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Philippa Banks

@phil510.bsky.social

Labour Party member, vegan and I help various dog rescues particularly Nikolina Blagojevic in Bosnia & Holbrook Animal Rescue. Happily married and not interested in crypto etc!!

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58 reactions · 6 comments | After 263 days in the shelter, Dino is still waiting behind kennel bars despite meet & greets and so much interest — and we can’t understand why this sweet, big-hearted boy... After 263 days in the shelter, Dino is still waiting behind kennel bars despite meet & greets and so much interest — and we can’t understand why this sweet, big-hearted boy hasn’t been chosen yet. At....

Please repost for DINO.
Gorgeous 2 year old husky!!
Needs a home!! Contact the shelter if you're interested.

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Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter
3320 Beltagh Ave, Wantagh, NY 11793
(516) 785-5220

Facebook video 👇

www.facebook.com/reel/9533662...

14.02.2026 03:43 — 👍 1405    🔁 1006    💬 40    📌 39

Thankyou Guy. I first marched protesting against fox hunting 24 years ago. How depressing is that?

14.02.2026 17:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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#RedtailHawk
#LakeStClairMetroPark #HarrisonTwp #MI

#birds
#photography
#birdphotography
#BirdWatching
#birdsofbluesky
#nature
#wildlife
#wildlifephotography

14.02.2026 15:43 — 👍 5844    🔁 519    💬 121    📌 25
Screenshot of Tommy Ten Names, claiming he's afraid and fleeing the UK.

Screenshot of Tommy Ten Names, claiming he's afraid and fleeing the UK.

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country?

Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

14.02.2026 07:55 — 👍 7765    🔁 2432    💬 378    📌 168
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🐾💙🐾. WOODY 💙🐾💙

Siberian husky / German shepherd mix. People friendly. Please read & repost his bio. If interested contact the shelter.

👇🐾👇🐾👇🐾👇🐾👇🐾👇

www.petfinder.com/dog/woody-95...

Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue
Wantagh, NY, 11793

13.02.2026 13:02 — 👍 1600    🔁 797    💬 54    📌 48
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The time for change is now: end fox hunting Hunting was supposed to be banned over 20 years ago, but the hunts have carried on chasing and killing wild animals with dogs like the law never changed. This government was elected on a promise to fi...

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/th...

14.02.2026 10:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Support our movement I just donated to power WePlanet's science-backed campaigns for animals, people and the planet. Can you chip in too?

act.weplanet.org/p/co2-stunni...

10.02.2026 16:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a cartoon opossum is standing on a dirt road and saying `` thank you '' . ALT: a cartoon opossum is standing on a dirt road and saying `` thank you '' .
09.02.2026 20:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Animals suffering abroad need your help I've written to my MP to ask them to speak up for animals suffering in the name of entertainment overseas. Will you do the same?

I've written to my MP to ask them to speak up for animals suffering in the name of entertainment overseas. Will you do the same?
support.bornfree.org.uk/page/185704/...

09.02.2026 20:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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I’m no cheerleader for Starmer but I do wonder if Anas Sarwar realises that in calling for Keir to stand down he is expediting a situation in which a murkily funded Putin sympathiser and personal friend of a man who has appeared 38,000 times in the Epstein Files ends up in No.10?

09.02.2026 14:52 — 👍 75    🔁 25    💬 8    📌 4
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It might look like accountability, but we might end up getting this grifting chinless wonder in at some point who's even more connected to Epstein via Bannon and Trump. 🤷‍♂️

09.02.2026 16:21 — 👍 49    🔁 2    💬 5    📌 0

The difference is that a massive amount of the pressure for Starmer to resign is coming from WITHIN his own ruling Labour Party, not the opposition.

There is nothing stopping the GOP from revolting against Trump apart from their own apathy & complicity.

09.02.2026 16:19 — 👍 42    🔁 5    💬 4    📌 0
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Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? Mandate wearable cameras for care staff!

c.org/RCBBQxK92j

09.02.2026 12:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The herons that come into our garden are now building nests in the local park.

08.02.2026 11:53 — 👍 4243    🔁 319    💬 96    📌 16
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Save our swifts: include swift bricks in every new house I just signed the campaign calling to save our swifts, by calling for the UK Government to follow Scotland's lead and make it the law for all new houses to be built with "swift bricks" - safe places f...

38d.gs/ditv

08.02.2026 18:49 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Please read RAVE's bio. Her sanctuary is closing down and she needs a home ASAP!! please help her. Repost

Adoption application
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form.jotform.com/252536958908...

Bio
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www.petfinder.com/dog/rave-8a0...

05.02.2026 00:56 — 👍 1850    🔁 1075    💬 42    📌 54

That’s a very good point 👇🏼

Starmer apologises and gets savaged for it by MSM..

