Fran Soul
soulsister01.bsky.social
Fran Soul
@soulsister01.bsky.social
Always open and interested to know and learn. Want a better future for the next gen, education, health and climate. Pro-Europe, anti-discrimination, pro-nature
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My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
October 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I’m in!
What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.

Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social

We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.

Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts

After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
September 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Exactly this!!👇
In 2023 around 1 million people migrated to the UK for work and study. Care and health being the main jobs.
In roughly the same period 37,000 crossed the channel in small boats.
Journalists need to choose between promoting far right fear mongering or doing their job properly and presenting facts.
a man in a blue suit and tie says " that 's what you 're supposed to do "
ALT: a man in a blue suit and tie says " that 's what you 're supposed to do "
media.tenor.com
May 4, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Read these words from the wise Ben Santer. We owe it to the future to make the world a better and safer place for people we'll never meet and creatures we'll never see.

thehill.com/opinion/ener...
February 26, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The bravest woman on the planet today, such integrity
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Weaker, poorer, unhappier, more divided and with an emboldened and radicalised loud minority who champion overt racism and selling out to Musk and Trump…
This is where Brexit has led us. Over and above these dismal numbers. That is the true cost.
January 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Vaccines work. Say it again, and again - www.bbc.com/news/article...
HPV vaccine stops 90% of cervical cancer cases
England began vaccinating teenage girls in 2008 and results show it is paying off.
www.bbc.com
January 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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If you need help over Christmas 👇
December 20, 2024 at 6:44 PM
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This petition stands at nearly 46 million signatures.
I’ve signed it 9 times as has Ramrod our golden lab.
Bunty has signed it 42 times.
Even Elton Husk has signed it.
It is clear what the country wants:
Get rid of this Labour Govt & return a Conservative Govt under Kemi Badenough!
🇬🇧
November 25, 2024 at 9:19 AM
Here is a starter pack for US politics and commentators, may lead you to what you want @samfr.bsky.social
One for Bluesky arrivals (& US politics obsessives).

A starter pack with insightful people offering analysis of US politics on a day-to-day basis.

A mix of big accounts & smaller ones worth a follow. Roughly a 50:50 female/male split.

Designed for UK/international Blueskyers as well as US users.
November 20, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Shameful statistics for a supposedly “first world country”
Shocking news. 36% of UK children are living in poverty according to the latest Social Metrics Commission research (I am one of the Commissioners)
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
November 19, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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Good advice to remove your profile pic when leaving X, and to leave your page up, but locked. My pic is now this site’s logo. 👌
November 14, 2024 at 12:35 PM
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Your 'moment of doom' for Nov. 13, 2024 ~ Oops!

"the planet-heating emissions from coal, oil and gas will rise by 0.8% in 2024. In stark contrast, emissions have to fall by 43% by 2030 for the world to have any chance of keeping to the 1.5C temperature target"

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘No sign’ of promised fossil fuel transition as emissions hit new high
Despite nations’ pledges at Cop28 a year ago, the burning of coal, oil and gas continued to rise in 2024
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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What???! 🫨Someone could have said 😢 I did it all the hard way!! Here you are people skyfollowerbridge.com, who would have thunk 🤔
October 22, 2024 at 5:17 PM
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Hello everyone. I am now on this platform for social media. Do please repost this message so that more people can find me!
November 13, 2024 at 11:26 AM
I agree, great opportunity, but why so few boys, hope this group is not representative of the rest
This is very cool. A free, three-month leadership and empowerment programme for 16-19-year-olds looking for a career in sustainable energy:
WHAT IS BGF? | bright-green-future
www.bright-green-future.org.uk
November 8, 2024 at 9:30 PM
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Bluesky thread composer now available! Refresh the desktop app or update your mobile app to use it
📢 1.93 is rolling out now (2/5)

To compose threads, start with your first post, then press the plus button!
November 8, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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Lots and lots of new arrivals on here today.

For anyone joining from the Musk hellscape, here's a starter pack of UK political journalists, politicos, commentators and experts to get you going go.bsky.app/2CwmVfN
November 7, 2024 at 10:03 PM
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Alex is right in this thread; if Trump has won then Europe is going to be forced to rethink everything, starting with how the hell we support Ukraine but v much not stopping there, across foreign/defence/economic policy
So let’s have that discussion sooner rather than later: what does this mean, how can we assert our position as a leading European defence nation, let’s be big and confident as the world adjusts to this new reality
November 6, 2024 at 6:31 AM
😂🤣😂
I've been asked what my favourite commentary is on the budget and it's unquestionably this exchange.
October 31, 2024 at 8:37 PM