Amanda E
@queenie64.bsky.social
Lido devotee & wobbly cyclist. 60 is the new 40 but way better. Politics, poetry, and occasional boxer. Women's right-to-choose absolutist and autism ally to my amazing son. PS trans rights and sex worker rights are (always) human rights.
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A woman shot to death while looking for food for her family. Are these horrific incidents in Gaza happening so often that we're turning blind eye. Have we become numb to murder? www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘These are traps set for the people’: the story of a mother shot dead searching for food in Gaza
A family is reeling from the killing of a woman who walked for hours to an Israeli-backed distribution point with her son and daughter
www.theguardian.com
June 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
A woman shot to death while looking for food for her family. Are these horrific incidents in Gaza happening so often that we're turning blind eye. Have we become numb to murder? www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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Watching Louis Theroux: The Settlers.
The IDF are monsters.
The settlers are hideous.
The IDF are monsters.
The settlers are hideous.
April 27, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Watching Louis Theroux: The Settlers.
The IDF are monsters.
The settlers are hideous.
The IDF are monsters.
The settlers are hideous.
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Stand up for trans rights 🏳️⚧️
Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8
Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8
April 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Stand up for trans rights 🏳️⚧️
Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8
Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8
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The savings thresholds for when Universal Credit entitlement starts getting tapered off (£6,000) and then halted altogether (£16,000) have been set at the same level since 2006.
This means that more and more families are affected every year.
This means that more and more families are affected every year.
April 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The savings thresholds for when Universal Credit entitlement starts getting tapered off (£6,000) and then halted altogether (£16,000) have been set at the same level since 2006.
This means that more and more families are affected every year.
This means that more and more families are affected every year.
Coroner raises concerns over "very long" waits for autism assessments and "risk future deaths could occur unless action is taken" following suicide of 17-year-old. #dogwhistlefarage #autisticlivesmatter
www.whtimes.co.uk/news/2510682...
www.whtimes.co.uk/news/2510682...
'Future deaths may occur' due to long waiting times for autism assessments
Following the suicide of a 17-year-old boy, a coroner has raised concerns over the "very long" waiting times for autism assessments.
www.whtimes.co.uk
April 25, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Coroner raises concerns over "very long" waits for autism assessments and "risk future deaths could occur unless action is taken" following suicide of 17-year-old. #dogwhistlefarage #autisticlivesmatter
www.whtimes.co.uk/news/2510682...
www.whtimes.co.uk/news/2510682...
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8. Ancient woodlands replaced by saplings in plastic tubes, ancient meadows by a reseeded verge, chalkstreams ... oh, sod the chalkstreams.
As building land is expensive, and farmland much cheaper, any "replacement" habitat will be shifted far from where people live. Goodbye contact with nature.
As building land is expensive, and farmland much cheaper, any "replacement" habitat will be shifted far from where people live. Goodbye contact with nature.
April 25, 2025 at 6:34 AM
8. Ancient woodlands replaced by saplings in plastic tubes, ancient meadows by a reseeded verge, chalkstreams ... oh, sod the chalkstreams.
As building land is expensive, and farmland much cheaper, any "replacement" habitat will be shifted far from where people live. Goodbye contact with nature.
As building land is expensive, and farmland much cheaper, any "replacement" habitat will be shifted far from where people live. Goodbye contact with nature.
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7. No more ecological site surveys. No more mitigation hierarchy. No more protection of any ecosystem, however rare, valueable, irreplaceable. All a developer needs do is to put up some money to create a new ecosystem somewhere, and job done.
April 25, 2025 at 6:33 AM
7. No more ecological site surveys. No more mitigation hierarchy. No more protection of any ecosystem, however rare, valueable, irreplaceable. All a developer needs do is to put up some money to create a new ecosystem somewhere, and job done.
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3. Why not? Well, Keir Starmer has been so good as to explain it: these policies came about as a result of his "conversations with leading CEOs”. This is a bill for corporations, not for us. How long will it be before we discover that it was drafted by a Tufton Street junktank?
April 25, 2025 at 6:24 AM
3. Why not? Well, Keir Starmer has been so good as to explain it: these policies came about as a result of his "conversations with leading CEOs”. This is a bill for corporations, not for us. How long will it be before we discover that it was drafted by a Tufton Street junktank?
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2. It's an extraordinary thing, this bill, drafted with no input whatever from anyone with environmental expertise. In fact, inputs from professional bodies and scientists working on environmental issues appear to have been systematically struck down. The government does not want this scrutiny.
April 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
2. It's an extraordinary thing, this bill, drafted with no input whatever from anyone with environmental expertise. In fact, inputs from professional bodies and scientists working on environmental issues appear to have been systematically struck down. The government does not want this scrutiny.
