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Rachel Bramley
@rbramley.bsky.social
Vegan killjoy 💚 Uni librarian

SO MANY AXES TO GRIND.

Loves singing, dancing & dogs dogs dogs. 🐾
Lives by the belief that yoga in the morning / beer in the evening is the perfect balanced life.☯️🍺🧘‍♀️🍺🕉️
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"It would take an awful lot of fried fish and chips..."

Natalie Bennett challenges the Government on its claim that airport expansion can fit within legal climate commitments thanks to so-called 'sustainable aviation fuel'.
February 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Brilliant action highlighting the injustice of private jets and the billionaire class

The mega rich burnt through their fair share of carbon in just the first 10 days of 2025, and yet it’s the normal people suffering most by climate breakdown
Our new campaign is live! #AbolishBillionaires

We have disrupted the Corporate Jet Investor conference at the Landmark London Hotel!
February 4, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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The Librarians: Chilling new documentary at the Sundance film festival examines the phenomenon of book banning in US schools - ‘Civil rights fight of our time’.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...
‘Civil rights fight of our time’: new film explores the battle over US libraries
A Sarah Jessica Parker-produced documentary on the brave librarians fighting a wave of rightwing book bans has sparked conversation at Sundance
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Another busy @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social Brighton stall today! 💚

Sign the petition to reduce plastic production - we need a Global Plastics Treaty now!! ✊

#GlobalPlasticsTreaty #Brighton

action.greenpeace.org.uk/global-plast....
February 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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After @mongabay.bsky.social aired a whistleblower acct exposing false sustainability claims by the world’s largest biomass energy wood pellet maker, The Netherlands stopped subsidizing such biomass operations, the co's stock tanked, & its CEO was replaced

Latest update on our impactful #journalism:
Our investigation exposed biomass giant Enviva’s greenwashing in 2022—here’s the latest in 2025
In early December 2022, Mongabay published an exclusive whistleblower’s account exposing false claims by Enviva, the world’s largest maker of wood pellets burned for energy. The company has touted its...
mongabay.org
January 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Keir Starmer responds to Kemi Badenoch attacks that he’s a “lawyer, not a leader”.

PM says: “She’s not a lawyer, she’s not a leader, if she keeps going like this, she’s going to be the next lettuce”.

#PMQs 🥬
January 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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We never imagined that 80 years after the liberation of #Auschwitz we would see such appalling levels of antisemitism and Islamophobia, and a resurgence of the far right, in Europe.
#HolocaustMemorialDay
January 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Brilliant @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social Brighton stall today! 💚

Sign the petition to reduce plastic production - we need a Global Plastics Treaty now!! 💪

#GlobalPlasticsTreaty #Brighton

action.greenpeace.org.uk/global-plast...
January 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Am going to be using "sparkling local government" from now on.
Decided this is the ditch I am dying in. We already had a word for "handing some budgetary and executive powers from central to local government" and that was "decentralisation"; if it doesn't have significant legislative competency it's not "devolution", it's sparkling local government.
January 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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#Brexit robbed our young people of the exciting opportunity, enjoyed by many before them, to work, study and live in Europe.

I've co-sponsored this Bill and will keep calling for a scheme that offers young people across the UK and EU this enriching experience.
🚨 THIS WEDNESDAY MPs will debate a Youth Mobility Scheme with the EU

Brexit took away the freedoms and opportunities of everyone, of all ages. This is a chance to get back some of what was lost when we left the EU.

Ask your MP to attend the debate👇

www.bestforbritain.org/yms_debate_1...
Ask your MP to attend the debate on a UK-EU Youth Mobility Scheme
Ask your MP to attend the debate on a UK-EU Youth Mobility Scheme on Wednesday 15 January!
www.bestforbritain.org
January 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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January 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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The #stopdumpingonourreef demo had spectacular weather & a super turnout with Sussex Underwater & @sussexwildlife.bsky.social Coverage from BBC South East Today at 6:30pm.

It’s time to move Brighton Marina’s dump zone away from our #MarineConservationZone.
January 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Always nice to get a bit of coverage on the Beeb 🙌

BBC News - Schools not joining academy trust after protest
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Hove schools not joining academy trust after protest
Hove Learning Federation says it will continue to work with Brighton & Hove City Council.
www.bbc.com
January 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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New: Privatisation of two primary schools called off in face of community campaign
www.educationuncovered.co.uk/news/173111/...
Story on the decision yesterday by Hove Learning Federation to shelve academisation under Aurora Academies Trust.
January 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
WE WON!!! 🙌💪🙌
Academisation called off!
School working with local authority for 18 months-2 years before considering again. #peoplepower #brighton @bhdemocracynews.bsky.social

www.theargus.co.uk/news/2484705...
Two schools will not become academies after parents protest plans
The Hove Learning Federation announced that following a consultation they will not be going ahead with plans to join an academy trust
www.theargus.co.uk
January 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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I would simply say that one of the changes to tackle it should be to bar anyone who's been convicted of VAWG from serving as an MP, since the party whose MPs are 1/5 convicted domestic abuser aren't there to protest
Not a single Reform MP has bothered to turn up to today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls
January 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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🚨 Good News! All charges have been DROPPED against the 34 Greenpeace activists who SHUTDOWN Unilever’s headquarters last September.

This is GREAT news - but the right to protest is still in danger. 🧵
January 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
And happy new year 2025 to you, random stone painter, and all who start back at work today. #brighton
January 6, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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It’s time to get #WilderbyDesign🏡

As Government prepares its Planning Bill, we’re calling for:

Greenprint for nature with new protected sites🏞️

Wilder neighbourhoods - swift bricks, bat boxes & more🦇

A national nature map 🗺️

Read more👇

wcl.org.uk/wilder-by-de...
January 6, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Foam party was not as much fun as Bertie thought it would be #GavinAndStacey #cracking #dogsofbluesky #brighton
January 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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I mean North Sea Oil is in decline…

whilst green energy is the cheapest it’s ever been, and offshore wind farms emerge as one of the most immediate and substantial ways for the UK to gain both economic and energy security.

…but what do I know I’m just a social media manager, not the next POTUS.
January 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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“If we’re to have hope of flourishing during the coming #climate breakdown, we need a movement that invites people to share in its determination to act …channelling our energy into practical solutions for adapting to the climate crisis that’s already here” - important from @rupertread.bsky.social 👇
At Extinction Rebellion, we aimed for UK net zero in 2025. That won't happen – so here’s what to do instead | Rupert Read
With the climate crisis hitting Britain, we must build resilience at a local level by rewilding, saving water and fighting floods, says Rupert Read of Climate Majority
www.theguardian.com
January 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.

‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.

Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
December 31, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Yess! Glad to see these guys on here!!
December 31, 2024 at 12:28 PM


SKRP's brilliant work is highlighted in this fantastic doc from Big Wave TV
vimeo.com/910144229/57...
December 31, 2024 at 12:18 PM