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Morning all. Taylor Street, Townhead, Glasgow. 1955. Photographer Bert Hardy.

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Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop workers from organizing. Keep up the fight.

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Tish Murtha (1956-2013), social documentary photographer who documented marginalised communities under Thatcher in NE England #womensart

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“Firefighter numbers in England have dropped by a quarter in seven years, the equivalent of 11,000 full-time staff Failing to reverse this damage could endanger the public and firefighters” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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This statement from Jonathan Joss's husband is heart breaking. No, headline writers, he wasn't "killed in an argument with a neighbor." He was deliberately murdered for being gay right after his dog was decapitated. Bet the murderer calls himself a "Christian." THIS is why Pride is important.

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Tuesday

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Morning all. Photographer Markéta Luskačová, taken in the North Tyneside in the late 1970s as part of her "By the Sea" series.

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Vivaldi’s ‘The Four Seasons’ filling the auditorium of the Royal Festival Hall in a way only Nigel Kennedy and the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra can #SelfCareSunday #Grateful @southbankcentre.bsky.social q

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Happy 12th birthday, fabtic Founded #OTD 2013 in honour of my grandmother’s birthday Proud of all I’ve achieved amidst the losses of covid, trauma of direct work, anxiety caused by services paying invoices late, and gaslighting by those in command and control structures when challenged #Unbossed

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What is it about the majesty and intelligence of elephants that can reduce grown adults to tears? Even in puppet format #TheVanishingElephant @southbankcentre.bsky.social

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When you vote for the arsonist, don’t act surprised when he burns down your neighbor’s house.

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Girl on a space hopper, 1971, Byker series, Newwcastle, UK , by Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen #womensart #FridayFeeling

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Morning all. Photographer Mik Critchlow. Boys playing football on Beatrice Street, Ashington, Northumberland 1980s.

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Robinson announced he had found religion as he went on a rant about the “mainstream media”, the government, and immigration. Ah right - that religion - HATE www.lbc.co.uk/crime/tommy-...

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"Mind blowing".....

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And now Anne-Marie Minhall is sharing in her conversations on @classicfm.com the #Welsh words Aled Jones has taught her This is what it means when @iolowilliams.bsky.social says “use the Welsh you have” Diolch, pawb, for providing welcome #hiraeth on this rainy day in Cambridgeshire

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Like @cerysmatthews.bsky.social on her Sunday morning BBC Radio 6 show, I also love how easily Aled Jones sprinkles his @classicfm.com programme with the #Welsh language As natural and unapologetic as we all should be when speaking Britain’s oldest language

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Morning all. Liverpool, 1967. Photograph by Popperfoto via Getty Images.

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Giggling this #MondayMorning as I learn there’s an ice cream van in #Swansea that plays the theme tune from Doctor Zhivago There’s #Wales for you! Thanks @classicfm.com for the #BankHoliday smiles whilst pottering on with housework, dreaming of a 99 with raspberry sauce…

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Definitely worth a click and scroll Down in the valleys: the wonders of Wales. Ken Grant has photographed the south Wales valleys for three decades – capturing the rugged beauty, painful scars and wild ponies that make up the landscape www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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Neneh Cherry and @cerysmatthews.bsky.social are two icons that sit next to one another on my bookshelves Imagine my delight to discover they’ll be alongside one another on air this morning With words and music to feed the soul, it’s hard to imagine a more uplifting #SelfCareSunday #BBCRadio6

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Never take seriously those who ridicule low income people for having a smartphone or laptop. “If they’re so poor how did they buy an iPhone???” Because they’re trying to escape poverty, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is unnecessary or a luxury, survive a month without it.

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Painting by Cindy Rizza ‘Wilderness 2024/25 Oil on panel. Size 23 x 30 cm.

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Cape of Empowerment' by and in memory of Louise Gardiner, British embroiderer #womensart #FridayFeeling

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Toyin Ojih Odutola, Nigerian born artist who grew up in Alabama, known for her self-portraits, work in black ink and themes of identity #WomensArt

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Wow, wow, wow This has to be one of the cleverest, impactful short films I've ever watched Worthy of being mandatory viewing for anyone who provides frontline services, especially to older people #RiskingHappiness www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvww...

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US photographer Dorothea Lange documented the woman working in the shipyards, Richmond California, c.1943 during WW2 #WomensArt

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Brexit hasn't been betrayed. The British people have not been betrayed. The betrayal was Brexit. Once that is the established narrative, we can all go forward together.

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"The opposition I met with only served to increase my zeal and determination to persevere in the path of duty.” ~ Zilpha Elaw (c.1790-1873) #MondayMotivation

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The Mothers,1922 woodcut by Käthe Kollwitz, the artist is known for her anti war stance, which drew on her own experience of love and loss #WomensArt

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The three people killed in the fire at Bicester Motion have been named Firefighter Jennie Logan Firefighter Martyn Sadler Business owner David Chester www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Nobody should ever face the reality of going to work one day and never coming home Nobody www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

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Her expressionless face.. The tapping of her ear How lost she looks Her little feet on the rubble Is she, as Netanyahu puts it: “A murderous Islamist terrorist organization”? Can we be real about this FFS?

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A six-hour, online conference in tackling child sexual abuse Six pages of notes informed by social workers, legal experts and those with lived experience Horrible to still find this area of frontline work shocking but vital we never sit on our laurels if we are to truly keep #children safe #CPD

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Morning all. Photograph by Shirley Baker, Manchester, 1962.

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The starvation of Gaza is a war crime. It's as simple as that. Starvation as strategy: the siege of Gaza should be a stain on all our consciences aoav.org.uk/2025/starvat...

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“If ever you’re in need as I was May you have an island of strangers Like I had.” ~ Michael Rosen for Keir Starmer and his ‘Island of Strangers’ #hope #poetry #MigrationIsBeautiful www.culturematters.org.uk/island-of-st... @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social

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Meanwhile the people of Gaza are starving

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Stevie Wonder Visiting A Children's School For The Blind In London, 1970. Photographer Terry O'Neill. youtu.be/JI6zfrA3-CA?...

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Keir Starmer denies pushing anti-migrant policies in order to chase Reform, saying that "I'm doing this because it is right, because it is fair and because it is what I believe". A reminder of what he said he believed when he was running for Labour leader.

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Happiness is a book and a garden #SelfCareSunday #Grateful

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Shout out and big up to the staff working at a busy Farringdon station this Saturday morning They are making an already sunshine day in London town even brighter as they help all the tourists who are lost, hapless and in need of the loo #LondonIsOpen #KindnessMatters

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'Changing Woman', Navajo pictorial basket by Native American master weaver Elsie Holiday #WomensArt

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US photographer Dorothea Lange, Girl with umbrella, Louisiana, 1937 #womensart

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US artist Alison Saar's "Rise" is a linoleum print created in 2020 as a response to the Black Lives Matter movement #WomensArt

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Devastating Absolutely devastating For Layton, his family, and for all the children and their families affected by this dreadful, dreadful fire I sometimes have no words for the cruelty of this world www.bbc.com/news/article...

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