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Edits things; WSET Diploma student (very lapsed); knitter; food and wine lover. A worrier. Also dances a bit.
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A Christmas Carol brought home to Leeds

Charles Dickens’ much-loved tale of the perils of greed, the power of community spirit and of ultimate redemption is a seasonal feast

By Ginny Gilmore
@gingoddess.bsky.social
A Christmas Carol brought home to Leeds
Charles Dickens’ much-loved tale of the perils of greed, the power of community spirit and of ultimate redemption is a seasonal feast
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Does anyone in the Leeds area recognise this style of security pass? Found in Whitehall Road 9 December
December 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I want to decorate our Xmas tree. I have our Xmas tree and probably not quite enough decorations.|
I am in complete stasis - reading Bluesky - in case I do it wrong. I don't even believe in Xmas tree police
December 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I only just realised that one way to support all the wonderful creatives that @garius.bsky.social is supporting would be to repost his thread. Fill your boots, there is lovely stuff to be had
🌲 THE BIG CHRISTMAS GIFT THREAD! 🌲

If you are a creator or small shop/business, reply to this post with:

- pics and a brief description of what you do (don't forget the alt text!)
- a link or details on how people can buy

I will boost you!

Everyone else: buy the cool things! Repost this post! ⛄
December 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Another Brexit economic verdict arrived last month in the form of an 83-page NBER working paper - and it is devastating.

What shocks me more is how politely politics continues to look away from the person who drove the bus.
The Farage Tax: What The UK Pays For One Man's Ego
GDP down, investment down, wages down - but Farage’s influence? Higher than ever
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
If you find yourself in West Yorkshire, any Yorkshire really, this winter, do try to see this starring @reecedinsdale.bsky.social . It's really fabulous.

yorkshirebylines.co.uk/society/cult...
A Christmas Carol brought home to Leeds
Charles Dickens’ much-loved tale of the perils of greed, the power of community spirit and of ultimate redemption is a seasonal feast
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Could I ask you clever people a question please. I have an iPhone 14 running iOS18.?
I used to be able to move an app into a folder on the home screen but pressing it and dragging it. I now can't get it to move into a folder, just move around the screen.
What am I doing wrong please?
December 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.
November 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
This is a fairly terrifying read, particularly if you have any knowledge of how the NHS tries to function. Just those six words: Flu has come five weeks early.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/the-punish...
The Punishment Model of Government
League tables, political cruelty and the quiet fear spreading through the NHS this winter.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Can I please ask all my followers in the US (a surprising number from Kansas for some reason, which is epic) to pass two messages on for your orange grievance merchant in chief?

First - Leave the BBC out of your lying mouth.

Second - #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles.

Please and thank you.
Trumplethinskin Goes After the BBC - Because Facts Keep Hurting His Feelings
The man who demanded people "fight like hell" now insists the real injury was a slightly compressed quote on Panorama.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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“My whole life, my real life, unfolded here. This is home, heart and bone.”

A beautiful, uplifting thread.

Shame on you, Shabana Mahmood
I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.

Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.

A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Gah! Order a jacket. Check website sizing carefully against another garment because 'women's clothes'. Arrives: too small. To return it I have to pay the return fee BEFORE I get a refund. And I can't get to a shop selling this brand and I live in a major city.
November 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Very important article to read.

And there will be more. So get ahead of the coming storm.
When Power Is Untouchable: The Legal Abyss Facing Harrods Survivors
Survivors of abuse connected to Mohamed Al Fayed’s Harrods empire are discovering what it really means when Britain says “no one is above the law.” Sometimes justice stops at the shop door.
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
My GP practice seems to have had its repeat prescription service amended for it - again. More confusing than ever. I don't blame the doctors at all, but the software suppliers
November 4, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I'm glad to see Roscoe is taking his CEO duties seriously.
Hello! My CEO Roscoe and I are giving away TWO signed copies of my novel 1983 to two randomly selected people who repost this & pop a reply below. You also get a free postcard of this illustration of Roscoe by my mum.

It’s been called “Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut & Sue Townsend”…
November 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I know zip about these kind of games, but he seems a nice guy
If you see this post, help me spread the word.

Comment, respost, like.

Anything to help a small and independant ttrpg publisher ^^
Alright, it's time...

This is Voidlight: A rules-bright sci-fi horror dungeon crawl where your only safety is a beam of light that shrinks every ten minutes.

Light on rules, bound to the dark.

100 playtesters battle tested this game and it's finally available!

farirpgs.itch.io/voidlight
October 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.

Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Let's hope 2025 turns out to be an annus horribilis for this horrible anus of a man...
A week of racism scandals, phantom audits, public meltdowns in Kent, and a Russia problem that just won’t die - it’s been a hell of a time for Reform UK.

Meanwhile, the government quietly admits Brexit’s to blame for the mess.

Nigel’s very bad week indeed.
Nigel and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Week
From racist MPs to phantom audits, Reform UK’s revolution is starting to look less “take back control” and more “lost the password again.”
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 10:33 AM
What we were discussing earlier, @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Just a shame that Britain has gutted its local newspaper industry so there's nobody to investigate Reform councils, or tell voters just how fucking useless, dangerous and dysfunctional Reform are when in power...
If you are watching the Reform Party controlled Councils with their endless mishaps, resignations, fallouts, scandals, mismanagement and sheer comedic idiocy, but still thinking of making these clowns a national government, representing the UK on the global stage, you are literally insane.
October 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.
October 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
‘Rescued’ random older couple on train. Booked 1st class from Stonehaven to MCR airport. Only told at York - where they expected to change - train went to Man Victoria and they would need to make their way from there.
We all opted for the Wythenshawe tour tram - got us here but slow
September 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM