Poppy Leeder
@poppyleeder.bsky.social
Green, vegan, tofu-eating wokerati type. Research Manager at University of Leeds. Walker of 2 rescue dogs. More enthusiastic than skilled gardener. Retrofitting and behaviour change to be lower consuming
I've seen my first #Christmas tree of the year in someone's window. A big 6 footer all decorated and lit up.
It isn't even mid November!
It isn't even mid November!
November 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I've seen my first #Christmas tree of the year in someone's window. A big 6 footer all decorated and lit up.
It isn't even mid November!
It isn't even mid November!
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NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
emptycity.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
This article is just one reason why I'm a subscriber to @bylinetimes.bsky.social
Independent media is critical now, more than ever, for shining a light where others choose not to.
Subscribe for yourself, or as a gift for someone, to allow them to continue speaking truth to power
Independent media is critical now, more than ever, for shining a light where others choose not to.
Subscribe for yourself, or as a gift for someone, to allow them to continue speaking truth to power
🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier.
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:20 AM
This article is just one reason why I'm a subscriber to @bylinetimes.bsky.social
Independent media is critical now, more than ever, for shining a light where others choose not to.
Subscribe for yourself, or as a gift for someone, to allow them to continue speaking truth to power
Independent media is critical now, more than ever, for shining a light where others choose not to.
Subscribe for yourself, or as a gift for someone, to allow them to continue speaking truth to power
I feel like I've missed something; lots of people seem to travel with marzipan
Here’s a tip: if you’re travelling with a cowbell and laptop adaptors in hand luggage, don’t put the adaptors inside the cowbell because that looks suspicious.
And an extra tip from my cousin Charlotte - be careful about travelling with a pack of polenta too. Also looks dodgy.
And an extra tip from my cousin Charlotte - be careful about travelling with a pack of polenta too. Also looks dodgy.
November 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I feel like I've missed something; lots of people seem to travel with marzipan
Great to see a new product made from beverage production leftovers (better than the banana skin skirt I wanted to make as a child!)
@richardblackburn.bsky.social at @universityofleeds.bsky.social also mentioned for fibres made from another food processing byproduct
@richardblackburn.bsky.social at @universityofleeds.bsky.social also mentioned for fibres made from another food processing byproduct
Beer yeast leftovers spun into a promising sustainable yarn 50% stronger than wool
www.chemistryworld.com/news/beer-ye...
www.chemistryworld.com/news/beer-ye...
Beer yeast leftovers spun into a promising sustainable yarn 50% stronger than wool
Brewery waste can be turned into a cheap, environmentally-friendly textile
www.chemistryworld.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Great to see a new product made from beverage production leftovers (better than the banana skin skirt I wanted to make as a child!)
@richardblackburn.bsky.social at @universityofleeds.bsky.social also mentioned for fibres made from another food processing byproduct
@richardblackburn.bsky.social at @universityofleeds.bsky.social also mentioned for fibres made from another food processing byproduct
Many of us know we need the peace of wild things.
Sadly, far too many don't know they need the peace of wild things.
Sadly, far too many don't know they need the peace of wild things.
November 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Many of us know we need the peace of wild things.
Sadly, far too many don't know they need the peace of wild things.
Sadly, far too many don't know they need the peace of wild things.
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Today we rode to demand safer streets for women cycling in winter.
Cycling is joyous but many women feel left out of our movement. It's time that changed.
Cycling is joyous but many women feel left out of our movement. It's time that changed.
November 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Today we rode to demand safer streets for women cycling in winter.
Cycling is joyous but many women feel left out of our movement. It's time that changed.
Cycling is joyous but many women feel left out of our movement. It's time that changed.
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New Ways November - Day 9: When you feel you can't do something, add the word "yet" actionforhappiness.org/new-ways-nov... #NewWaysNovember
November 9, 2025 at 7:00 AM
New Ways November - Day 9: When you feel you can't do something, add the word "yet" actionforhappiness.org/new-ways-nov... #NewWaysNovember
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Private planes make up nearly 12% of all flights.
And yet even with major air traffic control safety concerns, the DOT is planning to exclude them from its plan to order 10% cut in flights at 40 major U.S. airports.
People who can afford to charter flights will be fine. Everyone else is screwed.
