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Dr Luke Walker

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🌻 Green campaigner 📚 Writer on William Blake & Allen Ginsberg ✏️ Freelance editor, proofreader, indexer 💻 drlukewalker.com Brighton, UK Trans rights are human rights

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · Dec 1

Most of my book chapters and journal articles can be read via the link in profile above.

But here's a thread of my recorded talks and podcast appearances.

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Starting with this one on Blake and Dylan:
youtu.be/v5kohJ-Cugg?...

Luke Walker on Bob Dylan and William Blake

YouTube video by Zoavision

youtu.be

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d

🎉 We've done it. We've passed 100,000 Green Party members!

📈 But we're not stopping there.

💚 Let's make hope normal again! Join the Green Party today!

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Brighton & Hove Green Party @bhgreens.bsky.social · 1d

100,000 MEMBERS KLAXON 🎉

Thousands are joining us every single day. What about you?

join.greenparty.org.uk

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader

Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since Zack Polanski took over last month The Greens in England and Wales have more than 100,000 members for the first time, the party has announced, a near-50% rise since Zack Polanski took over as leader last month. It puts them on a potential course to overtake the Conservatives and comes little more than a week after the Greens announced they had moved past the Liberal Democrats in membership numbers, getting to 83,500. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · 2d

and I feel fine

jamma10.bsky.social @jamma10.bsky.social · 3d

Toilet, Bristol UK circa 2015

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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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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 2d

My respect for Zarah is plummeting fast. And judging by the replies and quotes, it seems nearly everyone here feels the same

join.greenparty.org.uk

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 2d

Great discussion at TWT on how the left must unite — Your Party and the Greens — to keep Farage out of Downing Street.

But unity isn’t uniformity. Your Party will be truly anti-imperialist: no diplomatic ties with a genocidal, apartheid Israeli state and no greenwashing NATO.

Join us: yourparty.uk

Photo of Zarah, Zack Polanski, Amna Abdullatif from We Deserve Better and Abubakr Nanabawa from The Muslim Vote

Zarah speaking to a packed room at The World Transformed

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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 2d

‘This will not happen again’: Vancouver Park Board apologizes for hosting Harry Potter event

www.ctvnews.ca/vanco...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

‘This will not happen again’: Vancouver Park Board apologizes for hosting Harry Potter event

A motion calling on the Vancouver Park Board to officially apologize for hosting an upcoming Harry Potter attraction passed Tuesday in a unanimous vote.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 2d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Andrew Harrison @nndroid.bsky.social · 2d

The BBC just can’t stop wasting licence fee payers’ money.

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 6d

More brilliant (counter)cultural history from Stephen Coates' 'Bureau of Lost Culture' podcast, this time with the one and only @billybragg.bsky.social !

open.spotify.com/episode/23y5...

Roots, Radical and Rockers - With Billy Bragg

open.spotify.com

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 2d

Interesting to see the Dorset Echo present the word 'grockle' (tourist) as unique to the isle of Portland. It's widely used across the South West, especially in Devon

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 4d

This interview is incredible.

Congrats to László Krasznahorkai & his publisher, the excellent New Directions, on the Nobel Prize for Literature ❤️

ginsbergpoem.bsky.social @ginsbergpoem.bsky.social · 4d

@citylightsbooks.bsky.social - László Krasznahorkai on Allen Ginsberg - the new Nobel-Prize winner's Ginsberg connection - allenginsberg.org/2020/03/t-m-...

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 4d

🌍 | Highest ever Green polling (15%).

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 4d

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 32% (-3)
LAB: 17% (-2)
CON: 17% (+3)
GRN: 15% (+4)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)

Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 8 Oct.
Changes w/ 1 Oct.

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Adam Ramsay @adamramsay.bsky.social · 5d

Citing my previous story on the Lib Dems’s real membership, and doing some digging of their own on what it was in 2020, the BBC have shown that it’s halved:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Liberal Democrat membership has halved in 5 years, figures show

Analysis of available figures shows the number of party members has fallen by 49% since August 2020.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 5d

Moloch whose love is endless oil and stone! Moloch whose soul is electricity and banks! Moloch whose poverty is the specter of genius! Moloch whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen! Moloch whose name is the Mind!

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 6d

More brilliant (counter)cultural history from Stephen Coates' 'Bureau of Lost Culture' podcast, this time with the one and only @billybragg.bsky.social !

open.spotify.com/episode/23y5...

Roots, Radical and Rockers - With Billy Bragg

open.spotify.com

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 6d

I had a great time volunteering behind the bar at the Hanover Beer Festival at the weekend 🍻

It's a lovely annual event which raises funds for our very special local community centre 🏫

Once again @sianberry.bsky.social sponsored a barrel. She was at Green conference, so picture of her last year! 💚

Luke standing by beer barrels, wearing Hanover Beer Festival lanyard and t-shirt

Luke with Sian Berry, who is holding a glass of beer and laughing

Luke holding a beer glass in a tent pointing at a sign saying 'Thank you from Sian Berry and Brighton & Hove Green Party'

Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 6d

Looks like a certainty! Very possible GPEW membership alone will reach 100,000 by then. Btw, congrats on the LibDem low membership scoop. Very funny that we overtook them long before we realised!

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 8d

unhand me, grey-beard loon!

CNBC @cnbc.com · 8d

To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response.

Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror,' says public speaking expert

When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public speaking expert John Bowe. Here's the perfect response to instantly shut down rude behavior.

cnb.cx

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 8d

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 8d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8d

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 9d

Today’s Green Party conference has been wonderful. I’ve met lots of really inspiring people…

A rather overwhelmed me, brandishing a copy of my book Her Name is Alice in the face of the wonderful leader of the Green Party Zack Polanski.

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Adam Ramsay @adamramsay.bsky.social · 9d

Revealed: Green Party membership in fact 50% higher than Lib Dems - previous Lib Dem figure included non-paying ‘supporters’: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw... #gpconf

Green membership in fact 50% bigger than Lib Dems

Lib Dem membership is much lower than widely reported

open.substack.com

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 9d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

bit.ly

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