Julia Higginbottom

Miliband’s clean energy plan offers real hope and must not be watered down Some encouraging news in an area which is vital to both the economy and the environment, particularly to a region like the North East

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Miliband's clean energy plan offers real hope and must not be watered down

There is #hope, because we have the solutions 🛠️⚖️🔍 to take #ClimateAction.

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Woo hoo! 🙌🏼

We’re hatches battened up here, hoping for a break about 6pm tomorrow night so that Nat can fly to Glasgow 🤞🏼☔️🌧️⛈️🌈

Armed police handcuff teen after AI mistakes crisp packet for gun in US Taki Allen, 16, said he was eating a bag of Doritos after football practice before being handcuffed by police.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... If your AI safety system mistakes a triangular crisp for a gun, it may not be so safe.

Oh for f**k's sake, we would never have hyped a Caerphilly by-election if Reform weren't going to win it ARE you taking the f**king piss, Wales? You think we’d have bothered covering a by-election in bloody Caerphilly if Reform weren’t going to win?

Oh for f**k's sake, we would never have hyped a Caerphilly by-election if Reform weren't going to win it 🤣🤣
(h/t @richardwynjones.bsky.social )

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The truth about migration. Brilliant and important article in New Scientist by Debbie Mackenzie
www.newscientist.com/article/mg23...

Why do people desperate for a place of safety want so much to come to the UK?

They may of course have relatives here.

But the main reason is the extraordinary success of the British Empire in convincing people everywhere that Britain was a place of fairness, tolerance and compassion.

Congratulations Hadley, they really are lucky to have you x

You got this! 🙌🏼🤞🏼🥰

What a country. This should be on every front page. A national scandal. Britain 2024.

Pretty sure *we* all agreed last several times that this wouldn’t work! It also plays to the ongoing narrative that we are only a sum of our data/productivity/calculable worth

Teen Vogue once again making other journalists look like a bunch of assholes(accurate)

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If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky

I’ll let you know if I find anyone! ☺️

They are with photos of said sheep and bits of heather etc that inspired colour choices!

It’ll be available for sale soon to those with an interest in small batch, pure wool, DK, 100g skeins from hand massaged sheep like Thor and Vidar as well as our lovely black face ewes!

Julia, woman, dyed blonde hair, squinting in the sun on the grass at Croft 22, holding 3 different skeins of pure sheep’s wool.

1st batch of our own wool has just been delivered from the mill, beautifully spun & in skeins! It isn’t a cheap process, definitely not fast, but there’s something very satisfying knowing which sheep each batch is from, the quality of their lives and how from grass to needles is as it’s meant to be!

Key learnings from GOV.UK One Login discovery research for local government | Local Digital In this blog, we share key findings and insights from our research, based on conversations with councils and suppliers.

"Key learnings from GOV.UK One Login discovery research for local government"

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A silver laptop is open, with a pink background. The screen has the following text (in black) on a background of light pink with bright pink dots: data bites #58 18 September 2025 18:00 GMT pd

🚨 NEW DATA BITES 🚨

Join @publicdigital.bsky.social & me in person/online, 6pm, Thurs 18 Sept, for Data Bites #58!

Speakers will include:
- @bothness.bsky.social, ONS
- Andrea Barry, Youth Futures Fdn, on their dashboard
- DBT on matching companies across datasets

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Opportunities | New Art Exchange | NAE NAE is the biggest gallery in the UK that is dedicated to artists and communities from the Global Majority. Learn more about available roles.

New Art Exchange in Nottingham is looking for artists and creatives from the Global Majority to present ambitious work at the gallery rooted in equity, creativity and social change.

Successful projects will be supported with £25,000 to cover all fees and costs.

Only Murders in the Bullring

Enslaved people used quilts with hidden symbols as a way to communicate during the Underground Railroad.

Quilts often displayed on clotheslines or windowsills served as secret maps and guides for those escaping on the Underground Railroad.

Gaza’s journalists are talented, professional and dignified. That’s why Israel targets them | Nesrine Malik Recent killings have dazed the world and provoked condemnation. But little is said about the calibre of Palestinian journalism, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Please read this

What's behind the Trump administration's immigration memes? White supremacist tropes and ironic viral jokes illustrate the administration's project of redefining who belongs in the United States.

Definitely worth reading, from @npr.org ⬇️

Trump officials post viral memes about deportation

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'Brexit was a giant con by plastic patriots – we need a plan to get back in EU' The Mirror's Kevin Maguire argues the only way for Britain to return to its former prosperity is with a plan to return to the EU after Brexit proved to be a giant con that only leaves us poorer and we...

That noise you can hear is Labour running to shove cotton wool in its ears.
@labourlewis.bsky.social @sarahhall-labour.bsky.social @stellacreasy.bsky.social @tandhesi.bsky.social

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Sending love x

This is the problem of the NHS as national religion in action.

People will accept immigration to support the NHS, but they will not support immigration to grow the economy so the NHS can be paid for.