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Seth @sethpiper.bsky.social · 28m

Det er en annen fortelling som brukes av de som vil forsvare SVs ganske patetisk resultater på klima og miljø. Norges utslipp er nesten uendret sammenlignet med 1990 men Sverige for eksempel har kuttet drastisk på tvers av sektorer. SV står sammen med Sp for å skjerme visse sektorer derimot

Seth @sethpiper.bsky.social · 1h

Det er altså ikke sånn det fungerer da. Småpartier har mer makt enn ren oppslutning tilsier da maktpartiene trenger å danne flertall for budsjett. Det er mulig med stor gjennomslag men på få felt. Derfor er valgløfter en greie

Seth @sethpiper.bsky.social · 1h

Andre land har kuttet i utslipp. Det har ikke Norge. SV har tatt stemmer fra folk som forventer at partiet skal sette makt bak kravet og gang på gang viser det seg at de ikke klarer det. Helt naturlig at velgere går for andre partier som kanskje klarer å være litt tøffere

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Seth @sethpiper.bsky.social · 1h

Det er flere problemer med din beskrivelse. For det første har MDG aldri vært over sperregrensen eller vært i regjering. Det har SV og vi ser hva de får til. MDG har da vært for eksempel vært en del av en populær byråd i Oslo. Igjen var det merkbar forskjell mellom partiene ndg gjennomslag

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Seth @sethpiper.bsky.social · 1h

Jeg tror det er en kultur i partiet SV at målet med å stille til valg er å skaffe seg makt for å *snakke om* hva slags problemer de ønsker å gjøre noe med. Men vi trenger politikere med gjennomføringsevne.

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Seth @sethpiper.bsky.social · 1h

Trolig ikke tilfeldig at denne saken handler om finans hvor Stoltenberg sitter, mannen vet veldig godt hvordan få SV til å gi seg, det er bare å lese en av de mange bøkene om de rødgrønne årene da han var statsminister

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Seth @sethpiper.bsky.social · 1h

Jeg føler at SV har fått for mye forståelse gjennom årene og de tar veldig lett på å levere svært lite gjennomslag for sine velgere

Seth @sethpiper.bsky.social · 1h

Veldig positivt at vi har flere representanter fra MDG på Stortinget denne gangen. Forventingene er også høye

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Seth @sethpiper.bsky.social · 1h

Jeg ga opp SV for lenge siden fordi stilen har alltid vært å snakke høyt om hva som ml gjøres for å så gi seg veldig lett når Arbeiderpartiet ikke vil det samme. Dette er dessverre helt sentralt hvis vi skal forstå Norges manglende klimahandling over flere tiår.

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Seth @sethpiper.bsky.social · 1h

Flaks for SV at de nå ikke trenger å sette noe makt bak kravet om at oljefondet må trekke alle investeringer knyttet til okkupasjonen. Til tross for hva de gikk langt med å love velgerne dette. SV har dessverre en lang historie med avlyste valgløfter
www.aftenposten.no/norge/politi...
#polkvart

SV avlyser mulig Gaza-krise om budsjettet. Viser til Trumps fredsplan.

SV vil forhandle budsjett med Støre-regjeringen – selv om Oljefondet forblir investert i de 16 selskapene partiet har stilt ultimatum om.

www.aftenposten.no

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Seth @sethpiper.bsky.social · 12h

Looking forward to telling Labour activists to stand down instead of splitting the vote

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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 12h

My cultural awakening: ‘Kate Bush helped me come out as a trans woman’

www.theguardian.com/...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

My cultural awakening: ‘Kate Bush helped me come out as a trans woman’

As a not-yet-out trans teen, The Sensual World – the singer’s rejection of masculine influence – felt like an invocation of everything I was feeling

www.theguardian.com

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Seth @sethpiper.bsky.social · 20h

