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Rob Bryher

@robbryher.bsky.social

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📍Bristol, England / 🌿 Green councillor for St George West on Bristol City Council // 🏢 Chair of Development Control Committee A // 🚋 Chair of Kerbside and Parking Strategy Task and Finish Group and Member of Transport & Connectivity Policy Committee

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Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 2h

Cool, great to hear! "Geek stuff"? I would need to know there is sufficient of interest to me before opening an account but I suppose that's a Catch 22. I'm not as sure I need an internet happy place, I tend to find I prefer watching a film or look at YouTube for things I'm interested in. Hmm.

Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 2h

Talk to me about having a dormant account. I have this. Why should I delete rather than just leaving it vacant for when someone less bad takes Twitter on? Or am I hopelessly naive about that being a possibility in the future?

Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 2h

Oh and LinkedIn has residual use as way of connecting a network of people working in interesting stuff, but I barely post there.

Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 2h

Am I the only one not on Instagram? Should I bother? What are the benefits?

My current use:

Facebook - page for councillor news and personal account for family news

Bluesky - what you experience here, love it

M*sksite - lurking and contacting journos

Surely I'm covering everything necessary?

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Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 5h

WEEK 40
A House Of Dynamite - 8/10
Taut! A third of the way through, I thought it might be about to do a twist and we would be shown two scenarios - one where the nuclear bomb hits and one where it it is destroyed by US defence. The geopolitics is very interesting but is relatively low in the mix.

Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 5h

WEEK 32 (Catch-Up)
The Smashing Machine - 7/10
Great performances, stylistically excellent, superb costume design that captures the last 90s, but also somehow lacking something to push it to the heights of the Safdie Brothers' earlier work (e.g. Good Time). "No fighting."

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Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 5h

WEEK 39
All Of You - 7/10
Humorous yet tragic soft science fiction. Posits the idea that the only thing stopping us from true love and happiness is telling our friends what we really feel and not sticking rigidly to scientific method. I can go along with that.

Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 3d

Well, it's been a day...

www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

Labour councillor suspended after 'racist' Facebook comment

"I unreservedly apologise for my comment and deeply regret making it"

www.bristolpost.co.uk

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Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 3d

No idea!

Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 3d

I reckon colloquially "Bingo card" now means "things we want to look clever for predicting would be mentioned" more than it means "a square of numbers to be used to play the game Bingo".

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Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 3d

Of course

Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 3d

Wish it bloody didn't. We might start despairing and start doing stuff. I'm going to read How To Blow Up A Pipeline I reckon.

Troy @troyleekelly.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes ago. Yet "hope springs eternal in the human breast."

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Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 3d

She didn't say it ironically. She's not funny enough to manage that.

Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 3d

Shrewsbury seems like a nice place full of people who want to be fair to everyone and think both sides of the war should be peaceful and claps a multi-millionaire fascist who started with nothing and pulled himself up by his bootstraps.

It's easy to forget this is what liberalism really means.

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Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 3d

WE RAN OUT OF TIME FOR CLIMATE CHANGE

says Fiona Bruce at the end of Question Time

*Green Party bingo cards explode across the nation*

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UK Green Stats @ukgreenstats.bsky.social · 4d

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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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 7d

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

bylinetimes.com

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Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 7d

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Robin Layfield (he/they) 💚 🌈 ✊🏽 @robinlayfield.bsky.social · 7d

FAIR RENTS

Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 7d

I'm really glad that the Green Party have caught up with the Labour Party on their excellent "No Landlordism" platform...of 1902. #gpconf

Old photo and manifesto of Keir Hardie, Labour's first MP, who stood on a platform of "No Landlordism".

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Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 7d

I'm really glad that the Green Party have caught up with the Labour Party on their excellent "No Landlordism" platform...of 1902. #gpconf

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Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 7d

I have just been (very fairly) corrected by a lectern...because I inaccurately called a lectern a podium.

I'm getting "early Twitter when it was fun" vibes 😀

I'm a Lectern @notpodium.bsky.social · 8d

correct alt: Emma standing at a *lectern

also 😍

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Adam Ramsay @adamramsay.bsky.social · 8d

Green conference has voted overwhelmingly to call for the Israeli military to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation. #Gpconf

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Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 8d

Sure. I just don't understand why they are in the Green Party then.

Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 8d

I imagine it is a misunderstanding of what racism is? You can think she is absolutely awful and still be an anti-racist.

still.ne

Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 8d

We've certainly found "people lacking political awareness"...