Farage breaks MP rules 17 times, lied about house in Clacton, lied about being told not to hold surgeries, lied about using a tax haven.. says he made mistakes and MSM let it go at that 🤷🏼‍♂️

05.02.2026 12:17 — 👍 164    🔁 57    💬 5    📌 2
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Winter colour 🌳🍂 #trees #woodland #treeclub

30.01.2026 09:14 — 👍 1479    🔁 127    💬 14    📌 2
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The Farage-Orbán network Inside Reform’s deepening ties to Hungary’s autocratic regime...

Farage’s Reform UK likes to pitch itself as the party of “freedom” – free speech, free thinking, free markets. But a very different picture emerges when you follow the growing constellation of Reform politicians & advisors who are orbiting the authoritarian regime of Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán

30.01.2026 10:06 — 👍 51    🔁 18    💬 7    📌 3
Morning mists lifting over Cat Bells and Derwentwater.

Morning mists lifting over Cat Bells and Derwentwater.

Views over #Derwentwater to Derwent Isle and Cat Bells with lifting morning mists

#landscapephotography
#Cumbria
#keswick
#UK
#lakedistrict

30.01.2026 12:38 — 👍 3641    🔁 301    💬 86    📌 17
I walk this area all the time, to the right is where I was going, a tree on the horizon, I always try and get at this time of year, too cloudy on the horizon, but does it even matter, when you just get out and about

I walk this area all the time, to the right is where I was going, a tree on the horizon, I always try and get at this time of year, too cloudy on the horizon, but does it even matter, when you just get out and about

I always have a walk on Christmas morning, this morning it was dry and bit frosty, but after all the dull days recently, it just lifts the soul.
#photography
#EastCoastKin

25.12.2025 15:47 — 👍 20    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Posting each week to the Sharemondays was a learning thing for me, trying new things and seeing where my photography sits in the grand scheme of things, So as I took this picture of sunrise for this week, my reasons have not changed for me, I just like getting out with the camera.
Seeing all the great pictures each week, has gave me new ideas, so thanks everyone and have a great 2026.

Posting each week to the Sharemondays was a learning thing for me, trying new things and seeing where my photography sits in the grand scheme of things, So as I took this picture of sunrise for this week, my reasons have not changed for me, I just like getting out with the camera. Seeing all the great pictures each week, has gave me new ideas, so thanks everyone and have a great 2026.

Short walk along the pier and looked back along Ayr Beach .
#Sharemondays2025

29.12.2025 13:23 — 👍 710    🔁 55    💬 8    📌 1
A lone tree on a slope is my tradition to shoot at this time of year, can usually get one morning where the orange glow of the dawn light up the sky.
The wind turbines were not there when I started shooting this, was going to stop, but all part of the evolution of the landscape, good or bad.

A lone tree on a slope is my tradition to shoot at this time of year, can usually get one morning where the orange glow of the dawn light up the sky. The wind turbines were not there when I started shooting this, was going to stop, but all part of the evolution of the landscape, good or bad.

A sort of tradition for me, is shooting this tree at this time of year, most of the time I get that one morning where the glow of the dawn makes the sky glow orange. When I started shooting this, there was none of the turbines on the distant hills.
#EastCoastKin
#photography
#Ayrshire

31.12.2025 18:58 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Birds working the tideline at dawn.

Birds working the tideline at dawn.

The tideline at dawn
#EastCoastKin
#photography

02.01.2026 19:46 — 👍 21    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Today's reminder: Nigel Farage is a traitor to our nation. He has accepted money from foreign governments and organisations that are enemies of our government and must face justice.

#FarageOut

29.01.2026 13:53 — 👍 1336    🔁 400    💬 53    📌 9

Possibly it’s the media reporting of Starmer and his government that’s the issue? I watch his profile on Instagram where he meets the public with genuine warmth, interest and purpose.
The list of achievements is actually pretty impressive considering what they inherited.

30.01.2026 10:37 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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EU: ban male chick culling! Each year, the industrial egg industry hands down a death sentence to more than 330 million day-old chicks, simply because they are male.Some are gassed to death. Others are fed into industrial grinde

EU: ban male chick culling! action.eko.org/a/eu-ban-mal...

30.01.2026 10:04 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gaza does not need another phase or “Board.” Gaza needs legal redress for an Israeli system of cruelty. It must be granted unimpeded ingress and egress by land, sea, and air. Gaza must not be condemned to survive as a managed humanitarian dependency, rationed by aid and policed by donors.

28.01.2026 07:49 — 👍 404    🔁 139    💬 20    📌 9

Trump is just a symptom. 38%-40% of Americans think Trump is doing a fine job. The rot runs very deep.

29.01.2026 09:56 — 👍 31    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 1

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