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Trussell @trusselluk.bsky.social · 21h

📈 Rents are soaring...

📉 but housing support isn't keeping up.

This is leaving people facing homelessness, or living in cold, mouldy, unsafe homes.

It's so wrong. We're calling for urgent action to properly support people to access the homes they need. 💚

Image shows Rachel Reeves standing in front of a UK flag, with a headline about urging an increase in housing benefit to address homelessness. It reads: Reeves urged to boost housing benefit in Budget as thousands 'face homelessness'

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Detention Action @detentionaction.bsky.social · 1d

For thousands of people each year, detention is the place where their liberty is taken away, where they’re cut off from loved ones, and where uncertainty is the norm. In our new explainer series, we aim to highlight the reality of detention and the harm it causes.

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Asylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social · 21h

When care workers are scared to look after people, something has gone very, very wrong.

We're here to demand a better system for people seeking safety, but we'll never have that until we end the relentless tide of hostility towards all migrants, whatever their reason for coming to the UK.

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

www.theguardian.com

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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sumosoul.bsky.social @sumosoul.bsky.social · 1d

Sumo in London is gearing up.

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/r/Habs @habsonreddit.bsky.social · 1d

Lane Hutson on IG:

“🏠”

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Hockey Out of Context Loves Canada @nhloutofcontext.bsky.social · 1d

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Sally Greaves @cardiokiwi.bsky.social · 1d

Solstice was sometimes affectionately called "The Egg Cannon" & was the matriarch of the 'Celestial dynasty'-many descendants carry celestial-themed names. Cloacitis continues to be a curse in this population. Research is ongoing.😔

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.doc.govt.nz/nature/nativ...

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Jenny @jennnyh1977.bsky.social · 1d

Teatime hockey IN DAYLIGHT is HIGHLY convenient to me personally #GoAvsGo

Colorado Avalanche @avalanche.bsky.social · 1d

The more you watch this goal, the more absurd it becomes 🤯

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Jenny @jennnyh1977.bsky.social · 1d

Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 2d

Papa Smurf wears a Phrygian cap, most often associated with the French Revolution, indicating Smurf Village had a monarchy it has since overthrown. This makes Papa Smurf, de facto head of state post-revolution, akin to Robespierre. In this essay I will —

An image of Papa Smurf, a small blue man with a white beard. He’s wearing red trousers that lead into shoes and a red cap that slouches forward.

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Jenny @jennnyh1977.bsky.social · 1d

🙌🙏🙌

PKHabs @pkhabs.bsky.social · 1d

Lane Hutson Extension! Finally! We move!!

Jenny @jennnyh1977.bsky.social · 3d

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 4d

Alas, somebodye took the German holidaye fruit breade. It was stollen!

Jenny @jennnyh1977.bsky.social · 3d

where've we seen this before?

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 4d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Jenny @jennnyh1977.bsky.social · 3d

Most accurate Tolkein illustrator

P J Richards @pj-richards.bsky.social · 3d

🌿🍃🌿Gandalf - by John Howe
#FolkloreSunday #MythologyMonday

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YourAnonRiots 🐈️🏴🇵🇸🇲🇲🦋 @youranonriots.bsky.social · 3d

Seeking asylum is a human right.
Seeking asylum is a human right.
Seeking asylum is a human right.
Seeking asylum is a human right.
Seeking asylum is a human right.
#StopICE #fuckICE #FuckМAGA #stopfascism

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Manchester History @mcrhistory.bsky.social · 4d

11th October #otd in 1851 during a stay in Manchester, Queen Victoria praised the city's "very intelligent but painfully unhealthy-looking population".

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Hockey Out of Context Loves Canada @nhloutofcontext.bsky.social · 4d

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Jenny @jennnyh1977.bsky.social · 5d

"Self-harm on a heroic scale" about sums it up

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 5d

According to the thinktank UK in a Changing Europe, most industries just cannot wait. They are struggling to keep open markets, and if necessary realign themselves with the EU by the back door. The chemicals industry exports more than 60% of its output to the EU. Brexiteers boasted it would be liberated from EU regulation, but setting up the UK’s own regulator cost £2bn and has not worked. According to the Chemical Industries Association, output has fallen by 35-40% since 2021. Between 2021 and 2023, British exports to the EU fell by a serious 27%. Brexiteers boasted that leaving the EU would be worth hundreds of billions a year. Cambridge Econometrics estimates that over the next decade Britain’s economy will be £300bn smaller than if we had not left the EU. This is self-harm on a heroic scale.

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M. J. Grant @campaignbear.bsky.social · 5d

If this was any other sector, this would be front page news.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 5d

'Universities have collectively announced more than 12,000 job cuts in the last year, new analysis from the University and College Union (UCU) suggests.'

Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens

University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jenny @jennnyh1977.bsky.social · 5d

Hate the new yellow. Hatey-hatey-HATE-hate. especially the yellow helmets. ZERO dignity, ZERO vroom, ZERO chill. Also, sorry but it's NOT "gold". Germany tries that too with their black red and YELLOW flag and they don't fool me either. Anyway, #LetsGoPens

NHL Goals @nhlgoals.bsky.social · 5d

Pittsburgh goal!

Scored by Evgeni Malkin with 16:37 remaining in the 1st period.

Assisted by Sidney Crosby and Rickard Rakell.

Pittsburgh: 1
New York: 0

#NYIvsPIT #LetsGoPens #Isles

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Jenny @jennnyh1977.bsky.social · 5d

This but milky tea and I'd never have to stand up again

weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 5d

Fremen stillsuit but it makes coffee from your pee?

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Jenny @jennnyh1977.bsky.social · 5d

✨Post you from a different era✨

Me aged about 12 with braces, and glasses that you could change the rim colour of by threading different coloured wires through. I thought one white eye and one orange was FUNKY.

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Jenny @jennnyh1977.bsky.social · 5d

Cannot for the life of me tell what decade this is from? 1910s but saucy?

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 5d

Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972), US playwright, poet and novelist. Lover of US painter Romaine Brooks among others, she began publishing love poems to women under her own name as early as 1900 #WomensArt

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Asylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social · 5d

This is why we should all be angry about the use of asylum hotels. Private firms raking in millions while people forced to live in these hotels endure appalling conditions.

People seeking safety and UK taxpayers are losing out and the only winners are millionaire companies.

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of "terrible" conditions as accommodation provider makes millions.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 6d

Leafs power play really looking like it’s lacking a solid playmaker who could really turn the tide.

Wonder if they ever had one of those…

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