Helen
@helstinki.bsky.social
It'd be fair to say I've an interest in human rights. Also I shook hands with an astronaut once. She/her.
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The Irish Health Minister denounces antitrans nonsense as a vile British import...
December 5, 2025 at 10:21 AM
The Irish Health Minister denounces antitrans nonsense as a vile British import...
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Tired: police procedurals
Wired: cat procedurals, a series entirely focused on the drama and politics of being a cat
Wired: cat procedurals, a series entirely focused on the drama and politics of being a cat
December 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Tired: police procedurals
Wired: cat procedurals, a series entirely focused on the drama and politics of being a cat
Wired: cat procedurals, a series entirely focused on the drama and politics of being a cat
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Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.
Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
December 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.
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Sign up to this upcoming The Body Politic event, 'Human Rights are Indivisible.'
Join us to reflect on the history of alliance-work in these campaigns and how we could re-mobilise this for today’s struggles.
📅 7pm, 10th December
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Join us to reflect on the history of alliance-work in these campaigns and how we could re-mobilise this for today’s struggles.
📅 7pm, 10th December
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December 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Sign up to this upcoming The Body Politic event, 'Human Rights are Indivisible.'
Join us to reflect on the history of alliance-work in these campaigns and how we could re-mobilise this for today’s struggles.
📅 7pm, 10th December
📍 Happy Out Cafe
🎟️ buff.ly/OZXQkSC
Join us to reflect on the history of alliance-work in these campaigns and how we could re-mobilise this for today’s struggles.
📅 7pm, 10th December
📍 Happy Out Cafe
🎟️ buff.ly/OZXQkSC
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It is great to hear @sianberry.bsky.social MP calling for the enactment of the socioeconomic duty. The UK Government have said they will, but they are now dragging their feet.
It's time to unlock this vital tool for tackling inequality at a local level.
It's time to unlock this vital tool for tackling inequality at a local level.
December 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
It is great to hear @sianberry.bsky.social MP calling for the enactment of the socioeconomic duty. The UK Government have said they will, but they are now dragging their feet.
It's time to unlock this vital tool for tackling inequality at a local level.
It's time to unlock this vital tool for tackling inequality at a local level.
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We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
December 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
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"A legal right to a quality home in a healthy environment may not sound like a lot to ask in the sixth richest country in the world, but it is a million miles from the lived reality of...our constituents."
Great to hear Neil Duncan-Jordan MP calling for economic, social and cultural rights in law.
Great to hear Neil Duncan-Jordan MP calling for economic, social and cultural rights in law.
December 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"A legal right to a quality home in a healthy environment may not sound like a lot to ask in the sixth richest country in the world, but it is a million miles from the lived reality of...our constituents."
Great to hear Neil Duncan-Jordan MP calling for economic, social and cultural rights in law.
Great to hear Neil Duncan-Jordan MP calling for economic, social and cultural rights in law.
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Nobody should be alone at Christmas ❤️
December 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Nobody should be alone at Christmas ❤️
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Remember those lost.
Fight the stigma.
Educate.
Fight the stigma.
Educate.
December 1, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Remember those lost.
Fight the stigma.
Educate.
Fight the stigma.
Educate.
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Sign up to this upcoming The Body Politic event, 'Human Rights are Indivisible.'
Join us to reflect on the history of alliance-work in these campaigns and how we could re-mobilise this for today’s struggles.
📅 7pm, 10th December
📍 Happy Out Cafe
🎟️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Join us to reflect on the history of alliance-work in these campaigns and how we could re-mobilise this for today’s struggles.
📅 7pm, 10th December
📍 Happy Out Cafe
🎟️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Sign up to this upcoming The Body Politic event, 'Human Rights are Indivisible.'
Join us to reflect on the history of alliance-work in these campaigns and how we could re-mobilise this for today’s struggles.
📅 7pm, 10th December
📍 Happy Out Cafe
🎟️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Join us to reflect on the history of alliance-work in these campaigns and how we could re-mobilise this for today’s struggles.
📅 7pm, 10th December
📍 Happy Out Cafe
🎟️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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🦠 The Covid-19 Inquiry’s call to commence the socio-economic duty is a vital step toward protecting those most at risk and progressing health equity.
We have long championed this, co-leading the 1ForEquality campaign. It’s time decision-making in the UK finally reflects the dignity we all deserve.
We have long championed this, co-leading the 1ForEquality campaign. It’s time decision-making in the UK finally reflects the dignity we all deserve.
The Chair of the UK Covid Inquiry, Baroness Hallett has made a statement on her findings and recommendations.
View the statement in full by visiting our YouTube channel 📺👇
youtube.com/watch?v=a6xY...
View the statement in full by visiting our YouTube channel 📺👇
youtube.com/watch?v=a6xY...
November 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
🦠 The Covid-19 Inquiry’s call to commence the socio-economic duty is a vital step toward protecting those most at risk and progressing health equity.
We have long championed this, co-leading the 1ForEquality campaign. It’s time decision-making in the UK finally reflects the dignity we all deserve.
We have long championed this, co-leading the 1ForEquality campaign. It’s time decision-making in the UK finally reflects the dignity we all deserve.
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The wonderful things you see when rambling through the city - ‘a consciousness of their own dignity and worth should be encouraged in women’, Countess Markievicz #speirgorm
November 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The wonderful things you see when rambling through the city - ‘a consciousness of their own dignity and worth should be encouraged in women’, Countess Markievicz #speirgorm
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Research shows unequivocally what the benefit limit means: kids go without food, clothes, and heating. You can think it’s unfair some parents get cash you don’t or made poor choices you didn’t. But if you think that resentment is more important than a child, I’d suggest you might reflect on that.