And yet even with major air traffic control safety concerns, the DOT is planning to exclude them from its plan to order 10% cut in flights at 40 major U.S. airports.
People who can afford to charter flights will be fine. Everyone else is screwed.
November 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Private planes make up nearly 12% of all flights.
And yet even with major air traffic control safety concerns, the DOT is planning to exclude them from its plan to order 10% cut in flights at 40 major U.S. airports.
People who can afford to charter flights will be fine. Everyone else is screwed.
And yet even with major air traffic control safety concerns, the DOT is planning to exclude them from its plan to order 10% cut in flights at 40 major U.S. airports.
People who can afford to charter flights will be fine. Everyone else is screwed.
The brain combined with 3am #insomnia can do great things.
Friend sent a cryptic picture, my brain has been musing on it for hours, and just worked it out.
Now if it could just work out how to get rid of my #3amInsomnia we'd be onto an absolute winner!
Friend sent a cryptic picture, my brain has been musing on it for hours, and just worked it out.
Now if it could just work out how to get rid of my #3amInsomnia we'd be onto an absolute winner!
November 7, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The brain combined with 3am #insomnia can do great things.
Friend sent a cryptic picture, my brain has been musing on it for hours, and just worked it out.
Now if it could just work out how to get rid of my #3amInsomnia we'd be onto an absolute winner!
Friend sent a cryptic picture, my brain has been musing on it for hours, and just worked it out.
Now if it could just work out how to get rid of my #3amInsomnia we'd be onto an absolute winner!
The mess, the pollution, the noise, the distress. This is just a horrible week because fireworks are so easily available.
Limiting their sale somewhat would make a massive difference, please sign:
Limiting their sale somewhat would make a massive difference, please sign:
Please get behind this Govt petition! Limit the sale of fireworks to those running local council approved events only
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Limit the sale of fireworks to those running local council approved events only
Ban the sale of fireworks to the general public to minimise the harm caused to vulnerable people and animals. Defenceless animals can die from the distress caused by fireworks. I believe that…
petition.parliament.uk
November 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The mess, the pollution, the noise, the distress. This is just a horrible week because fireworks are so easily available.
Limiting their sale somewhat would make a massive difference, please sign:
Limiting their sale somewhat would make a massive difference, please sign:
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🚨🚨Things are just getting worse. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...
US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules
Negotiators at shipping talks in London were told both they and their countries could be punished unless they voted with the U.S.
www.politico.eu
November 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
🚨🚨Things are just getting worse. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...
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Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect #OurRightsAndFreedoms for 75 years.
Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇
🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR
There are thousands more.
#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇
🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR
There are thousands more.
#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
November 4, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect #OurRightsAndFreedoms for 75 years.
Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇
🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR
There are thousands more.
#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇
🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR
There are thousands more.
#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
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Lovely to meet Khizer Qayyum Green candidate for #Harehills and #Gipton. Great day for leafleting the ward wurh support from national deputy Co- leader Mothin Ali - also a Harehills&G Ward councillor. I certainly made my step count today!! 😂
November 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Lovely to meet Khizer Qayyum Green candidate for #Harehills and #Gipton. Great day for leafleting the ward wurh support from national deputy Co- leader Mothin Ali - also a Harehills&G Ward councillor. I certainly made my step count today!! 😂
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Teenagers near us letting off fireworks: in a children's playground, near houses, lighting them up and then running away, not caring how they are aimed.
It's your annual reminder that: FIREWORKS SHOULD NOT BE SOLD TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
It's your annual reminder that: FIREWORKS SHOULD NOT BE SOLD TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
November 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Teenagers near us letting off fireworks: in a children's playground, near houses, lighting them up and then running away, not caring how they are aimed.
It's your annual reminder that: FIREWORKS SHOULD NOT BE SOLD TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
It's your annual reminder that: FIREWORKS SHOULD NOT BE SOLD TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
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👋Hello Bluesky!
here's a starter pack of our water research community.
If your account is not here, please reply in comments.
go.bsky.app/rofcg4
here's a starter pack of our water research community.
If your account is not here, please reply in comments.
go.bsky.app/rofcg4
October 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
👋Hello Bluesky!
here's a starter pack of our water research community.
