.... oldwoollen.seetickets.com/event/scarre...
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Tether's Harborne is generous:
2019-20 £10M to Brexit party
2022: £1M to Boris Johnson
2025: £28k to Farage to attend Trump inauguration
"National Crime Agency has spent four years trying to crack a multibillion-dollar scheme that exchanges cash from drug and gun sales in the UK for crypto…"
2019-20 £10M to Brexit party
2022: £1M to Boris Johnson
2025: £28k to Farage to attend Trump inauguration
"National Crime Agency has spent four years trying to crack a multibillion-dollar scheme that exchanges cash from drug and gun sales in the UK for crypto…"
November 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Tether's Harborne is generous:
2019-20 £10M to Brexit party
2022: £1M to Boris Johnson
2025: £28k to Farage to attend Trump inauguration
"National Crime Agency has spent four years trying to crack a multibillion-dollar scheme that exchanges cash from drug and gun sales in the UK for crypto…"
2019-20 £10M to Brexit party
2022: £1M to Boris Johnson
2025: £28k to Farage to attend Trump inauguration
"National Crime Agency has spent four years trying to crack a multibillion-dollar scheme that exchanges cash from drug and gun sales in the UK for crypto…"
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open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... An NHS Trust made a decision to close an innovative service for people with Parkinson’s in July but waited until November to tell patients. “A complete failure of communications coupled with discourtesy” says one patient
Patients left in the dark after Home Based Care closure
Innovative Parkinson's scheme closed - patients told months later
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:20 AM
open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... An NHS Trust made a decision to close an innovative service for people with Parkinson’s in July but waited until November to tell patients. “A complete failure of communications coupled with discourtesy” says one patient
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Gill, like Farage's partner, was in financial trouble before being 'taken in' by him.
Both now facing prosecution for corruption/treachery.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/nige...
Both now facing prosecution for corruption/treachery.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/nige...
Nigel Farage’s partner 'drawn into Brussels fraud probe at Eurosceptic think tank' | LBC
Investigators reportedly uncovered what they described as “serious” financial irregularities at IDDE
www.lbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Gill, like Farage's partner, was in financial trouble before being 'taken in' by him.
Both now facing prosecution for corruption/treachery.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/nige...
Both now facing prosecution for corruption/treachery.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/nige...
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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The Curse of Private Equity
Asda to raise £568m in sale and leaseback of stores.
Company loaded with debt, cut staffing, wages.
Already sold most of its warehouses and 25 supermarkets in sale and leaseback deals. Asset stripping continues.
Company losing market share.
What next?
Asda to raise £568m in sale and leaseback of stores.
Company loaded with debt, cut staffing, wages.
Already sold most of its warehouses and 25 supermarkets in sale and leaseback deals. Asset stripping continues.
Company losing market share.
What next?
Asda to raise £568m in store sell-off as sales continue to fall
Supermarket still losing market share despite effort under Allan Leighton to win over customers with price cuts
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:03 AM
The Curse of Private Equity
Asda to raise £568m in sale and leaseback of stores.
Company loaded with debt, cut staffing, wages.
Already sold most of its warehouses and 25 supermarkets in sale and leaseback deals. Asset stripping continues.
Company losing market share.
What next?
Asda to raise £568m in sale and leaseback of stores.
Company loaded with debt, cut staffing, wages.
Already sold most of its warehouses and 25 supermarkets in sale and leaseback deals. Asset stripping continues.
Company losing market share.
What next?
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Trump may yet impose a Ukraine deal – but it threatens to be a disaster for Kyiv
Trump may yet impose a Ukraine deal – but it threatens to be a disaster for Kyiv
Ukraine could be forced into an agreement but plan as it stands seems too bizarre for Zelenskyy to sell to his public
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Trump may yet impose a Ukraine deal – but it threatens to be a disaster for Kyiv
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A recent BBC Panorama documentary presented evidence that a toxic culture still exists inside the Metropolitan Police and that despite a number of internal investigations and sackings, misogynistic attitudes have not been eliminated but have been driven underground.
The effects of misogyny in public office
How effectively can law enforcement protect women while its institutions are still mired in misogyny?
bylines.cymru
November 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A recent BBC Panorama documentary presented evidence that a toxic culture still exists inside the Metropolitan Police and that despite a number of internal investigations and sackings, misogynistic attitudes have not been eliminated but have been driven underground.
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When you spot someone sleeping rough, you can share the details with the local outreach team at www.thestreetlink.org.uk. It helps workers offer guidance and routes into safer accommodation. #BeTheLink
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
When you spot someone sleeping rough, you can share the details with the local outreach team at www.thestreetlink.org.uk. It helps workers offer guidance and routes into safer accommodation. #BeTheLink