Helen LP
@helenlp.bsky.social
Spoonie. Mental health. CRPS. FMS. Long Covid. Social justice. Politics. Film. Books. Art and arts - I draw a lot, mostly faces. She/her
@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "people are disgusted & appalled by the genocide in Gaza, & I think what people want to see, & the Green Party are absolutely unified for.. a 2 way arms embargo on Israel, an end of sharing intel, & boycott divestment & sanctions. We need to end the genocide"
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
Funny how these errors always seem to head in the same direction. A bit like Richard Tice's tax mistakes.
John Springford@johnspringford.bsky.social · 2d agoConservatives double the cost of net zero with spreadsheet error. Spiky comment from the Climate Change Committee, whose estimates they messed up www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
🚨BREAKING: The government's own statistics show there was a *record level of terrorism arrests* in the year leading up to June this year. The vast majority of the enormous increase in terrorism arrests are of grandparents, teenagers and everyone in between for peacefully holding placards.
Zoe Kazan’s East of Eden is a great exposition of white male privilege.
AFP photographer hospitalized by armed settlers as he worked recording disruptions to olive harvest in the West Bank. Israeli soldiers look on and do nothing. Presumably it’s all Zack Polanski’s fault? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
Israeli settlers beat press photographer as soldiers watch in West Bank
Jaafar Ashtiyeh was covering violence against olive farmers when settlers set upon him with the butts of their rifles
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Voters loathed the Tory party when they booted them out in 2024.They really needed to shake off their disgrace with humility and better ideas. They haven’t. They’ve doubled down. More Brexit, more austerity, more anti-immigration ugliness, more tedious arrogance… and no good reason to vote for them.
The mental health patients being monitored by controversial camera system channel4news.substack.com/p/how-a-cont... #mentalhealth
The mental health patients being monitored by controversial camera system
An inquiry could decide that a camera system used for monitoring mental health patients in Essex should be stopped. This could have a national impact, writes Ayshah Tull.
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Ruffalo: We got to get this dumb-ass, fool-ass, tired-ass, lame-ass, duck-ass out of office. We got to make him a lame duck. We have to stop his policies now. Another two years of this, and who knows what he’ll be doing? He’s calling to throw Democrats out of the country…
There was a time when the Tories, however hypocritically, claimed to want to protect our natural heritage. Now they're just a party of vandals, ripping down the few protections the living world has for the sake of their rich chums. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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Ruffalo: Keep the bastards away from our most vulnerable people, our beloved, beloved immigrants. Because if you ain’t Native American, you’re an immigrant, a beautiful immigrant.
It’s Banned Books Week! A week to celebrate the freedom to read and highlight the harms of book censorship.
Things are getting rather interesting over at Reform UK. Nigel Farage has now been questioned by the parliamentary standards commissioner over the £5 million gift he received "Nigel Farage questioned by standards commissioner over £5m gift" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)
When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.
James Murray@james-bg.bsky.social · 6d agoThe pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
"If water companies cannot survive without hiking our bills, let them GO BUST and bring them into public ownership Support for this message is HUGE at Green Party conference and across the country" Support our campaign for public ownership of water: vist.ly/5kvdh #SocialistSunday via We Own It
"Do you have to be white to be English?" That this is even being asked is a sign of how much racism has been legitimised by our media & politics over the last two decades
Labour just don't get it. They don't get how scared people are with extreme weather becoming our new normal. We need voices in parliament that will force them to take wildfires seriously, not quietly shirk responsibility.
"Calls grow for investigation into Reform UK’s ‘extensive’ links with UAE" 'FairSquare wants the relationship examined by the government’s Defending Democracy Taskforce. It has also called for the UAE to be placed alongside Russia and Iran ...' thedailybritain.co.uk/reform-uk-ua...
It’s been nearly a year since the so-called ceasefire in Gaza was brokered by Trump. "So far, only one item of the 20 items on the Trump plan has been fulfilled, and that is the release of every single Israeli hostage in Gaza," says writer and analyst from Gaza Muhammad Shehada.
“Buying More Time for the Genocide”: Muhammad Shehada on Trump’s Gaza Plan 1 Year Later
The Palestinian death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza has surpassed 74,000, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. While this figure represents the official death toll as confirmed by local autho...
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The real two-tier justice no party wants to abolish ... There are more benefit inspectors chasing claimants stealing a pittance than HMRC tax inspectors chasing super-rich fraudsters & tax dodgers living a life of luxury on their criminal loot worth £millions meme via The UK Against Hate
Customer: I asked ChatGPT what I should read and -- Me: Well I'm sure its advice is *great* because LLMs are all just massive databases of books stolen from me and my fellow writers. Customer: Wow I did not know that. Keep telling people. Also if you want to know what to read, ask a bookseller.