- Greenpeace argues the crown estate has a legal duty not to exploit its monopoly position as owner of the seabed around England, Wales and Northern Ireland, but that it is now in breach of this.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Greenpeace threatens to sue crown estate for driving up cost of offshore wind

Environmental group accuses king’s property management company of ‘milking for profit’ its monopoly ownership of seabed

www.theguardian.com

Seth @sethpiper.bsky.social · 1d

*not* my crushed can in the foreground. This is a spot people obviously come to for a drink in the evenings

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Seth @sethpiper.bsky.social · 1d

The poor stick never stood a chance

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Jonas Ali Ghanizadeh @jonasali.bsky.social · 1d

når vi ender opp med politikere hvis eneste kvalifikasjon etter å vært folkevalgt er å selge tilgang til sitt nettverk av beslutningstakere til høyestbydende er vi ordentlig ute å kjøre som demokrati

Kronisk nynorsk 🏳️‍⚧️ @kronisknynorsk.bsky.social · 1d

NEI, DU SEIER IKKJE DET

Melding frå NRK: Ingvild Kjerkol vert partner i First House

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Seth @sethpiper.bsky.social · 1d

There are multiple ways out of it but Labour strategists are once again locked in to the very dumbest and worst path for both themselves and the country. A lot like Dems. My main point is that material things matter ultimately more than the circus of politics. They choose the circus

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 2d

thinking about the liberal politicians willing to try to compromise with fascists by abandoning minority groups they don't really like - i wish they understood that fascists will come for everyone eventually. even themselves. fascism unopposed is a ruined state with everyone dead

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Seth @sethpiper.bsky.social · 1d

You might be right about all that, but voters are clearly not full of confidence and it's unprecedented for Labour to be tanking so quickly despite such a massive majority in parliament

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

this is a great piece and it absolutely sucks that the outlet went for the ambiguous headline rather.

The idea that you can remain on X and "influence opinion" is equally true for creating a new Stormfront account, or a 4Chan account, or a TruthSocial account.

Our job is to kills its influence.

Did the centre-left bit of UK politics Twitter make an error in decamping en masse to I Can’t Believe It’s Not Twitter? The old site, now remade as X, remains significantly larger than the new, and much of the political class have failed to make the jump. Did those of us who went let our desire for a comforting liberal bubble undermine our actual influence?

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

The story of social media in the last few years is not one of a self-righteous liberal flounce, but of fragmentation: network effects are a thing, and if most of the people you like to talk to switch platforms, there feels little point in remaining behind. If we have lost influence, that’s at least partly down to the government’s reluctance to use its convening power to reshape the information environment, and its odd commitment to a site owned by someone who wants Keir Starmer in prison.

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Seth @sethpiper.bsky.social · 2d

Can we understand the rise of Reform as the inevitable response from people tired of politicians who don’t make their lives better?

Yes.

Greens are also surging in the polls now that people are hearing the message that the party actually wants to use power to try to make people’s lives better.

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Seth @sethpiper.bsky.social · 2d

Here's my extremely simplistic analysis of British politics in 2025:

Did most people feel that their lives got better under 14 years of Conservative government?

No.

Do people feel like their lives are getting better now, under Labour?

Also no.

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 2d

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 32% (-2)
LAB: 22% (+1)
CON: 18% (+2)
LDM: 11% (-1)
GRN: 10% (=)
SNP: 3% (+1)

Via @opiniumresearch.bsky.social, 8-10 Oct.
Changes w/ 1-3 Oct.

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Seth @sethpiper.bsky.social · 2d

Donate to @greenparty.org.uk donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2d

Nathan Gill who went from UKIP ⏩ Brexit Party ⏩ Reform UK has admitted to taking bribes to speak pro Russian and anti- EU statements?

Photo collage
➡️ Oleg Voloshyn and his wife Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nigel Farage with Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nathan Gill with Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nigel Farage with Nathan Gill

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Seth @sethpiper.bsky.social · 2d

We are buddies and i get the curly tail response when we hang out, it's the highest compliment!

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