I have been a very, very buy Small Bear today, and written another post for my blog.

This one also stars Hanley Bear, going to Parliament to seek #VotesForSmallBears.

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I have managed to get to Polar's laptop and do a little blog post about Hanley Bear's Stoke-on-Trent Centenary mission - to find all the Bottle Kilns in The Potteries and get a photograph of himself with them.

This is the first part of the mission...
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We had a lovely day at @nationaltrust.org.uk Quarry Bank Mill near Wilmslow yesterday.

We explored the grounds, visited one of the workers' cottages and saw the machines that made the cloth for my best boating shirt (and Endon's) which we were wearing.

Hanley Bear helped Human Guardian Polar show human cubs how to make mini allotments for salad leaves in "Me Park" today, with the Friends of Hanley Park.

But it started to rain so hard that everyone had to pack up after about 90 minutes.

I have (at last) written a blog post about our friend Tunstall and his journey around the world with little pal Amy.

*Biggest hugs* to @hattieotter.bsky.social @oliverbear.bsky.social @millymammoth.bsky.social and @bearspipe.bsky.social.

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Here's another one of my blog posts.

This is an article I wrote about boating in Stoke-on-Trent because so many boaters go straight through our city without stopping, when there is a lot to see and enjoy.

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Hanley Bear says I need to get back into writing my blog and sharing it on Bluesky, as we are having lots of #SmallBearAdventures.

This post, which involves steam trains, is about how we celebrated Grizzly's birthday.

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That this is presented by the media as “policy” is why we are in this mess.

These are not serious people. These are monkey tennis ideas, as divorced from the reality of criminal justice as you might expect from a company fronted by multi-millionaire simpletons.

There are no words to convey the horror of 21 children in Gaza starving to death in the last 72 hours. There are no words to convey the horror of nearly a million more children being at risk of the same fate.

The UK cannot stay complicit in this atrocity.

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“We are modernising our approach to international development” claims Govt. No, you’re eviscerating it, with your own impact assessment showing most vulnerable communities hit hardest, increasing suffering & driving global insecurity. Ministers should hang their heads in shame @oxfamgb.bsky.social

"Disabled people are not feeling secure and supported..."

@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social brings the voice of a carer to the House of Lords on the government's cruel proposed benefit cuts.

“Just outside Gaza, tons of food, clean water, medical supplies, shelter items & fuel sit untouched with humanitarian organisations blocked from accessing or delivering them," write 109 aid agencies today.

Israel is committing Palestinian genocide and it is monstrous.

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So we're now at the point where Amnesty International are calling out the UK's social security system for its cruelties and inadequacy...

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Perhaps if more people were aware of this, certain cynical political parties wouldn't think arguing against Net Zero was a winning strategy?

We're not going to terraform Mars, but we're doing a good job of venusforming Earth.

📮 5pm today is the deadline to register to vote by post on 1 May.

Don't lose your vote. Register now ⤵️

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The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border.

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Uhm, I assume that Robert Colville has read the Telegraph articles which he is using as examples in his Times column, an interesting move for a columnist btw? The eye catching headlines aside, they are somewhat disingenuous in their arguments. 1/
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This January was the hottest on record and people across the globe are feeling the devastating impacts of the climate crisis. But the far-right, bankrolled by the ultra-wealthy, are organising to destroy climate action. Here's how we can stop them:
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