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Phoenixrising1051

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Mid 70s. Gardening, reading, preserving, cooking, politicaly left of centre. Left the UK to escape Brexit. Pro Palestine, anti fascism. Pro humanity and all creatures that live on this planet. Not very optimistic for the future of human kind. 🏳️‍🌈🌱🍴🌻🇵🇸 🇪🇺 🇮🇪☘️

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Phoenixrising1051 @scorpions51.bsky.social · Sep 3

Danni from birth to death. 3rd August 1981 to 5th September 2011.

I still miss her. I still talk to her.

Despite all that she had to go through in her short life she was so very alive, so very giving. I miss her, especially her very wicked sense of humour.

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Top left Danni one day old.
Middle left Danni's grave marker, woodland burial.
Bottom left Danni on holiday with me in Portugal after her treatment for cancer the previous year August 1998
Top right Danni hooked up to the dialysis machine about a year before her death.
Bottom right, the last photo of Danni that I can find.

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DanTechnik @dantechnik.bsky.social · 2h

I love this so much, such a beautiful way to think about growing older.

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Healthy Seniors (@healthyseniors)

One month before turning 95, Patricia Routledge wrote this, she died today aged 96. “I’ll be turning 95 this coming Monday. When I was younger, I often worried I wasn’t good enough—that I’d never be ...

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Phoenixrising1051 @scorpions51.bsky.social · 13h

The leeks themselves are great.

Phoenixrising1051 @scorpions51.bsky.social · 13h

Beware the Oligarchs’ Two Bubbles

Beware the Oligarch's AI Bubble

They’re likely to burst.

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Leigh G @yogaleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Can I tell you a secret? I don't care if there are undocumented immigrants in this country. I think it's a non-issue. Without social security numbers they're not getting the welfare people claim they're getting, the vast majority of them are normal people trying to live a better life.
This whole wall deport-the-illegals bullshit is just the one percent convincing the working poor to blame a subset of the working poor for the fact that they're all poor, instead of realizing they're all poor due to vast income inequality and resource price inflation in combination with wage stagnation.
The existence of another poor person is not why you're poor. It's because the people who control everything refuse to increase your wages.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1d

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 2d

Great article by our friend Sarah
Clancy, who was kidnapped by apartheid Israel in international waters trying to get aid into Gaza. Our governments' complicity in the genocide of Palestinians compels us to act in all the different ways we can. #FreePalestine
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Sarah Clancy: Flotillas show that ordinary people must be the antidote to toxic world powers

After arrest, imprisonment, and deportation from Israel, Sarah Clancy, an Irish Gaza flotilla participant, reflects on solidarity, conscience, and the power of ordinary people

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Phoenixrising1051 @scorpions51.bsky.social · 2d

How would any loving parent film their child's distress? Horror parents, where is the love for those little people?

Phoenixrising1051 @scorpions51.bsky.social · 2d

Sunday thought: the Big Reveal

Sunday thought: the big Reveal

Friends,

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Phoenixrising1051 @scorpions51.bsky.social · 4d

He never had it to lose!

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Happy #WorldMentalHealthDay lovely phone family. There's no shame in admitting you're not doing great or you need support. There's always someone who will listen, so reach out if you need to and check in on loved ones. Be kind to yourself and each other. Have a peaceful day 🥰
#HaveCourageAndBeKind ❤️

Two fluffy pandas sat together. One has an arm around the other and there are love hearts across them both.
Text reads: When someone is going a rough time, just sit with them, no preaching, no judgement, just be there for them.
Credit - Mental Health Believe UK

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Phoenixrising1051 @scorpions51.bsky.social · 4d

Good morning. How are you?

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Phoenixrising1051 @scorpions51.bsky.social · 5d

Yes. And yes very hard to do especially when travelling, trying to find hotels that do not use fragrances in their laundry. It has become so much worse in the last five or so years.

Phoenixrising1051 @scorpions51.bsky.social · 5d

Fragrance allergies can be very debilitating.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

I’m sensitive to the scents my children’s friend brings into the house. What do I do?

You can set boundaries for your health in our perfume-obsessed world – but you should be extra considerate

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Phoenixrising1051 @scorpions51.bsky.social · 7d

Budget 2026: What’s another year to a hungry two-year-old?

Fintan O'Toole on Budget 2026: What’s another year to a hungry two-year-old?

Nobody disagrees on the value of a second tier of child benefit. So why has it not been introduced? Lethargy

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Phoenixrising1051 @scorpions51.bsky.social · 7d

We were in #Portland this week six years ago. Would we feel as safe today? #USA

Phoenixrising1051 @scorpions51.bsky.social · 7d

Pictures coming out off the USA with heavily armoured and clad soldiers in some cities are really scary. War torn countries spring to mind. 1930s Germany? How has this happened? This isn't policing as most of us know it. #USA #war #nazi #pieergrab

Phoenixrising1051 @scorpions51.bsky.social · 9d

How can he be president? Who are his puppet masters? He clearly is not in charge of himself or any one else.

Phoenixrising1051 @scorpions51.bsky.social · 9d

One of the climbing roses that is still flowering in the garden. The storm did not blow off all the flowers

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Palestine 🍉🇵🇸 @palestne4ever.bsky.social · 9d

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Phoenixrising1051 @scorpions51.bsky.social · 9d

I am furious. There would not be "relentless protests" if the government ended their support for the genocide in Gaza and their support for Israeli annexing of the West Bank. Stop the supply of weapons and other goods to Israel.