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Sarah Barnes
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sjb2010.bsky.social
This song breaks my heart.
"So I won't so blindfolded
to the multitude of lies
to the one night only corporate sponsored
idea of pride
Let's not forget where this all started
lives lost on our streets,
while they're selling us rainbow coloured
packets of sweets."
m.youtube.com/watch?v=52u4...
Blindfolded
YouTube video by Maddie Morris - Topic
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November 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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louisathelast.bsky.social
This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:

They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
broadwaybabyto.bsky.social Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 13d
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.

This is the power of vaccines.

The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.

Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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lunatraktors.bsky.social
As everyone knows, the ancient season of #Yule officially begins on November 21st, when the #BoxOfDelights was first screened on the BBC back in 1984. That makes it five days until the Box is opened...

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Box of Delights opening
YouTube video by Net2099
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November 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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britishbugs.bsky.social
Utterly disgusted by this dismal disappointment of a govt
rspb.bsky.social RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 27d
Amendment 40 to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill has been voted down.

Had it passed, it would have meant more precious wildlife would have retained existing protections.

Instead, MPs have bought into the false 'nature vs growth' narrative.
November 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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efdss.bsky.social
On the eve of last year’s General Election, an RPO survey found that 76% of adults want to ‘see the new Government do more to support arts and culture in Britain’. This has now risen to 85%. Survey says that public wants to see decisive action on music access, provision and funding.
bit.ly/3WWIaRt
Eight in 10 adults call for more government support for the arts
A new RPO survey reveals a rise in the number of people who want to see more Government support for arts and culture in Britain
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November 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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livetoyourlr.bsky.social
📢New gigs announced!

2 Dec: Tim Edey
events.livetoyourlivingroom.com/events/livet...
12 Dec: Karine Polwart
events.livetoyourlivingroom.com/events/livet...
21 Dec: A Warning to the Curious (Two Ghost Stories by MR James)
events.livetoyourlivingroom.com/events/livet...

#LiveMusic #FolkMusic #LTYLR
A poster featuring a photo of Time Edey standing infront of wooden barn doors, clutching his guitar. He wears a dark blue shirt and smiles broadly towards the sky. A poster featuring a black & white photo of Karine Polwart singing into a microphone. She has bobbed hair, wears dark rimmed glasses, and spreads her arms expressively. A poster featuring a photo of a bespectacled man sitting in a candlelit room, holding a pipe, and staring eerily into the distance.
November 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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xkcd.com
Repair Video

xkcd.com/3163/
Comic. [Person sitting at desk with laptop with machine labeled E-21 making “click click” noises on the floor behind] VOICE FROM LAPTOP: Hey all! Does your E-21 humidifier make an annoying clicking noise? Mine did, but I finally figured out that there’s an easy fix, so I made this video in case anyone else… PERSON AT DESK: Oh my god. Yes. *Yes.* [caption] I know there’s more important work in the world, but I feel like these people deserve, at minimum a statue.
November 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
sjb2010.bsky.social
sailorrooscout.bsky.social Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · Nov 2
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.
November 4, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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livetoyourlr.bsky.social
Prepare to be pleasingly terrified tonight at 8pm BST as Robert Lloyd Parry retells two of M R James' most spine-tinglingly terrifying ghost stories. There's still time to buy your tickets, if you dare...

events.livetoyourlivingroom.com/events/livet...

#LiveMusic #FolkMusic #LTYLR
A poster featuring a photo of a bespectacled, suited man sitting in an eery candlelit room, holding a pipe and staring into the distance with a concerned expression.
October 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain.

Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.

No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.

Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
October 29, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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livetoyourlr.bsky.social
What's coming up over the next few weeks?

🚣14 Nov - Tamesas
⭐20 Nov - Emily Portman introduces Lucy and Hazel
🪗🎻21 Nov - Knight & Spiers
✒️6 Dec - Charlie Dore

Visit events.livetoyourlivingroom.com to buy your tickets!

