I was just having this conversation about how life is in Ukraine
01.03.2026 11:11 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@sianushka.bsky.social
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I was just having this conversation about how life is in Ukraine
01.03.2026 11:11 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I am seeing people in Dubai tweeting about how normal things are today, shops being open etc โ which is great and I am glad you are safe (I have family there too). It isn't that unexpected tho? Cities in Ukraine operate fairly normally despite hundreds more strikes a day.
01.03.2026 10:53 โ ๐ 72 ๐ 11 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 1I didnโt know Paul Conroy personally but so sad to hear of his death, at too young an age. His bravery and determination to show the reality of war, and to platform the voices of its victims, was vital in getting the truth out. Rest in power.
01.03.2026 10:02 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
I am devastated to learn that my dear friend, my brother in arms, Paul Conroy has gone on to the next life.
He was one of the bravest men I have ever known. I can barely believe it, we only spoke yesterday.
His loss will be felt profoundly by us all.
Rest in peace @reflextv.bsky.social
Iโm appalled by this from the Mail. Ugly, straightforward racism, and amplifying the spurious claim of its favoured candidate (even the Reform party chair said last week that any irregularities wouldnโt have changed the result).
01.03.2026 06:53 โ ๐ 72 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it.
Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.
Moving testimony from Ukraineโs kids
The Ukrainian children waiting for parents who may never return
www.thetimes.com/article/5a79...
Biden on Trump's SOTU speech: The guy talked for almost 2 hours, but never mentioned the anniversary of Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Not once. Iโve spent a lot of time in Ukraine. The incredible bravery of those people. Imagine how they feel, wondering,
28.02.2026 17:03 โ ๐ 290 ๐ 55 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 0This is one of my fave social experiments apart from how many times I get shoved
28.02.2026 17:30 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
๐ฎ๐ทโ๏ธ Iranian media claimed that a girlsโ elementary school in Iranโs Hormozgan province was struck by U.S.โIsraeli airstrikes.
At least 36 students are reported killed, with children and teachers still believed to be under the rubble as rescue operations continue.
Claims of 40 dead after an Israeli airstrike on a elementary girlโs school in Iran
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
Extraordinary interview in the Times with a Ukrainian dedushka born in a Soviet gulag, his parents deemed โenemies of the peopleโ, now aged nearly 70 he repairs rockets and missiles on the frontlines
The Ukrainian grandads who fix up rockets to fire at Putinโs men
www.thetimes.com/article/2ac9...
Even now you will find very senior people in Labour who just do not take the threat from the left seriously at all, and who simply refuse to believe who their own voters actually are. Now that the Greens actually realise who their voters can be, they have a big opening.
27.02.2026 07:59 โ ๐ 577 ๐ 78 ๐ฌ 23 ๐ 11Oh wow, huge news! What are your plans now?
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We hear little about it in the news but disabled people are being horrifically targeted in the Sudan war.
Human Rights Watch report RSF have killed civilians including a blind child, a man with Down syndrome called โinsaneโ, and a 14 year old wheelchair user. A horror.
www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...
A great reminder of the power of local journalism.
Credit to @lukebeardsworth.bsky.social and our sister publication @theleaduk.bsky.social Lancashire who drew attention to this story first!
national.thelead.uk/p/prime-mini...
They donโt mean men
24.02.2026 16:37 โ ๐ 53 ๐ 11 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0End the occupation. Russian troops out of Ukraine
24.02.2026 11:25 โ ๐ 16 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Slava Ukraini
24.02.2026 10:58 โ ๐ 56 ๐ 13 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
You have to have hope - this is a lovely article in dark times
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
On the eve of the 4th anniversary of the full-scale invasion, the Trades Union Congress and nine unions representing a majority of organised workers in the UK have issued a statement in solidarity with Ukraine and its workers. Please read + share! ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org/2026/02/23/u...
23.02.2026 09:35 โ ๐ 47 ๐ 35 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 4Well it was the unseen exam text for World War One literature
22.02.2026 09:05 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Graduated in the long hot summer of 2006 and it was lush
22.02.2026 07:06 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0My a level English teacher also stuck on Blackadder Goes Forth when she was having a โbad quitting smoking dayโ but it turned up as the blind text in the exam so that actually worked out.
22.02.2026 07:04 โ ๐ 14 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Every end of year or sometimes end of term we would watch the first 45 min of 10 Things I Hate About You but our teachers never thought to pick it up where we left off, so it was years before I saw the rest of the film
22.02.2026 07:01 โ ๐ 19 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 1From the people who brought you โHey - what if Karadzic is the good guy?โ
21.02.2026 06:52 โ ๐ 22 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Oh you think Ukraine is a proxy war because something something Putin, AND you think rape victims are hysterical? How surprising.
21.02.2026 06:42 โ ๐ 27 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0