If your account is not here, please reply in comments.
go.bsky.app/rofcg4
here's a starter pack of our water research community.
If your account is not here, please reply in comments.
go.bsky.app/rofcg4
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A bonfire night approaches - please #ShareToMakeAware 🙏
🦔 🦔 🦔
Please help protect #hedgehogs this #bonfire season!
#RememberHedgehogs #LookBeforeYouLight
This new campaign has been created with LIQUONA 💚
🦔 🦔 🦔
Please help protect #hedgehogs this #bonfire season!
#RememberHedgehogs #LookBeforeYouLight
This new campaign has been created with LIQUONA 💚
October 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
A bonfire night approaches - please #ShareToMakeAware 🙏
🦔 🦔 🦔
Please help protect #hedgehogs this #bonfire season!
#RememberHedgehogs #LookBeforeYouLight
This new campaign has been created with LIQUONA 💚
🦔 🦔 🦔
Please help protect #hedgehogs this #bonfire season!
#RememberHedgehogs #LookBeforeYouLight
This new campaign has been created with LIQUONA 💚
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The days may be getting colder and darker, but there's still a chance to spot beautiful butterflies and moths in your gardens and green spaces 🦋🍂
#SaveButterflies #MothsMatter
#SaveButterflies #MothsMatter
November 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The days may be getting colder and darker, but there's still a chance to spot beautiful butterflies and moths in your gardens and green spaces 🦋🍂
#SaveButterflies #MothsMatter
#SaveButterflies #MothsMatter
If the worst* government you can possibly imagine came to power after we had left the ECHR, would you feel confident that your now no-longer rights would be respected by them?
(*worst is relative depending on what you believe, just imagine a govt totally opposed to your own values)
(*worst is relative depending on what you believe, just imagine a govt totally opposed to your own values)
Reminder: Here's what Nigel Farage tried to take away from you this week...
October 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
If the worst* government you can possibly imagine came to power after we had left the ECHR, would you feel confident that your now no-longer rights would be respected by them?
(*worst is relative depending on what you believe, just imagine a govt totally opposed to your own values)
(*worst is relative depending on what you believe, just imagine a govt totally opposed to your own values)
It's happy 'indoctrinate the local kids with vegan treats' night (aka halloween)
a happy halloween eve greeting card with pumpkins , ghosts , spiders , and a spider web .
Alt: A happy halloween image with pumpkins, ghosts, spiders, and a spider's web
media.tenor.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
It's happy 'indoctrinate the local kids with vegan treats' night (aka halloween)
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Today is two years since Glunda The Veg Witch came out, my Pratchettesque cosy fantasy that l ended up a BBNYA finalist.
I'm really proud of this book, both the print and ebook editions. Not only is it my best writing to date, but the design and layout are some of my best work as well.
❤️🥕🧙♀️
I'm really proud of this book, both the print and ebook editions. Not only is it my best writing to date, but the design and layout are some of my best work as well.
❤️🥕🧙♀️
October 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Today is two years since Glunda The Veg Witch came out, my Pratchettesque cosy fantasy that l ended up a BBNYA finalist.
I'm really proud of this book, both the print and ebook editions. Not only is it my best writing to date, but the design and layout are some of my best work as well.
❤️🥕🧙♀️
I'm really proud of this book, both the print and ebook editions. Not only is it my best writing to date, but the design and layout are some of my best work as well.
❤️🥕🧙♀️
Hey good people of the USA, look what just happened to Epstein lister and former Prince, Andrew
Isn't it time for your Epstein lister and would-be King to be treated similarly?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
Isn't it time for your Epstein lister and would-be King to be treated similarly?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
Prince Andrew stripped of 'prince' title and will move out of Royal Lodge
Buckingham Palace says he will now been known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. Virginia Giuffre's family say she has
www.bbc.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Hey good people of the USA, look what just happened to Epstein lister and former Prince, Andrew
Isn't it time for your Epstein lister and would-be King to be treated similarly?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
Isn't it time for your Epstein lister and would-be King to be treated similarly?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Private Eye on the nose o minority representation on TV
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Minority representation on TV causes outrage
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
October 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Private Eye on the nose o minority representation on TV
(Alt text in the thread)
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