Gill Wildman
@wildwoman.bsky.social
Designer, Director of Upstarter and Plot
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Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply.
Link below.
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Link below.
Please share :)
Boring Fund | Christina Poulton
Applications now open!
£200 grants available for small charities, CICs and voluntary groups towards some of those boring but hard-to-fund costs.
www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply.
Link below.
Please share :)
Link below.
Please share :)
Love their work
The agency behind the real work is a design coop called Forge and they did an absolutely incredible job https://www.forge.coop/
Forge
Forge is a small design and development cooperative.
www.forge.coop
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Love their work
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"How can I break America? Let me count the ways" might as well be Trump's love song to a country whose agriculture, construction, foreign trade, air travel, energy/electricity, rule of law, education systems, and health he's savaged.
Air traffic controllers are resigning due to the stress inflicted by the government shutdown, a union president warned
Air Traffic Controllers Union Head Gives Dire Warning About How This Shutdown's Different
Nick Daniels, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, said workers have gone too long without paychecks to work safely.
www.huffpost.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
"How can I break America? Let me count the ways" might as well be Trump's love song to a country whose agriculture, construction, foreign trade, air travel, energy/electricity, rule of law, education systems, and health he's savaged.
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Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
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Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.
November 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.
The ‘We all have to pay in’ tax approach is so totally unfair - no wealth tax, no land tax, no recovering misspent monies from the Tory days…and will backfire. If the public funds had not been stripped by private greed, we might have more trust.
November 4, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The ‘We all have to pay in’ tax approach is so totally unfair - no wealth tax, no land tax, no recovering misspent monies from the Tory days…and will backfire. If the public funds had not been stripped by private greed, we might have more trust.
Have some autumn beauty
November 3, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Have some autumn beauty
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Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:
www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down
Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.
www.404media.co
October 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:
www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
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The path from abusing foreigners to abusing the disabled is well-trodden. I I hope this nugget is bright enough to reflect on who else has walked it.
Reform UK’s Lee Anderson wants to bring back the ‘invalid carriage’.
The Invacar was banned from English roads in 2003 over safety fears after some overturned and others caught fire.
The Invacar was banned from English roads in 2003 over safety fears after some overturned and others caught fire.
October 31, 2025 at 7:40 AM
The path from abusing foreigners to abusing the disabled is well-trodden. I I hope this nugget is bright enough to reflect on who else has walked it.
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Rep. Rosa DeLauro: "On the food stamp issue, the money is there! Let them not get away with saying they can't do it. Their political will isn't there to feed the people who rely on the SNAP program which is the most effective anti-hunger program in the USA."
October 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Rep. Rosa DeLauro: "On the food stamp issue, the money is there! Let them not get away with saying they can't do it. Their political will isn't there to feed the people who rely on the SNAP program which is the most effective anti-hunger program in the USA."
Pochin is an example of how the right feel safe to speak out, and we really don’t need the ‘was it racism?’ conversation. It is, it is core to them, and they are in the open. Now what are we going to do?
October 28, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Pochin is an example of how the right feel safe to speak out, and we really don’t need the ‘was it racism?’ conversation. It is, it is core to them, and they are in the open. Now what are we going to do?
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Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000.
RFK Jr. must resign.
RFK Jr. must resign.
October 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000.
RFK Jr. must resign.
RFK Jr. must resign.
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter
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This isn't just a national issue either; it is the single biggest soft power asset we have in a globally degrading information economy.
The end logic of this if you’re in the UK btw is DEFEND THE BBC.
Complain about it, protest bad coverage of course, but we won’t get another institution that makes safe, publicly funded, reliable, human-created, vetted content for kids if we let the BBC get destroyed.
Complain about it, protest bad coverage of course, but we won’t get another institution that makes safe, publicly funded, reliable, human-created, vetted content for kids if we let the BBC get destroyed.
We've reluctantly removed access to YouTube kids. It's now no longer just the odd thing
October 23, 2025 at 7:37 AM
This isn't just a national issue either; it is the single biggest soft power asset we have in a globally degrading information economy.
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I personally am significantly more worried about the effects of LLMs and AI video slop on children’s brain development than I am about even social media. I am very worried that our school systems and laws are pushing kids toward AI artificial “friends” while banning social apps.
Yeah I think there are going to be more families who do the equivalent of “we don’t own a TV, we simply all sing madrigals around the piano by candlelight for entertainment” during these next decades. There isn’t a safe amount of AI slop for kids to be exposed to. So if a platform has it: then no.
NB TikTok is totally blocked on my kids’ devices, but thanks to the fact all their videos are fully downloadable (how is THAT legal) it’s inescapable - all big websites are now video scrolling services, even Spotify etc, and they’re all full of TikTok slop
October 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I personally am significantly more worried about the effects of LLMs and AI video slop on children’s brain development than I am about even social media. I am very worried that our school systems and laws are pushing kids toward AI artificial “friends” while banning social apps.
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House
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➡️The economic cost of looking after adults and children suffering from long covid is currently estimated to be £4.8 billion
October 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
➡️The economic cost of looking after adults and children suffering from long covid is currently estimated to be £4.8 billion
Everybody, yes everybody says this, and that it will continue to mess us and our economy up. So, can we just make a bold decision to do something about it?
If only there was someone who could fix it, Rachel Reeves. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rachel Reeves says Brexit deal caused long-term damage to economy
Rachel Reeves made the comments about the 2020 deal at a key meeting of the world's leading finance ministers and central bankers.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Everybody, yes everybody says this, and that it will continue to mess us and our economy up. So, can we just make a bold decision to do something about it?
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Brexit Will Damage The UK Economy 'For The Foreseeable Future', Says Bank Of England Chief
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/brexit...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/brexit...
Brexit Will Damage The UK Economy 'For The Foreseeable Future', Says Bank Of England Chief
Andrew Bailey confirms what we've all known for years.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Brexit Will Damage The UK Economy 'For The Foreseeable Future', Says Bank Of England Chief
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/brexit...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/brexit...
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“Professing love for Hitler is more than anti-Semitic—it’s antihuman,” George Packer argues. The Young Republicans’ texts “degrade all of us”:
The Depth of MAGA’s Moral Collapse
How we got to “I love Hitler.”
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October 19, 2025 at 7:15 AM
“Professing love for Hitler is more than anti-Semitic—it’s antihuman,” George Packer argues. The Young Republicans’ texts “degrade all of us”:
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As the Trump administration continues its crackdown, millions across the US are expected to hit the streets for this weekend's "No Kings" protest. If that includes you or your loved ones, here's a 🧵 of guides to follow to protest safely in the age of surveillance.
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How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
www.wired.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
As the Trump administration continues its crackdown, millions across the US are expected to hit the streets for this weekend's "No Kings" protest. If that includes you or your loved ones, here's a 🧵 of guides to follow to protest safely in the age of surveillance.
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They stole over 30 of my books, primarily *most* of my (award-winning) erotica collections.
Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year
October 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
They stole over 30 of my books, primarily *most* of my (award-winning) erotica collections.