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"Several miles over the madness horizon and accelerating..." (Terry Pratchett) Likes crafting, gardening, reading, music. Geek. Socialist. She/Her. No DMs please.

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Welsh household costs are set to soar because of Trump’s illegal war. The UK must use every lever to bring it to an end now.

Mae costau aelwydydd Cymru ar fin codi’n syfrdanol oherwydd rhyfel anghyfreithlon Trump.

Rhaid i’r DU ddefnyddio pob dull i ddod â’r argyfwng i ben.

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09.03.2026 19:39 — 👍 22    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Did you know Muslims have been in America since before its founding among the enslaved from West African societies?

09.03.2026 16:27 — 👍 50    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 0

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The Seattle Opera used the actor's remarks as a marketing opportunity and ran a bespoke promotion for an upcoming performance of Carmen.

Posting on Instagram it said: "All we have got to say is use promo code TIMOTHEE to save 14% off select seats for Carmen, through this weekend only."

09.03.2026 16:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A lot of bigots don't have the funds for that, George.

09.03.2026 15:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I mean, it'll create a few full-time jobs, constantly replacing them as they're torn down, in quite a few areas of the UK...🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️🙄

09.03.2026 15:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Renters face having to pay to challenge rip-off rent increases The Renter's Reform Coalition (RCC), an alliance of 18 leading housing and renters' organisations, has written to the Housing minister raising concerns over plans to introduce a fee to access rent tri...

Disgraceful that renters will be charged a fee to use the tribunal to challenge unfair rent increases.

A right isn't a right if you have to pay to exercise it. We've written to Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook urging him to reverse this decision.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

09.03.2026 14:38 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 3

The post this quote post is responding to suggests, essentially, that people are defined by their work.

Not only is this massively ableist, but it assumes availability of privilege re choosing a job/career, rather than taking what you can get, to live.

It really is a bad take, as Scott says.

09.03.2026 15:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Shocked. Stunned. Absolutely gobsmacked etc etc

09.03.2026 14:51 — 👍 31    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0

I think you'll find that decision is made because rents are cheaper in the North, not because anyone is 'undesirable'...

09.03.2026 14:24 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That's just not true. I live in Wales and we have both racists (sadly) and a language and culture to protect.

People in Scotland, NI, Cornwall, Isle of Man and others have distinct cultures they want to protect, too.

UK is much more than your post suggests.

09.03.2026 14:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

To think that this war, killing thousands and immiserating millions worldwide due to the rapid spike in oil prices, is being fought to protect and enable exactly this.

09.03.2026 13:51 — 👍 67    🔁 30    💬 0    📌 0
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France became the first country in the world to ban supermarkets from throwing away unsold food. Lawmakers passed the Loi Garot, which requires all grocery stores larger than 400 square meters to donate edible food to charities and food banks instead of sending it to landfills.

08.03.2026 15:08 — 👍 538    🔁 162    💬 7    📌 21
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Franz Ferdinand 'furious' that IDF used song in genocide propaganda Franz Ferdinand lead singer calls out the IDF, saying: 'these warmongering murderers are using our music without our consent'

Franz Ferdinand lead singer calls out the IDF, saying: 'these warmongering murderers are using our music without our consent'

09.03.2026 13:42 — 👍 68    🔁 36    💬 0    📌 1

A trans person drawing on a statue with chalk got comment from the Home Secretary and coverage on TV and in all the main papers.

A female Green MP being harassed and abused in the street by transphobes gets nothing...

#JustProtectingWomen

09.03.2026 13:15 — 👍 698    🔁 208    💬 5    📌 0

I think the biggest hurdle would be convincing average people they should suffer, again, whilst those at the top just keep accumulating wealth beyond reason.

It's past time for wealth redistribution. People should not be missing basics whilst billionaires exist.
#TaxTheRich

09.03.2026 13:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Israel unlawfully used white phosphorus in Lebanon: HRW Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.

Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.

09.03.2026 07:30 — 👍 1034    🔁 727    💬 33    📌 96
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Israel is killing at least 10 children per day in Lebanon

Israel is killing at least 10 children per day in Lebanon

09.03.2026 11:44 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Private companies making 💰 💰 💰 from the NHS waiting lists 🚨
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/whos-makin...

09.03.2026 09:51 — 👍 94    🔁 59    💬 3    📌 3
DEAR TRANS KIDS, THIS WORLD IS BETTER WITH YOu IN IT AND YOU AR E WORTH FIGHTING FOR.

DEAR TRANS KIDS, THIS WORLD IS BETTER WITH YOu IN IT AND YOU AR E WORTH FIGHTING FOR.

01.03.2026 05:20 — 👍 263    🔁 121    💬 3    📌 7

I bet every female Labour MP mentioned International Women’s Day and some message of solidarity and yet the reality is very different.

Are any of those outraged (faux lefty) MPs going to actually do something or will there just be another post?

09.03.2026 08:10 — 👍 36    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0
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Think Streeting is even slightly left wing? 40 things you should know about Wes… Streeting is pro-privatisation, pro-Israel and his donors include hedge fund managers, big banks, private health investors and arms firms.

Did you know Wes Streeting is limiting the number of NHS training places for doctors, despite the chronic shortage of GPs and hospital doctors in the NHS?
He's a danger to the UK in so many ways.
Here are the receipts 👇
labourrightwatch.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/t...

09.03.2026 10:10 — 👍 37    🔁 29    💬 2    📌 5

People should be REALLY scared by this, it's normalising refusing healthcare to a section of the community for entirely ideological reasons with absolutely no medical reason

09.03.2026 09:01 — 👍 562    🔁 309    💬 8    📌 5

If hormones, or puberty blockers, were so dangerous, nobody would be allowed them.

That some people are and that trans kids can even, notionally at least, stay on them if already prescribed, tells you all you need to know.

09.03.2026 08:21 — 👍 886    🔁 203    💬 9    📌 6

It's 2026.

Puberty blockers have been banned on the basis of a fake study conducted by a generalist paeditrician.

Hormones for under 18s have been banned on the basis of a fake review conducted by a head injury specialist.

Both remain available for cis kids because that's 'different' somehow

09.03.2026 08:24 — 👍 1470    🔁 475    💬 4    📌 9

Gilt yields surging, oil and gas prices soaring, wider systemic impact transmitted through food prices and everything else.

Iran didn't need a nuclear weapon to create mayhem. It just needed an idiot US President.

And as for those who backed him- eyes open yet?

09.03.2026 08:40 — 👍 113    🔁 42    💬 3    📌 2
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Sizewell C is predicted to cost £38 billion.

For the same amount of money, you could install solar panels, heat pumps and batteries in 3 million homes.

That would generate energy locally, rather than put massive strains on an already overloaded grid.

Makes you think.

09.03.2026 09:01 — 👍 113    🔁 38    💬 14    📌 0

Trans women are women, so excluding them has nothing to do with your statement.

Why punish transgender people for the hypothetical threat of cis people impersonating them?

I don't want to share spaces with bigots. If they don't like inclusivity, how about they just don't use those spaces 🤷‍♀️

09.03.2026 09:51 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Steve Reed: "The King does a remarkable job representing Britain abroad and here at home, & I'm sure we all feel very proud whenever we see him go on international visits"

"I'm sure we all feel very proud"

No, not all of us.

09.03.2026 08:09 — 👍 54    🔁 10    💬 12    📌 3

This, still, constantly.

No matter how persuasively "AI" talks to you, it still gets basic, ordinary, factual tasks wrong, over and over.

This is not intelligence, and it's a very special brand of stupidity to think it is.

09.03.2026 09:16 — 👍 63    🔁 23    💬 0    📌 0