Carole Davison
@caroledavison.bsky.social
UK, ally. She/her. Late-diagnosed ADHD. Progressive in faith and politics. Word nerd, books, languages. DMs not welcome
I don't know how much longer I can tolerate @bsky.app before deleting it. A few days ago nothing was working. Today I drafted a carefully worded reply to a post on an important topic and it was stuck "processing" for several minutes before losing my comment. Give me one good reason to stay.
August 19, 2026 at 5:29 PM
I don't know how much longer I can tolerate @bsky.app before deleting it. A few days ago nothing was working. Today I drafted a carefully worded reply to a post on an important topic and it was stuck "processing" for several minutes before losing my comment. Give me one good reason to stay.
Wtf? I can't access anything on Bluesky today. This is some BS
August 16, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Wtf? I can't access anything on Bluesky today. This is some BS
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Happy Trans Pride, London. Now more than ever.
July 25, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Happy Trans Pride, London. Now more than ever.
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I led an AI workshop for A Level students. The teacher backed me up, saying there's no substitute for actually doing the work. Fake citations are an abomination
"don't cite what you haven't read" remains the basic entry level academic responsibility; & if your discpline "doesn't have that as a norm" then sorry, your discipline needs reforming for this new world. Citations are structural parts of trust and knowledge building, not trinkets or optional extras
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
July 19, 2026 at 10:01 AM
I led an AI workshop for A Level students. The teacher backed me up, saying there's no substitute for actually doing the work. Fake citations are an abomination
Proud mum!
Thank you to Cel and @humblegrove.bsky.social for letting me write early impressions of this game!
A Line Held Tight is the kind of game we need more of right now and moving forward.
A Line Held Tight is the kind of game we need more of right now and moving forward.
"This interactive fiction exists in a tradition of games like Slay the Princess, If Found and even Dordogne to some extent."
@phoenixwritesdown.bsky.social plays the demo for the visual novel A Line Held Tight:
@phoenixwritesdown.bsky.social plays the demo for the visual novel A Line Held Tight:
July 18, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Proud mum!
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Anna's Hummingbird feathers contain no pigment at all. Their intense magenta glow comes entirely from hollow melanosomes refracting light like a prism.
July 12, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Anna's Hummingbird feathers contain no pigment at all. Their intense magenta glow comes entirely from hollow melanosomes refracting light like a prism.
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Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears.
UK electricity privatised in 1990. National Grid paid £28bn in dividends since 1990.
Still poor transmission and storage infrastructure.
Yet record high prices and profiteering.
Does anyone call companies to account?
UK electricity privatised in 1990. National Grid paid £28bn in dividends since 1990.
Still poor transmission and storage infrastructure.
Yet record high prices and profiteering.
Does anyone call companies to account?
Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears
Timing of Devon switchoff ‘could not be worse’, says board, as members face an estimated £2m in lost revenue
www.theguardian.com
July 12, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears.
UK electricity privatised in 1990. National Grid paid £28bn in dividends since 1990.
Still poor transmission and storage infrastructure.
Yet record high prices and profiteering.
Does anyone call companies to account?
UK electricity privatised in 1990. National Grid paid £28bn in dividends since 1990.
Still poor transmission and storage infrastructure.
Yet record high prices and profiteering.
Does anyone call companies to account?
Bishop Budde with a message we all need to hear if we are to hold onto hope.
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde has returned to The Sacred Slope with a message that pastors and empowers us and our kiddos to be brave in this moment in history
Her NEW kids book, I Can Learn To Be Brave, @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social is out now!
YT youtu.be/07nHBbc_JCI?...
#christianity #episcopal
Her NEW kids book, I Can Learn To Be Brave, @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social is out now!
YT youtu.be/07nHBbc_JCI?...
#christianity #episcopal
July 7, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Bishop Budde with a message we all need to hear if we are to hold onto hope.
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"I said Nigel Farage is very principled calling a by-election. What did I say Roy?"
"You said he's an attention seeking gobshite who's playing the victim in a desperate attempt to avoid scrutiny"
"You said he's an attention seeking gobshite who's playing the victim in a desperate attempt to avoid scrutiny"
July 7, 2026 at 4:36 PM
"I said Nigel Farage is very principled calling a by-election. What did I say Roy?"
"You said he's an attention seeking gobshite who's playing the victim in a desperate attempt to avoid scrutiny"
"You said he's an attention seeking gobshite who's playing the victim in a desperate attempt to avoid scrutiny"
Very bad idea
ITV agrees sale of media and entertainment business to Sky for up to £1.6bn, awaits regulatory approval.
Bad idea to let conglomerates own multiple TV stations.
Expect job cuts, more repeats, cancellation of shows, fewer independent progs.
How long before free-to-air TV vanishes?
