Colin Boyle
@colinboyle.bsky.social
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We’re a group of Green Party members, comprising professional software developers, project managers, GDPR specialists and campaign managers, who have worked together over the last few years to deliver secure, scalable, low cost Canvassing Software for the May 2026 election and beyond.
Proud to be able to work with such a dedicated group of volunteers, who have committed so much of their time and money to getting Greens elected next May.
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Loneliness can have a significant impact on our wellbeing – especially as we get older. I'm supporting @agescotland to help to tackle the loneliness crisis.
If you or someone you know needs support, you can find more information in the link in the post below.
If you or someone you know needs support, you can find more information in the link in the post below.
December 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Loneliness can have a significant impact on our wellbeing – especially as we get older. I'm supporting @agescotland to help to tackle the loneliness crisis.
If you or someone you know needs support, you can find more information in the link in the post below.
If you or someone you know needs support, you can find more information in the link in the post below.
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Record heat in Africa
Minimums >27C in Benin,Ghana and Ivory Coast
December record in Kumasi,Ghana with a Min 25.6C.
‼️Next week a historic heat wave will see maxes around 40C between Chad,Nigeria and Cameroon:
it will be the fiercest year-end heat wave in N. Hemisphere history.
Minimums >27C in Benin,Ghana and Ivory Coast
December record in Kumasi,Ghana with a Min 25.6C.
‼️Next week a historic heat wave will see maxes around 40C between Chad,Nigeria and Cameroon:
it will be the fiercest year-end heat wave in N. Hemisphere history.
December 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Record heat in Africa
Minimums >27C in Benin,Ghana and Ivory Coast
December record in Kumasi,Ghana with a Min 25.6C.
‼️Next week a historic heat wave will see maxes around 40C between Chad,Nigeria and Cameroon:
it will be the fiercest year-end heat wave in N. Hemisphere history.
Minimums >27C in Benin,Ghana and Ivory Coast
December record in Kumasi,Ghana with a Min 25.6C.
‼️Next week a historic heat wave will see maxes around 40C between Chad,Nigeria and Cameroon:
it will be the fiercest year-end heat wave in N. Hemisphere history.
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More bureaucracy, more burden, more cost.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK failure to seal EU tax exemption hands industry mountain of paperwork
Brussels confirms Christmas carve-out from green levies will not happen, leading to Brexit-style requirements
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
More bureaucracy, more burden, more cost.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Under current climate policies, 79 per cent of the world’s glaciers will disappear by 2100, endangering the water supply for 2 billion people and raising sea levels dramatically
The world will soon be losing 3000 glaciers every year
Under current climate policies, 79 per cent of the world’s glaciers will disappear by 2100, endangering the water supply for 2 billion people and raising sea levels dramatically
www.newscientist.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Under current climate policies, 79 per cent of the world’s glaciers will disappear by 2100, endangering the water supply for 2 billion people and raising sea levels dramatically
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🚨 The @scottishgreens.org have delivered a £2 bus fare cap for the Highlands and Islands!
Starting early next year, single fares will be capped at £2 for a year across Shetland, Orkney, Eilean Siar, Highland, Moray and most of Argyll & Bute!
Take the bus, save the planet 💪🌍
Starting early next year, single fares will be capped at £2 for a year across Shetland, Orkney, Eilean Siar, Highland, Moray and most of Argyll & Bute!
Take the bus, save the planet 💪🌍
December 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
🚨 The @scottishgreens.org have delivered a £2 bus fare cap for the Highlands and Islands!
Starting early next year, single fares will be capped at £2 for a year across Shetland, Orkney, Eilean Siar, Highland, Moray and most of Argyll & Bute!
Take the bus, save the planet 💪🌍
Starting early next year, single fares will be capped at £2 for a year across Shetland, Orkney, Eilean Siar, Highland, Moray and most of Argyll & Bute!
Take the bus, save the planet 💪🌍
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A really beautiful film about the Right To Roam and River Roding Trust's work to clean up the River Roding in Barking, East London. Lovely to see this record of @paulpowlesland.bsky.social's work and to remember the day I spent volunteering with his group.
A wee gift from @righttoroam.bsky.social this season: our first Christmas film!
It's a beautiful mini-doc profiling the concept of Wild Service on a neglected river in east London, now being restored by a community of guerrilla guardians...
Check it out here:
youtu.be/7sjOGOguq5A
It's a beautiful mini-doc profiling the concept of Wild Service on a neglected river in east London, now being restored by a community of guerrilla guardians...
Check it out here:
youtu.be/7sjOGOguq5A
The London barrister who declared a river sacred and began to fight for its rights
YouTube video by Right To Roam
youtu.be
December 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
A really beautiful film about the Right To Roam and River Roding Trust's work to clean up the River Roding in Barking, East London. Lovely to see this record of @paulpowlesland.bsky.social's work and to remember the day I spent volunteering with his group.
