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msherrington.bsky.social
Charity consultant/coach (strategy, comms & leadership stuff). People Power, Quirks, Wows & Bitter Irony. It's all personal.
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Just binged to the end of State of Happiness s1. Highly recommend if you haven’t got into it, 70s style brown-suited paternalistic chauvinism set in Norway’s oil and gas wild west, while the women roll their eyes. That partner switcheroo was semaphored from the start tho, no surprise there.

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More INGO redundancies, but the unconscionable impact of US and UK aid cuts is on the poorest people in some of the most unstable countries of the world. More people literally dying.

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Which would be a war crime. As with Trump pulling support from Ukraine, this sort of blackmail is contemptible.

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A very sad day for us, having to say goodbye unexpectedly to our fluffy Oatly. A gorgeous, happy and friendly cat.

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Nothing ‘difficult’ about taking instructions. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Important message to government this International Women’s Day, when they’ve just slashed aid, and women and girls will suffer most. Good job @careintuk.bsky.social

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More deadly consequences of US and UK aid cuts: millions of refugees around the world dependent on food aid rations, now going hungry. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Happy World Book Day! What are you reading? Me, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social’s book on how the history of slavery has been told. An examination of the axiom that history is told by victors, or in this case, white supremacy. ”Just because someone tells you a story doesn’t make that story true.”

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“The best security guarantee is to give the US economic upside.” Proof if still needed that the mafia state sees foreign policy as a protection racket opportunity.

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Seriously? They beat him up and then blame him? Makes no sense to sign without security guarantees. Trump would sell Ukraine to Putin and still keep the minerals. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Literally pulling the plug on life-support for 300,000 children, taking life-saving food from their mouths. www.huffpost.com/entry/mana-f...

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Planet Parade. Venus at the top, and Mercury directly below on the tree line. If you zoom in …

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I mean, fucking hell. This is the mafia state in action, taking Zelenskyy down a back alley for a beating. With cameras.

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My MP, for Oxford East. Hard to know what Labour’s about these days, so nice to see some sign of principles. Being ‘grown-ups in charge’ only gets them so far. Minister Anneliese Dodds quits over aid cuts www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Turns out he was lying. USAID’s disease prevention programmes, including for Ebola, remain shuttered.

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I think general usage of ‘out of comfort zone’ implies something new, something challenging, in an exciting or unnerving sort of way. Not ‘we don’t know what the hell were doing’. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Decades after wars end, unexploded land mines keep people living in fear, and still kill. Land-mine clearance is essential aid work that makes land safe so communities can rebuild their lives. Essential aid that both US and UK governments have cut. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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The little giggle when he says it. The mindless disdain for consequences.

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Just signed this petition for a tax on the super-rich to invest in renewal and a fairer Britain. When the government chooses to cut aid and condemn the poorest people in the world to deeper poverty, rather than look at tax, they’ve lost the plot. Sign too? action.greenpeace.org.uk/e/854853/3TR...

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And this is why Greenpeace is in court in the US this very week, facing a spurious but costly SLAPP suit from fossil fuel companies trying to shut down any protest that shines a light on their environmentally destructive practices.

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Fifteen years ago Greenpeace ran a creative campaign to rebrand BP for their greenwashing hypocrisy. Worth revisiting what people came up with. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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When the mask finally comes off. Decades of PR greenwashing, sponsoring the arts. But oil and gas, baby, yeah? BP to slash green investment and ramp up gas and oil www.bbc.com/news/article...

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International Aid to be slashed to 0.3%. Absolutely appalling retreat from the days cross-party commitment to 0.7%. Clearly ‘soft power’ is dead in the water. And it’s not as though, now outside Europe, the UK had anything else.

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I've just signed "Marks & Spencer - stop advertising on GB News" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/ma... @StopFundingHate

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It’s the end world as we know it. Time for Europe to get real and stop pandering. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Slava Ukraini. 🇺🇦✊

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Health Freedom! Freedom to die of the old classics. It pains me, having American anti-vaxxers in the family.

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White supremacists gonna white supremacist. They’re not hiding it.

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Trump clears out military chiefs, no doubt those who’d refuse to fire on US citizens, to appoint loyalists who would. Who’s seen Civil War, with its third-term President? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Email from Thames Water to tell me our bills will go up £192 next year. As I said, absolute crooks.

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Fascinating thread here on Progressive Activists (of which based on the questions and charts I am probably one). Food for thought for campaigning organisations and tone. Basic comms 101 - we are not our audience.

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The US is now a rogue state. Who’d ever have imagined that. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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As Thames Water win in court to take on a further £3bn in debt, a reminder here how privatisation took a debt-free public utility to the point of collapse, racking up £19bn debt to pay dividends while pumping more and more sewage into the river. Absolute crooks. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Tolerance, anyone? Never forget people, that today’s Tory party only cares about divisive culture war bullshit. thttps://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/feb/17/kemi-badenoch-western-civilisation-will-be-lost-tory-party-fails

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‘Bold vision’ my arse. On the one hand, gaslight Europe on democratic values. On the other, surrender Ukraine to Putin over its people’s heads, and advocate for the ‘ethnic cleansing’ forced removal of 2.5 million Palestinians into the desert so you can build hotels. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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