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Cllr Emma Garnett @greenpartyemma.bsky.social · 11h

✍️ An excellent evening getting feedback from residents in East Oxford with @jamesthorniley.bsky.social and @tortoise46.bsky.social

🥀 Disillusionment with Labour coming through clearly on the doorstep.

🌱 Want to get involved? 👇
greenoxford.com/events/
Feel free to dm me with any questions!

Selfie of me, James and Steve in East Oxford with clipboards and rosettes, in the twilight.

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James Thorniley @jamesthorniley.bsky.social · 11h

It's a sign

New street sign with white on red text saying Congestion charge applies from 29 October 2025

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James Thorniley @jamesthorniley.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible headline

Telegraph screenshot. Headline " Unmasked: Inflatable frog tormenting ICE is non-binary ‘Antifa terrorist’"

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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 1d

Polanski's interview with the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg has now been rescheduled amid complaints

leftfootforward.org/2025/10/zack...

Zack Polanski to be interviewed by BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg after ‘anti-green bias’ complaints

Polanski did not appear on Kuenssberg's show at his party's conference, but the interview has now been rescheduled amid complaints

leftfootforward.org

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Badly Parked Oxford @badlyparkedox.bsky.social · 3d

#banpavementparking across the whole of the UK. Not just Scotland and London.

Charity calls for pavement parking to be banned across UK - BBC News share.google/04I2TSUi5loJ...

@guidedogsuk.bsky.social

Charity calls for pavement parking to be banned across UK

The charity Guide Dogs UK is calling for the banning of pavement parking.

share.google

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Stephen Gower @sjgower.bsky.social · 3d

I made an infographic map. Oxford's Congestion Charge scheme (from 29th Oct) is not like most congestion charge schemes, because you can get to most streets in the city without being charged. My impression is a lot of people haven't realised this.

A street map of Oxford.

Woodstock Road, Banbury Road and the streets in their immediate vicinity are coloured pink. Botley Road and streets off it are coloured green. Cowley Road, Iffley Road and Abingdon Road and streets off them are coloured blue. Streets in Marston and Headington are coloured orange. The ring road matches the colours at each junction and fades between colours as it goes around. A small area in the middle is coloured yellow, and labelled "Central Permit Area". THe Congestion Charge traffic filters are indicated by black circles circles with white segments, those white segments correspond on a 24 hour clock face with when the filter isn't operational (and the remaining black, when the filters are operational). Crosses mark other filters in the city that are enforced by ANPR but are not part of the Congestion Charge scheme.

Text at the top of the image reads "Temporary Congestion Charge for Cars in Oxford 2025-2026. Any road outside the Central Permit Area can be accessed without passing any traffic filers by using the Ring Road and selecting an approporiate exit junction (matching colours on this map)."

A key at the bottom matches the filter types, with text "Traffic Filters. Hollow Way & Marston Ferry Road 7-9am and 3-6pm. St Cross Road, Hythe Bridge Street, Thames Street and St Clements, 7am-7pm. £5 daily permit covers all Congestion Charge filters. Free Permits available. For example for residents, business use, health and car, SEND and disabilty. Congestion Charge permits do not apply for other filters, such as High Street or in East Oxford/Cowley."

Small print reads "Full details at https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/transport-and-travel" and "©@sjgower Contains OpenStreetMap data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Locations of highway filters are approximate and for overview purposes only. v1.3"

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 4d

#HostileEnvironment at the Home Office: a deeply abusive environment

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘Clear parallels’ with Windrush as UK-born toddler denied passport

Campaigners say lessons not being learned as three-year-old’s mother is asked to prove right to free NHS treatment

www.theguardian.com

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James Thorniley @jamesthorniley.bsky.social · 4d

Of course, Greens have previous form on joining disastrous electoral pacts. Perhaps Zarah making the lack of reciprocal good faith from the other side so clear this early on might ironically help to avert another one.

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 4d

Great discussion at TWT on how the left must unite — Your Party and the Greens — to keep Farage out of Downing Street.

But unity isn’t uniformity. Your Party will be truly anti-imperialist: no diplomatic ties with a genocidal, apartheid Israeli state and no greenwashing NATO.

Join us: yourparty.uk

Photo of Zarah, Zack Polanski, Amna Abdullatif from We Deserve Better and Abubakr Nanabawa from The Muslim Vote

Zarah speaking to a packed room at The World Transformed

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Andy @andyhar.bsky.social · 4d

‘We need to unite to keep Farage out of Downing Street… But I too have purity tests for my rivals’

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 4d

Great discussion at TWT on how the left must unite — Your Party and the Greens — to keep Farage out of Downing Street.

But unity isn’t uniformity. Your Party will be truly anti-imperialist: no diplomatic ties with a genocidal, apartheid Israeli state and no greenwashing NATO.

Join us: yourparty.uk

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Dr. Halloween @blurses.bsky.social · 4d

I'd park the snark if I was serious about building alliances.

It's remarkable how Your Party have managed to throw away so much good will so quickly.

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 4d

Great discussion at TWT on how the left must unite — Your Party and the Greens — to keep Farage out of Downing Street.

But unity isn’t uniformity. Your Party will be truly anti-imperialist: no diplomatic ties with a genocidal, apartheid Israeli state and no greenwashing NATO.

Join us: yourparty.uk

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 4d

My respect for Zarah is plummeting fast. And judging by the replies and quotes, it seems nearly everyone here feels the same

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 4d

Great discussion at TWT on how the left must unite — Your Party and the Greens — to keep Farage out of Downing Street.

But unity isn’t uniformity. Your Party will be truly anti-imperialist: no diplomatic ties with a genocidal, apartheid Israeli state and no greenwashing NATO.

