Sarah
@pongopongo.bsky.social
In the right circumstances, humans can be collaborative, compassionate and kind. Humanist. Cancer survivor so far. Unpaid carer. Library volunteer. Love books. She/her. 🇵🇸🇺🇦 Please don't contact me asking for money - I don't know you and I'll block you.
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On #WorldKindnessDay, perhaps we could all be a little more #Confucius.
‘Is there one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one’s whole life? Surely it is the maxim of loving kindness: Do not do to others what you would not want them to do to you.’
‘Is there one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one’s whole life? Surely it is the maxim of loving kindness: Do not do to others what you would not want them to do to you.’
November 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
On #WorldKindnessDay, perhaps we could all be a little more #Confucius.
‘Is there one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one’s whole life? Surely it is the maxim of loving kindness: Do not do to others what you would not want them to do to you.’
‘Is there one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one’s whole life? Surely it is the maxim of loving kindness: Do not do to others what you would not want them to do to you.’
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And today it's the turn of The Times to try and patronise us all.
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM
And today it's the turn of The Times to try and patronise us all.
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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A poem for Elon Musk #empathy #humanity @humanists.uk #love @amnestyuk.bsky.social @hopenothate.org.uk @nionwomen.bsky.social #poetry #poem
November 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
A poem for Elon Musk #empathy #humanity @humanists.uk #love @amnestyuk.bsky.social @hopenothate.org.uk @nionwomen.bsky.social #poetry #poem
This is such a no-brainer. The fact that the Labour Party seems no longer able/willing to address child poverty is one of the many reasons why they won't get my vote again. @zackpolanski.bsky.social is far more articulate and honest about inequality.
109 kids are falling into poverty every day because of the two-child limit.
The government must scrap it for all children.
Please share.
The government must scrap it for all children.
Please share.
November 8, 2025 at 8:34 AM
This is such a no-brainer. The fact that the Labour Party seems no longer able/willing to address child poverty is one of the many reasons why they won't get my vote again. @zackpolanski.bsky.social is far more articulate and honest about inequality.
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The Spectator are confused.
It's not going to be cost free.
Billionaires are going to pay more.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
It's not going to be cost free.
Billionaires are going to pay more.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 8:57 AM
The Spectator are confused.
It's not going to be cost free.
Billionaires are going to pay more.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
It's not going to be cost free.
Billionaires are going to pay more.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
![[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]
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NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:
Hello there
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[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].
DAD:
Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE:
Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!
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MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:
Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!
6
NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:
Listen - that's their call
[Calls emanating from the landscape]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
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NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:
They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.
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KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!
[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].
[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke
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[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:
Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.
[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
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MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?
NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…
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[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].
NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…
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[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:
Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?
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October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
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If Prince Andrew used Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should go to jail.
If Bill Clinton used Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should go to jail.
If Donald Trump used Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should go to jail.
That wasn’t so difficult, was it?
If Bill Clinton used Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should go to jail.
If Donald Trump used Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should go to jail.
That wasn’t so difficult, was it?
October 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
If Prince Andrew used Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should go to jail.
If Bill Clinton used Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should go to jail.
If Donald Trump used Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should go to jail.
That wasn’t so difficult, was it?
If Bill Clinton used Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should go to jail.
If Donald Trump used Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should go to jail.
That wasn’t so difficult, was it?
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Six things you should know have happened in America since Monday - in 2 minutes.
youtu.be/s7jnLHoBMF8
youtu.be/s7jnLHoBMF8
Six things you should know have happend in America since Monday
YouTube video by Professor Christina Pagel
youtu.be
October 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Six things you should know have happened in America since Monday - in 2 minutes.
youtu.be/s7jnLHoBMF8
youtu.be/s7jnLHoBMF8
Excellent column from Stewart Lee.
In this week’s column for the Nerve, Stewart Lee wonders how all these rightwing astroturfers get on the telly and radio. Doesn’t anyone Google them first? 🤔
October 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Excellent column from Stewart Lee.
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The "hard-men" of Gondor were getting their shit kicked in until they were rescued by foreigners and a girl.
The Shire was doing fine until they let a fascist demagogue ("Sharkey" aka Saruman) take over, close the gates, impose a bunch of thug-enforced rules, and despoil nature for profit.
The Shire was doing fine until they let a fascist demagogue ("Sharkey" aka Saruman) take over, close the gates, impose a bunch of thug-enforced rules, and despoil nature for profit.
October 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM
The "hard-men" of Gondor were getting their shit kicked in until they were rescued by foreigners and a girl.
The Shire was doing fine until they let a fascist demagogue ("Sharkey" aka Saruman) take over, close the gates, impose a bunch of thug-enforced rules, and despoil nature for profit.
The Shire was doing fine until they let a fascist demagogue ("Sharkey" aka Saruman) take over, close the gates, impose a bunch of thug-enforced rules, and despoil nature for profit.
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Reform UK copies Trump
Promises to ignore international law
Mass firing of civil servants - which jobs/regulations would go?
Cronies would be hired.
