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Author of The Carer's Handbook, Losing a Pet, Have the Best Year of Life. Newly relocated to the Lake District - please send umbrellas.

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Can we talk about your silence? before fascism stops us (**uncomfortable ideas incoming)

One of the most important posts I've read: sarahwilson.substack.com/p/can-we-tal...

08.10.2025 07:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

really eye-opening article

20.06.2025 07:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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"Sufficiency" as a way of living a life a strategy we can enact NOW to survive/thrive what is ahead

"Sufficiency" as a way of living a life - both 'a mindset and a policy approach' open.substack.com/pub/sarahwil...

04.06.2025 08:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Letter says we  have recently been informed that you have been diagnosed with cancer.

Letter says we have recently been informed that you have been diagnosed with cancer.

Huge #fail by local surgery who sent my sister this scary letter...before she's seen anyone or has a diagnosis.

31.05.2025 12:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Passed over, targeted, fined – but is the magnificence of family carers finally being recognised? | John Harris Britain’s army of unpaid support has been excluded from the political conversation. I didn’t expect to find hope in a book by a party leader, writes Guardian columnist John Harris

We need many more articles like this to get care and carers on MPs’ agenda
Passed over, targeted, fined – but is the magnificence of family carers finally being recognised? | John Harris www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

26.05.2025 06:57 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oops, thanks. I assumed the guardian would do that automatically!

26.05.2025 06:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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What did you do during the genocide in Gaza? | Arwa Mahdawi When future generations read about Gaza with horror and wonder how we allowed a livestreamed genocide to happen, what will you say?

"this isn’t just Netanyahu's genocide

This is the Biden-Harris genocide

The Trump-Vance genocide

The Keir Starmer & David Lammy genocide

It is Microsoft CEO Satya Nadellas genocide

This is the mainstream medias genocide"

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

22.05.2025 19:14 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

"We are not a strain on this country. We are not a threat. We are not strangers. We are your nurses, carers, neighbours, teachers, business owners, researchers and friends."

15.05.2025 14:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Precious resources we need to support...

12.05.2025 08:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have so many personal reasons to be grateful to the wonderful Romanian women who cared for my mother when I could no longer cope. This is reactionary madness.

11.05.2025 13:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Aaargh!

28.04.2025 12:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yet another betrayal of voters….and our children. Shameful.

24.04.2025 12:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A race to the bottom: " if we allow American food into Britain that has been produced with banned pesticides, or in unhygienic factory farms, or from pigs in farrowing crates, then we have to let British farmers use those same methods to compete on price.."

16.04.2025 08:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The Stories of Democracy You’re Not Seeing β€” Let’s Change That
The Stories of Democracy You’re Not Seeing β€” Let’s Change That YouTube video by Baratunde Thurston

Great new initiative from a couple of do-ers youtu.be/R2khDVcup2c

14.04.2025 07:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

England’s β€˜complex’ health and care system harming patients, report says

Carers have been saying this for years, but their experience is undervalued by policy makers

10.04.2025 06:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Also worth following @alcs.co.uk suggestions and templates for taking back power

04.04.2025 07:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Meta: this time it’s personal Take 2 mins to write to Meta now!

Take 2 mins to demand that Meta stop targeting you with personalised ads and content! goodlaw.social/gk0i

03.04.2025 16:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

More people need to understand the massive negative externalities - and huge bloody bills - imposed on the entire world wide web by LLMs.

The sense of entitlement to other people's labour and other organisations's hugely increased monthly overheads of the tech bros is nothing short of depraved.

02.04.2025 10:04 πŸ‘ 1354 πŸ” 712 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 6

I’ve never understood why UK is so obsessed with low tax. If they visited high tax Scandinavia & saw the incredible standard of living for everybody they’d understand that low tax only benefits the rich. When will @teamlabouruk.bsky.social find the bollocks & integrity to be honest about tax?

23.03.2025 07:37 πŸ‘ 231 πŸ” 65 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 2
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Guess what, I've been plagiarised too.

Sign me up for the class action

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

20.03.2025 14:40 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just searched and yep, one of my books has been stolen by Zuckerberg. We need to organise...

20.03.2025 14:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I've seen literally 100s of newly released birds splattered onto the roads of the North Yorks Moors. Something very wrong here...

20.03.2025 14:30 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Thanks goodness for web.archive.org. Sadly I am developing a habit of archiving everything.

19.03.2025 09:17 πŸ‘ 73 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Great and timely thread

10.03.2025 13:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

09.03.2025 17:02 πŸ‘ 4963 πŸ” 3561 πŸ’¬ 191 πŸ“Œ 786

Ditto . Have to assume M&S have no intention of replying

09.03.2025 20:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@jackiethomson.bsky.social welcome to Bluesky!

02.03.2025 16:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've heard Rupert speak and this is well worth your time

26.02.2025 11:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Renewal notice has a big button saying Renow now

Renewal notice has a big button saying Renow now

Absolutely nothing to suggest this domain renewal might be spam 🀣

24.02.2025 16:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0