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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 19h

Ok well it took five days. 100k members. This is not a moment, it’s a movement. It was always a movement.

Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 6d

I predict the Green Party will be at 100k members by the end of the year.

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Me @joebailey.bsky.social · 1d

Death Stranding (2019)

Me @joebailey.bsky.social · 1d

Lugs Grapes Breasts Titties

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Me @joebailey.bsky.social · 4d

Only the greens can beat reform

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 4d

🚨 NEW | Greens surge to 15% (2pts behind Lab)

➡️ REF – 32% (-3)
🔴 LAB – 17% (-2)
🔵 CON – 17% (+3)
🟢 GRN – 15% (+4)
🟠 LD – 12% (-)

Via @FindoutnowUK, 8 Oct (+/- vs 1 Oct)

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The party even more dangerous than Starmers labour - UK's answer to Putin's communists

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 5d

20,000 new members have joined the Green Party in the past month.

This is the Green surge.

Want to be part of it? Join the Green Party today ⤵

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Me @joebailey.bsky.social · 7d

This made me laugh so hard

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 8d

wizard frog is insane

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 POLL | 80% of Green members support trans people being allowed to change their legal gender.

✅ Support – 80%
❌ Oppose – 8%

86% of Zack Polanski voters support trans rights.

Via @YouGov, 2 October

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Me @joebailey.bsky.social · 10d

Dying was the only interesting thing this guy ever did

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 10d

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "I think its really problematic if someone is trying to weaponise the attack that happened yesterday to try and silence protest in this country against the genocide. They're separate issues.. we need to be clear what this govt is doing"

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 10d

🚨 NEW | Anti-trans hate group "Green Women's Declaration" have been formally barred from Green Party conference.

The group sought a stall at conference, but their bid was denied by the party. Green leader Zack Polanski recently affirmed the party's support for trans rights.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 17d

Has now passed a million signatures.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 17d

One of the unexpected things I've learned from my advocacy for trans people is how malignant parts of the State can be, how it can misuse data for positively evil purposes. It's taught me people can't be safe with a digital ID card and so I've signed this. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

petition.parliament.uk

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 20d

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 22d

While the timewasters in Your Party were holding endless meetings about party lines and what can and can't be said and who is or isn't expendable, Zack Polanski won an 80% landslide leadership election and stepped out, day one, and declared: "Trans rights are human rights."

There have already been differences among the Independent Alliance MPs on issues such as private school fees and trans identities. To the annoyance of some, Blackburn MP Adnan Hussain has repeatedly opened this up for public discussion via posts on X, writing that “Muslims tend to be socially conservative” and “most sane people want to be segregated in a toilet”. A Corbyn ally admits this makes for “messy conflict”, but insists the left is capable of embracing those who oppose transphobia while not subscribing to slogans such as “trans women are women”.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 22d

The one thing deferring this eventuality, in my mind, is that Labour will cling to power for as long as feasibly possible, giving us potentially four years (and a few local/special elections) for @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the Greens to thoroughly destabilise them and carve an alternate path.

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22d

It seems highly likely we'll have a hard-right government next. Labour is spending the parliament before that not only making itself spectacularly unpopular but also bringing in biometric ID cards, monitoring online behaviour, and undermining human rights protections. At least make it hard for them!

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 22d

Nancy BY Ernie Bushmiller
September 20,1955

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 23d

The people who took my headphone jack need to be arrested today

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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Me @joebailey.bsky.social · 25d

Done

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28d

This is huge. 3 more London councillors leave Labour and join @greenparty.org.uk.

We're now on more councils than the Lib Dems in London.

Labour - you're next.

Chris Williams @chrisw100.bsky.social · 28d

🔴-->🟢 3 more Labour to Green Council defections today... in Barking and Dagenham

Warm welcome to Faruk Choudhury, Moin Quadri and Victoria Hornby 👏

Greens on a roll and there's so much more to come!

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · Sep 11

As far as I am concerned, Keir Starmer's Labour Party is a hotbed for child predators and the people who defend and enable them. I will never vote for that party again, and I will do everything I can to dissuade people from supporting a party that is complicit in enabling systematic child abuse.

Samuel Thomson @samuelthomson.bsky.social · Sep 11

Mandelson accumulated connections to Epstein from within an establishment that has a long history of covering up abuse. These connections weren't a problem for him while that establishment lasted, and his undermining of an anti-establishment Labour Party should be seen in that context.

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David Revoy @davidrevoy.com · Sep 10

The Amphora of Great Intelligence (AGI)

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

A comic strip in four panels:

1. A bird's-eye view of a giant amphora the size of a building with closed eyes and a closed mouth engraved on it. Using scaffolding, a community of wizards climbed up and are throwing all their books into it, to fill its content.
> Wizards: All our grimoires for the Amphora of Great Intelligence!

2. A ground level view at the bottom of the giant amphora. This time, the wizards bring tree trunks, cut down nearby trees, and throw them into a large fire to boil the giant amphora.
> Wizards: All our forests for the Amphora of Great Intelligence!

3. A gathering of all the wizards below the imposing amphora which has now opened its glowing eyes and mouth slightly. The crowd of wizards at its feet applauds:
> Wizards: Amphora of Great Intelligence, our world is dying, share your knowledge with us!

4. Same shot, as the amphora responds with joyful and amused eyes. The wizards are confused by the answer...
> Artificial Intelligence: According to geologists, you should eat at least one small rock per day.
> Wizards: ... ... ...

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Me @joebailey.bsky.social · Sep 11

I do like how Kemi is somehow even lower than Keith

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · Sep 10

Liberal politicians if you are so disturbed just pretend Charlie Kirk was a Palestinian child and you’ll get over it in no time

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