#LiveMusic #FolkMusic #LTYLR
A poster featuring a photo of Tamesas playing their instruments together in the garden. On the left are two women with long blonde hair wearing dark blue clothing, playing fiddle and guitar respectively. On the right is a woman with medium length auburn hair wearing dark purple clothing, playing ukelele. All three women seem relaxed and happy. A photo of Lucy & Hazel standing infront of a large yellow van. On the left, Lucy has curly brown hair, wears a burgundy coloured hat and jacket with olive coloured trousers, and plays melodeon. On the right, Hazel has dark shaved hair, wears a dark coloured jacket with funky patterned black & white trousers, and plays guitar. Both have facial expressions full of attitude. A poster featuring a photo of Knight & Spiers standing infront of some black garage-style doors. On the left, Spiers has short dark hair and wears a black T shirt with a brown leather jacket. On the right, Knight has a ponytail of long silvery hair with matching goatie, and wears dark rimmed glasses, a black long sleeved T shirt and a brown leather waistcoat. They look towards one another, smiling warmly. A poster featuring a photo of Charlie Dore sitting outdoors on the step of a wooden porch. On the left is a woman who has long blonde hair with a blunt fringe, wearing a smart black suit with orange socks. Beside her sits a dark haired man wearing dark coloured jeans and suit jacket. Both look intently to camera.
October 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
sjb2010.bsky.social
I've seen Maddy Morris live twice & ended up with tears streaming. Their way of telling stories through song is exceptional & makes me very angry that people like (and unlike) them feel unsafe. They have a new EP out soon, I've seen some live at Purbeck and it's gorgeous.
youtu.be/RNmDyamOd58?...
Live Off Roses
YouTube video by Maddie Morris
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October 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
THE SECRET PROJECT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE PAST FEW MONTHS IS FINALLY LIVE

CHECK IT OUT

outsidersartsclub.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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theguardian.com
Why I have had it with entitled dog owners | Arwa Mahdawi
Why I have had it with entitled dog owners | Arwa Mahdawi
You know the types – they let their hound jump all over you and don’t clear up after them. Bring on their poo-nishment, writes Arwa Mahdawi
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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killhamster.bsky.social
Nature is healing
September 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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dalassa.bsky.social
Screenshot of a tweet Nathan Goldwag @GoldwagN. Evangelicals love to go on Twitter and casually assert something that if written in 500 AD would've led to two Church Councils, a dozen dueling encyclicals, a major schism, three new heresies, and a religious war that lasted for centuries and cost hundreds of thousands of lives.
September 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
if you've not watched it/been put off by the name then please understand you're missing out and it's maybe one of the 21st century's best sitcoms, it's so spiky and funny and weird, cannot recommend it enough
brocklesnitch.bsky.social Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social · Sep 25
James Van Der Beek is so funny as himself in Don't Trust the B In Apartment 23. Why did they name it that. There was no way it could possibly succeed even though it was good
September 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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oldenoughtosay.com
Also yes because while the link between HPV and cervical cancer is clear, and the vaccine has a 100- yes, 100 percent- prevention rate for cervical cancer, it’s also becoming known that HPV is also linked to throat, anal, and penile cancers! GET JABBED
September 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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lunatraktors.bsky.social
More great live footage from our midsummer night's eve show for @thenestcollective.bsky.social! Here's our broken folk version of Scarborough Fair for voice and body percussion...

youtu.be/Ly9_M_m7NP4?...
Lunatraktors - Are You Going? Campfire Club, Cody Dock - 20 6 25
YouTube video by Lunatraktors
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September 24, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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kelatonin.bsky.social
i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”
September 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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tom-clark.bsky.social
Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds

open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...
September 23, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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mikemelton.bsky.social
My very first #caturday

This nice kitty visited @casabentbill.bsky.social this morning. No petting, though.

The monkeys seemed to be a little stressed for some reason.

#costarica #puma #cougar #cats #wildlife #dangercarport
September 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
six transpositional puns, such as "Dieting: A waist is a terrible thing to mind" (reference to "A mind is a terrible thing to waste", the motto of the United Negro College Fund.)
September 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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ukstoptrump.bsky.social
FOR WEDNESDAY:

Here is the route of the march against Trump & the far right

GATHER: 2pm Portland Place (BBC)
MARCH: at 3pm
RALLY: 5pm at Parliament Square!!
Route map for Trump not welcome demonstration
September 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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rorycj.bsky.social
“Why I’m demonstrating against Trump’s visit” Good on Max Hastings - where’s the demo?

www.thetimes.com/article/db35...
Why I’m demonstrating against Trump’s visit
My wife and I will stand with ‘Rent-A-Mob’ to protest at this most deplorable of US presidents
www.thetimes.com
September 15, 2025 at 5:07 AM