Stooryduster
@stooryduster.bsky.social
A Scottish words' illustrator, a cartoonist & designer interested in tech, software, art, design, life and the environment. Also on @stooryduster@Mastodon.scot My drawings are at stooryduster.co.uk
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That’s correct.
November 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
That’s correct.
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This is very good. Reeves needs to set out her views both on the strategic purpose of the tax system (and the role of the state) as part of a plan to deliver fiscal consolidation. That requires both more political and communications skills than she’s displayed thus far. But we can live in hope.
Here’s this week’s column, in which I beg the chancellor to go big this week - on both headroom and narrative - so that by next year, if she’s still here to deliver it, the budget will be boring, because we all know the plan 🙏🏻
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Rachel Reeves, please, let’s make budgets boring again | Heather Stewart
Budgets need to be reassuringly dull with no repeat of this year’s long, drawn-out and chaotic buildup
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This is very good. Reeves needs to set out her views both on the strategic purpose of the tax system (and the role of the state) as part of a plan to deliver fiscal consolidation. That requires both more political and communications skills than she’s displayed thus far. But we can live in hope.
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Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis
City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.
www.forbes.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
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The Demolition of the Crown Hotel, Edinburgh, 1925, by David Macbeth Sutherland.
November 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The Demolition of the Crown Hotel, Edinburgh, 1925, by David Macbeth Sutherland.
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Key points: Met police say investigation into other politicians is ongoing. Gill sought to recruit multiple MEPs including 4 British ones.
The judge gave strongest possible quotes about the gravity of the crime and the damage done to public trust.
The judge gave strongest possible quotes about the gravity of the crime and the damage done to public trust.
November 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Key points: Met police say investigation into other politicians is ongoing. Gill sought to recruit multiple MEPs including 4 British ones.
The judge gave strongest possible quotes about the gravity of the crime and the damage done to public trust.
The judge gave strongest possible quotes about the gravity of the crime and the damage done to public trust.
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🧵 Before Hollywood turned her green, L. Frank Baum’s Wicked Witch of the West looked very different… & she appears only briefly in the 1900 book. 📚
🧙🏼Check out her earliest depictions in these images, & explore more Oz history on our blog ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/t...
#PublicDomain #Oz #Wicked
🧙🏼Check out her earliest depictions in these images, & explore more Oz history on our blog ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/t...
#PublicDomain #Oz #Wicked
November 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
🧵 Before Hollywood turned her green, L. Frank Baum’s Wicked Witch of the West looked very different… & she appears only briefly in the 1900 book. 📚
🧙🏼Check out her earliest depictions in these images, & explore more Oz history on our blog ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/t...
#PublicDomain #Oz #Wicked
🧙🏼Check out her earliest depictions in these images, & explore more Oz history on our blog ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/t...
#PublicDomain #Oz #Wicked
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
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We do what we do on a shoestring - and it's enough to stake a flag in the ground alongside the billionaire-owned press.
But we're also growing this new model with your help. Everything that you chip in now is part of that development.
Thank you. 🙏
But we're also growing this new model with your help. Everything that you chip in now is part of that development.
Thank you. 🙏
Support powerful citizen journalism - we need it now, more than ever
At a time when billionaires and oligarchs own the majority of our press, when local journalism is in decline, and social media is rife with misinformation and abuse, there has never been a greater nee...
chuffed.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:57 AM
We do what we do on a shoestring - and it's enough to stake a flag in the ground alongside the billionaire-owned press.
But we're also growing this new model with your help. Everything that you chip in now is part of that development.
Thank you. 🙏
But we're also growing this new model with your help. Everything that you chip in now is part of that development.
Thank you. 🙏
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Migration globally is growing and coping with it is vital as @wanderinggaia.bsky.social says, but it is not the main reason "the public" are angry/disillusioned/hopeless and looking for targets.
The Tories did exactly the damage everyone predicted with austerity & Brexit, and this the result.
The Tories did exactly the damage everyone predicted with austerity & Brexit, and this the result.
November 18, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Migration globally is growing and coping with it is vital as @wanderinggaia.bsky.social says, but it is not the main reason "the public" are angry/disillusioned/hopeless and looking for targets.
The Tories did exactly the damage everyone predicted with austerity & Brexit, and this the result.
The Tories did exactly the damage everyone predicted with austerity & Brexit, and this the result.
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Only 2 years since the ban on neonics, France's population of insect-eating birds has risen 2-3% - from banning a single type of insecticide. Demonstrating just how much harm we cause birds when pesticides kill off the insects they need for food.
