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That's a fun fact! It also can cause deafness, blindness and oh, if you're lucky, encephalitis, which my brother got in kindergarten because there was no vaccine yet in the 1950s.

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Essential reading today. Last year we found that more than four in 10 council homes sold under right to buy are now owned by private landlords. We need to be honest about the devastating impact the right to buy scheme has had on our housing system. neweconomics.org/2024/05/refo...

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The solution to GP appointments being limited to ten minutes is to properly fund the NHS so that we can train and recruit more doctors.

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I am EXTREMELY EXCITED to announce the launch of Wellbeing of Women's Period Symptom Checker, written and built by ME! Co-designed by GPs, researchers, other women with menstrual health conditions and the team at Wellbeing of Women. www.wellbeingofwomen.org.uk/what-we-do/c...

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Sometimes I think I can't be autistic because I haven't struggled enough in life. Then I remember that when I was 7-10 I had to drop out of school twice because I couldn't handle the unfair rules, the bullying for being ”weird”, and the boredom. Ok, maybe that was related to being autistic?

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Loving the talk from @kirstymcneill.bsky.social at #SCVOGathering today, telling civil society organisations they have a duty to challenge government. I agree!

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Education IS #advocacy. I was just speaking to a charity at #TheGathering #SCVOGathering who, when I told them I did campaign strategy, said that they ”only” did information, not campaigning. I believe that on an issue suffering from misinformation and taboo in society, information IS campaigning.

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This is incredible investigative journalism. Very powerful. The Government should respond to this.

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Got this book out of the library the other day and it is THE BEST book for 4 year olds. My son's choice as it's got dinosaurs in. Turns out it is about #TradeUnionism. 10/10 shop.scholastic.co.uk/products/Din...

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@emilyloganmusic.bsky.social hello!

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It’s been a while but I’ve been prompted to do some #StarterPack admin! If you work in or around UK charities and you’d like to be added, just let me know! #Charity folks Part 1 go.bsky.app/7dPWqWQ #Charities folk Part 2: go.bsky.app/QWpFmRe Charity folks Part 3: go.bsky.app/U9Thoeg

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I just itemised asking "How are you?" in the agenda for a new client kickoff meeting I'm planning. Because if I don't write that down, I'm liable to forget to ask, and to jump straight to the 'work' bit. 😄 #ScheduledFriendliness #ProbablyAutistic

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Check out my interview about being a Mum in Tech. Advocating for trade union membership for all and income protection insurance for freelancers! motherboardmovement.co.uk/community/mu... /Cc @the-tuc.bsky.social #motherhood #work #TradeUnions

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@jamescrowley.org hello!

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Had a snowball fight, made a tiny snowman, found fox tracks.

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Just restored my period data from P Tracker app cloud after resetting my phone, and noticed I've been recording my periods for 14 years in that app!

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That's it. Influencer content has reached rock bottom.

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At @neweconomics.bsky.social, we estimated that building 90,000 social homes a year over this parliament would yield £225bn in economic & social benefits over the next 30 years, with 43% of that value attributable specifically to those homes being for social rent neweconomics.org/2024/10/buil...

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What are some ethics you have but which you go against in how you live, because you and the world are imperfect? For example, I am ethically vegan, but in reality I am only a pescetarian.

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Not to be #NotAllMen about it but my other half who is male is definitely an outlier as he's much better at presents than I am! I haven't got him anything yet 😳

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Does anyone in the UK want to buy these size 41 (UK 7.5) boots off me? Brand new, unopened box. Because I'm keeping the 42s and returning is proving hard... www.facebook.com/marketplace/...

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He died as he lived, clicking “Forgot password,” then checking his inbox for a code, then putting in that code, then setting up two-step verification, and then waiting for the text message that doesn’t come, and then calling the 800 number, and then downloading an authenticator app, and dying.

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Great job, great people, massively important work building movement generosity and cross org cross issue thinking to win stuff for all of us on the progressive side of things - do apply!

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Interesting write up, they've used the petition data to look at support percentages by constituency. Has anyone built a site with visual heat maps of all the petitions on the government site? Where you could see which are the top petitions in each area for example? If I had time, I'd build this!

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Today is #InternationalMigrantDay! 🌍 and we're excited to share an informative animation that explores the concept of #CommunitySponsorship. This project was created in collaboration with Cognitive Media Watch the full animation here bit.ly/ResetExplainer

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Lololol. Yeah, I guided it to this answer. Shh. H/t @tomwillmot.bsky.social for the idea.

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Reckon it's going to take me about two days to recover from the 90 minutes I just spent at my 4yr old's nursery Xmas party. Absolute chaos. Noise, flashing lights and overcrowding in a small space. Couldn't stand it. I was glad he wanted to leave early!

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