@sparkle123.bsky.social
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Dolcie-Mae from #Newport has been diagnosed with HLH - a life-threatening blood disorder. A stem cell transplant is her only hope for survival but she currently has no matching donor. 💔
🔄 SHARE and register as a stem cell donor at dkms.org.uk/dolciemae_tw to help find her hero🙏
🔄 SHARE and register as a stem cell donor at dkms.org.uk/dolciemae_tw to help find her hero🙏
January 28, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Dolcie-Mae from #Newport has been diagnosed with HLH - a life-threatening blood disorder. A stem cell transplant is her only hope for survival but she currently has no matching donor. 💔
🔄 SHARE and register as a stem cell donor at dkms.org.uk/dolciemae_tw to help find her hero🙏
🔄 SHARE and register as a stem cell donor at dkms.org.uk/dolciemae_tw to help find her hero🙏
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Quite telling that Byline Times (well, me) was the only outlet to ask about the phone hacking settlement at lobby with No 10 just now... 🤐
January 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Quite telling that Byline Times (well, me) was the only outlet to ask about the phone hacking settlement at lobby with No 10 just now... 🤐
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England's children's homes run by private equity rake in millions.
Private firms own 83% of homes.
Average charge for a child in care is £281,000 a year. Some charge £63,000 a week per child.
For-profit homes provide the worse care.
End privatisation scam.
www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/market...
Private firms own 83% of homes.
Average charge for a child in care is £281,000 a year. Some charge £63,000 a week per child.
For-profit homes provide the worse care.
End privatisation scam.
www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/market...
Children's homes run by private equity rake in millions
The companies include outfits controlled by private equity firms, as well as the daughter of a former City stockbroker linked to fraud.
www.thisismoney.co.uk
January 19, 2025 at 9:14 AM
England's children's homes run by private equity rake in millions.
Private firms own 83% of homes.
Average charge for a child in care is £281,000 a year. Some charge £63,000 a week per child.
For-profit homes provide the worse care.
End privatisation scam.
www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/market...
Private firms own 83% of homes.
Average charge for a child in care is £281,000 a year. Some charge £63,000 a week per child.
For-profit homes provide the worse care.
End privatisation scam.
www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/market...
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A fascinating academic paper analysing where SpAds go once they get ditched. Mostly, to lobbying organisations but the least popular choice for them was a career 'in public service' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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January 17, 2025 at 11:19 AM
A fascinating academic paper analysing where SpAds go once they get ditched. Mostly, to lobbying organisations but the least popular choice for them was a career 'in public service' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
January 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
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The “growth plan” for Brexit was that it would “unleash” UK from the “shackles” of EU.
And therein is the clue why there has been no growth.
The plan was no more substantial than vivid words deployed in some newspaper column or political speech.
Flimsy boosterish rhetoric, and nothing more.
And therein is the clue why there has been no growth.
The plan was no more substantial than vivid words deployed in some newspaper column or political speech.
Flimsy boosterish rhetoric, and nothing more.
January 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The “growth plan” for Brexit was that it would “unleash” UK from the “shackles” of EU.
And therein is the clue why there has been no growth.
The plan was no more substantial than vivid words deployed in some newspaper column or political speech.
Flimsy boosterish rhetoric, and nothing more.
And therein is the clue why there has been no growth.
The plan was no more substantial than vivid words deployed in some newspaper column or political speech.
Flimsy boosterish rhetoric, and nothing more.
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Always my favourite thing when academics do the hard work to prove the thing your gut already knew to be clear and true.
Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵
In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians.
We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties.
with @julianachueri.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/1940...
In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians.
We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties.
with @julianachueri.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/1940...
January 16, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Always my favourite thing when academics do the hard work to prove the thing your gut already knew to be clear and true.
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If you have a weekly LOCAL PAPER ~ please check the ‘letters’ page.
We are now regularly seeing letters from rightwing Reform supporters. The policy is to gain traction before council elections.
It is VITAL we respond
I am always happy to help!
Here’s one I write earlier!
#farageriots
If you have a weekly LOCAL PAPER ~ please check the ‘letters’ page.
We are now regularly seeing letters from rightwing Reform supporters. The policy is to gain traction before council elections.
It is VITAL we respond
I am always happy to help!
Here’s one I write earlier!
#farageriots
January 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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If you have a weekly LOCAL PAPER ~ please check the ‘letters’ page.
We are now regularly seeing letters from rightwing Reform supporters. The policy is to gain traction before council elections.
It is VITAL we respond
I am always happy to help!
Here’s one I write earlier!
#farageriots
If you have a weekly LOCAL PAPER ~ please check the ‘letters’ page.
