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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1h

As if they keep writing all these headlines - and our membership numbers and polling just keeps shooting up. 🚀

Now at 110,000. Over 55% increase in just one month!

Lower bills. Fund NHS. Tax the super rich.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

Greens who want to save the world by destroying britain

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 1d

The 1976 Synth Album That Promised to Help Your Plants Grow: Discover Mother Earth’s Plantasia

In 1973, Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird's The Secret Life of Plants became a bestseller.

www.openculture.com

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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 5h

Make the Government respond to our call for a National Climate Resilience Plan by signing this petition and then sharing it. We need 10,000 signatures.

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

Petition: Fund a National Climate Resilience Plan: protect communities from climate impact

From floods to extreme temperatures, climate impacts risk damaging homes, health, businesses, services, and the economy. We want Government to prioritise adaptation; fund a new Resilience Plan that…

petition.parliament.uk

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 7h

Absolutely terrifying - the government is leaving communities utterly exposed to the effects of the climate emergency. We urgently need a plan with binding targets for how this govt will protect us as extreme heat and flooding worsen in the years ahead.

Screenshot of a Guardian headline: "Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk"

Subheading: "Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds"

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6h

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

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ʙᴜη ₊˚⊹⋆ @bun.is.a.cutie.fyi · 14h

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 17h

“Do you really think if 20% of current active users of Facebook & Twitter deleted their accounts tomorrow, fascism would be over?”

Yes, I do, maybe not instantly, but it would be like asking if the frog in the lidded pot with the fire under it is alive.

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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 10h

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 1d

Seems like a good time for a can of this collab beer between Palestinian brewery Taybeh & Brewgooder, proceeds to Palestinian communities & available in the Co-Op

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 7h

GOOD NEWS: On July 14th, Kent Police threatened this protestor, Laura Murton, with arrest for holding a Palestinian flag and placards stating "Free Gaza" and "Israel is committing genocide". Thousands raised the alarm, and Police Kent has now apologised.

good news: Kent police forced to apologise to protester

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madoc cairns @madoc.bsky.social · Jul 15

Police in Canterbury today informed a protestor that the phrase "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" could be considered a declaration of support for Palestine Action and therefore a terrorism offence.

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rachaelunedited.bsky.social @rachaelunedited.bsky.social · 6h

The Green Party is getting me to smile again … there is hope yet that the U.K. can get back to being a place to be proud to live instead of a divisive lad full of hate #GreenParty

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 4h

The government’s restrictions on immigration will turn this around any day now.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 4h

Latest YouGov government approval ratings, 11-13 October 2025

Approve: 14% (+1 from 4-6 Oct)
Disapprove: 69% (=)
Net: -55 (+1)

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

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Andy Hearn 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈⚽️🎶🌈 @andyhearn24.bsky.social · 1d

Labour as a movement of the left is finished. Even if they’d won under Corbyn they would have collapsed their own Government from the inside. They have no interest in serving ordinary people and finally ordinary people know it.

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cinnamonnpriest • @bobo999.bsky.social · 18h

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lee hazlewood
my autumn’s done come •
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youtu.be/Qo24xN9mj8Q?... #MusicChallenge

My Autumn's Done Come

YouTube video by Lee Hazlewood - Topic

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Yorkshire Dales National Park @yorkshiredales.org.uk · 11h

Every morning we open a window to the Yorkshire Dales National Park and share some of its special qualities, like this view of moorland at Oxnop in Swaledale.

📸 Wendy McDonnell | #YorkshireDales #StepIntoNature

A stone farmhouse surrounded by trees sits in a green valley with rolling hills and grazing sheep under a cloudy sky

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Jewel @jewelthin.bsky.social · 3h

I think it is for adding chemicals to the soil to improve soil health, prep for wetter weather. I'm not a farmer or a soil expert, so can't say how effective this is

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 17h

FINDS THEM AND KILLS THEM

"Finds Them and Kills Them (Osh-Tisch) looked like a man, but wore women's clothing and had the heart of a woman.... she was brave and good."
― Pretty Shield

Her strength as a warrior is what earned her the name Osh-Tisch, which translates to “finds them and kills them."

Who is Osh-Tisch?
Osh-Tisch was a Apsáalooke Badé, a role within the Crow Nation that defied traditional gender norms, embodying both masculine and feminine qualities. Before colonization, Badé were deeply respected for their unique spiritual gifts, artistry, and contributions to community life.
As a Badé, Osh-Tisch carried responsibilities tied to culture, ceremony, and social balance. Their life shows how many of our nations embraced gender diversity long before Western colonial powers imposed rigid binaries.

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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 23h

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day

COLUMBUS DIDN'T DISCOVER ANYTHING 1,000'S OF NATIVE NATIONS WERE ALREADY HERE

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Lucas Seehafer PhD @seehafer.bsky.social · 1d

Educate yourself on the US-Dakota War of 1862, which resulted in the largest mass execution in American history, ordered by President Lincoln and carried out in Mankato, MN.

US-Dakota War of 1862

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 5h

The truth about the Green Party's Membership, it's higher than the number of Britons who subscribe to this rag.

Spectator 93,000
Green Party 105,000+

Get in the bin Spectator.

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 2d

🔗 Read the full piece

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

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Neil Shima @neilshima.bsky.social · 5d

#MusicChallenge 🎶
#MusicSky
#20SongsByYear 2015
(Unranked)

Day 9. Low - was an American indie rock band from Duluth, Minnesota, formed in 1993 by Alan Sparhawk (guitar and vocals) & Mimi Parker (drums and vocals). Low disbanded following the death of Mimi Parker in 2022.

Low - Lies [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

YouTube video by Sub Pop

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Dave Berthiaume @daveberthiaumephoto.com · 1d

Fall colors along Duluth's lakewalk this past weekend.

#photography #nature #minnesota #landscape #landscapephotography #duluth #lakesuperior #fall #fallcolors

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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 7h

$5.9bn = the amount spent annually on protecting and restoring forests

$409bn = the amount of subsidies going to agriculture industries destroying forests

Anyone else see the problem here?

The Guardian: "'Dismal' health of world's forests is threat to humanity, report warns. Financial institutions pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to stop destruction, says Climate Focus. Jonathan Watts, 14th Oct."

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