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Heather Cawte 🏳️‍🌈🧑‍🦽🧵🧶🎨

@heathercawte.bsky.social

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Textile artist, writer, Remain voter, socialist, mother, sister, friend, wheelchair user, lesbian, she/her. #FBPE. Green Party member. *WILL NOT* follow back if you are US military, US contractor working abroad, or mining Bitcoin. ABSOLUTELY NO DMs.

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 5h

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 1d

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2h

“[Mamdani’s] presence wasn’t performative. It was pastoral. In a city that so often divides its grief by identity, he crossed the invisible line and simply showed up.”

i love this forward.com/opinion/7805...

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A few days later came another night I'll never forget - the Israelis for Peace vigil marking two years since the Hamas attack of Oct. 7, 2023.
Hundreds gathered - Israelis, Palestinians, Jews, Arabs, Americans - huddled together on folding chairs in Union Square in chilly weather, under an open sky. As part of a wide-ranging lineup, from the stage, I read a message from Liat Atzili, whose husband Aviv was killed that day; a short, piercing story by Etgar Keret; and a poem by Mahmoud Darwish that hung in the air like a spell.
And there was Mamdani again, sitting quietly in the front row next to Lander. He didn't take the microphone.
He didn't try to center the event on himself. He was just listening. Bearing witness.
His presence wasn't performative. It was pastoral. In a city that so often divides its grief by identity, he crossed the invisible line and simply showed up.
That's when it hit me: This is what safety looks like. Not fences or slogans, not solidarity-as-branding - but the radical act of standing with people in pain, without needing to own or edit it.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 2d

This is what I mean when I say that present-day covid denialism is right wing. It was a plan born of corporatists and wholly adopted by centrists and even leftists eager to pretend the pandemic was over, which should immediately give anyone thinking about it pause.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 3d

Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?

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Greens Against Covid @greensagainstcovid.bsky.social · Nov 22

Action on Covid and Long covid
We call on the government to protect us all from covid.
Air quality improvements in public indoor spaces e.g.schools,hosoitals,public transport, workplaces
NHS that is safe for patients and sraff
Free lateral flow tests
Sick pay for supported isolation
Research into improved vaccines and therapeutics
Post viral chronic illness research task force for better understanding of and treatment for Long Covid, ME and Chronic fatigue syndromes
Comprehensive, safe, evidence bases vaccination and booster programme

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Heather Cawte 🏳️‍🌈🧑‍🦽🧵🧶🎨 @heathercawte.bsky.social · 1d

Always taste better than any other type!

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 1d

FFS Daily Mail

No - the school classrooms were NOT used to teach “adult migrants”

Your own article explains this TWICE - and yet your headline…?🙄

I covered this yesterday in a thread when it was just RW accounts lying on Twitter

Now the DM are on it, let’s go again!

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 1d

Andrew Tate has been charged with rape, human trafficking, controlling prostitution and actual bodily harm. Nigel Farage described him as "an important voice for young men". That tells you all you need to know about Farage's moral compass.

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Greens Against Covid @greensagainstcovid.bsky.social · 1d

New to the @greenparty.org.uk Do you know we have a policy statement and a campaign group on #covid and #longcovid? The only party that does? If you're in @scottishgreens.org did you know they have just passed a policy on indoor air quality?

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Barnaby Edwards @barnabyedwards.bsky.social · 7d

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)

(Barnaby Edwards, acrylic on oil paper)

To take a closer look (or to buy the original painting) follow this link:

barnabyedwards.co.uk/brave-new-wo...

Please share with interested parties. Thank you!

#KeirDullea #StanleyKubrick #HAL9000 #ScienceFictionMovies

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Barnaby Edwards @barnabyedwards.bsky.social · 7d

METROPOLIS (1927)

(Barnaby Edwards, acrylic on oil paper)

To take a closer look (or to buy the original painting) follow this link:

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#BrigitteHelm #FritzLang #Maria #MachineHuman #robot #ScienceFictionMovies

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Barnaby Edwards @barnabyedwards.bsky.social · 7d

THE TERMINATOR (1984)

(Barnaby Edwards, acrylic on canvas paper)

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#ArnoldSchwarzenegger #JamesCameron #Terminator #ScienceFictionMovies

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Heather Cawte 🏳️‍🌈🧑‍🦽🧵🧶🎨 @heathercawte.bsky.social · 2d

Or refer him to SciManDan's YouTube channel - he debunks flat earth videos almost daily:
youtube.com/@scimandan?s...

