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Rachel @avaguearchive.bsky.social · 22h

Us outside 10 Downing Street w/ @zackpolanski.bsky.social next election

Rachel @avaguearchive.bsky.social · 23h

ALWAYS A FUN TIME ON EBAY! You want me to send this parcel to ‘Elon Trump’, huh? No problem buddy, I hope you’re in when they deliver it, just guessing you’ll have a time providing ID if you gotta collect. At least you paid tho!! Better than 3/5 of last week’s ‘buyers’!!!

Rachel @avaguearchive.bsky.social · 1d

So ZPol didn’t choose this one to repost, that was probably sensible and is absolutely fine, I’m just noticing you know

Rachel @avaguearchive.bsky.social · 2d

MUAHAHA WHO’S A WASTED VOTE MINORITY PARTY NOW BITCH

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 2d

ICYMI Green Party membership numbers have now overtaken the Conservative Party's! 🎉

📈 125,000 members and counting.

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Rachel @avaguearchive.bsky.social · 1d

Same! I don’t know why I didn’t do JCorbz Labour back then? (Maybe the entire rest of the party idk idk)

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Rachel @avaguearchive.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll just have a lil look to the ol’ Bluesk to see what’s- WAAAH WHAT WHAT HELLO MY TREE-HUGGIN’ @greenparty.org.uk BRETHREN, WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE BIG MAN REPOSTED ME

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 1d

AWS is down, post hog

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Lyndsey @lyndseydoob.bsky.social · 1d

Clean, affordable water belongs to all of us. I’ve told the new Environment Secretary to act on real evidence for public ownership and put people first. Join me:
actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...

Ask Emma Reynolds to base water policy on facts not water industry fake maths.

Everyone deserves clean, affordable water. Lobbyists say it’ll cost £100bn to bring it back into public hands - but experts disagree. I’ve asked the new Environment Secretary to act on real evidence ...

actionnetwork.org

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Rachel @avaguearchive.bsky.social · 1d

The same government who won’t tax the super-rich because omg gasp THEY’LL LEAVE

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed. Government's proposed ILR changes are wrong morally & politically - that is the main point.

But from purely *economic* perspective, they're likely to be self-defeating - the migrants most likely to be deterred from coming/staying are high-skilled/high-paid, because they have other options!

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 1d

Huh. If you say you’ll mess with indefinite leave to remain rules it turns out talented migrant workers start looking at their other options. This could never have been predicted!
on.ft.com/3JiZxbM

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Rachel @avaguearchive.bsky.social · 1d

Good lord they cannot expect us to believe they are just now copping on to this brand new information

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 2d

I think its genuinely a virtue to accept that you could be wrong about anything and kill the part of yourself that needs to always be seen as correct and smarter than others on any given topic

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 5d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Rachel @avaguearchive.bsky.social · 2d

MUAHAHA WHO’S A WASTED VOTE MINORITY PARTY NOW BITCH

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 2d

ICYMI Green Party membership numbers have now overtaken the Conservative Party's! 🎉

📈 125,000 members and counting.

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.
MORE MEMBERS than the Conservatives
Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 3d

🚨This is an emergency🚨

This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan

Image has a pink background and scraps of torn blue and white paper behind the text. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban. Tell Your MP to say no to segregation. This is urgent. The EHRC Code of Practice could be laid in Parliament any day.

Act now. Tell your MP to stop this. Write to your MP:
tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

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Rachel @avaguearchive.bsky.social · 2d

I done it lads, dunno what took me this long tbh 🌱

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

Join.greenparty.org.uk

If reform can rocket through the polls with a politics of despair, then it's time for the green party to do the same thing but with a politics of hope.

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Rachel @avaguearchive.bsky.social · 2d

So true. Urgh! I often wonder if I’d have turned out that way I’d I hadn’t been born disabled? I try so hard to work out how people can be like that, and while I can logic it out as detached as possible, I just can’t get there. I can’t understand it regardless of whatever.

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Rachel @avaguearchive.bsky.social · 2d

They’re actually afraid of what they themselves are enacting, but lack the self-awareness to realise that. And also of course rarely have anything to do with disabled people, who might give them an uncomfortable wake-up call. They’d rather stay in temporary denial land making pity/dismissal noises.

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Rachel @avaguearchive.bsky.social · 2d

THIS. Non-disabled people so frequently say they ‘couldn’t cope’ or ‘would die’ etc if they were disabled, but in my experience it’s not my disabilities that I can’t cope with or make me want to give up, it’s society. It’s abled’s attitudes and the decisions and policies they then enact.

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Rachel @avaguearchive.bsky.social · 2d

Seriously, it baffles me

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 3d

This Labour government hates disabled people far more than the Conservatives ever did.

An ideological hatred, a bigotry they've been desperate to unleash for years.

Reeves plots £1bn cut to Motability scheme for disability benefit claimants cars

The scheme provides cars and tax breaks to more than 800,000 users

www.independent.co.uk

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