Robin Layfield (he/they) 💚 🌈 ✊🏽
@robinlayfield.bsky.social
Coder, Councillor, Activist, Active Travel Enthusiast
Green Socialist, working for Rodborough in Stroud. Let's GO!
“Shock them into focus with clarity of intent” — Kae Tempest, cf Ian Rickson
Green Socialist, working for Rodborough in Stroud. Let's GO!
“Shock them into focus with clarity of intent” — Kae Tempest, cf Ian Rickson
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More and more organisations recognise the power of active travel to help their businesses, improve patient health, reduce inequalities and make the country a better place. I'm proud to have coordinated this effort to bring those voices together around #CWIS3 with @adamtranter.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
More and more organisations recognise the power of active travel to help their businesses, improve patient health, reduce inequalities and make the country a better place. I'm proud to have coordinated this effort to bring those voices together around #CWIS3 with @adamtranter.bsky.social
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December 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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I cannot take any industry seriously if part of its case for its use is claiming that "little by little, people... are using these tools, but it's still not fully acceptable for them to say so."
Ditto anything claiming that its use will allow "a reduction in [book] prices of around 25%"
Ditto anything claiming that its use will allow "a reduction in [book] prices of around 25%"
December 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I cannot take any industry seriously if part of its case for its use is claiming that "little by little, people... are using these tools, but it's still not fully acceptable for them to say so."
Ditto anything claiming that its use will allow "a reduction in [book] prices of around 25%"
Ditto anything claiming that its use will allow "a reduction in [book] prices of around 25%"
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It’s high time that the Secretary of State model is abolished, I can’t remember the last time the role was carried out as it should (Wales voice in the cabinet).
Instead it’s always the UKGov’s voice in Wales, often enforcing political shithousery on Wales.
Scrap it.
Instead it’s always the UKGov’s voice in Wales, often enforcing political shithousery on Wales.
Scrap it.
December 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
It’s high time that the Secretary of State model is abolished, I can’t remember the last time the role was carried out as it should (Wales voice in the cabinet).
Instead it’s always the UKGov’s voice in Wales, often enforcing political shithousery on Wales.
Scrap it.
Instead it’s always the UKGov’s voice in Wales, often enforcing political shithousery on Wales.
Scrap it.
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Yet another species
on the way to extinction
accelerated by the greed
of fossil fuel billionaires
"60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed – study"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
on the way to extinction
accelerated by the greed
of fossil fuel billionaires
"60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed – study"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed – study
Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Yet another species
on the way to extinction
accelerated by the greed
of fossil fuel billionaires
"60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed – study"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
on the way to extinction
accelerated by the greed
of fossil fuel billionaires
"60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed – study"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Goodnight from Janet Rathbone, instinctively leaning in from the family car’s passenger window as if the darkness outside might shatter it at any moment. Goodnight from Freda Dix, rearranging knickknacks on her mantlepiece in hope of apotropaic alignment. Goodnight from Hookland.
December 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Goodnight from Janet Rathbone, instinctively leaning in from the family car’s passenger window as if the darkness outside might shatter it at any moment. Goodnight from Freda Dix, rearranging knickknacks on her mantlepiece in hope of apotropaic alignment. Goodnight from Hookland.
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Whether it's loads of people in asylum hotels, on sick benefits, or waiting for trial, these backlogs are all exactly what you would expect from cutting the services that handle these things, to the bone
December 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Whether it's loads of people in asylum hotels, on sick benefits, or waiting for trial, these backlogs are all exactly what you would expect from cutting the services that handle these things, to the bone
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The boat wasn’t headed to the U.S., which we would have learned with a little due process instead of murder. www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...
Exclusive: Boat at center of double-tap strike controversy was meeting vessel headed to Suriname, admiral told lawmakers | CNN Politics
The alleged drug traffickers killed by the US military in a strike on September 2 were heading to link up with another, larger vessel that was bound for Suriname — a small South American country east ...
www.cnn.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The boat wasn’t headed to the U.S., which we would have learned with a little due process instead of murder. www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...
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I'm really pleased that the accusations against Farage are quite rightly not going away. He appears very, very rattled and deservedly so.
This is very long overdue.
This is very long overdue.
December 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I'm really pleased that the accusations against Farage are quite rightly not going away. He appears very, very rattled and deservedly so.
This is very long overdue.
This is very long overdue.
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🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
75% of Reform UK’s donations have come from just three rich men
Calls grow for donation caps as Democracy for Sale research reveals that three-quarters of Reform’s funding comes from a trio of wealthy donors
democracyforsale.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
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Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream.
