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Joanna Hastings
@joannahastings.bsky.social
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Writer, editor, lover of dreams and folktales. BLM. Trans Rights. Women's Rights. Refugee Rights. Human Rights. Green Party member. We're all just walking each other home.
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ameresolicitor.bsky.social A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 10h
When an organisation gets those letters claiming that Transphobia “is the law of the land” you can just reply with the polite version of this meme:
BEhOLD! THE FIELD IN Which• I GROW • MY FVCKS LAY THINE EYES• UPON IT AND • ThOV•ShALL SEE ThAT IT IS BARREN.
December 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
joannahastings.bsky.social
This sounds like heaven. Looks like heaven too.
valeriavescina.bsky.social Valeria Vescina @valeriavescina.bsky.social · 8h
Yearning for space to create and shape your #writing project? ✍️ Whether you’re at the idea stage or revising a complete draft, join me for a six-day #writingretreat in the #Alps 🚠, and connect with like-minded #writers in a stimulating and supportive environment. valeriavescina.com/teaching/wri...
December 3, 2025 at 10:54 PM
joannahastings.bsky.social
I didn't really get past 'What's the point of Keir Starmer' first time I read this.
eddavey.libdems.org.uk Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 2d
What’s the point of Keir Starmer employing an economics advisor if he ignores her on the biggest economic issue of the day?
The prime minister’s economic adviser also suggested that rejoining the EU customs union would be one of the most effective ways of generating growth. This too was quickly knocked back. - Rachel Sylvester, Political Editor, The Observer
December 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
joannahastings.bsky.social
Browsing UK Oxfam shop poetry online and dear god, why do people let me do this? There should be a law.

I'm looking for Deborah Digges. No luck. She's impossible to find––new, second hand, written on napkins, graffiti-ed on walls––she's nowhere.

Finding other things obvs. 📚📚📚 Please make me stop.
December 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
joannahastings.bsky.social
#Sheffield peeps, if you didn't know already - Kevin Sinfield will be running his marathon through Sheffield tomorrow. If you'd like to help him raise money for MND, this is the link: donate.giveasyoulive.com/fundraising/...

@helpsheffield.co.uk

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Screenshot of part of the article linked to in the post. The text in the screenshot is: 3 December 2025, 08:03 GMT Former rugby league star Kevin Sinfield is set to finish his latest challenge of completing seven ultramarathons in seven days in Yorkshire. Ex-Leeds Rhinos player Sinfield started running the 7 in 7: Together routes in the UK and Ireland on Monday to raise money for and awareness of motor neurone disease (MND) in honour of his late friend and former teammate Rob Burrow. Many of the locations he will pass through have connections to other sporting stars who have been diagnosed with MND. He will spend Thursday running around Sheffield before the challenge culminates on Sunday with the York to Leeds leg, ending at Headingley Stadium. Sheffield checkpoints Sinfield and his team will visit South Yorkshire on his fourth day of the challenge on Thursday, with the route starting at Sheffield United's ground at Bramall Lane at 08:40 GMT. The route will then head to Abbeydale at 09:40, the home of Sheffield Collegiate Cricket Club, and pass two of the city's rugby clubs, Sheffield RUFC and Sheffield Tigers, at 10:40, before calling at the English Institute of Sport at 12:40 and passing through Hillsborough. The leg will finish at the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience at the University of Sheffield, which carries out work to help in the fight against MND, at approximately 14:46.
December 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
joannahastings.bsky.social
50 seats is just the beginning - but the Green Party needs funds to make this happen and billionaire lobbyist bribes aren't welcome here. So it's up to us. Pitch in a few quid and help the power of hope and justice grow. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
December 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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anna-orridge.bsky.social
I, for one, am not having anything to do with charities and organisations that claim to be serving girls and/or women but exclude trans women.
December 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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suecowley.bsky.social
I've had lots of requests to rerun my adaptive teaching webinar, so I'm hosting another one on 20th January. See the link below for details. Lots of practical advice on strategies for an inclusive classroom. Pay what you can to attend. Please share. Thank you!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ultima...
The Ultimate Guide to Adaptive Teaching - Webinar with Sue Cowley
Sue Cowley shares ideas about adaptive teaching and gives a range of practical strategies for creating an inclusive classroom
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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greenparty.org.uk
"The Labour Government is laying the groundwork for further crackdowns on dissent, whistleblowing and protest if it removes juries from so many charges that have state or corporate victims." - @sianberry.bsky.social
REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. "More than fifteen years of continuing austerity has caused a backlog in the courts, not juries. Instead of dismantling a centuries-old fundamental legal right, the Government must reverse the neglect and cuts that created this mess in the first place." Siân Berry MP, MP for Brighton Pavilion Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
December 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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groomb.bsky.social
Màiri MacRae with cod and cats, South Uist, 1930, photo by Margaret Fay Shaw.
December 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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togetheralliance.bsky.social
Unity is stronger than division.

