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Petrichor @bulathe1andonly.bsky.social · 37m

Seems like he is describing my Liverpool..a melting pot of rich and vibrant cultures races and colors ..🥰

Please let this man and his party win in the next elections.

Imagine all the people living life in peace 🤞🏾💖

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2h

British.

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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 28m

Arron Banks:

- Est. net worth: £250m (in 2017)

- Complex web of offshore companies in various tax havens

- Lied to a parliamentary committee about his multiple "business" meetings with agents of Putin's mafia state

How much more normal can you get?

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Comrade Em ☭🩵🌱🍉🎮 @comradeem.bsky.social · 2h

You know what, I fucking love this. This is the sort of thing that is giving me a sliver of hope again at a time when I've been feeling completely and utterly depressed about the state of politics in this nation.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2h

British.

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Rachel Collinson @rachelbeta.bsky.social · 3h

I volunteered for Labour HQ at one time. Tried to join in 2013 but was put off by being asked to post my actual passport *and* driving license before they would admit me.

I realised then Labour were not the vehicle we needed to get the UK where we need to go.

V happy with my choice to go Green.

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.social · 7h

Good morning.
I'm in love with Vic Mensa lol

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Vic Mensa, an American rapper born and raised in Chicago, breaks down ICE raids and the politics of division.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 6h

Blood on their hands;

EVERY "gender-critical" transphobe - yes including the very rich ones, the bigoted "journalists" who abuse their power, the unacademic academics and the "comedians" who make transphobic "jokes" - are respnsible for this poor cis women's death.

Transphobia *harms* cis women.

Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 7h

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."

This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."

RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...

Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack

A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.

share.google

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 6h

The great tragedy of the global economic malaise is that it is caused by a shortage of something that is essentially costless to produce - money. Steve Keen.

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Rachel Collinson @rachelbeta.bsky.social · 6h

I would say this, but it was cool when I joined in 2014 and it's cool now and it will still be cool in years to come.

WELCOME!!!

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Rachel Collinson @rachelbeta.bsky.social · 6h

Get in!

join.greenparty.org.uk

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 7h

We now have 115,000 members (translation: a sh*t load).

And we're not stopping there. Thousands of people are joining every week to be part of a different, hopeful politics.

Join the Green Party today ⤵️

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.

SH*T LOADS
of Green Party Members*

*115,000 to be precise

Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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Catherine Read @cathread.bsky.social · 13h

An entrepreneur seizes the opportunities to recycle fishing nets 🐟 and builds a business with the potential to sell the U.K. manufactured equipment abroad. There’s money in going green plus it reduces waste and carbon emissions.
#GreenEconomy #NetZero

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘When I pass piles of fishing nets, I see piles of money’: a one man recycling revolution on the Cornish coast

Determined to find a solution to the discarded plastic nets, Ian Falconer found a way to convert them into filament for 3D printing, for use in products from motorbikes to sunglasses

www.theguardian.com

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 12h

I think we can call this the @zackpolanski.bsky.social effect.

Labour would not be saying this without a credible threat from the left. I doubt their policy will amount to more than a hill of beans but you can see how the Green surge is already having an effect.

UK Politics
Higher taxes for the wealthy will be ‘part of the story’, says Reeves

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13h

Over the years, our big conservation groups, once brave and radical, have been taken over by suits: people with an Establishment mindset, who identify with the system they should be contesting. They wheedle and appease when they should be fighting with every legitimate tool they have.

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 20h

Thirty year old republican man = a small baby who does not understand what he is doing (if he happened to do something racist)

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 20h

The world’s richest man baiting a bunch of people into making themselves unemployable and then cutting bait.

👹👻 boo-rit 👻👹 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 22h

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Dominic Michael Tripi &
@DMichaelTripi
X.com
NEW: X executive says creator monetization program may potentially be ended, saying that the system does
"more harm than good."
10:27 AM • 10/15/25

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She Guevara @sheg7.bsky.social · 1d

They are working overtime on Zack because they are terrified of being out of jobs in a Britain that isnt divisive and politically illiterate.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Carole Malone, "Youu can't say what women's rights are because you're not a woman"

Zack Polanski, "You're not trans are you. We can all say you're not that thing so you can't have an opinion" 🔥

"You can still have an opinion from listening to people"

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 1d

A message for the Palestinian people:

Your spirit, your determination has inspired so many people all over the world. And one day, you will not just free Palestine - you will free us all.

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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 2d

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Green Elects @greenelects.world · 2d

🚨 @greenparty.org.uk have hit 110,000 members

Tick tock tories

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1d

Also why do white people act like if they didn’t notice racism or know it was racism it doesn’t exist? Any self reflection on why they wouldn’t notice?

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Adam Ramsay @adamramsay.bsky.social · 5d

The expression is literally “one bad apple rots the barrel”.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d

Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple’

Farage said he was shocked by Nathan Gill’s admissions relating to pro-Russia statements Nigel Farage has insisted his party’s former leader in Wales who was convicted of taking pro-Russian bribes was a “bad apple” who betrayed him. The Reform UK leader was in Caerphilly campaigning for his candidate in a forthcoming Senedd byelection when he was asked about his links to Nathan Gill. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Royal Dutch Blue 🇳🇱 @dutchannie.bsky.social · 3d

Truth!!

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 2d

🖐🏼 @zackpolanski.bsky.social @rachelmillward.bsky.social @mothinali.bsky.social

With grace they've not earned, Michael O’Flaherty of the Council of Europe has criticised Labour’s exclusionary approach

Another moment for ALL @greenparty.org.uk leadership to commitment to support Trans+ human rights?

Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 2d

Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int

Strasbourg 14/10/2025

www.coe.int

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 2d

“Beyond privacy concerns, being forced to disclose sex assigned at birth may also significantly increase people’s vulnerability to harassment, abuse and even violence…”

The British government has pursued the erosion of trans rights. Letting people use spaces that align to their identity is basic.

Trans people at risk of exclusion from many UK public spaces, rights expert says

European Council commissioner voices concerns after April’s supreme court ruling on legal definition of a woman

www.theguardian.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

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