Attack trade unions, employment rights
Attack LGBT rights, anyone who shows solidarity
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here", said Shakespeare.
Promises to ignore international law
Mass firing of civil servants - which jobs/regulations would go?
Cronies would be hired.
Attack trade unions, employment rights
Attack LGBT rights, anyone who shows solidarity
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here", said Shakespeare.
Reform’s Kruger under fire for warning of ‘LGBT-supporting’ left-wing parties
East Wiltshire MP Danny Kruger said the UK could be led by an ‘appalling Hamas-supporting, LGBT-supporting nationalist party’.
www.independent.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Reform UK copies Trump
Promises to ignore international law
Mass firing of civil servants - which jobs/regulations would go?
Cronies would be hired.
Attack trade unions, employment rights
Attack LGBT rights, anyone who shows solidarity
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here", said Shakespeare.
Promises to ignore international law
Mass firing of civil servants - which jobs/regulations would go?
Cronies would be hired.
Attack trade unions, employment rights
Attack LGBT rights, anyone who shows solidarity
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here", said Shakespeare.
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Growing up, I remember lots of sniggering about the tinpot leaders of Africa, well, any notion of our “western superiority” in politics is surely finally eviscerated by the last few years and the client media that offered so many helpful hands
October 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Growing up, I remember lots of sniggering about the tinpot leaders of Africa, well, any notion of our “western superiority” in politics is surely finally eviscerated by the last few years and the client media that offered so many helpful hands
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NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
October 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
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He never meant to stay — 13 years in #Europe later he realized his American conditioning finally broke. His account exposes how a neoliberal billionaire #oligarchy sold Americans a dystopia and a broken national myth. That's why Musk, Trump, and Vance hate Europe. Must watch 🔻
#USA #UK #Germany #EU
#USA #UK #Germany #EU
How I View the US After 13 Years Living in Europe
YouTube video by Evan Edinger
youtu.be
October 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Just brilliant by @thenerve.news - I can just imagine Stewart Lee running around on bypasses snatching flags.
Well done that man.
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Well done that man.
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October 12, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Just brilliant by @thenerve.news - I can just imagine Stewart Lee running around on bypasses snatching flags.
Well done that man.
🐻
Well done that man.
🐻
Excellent column from Stewart Lee.
‘Are the flags that now bedeck our suburbs and estates patriotic or racist?’
In his second weekly column, Stewart Lee looks at the changing significance of England flags over the years
In his second weekly column, Stewart Lee looks at the changing significance of England flags over the years
October 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Excellent column from Stewart Lee.
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I called this out on #BBCQT last night and I'm calling it out again now.
He is gaslighting a nation.
He is gaslighting a nation.
Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple’
Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple’
Farage said he was shocked by Nathan Gill’s admissions relating to pro-Russia statements
Nigel Farage has insisted his party’s former leader in Wales who was convicted of taking pro-Russian bribes was a “bad apple” who betrayed him.
The Reform UK leader was in Caerphilly campaigning for his candidate in a forthcoming Senedd byelection when he was asked about his links to Nathan Gill. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I called this out on #BBCQT last night and I'm calling it out again now.
He is gaslighting a nation.
He is gaslighting a nation.
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The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…
October 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…
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We were deeply saddened to hear of the recent death of renowned primatologist Jane Goodall, but grateful when we heard that, before she died, she had recorded her last words to share with humanity, in collaboration with Netflix. Her final message is one that deeply resonates with humanist beliefs
October 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
We were deeply saddened to hear of the recent death of renowned primatologist Jane Goodall, but grateful when we heard that, before she died, she had recorded her last words to share with humanity, in collaboration with Netflix. Her final message is one that deeply resonates with humanist beliefs
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Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.
The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.
The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.
October 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.
The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.
The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.
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Jenrick could have visited Handsworth to listen to residents – he chose to pass through and make a judgement based on the colour of their skin. Instead of getting to know our nation of neighbours, he chose racism.
The Tories, Reform and Labour want to divide us.
The Greens say enough is enough.
The Tories, Reform and Labour want to divide us.
The Greens say enough is enough.
Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham
Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham
Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on 90-minute visit
Robert Jenrick complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he “didn’t see another white face” and said it was not the kind of country he wanted to live in.
After highlighting the lack of white people, the shadow justice secretary said it was not about “the colour of your skin or your faith” and he wanted people to live alongside each other. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Jenrick could have visited Handsworth to listen to residents – he chose to pass through and make a judgement based on the colour of their skin. Instead of getting to know our nation of neighbours, he chose racism.
The Tories, Reform and Labour want to divide us.
The Greens say enough is enough.
The Tories, Reform and Labour want to divide us.
The Greens say enough is enough.
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I love how Russell T Davies always uses his platform to fight for progress - I hate how it is always so necessary
Please, if good television matters to you, repost or repackage this video until everyone you follow has seen it
#televisionmatters
#televisionmatters
October 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I love how Russell T Davies always uses his platform to fight for progress - I hate how it is always so necessary
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October 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM