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Clare Weze

@clareweze.bsky.social

Author of UP ABOVE THE CITY and THE LIGHTNING CATCHER, science editor, CILIP Carnegie 2022 nominee, Northern Writers' Award-winner. Agent: Abi Fellows, DHH Literary Agency (Weze is pronounced Way-Zay) clareweze.com linktr.ee/ClareWeze

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Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 2w ago

The continued political silence over the spread of these anti-migrant, anti-refugee pogroms in the UK is a disgrace. This one has been going on for three nights in a row now and the Home Secretary and Prime Minister haven't said a single word about it www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Norfolk police arrest two men after officers injured during unrest over asylum plans

Homes of people believed to be asylum seekers attacked during two nights of violence in Thetford

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Clare Weze@clareweze.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Iran war is making everything more expensive for us, but some companies are cashing in. Don't think that's right? Sign the petition now demanding they are taxed more on their record profits to help us all with the cost of living. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ra...

Sign the Urgent Petition - End this rip-off

People in the UK are struggling to get by while some corporations are set to announce record high profits on the back of the Iran war. Join the campaign to demand these war profiteers are taxed so we ...

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Louie Stowell@louiestowell.bsky.social · 2w ago

Just saw this is over 60k this morning! He needs 75k so can you help push it up up up if you have anything to spare? And if you don't, please do share! #Booksky

Louie Stowell@louiestowell.bsky.social · 2w ago

I just saw a piece in @thebookseller.com about this fundraiser - to protect and share a collection of over one million Black books in the UK, a labour of love by one collector, Baba Pepukayi, but a vital resource for the nation. www.gofundme.com/f/save-1-mil... Please share, and donate if you can.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4w ago

Genuinely terrifying. And remarkably similar to how the Nazis began their criminalisation of dissent and their dehumanisation of any who resisted. It's happening. In the US. Right now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Three speeches on a single day signaled a dying American democracy | Robert Shpiner

Stephen Miller warned of a leftwing ‘cancer’ threatening civilization. As a critical care doctor, I have a response to his diagnosis

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George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3mo ago

All the right now has to offer is conflict. Some of its key figures have moved on from culture wars towards what seems to be a deliberate effort to foment civil war. If you're a conflict entrepreneur, the worse it gets, the better it is for you. Where they break, we must mend, building community.

Terry McGlynn@hormiga.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A whooping cough outbreak in an elementary school down the road. Meanwhile I finally got around to reading Candle In the Dark and only a few pages in, you get to its eerily prescient passage. Sigh.

"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness... The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance"
Miranda Keeling@mirandakeeling.com · 4mo ago

I earn a little from my books but not my podcast or sharing my work online. People say my posts make them feel calm, which matters to me. Surviving as a creative is increasingly hard. Writers and artists are giving up every day. Only if you can, support me here: www.patreon.com/cw/MirandaKeeling 🙏❤️✍️

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Get more from Miranda Keeling on Patreon. Author and observer of everyday life.. Support Miranda Keeling and get exclusive access to their work.

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Rep. Judy Chu@chu.house.gov · 7mo ago

I am thrilled that GAO accepted my request to study the public health, equity, and economic impacts of RFK Jr.’s reckless decision to eliminate the universal hepatitis B birth-dose recommendation, in response to a letter I led with @repkimschrier.bsky.social & 108 House Democrats.

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Miranda Keeling@mirandakeeling.com · 7mo ago

Giveaway! 🥳🤩🎉🎉 I’ve got a very special give away!! Two signed copies of my first book - and I’ll write a message inside to you, or someone of your choice! To enter: repost this post, reply with what you like about January, and tag one other person you’d like to get a copy. 😀📚

My book: The Year I Stopped to Notice, on a Persian-style carpet. The cover is rectangles in yellow, blue and cream with illustrations of a Chinese waving cat, a person on a bicycle, a fishmonger’s van, a Dachshund, a plant in a pot, a pigeon and 2 red mittens. Text on the post says Giveaway!!! With ‘party’ emojis.Pages inside. An illustration by Luci Power of: A hairdresser in Islington washes the hair of a client as she stares out of the salon window, shampoo foaming up her arms like the encroaching tide. Pages inside, no illustrations. Text: In the ever-changing winds at Bamburgh Castle, the long brown hair of a woman looking over the battlements becomes a perfect weathervane. Little boy near Alnwick (in rain so strong it’s hard to stand up): It’s wet. His dad: Aye, little laddy. That it is. A little girl wearing a yellow and white stripy dress shouts, ‘Pocket, pocket, pocket, pocket, pocket, pocket!’ to her bemused Dad, who clearly doesn’t understand the utter joy of suddenly discovering your favourite dress has pockets. A baby sits in a pram on the tube beside a woman who is sleeping. Between them is a pane of glass. The baby places her hand onto the glass – palm and fingers firm against it. She looks at the woman as if sending her a nice dream, then takes her palm off the glass and looks away.Pages inside. Illustration of: Two men sit outside a café in the dark, the last of the autumn leaves swirling around them. They are playing chess. One man rests his head in his palm. The other reaches for a piece. Other text: Like an opening fan, five people at a bus stop lean sequentially to the left as they try to read the number of the bus coming up the road.
Miranda Keeling@mirandakeeling.com · 7mo ago

I’m standing at the till in a shop, staring at a tub of cream cheese in my hands. Shop owner: You ok? Me: Yes, I’m just looking for the barcode, to scan it. Shop Owner: You don’t need to do that, I’ve rung it up. Me: Oh! I forgot, this is a place where humans still do things. Her (smiling): Yes.