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Cllr Emma Garnett @greenpartyemma.bsky.social · 2h

Fellow Greens - please do sign the below.
We didn't have time to debate this emergency motion - on the Yom Kippur murders at a synagogue in Manchester and the arson attach at a mosque in Peacehaven - and I really wish we had.

Sam Alston @moosealston.bsky.social · 1d

For Green members: following demand from multiple members been asked to turn the emergency conference motion around the hate crimes that happened last week into an open letter for Greens to show their unified opposition. Please sign and share widely:

Green party open letter on Manchester Yom Kippur killings and Peacehaven attacks

Green Party open letter on Manchester Yom Kippur killings and Peacehaven arson To Whom It may Concern, Subject: Yom Kippur killings in Manchester and arson attack in Peacehaven. On 2nd October 2025 t...

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Katherine Priddy @katherinepriddy.bsky.social · 4h

Pre-sale for my tour begins tomorrow at 10am until general sale starts on Friday at 10am! It's not too late to join... pre-order my new album 'These Frightening Machines' from my website before Friday to get first access to tickets: kpriddy.lnk.to/TFM

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 5h

Check out this from We Own It.

weownit.org.uk/act-now/peti...

Thames Water wants to pollute illegally until 2040. Ofwat must say NO.

Thames Water wants to make at deal with Ofwat, to pollute illegally for 15 years

weownit.org.uk

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 20h

TikTok is getting rid of the London staff who keep you safe from harmful, misleading and illegal content. When did they announce the job cuts? Eight days before those employees were due to vote on unionising.

We’ve signed an open letter with @tuc.org.uk and @cwunews.bsky.social:

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Carlo Salvati Proietti @carlosp-landscape.bsky.social · Dec 14

Three trees stand guard over the Drumlins ..

cc: @photography.bsky.social @landscape.bsky.social

#landscape #winter #snow #switzerland #naturephotography #sunset #goldenhour #trees #drumlins #zug #schweiz #minimal #swissalps #landscapephotography #winterscape

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Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 1d

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Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 1d

He knows that life is limited, but he doesn't want anyone else enjoying it without him. He's probably planning to take us all with him.

Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 1d

And with eligibility for the free jabs ever more restricted, (over 75s & immunocompromised only now) sadly things don't look like they're going to get better.

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Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 1d

Perfect.

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Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 1d

The Blues Brothers: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002kvl8 via @bbciplayer

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Great movie. And some of *the best* blues and soul artists assembled in one place. Ever. Just amazing. Incredible. Adjectives. Add some. 🥰
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The Blues Brothers

Jake Blues and his brother Elwood have just days to reunite their old R&B band and save the Catholic home where they were raised, outrunning the police as they tear through Chicago.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 2d

Loving the Joni Mitchell covers 🥰 Beautifully done.

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Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 2d

Another great show today, Cerys, thank you! The Bob Dylan bootlegs are going down a treat - Ode to Billie Jo can never be played enough! ☺️

Really good to highlight needs of ppl with visual difficulties. My dad spent the last decades of his life with zero vision. More awareness is truly welcome.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

This Is Fascism

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 2d

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 2d

Richard Tice - "Please welcome to the stage... Nathan Gill"

So much for Tice's claim to have never met Nathan Gill.

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Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 2d

Police were thinner in those days.

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Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 2d

The perfect goodbye. Lovely clip.

Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social · 2d

I know we're not supposed to talk about Woody Allen, but ANNIE HALL is one of the supreme American movies & Diane Keaton's wild charisma is 90% of the reason why. And btw her performance of "Seems Like Old Times" is pure magic—up there with the greatest musical scenes in cinema, zero doubt

Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 2d

That little clip is the perfect goodbye.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

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El Eremita @dinamitteros.bsky.social · 2d

Miguel Freitas.
Artista portugués, nacido en 1984.
A orillas del río. 2018
Técnica mixta.
Colección privada.

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Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 2d

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Let's all try not to be Dave.

'I Feel Bad For You, Dave' by dodie
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dodie - I Feel Bad For You, Dave (official audio)

YouTube video by doddleoddle

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Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 2d

Very sad.

Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 2d

Goodnight screen goddess and style icon. 🙌
Diane Keaton - R.I.P.

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Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 2d

OMG!

Why is it that the older you get, the more shocking that deaths of famous and admired ppl are? Maybe just me, but I increasingly struggle to fathom that ppl have departed and will never grace us again with their art. It's so sad.

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