Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙🇪🇺🇺🇦💚
@minophis.bsky.social
He/Him. UK 29-year software QA veteran and moderate Python developer. Interested in Data Science, Python, IoT, Environmental Sustainability, Human Rights, Ethics, Rejoin EU. Green Party Member.🇬🇧💙💛
Epidemiologist Brooke Nichols of Boston University has create a counter of estimated deaths caused by the DOGE cuts to USAID. www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?so...
Current Adult Deaths: 213,245
Current Child Deaths: 443,495
Elon Musk has casued the deaths of over 440,000 children.
Current Adult Deaths: 213,245
Current Child Deaths: 443,495
Elon Musk has casued the deaths of over 440,000 children.
Impact Dashboard - Impact Counter | Impact Counter
Visualize the human impact of funding changes for aid and support organizations.
www.impactcounter.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Epidemiologist Brooke Nichols of Boston University has create a counter of estimated deaths caused by the DOGE cuts to USAID. www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?so...
Current Adult Deaths: 213,245
Current Child Deaths: 443,495
Elon Musk has casued the deaths of over 440,000 children.
Current Adult Deaths: 213,245
Current Child Deaths: 443,495
Elon Musk has casued the deaths of over 440,000 children.
November 30, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Hope is here: help us deliver it www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere...
Hope is here: help us deliver it
Hope is here. In just 5 hours, we hit our £100,000 target. We're doubling our target. Let's take the fight to Reform in May.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Hope is here: help us deliver it www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere...
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Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
November 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
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🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share.
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share.
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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Great to spend time today with firefighter watch at Poplar Fire Station.
Always an absolute honour to spend time with people who spend their lives keeping us safe.
Thank you. ✊🏼
Always an absolute honour to spend time with people who spend their lives keeping us safe.
Thank you. ✊🏼
November 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Great to spend time today with firefighter watch at Poplar Fire Station.
Always an absolute honour to spend time with people who spend their lives keeping us safe.
Thank you. ✊🏼
Always an absolute honour to spend time with people who spend their lives keeping us safe.
Thank you. ✊🏼
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Farage is neck deep in this. There needs to be a very thorough and fully transparent investigation.
...& one guy was so good at spouting Russian propaganda that the Kremlin offered him a job.
(Clearly, Gill was a mere amateur in their eyes)
(Clearly, Gill was a mere amateur in their eyes)
November 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Farage is neck deep in this. There needs to be a very thorough and fully transparent investigation.
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Lovely interview of Zack Polanski : ‘People will have to find some other way to hurt me’ | The Observer
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Zack Polanski: ‘People will have to find some other way to hurt me’ | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Lovely interview of Zack Polanski : ‘People will have to find some other way to hurt me’ | The Observer
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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🎯💯 Repeat after me:
Ukraine is not losing the war, Russia is.
Ukraine is not losing the war, Russia is.
Ukraine is not losing the war, Russia is.
Ukraine is not losing the war, Russia is.
We should keep supporting #Ukraine till it wins.
We should stop bending the knee for Trump.
🇺🇦🫶🇪🇺
#EUdef #dkpol
Ukraine is not losing the war, Russia is.
Ukraine is not losing the war, Russia is.
Ukraine is not losing the war, Russia is.
Ukraine is not losing the war, Russia is.
We should keep supporting #Ukraine till it wins.
We should stop bending the knee for Trump.
🇺🇦🫶🇪🇺
#EUdef #dkpol
Please show this map of Russian "advances" on the front line to your foreign acquaintances. Share it on social media in English. Write under posts by American thought leaders.
November 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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"You can agree or disagree with him, but Polanski does not pretend to be something he is not.
He is unusually willing for a politician to give a straight answer to questions.
Does he want to rejoin the EU? “Yes."
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
He is unusually willing for a politician to give a straight answer to questions.
Does he want to rejoin the EU? “Yes."
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Zack Polanski: ‘People will have to find some other way to hurt me’ | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
"You can agree or disagree with him, but Polanski does not pretend to be something he is not.
He is unusually willing for a politician to give a straight answer to questions.
Does he want to rejoin the EU? “Yes."
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
He is unusually willing for a politician to give a straight answer to questions.
Does he want to rejoin the EU? “Yes."
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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23,000. That's how many deaths can be blamed on Boris Johnson's chaotic Covid decisions and delays. Enough is enough, he must be stripped of his annual £115,000 handout. Sign the petition today: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/strip-Bo...
Sign the petition: Strip Boris Johnson of his annual former PM allowance
23,000. That's how many deaths can be blamed on Boris Johnson's chaotic Covid decisions and delays. Enough is enough, he must be stripped of his annual £115,000 handout. Sign the petition today:
act.38degrees.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
23,000. That's how many deaths can be blamed on Boris Johnson's chaotic Covid decisions and delays. Enough is enough, he must be stripped of his annual £115,000 handout. Sign the petition today: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/strip-Bo...
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Macclesfield Central (Cheshire East) Council By-Election Result:
🌍 GRN: 41.8% (+19.7)
🌹 LAB: 28.6% (-25.7)
➡️ RFM: 15.8% (New)
🌳 CON: 9.1% (-4.5)
⚖️ EQU: 2.5% (New)
🔶 LDM: 2.2% (-7.7)
Green GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2023.
