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@icklepickle.bsky.social

Artist, book lover πŸ“š Man City season card holder πŸ’™ Artist / Photographer Environment climate justice Save our NHS Socialist Lefty anti-Tory

1,039 Followers  |  533 Following  |  134 Posts  |  Joined: 06.02.2024  |  1.8012

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Profiteering by energy companies increases poverty, business costs and deindustrialisation of the UK.

High energy costs destroyed steel, shipbuilding, engineering and more.

Can't revive the economy without reducing the cost of essentials - public ownership, not-for-profits.

03.12.2024 10:02 β€” πŸ‘ 370    πŸ” 161    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 8
Economic growth? Forget it.
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy Economic growth? Forget it.

Economic growth? Forget it. youtu.be/dRfNWh_95MM?... Politicians in developed countries are still obsessed with growth without realising that growth is history. The question is, when will politics begin to reflect this new reality?

04.12.2024 07:06 β€” πŸ‘ 105    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 8
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25% off EveryDoctor beautiful Reindeer tea towels! Our tea towels are really lovely - very vivid colours and make great presents (or a little gift for yourself. I love mine!). Every order supports EveryDoctor’s work advocating for NHS patients+staffπŸŽ„πŸ’™
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03.12.2024 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Good afternoon you lovely lot! It seems that dispatches have tried doing a hit piece on disabled people. I don't know how many times I have to say this, but benefits are not easy to claim, people don't get given free cars, and disabled people aren't the reason the economy is fucked!

03.12.2024 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 702    πŸ” 214    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 5

Welcome Sangita 🫢🏻

29.11.2024 09:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They are doing a great job πŸ™Œ

27.11.2024 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Did you know BlueSky only has 20 employees?

We would like to say a huge THANK YOU to those 20 warriors (who are working 24/7 to keep up with the incredible growth) for giving us a space to share.

We escaped hell to be here.

Thank you, @bsky.app & Jay Graber CEO (not a billionaire)

26.11.2024 17:58 β€” πŸ‘ 74097    πŸ” 10822    πŸ’¬ 2148    πŸ“Œ 756

πŸ˜†

27.11.2024 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I see 82.4k of you are followIng fake Mark Hamill. πŸ˜…

It even has the label "Impersonation".
@officialmarkhammil.bsky.social

27.11.2024 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ouch!

27.11.2024 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 910    πŸ” 203    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 9

Thank you for doing this.

27.11.2024 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Labour's Wes Streeting takes Β£175k from donors linked to private health firms LABOUR shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has continued to accept tens of thousands of pounds from donors with links to private healthcare while…

IMPORTANT: We completed an important project a while ago, looking into the links between MPs+the private health sector🚨

Our research has been quoted in lots of places, like this article ⬇️.

πŸ’™We have decided to bring our research up to dateπŸ’™
www.thenational.scot/news/2425055...

25.11.2024 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 650    πŸ” 495    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 24

Started my Substack mostly out of fury if I’m honest, because I’d just finished my book about how politicians were destroying the NHS and still had so much to say.

It’s just passed 20,000 subscribers and I can’t really believe that. I’ll keep writing for as long as you’d like to keep reading x

26.11.2024 07:30 β€” πŸ‘ 561    πŸ” 114    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2
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Lurpak butter in the UK, nearly Β£10, I wonder how much profit the supermarkets make on that?

27.11.2024 18:31 β€” πŸ‘ 246    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 77    πŸ“Œ 5

Govt let off accountancy, architects & private equity firms. Partners taxed as self-employed.

They pay Class 4 NIC, lower rate than workers. Partners of just 4 law firms gained Β£4bn.

Enough to cancel two-child benefit cap, winter fuel payment cut.

Easier to hit the less well-off
archive.ph/XgSuK

23.11.2024 11:47 β€” πŸ‘ 382    πŸ” 190    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 10
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This post from the PM is problematic for a number of reasons.

A threadβ€¦πŸ§΅

21.11.2024 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1683    πŸ” 777    πŸ’¬ 148    πŸ“Œ 231
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The Prime Minister should make a statement, immediately, to confirm whether UK missiles have been fired into Russia. Full statement below.

20.11.2024 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2233    πŸ” 581    πŸ’¬ 315    πŸ“Œ 82
Music For The Many skull logo.

Music For The Many skull logo.

We’re calling on the government to implement a small levy on ticket sales at large arena and stadium concerts β€” paid for by large corporate sponsors β€” to save Britain’s grassroots music venues.

✍️ Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/MusicForTheMany #MusicForTheMany

19.11.2024 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 408    πŸ” 155    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 5

So good to see you posting over here too Prem 😊

21.11.2024 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Last night only THREE peers in the House of Lords called for public ownership of England's water industry.

That was me, Jenny Jones & Natalie Bennett (Green Party) out of a membership of 827.

Public ownership officially opposed by Labour, Tories and LibDems.

Most people want to end the scandal.

21.11.2024 08:11 β€” πŸ‘ 957    πŸ” 429    πŸ’¬ 66    πŸ“Œ 31

Congratulations πŸ¦‹

20.11.2024 08:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! πŸŽ‰

We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

19.11.2024 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 131061    πŸ” 16187    πŸ’¬ 3088    πŸ“Œ 1407
Bluesky 1.94. Improvements: Redesigned settings screen. New animations when viewing images. Imported images now clearly indicate that they were imported. Fixes: Lots of performance improvements!

Bluesky 1.94. Improvements: Redesigned settings screen. New animations when viewing images. Imported images now clearly indicate that they were imported. Fixes: Lots of performance improvements!

πŸ“’Β App Version 1.94 is rolling out today (1/5)

A new release to go along with 20 million users!

Open this thread for details. 🧡

19.11.2024 23:51 β€” πŸ‘ 69444    πŸ” 7595    πŸ’¬ 2299    πŸ“Œ 613
Kris Jenner looking at a computer

Kris Jenner looking at a computer

me watching Bluesky's user count grow by another million in a day

hello and welcome to all 19M of you! πŸ₯³

18.11.2024 02:51 β€” πŸ‘ 218009    πŸ” 11286    πŸ’¬ 5005    πŸ“Œ 1009
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a blue and green butterfly with the words congrats written below it Alt: a blue and green butterfly with the words congrats written below it

Congratulations πŸ¦‹ team

18.11.2024 02:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow another million in a day! πŸ‘€

Thank you everyone β€” we’re going to do our best to make this place great for you.

18.11.2024 02:31 β€” πŸ‘ 38224    πŸ” 3179    πŸ’¬ 1134    πŸ“Œ 191
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Live view of our servers hanging in there as people keep coming on

17.11.2024 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 10539    πŸ” 983    πŸ’¬ 308    πŸ“Œ 107

You think I’m kidding, but all our servers are actually named after mushrooms.

πŸ„β€πŸŸ« πŸ„ πŸ„β€πŸŸ« πŸ„ πŸ„β€πŸŸ« πŸ„

17.11.2024 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3392    πŸ” 188    πŸ’¬ 188    πŸ“Œ 54
18M user count

18M user count

18M! And @theo.ioβ€˜s user tracker threw up confetti! πŸŽ‰

bsky-users.theo.io

16.11.2024 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 40657    πŸ” 3691    πŸ’¬ 1008    πŸ“Œ 386
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#OTD 1897. Birth of Nye Bevan.

Born into severe poverty in South Wales, he rose to become the Labour Health Minister in 1945, overseeing the introduction of the NHS.

"No society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of a lack of means"

15.11.2024 10:50 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

@icklepickle is following 19 prominent accounts