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Maya the Bee 🐝
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
Any shares of this much appreciated! When my ex-publishers collapsed, taking over £20,000 of my earnings with them into the void, all my books suffered but none more than 1983. This is me trying to repair that. It’s about:
Childhood
Education
Aliens
Alpacas
The East Midlands
The old future we lost
dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 20d
Hello! My CEO Roscoe and I are giving away TWO signed copies of my novel 1983 to two randomly selected people who repost this & pop a reply below. You also get a free postcard of this illustration of Roscoe by my mum.

It’s been called “Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut & Sue Townsend”…
Roscoe with 1983 and a postcard of her which depicts her looking unusually cheery The rear cover of 1983
November 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
spriggley.bsky.social
Keep her legacy alive 🌍
kojamf.bsky.social KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · Oct 2
Posted to her Instagram account on 9/21/2025
Jane Goodall Institute 🇨🇦
October 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
spriggley.bsky.social
drjazztehara.bsky.social Jazz Tehara (that weird time before Christmas mode) @drjazztehara.bsky.social · Sep 16
Message from a Dr at St Thomas’ hospital:
Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9. 'I was the anaesthetic consultant on call at St Thomas' Hospital yesterday. It is on the south side of the bridge that these racists marched over for 5 hours; right under the windows of the hospital chanting their hateful, vitriolic, violent slogans. It was not lost on me that in our emergency handover meeting of around 15 people at 8am, I was one of only two white British members of staff. The NHS would collapse without the remarkable work that colleagues who are immigrants and the children of immigrants do. This "protest" was not peaceful as we know. Many broke through what were pretty puny barriers to get into the hospital grounds. Security (all non-white and being incredibly measured) had to fend them off at the main entrance. No police. No other help. Lots of very scared non-British workers inside the building. Lots of the staff on duty with me were really scared about getting home safely. Many booked rooms in the nurses' accommodation overnight because they didn't dare leave. I drove several to nearby stations to avoid what was by 5pm an intimidating, abusive, drunken rabble. Our chief exec sent a weak email on Thursday saying, effectively, everyone is valued in our hospital. She was nowhere to be seen on Saturday. Colleagues and I are going to write to her to say that the Trust's response before and on the day was wholly inadequate but I also think NHS leaders and the government need to denounce the overtly racist elements of the march (i.e. most of it) and publicly support non-British NHS workers. They must stop equivocating for fear of offending a group of the electorate that they foolishly think might vote for them, and take a damn stand. They are leaving a vacuum for the radical right; either fight or step aside and let someone else try to save the soul of the country. I was shocked to see lots of families with their teens proudly marching. People need to get involved and counter this appalling rhetoric. It's completely disgusting. We need to try to understand why they believe the far right's lies, counter those lies and offer a genuine alternative for ordinary people otherwise we will be in the US's shoes with Farage at the helm. I will do whatever I can to help in this cause but it is urgent. Labour are not doing anything effective. Those groups/parties planning to provide an alternative need to get their A's into G and start campaigning loudly. Farage spent the summer holding weekly press conferences while the government went on holiday. I felt embarrassed to call myself British in front of my incredibly brave but distressed colleagues yesterday. I'd welcome everyone's view about the most useful steps that I and others who are equally appalled by yesterday and the rise of the far right here can most usefully do to fight back. Wishing everyone a peaceful evening.
September 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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helenebismarck.bsky.social
I really wonder what would need to happen to disrupt the British media‘s current obsession with immigrants.
I am serious. What would it take to talk about something else? Putin invading a few more countries? Another Prime Minister being hounded out of office? Global economic collapse? A tidal wave?
August 22, 2025 at 7:29 AM
spriggley.bsky.social
The whole thread is worth reading. The dog-whistling of the past fifteen years has lead to this.
stopfordianneil.bsky.social Neil @stopfordianneil.bsky.social · Aug 16
The only people who have spoiled the nature of this area were the mindless thugs who came to our homes last evening and created chaos.

I’ve never been scared by the asylum seekers. I’m terrified that the angry mob will return.

So, how do I get *my* country back from them? I’ve genuinely no idea
August 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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lottelydia.bsky.social
What strange times, when the commander of RAF Greenham Common is coming out as a liberal supporter of the right to protest
arusbridger.bsky.social Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · Aug 11
Letter of the day (in the Times)
August 11, 2025 at 8:47 AM
spriggley.bsky.social
"Getting bungalowed" is being purloined.
lindzmcleod.bsky.social Lindz McLeod - THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · Aug 5
3rd Aug 2024: "Fitz has been acting a little weird in the afternoon for the past couple of days—going for extra long afternoon naps. I just discovered that he's managed to rip open a very potent catnip toy and has evidently been getting absolutely bungalowed by himself around 3pm every day 🤣"
A white British shorthair with blue eyes, lying on his back, absolutely stoned out of his little gourd A white British shorthair with blue eyes, lying on his back, staring unseeing at the camera and drooling
August 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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iandunt.bsky.social
Please read this. This is what our mania over immigration is doing to us. Psychologically brutalising British children

freemovement.org.uk/committee-ad...
June 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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iandunt.bsky.social
Zelenskyy is my hero. A true anti-fascist. A man with more bravery and dignity in his other finger then most of his detractors will encounter in their lifetime
February 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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cambsforeurope.bsky.social
The damaging impact of leaving the EU on the UK economy is clear.

It's fitting that at £40 billion, the budget black hole the Brexiter Tories left the Labour government is the same size as the £40 billion in lost exchequer revenue due to Brexit.

sussexbylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...

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Fix Brexit, fix Britain
The UK economy – Rachel Reeves has called for honesty. Here it is!
sussexbylines.co.uk
November 21, 2024 at 8:11 AM
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susiedent.com
Word of the Day, should you need it, is ‘latibulate’, a 17th-century verb meaning to find a corner somewhere and hide in it.
November 15, 2024 at 8:16 AM
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helenebismarck.bsky.social
It would also be really great if people could acknowledge that it is possible to hold more than one thought in one’s head at the same time, and that caring about one thing does not mean you don’t care about another.
October 15, 2023 at 8:41 AM
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beakmoo.bsky.social
Found on Facebook, amused my bouche.
Road sign. "caution slow kids on road with no shoulders dead end."
October 3, 2023 at 4:49 PM
spriggley.bsky.social
I genuinely don't get how someone could look at this tree and feel moved to cut it down. I'm glad that I don't connect with that mindset, but really want to know how we can turn this sort of destructive, vicious attitude around.
#SycamoreGap
September 28, 2023 at 6:09 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
I don’t want tax cuts - I want a society that runs fairly and kindly for as many people as possible

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...
Tax cuts 'virtually impossible' at present, says Jeremy Hunt
The chancellor says the cost of public debt has left him with some "very difficult decisions".
www.bbc.co.uk
September 22, 2023 at 8:41 AM