Catherine 💙

I blame Thatcher.
Dancer, musician, counsellor, practiser of stitchcraft.
Anti-Tory
Friend of the Earth
#UBI #FBPE #FBPA #FBPPR
@asoundfooting.bsky.social

[Catherine 💙 @ASoundFooting]

If anyone wants to follow me over where the sky is blue please look for the same username and profile picture.

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

How a £1-an-acre trick is quietly handing Britain's industrial commons to AI companies, and why nobody has connected the dots until now.

My new essay on the Anthropic/Teesside data centre deal, the Paris AI Summit walkout, and why the UK's "free zones" programme is quietly sabotaging any future return to the EU.
Please subscribe, and support my research.
https://t.co/zdzH7NUWGB
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[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

Brian May didn't just donate money to animal welfare. He personally purchased British farmland and forests with his own money ~ and converted them into permanent wildlife sanctuaries. He resigned from the RSPCA for not doing enough. He refuses to play Glastonbury over badgers. The Save Me Trust is not a side project. It is Brian May's second career.

Most rock stars put their name on a charity.

Brian May buys farmland for his.

The Save Me Trust was founded in 2009 by Brian May and conservationist Anne Brummer — originally to campaign against the possible repeal of the Hunting Act in the UK.

It has never stopped growing since.

Today Save Me Trust campaigns against fox hunting, the badger cull, factory farming, live export, trophy hunting, driven grouse shooting, the use of snares, and the captivity of orcas and other cetaceans.

But what most people don't know — is what Brian May has funded personally.

The Save Me Trust manages private land ~ purchased and protected specifically for this purpose by Brian May himself. Land that was previously wilderness-deprived commercial forest or farmland. Enhanced. Restored. Converted into wildflower meadows. Protected permanently.

The Trust operates alongside Harper Asprey Wildlife Rescue ~ which rehabilitates injured British wildlife and releases them back into the wild through secure soft-release sites that Brian May's funding helps maintain.

In 2023 ~ Proud Galleries presented a £5,000 cheque to Save Me Trust ~ generated from ticket sales and book signings at Brian May's Stereoscopy Is Good For You exhibition in London. Every event Brian May does ~ feeds back into the animals.

He resigned from the RSPCA as Vice President in 2024 ~ publicly ~ because he felt even they weren't doing enough.

He refuses to perform at Glastonbury because its co-founder supports badger culling.

He has addressed Parliament directly. Led protests through London. Fronted BBC documentaries. Funded research. Bought countryside.

A man who once played to 250,000 people in Brazil —

Spends significant portions of his personal fortune buying British farmland.

To give Hedgehogs somewhere safe to sleep.

Thank you for caring for the animals @DrBrianMay 🙏.

[Cognitive Dissonance @SteveParkerCogD]

@LizWebsterSBF @AndyBurnhamGM Agreed. The quickest way to grow the economy is to give more to the poor, as they will spend the money out of necessity, increasing tax income & providing profits via consumerism. The rich will save it in an offshore account. PS unemployment is intentional. To keep wages low.

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

I thought that if Israeli soldiers or settlers attacked Christian villages, the Christian world would unite in their millions in condemnation that their sacred sites were being burnt and erased.

[The National @ScotNational]

The Westminster Government decision which opened the door for genetically edited foods to be sold across the UK without being labelled as such was unlawful and 'irrational', the High Court has ruled https://t.co/tSREVIjE9C

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: HORRIFYING! Epstein bombshell reveals that Trump allegedly had a "predilection for nipples" and abused one of the victims by "aggressively" flicking and sucking on them.

And it gets so much worse...

“They looked incredibly painful as they were red and swollen and I remember wincing when I looked at them,” Epstein victim Sarah Ransome wrote in an email to a journalist, referring to a victim named Jen who Trump allegedly preyed on.

Ransome claimed that Jen — who was a girl in Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring — had sex with Trump and he brutally abused her nipples. Ransome claimed to have seen the evidence firsthand on Jen's body.

The stomach-churning revelation was reported by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan of the New York Times in reporting excerpted from their forthcoming book, “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump.”