We are now regularly seeing letters from rightwing Reform supporters. The policy is to gain traction before council elections.
It is VITAL we respond
I am always happy to help!
Here’s one I write earlier!
#farageriots
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Staggeringly misleading & irresponsible article by Express online. Neither I nor my site've ever said that. It's a perversion of our "earn under £35k & it's worth checking a benefits calc to see if you're missing out on owt" into dangerous, trite clickbait.
January 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Staggeringly misleading & irresponsible article by Express online. Neither I nor my site've ever said that. It's a perversion of our "earn under £35k & it's worth checking a benefits calc to see if you're missing out on owt" into dangerous, trite clickbait.
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This is a straightforward breach of the BBC Charter. I do not know what what is going on at their news division but this is not the first time this has happened on the news website and it is completely unacceptable.
January 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
This is a straightforward breach of the BBC Charter. I do not know what what is going on at their news division but this is not the first time this has happened on the news website and it is completely unacceptable.
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Re: Home Office guidance supposedly issued in 2008 advising police not to intervene in child grooming cases because victims had ‘made an informed choice about their sexual behaviour’?
BBC Verify found no evidence any document containing that advice exists
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC Verify found no evidence any document containing that advice exists
www.bbc.com/news/article...
How Elon Musk seized on baseless memo claim to create wave of misinformation
The X owner shared false claims that a Home Office memo urged police not to intervene in child grooming cases.
www.bbc.com
January 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Re: Home Office guidance supposedly issued in 2008 advising police not to intervene in child grooming cases because victims had ‘made an informed choice about their sexual behaviour’?
BBC Verify found no evidence any document containing that advice exists
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC Verify found no evidence any document containing that advice exists
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Jimmy Carter, a visionary on ending fossil fuels, put solar panels on the White House. Big Oil-backed Ronald Reagan ousted Carter in 1980 and ripped them out
Tonight, as Carter lies in in state in the Capitol, a climate-fueled wildfire is destroying Reagan's former hometown of Pacific Palisades
Tonight, as Carter lies in in state in the Capitol, a climate-fueled wildfire is destroying Reagan's former hometown of Pacific Palisades
January 8, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Jimmy Carter, a visionary on ending fossil fuels, put solar panels on the White House. Big Oil-backed Ronald Reagan ousted Carter in 1980 and ripped them out
Tonight, as Carter lies in in state in the Capitol, a climate-fueled wildfire is destroying Reagan's former hometown of Pacific Palisades
Tonight, as Carter lies in in state in the Capitol, a climate-fueled wildfire is destroying Reagan's former hometown of Pacific Palisades
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To honor one of the most compassionate Americans we've ever known, consider an act of kindness today, for a loved one or even a stranger, however small.
Be the reason someone feels seen today. Sometimes all it takes is a kind word or a sincere gesture.
It will make Jimmy smile.
Be the reason someone feels seen today. Sometimes all it takes is a kind word or a sincere gesture.
It will make Jimmy smile.
December 30, 2024 at 2:18 PM
To honor one of the most compassionate Americans we've ever known, consider an act of kindness today, for a loved one or even a stranger, however small.
Be the reason someone feels seen today. Sometimes all it takes is a kind word or a sincere gesture.
It will make Jimmy smile.
Be the reason someone feels seen today. Sometimes all it takes is a kind word or a sincere gesture.
It will make Jimmy smile.
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Today Guardian and Observer journalists are on strike over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall. 🧵
How can you support us?
SHARE our posts
WRITE to guardian.readers@theguardian.com
JOIN US - there's cake!
How can you support us?
SHARE our posts
WRITE to guardian.readers@theguardian.com
JOIN US - there's cake!
December 4, 2024 at 9:08 AM
Today Guardian and Observer journalists are on strike over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall. 🧵
How can you support us?
SHARE our posts
WRITE to guardian.readers@theguardian.com
JOIN US - there's cake!
How can you support us?
SHARE our posts
WRITE to guardian.readers@theguardian.com
JOIN US - there's cake!
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When I get to 500 followers on here I’m going to boogie the night away 🕺🏻🎶😂
December 1, 2024 at 6:15 PM
When I get to 500 followers on here I’m going to boogie the night away 🕺🏻🎶😂
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Happy 1st of December 🎄🎄🎉
a purple background with santa claus and the word love
ALT: a purple background with santa claus and the word love
media.tenor.com
December 1, 2024 at 7:57 AM
Happy 1st of December 🎄🎄🎉
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The Sheer Scale of the Conservative Local Government Auditing Scandal Is Only Now Becoming Clear.
Tories abolished the Audit Commission. With funding cuts, no regulator, councils went bust. Billions of spending unaccounted.
