Rob Parker
@robparker001.bsky.social
Peacebuilder. Strategy/policy/advocacy/research/campaigns/communications. 🌶️ 🐕🐝 🍄🟫 🚲 lover. Gooner with Glover & Womble tendencies. Dad.
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Rob Parker
@robparker001.bsky.social
· Apr 27
Feeling angry with the world? Try extending an olive branch 🕊️
November 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
November 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
¿Que Dios iluminará mi camino?
November 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
¿Que Dios iluminará mi camino?
@omegarf.bsky.social keeping up the good work in 'injurious quantities' I see!
📣 Torture equipment found at Paris arms fair: A team from @amnestyfrance.bsky.social
& Omega discovered Chinese companies marketing illegal torture equipment at the Milipol arms & security trade fair. As a result of our intervention, fair organisers took measures against the firms involved.
& Omega discovered Chinese companies marketing illegal torture equipment at the Milipol arms & security trade fair. As a result of our intervention, fair organisers took measures against the firms involved.
November 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
@omegarf.bsky.social keeping up the good work in 'injurious quantities' I see!
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⚖️Interested in learning more about the laws that govern police use of force in your country?
📃With the University of Johannesburg, we maintain a repository that brings together info including legislation & relevant caselaw.
🔗: policinglaw.info
🔎: omegaresearchfoundation.org/news/police-...
📃With the University of Johannesburg, we maintain a repository that brings together info including legislation & relevant caselaw.
🔗: policinglaw.info
🔎: omegaresearchfoundation.org/news/police-...
Home
This policing law, academic website documents and analyses how domestic legal regimes around the world regulate the use of force by the police and other law enforcement agencies. This police law site ...
policinglaw.info
November 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
⚖️Interested in learning more about the laws that govern police use of force in your country?
📃With the University of Johannesburg, we maintain a repository that brings together info including legislation & relevant caselaw.
🔗: policinglaw.info
🔎: omegaresearchfoundation.org/news/police-...
📃With the University of Johannesburg, we maintain a repository that brings together info including legislation & relevant caselaw.
🔗: policinglaw.info
🔎: omegaresearchfoundation.org/news/police-...
Entertaining I guess but maybe would’ve enjoyed it more if I hadn’t just re-read the book
November 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Entertaining I guess but maybe would’ve enjoyed it more if I hadn’t just re-read the book
all got a bit stressful watching the football this afternoon
November 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
all got a bit stressful watching the football this afternoon
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They’re saying the quiet part out loud about military housing
It's utterly disgusting for Labour to describe the appalling situation in asylum hotels as "luxury".
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
November 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
They’re saying the quiet part out loud about military housing
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I ❤️ Japan & I ❤️ Gojira
August 11, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I ❤️ Japan & I ❤️ Gojira
Meanwhile preparations are ongoing for the next guest somewhere on the Sandringham estate….
October 31, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Meanwhile preparations are ongoing for the next guest somewhere on the Sandringham estate….
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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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.
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Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.
October 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.
Happy Birthday Chili Dog! ❤️🎂🐾 🌶️
#dogsofbluesky
#dogsofbluesky
October 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Happy Birthday Chili Dog! ❤️🎂🐾 🌶️
#dogsofbluesky
#dogsofbluesky
Some tremendous work in the Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award in the NPG. Must’ve been some dust in the air around Martyn Harris’s ‘Memories’ when I stopped to look (3rd place).
October 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Some tremendous work in the Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award in the NPG. Must’ve been some dust in the air around Martyn Harris’s ‘Memories’ when I stopped to look (3rd place).
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The new 10-shot #Taser 10 has just been authorised for use by UK police.
Omega staff are experts in different law enforcement equipment & you can learn about #Taser10 & use in the UK on our website: omegaresearchfoundation.org/news/taser-1...
Omega staff are experts in different law enforcement equipment & you can learn about #Taser10 & use in the UK on our website: omegaresearchfoundation.org/news/taser-1...
Taser 10 – new 10 shot Taser weapon authorised by Home Office for use by UK police - Omega Research Foundation
The National Police Chiefs Council, together with the Home Office Policing Minister, held a Taser 10 Media Event on 2nd October 2025, demonstrating the TASER 10 Conducted Energy Device to internal and...
omegaresearchfoundation.org
October 2, 2025 at 10:39 AM
The new 10-shot #Taser 10 has just been authorised for use by UK police.
Omega staff are experts in different law enforcement equipment & you can learn about #Taser10 & use in the UK on our website: omegaresearchfoundation.org/news/taser-1...
Omega staff are experts in different law enforcement equipment & you can learn about #Taser10 & use in the UK on our website: omegaresearchfoundation.org/news/taser-1...
No interest in golf but watching the Ryder Cup hoping to see the US lose. Can no longer stand the moronic chanting though so it’s back to NGAF (unless Europe crush it obvs)
September 27, 2025 at 11:48 AM
No interest in golf but watching the Ryder Cup hoping to see the US lose. Can no longer stand the moronic chanting though so it’s back to NGAF (unless Europe crush it obvs)
I ❤️ homegrown chilis!
September 27, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I ❤️ homegrown chilis!
Yet again some crappy company upstream has fucked up a huge section of Beverley Brook for wildlife and Wimbledon Common users alike. Investigate & prosecute!
September 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Yet again some crappy company upstream has fucked up a huge section of Beverley Brook for wildlife and Wimbledon Common users alike. Investigate & prosecute!
err, great visual BBC…
September 24, 2025 at 6:12 AM
err, great visual BBC…
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So Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives, who have repeatedly pledged to fight for "free speech" and a free press have just banned me and Byline Times from attending their conference.
Has never happened before under any previous leader
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...
Has never happened before under any previous leader
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...
Kemi Badenoch's 'Free Speech' Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Party Conference
The ban on covering the party's annual gathering came despite Badenoch's repeated commitment to "fight" for free speech and a free press
bylinetimes.com
September 4, 2025 at 10:26 AM
So Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives, who have repeatedly pledged to fight for "free speech" and a free press have just banned me and Byline Times from attending their conference.
Has never happened before under any previous leader
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...
Has never happened before under any previous leader
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...
@alexpodyssey.bsky.social meant to tag you! Awesome series thanks so much!
Just spell-binding - the whole series. Most enjoyed Narcissus and Medusa. ‘…the most frightening thing one can combine with lions and dragons and snakes….is a woman’s intellect’. open.spotify.com/episode/67sR...
MEDUSA - Here's Looking at You, Kid
open.spotify.com
September 4, 2025 at 1:16 PM
@alexpodyssey.bsky.social meant to tag you! Awesome series thanks so much!