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churchtimes.bsky.social @churchtimes.bsky.social · 3h

Ukraine’s Greek Catholic Primate has warned that current enthusiasm about peace in #Gaza and elsewhere is coinciding with a surge in Russian attacks on his country

#ukraine #russia #churchnews #churchtimes

Ukraine’s Greek Catholic Primate warns Gaza relief is coinciding with surge in Russian attacks

Night shelling and drone attacks kill Orthodox priest and a four-year-old girl at a church

www.churchtimes.co.uk

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Neutron Decay @neutrondecay.bsky.social · 4h

The BBC's initial response is extremely discouraging and does not give the impression that they take this criticism seriously: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC viewers worried about political interference, Tim Davie says

The BBC releases the results of a major questionnaire about its services and place in society.

www.bbc.co.uk

Neutron Decay @neutrondecay.bsky.social · 6h

It will come as no surprise to anyone who knows me that I believe the BBC's lack of independence from government has long been a problem, and that it has gravely worsened in recent years.

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Neutron Decay @neutrondecay.bsky.social · 6h

The 'Our BBC, Our Future' survey results are out. 91% of respondents felt it important that the BBC should be independent of the government of the day; just 43% felt it was effective in being so.

www.bbc.co.uk/ourbbcourfut...

Our BBC, Our Future

www.bbc.co.uk

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Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social · 20h

The absolute bloody vandalism of austerity in one chart. Good analysis of the overall picture here.

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Chris Hutchings #ChoirsForClimate @hutchingsmusic.bsky.social · 7h

Interesting: cost of working-age benefits hasn't gone up overall, it's just been a shift from unemployment benefits to disability benefits. Yet politicians are claiming the cost of working-age benefits is unsustainable or unjustifiable.

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 17h

Non-pensioner benefits have been stable (roughly between 4-5% of GDP) over many decades
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Chart showing: Non-pensioner benefits have been stable over many decades

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 22h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

We have to penalize blatant lying, particularly by public figures. We’ve slid
into a post-truth world and nothing but sheer cultural gruntwork is going to get us out.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Neutron Decay @neutrondecay.bsky.social · 1d

True, but I'm extending their social media team the benefit of the doubt. I've been in the position of having to promote policies I knew were, at best, ill-considered.

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Neutron Decay @neutrondecay.bsky.social · 1d

This is a scandal and a mark of shame against this country. You're bowing to the opinions of bigots, and running directly contrary to your own remit and the strongly expressed legal opinions of international observers.

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In Quires and Places where they meme @quiresandplaces.com · 1d

Our extensive summary of Murders and Evensongs in Murder before Evensong so far.

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Sabermane @homelessrobot.bsky.social · 1d

No.

Fuck No.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 3d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 2d

Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int

Strasbourg 14/10/2025

www.coe.int

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 2d

If the review says anything other than "we are not providing any care for the vast majority of adult trans people", I might actually lose my mind.

TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 2d

NHS England will soon be publishing its review of adult gender services. Trans Healthcare Coalition have created a breakdown of what the review is about, what outcomes we’d like to see, and more.

Find the full breakdown here: tinyurl.com/LevyExplaine...

#transhealthcare #NHS #LevyReview

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Dave Walker @davewalker.bsky.social · Aug 25

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

Diagram titled 'Possible causes of your problems'. On the left hand side, subtitled 'Yes': Funding removed from local councils, growing gap between rich and poor, multinational companies not paying their taxes, lack of new affordable housing, government not investing sufficiently in schools and healthcare. On the right hand side, subtitled 'No': Picture of small boat, with arrow; 'People fleeing horrific situations that you and I can't imagine'.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson's legal bills.

The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

www.theguardian.com

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d

ALSO. ALSO. Needing us to find Europeans who condemned him for his actions at the time--and there are many! So many! My God so many!--is also some white supremacist bullshit, because the TAINO PEOPLE HE WAS MURDERING CERTAINLY CONDEMNED HIM FOR IT AND THEY WERE HUMAN BEINGS OF HIS TIME TOO.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 3d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

A new week - and a new huge milestone!

@greenparty.org.uk now have 100,000 members!!!

We are absolutely on track to next overtake the Tories - let's make hope normal again!

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 3d

The Stockholm-Hamburg/Berlin sleeper has been saved. RDC will take over when SJ pulls out. May not run on some winter nights in future though: www.berliner-zeitung.de/mensch-metro...

The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 6d

Breaking: SJ to discontinue successful Stockholm-Hamburg/Berlin sleeper train after 31 August 2026, a month after Swedish government subsidy ends.

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Neutron Decay @neutrondecay.bsky.social · 3d

Proprietary database, suppliers bankrupt.

👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

Sir Gilbert Scott restoration.

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

Manuscript lost in fire.

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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 3d

If Trenitalia gets approval for its proposed London-Paris service, it has pledged to call at Ashford International. www.railtech.com/new-routes/2...

Italy’s FS vows to reopen Ashford and revive Kent’s Channel Tunnel link

  Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (FS) has become the first would-be Eurostar rival to make a concrete pledge to reopen Ashford International, the Kent station shuttered since 2020.…

www.railtech.com

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 3d

Can we just not comment on people's appearances unless they're very clearly engaging in the internet in that way?

(Eg, "Here's a picture of me in a dress I feel cute in" or etc).

Can we esp not sexualize people who are clearly not trying to use social media For That?

Can be v v creepy & unwanted.

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Fergus Murray @fergus.oolong.co.uk · 4d

'Antifa, which is to say anti-fascists: not an organisation, but a term for everybody who is opposed to fascism'

pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 4d

Journos need to always challenge the right-wing framing of "antifa" being a specific organisation that can be banned or restricted. Just straight up be like "but that's nonsense, it doesn't exist" every time

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Neutron Decay @neutrondecay.bsky.social · 4d

He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts
And hath exalted the humble and meek.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Neutron Decay @neutrondecay.bsky.social · 4d

"They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'

He will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'"

Matthew 25:44-45