@paneurope.bsky.social
@paneurope.bsky.social
Good news: Study shows France’s birds making tentative recovery after neonicotinoid pesticide ban
UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
With neonicotinoid pesticide ban, France’s birds make a tentative recovery - study
Analysis shows small hike in populations of insect-eating species after 2018 ruling, but full recovery may take decades
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Only 2 years since the ban on neonics, France's population of insect-eating birds has risen 2-3% - from banning a single type of insecticide. Demonstrating just how much harm we cause birds when pesticides kill off the insects they need for food.
@paneurope.bsky.social
@paneurope.bsky.social
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We are living in a real-life episode of Black Mirror: an app dispatches workers, monitors their every move, while riders - some using rented identities - risk abuse, exhaustion and invisibility.
“We are a very modern kind of slave.”
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
“We are a very modern kind of slave.”
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Life as a food delivery worker: ‘Sometimes men open the door naked’
To earn a living as a delivery rider, some work 10-12 hour days, contending with low pay, exhaustion, accidents, injuries and harassment. Is this a new form of modern slavery?
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
We are living in a real-life episode of Black Mirror: an app dispatches workers, monitors their every move, while riders - some using rented identities - risk abuse, exhaustion and invisibility.
“We are a very modern kind of slave.”
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
“We are a very modern kind of slave.”
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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In fact, B&N has been expanding rather a bit recently; their sales are up and they've refreshed their stores. And independent books stores have been growing in numbers too! It's been quite a turnaround for brick and mortar bookstores in the last couple of years. I hope it lasts.
I'm more shocked they're still opening new B&Ns.
November 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
In fact, B&N has been expanding rather a bit recently; their sales are up and they've refreshed their stores. And independent books stores have been growing in numbers too! It's been quite a turnaround for brick and mortar bookstores in the last couple of years. I hope it lasts.
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The HRA publicly clarified that the study BBC journalists Deb Cohen and Hannah Barnes had criticised, had ethical approval.
Their page shows the BBC enquiry and the HRA response. No breach found, no withdrawn approval, no scandal. The BBC reporting misled people.
👉 www.hra.nhs.uk/about-us/new...
Their page shows the BBC enquiry and the HRA response. No breach found, no withdrawn approval, no scandal. The BBC reporting misled people.
👉 www.hra.nhs.uk/about-us/new...
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The HRA publicly clarified that the study BBC journalists Deb Cohen and Hannah Barnes had criticised, had ethical approval.
Their page shows the BBC enquiry and the HRA response. No breach found, no withdrawn approval, no scandal. The BBC reporting misled people.
👉 www.hra.nhs.uk/about-us/new...
Their page shows the BBC enquiry and the HRA response. No breach found, no withdrawn approval, no scandal. The BBC reporting misled people.
👉 www.hra.nhs.uk/about-us/new...
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'Small-scale fishermen using low-impact methods are...forced out by industrial vessels "that take more in a day than we can in a season...we are not asking for special treatment, only for rules that protect the ocean, reward those who fish responsibly, + give our communities a chance to survive"'.
Very encouraging to see small-scale fishermen demand better protections from bottom trawling
thefishingdaily.com/eu-fishing-i...
thefishingdaily.com/eu-fishing-i...
Small-Scale Fishermen Demand EU Ban On Bottom Trawling In MPAs - The Fishing Daily - Irish, UK and European Fishing Industry News
Small-scale fishermen urge Commissioner Kadis to ban bottom trawling in marine protected areas under the proposed EU Ocean Act
thefishingdaily.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
'Small-scale fishermen using low-impact methods are...forced out by industrial vessels "that take more in a day than we can in a season...we are not asking for special treatment, only for rules that protect the ocean, reward those who fish responsibly, + give our communities a chance to survive"'.
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When you see millions of the mouthless dead
Across your dreams in pale battalions go,
Say not soft things as other men have said,
That you’ll remember. For you need not so…
—Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895–1915)
#RemembranceSunday #poem #poetry
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47427/...
Across your dreams in pale battalions go,
Say not soft things as other men have said,
That you’ll remember. For you need not so…
—Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895–1915)
#RemembranceSunday #poem #poetry
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47427/...
November 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
When you see millions of the mouthless dead
Across your dreams in pale battalions go,
Say not soft things as other men have said,
That you’ll remember. For you need not so…
—Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895–1915)
#RemembranceSunday #poem #poetry
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47427/...
