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Kirsten Bayes

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Kirsten Bayes @bayes.org.uk · 26d

Paddington Station in London at night, last month: trains on stop.

#stunday #photography

Trains in Paddington Station at night, watched by station staff.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

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Kirsten Bayes @bayes.org.uk · 14h

The current regime in the US is an absolute disgrace.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY

Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally

The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.

n.pr

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Kirsten Bayes @bayes.org.uk · 2d

Love this image from the before-time.

Kirsten Bayes @bayes.org.uk · 2d

I...have questions!

Kirsten Bayes @bayes.org.uk · 2d

Yes! I had two Auntie Kathys, only one of which was related.

Kirsten Bayes @bayes.org.uk · 2d

My auntie Deanne who helped look after me when I was a baby was in fact my second cousin once removed. Which as a baby I totally knew.

The muppety one @muppetk.bsky.social · 3d

Okay so I keep seeing people talk about how many people use the words aunt and uncle more loosely and

1) holy cow I am appalled to realize THIS is why

2) anyone who says they do not know that people use aunt & uncle about people who don’t strictly meet that definition seem kinda disingenuous

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 3d

lmao

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Kirsten Bayes @bayes.org.uk · 2d

My Dad would say, "poor old boy, look at him". But also the leader of a such a grim, harmful regime.

Blue Wave @votebiue.bsky.social · 3d

Lights are on but nobody is home.
We have a broken Roomba for President.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 3d

Seemingly no amount of carnage - from Yemen to Gaza - will cause Labour to deviate from it's decades-old policy of arming the world's worst human rights abusers with the most advanced means of violence. No war crimes too grave. No death toll too high.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

UK in £8bn deal to sell Typhoon jets to Turkey despite human rights concerns

Starmer’s announcement on visit to Ankara comes as jailed opposition leader Ekrem İmamoğlu faces fresh charges

www.theguardian.com

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Kirsten Bayes @bayes.org.uk · 5d

They've been saying the quiet part out loud for quite a while now.

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Kirsten Bayes @bayes.org.uk · 6d

Sharing this mainly to annoy / intrigue @jrberkeley.bsky.social

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 7d

8000 years of world history in one glance.

Timelines of different continents. Graphic by Josh Barzon

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 6d

like so many days since the blitz, today was terrifying. but the terror is outpaced by the burning hot solidarity of parents blocking school streets, hundreds of neighbors walking patrol, bicyclists chasing SUVs broadcasting whereabouts, and whistling winemoms bringing the fire of one thousand suns.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 7d

dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience

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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 7d

This is 100% correct. Including as to the chaos the Gender Critical Ideological Movement so beloved of Labour has now descended into as their facade of respectability crumbles like the Berlin Wall.

www.liberalcurrents.com/nobody-knows...

Nobody Knows What UK Law on Toilet Access is

The lawlessness of the government's response to For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Kirsten Bayes @bayes.org.uk · 7d

They remind me of those people who say, they are "all for human rights, but...", and you know that whatever comes out after that will be a horror. Their whole position is based on the view that Article 8 doesn't apply to trans people.

Kirsten Bayes @bayes.org.uk · 7d

Put it this way, when all this crashes and burns, which country do you think he will be fleeing to?

darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 8d

Kirsten Bayes @bayes.org.uk · 7d

And now I will too!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8d

I used to teach a college level 'community organizing' class many years ago. After a class one day, a student came to me and said "it's so much work to organize. I thought change just happened." I think of that student often.

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Kirsten Bayes @bayes.org.uk · 7d

And here we are.

Colleen Flanagan @holistictips4u.bsky.social · 8d

Frank Zappa speaking #TruthToPower 💙

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 10d

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT

"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts

A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

www.bloomberg.com

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Kirsten Bayes @bayes.org.uk · 11d

Sounds like a fine balm (though if I eat peppermint, I regret my life choices for days)!

Kirsten Bayes @bayes.org.uk · 11d

Space science podcasts for me. "Today we are going to discuss a galaxy discovered by the James Webb Telescope that appears to have no dark matter..." And...out.

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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 11d

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

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Kirsten Bayes @bayes.org.uk · 11d

We have had a full decade of this created directly by the UK arms trade, in Yemen, then in Palestine. And before that in East Timor. And before that...

Stop the arms trade.

caatuk.bsky.social @caatuk.bsky.social · 11d

Kirsten Bayes @bayes.org.uk · 11d

New garage band name just dropped, fellas.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11d

The most reckless, stupid administration E-V-E-R. Nothing comes close.