#MakeReformHistory
Farage and Tice who are only in politics to make money. They won’t provide any real policies or improve your living standards.
They’ll improve theirs by shafting you.
Vote farage
You get trump.
Every single promise he makes will be implemented-in reverse.
Farage sells the vibe, Tice sells the risk, millions get the privilege of reading the fine print or risk replacing rights with insecurity. | Willy and Bill
A kaleidoscope of love in Powderhorn Park: Minneapolis makes a human Monarch Butterfly to keep its spirit up in spite of ICE and war | C J Gronner
There's a BIG difference between "therapy" and just showing the world as it is, with all differences and variations that make life precious.
Carolyn Bessette is a role model for many, how can she as a style icon with her unassuming way of dressing influence us today? | Aleksandra Konończuk
When a Y turns out to be an eX
A poet ponders
And we end International Women's Day with a bit of algebra | Diana Ward
A Christmas spent on your own doesn’t have to feel lonely, there are plenty of things you can do to make it special | Aleksandra Konończuk
Does the job market value a university education, or will you struggle to find a career even with a Bachelor’s degree? | Hope Terry-O'Neill
Meg Gain shares her experience of re-visiting her old school for a reunion party and how the school has changed since she was a pupil almost 60 years ago. | Meg Gain
Do the UK’s media and performing arts’ infrastructures facilitate abuse and sexual predators, and what can be done about it? | Alice Brockway
A study has found that reading to children of all ages has benefits, including an increased literacy rate. | Sophie Swain
'I would say to any woman: you can do it! Whatever it is, however many people don’t believe in you, believe in yourself and just go for it. There’s no job a woman can’t do.'
@gemmagould.bsky.social @annesjoukje.bsky.social @northwestbylines.co.uk
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In an era where digital devices dominate our daily lives, digital detox has emerged as a remedy for stress, anxiety, and procrastination | Salma Arif
Managing time online using digital technology in a healthy, balanced way requires cognitive skills that don't fully develop until we are 25 | Leah Williams
Three older white men holding papers marked with doctoral letters: DPhil, DLitt and DPsych respectively, stand over a darker skinned woman lying on a hospital trolley, the coversheet over her market with multiple physical sequelae of Covid, including mitochondrial and vascular. Captioned with conversation text: 'This is a clear case of Health anxiety...Neurasthenia... an attack of the Vapours... definitely Hysteria"
Eminent Victorians
#MedicalMisogyny #LongCovid
#InternationalWomensDay
#CovidDayOfReflection
Still this, today.
'They would deny us autonomy over our bodies, remove reproductive rights and disenfranchise us. It’s alarming to witness how fast things are moving. We must fight hard not to lose the gains we have made to determine our own lives.' @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
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'There’s no sense of male domination in the Bylines network, firstly because our vibrant team is predominantly female; secondly because, the males involved don’t dominate. Both genders are supportive, funny, and jointly committed to the hard graft of speaking truth to power. '
#IWD
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“For me, #IWD means we – men and women – have an opportunity to pause and reflect on the amazing women in our lives. This includes the pioneers from the past who paved the way for the rights we now have, as well as today’s women who keep doing extraordinary things and who continue to inspire us.
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To quote one of my own Feminist heroes, Audre Lorde: “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own”. And another, said by Maya Angelou: “No one of us can be free until everybody is free”.
@kentandsurreybylines.co.uk
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For Anna, editing is about enabling others.
'A big part of the role is encouraging people to tell stories they might not otherwise feel confident sharing,” she says. “Citizen journalism only works if people feel empowered to contribute their knowledge, their experience and their voice.'
#IWD
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If you could sit down with one woman from the past who would it be and why?
'Aunt Truus, Dutch resistance fighter who risked her own life to save Jewish children and adults before and during WW2. There really ought to be a film made about her. She was truly incredible.' | Anna Schurer
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Things may have improved, but we still have a long way to go, It is not that long ago that women were not allowed to open their own bank accounts or take on a job without their husbands permission. This ingrained prejudice is still present in people’s minds.
@jolk.bsky.social @bylines.scot
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Men's Sheds began as a means of combating loneliness and depression in older men, and now the Men’s Shed movement has taken off across the world
| Devra Wiseman
'Being involved in the development of citizen journalism is immensely rewarding – in particular when we can help to expose wrong-doing often not adequately covered by the mainstream media, as with our recent series of articles written by one of the Harrods abuse survivors.'
#IWD
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'Bylines Network has the privilege of having a high proportion of women who are, or share the job of, Editors-in-Chief across all 10 of our publications – standing at an amazing 83%, while the industry standard is 46% in the UK.'
An #InternationalWomensDay thread from those Editors-in-Chiefs
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Rebecca Scott is heading to home territory for a new exhibition of her work in Grasmere, at the Heaton Cooper Studio archive gallery.
| Eileen Jones
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