Across your dreams in pale battalions go,
Say not soft things as other men have said,
That you’ll remember. For you need not so…
—Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895–1915)
#RemembranceSunday #poem #poetry
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47427/...
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Remember, remember, 5 November:
A new alliance says the media system is broken and is building a movement to fix it from the ground up, starting with what they are calling Media Liberation Day | Ben Dickenson
@benjitoon.bsky.social @northeastbylines.co.uk
A new alliance says the media system is broken and is building a movement to fix it from the ground up, starting with what they are calling Media Liberation Day | Ben Dickenson
@benjitoon.bsky.social @northeastbylines.co.uk
Remember, remember, 5 November: Media Revolution campaigns to take back power from the billionaires
A new alliance says the media system is broken and is building a movement to fix it from the ground up, starting with what they are calling Media Liberation Day
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Remember, remember, 5 November:
A new alliance says the media system is broken and is building a movement to fix it from the ground up, starting with what they are calling Media Liberation Day | Ben Dickenson
@benjitoon.bsky.social @northeastbylines.co.uk
A new alliance says the media system is broken and is building a movement to fix it from the ground up, starting with what they are calling Media Liberation Day | Ben Dickenson
@benjitoon.bsky.social @northeastbylines.co.uk
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REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.
November 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.
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Pagel's action tracker and Venn diagrams this year have been huge contributions to the pro-democracy movement. I haven't looked at this update in detail yet but she has made it significantly more fine-grained and it looks fantastic. Highly recommend.
The Trump Action Tracker has an update!
Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions.
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
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Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions.
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
1/2
October 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Pagel's action tracker and Venn diagrams this year have been huge contributions to the pro-democracy movement. I haven't looked at this update in detail yet but she has made it significantly more fine-grained and it looks fantastic. Highly recommend.
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I agree. X is now a cesspit flooded with accounts provoking ethnic hatred, fear of vaccination and opposition to green policies. It looks highly orchestrated, most likely be enemies of democracy and peace in the west.
The UK and the EU need to ban X, and ban it yesterday.
Once again Elon Musk has stoked far right violence in Ireland or England.
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
October 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I agree. X is now a cesspit flooded with accounts provoking ethnic hatred, fear of vaccination and opposition to green policies. It looks highly orchestrated, most likely be enemies of democracy and peace in the west.
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Sunday read: "And so I stand beside the latch, comforted by the collective thumbprint. Through the imperceptible hollowing of its burnished curve, it cradles an immortality defined through touch" www.digest.andymarshall.co/andy-marshal...
October 12, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Sunday read: "And so I stand beside the latch, comforted by the collective thumbprint. Through the imperceptible hollowing of its burnished curve, it cradles an immortality defined through touch" www.digest.andymarshall.co/andy-marshal...
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This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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More evidence of Private Equity disaster in US healthcare
PE bought hospitals, GP practices, nursing homes.
Cut wages, staff, investment, care; load with debt; extract profits; deaths, injuries rise.
Why is UK govt handing healthcare to PE/corporations?
Say NO to privatisation of the NHS.
PE bought hospitals, GP practices, nursing homes.
Cut wages, staff, investment, care; load with debt; extract profits; deaths, injuries rise.
Why is UK govt handing healthcare to PE/corporations?
Say NO to privatisation of the NHS.
Private Equity in Health Care - ACHI
This explainer examines the rise of private equity in healthcare, the financial structures behind private equity transactions, what the evidence shows about the impacts of these transactions on the he...
achi.net
October 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
More evidence of Private Equity disaster in US healthcare
PE bought hospitals, GP practices, nursing homes.
Cut wages, staff, investment, care; load with debt; extract profits; deaths, injuries rise.
Why is UK govt handing healthcare to PE/corporations?
Say NO to privatisation of the NHS.
PE bought hospitals, GP practices, nursing homes.
Cut wages, staff, investment, care; load with debt; extract profits; deaths, injuries rise.
Why is UK govt handing healthcare to PE/corporations?
Say NO to privatisation of the NHS.
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If you want to reduce plastic use, avoid yellow kitchen sponges like these. They're made of plastic, can't be recycled, don't break down in landfill – and release microplastics into the sea. Eco-friendly, compostable alternatives are available – see: littlegreenspace.org.uk/reviews/seep...
October 6, 2025 at 7:47 AM
If you want to reduce plastic use, avoid yellow kitchen sponges like these. They're made of plastic, can't be recycled, don't break down in landfill – and release microplastics into the sea. Eco-friendly, compostable alternatives are available – see: littlegreenspace.org.uk/reviews/seep...