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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 5h

Landowners/homeowners along the “Bristol Avon” or tributary/waterway (like the K&A canal): If you’ve got any invasive species (Knotweed, Bamboo, Balsam, Rhododendron, Cherry Laurel, Giant Hogweed/Rhubarb) Let @protect.earth know and we’ll remove it for voluntary donations. protect.earth/contact

Contact — Protect Earth

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Vanessa Spedding @vanessaspedding.bsky.social · 2d

Wow. The truth is energising, spoken like this. Bravo @zackpolanski.bsky.social

LiLBazula 👻 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 2d

Fucking hell this is good. Can't remember a British politician ever speaking like this on a mainstream news & current affairs programme. Or anywhere, for that matter

The Daily Politik @dailypolitik.bsky.social · 2d

Zack Polanski used the ‘F’ word twice on BBCQT last night… and the audience applauded him for it 👇

"You actually are a fascist from a far right party… this is racism, this is facism and we should call it out"

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2d

happy friday

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 4d

Africa is skipping the polluting and planet-wrecking fossil fuel era entirely.

Solar grids and clean tech at massive scale mean that once-dark village are glowing with renewable light.

The future isn’t coming from the West — it’s rising in the South.

Smiling children with a mini solar grid in Africa

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Vanessa Spedding @vanessaspedding.bsky.social · 3d

Genius! Cancelled artwork sends clever message about offsetting... "By not going ahead Piñol calculates that he has avoided the emissions of 57,765 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent. These ... have been certified as carbon credits worth a total of US$1.6 million." open.substack.com/pub/reddmoni...

Cancelled artwork in Belém generates 57,765 Cultural Degrowth Credits

“An artwork to help the world breath better.”

open.substack.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

Not only are we at record numbers of members and growing every day - this is our highest ever poll rating.

We're just getting started.

This is the politics of the 99% Vs the 1% for a country we can all afford to live in - plenty of room to grow.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 3d

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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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 3d

Zack Polanksi will be on Question Time tonight.

Will actually be worth watching for once.

(Keep count of how many times Fiona Bruce interrupts him and how many times she interrupts all the other Right Wing Guests)

#bbcqt

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 3d

The thousands of hostages we never hear about.

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Cllr Nick Hartley - Green Party @nickhartleygreen.bsky.social · 4d

The first time I’ve been looking forward to watch Question Time in quite a while!

Go on @zackpolanski.bsky.social!

#bbcqt

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💢Marx was right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 4d

The truth is simple.

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inblacknwhite @imagetree.bsky.social · 7d

Don't believe their lies.

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Matt Rosser @matt.cymru · 16d

It’s a good point.

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 16d

How could mainstream media improve politics shows to allow for more constructive conversations?

Grace Blakeley explains why she's had enough television.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 6d

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 5d

Not sure people realize how INSANELY DRAINING data centers will be on our planet.

If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 — outranked only by China, India, and the U.S.

Read this in @bloomberg.com👇

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Vanessa Spedding @vanessaspedding.bsky.social · 7d

Dear god.

Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 11d

The Western economic system is a slow-motion suicide pact. #Degrowth #PostCapitalisn

Revealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature & crop land a day
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Revealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a day

Investigation shows extent of green land lost across UK and mainland Europe to development from 2018 to 2023

www.theguardian.com

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Kev @caoimhin1.bsky.social · 7d

The BBC, hiding their bias in plain sight

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7d

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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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 9d

It's going to happen, because if they won't stand up to him now, they won't stand up to him then.

It will be Canada and Greenland need to negotiate and be reasonable with Donald Trump who has invaded them.

You need to oppose him NOW.

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 16d

The UK government subcontracted a US firm to conduct spy flights from Cyprus in aid of Israeli intelligence during a genocide.

Defence minister Luke Pollard thinks the public has no right to know of it.

Find out here 👉 www.declassifieduk.org/us-flew-spy-...

#DCUKparliament

US flew spy flights for UK months before MoD admitted it

A US military contractor hired by Britain to conduct surveillance over Gaza operated above Nuseirat refugee camp the night before an Israeli bombing killed over 30 Palestinians in December 2024.

www.declassifieduk.org

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Vanessa Spedding @vanessaspedding.bsky.social · 14d

Meeting the new military spending targets set by the Atlantic Alliance will produce 1,320 million tonnes of carbon dioxide over the next decade, finds @responsiblesci.bsky.social www.eunews.it/en/2025/09/1...

How war and rearmament distance the world from the Paris climate goals

The alarm from Scientists for Global Responsibility: meeting the new military spending targets set by the Atlantic Alliance will produce 1,320 million tonnes of carbon dioxide over the next decade

www.eunews.it

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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 14d

There is a good reason the Green Party's membership has increased to 80,000 and growing. People know there is an alternative.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14d

Labour stand for one thing to everyone - to protect the super rich.

@greenparty.org.uk will cut bills, bring public services back into public hands, and protect our NHS.

Labour takes cash from oil & gas, gambling, and the arms trade.

Make your choice.
👉🏼 Join.greenparty.org.uk

https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/sep/28/labour-conference-keir-starmer-latest-uk-politics-news-live-updates&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTI2MTgwMzA5Mjg5Nzc2MDQ1NzkyGjc2MzUxOTYzNjFmYmFiNTM6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0qqgdthtgelfZIvqTxP2_r

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Humanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.social · 16d

Keir Starmer is owned by billionaire oligarchs like Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison who want to implement a complete fascist surveillance state. #DigitalID

Humanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.social · Jul 8

"A controversial US spy tech firm has landed a contract with UK police to develop a surveillance network that will incorporate data about citizens’ political opinions, philosophical beliefs, health records and other sensitive personal information."

libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/uk-...

UK police working with controversial tech giant Palantir on real-time surveillance network - Liberty Investigates

libertyinvestigates.org.uk

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Vanessa Spedding @vanessaspedding.bsky.social · 14d

Indeed.

Paul Brown @pbrown4348.bsky.social · 14d

'War Criminals Proposing a War Criminal': Tony Blair Floated to Lead Gaza Transition. "The suggestion that a key architect of the disastrous Iraq occupation & apologist for Israel's war crimes—should take control of Gaza is insane & obscene." commondreams.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?...

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Prof. David Kitchener @davidbsky1.bsky.social · 14d

Happy Socialist Sunday #SocialistSunday

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 17d

Marking the launch of the 2025 Planetary Health Check, Mongabay speaks with report co-author and renowned Earth system scientist Johan Rockström about how the transgression of planetary boundaries is eroding environmental justice — the right of every human being to life on a stable, healthy planet.

Ocean acidification threatens planetary health: Interview with Johan Rockström

Initiated in 2024, the Planetary Health Check is a comprehensive, science-based global initiative dedicated to measuring and maintaining Earth systems critical to life as we know it. These annual…

news.mongabay.com

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Learn Dirt @learndirt.bsky.social · 15d

Regenerative agriculture is not just about restoring land. It's about restoring our relationship with the land.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15d

Remember, “Antifa” isn’t an organization. It literally just means you’re against fascism. So he’s saying that if you’re against his obvious and blatant fascism, you’re a domestic terrorist.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Trump says he’s authorized Hegseth to use “Full Force” against Antifa in “War ravaged” Portland

At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists. I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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