Bad idea to let conglomerates own multiple TV stations.
Expect job cuts, more repeats, cancellation of shows, fewer independent progs.
How long before free-to-air TV vanishes?
Sky to pay £1.6bn for ITV's broadcast and streaming division
Talks were first revealed last November aimed at a deal to create a UK and streaming-focussed challenger to big US rivals including Netflix.
news.sky.com
July 6, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Very bad idea
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@richardknott.bsky.social @allshorts.bsky.social @ottoenglish.bsky.social Richard Burgon MP via X: I've secured a parliamentary debate next week on banning all MPs' second jobs.....
....Being an MP is a full-time job. No MP should be out chasing lucrative second jobs.
Let's end this racket!
....Being an MP is a full-time job. No MP should be out chasing lucrative second jobs.
Let's end this racket!
June 24, 2026 at 3:53 PM
@richardknott.bsky.social @allshorts.bsky.social @ottoenglish.bsky.social Richard Burgon MP via X: I've secured a parliamentary debate next week on banning all MPs' second jobs.....
....Being an MP is a full-time job. No MP should be out chasing lucrative second jobs.
Let's end this racket!
....Being an MP is a full-time job. No MP should be out chasing lucrative second jobs.
Let's end this racket!
Reform is not a democratic political party - but then, we knew that.
June 24, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Reform is not a democratic political party - but then, we knew that.
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Wooohoo here's some fun news: We'll be showing A Line Held Tight at Glasgow Indie Games Fest in July!! glasgowindiegamesfest.org/games/a-line...
A Line Held Tight | Glasgow Indie Games Fest
glasgowindiegamesfest.org
May 27, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Wooohoo here's some fun news: We'll be showing A Line Held Tight at Glasgow Indie Games Fest in July!! glasgowindiegamesfest.org/games/a-line...
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Please sign below to demand an end to our broken electoral system and for the government to adopt Proportional Representation in our elections — so that every vote counts equally at every election.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/20...
actionnetwork.org/petitions/20...
📢 No More First Past the Post Elections!
The 2025 Local Election results confirm what so many of us already know: the current voting system is broken.
With 5 parties polling strongly, First Past the Post is delivering chaos and turning elec...
actionnetwork.org
July 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Please sign below to demand an end to our broken electoral system and for the government to adopt Proportional Representation in our elections — so that every vote counts equally at every election.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/20...
actionnetwork.org/petitions/20...
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More undue prominence - Farage press conference on lawlessness getting widespread broadcast coverage. Is this just propaganda? When do the Lib Dems & greens have their press conferences covered in this way? PluralityNow This petition has never been more vital petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Petition: Ensure plurality of political coverage across UK broadcast media at all times
We want to ensure that a plurality of views from all political parties in Westminster are represented and the nations parliaments are heard all year round, not just election times. The rules for cover...
petition.parliament.uk
July 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM
More undue prominence - Farage press conference on lawlessness getting widespread broadcast coverage. Is this just propaganda? When do the Lib Dems & greens have their press conferences covered in this way? PluralityNow This petition has never been more vital petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
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🚨BREAKING🚨
British rapper OURKID disrupted his performance at the South Asian Music Summit, part of Manchester International Festival, to deliver a powerful speech to support Palestine Action and to condemn the event’s sponsorship by insurance giant Aviva.
Watch to the end🔥
British rapper OURKID disrupted his performance at the South Asian Music Summit, part of Manchester International Festival, to deliver a powerful speech to support Palestine Action and to condemn the event’s sponsorship by insurance giant Aviva.
Watch to the end🔥
July 14, 2025 at 10:12 AM
🚨BREAKING🚨
British rapper OURKID disrupted his performance at the South Asian Music Summit, part of Manchester International Festival, to deliver a powerful speech to support Palestine Action and to condemn the event’s sponsorship by insurance giant Aviva.
Watch to the end🔥
British rapper OURKID disrupted his performance at the South Asian Music Summit, part of Manchester International Festival, to deliver a powerful speech to support Palestine Action and to condemn the event’s sponsorship by insurance giant Aviva.
Watch to the end🔥
If you still bank with HSBC it's time to think again
Trumpism
HSBC becomes first UK bank to quit industry’s net zero alliance.
Banks take bailouts, subsidies, sell dodgy financial products, launder money and abuse taxes, but never accept social responsibility.
Voluntarism is a fig leaf. Change law. Impose public duties.
HSBC becomes first UK bank to quit industry’s net zero alliance.
Banks take bailouts, subsidies, sell dodgy financial products, launder money and abuse taxes, but never accept social responsibility.
Voluntarism is a fig leaf. Change law. Impose public duties.
HSBC becomes first UK bank to quit industry’s net zero alliance
Campaigners condemn ‘troubling’ move that follows departure of six of largest US banks after Trump’s election
www.theguardian.com
July 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
If you still bank with HSBC it's time to think again
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That's a war criminal in the 1st pic, but David Lammy is OK shaking his hand.The woman in the 2nd pic says every hospital,every school & every home in Gaza should be razed to the ground,but Lisa Nandy is smiling beside her
The 3rd pic is the t-shirt that got a guy arrested for supporting terrorism
The 3rd pic is the t-shirt that got a guy arrested for supporting terrorism
July 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
That's a war criminal in the 1st pic, but David Lammy is OK shaking his hand.The woman in the 2nd pic says every hospital,every school & every home in Gaza should be razed to the ground,but Lisa Nandy is smiling beside her
The 3rd pic is the t-shirt that got a guy arrested for supporting terrorism
The 3rd pic is the t-shirt that got a guy arrested for supporting terrorism
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The over-platforming issue is starting to get traction now (see article below). Sign the petition for fair coverage of ALL parties petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71... www.thenational.scot/news/2530913...
MP demands Ofcom investigation after BBC shows GB News clip of Nigel Farage
OFCOM must open an investigation into the BBC giving “undue prominence” to Nigel Farage in its news broadcasts, an MP has said ...
www.thenational.scot
July 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The over-platforming issue is starting to get traction now (see article below). Sign the petition for fair coverage of ALL parties petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71... www.thenational.scot/news/2530913...
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Morning everyone. This is us.
We get asked a lot who we are. Truth is, there've been 25 of us join the team since we started late last year. Some great people have ducked out through the stress of it! But we soldier on.
Please join us. Link below: ⬇️
We get asked a lot who we are. Truth is, there've been 25 of us join the team since we started late last year. Some great people have ducked out through the stress of it! But we soldier on.
Please join us. Link below: ⬇️
July 11, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Morning everyone. This is us.
We get asked a lot who we are. Truth is, there've been 25 of us join the team since we started late last year. Some great people have ducked out through the stress of it! But we soldier on.
Please join us. Link below: ⬇️
We get asked a lot who we are. Truth is, there've been 25 of us join the team since we started late last year. Some great people have ducked out through the stress of it! But we soldier on.
Please join us. Link below: ⬇️
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Yup! Starmer's "Let me be clear, I stand with Israel" is proof positive thereof.
What genuine Labour leader would condone the genocidal bombing of civilian structures and hospitals or the weaponising of food distribution by targetting internationally manned/womanned food distribution points??
What genuine Labour leader would condone the genocidal bombing of civilian structures and hospitals or the weaponising of food distribution by targetting internationally manned/womanned food distribution points??
July 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Yup! Starmer's "Let me be clear, I stand with Israel" is proof positive thereof.
What genuine Labour leader would condone the genocidal bombing of civilian structures and hospitals or the weaponising of food distribution by targetting internationally manned/womanned food distribution points??
What genuine Labour leader would condone the genocidal bombing of civilian structures and hospitals or the weaponising of food distribution by targetting internationally manned/womanned food distribution points??
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We’ve got just over 2 months to get this to 10k sigs. Bluesky has been crucial in getting this far.Thank you. Please continue to cascade where you can. We want fair broadcast coverage of all parties, not over platforming of one which verges on propaganda. Sign petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
July 11, 2025 at 6:37 AM
We’ve got just over 2 months to get this to 10k sigs. Bluesky has been crucial in getting this far.Thank you. Please continue to cascade where you can. We want fair broadcast coverage of all parties, not over platforming of one which verges on propaganda. Sign petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
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Hundreds of thousands of people dead, many more missing. Thousands with life changing injuries & starvation spreading. People being shot when they try to access food aid.
And David Llammy says the UK govt will do more if the situation worsens?
Shame on the uk govt.
www.reuters.com/world/uk/lam...
And David Llammy says the UK govt will do more if the situation worsens?
Shame on the uk govt.
www.reuters.com/world/uk/lam...
Lammy says UK will go further in measures against Israel if situation in Gaza continues
British foreign minister David Lammy on Tuesday stressed the need for a ceasefire in Gaza, saying that London will go further in its measures against Israel if the situation continues.
www.reuters.com
July 10, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Hundreds of thousands of people dead, many more missing. Thousands with life changing injuries & starvation spreading. People being shot when they try to access food aid.
And David Llammy says the UK govt will do more if the situation worsens?
Shame on the uk govt.
www.reuters.com/world/uk/lam...
And David Llammy says the UK govt will do more if the situation worsens?
Shame on the uk govt.
www.reuters.com/world/uk/lam...
Please sign this petition if you believe that Israel is abusing the human rights of Palestinians
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Expel Israel from Eurovision Over Human Rights Violations
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