Another reason why we Greens need:
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December 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Another reason why we Greens need:
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🚨Delighted @scottishgreens win to deliver £2 bus fare cap pilot will launch in Highlands & Islands! 🚍💚
Single fares £2 cap across Shetland, Orkney, Na h-Eileanan Siar, Highland, Moray most of Argyll & Bute during 2026.
Great for over 22s! Save cash, save the planet! 🌎
Single fares £2 cap across Shetland, Orkney, Na h-Eileanan Siar, Highland, Moray most of Argyll & Bute during 2026.
Great for over 22s! Save cash, save the planet! 🌎
December 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
🚨Delighted @scottishgreens win to deliver £2 bus fare cap pilot will launch in Highlands & Islands! 🚍💚
Single fares £2 cap across Shetland, Orkney, Na h-Eileanan Siar, Highland, Moray most of Argyll & Bute during 2026.
Great for over 22s! Save cash, save the planet! 🌎
Single fares £2 cap across Shetland, Orkney, Na h-Eileanan Siar, Highland, Moray most of Argyll & Bute during 2026.
Great for over 22s! Save cash, save the planet! 🌎
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What kind of peace deal allows a government to carry on bombing neighbouring countries whilst nothing happens to sanction or in any way punish the aggressor? Netanyahu remains the problem not any part of the solution.
December 19, 2025 at 8:21 AM
What kind of peace deal allows a government to carry on bombing neighbouring countries whilst nothing happens to sanction or in any way punish the aggressor? Netanyahu remains the problem not any part of the solution.
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"Parents no longer feel the need to have larger families as a hedge against tragedy. Instead, they can invest more in fewer children, ensuring better education, health, and opportunities for each. This ‘quality over quantity’ shift isn’t just pragmatic – it’s a marker of progress."
Why falling birth rates might be the wake-up call we need
A quiet revolution may be required to reverse economic policies causing this attack on humanity’s advancement
bylines.scot
December 18, 2025 at 8:32 AM
"Parents no longer feel the need to have larger families as a hedge against tragedy. Instead, they can invest more in fewer children, ensuring better education, health, and opportunities for each. This ‘quality over quantity’ shift isn’t just pragmatic – it’s a marker of progress."
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Familiar story: Cost estimate for the first 6 new nuclear reactors in France up by 40% in three years. And that's 13 years before the first one would be completed (not accounting for delays).
Btw, that €73 billion is in Euros of 2020; better known as €85 billion now.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Btw, that €73 billion is in Euros of 2020; better known as €85 billion now.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
France's EDF raises cost estimate for six reactors to 72.8 billion euros
France's state-owned utility EDF will cap the cost of building six new nuclear reactors at 72.8 billion euros ($85.29 billion), it said on Thursday, as it pledged to significantly improve both the cos...
www.reuters.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Familiar story: Cost estimate for the first 6 new nuclear reactors in France up by 40% in three years. And that's 13 years before the first one would be completed (not accounting for delays).
Btw, that €73 billion is in Euros of 2020; better known as €85 billion now.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Btw, that €73 billion is in Euros of 2020; better known as €85 billion now.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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The astonishing self-harm of European auto industry continues. Trying to turn your home market into a museum for last century cars means you might squeeze a few more years of revenue from them, but at the cost of obsolescence as consumers at home and in export markets vote with their feet.
"Open to all technologies:" EU flags softening of proposed 2035 ban of ICE cars, under pressure from German carmakers to allow for hybrids and biofuels.
EU flags changes to 2035 ban on new combustion engine cars
"Open to all technologies:" EU flags softening of proposed 2035 ban of ICE cars, under pressure from German carmakers to allow for hybrids and biofuels.
thedriven.io
December 19, 2025 at 6:44 AM
The astonishing self-harm of European auto industry continues. Trying to turn your home market into a museum for last century cars means you might squeeze a few more years of revenue from them, but at the cost of obsolescence as consumers at home and in export markets vote with their feet.
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Absolutely bowled away we're now at OVER £1K DONATIONS in just 24h of launching our crowdfunder to elect @liamshrivastava.bsky.social Mayor & make Lewisham Green! Hugest thanks folks💚
Labour have betrayed us all. Join our movement, and help us organise to win: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/elect-lewi...
Labour have betrayed us all. Join our movement, and help us organise to win: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/elect-lewi...
December 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Absolutely bowled away we're now at OVER £1K DONATIONS in just 24h of launching our crowdfunder to elect @liamshrivastava.bsky.social Mayor & make Lewisham Green! Hugest thanks folks💚
Labour have betrayed us all. Join our movement, and help us organise to win: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/elect-lewi...
Labour have betrayed us all. Join our movement, and help us organise to win: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/elect-lewi...
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Pleased to announce we now have 21 local parties canvassing or onboarding.