Tory achievement: More services privatised
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/27/t...
Tories abolished the Audit Commission. With funding cuts, no regulator, councils went bust. Billions of spending unaccounted.
Tory achievement: More services privatised
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/27/t...
The Sheer Scale of the Conservative Local Government Auditing Scandal Is Only Now Becoming Clear
Billions of pounds in spending remains unaccounted for, with the National Audit Office unable to sign off the nation's accounts
bylinetimes.com
November 28, 2024 at 7:24 AM
The Sheer Scale of the Conservative Local Government Auditing Scandal Is Only Now Becoming Clear.
Tories abolished the Audit Commission. With funding cuts, no regulator, councils went bust. Billions of spending unaccounted.
Tory achievement: More services privatised
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/27/t...
Tories abolished the Audit Commission. With funding cuts, no regulator, councils went bust. Billions of spending unaccounted.
Tory achievement: More services privatised
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/27/t...
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The liars, of course, have all moved on to new cons & deceptions. The fishing industry can't. A vaguely honest media would be holding Farage & the rest to account for this instead of promoting a meaningless petition...
www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymout...
www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymout...
Fishermen left feeling 'betrayed' by Brexit
'Brexit was sold to our fishermen as a golden opportunity, yet the truth is that many fishermen have experienced the complete opposite'
www.plymouthherald.co.uk
November 27, 2024 at 9:07 AM
The liars, of course, have all moved on to new cons & deceptions. The fishing industry can't. A vaguely honest media would be holding Farage & the rest to account for this instead of promoting a meaningless petition...
www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymout...
www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymout...
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Three thousand followers already!
Fuck me!
I’m honoured.
Thank you.
Great space, Bluesky.
Now, all we need is the politicians etc here too.
We need the discussion, not necessarily agreement.
Am I wrong?
Fuck me!
I’m honoured.
Thank you.
Great space, Bluesky.
Now, all we need is the politicians etc here too.
We need the discussion, not necessarily agreement.
Am I wrong?
November 24, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Three thousand followers already!
Fuck me!
I’m honoured.
Thank you.
Great space, Bluesky.
Now, all we need is the politicians etc here too.
We need the discussion, not necessarily agreement.
Am I wrong?
Fuck me!
I’m honoured.
Thank you.
Great space, Bluesky.
Now, all we need is the politicians etc here too.
We need the discussion, not necessarily agreement.
Am I wrong?
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Please help the Bylines Network get over 50K!
Follow @bylinesnetwork.bsky.social
… and share. Thank you. 🙏🏻
Follow @bylinesnetwork.bsky.social
… and share. Thank you. 🙏🏻
November 25, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Please help the Bylines Network get over 50K!
Follow @bylinesnetwork.bsky.social
… and share. Thank you. 🙏🏻
Follow @bylinesnetwork.bsky.social
… and share. Thank you. 🙏🏻
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Jacqueline Carey, "In March 2020 40% of 111 calls went unanswered, and by September 2021, 25% of NHS 111 calls were abandoned"
Sajid Javid, "Yes'
Surreal that this is what the Conservatives did to the NHS 111 service
Sajid Javid, "Yes'
Surreal that this is what the Conservatives did to the NHS 111 service
November 25, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Jacqueline Carey, "In March 2020 40% of 111 calls went unanswered, and by September 2021, 25% of NHS 111 calls were abandoned"
Sajid Javid, "Yes'
Surreal that this is what the Conservatives did to the NHS 111 service
Sajid Javid, "Yes'
Surreal that this is what the Conservatives did to the NHS 111 service
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Jacob Rees-Mogg claims that nobody cares about #partygate anymore.
The BBC say the documentary only makes people angry.
The truth is it shows everyone what lying assholes the Conservatives are.
So do you care?
Feel free to RP to show that you do.
The BBC say the documentary only makes people angry.
The truth is it shows everyone what lying assholes the Conservatives are.
So do you care?
Feel free to RP to show that you do.
November 24, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Jacob Rees-Mogg claims that nobody cares about #partygate anymore.
The BBC say the documentary only makes people angry.
The truth is it shows everyone what lying assholes the Conservatives are.
So do you care?
Feel free to RP to show that you do.
The BBC say the documentary only makes people angry.
The truth is it shows everyone what lying assholes the Conservatives are.
So do you care?
Feel free to RP to show that you do.
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If you oppose NHS privatisation, please could you repost this and follow me? I need to know who to follow next (it’ll be you!) 🌟🌟🌟
November 24, 2024 at 7:04 PM
If you oppose NHS privatisation, please could you repost this and follow me? I need to know who to follow next (it’ll be you!) 🌟🌟🌟