November 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Research shows unequivocally what the benefit limit means: kids go without food, clothes, and heating. You can think it’s unfair some parents get cash you don’t or made poor choices you didn’t. But if you think that resentment is more important than a child, I’d suggest you might reflect on that.
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🧒🧒 Just Fair welcomes the end of the cruel two-child limit - a crucial step toward fairness we have long called for.
No child’s rights to food, housing or a decent life should ever be capped by policy. Now the UK must protect these rights in law.
justfair.org.uk/statement-on...
No child’s rights to food, housing or a decent life should ever be capped by policy. Now the UK must protect these rights in law.
justfair.org.uk/statement-on...
Statement on the lifting of the two-child limit | Just Fair
Just Fair welcomes the UK Government’s decision to lift the two-child limit. This long-overdue step could make a real difference in tackling child poverty and restoring fairness to the social security...
justfair.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
🧒🧒 Just Fair welcomes the end of the cruel two-child limit - a crucial step toward fairness we have long called for.
No child’s rights to food, housing or a decent life should ever be capped by policy. Now the UK must protect these rights in law.
justfair.org.uk/statement-on...
No child’s rights to food, housing or a decent life should ever be capped by policy. Now the UK must protect these rights in law.
justfair.org.uk/statement-on...
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Of course there's much more work to do to overcome poverty for families, but this is a very important step!
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Of course there's much more work to do to overcome poverty for families, but this is a very important step!
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The UK government’s decision in today's Budget to end the cruel "two-child limit” social security policy is welcome and long-overdue. It forced growing numbers of children and families into poverty and undermined their rights.
November 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The UK government’s decision in today's Budget to end the cruel "two-child limit” social security policy is welcome and long-overdue. It forced growing numbers of children and families into poverty and undermined their rights.
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Whatever else this government do (and there's plenty of issues with this budget) ministers will always be able to point to this as an incredible important contribution to the country's future. Almost half a million kids taken out of poverty.
Scrapping the two-child limit in full is a monumental decision. Well done to all involved in the Child Poverty Strategy, and everyone who has made the case against the policy.
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Whatever else this government do (and there's plenty of issues with this budget) ministers will always be able to point to this as an incredible important contribution to the country's future. Almost half a million kids taken out of poverty.
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“The Motability scheme was set up to protect the most vulnerable. Not to subsidise the lease on a Mercedes Benz,” Reeves says.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
“The Motability scheme was set up to protect the most vulnerable. Not to subsidise the lease on a Mercedes Benz,” Reeves says.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
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@teni.bsky.social don't seem to use their bsky account so I'm posting this over here from their facebook because people should see it: one of the first things our new President Connolly did last week was write the community a letter for TDOR 🏳️⚧️
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November 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
@teni.bsky.social don't seem to use their bsky account so I'm posting this over here from their facebook because people should see it: one of the first things our new President Connolly did last week was write the community a letter for TDOR 🏳️⚧️
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This is one of the illustrations from my thesis project for my Masters in Editorial Illustration, all about the role of art in sustainability/biodiversity
I'm real happy with it!
Get me to illustrate your articles and reports pls
Prints here: selkiesstudio.com/shop/here-they-come
I'm real happy with it!
Get me to illustrate your articles and reports pls
Prints here: selkiesstudio.com/shop/here-they-come
November 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This is one of the illustrations from my thesis project for my Masters in Editorial Illustration, all about the role of art in sustainability/biodiversity
I'm real happy with it!
Get me to illustrate your articles and reports pls
Prints here: selkiesstudio.com/shop/here-they-come
I'm real happy with it!
Get me to illustrate your articles and reports pls
Prints here: selkiesstudio.com/shop/here-they-come
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Today’s news. Huge sums of public money going to the proscribed South East Antrim UDA who were linked to the Ballymena paramilitary backed white supremacist violence, intimidation, pogroms and what should have been treated as attempted murders. [1/n]
November 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Today’s news. Huge sums of public money going to the proscribed South East Antrim UDA who were linked to the Ballymena paramilitary backed white supremacist violence, intimidation, pogroms and what should have been treated as attempted murders. [1/n]
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All the supposed ‘big brains’ in the Labour Party/government have been plotting a grim course that isn’t even based on the feeling in the country. Politicians selling their souls for absolutely zip.
Why do people think England flags have been raised on lampposts?
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
All the supposed ‘big brains’ in the Labour Party/government have been plotting a grim course that isn’t even based on the feeling in the country. Politicians selling their souls for absolutely zip.
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For the avoidance of doubt I am more than happy for my taxes to go towards feeding kids and making life a little easier for parents
This is a better use of public money than... off the top of my head... RAF aircraft out of Cyprus circling over Gaza to identify more people for the IDF to murder.
This is a better use of public money than... off the top of my head... RAF aircraft out of Cyprus circling over Gaza to identify more people for the IDF to murder.
I hate to report that discourse on this is still happening and we live alongside people who would begrudge a tired mum space to get a nap in the morning.
Everyone responding to this sounds like my presbyterian grandma, "Awful good to yourself, aren't you?"
You're miserable but at least you feel morally righteous and you'll get your reward in heaven one day. Boring, miserable people.
You're miserable but at least you feel morally righteous and you'll get your reward in heaven one day. Boring, miserable people.
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
For the avoidance of doubt I am more than happy for my taxes to go towards feeding kids and making life a little easier for parents
This is a better use of public money than... off the top of my head... RAF aircraft out of Cyprus circling over Gaza to identify more people for the IDF to murder.
This is a better use of public money than... off the top of my head... RAF aircraft out of Cyprus circling over Gaza to identify more people for the IDF to murder.