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Why does no one talk about what supports actually help autistic people thrive?
Why is there money for investigations, but not for speech therapy, accessible classrooms, or mental health support?
Why is your future being politicised by people who’ve never sat beside you?
Why is there money for investigations, but not for speech therapy, accessible classrooms, or mental health support?
Why is your future being politicised by people who’ve never sat beside you?
April 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Why does no one talk about what supports actually help autistic people thrive?
Why is there money for investigations, but not for speech therapy, accessible classrooms, or mental health support?
Why is your future being politicised by people who’ve never sat beside you?
Why is there money for investigations, but not for speech therapy, accessible classrooms, or mental health support?
Why is your future being politicised by people who’ve never sat beside you?
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Thomas Kettleborough: 'Vile' former police inspector caught in child sex sting
Thomas Kettleborough: 'Vile' former police inspector caught in child sex sting
A 'vile' former police officer who was caught in a sting operation after travelling to meet what he thought was a 14-year-old boy has been jailed.
news.sky.com
April 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Thomas Kettleborough: 'Vile' former police inspector caught in child sex sting
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NEW: The House of Parliament’s Work & Pensions Committee is launching an inquiry into the govt’s welfare reforms. This is good news! It doesn’t stop the fight—it makes it more vital. But it is significant, and it’s thanks to your tireless campaigning & the testimony so many of you have shared.
April 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
NEW: The House of Parliament’s Work & Pensions Committee is launching an inquiry into the govt’s welfare reforms. This is good news! It doesn’t stop the fight—it makes it more vital. But it is significant, and it’s thanks to your tireless campaigning & the testimony so many of you have shared.
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Israel Claims Slain Palestinian Rescue Workers Didn’t Properly Identify Selves As Human Beings
Israel Claims Slain Palestinian Rescue Workers Didn’t Properly Identify Selves As Human Beings
RAFAH, GAZA—Responding to reports that 15 rescue workers in Gaza were killed execution style and buried in a mass grave, Israel claimed this week that the slain Palestinians did not properly identify ...
theonion.com
April 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Israel Claims Slain Palestinian Rescue Workers Didn’t Properly Identify Selves As Human Beings
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Turns out that the poor old US has been "looted, pillaged, raped and plundered" by Cambodia, Lesotho and Madagascar.
April 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Turns out that the poor old US has been "looted, pillaged, raped and plundered" by Cambodia, Lesotho and Madagascar.
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All news coming out of the US sounds like “tariffs for everyone. Tariffs for some. Tariffs for some people called Margery in April. Transgender hamsters will now be deported. All other countries are illegal. Betty Crocker to be investigated by DOGE. Babies back to the office by Tuesday!”
March 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
All news coming out of the US sounds like “tariffs for everyone. Tariffs for some. Tariffs for some people called Margery in April. Transgender hamsters will now be deported. All other countries are illegal. Betty Crocker to be investigated by DOGE. Babies back to the office by Tuesday!”
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PIP exists because life costs more if you are disabled. Those costs won’t magically disappear because the government decides to squeeze eligibility - disabled people already face a disproportionately high risk of poverty. This plan will push even more disabled people into poverty - not into jobs
🚨Plans to cut welfare benefits for those with extreme disabilities & unfit to work will be CATASTROPHIC for some of the poorest & most vulnerable people in our society
Balancing books cannot come at the expense of those who can least afford it
NOW IS THE TIME TO SPEAK OUT
youtu.be/IG7d663mRRg?...
Balancing books cannot come at the expense of those who can least afford it
NOW IS THE TIME TO SPEAK OUT
youtu.be/IG7d663mRRg?...
WELFARE CUTS: Balancing the books cannot come at the expense of those who can least afford it
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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March 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
PIP exists because life costs more if you are disabled. Those costs won’t magically disappear because the government decides to squeeze eligibility - disabled people already face a disproportionately high risk of poverty. This plan will push even more disabled people into poverty - not into jobs
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1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism?
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
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Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
March 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism?
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
Vitally important crowdfunder to challenge ICB stealth cuts to support for the most vulnerable disabled children with the most compled needs. Please donated and share.
Our clients the Continuing Care Parents Group are #crowdfunding to challenge cuts to vital care and support for an “alarming” number of disabled children in their area - find out more and support them here: www.crowdjustice.com/case/disable...
Continuing Care for Disabled Children - Parent & Carers Group
We believe that our local ICB is unlawfully cutting vital care for disabled children, which will harm the most vulnerable and lead to harrowing and costly hospital readmissions.
www.crowdjustice.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Vitally important crowdfunder to challenge ICB stealth cuts to support for the most vulnerable disabled children with the most compled needs. Please donated and share.