Jo
@rantspants.bsky.social
Occasional poster of things that touched me from books, random thoughts etc. Might try out some of my crossword clues here. No longer ranting and raving about all the shitawful things the Tories are doing. She/her.
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Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division
November 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division
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There is no evidence that stripping refugees' rights one by one will have any impact on people crossing the channel.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
There is no evidence that stripping refugees' rights one by one will have any impact on people crossing the channel.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
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Every year on #Halloween we carve a #Pumpkin from our collection of Penguin Books. 🎃
We're up to our elbows here in juicy plots and seedy characters. Luckily there's not much pulp fiction. 🎃
We're up to our elbows here in juicy plots and seedy characters. Luckily there's not much pulp fiction. 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Every year on #Halloween we carve a #Pumpkin from our collection of Penguin Books. 🎃
We're up to our elbows here in juicy plots and seedy characters. Luckily there's not much pulp fiction. 🎃
We're up to our elbows here in juicy plots and seedy characters. Luckily there's not much pulp fiction. 🎃
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If you are in the Oxford area next Thursday, I’m giving a talk on the birds of the Lye Valley area. It’s a multimedia presentation (pictures and calls!) covering the resident and migratory birds recorded in this part of the city. See you there!
@friendlyevalley.bsky.social
#Oxonbirding
#Oxford
@friendlyevalley.bsky.social
#Oxonbirding
#Oxford
October 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
If you are in the Oxford area next Thursday, I’m giving a talk on the birds of the Lye Valley area. It’s a multimedia presentation (pictures and calls!) covering the resident and migratory birds recorded in this part of the city. See you there!
@friendlyevalley.bsky.social
#Oxonbirding
#Oxford
@friendlyevalley.bsky.social
#Oxonbirding
#Oxford
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Oxford people - unity march from Cowley to city centre to unite against racism and division. Assemble at Templars Square 12.30, Sunday 16 November. Joining points for those unable to march all the way: Manzil Way 1.30, University Church High St 2.15.
Spread the word
Spread the word
October 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Oxford people - unity march from Cowley to city centre to unite against racism and division. Assemble at Templars Square 12.30, Sunday 16 November. Joining points for those unable to march all the way: Manzil Way 1.30, University Church High St 2.15.
Spread the word
Spread the word
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To assert the UK has taken enough action in the face of Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza is frankly outrageous.
We must impose a full arms embargo, halt all military cooperation, ban settlement goods, ramp up sanctions, and ensure an immediate ceasefire & accountability for war crimes.
We must impose a full arms embargo, halt all military cooperation, ban settlement goods, ramp up sanctions, and ensure an immediate ceasefire & accountability for war crimes.
September 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
To assert the UK has taken enough action in the face of Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza is frankly outrageous.
We must impose a full arms embargo, halt all military cooperation, ban settlement goods, ramp up sanctions, and ensure an immediate ceasefire & accountability for war crimes.
We must impose a full arms embargo, halt all military cooperation, ban settlement goods, ramp up sanctions, and ensure an immediate ceasefire & accountability for war crimes.
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This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
www.quaker.org.uk
August 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
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Opinions are like arseholes, everyone's got one and no one wants to wake up and see Nigel Farage's.
STOP TELLING ME WHAT NIGEL FARAGE HAS SAID I SIMPLY DO NOT WANT TO KNOW
August 26, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Opinions are like arseholes, everyone's got one and no one wants to wake up and see Nigel Farage's.
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Sleeping walruses will always be hilarious to me
August 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Sleeping walruses will always be hilarious to me
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Astonishing evidence at the Covid Inquiry.
The Government repeatedly ignored offers from the Crick Institute to provide mass testing on a national scale.
Instead, the Government paid Deloitte consultants to project manage, not yet established, privately run labs.
1/2
The Government repeatedly ignored offers from the Crick Institute to provide mass testing on a national scale.
Instead, the Government paid Deloitte consultants to project manage, not yet established, privately run labs.
1/2
May 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Astonishing evidence at the Covid Inquiry.
The Government repeatedly ignored offers from the Crick Institute to provide mass testing on a national scale.
Instead, the Government paid Deloitte consultants to project manage, not yet established, privately run labs.
1/2
The Government repeatedly ignored offers from the Crick Institute to provide mass testing on a national scale.
Instead, the Government paid Deloitte consultants to project manage, not yet established, privately run labs.
1/2
I will definitely be going to see this! Enjoyed this hilarious review from Catherine Shoard
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...
Show me the tummy! Tom Cruise doesn’t need sleep, help or clothes in Mission: Impossible
The Hollywood icon defies age and Arctic climes to save the world in the epic messianic spectacle The Final Reckoning. But why won’t he bare his soul?
www.theguardian.com
May 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I will definitely be going to see this! Enjoyed this hilarious review from Catherine Shoard
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...
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Why do hardbacks exist? This is baffling to me.
March 30, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Why do hardbacks exist? This is baffling to me.
