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🚨URGENT: Pakhshan Azizi and Verisheh Moradi, both Kurdish women, are facing imminent execution in Iran. Iranian authorities have executed at least 853 people in 2023 alone. We can’t let them be next. Sign the petition: www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/stop...

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Want to feel good about humanity? James Harrison, an Australian railway clerk, hated needles but donated blood every two weeks for over 60 years. The rare antibodies in his blood are credited with saving 2.4 million babies. RIP

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The entire town has come out to protest JD Vance and reports indicate he’s been either run out or forced to go into hiding. #3E #EndImpunity #StandWithUkraine

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Freddie Mercury didn't go into the studio and nail the vocals for "The Show Must Go On" in one take while dying of AIDS for you to despair and give up now. Take the time you need, but then get up and get back out there. The show must go on.

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3-year-old Fionn was the victim of a hit-and-run on his balance bike on Balmoral Road, where Newham Council have repeatedly delayed a LTN. Now Fionn's mum Jessica is demanding Newham act fast, because it could easily have been so much worse. Sign her petition: www.change.org/p/accelerate...

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Terrence Higgins Trust founder Martyn Butler is asking everyone to call M&S & urge them to pull their ads from GB News 👏👏👏 You can take action by leaving a friendly message on M&S Customer service: 0333 014 8000 asking them to #StopFundingHate

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"There's an old saying in diplomatic circles: 'If you are not at the table, you are on the table.' Hard to believe it's 2025, and two superpowers are meeting to split up a sovereign nation—like colonialism never went out of style. #Ukraine

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 19 days ago • 541 comments

There’s a @wildjustice.bsky.social led petition to ban #DrivenGrouseShooting - which is responsible for raptor persecution, for downstream flooding as a consequence of heather burning, and for moorland degradation (which disrupts an important CO2 sink). Please consider signing

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Oops 😬

submitted 26 days ago • 1038 comments

Courage.

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This is now at more than 25,000 complaints to Ofcom - one of the top three most complained about broadcast television moments of all time.

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"After one year of the zone, nitrogen dioxide from traffic was lower, GP visits for respiratory illnesses were down by 25% and those for heart problems decreased by 24%."

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

I spend a lot of my time trying to make listening to my music at my site accessible, it's my priority. It's free to you, I make nothing from it. It's a service. Maybe you will buy a CD, a gig ticket, but that's not my objective, please, dig, I'm a 60's hippy at heart www.robtog.com/music.htm

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

I've seen lots of people ragging on the Tesla Cybertruck due to its uncommon awkwardness and ugliness, but what about a bit of love for the Tesla Model 3 and its crushing mediocrity.

submitted 27 days ago • 16 comments

Loud, angry, and Indigenous: Heavy metal takes on colonialism and climate change. Indigenous bands have always been part of metal, creating a place for musicians and fans to channel anger and find community. grist.org/arts-culture... #Indigenous #HeavyMetal #Music #Climate

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Zack Polanski, "Austerity was always the problem, not the European Union" "If we want to solve the problems in this country right now we need to tackle inequality" Kay Burley, "How?" Zack Polanski, "Wealth tax.. Inequality in the country.. People are unhappy and our services are broken"

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Charing Cross Road, pedestrianised today. Glorious. Because whenever you take cars away, cities get better.

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More evidence that not only does airport expansion wreck the climate but it wrecks the health of those living nearby too #stopairportexpansion www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ja... @flightfreeuk.bsky.social

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"Drop Site News reports that more than 80 Palestinians have been killed by the IDF in Gaza since what we’re calling a “ceasefire” went into effect on the 19th of January." www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/theyre-sti...

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Just drive around it. Honestly, it’s much cheaper. #WorldBollardAssociation

submitted 35 days ago • 11 comments

Almost 20 years ago, a doctor on TV was asked, "Isn't 12 a little early for a kid to be deciding to transition?" And her response was, "It's old enough for them to decide that it's not worth living anymore if they can't." That was the only argument I ever needed to hear about gender affirming care.

submitted 36 days ago • 19 comments

I remain slightly baffled by the political wisdom of pinning your growth strategy on the single most complex and controversial option from which you're unlikely to get growth or popularity in this or the next Parliament. www.ft.com/content/a167...

submitted 35 days ago • 68 comments

Never liked their shit coffee anyway. 😊🤞🦋

submitted 36 days ago • 24 comments

This sums up the the road justice system in Scotland in one sentence, "What I find amazing with the sentencing guidelines is that there is so much emphasis put on allowing the drivers back on the road." This needs to change. Driving is a privilege, not a right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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What would really work: Massive investments in wind power, solar farms, cycleways, electric buses and faster trains. What won’t work: expanded airports.

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Less consumer information is never a good thing, and this is an entirely valid thing for a purchaser to want to have labelled. A completely dick move from Starmers government. search.app/8xHczd7k2zxJ...

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Who'd have guessed that AI would be absolutely rubbish at recognising a market bubble?

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A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people. Sound efficient? HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social

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"I didn't see the cyclist/pedestrian/horse rider/mobility scooter user because of the sun" should be treated as an immediate admission of guilt to driving dangerously and carry the maximum sentence. If the sun is preventing you from seeing clearly ahead, stop driving. news.stv.tv/west-central...

submitted 40 days ago • 8 comments

If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery.

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No love. You are not an ex pat in Spain, you are an immigrant in Spain. The self entitlement of Brits abroad is something we need to get over inews.co.uk/news/british...

submitted 42 days ago • 34 comments

man crypto is truly the perfect scam to target americans. everyone knows that it's just a greater fool scam, but our temporarily embarrassed millionaires can't help to jump on it anyway thinking

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“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons to want walkable streets.

submitted 43 days ago • 27 comments

In case you ever want to know what your IP address is...

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If you are interested in mental health and making the world a better place for people affected by severe and enduring mental illness, please follow my charity @rethinkcharity.bsky.social! 👍

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Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

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Good morning Bluesky. Today would have been Janey Godley's birthday. In tribute to her, let's make #TrumpIsACunt trend.

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Today marks the 20th anniversary of the #metrication of speed limits in the Republic of Ireland. 20 January 2005 was the day that all speed limits in Ireland switched from mph to km/h. metricviews.uk/2025/01/20/2...

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NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Is this the way to fix social care in England?

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Great to see that the reduction in insurance premiums from 20mph that was first identified by #20splenty and #esure is now being endorsed by others in insurance. See this article published today. Towns keeping collision-prone 30mph limits are set to become insurance premium and casualty hotspots.

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If you want cheering up, have a listen to this song. If this doesn't make you smile you are dead from the neck up. youtube.com/watch?v=UxiN...

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