The reporters expose details of the private emergency meetings that Trump's inner circle held inside the White House to discuss damage control for their boss's worsening Epstein scandal. Some of them had "never heard of the nipple claim" when it was brought up, but others had a "passing familiarity with it."

One official said that it was "surreal" to be discussing nipples inside the White House Situation Room — the very same place where Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton oversaw the operation that killed Osama Bin Laden. Under Democrats, the room is used to keep Americans safe. Under Trump, it's used to keep us in the dark.

Ransome further claimed that she "possessed video footage of prominent men having sex with young girls in Epstein’s entourage." She later retracted the claims out of fear that she or her family might be harmed. Given the fact that there's a mountain of evidence suggesting that Epstein did not kill himself, she can hardly be blamed for her caution.

Try as they might, Republicans will not succeed at sweeping this scandal under the rug. The Epstein child-trafficking operation is the defining element of Trump's life. He can delay and obfuscate, but eventually Democrats will retake power and the floodgates will be opened wide. One of the first orders of business must be for the FBI to find Jen and interview her extensively. Then, the prosecutions can begin.

Please ❤️ and share to demand a full investigation when Democrats return to power!

[Alex Marruffo @amarruffo61]

@OccupyDemocrats Release the Trumpstein Files

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

90% of countries in the world can own their water but not us. People in England want their water back. But the government is protecting private water profiteers.

It’s time to give the public a say. @Feargal_Sharkey wants you stand up and be counted. Sign the petition: https://t.co/NdwoKq7k3o

[Pam Ayres MBE @PamAyres]

Look what’s been built in Cardiff for swifts. My niece sent me these photos and said the structure was alive with birds. Heartening to see. It’s shaped like a swift in flight I think. Other towns have created similar swift nest sites including Exeter. Thank you for caring.

[🐟Dame Rainbow Warrior #TeamStarmer 🇪🇺 @SandraDunn1955]

@OperaSocialist @JacquelineCabl9 I've just discovered that DBS checks on candidates is VOLUNTARY 🤯🤯🤯
It should be MANDATORY!!
If it were, it should weed out some of the dodgy Reform candidates.
Please sign and share widely.
#DBS https://t.co/t9uXtqxzOh

[Michael Lambert @MichaelLamberta]

Anyone ever find out what happened to our £28,000,000,000 spent on Test & Trace which didn’t really work or the billions spent on PPE which had to be burnt because it was out of date or unsuitable? And what happened to the charming Michell Mone, still on her yacht?

[Bill Bennett @BillBen50947120]

@MichaelLamberta @Elaineewald3 I believe it was £38 billion for the UKs track and trace. Germany has approximately 25% more people and they spent €880 million on track and trace. We were robbed. I wonder how much of is hidden in overseas accounts!

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

So it looks like Farage knows that rage never leads to anything good…

Unless of course, he can weaponise it.

[andy peacock @AndyPeacock999]

@paullewismoney @Johnofleeswood

[The Rev. Anton Mittens 🌹👮🎓 @MittensOff]

Farage at #PMQs today, the first time he’s shown his face in Parliament for months. I suspect he may regret it. He was absolutely slated for failing to condemn the violence in Southampton, for ignoring the appeal made by Henry Nowak’s father, and for using his son’s death to stir up hate and division. #Farage #FarageRiots #PMQs

[Heather Rawls 💙#KickCorruptionOutOfGovernment @rawls_heather]

@supertanskiii @WagonTrain2 Farage must be delighted at this happening as it deflects from scrutiny of the £5 million bung

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

'Utter disaster’: Alan Bates attacks schemes compensating post office scandal victims.

7 schemes. £1.5bn paid from public purse, could hit £3.5bn.

Zero contribution by Fujitsu, PO execs, other perpetrators.

No one charged for false criminal convictions.
https://t.co/1pkj4Fx051

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Yet another glaring example of how utterly failed the water industry is. All it took was one hot weekend and not one but two water companies have been brought to their knees, incapable of doing the most basic job possible, supplying their customers with water.

And we tolerate this nonsense.