🌍 GRN: 41.8% (+19.7)
🌹 LAB: 28.6% (-25.7)
➡️ RFM: 15.8% (New)
🌳 CON: 9.1% (-4.5)
⚖️ EQU: 2.5% (New)
🔶 LDM: 2.2% (-7.7)
Green GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2023.
November 21, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Under-50s Back Green Party as FIRST Choice in Latest YouGov Poll.
November 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Under-50s Back Green Party as FIRST Choice in Latest YouGov Poll.
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I don’t know what to say anymore other than to remind those in power that refugees are human beings with equal rights who, along with their children, deserve a safe, stable & integrated life in their communities and that what they’re breaking now with this performative cruelty can’t be fixed later.
The Labour government does not want to rule out deporting somebody once here as a refugee 16-19 years with a British-born 15 year old child
November 19, 2025 at 6:55 AM
I don’t know what to say anymore other than to remind those in power that refugees are human beings with equal rights who, along with their children, deserve a safe, stable & integrated life in their communities and that what they’re breaking now with this performative cruelty can’t be fixed later.
Billionaires shouldn't be able to buy a bigger voice in politics. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to put a cap on how much they can donate in the #ElectionsBill
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/179420/...
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Sign now to demand an end to big money in politics
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November 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Billionaires shouldn't be able to buy a bigger voice in politics. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to put a cap on how much they can donate in the #ElectionsBill
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/179420/...
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/179420/...
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A Government of cowards.
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
A Government of cowards.
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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The Greens don’t believe providing safe refuge for endangered asylum seekers is an “out-of-control” policy.
Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society.
Refugees are welcome.
Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society.
Refugees are welcome.
November 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The Greens don’t believe providing safe refuge for endangered asylum seekers is an “out-of-control” policy.
Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society.
Refugees are welcome.
Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society.
Refugees are welcome.
The Pro-Brexit bias on BBC Question Time is staggering.
To say the BBC had any left wing bias is ridiculous.
To say the BBC had any left wing bias is ridiculous.
November 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The Pro-Brexit bias on BBC Question Time is staggering.
To say the BBC had any left wing bias is ridiculous.
To say the BBC had any left wing bias is ridiculous.
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Musk is very confused - the EU Commission president is nominated by leaders of (elected) govts and approved by the (elected) European Parliament, not 'appointed by a committee'.
November 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Musk is very confused - the EU Commission president is nominated by leaders of (elected) govts and approved by the (elected) European Parliament, not 'appointed by a committee'.
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The hope against the fear: how @zackpolanski.bsky.social is redrawing the political landscape
Abandoned by a workers’ party, frozen out as it goes right, thousands of British voters are looking elsewhere for a combative left wing
From @blast-info.fr
www.blast-info.fr/articles/202...
Abandoned by a workers’ party, frozen out as it goes right, thousands of British voters are looking elsewhere for a combative left wing
From @blast-info.fr
www.blast-info.fr/articles/202...
L’espoir contre la peur : comment Zack Polanski redessine le paysage politique britannique
Abandonnés par un Parti travailliste recentré et frileux, des milliers d’électeurs britanniques cherchent ailleurs une gauche combative. Tandis que Nigel Farage joue sur la peur de l'immigration, Zack...
www.blast-info.fr
November 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The hope against the fear: how @zackpolanski.bsky.social is redrawing the political landscape
Abandoned by a workers’ party, frozen out as it goes right, thousands of British voters are looking elsewhere for a combative left wing
From @blast-info.fr
www.blast-info.fr/articles/202...
Abandoned by a workers’ party, frozen out as it goes right, thousands of British voters are looking elsewhere for a combative left wing
From @blast-info.fr
www.blast-info.fr/articles/202...
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I think, as an American who studied the speech to assess whether it constituted unlawful incitement, the BBC edit was poor journalistic form, but it did not convey something substantively different than reality. My thing? The apology doesn’t convey to me that the BBC gets Trump isn’t a fair broker.
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I think, as an American who studied the speech to assess whether it constituted unlawful incitement, the BBC edit was poor journalistic form, but it did not convey something substantively different than reality. My thing? The apology doesn’t convey to me that the BBC gets Trump isn’t a fair broker.
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The BBC - for all its flaws - remains the greatest news and broadcasting service in the world.
It is everything Donald Trump and his cabal of nasty little nobodies will never be and we need to defend it.
It is everything Donald Trump and his cabal of nasty little nobodies will never be and we need to defend it.
Donald Trump Slams 'Corrupt' BBC After Tim Davie Resigns Over Bias Row
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald...
Donald Trump Slams 'Corrupt' BBC After Tim Davie Resigns Over Bias Row
The US president said the corporation's behaviour was "a terrible thing for democracy".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The BBC - for all its flaws - remains the greatest news and broadcasting service in the world.
It is everything Donald Trump and his cabal of nasty little nobodies will never be and we need to defend it.
It is everything Donald Trump and his cabal of nasty little nobodies will never be and we need to defend it.
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You mean you want the BBC to move even further to the right?
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/o...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/o...
'Over-use' of right-wing guests on Question Time revealed
Academic analysis detailing the over-use of right-wing guests on Question Time has resurfaced after Nigel Farage was platformed again.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:22 AM
You mean you want the BBC to move even further to the right?
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/o...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/o...