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
December 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream.
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
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Thanks @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social
We're growing a team - keeping up the huge momentum and ready to do so much more in the May elections!
join.greenparty.org
We're growing a team - keeping up the huge momentum and ready to do so much more in the May elections!
join.greenparty.org
December 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Thanks @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social
We're growing a team - keeping up the huge momentum and ready to do so much more in the May elections!
join.greenparty.org
We're growing a team - keeping up the huge momentum and ready to do so much more in the May elections!
join.greenparty.org
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Reform UK are raising Council Tax across the country. They claim they didn’t formally pledge to reduce it.
The graphic attached shows exactly what they campaigned on during the Local Elections.
‘Council tax rise cannot be ruled out, says Reform’
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The graphic attached shows exactly what they campaigned on during the Local Elections.
‘Council tax rise cannot be ruled out, says Reform’
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Reform UK are raising Council Tax across the country. They claim they didn’t formally pledge to reduce it.
The graphic attached shows exactly what they campaigned on during the Local Elections.
‘Council tax rise cannot be ruled out, says Reform’
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
The graphic attached shows exactly what they campaigned on during the Local Elections.
‘Council tax rise cannot be ruled out, says Reform’
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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The boats the regime is claiming are going from Venezuela to the US would need to refuel over 20 times to get to Miami.
They are lying to us.
They are lying to us.
December 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The boats the regime is claiming are going from Venezuela to the US would need to refuel over 20 times to get to Miami.
They are lying to us.
They are lying to us.
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I was a GP Practice manager when we were required to start doing" online consultations". In practice it meant replacing a morning of face to face or telephone appointments with answering emails. As a Patient Safety manager i think Email access is great but not a replacement for face to face.
Susanna Reid: The BMA says a recent survey found more than 40% of more than 1,300 GP practices had to reduce the number of face to face appointments because GPs are so busy dealing with online communication
Wes Streeting: The BMA are moaning minnies
Wes Streeting: The BMA are moaning minnies
December 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I was a GP Practice manager when we were required to start doing" online consultations". In practice it meant replacing a morning of face to face or telephone appointments with answering emails. As a Patient Safety manager i think Email access is great but not a replacement for face to face.
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"AI will survive, but the speculative bubble surrounding it is a sign of a deeper structural problem — the cost of which, when finally realized, will fall most heavily on the working class." interesting analysis theconversation.com/the-ai-bubbl...
The AI bubble isn’t new — Karl Marx explained the mechanisms behind it nearly 150 years ago
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s warning of an AI bubble highlights a deeper economic problem: capitalism is producing more capital than it can profitably invest.
theconversation.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:48 PM
"AI will survive, but the speculative bubble surrounding it is a sign of a deeper structural problem — the cost of which, when finally realized, will fall most heavily on the working class." interesting analysis theconversation.com/the-ai-bubbl...
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Delighted to be supporting the launch of @togetheralliance.bsky.social
Together we need to take on the far right.
Togetheralliance.org.uk
Together we need to take on the far right.
Togetheralliance.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Delighted to be supporting the launch of @togetheralliance.bsky.social
Together we need to take on the far right.
Togetheralliance.org.uk
Together we need to take on the far right.
Togetheralliance.org.uk
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I've died in Witcher 3 about 5 times now, because a specific key combo keeps triggering a copilot popup and then I die offscreen
I tried to login to Microsoft online to check something in my settings and it just plopped me into a copilot webpage. It took me like 30 seconds to figure out how to get out of it. Pathetic and useless.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
November 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I've died in Witcher 3 about 5 times now, because a specific key combo keeps triggering a copilot popup and then I die offscreen
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Scots taxpayers to pay £200 million for new nuclear power stations in England talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/29/s...
Scots taxpayers to pay £200 million for new nuclear power stations in England
Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks to Dorothy for alerting me to this. In the Guardian today, the above and: UK energy bill payers will hand over £2bn a year in subsidies to EDF, the French compan…
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Scots taxpayers to pay £200 million for new nuclear power stations in England talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/29/s...
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Really interesting discussion at the AGC Conference today in Bradford about the rights of nature and some of the great work Green councillors are doing across the country, using Lewes and Stroud as case studies to highlight the fantastic work our councillors are undertaking!
November 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Really interesting discussion at the AGC Conference today in Bradford about the rights of nature and some of the great work Green councillors are doing across the country, using Lewes and Stroud as case studies to highlight the fantastic work our councillors are undertaking!
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"We believe recent events underscore the urgency of this issue."
November 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
"We believe recent events underscore the urgency of this issue."