That’s why we’ve formed Together Alliance with 50+ organisations and thousands of individuals — all pushing back against the far right.

#Together we show where this country really stands.
Join us: togetheralliance.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 11:10 AM
joannahastings.bsky.social
Please watch this.
jujuliagrace.bsky.social Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 1d
Keir Starmer’s government is advancing NHS privatisation 🚨
December 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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tomsbrown.bsky.social
AI can do one.
Three weeks, several highs and abject lows and every second of that was mine and i keep every moment of it.
A thousand lessons here that will inform every future work.
Ridiculously detailed pencil drawing of fey creatures in a Marsh, ivy covered statue and a cathedral looming over it all under a full moon.
December 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
joannahastings.bsky.social
All of this has played out in public, in full view, for years now. It's always boggled my mind that people didn't seem to notice. Will they notice now?
greenparty.org.uk The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 2d
We kept the receipts. These comments, taken together, paint a picture of the man he is today.
December 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
joannahastings.bsky.social
Writing has been hard recently, my courage is low. So today I'm basking in other gratitudes - a new editing project coming my way, a book deal for one of my clients, a series of writing workshops I've been asked to do. It all feeds my own writing, opens my mind. There's always something to learn. 🙏
December 1, 2025 at 10:46 AM
joannahastings.bsky.social
Wes Streeting wants the NHS to use Palantir. Some NHS trusts already are, others are in the planning stages. It's dangerous, self-destructive and honestly terrifying. Please take a look and consider contacting your local NHS trusts and Streeting himself. 🙏 notopalantir.goodlawproject.org
Home - No to Palantir
Is your local NHS Trust using Palantir’s software?
notopalantir.goodlawproject.org
December 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
joannahastings.bsky.social
Glorious walk today around the beautiful Derwent and Howden reservoirs. I was feeling snarly and cooped up, and this made me so happy. I am grateful every day to live so close to the #PeakDistrict. 💙 It feeds my soul.
Howden Reservoir, framed by hills that glow with the last of the day's sunlight. The lake reflects blue sky with tiny wisps of cloud. Howden Reservoir. The stone wall and turrets of the dam reflect darkly in still water. Shadowy tree-covered hills stand against the blue sky where clouds still catch the sun. Howden Dam from the side. The sweep of the wall rises with the late sun glowing golden on the stones and a foam of white water flowing down the centre section between the turrets. Above, to the right, Howden reservoir gleams high behind the dam wall. Below, to the left, Derwent reservoir is dark and low at the foot of the dam. The contrast of height between the two reservoirs is very dramatic.
November 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
joannahastings.bsky.social
One of my favourite books ever - and possibly the best first line ever written. ❤️
November 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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thebookvault.bsky.social
We were pleased to be able to support this event at Barnsley Library today, Claire Throssell talking with @michellerawlins.bsky.social about her book For My Boys. An emotional story with a determination for justice, with the law scheduled to be changed to offer protection for children.

#booksky
Photograph of Claire Throssell and Michelle Rawlins at the beginning of their talk about For My Boys. With a large screen behind them showing Barnsley Libraries in chalkboard style writing.
November 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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nastasyaparker.bsky.social
This year, I'm especially thankful for other writers and creatives in my life. They give me such motivation, and I'm thrilled when they say I do the same for them. Here's more about my Writing Showcase which fellow writer Lou featured. #BookSky #WritingCommunity nastasyaparker.com/the-writing-...
Writing Showcase
This week Lou Wilford, a fellow writer I know through reviewing and critiquing groups, has featured me on her blog as November’s Showcased Writer. Lou writes with wit and humour, so her own m…
nastasyaparker.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
Isn't it refreshing when someone actually does nuance and detail?

H/t @andyverity.bsky.social at the BBC!
How will the government fund scrapping the two child benefit cap? Talks about the fact it's important to remember public finances are not like household finances.
November 29, 2025 at 9:25 AM
joannahastings.bsky.social
I am ridiculously irritated by headlines saying - 'This-or-that celebrity is [living a life/adopting a cat/wearing clothes] –– here are the 6 things you need to know.'

Actually I don't. I don't need to know anything about them at all, thanks.

Can we make clickbait redundant again?
November 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Ready with the gong, @t-rexit.bsky.social?
November 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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taliskimberley.bsky.social
As the elected Leader of my chosen party says, and as our member-voted policies say:

Trans rights are human rights.

#HopeIsHere #TeamGreen #BackZack
November 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM