Heather B

Heather B

@heatcb.bsky.social

Founder at https://zaliwa.co.uk Big fan of animals, sceptical of humans. From 🇬🇧 Lived in 🇲🇽 🇰🇪 Now in 🇦🇪

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Heather B
@heatcb.bsky.social

It’s interesting how over the last 100 years or so human advancement has on the one hand made the experience of being human much more comfortable (e.g. medical breakthroughs) but on the other hand has massively endangered the planet and I fear, with social media and AI, is endangering the very (1)

Heather B
@heatcb.bsky.social

essence of being human. Sadly as a species we don’t seem intelligent enough to interpret where lines are crossed and inhibit usage where it is dangerous. Greed seems to be the trait that drives us beyond any other. I fear the end result will be our self created extinction.

Heather B
@heatcb.bsky.social

Talking of advancements I just realised Bluesky auto numbers your posts when you reply to your own messages 🤦‍♀️

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Anthony Zacharzewski
@anthonyzach.be

Counterpoint: CEOs should look at their companies as if they needed to provide a service for every citizen, constantly renew their social licence to operate, and plan for the long term wellbeing of the whole country. www.ft.com/content/8255...

ft.comPoliticians should ‘look at the UK economy as a CEO would’, says Lloyds Bank’s bossHead of Britain’s biggest lender talks about tax, AI and why the City of London has fallen behind global rivals
Heather B
@heatcb.bsky.social

Hopefully all the newspapers that were castigating Meghan Markle for keeping her father away from his grandchildren and lamenting the deep distress this was causing him, will now be offering her an apology?! That will happen right?!

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Social Media Lab
@socialmedialab.ca

Wow! "The Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million in Transfers" www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

vanityfair.comThe Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed More Than $700 Million in TransfersAn exclusive excerpt from ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’ examines how bank accounts linked the president’s son-in-law—and former sen...
Heather B
@heatcb.bsky.social

Yeah their previous policies really exemplify that. Oh wait.

The Guardian@theguardian.com

Former Bank of England chief economist says Tory growth policies ‘far more likely to succeed’ than Labour’s – UK politics live

theguardian.comFormer Bank of England chief economist says Tory growth policies ‘far more likely to succeed’ than Labour’s – UK politics liveAndy Haldane writes that Conservative economic plans would be best for growth ahead of Healey budget Badenoch says Britain needs tax cuts. We need to get out of the way of job creators who make our country richer. We need to encourage risk taking, wealth creation, enterprise. Britain’s tax burden has never been higher. You are taxed on the heating in your home. You’re taxed at the petrol pump filling up your car. You’re taxed when you insure that car. You’re taxed if you take the family away on holiday. You’re taxed if you stay in the UK thanks to Andy Burnham’s tourist tax. You’re taxed to buy a home, taxed to live in a home, taxed to pass on your home. This is clearly not working. Britain does not feel better off. Andy Burnham wrote in The Times yesterday about the moral outrage of the current benefit system. But as far as I could work out, his answer is to spend even more on benefits. Continue reading...
Heather B
@heatcb.bsky.social

If anyone can spare even the tiniest of amounts to help us get this kittie to its new home that would be so much appreciated

Heather B@heatcb.bsky.social

In 2025 I rescued a cat from the streets. He was in a horrific condition. He’s been nursed back to health thanks to the kindness of a good friend. We’re now fundraising to cover the costs to send him to his new home in the UK. Even the smallest of amounts would be appreciated gofund.me/f2cb9b4a9

gofund.meDonate to Help Phoenix Get Home — He Survived the Impossible, organized by Emma SPhoenix was an absolute disaster when he was rescued. He was found… Emma S needs your support for Help Phoenix Get Home — He Survived the Impossible

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Heather B
@heatcb.bsky.social

In 2025 I rescued a cat from the streets. He was in a horrific condition. He’s been nursed back to health thanks to the kindness of a good friend. We’re now fundraising to cover the costs to send him to his new home in the UK. Even the smallest of amounts would be appreciated gofund.me/f2cb9b4a9

gofund.meDonate to Help Phoenix Get Home — He Survived the Impossible, organized by Emma SPhoenix was an absolute disaster when he was rescued. He was found… Emma S needs your support for Help Phoenix Get Home — He Survived the Impossible
Heather B
@heatcb.bsky.social

In 2025 I rescued a cat from the streets. He was in a horrific condition. He’s been nursed back to health thanks to the kindness of a good friend. We’re now fundraising to cover the costs to send him to his new home in the UK. Even the smallest of amounts would be appreciated gofund.me/f2cb9b4a9

gofund.meDonate to Help Phoenix Get Home — He Survived the Impossible, organized by Emma SPhoenix was an absolute disaster when he was rescued. He was found… Emma S needs your support for Help Phoenix Get Home — He Survived the Impossible

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sianushka.bsky.social
@sianushka.bsky.social

Asylum seeking people don’t have the freedom to work, they don’t even have the freedom to shop using cash or choose where to shop, in temp accommodation they don’t have the freedom to cook or choose their own food - honestly this headline is batshit

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Heather B
@heatcb.bsky.social

Jim Ratcliffe can get in the bin. Maybe the UK might be in a better state if wealthy people put their money back into the system instead of going to Monaco? Or perhaps they could donate some of their huge wealth to needy causes?

Heather B
@heatcb.bsky.social

Instead Jim the Rat Ratcliffe blames immigrants and the lack of exploitation (exploitation that he hugely financially benefits from) of N.Sea oil. Jim can get in the North Sea and sink as far as I’m concerned

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Eddie Burfi
@eddieburfi.bsky.social

Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum. Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.

Heather B
@heatcb.bsky.social

Pale Blue Dot (1994) On it, everyone you ever heard of... The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant,

Heather B
@heatcb.bsky.social

every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor & explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

Heather B
@heatcb.bsky.social

... Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. — Carl Sagan, Cornell lecture in 1994 A little perspective for us all on this Tuesday afternoon 🌏

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Andrew Weinstein
@andrewjweinstein.com

There’s obviously a lot going on right now, but a Russian oligarch bankrolling the wedding of the president’s son is the kind of story that should dominate headlines in any functioning political culture.

Heather B
@heatcb.bsky.social

In the latest episode of humans are shit. Today I was at an ice cream parlour & a lady came in with a live Toucan in a closed transparent bag. The poor bird was clearly distressed & trying to escape. She was treating this living being like it was an accessory. It completely broke my heart.

Heather B
@heatcb.bsky.social

Should I have done something to try and explain to her how negatively her actions were for the bird? I felt that most likely would not have gone well. But I also feel so guilty and sad that this poor creature is living in that way and I did nothing. I hate people. If AI wipes us out we deserve it

Heather B
@heatcb.bsky.social

Oh. My. God. Who needs this. I don’t need AI recaps of my day. I lived it. If anything happened worth remembering I’ll use that thing inside my head to keep a memory of it. I’m so done with this dystopia

Alan Jagolinzer@jagolinzer.bsky.social

Spywearables. 9to5mac.com/2026/09/09/t...

9to5mac.comThe new Apple Watch will use microphone and other sensors to generate AI recaps of your day - 9to5MacApple will announce the new Apple Watch lineup later today, and Mark Gurman at Bloomberg has the early scoop. He...

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Russ Jones
@russincheshire.bsky.social

Let me get this right: if you're a retired vicar and peacefully hold up a sign opposing genocide, you're a terrorist. But if 1200 morons put on balaclavas and close half of Dover to stop people *escaping* genocide, police "constructively engage." Is that it? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

theguardian.comBlack-clad protesters in balaclavas block road at port of Dover in KentTraffic on A20 in and out of port grinds to halt as Kent police say they are in attendance and engaging with group

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James O’Brien
@mrjamesob.bsky.social

The ‘British values’ brigade in action.

Mikey Smith@mikeysmith.com

You don't really get the full picture of the walking stick incident until you watch both angles at the same time... (Left via @climate_resist , right via Franceinfo on TikTok) First full speed, then slo-mo and annotated.

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Otto English
@ottoenglish.bsky.social

This is deeply shocking.

Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social

Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.

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Lewis Baston
@lewisbaston.bsky.social

The Capita civil service pension fiasco should be a much bigger scandal than it seems to be. There are people leaving work next week who won’t be paid their pensions as entitled and will have to claim Universal Credit.