SciManDan

Flat Earth debunker that uses science, reason and logical thinking to promote the proven natural history of Life, the Earth and Universe. Become a member for exclusive content, members-only chat and...

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the ghost of pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · 2d

happy halloween from samwise gamgee and frodo baggins! cloaks vests and shirts handmade by grandma, lembas bread by fig newtons corporation

two babies dressed as hobbits barefoot in the woods

they have walking sticks and cloaks and everything

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 2d

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J.P. @jpfpw.bsky.social · 2d

The fearmonger-in-chief also had a winge about it. I won’t share her tweet, but this was Glamour’s reply. 💀

British Glamour official account replying to Mouldemort with “Better luck next year Jo x”.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 2d

It is great how on its face ridiculous it is when these transphobes go on about “dangerous biological men“ and its 10 of the hottest women youve ever seen lmao

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d

I hope you’re all proud of yourselves, you have disgracefully sullied the good name of the renowned and respected Glamour Magazine Women Of The Year Award

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Nine biological men being declared 'Women of the Year' by Glamour magazine is beyond parody even by ludicrous woke virtue-signalling standards... and, I suspect, the beginning of the end for Glamour magazine.

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Airscaper @airscaper.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Harrison Ford on Trump's climate policy.
I couldn't agree more Harrison.

Trump's dislike of wind turbines is "just because he hasn't seen a gold one."

Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’

Indiana Jones star calls US president one of history’s greatest criminals for attacks on science and boosting of fossil fuels

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't realise when I woke up this morning that I was going to write a spooky story in its entirety, nor quite what it was going to be about. Then I remembered today was Halloween, so I thought: Why not post it here? www.tom-cox.com/lillian/

Lillian

I didn't realise when I woke up this morning that I was going to write a spooky story in its entirety, nor quite what it was going to be about (apart from an unnerving memory from my childhood about a...

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Heather Cawte 🏳️‍🌈🧑‍🦽🧵🧶🎨 @heathercawte.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, definitely! Even given her literary background and social circles, that was an extraordinary story to come up with, even more so for a person of her age. Everyone still knows the story - even if they don't get the names of the characters right ;) #TheArchers

Heather Cawte 🏳️‍🌈🧑‍🦽🧵🧶🎨 @heathercawte.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly what I came here to say! *No one* would be going as Mrs Frankenstein, either, unless they fancy dressing as a mutilated corpse 🤢🤢 #pedant #TheArchers

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God-Emperor Tsunami 💙 #FBPE #BLM #GTTO @tsunami65.bsky.social · 4d

Sir David Attenborough backs bid to buy Rothbury Estate - BBC News share.google/9YeDnrFT2CdW...

Sir David Attenborough backs bid to buy Rothbury Estate

Wildlife trusts attempt to raise £30m to keep Northumberland's Rothbury Estate from being split up.

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Sancardo 💚 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @sancardo.bsky.social · 5d

A sight for sore eyes

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proudleftycw.bsky.social @proudleftycw.bsky.social · 6d

I received another letter from Your Party today. They don't know who joined and who didn't. They cannot access the funds of those who joined as they used a (Private) company to hold them,"MOU" and now advise people to cancel their standing orders.
I'd recommend Joining #TheGreenParty instead.

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Heather Cawte 🏳️‍🌈🧑‍🦽🧵🧶🎨 @heathercawte.bsky.social · 6d

I saw you live on the Hearts and Flowers tour, and your smile lit up the whole venue. Thank you for all the music - a soundtrack to my life x

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ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 6d

Hear me out Slow Horses but Muppets, Jackson Lamb the only human

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