Join us: yourparty.uk

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Lamentably Undead @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 4d

One could be a lot nastier in response to this but, if nothing else, it's striking that she chooses to be snide towards Polanski when he has been for more respectful and polite to her than any of the Your Party MPs.

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 4d

Great discussion at TWT on how the left must unite — Your Party and the Greens — to keep Farage out of Downing Street.

But unity isn’t uniformity. Your Party will be truly anti-imperialist: no diplomatic ties with a genocidal, apartheid Israeli state and no greenwashing NATO.

Join us: yourparty.uk

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Grimm @grimmbanks.bsky.social · 4d

Stabbing allies in the back before they have even started. It's all plain to see that this lot are just like the other parties and will do anything for power. I hope The Greens side steps this mess of a party.

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 4d

Great discussion at TWT on how the left must unite — Your Party and the Greens — to keep Farage out of Downing Street.

But unity isn’t uniformity. Your Party will be truly anti-imperialist: no diplomatic ties with a genocidal, apartheid Israeli state and no greenwashing NATO.

Join us: yourparty.uk

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James Thorniley @jamesthorniley.bsky.social · 5d

It's good when the line goes up

UK Green Stats @ukgreenstats.bsky.social · 7d

Yesterday, the Greens were celebrating 87,000 members.

Today, they have skyrocketed 93,000 members, making this most likely the fastest growth the party has ever seen before in terms of membership figures.

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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 8d

If you want places to be accessible to older and disabled people installing benches is one very helpful thing to do.

Seems a few people are worried that young people will sit on a bench and be a bit annoying, so the bench won’t be installed after all.

Owen Massey @bookllyfr.bsky.social · 9d

A parish council in Oxford has refused to install a bench on a quiet side street in case people sit on it and get hit by a car

www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/2552131...

#motonormativity

@apiln.bsky.social

Proposed 'eyesore' bench causes outrage among community

Plans for a new artistic bench that have been two years in the making have caused outrage among residents in Botley near an Oxford Brookes campus.

www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 8d

Idea: keep the inhalers, get rid of half a million cars per year.

Headline:
Climate pollution from inhalers has the impact of half a million cars per year, study finds

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 8d

jumpscare on instagram @dandekadt.bsky.social

some instagram account has posted a screenshot of dan's post that says "My wife and I never talk baby talk to our kid. We enforce academic seminar norms and jargon. My child isnt even 2 yet and can interrupt presenters on the first slide. Adults at family gatherings are shocked when my child asks a questino that turns out to be more of a comment." it has THIRTY SIX THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIVE LIKES

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James Thorniley @jamesthorniley.bsky.social · 8d

the response sheet does look like a good demonstration of "only people who are opposed to stuff fill in consultations"

Section of consultation responses, almost all negative. Text is

7/10/2025 23:33:59
7/11/2025 13:26:15No. These are really ugly
7/12/2025 13:50:27These honestly are terrible.
7/12/2025 13:52:56 TEXT REDACTED DUE TO ACCUSATORY
AND AGGRESSIVE TONE
7/12/2025 15:50:14No, these are all honestly terrible
7/13/2025 10:08:07
7/13/2025 10:25:50No, these are all honestly terrible
7/13/2025 10:26:59These are aggressively bad ��
7/13/2025 10:30:03
No. Funds have not been allocated for artistic
SEATING - you told us it was just for an art
installation of some kind. These bench designs
are really not good options
7/13/2025 19:47:24
7/13/2025 21:01:13
Yes. I like the simple ones that look like they're
planned, rather than the more elaborate
example
7/13/2025 19:29:24
7/17/2025 15:13:08No

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James Thorniley @jamesthorniley.bsky.social · 13d

I mean they'd all get crushed by SUVs but why not

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James Thorniley @jamesthorniley.bsky.social · 13d

Bike racks would fit here too

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 14d

Good that the Covid Inquiry is hearing about play, that it’s not just a nice to have, that it’s essential to childhood, for fun, that it’s how children exercise, that public play is unevenly policed, and that children’s right to play should have been upheld in lockdown.

@playingout.bsky.social

Covid exercise messaging left children stuck indoors, UK inquiry hears

Children not allowed out partly because their exercise – playing – looked too much ‘like fun’, says campaigner

www.theguardian.com

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Cllr Emma Garnett @greenpartyemma.bsky.social · 14d

Let's call a spade a spade.

A "flying electric taxi" is essentially a private jet.

The last thing we need more of - electric or not.

Flying is hugely energy intensive.

Let's get East West Rail built and trains running asap instead.
#TrainsNotPlanes

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 14d

Flying electric taxis will be travelling between Oxford and Cambridge next year. A six-month pilot project (geddit) aims to prepare the infrastructure and develop a business case as a first step towards “commercially viable regional operations”.

Flying taxi over English countryside somewhere

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ceej @ceej.online · 20d

my daughter really captured my essence in this portrait of me “at work”

a bald stick figure in a chair with his arms out in front like he’s typing on a keyboard, and he’s got the biggest angry frown imaginable and eyebrows that express frustrated bemusement

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James Thorniley @jamesthorniley.bsky.social · 17d

We have it, sort of? But it is run in house by the government IT team, didn't get a big announcement and isn't a route for Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison to own the state. All big downsides from the gov pov www.gov.uk/using-your-g...

Using your GOV.UK One Login

Sign in to your GOV.UK One Login to change your details. See all the services you can access with GOV.UK One Login and how to prove your identity with it.

www.gov.uk

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James Thorniley @jamesthorniley.bsky.social · 19d

Over a million, I think it was 300k ish when I first looked this morning.

Struggling to fathom why Labour would spend their non existent political capital on this at this moment. Is this supposed to get applause at conference?

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

petition.parliament.uk

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