March 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit
February 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit
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I want to see Labour making videos of bad, greedy, dangerous bosses who mistreat, underpay & endanger their workers…
being raided by inspectors, escorted off the premises, shamed by clued up union reps, hauled over the coals in tribunals, having their files seized, named and shamed.
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being raided by inspectors, escorted off the premises, shamed by clued up union reps, hauled over the coals in tribunals, having their files seized, named and shamed.
(1/2)
Labour urged to defend workers’ rights bill as poll shows huge public support
Labour urged to defend workers’ rights bill as poll shows huge public support
Exclusive: Poll reveals 72% of UK voters favour ban on zero-hours contracts, including majority of Tory and Reform supporters
Labour should fight Conservative and Reform criticism of a major expansion in workers’ rights because of an “indisputable…
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I want to see Labour making videos of bad, greedy, dangerous bosses who mistreat, underpay & endanger their workers…
being raided by inspectors, escorted off the premises, shamed by clued up union reps, hauled over the coals in tribunals, having their files seized, named and shamed.
(1/2)
being raided by inspectors, escorted off the premises, shamed by clued up union reps, hauled over the coals in tribunals, having their files seized, named and shamed.
(1/2)
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Tomorrow, 9th, we return to the Enysham Millennium Wood. We'll be working to a management plan of the Woodland Trust @WoodlandTrust to coppice another section of hazel. 🐦⬛ Join us from 9.20! Pickups available: check ocv.org.uk
February 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Tomorrow, 9th, we return to the Enysham Millennium Wood. We'll be working to a management plan of the Woodland Trust @WoodlandTrust to coppice another section of hazel. 🐦⬛ Join us from 9.20! Pickups available: check ocv.org.uk
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Boom. Fuck you pal. I AM Christmas.
December 21, 2024 at 11:18 AM
Boom. Fuck you pal. I AM Christmas.
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I didn't write the headline!
December 6, 2024 at 9:19 AM
I didn't write the headline!
Loving the way the author (or the Guardian?) embodies the phenomenon she describes, by giving an unconfident title to this article - if written by a man the "I think" would surely not be included. Is this deliberate @masieghart.bsky.social?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Why do some men behave badly? I think I have the answer
From an early age boys are treated as though they are smarter and more talented than girls. It can lead to a damaging overconfidence
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2024 at 9:09 AM
Loving the way the author (or the Guardian?) embodies the phenomenon she describes, by giving an unconfident title to this article - if written by a man the "I think" would surely not be included. Is this deliberate @masieghart.bsky.social?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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On the streets of Liverpool, there is a humanitarian crisis
A perfect storm of problems means more and more people are finding themselves homeless & sleeping rough & it’s getting worse - it’s a situation playing out across the country
A difficult 🧵 on what I’ve found reporting on this situation
A perfect storm of problems means more and more people are finding themselves homeless & sleeping rough & it’s getting worse - it’s a situation playing out across the country
A difficult 🧵 on what I’ve found reporting on this situation
November 23, 2024 at 6:29 AM
On the streets of Liverpool, there is a humanitarian crisis
A perfect storm of problems means more and more people are finding themselves homeless & sleeping rough & it’s getting worse - it’s a situation playing out across the country
A difficult 🧵 on what I’ve found reporting on this situation
A perfect storm of problems means more and more people are finding themselves homeless & sleeping rough & it’s getting worse - it’s a situation playing out across the country
A difficult 🧵 on what I’ve found reporting on this situation
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Thanks for asking! Authors, illustrators, editors etc sign up to something called PLR - Public Lending Rights - and the amount our book has been borrowed is calculated once a year & we get a payout then. www.bl.uk/plr/
November 23, 2024 at 12:57 PM
Thanks for asking! Authors, illustrators, editors etc sign up to something called PLR - Public Lending Rights - and the amount our book has been borrowed is calculated once a year & we get a payout then. www.bl.uk/plr/
FFS English. Roofs? That should not be a word.
November 23, 2024 at 10:49 AM
FFS English. Roofs? That should not be a word.
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That's quite a powerful line: "Harris will protect your right to disagree with her"
NEW: Harrison Ford endorses Kamala Harris.
This is impactful, in part because it comes from someone without a long track record of endorsing candidates.
“I’ve been voting for 64 years. Never really wanted to talk about it very much.”
(📽️Credit: CallToActivism via X)
This is impactful, in part because it comes from someone without a long track record of endorsing candidates.
“I’ve been voting for 64 years. Never really wanted to talk about it very much.”
(📽️Credit: CallToActivism via X)
November 4, 2024 at 10:44 PM
That's quite a powerful line: "Harris will protect your right to disagree with her"
If you're a #Worldle fan you will like this: travle.earth
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Travle: A daily game, get between countries in as few guesses as possible!
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October 21, 2024 at 8:37 AM
If you're a #Worldle fan you will like this: travle.earth