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Canvassing Software
ttwdigital.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Pleased to announce we now have 21 local parties canvassing or onboarding.
ttwdigital.co.uk/onboarding-r...
ttwdigital.co.uk/onboarding-r...
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Access Training, User Guides, Policies and Support from your personal homepage.
December 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Access Training, User Guides, Policies and Support from your personal homepage.
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Given that the cancellation/postponement of the Leeds tram was also announced today, can someone PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME how reducing protection for various species would have helped here?
Seems to be a bigger blocker might be HMT?
Seems to be a bigger blocker might be HMT?
“One key dispute is over whether another planning or nature bill is required to change rules over protected species and measures to make it easier to build large infrastructure projects, but the changes may be made via secondary legislation.”
FFS. 🤦♂️
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
FFS. 🤦♂️
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Keir Starmer planning new king’s speech after May elections
Timing seen as reset moment after potential loss of hundreds of council seats in England and defeat in Wales and Scotland
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Given that the cancellation/postponement of the Leeds tram was also announced today, can someone PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME how reducing protection for various species would have helped here?
Seems to be a bigger blocker might be HMT?
Seems to be a bigger blocker might be HMT?
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The dismantling of NCAR should be the trending story on Bluesky, not the fucking Oscars leaving ABC for YouTube.
Trump moves to shut down Boulder climate research lab NCAR, drawing rebukes from Colorado officials
Federal lawmakers called the planned NCAR closure “deeply dangerous” and “blatantly retaliatory.” Gov. Jared Polis said: “If true, public safety is at risk and science…
www.denverpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The dismantling of NCAR should be the trending story on Bluesky, not the fucking Oscars leaving ABC for YouTube.
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Quickly see what data you've previously collected about an elector.
December 18, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Quickly see what data you've previously collected about an elector.
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Killing the messenger:
Trump administration to dismantle key climate research center
Russell Vought, who directs the White House Office of Management and Budget, announced plans to split up the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, citing concerns about “clima...
www.washingtonpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Killing the messenger:
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🎉 Absolutely delighted to welcome Jamie Driscoll to the Green Party.
👏🏼 He has a track record of demonstrating his commitment towards our communities alongside empowering them.
💚 Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
👏🏼 He has a track record of demonstrating his commitment towards our communities alongside empowering them.
💚 Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
British politics is a mess. Food, energy, housing are all too expensive. Major parties are all flogging the dead horse of trickle down. So I’m joining the Green Party. Britain needs an economy that works for workers, for small businesses, and future generations. @greenparty.org.uk
December 17, 2025 at 10:12 AM
🎉 Absolutely delighted to welcome Jamie Driscoll to the Green Party.
👏🏼 He has a track record of demonstrating his commitment towards our communities alongside empowering them.
💚 Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
👏🏼 He has a track record of demonstrating his commitment towards our communities alongside empowering them.
💚 Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
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Good news! 🎉 While we’ve yet to see detail on finance & numbers, this is a major win for common sense & for the thousands who’ll now be able to access vocational training, work placements & higher education - congrats to all who campaigned for it #Erasmus @europeanmovement.co.uk @bestforbritain.org
UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme
Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Good news! 🎉 While we’ve yet to see detail on finance & numbers, this is a major win for common sense & for the thousands who’ll now be able to access vocational training, work placements & higher education - congrats to all who campaigned for it #Erasmus @europeanmovement.co.uk @bestforbritain.org
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Reports from @amnestyuk.bsky.social clearly show that UK-made components have been found in weapons in the awful conflict in Sudan. But this government refuses to act. Once again, the minister refused to acknowledge the reality of the situation when I confronted him yesterday.
December 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Reports from @amnestyuk.bsky.social clearly show that UK-made components have been found in weapons in the awful conflict in Sudan. But this government refuses to act. Once again, the minister refused to acknowledge the reality of the situation when I confronted him yesterday.
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We’re a group of Green Party members, comprising professional software developers, project managers, GDPR specialists and campaign managers, who have worked together over the last few years to deliver secure, scalable, low cost Canvassing Software for the May 2026 election and beyond.
December 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
We’re a group of Green Party members, comprising professional software developers, project managers, GDPR specialists and campaign managers, who have worked together over the last few years to deliver secure, scalable, low cost Canvassing Software for the May 2026 election and beyond.
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Set up precise routes for your canvassers to follow.
December 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Set up precise routes for your canvassers to follow.
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EXCLUSIVE: Zack Polanski has said it is 'irresponsible' mainstream broadcasters are not reflecting the Greens' spike in popularity after a study exposed BBC and ITV’s limited coverage of the party
🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
December 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Zack Polanski has said it is 'irresponsible' mainstream broadcasters are not reflecting the Greens' spike in popularity after a study exposed BBC and ITV’s limited coverage of the party
🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...