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Green, queer, socialist, widow, translator, geek (he/him). Based in Southampton, UK.

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AGC @agc1985.bsky.social · Sep 6

How can being LGBTQ+ complicate the process of grief and bereavement? I shared my story for this radio documentary alongside other LGBT+ widows, including Jonathan Blake and Richard Coles.

Grief in the Shadows | Virgin Radio Pridecast

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 18h

And making theft illegal would “kill” the thieving industry. Good. Make theft illegal again.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 20h

Ooooh interesting! Badenoch is listing things the Tories did which were bold.

"We were courageous enough to introduce same-sex marriage," she says. There's a puzzled pause in the hall, then a smattering of lukewarm applause.

Then she mentions Brexit and the relieved audience goes wild

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 23h

#Climate breakdown already having a massive impact on crop yields

By 2050, the world is projected to need 50% more food, at a time yields of key crops could be down 30%

More than a halving of calories per head

Just think about that for a moment

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

One year’s worth of bread lost in UK to wrecked harvests since 2020, report finds

Worsening droughts and floods have destroyed wheat for 4bn loaves of bread and forced record levels of imports

www.theguardian.com

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 1d

Greta Thunberg has more courage & moral clarity than any world leader I have ever seen.

Bar none.

Period.

That tiny 22 year old is often accused of being annoying, but what she is, is unyielding to moral ambiguity. If it’s wrong, she says so until someone listens.

She deserves the Nobel Prize

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AGC @agc1985.bsky.social · 1d

Have you seen Dark? Another immaculate ending. But no Walton Goggins.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 1d

Imagine looking at these UK temperatures and thinking that climate change isn’t real

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

"Rachel Reeves unblocked a development of 20,000 homes that were being held up by a rare snail, after being approached by a developer with whom she said, 'we have a good relationship'

Not only stupid and ignorant, but crooked with it

Indefensible

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

We always knew that Labour cares about little else other than keeping private developers happy.

But here's proof showing off to JP Morgan despite destruction of some of the "rarest creatures in our country."

Let's make that description Labour votes.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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AGC @agc1985.bsky.social · 1d

The tabloid-esque scoffing at science is just NAUSEATING. Such an obviously fake, patronising attempt to mimic some imagined Regular Joe that will fool nobody.

We are in the midst of a biodiversity crisis. Even microscopic snail species are part of the complex ecosystems our very lives depend on.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

Utterly beholden to lobbyists, staggeringly ignorant and dismissive of the natural world: Rachel Reeves might not look or sound like Donald Trump, but she is behaving very much like him. This government is even more of an ecological hazard than the Tories were.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 1d

Incredibly dangerous for a senior politician to suggest that there's some zero-sum game to be played between mourning the losses of Oct7 and protesting an ongoing genocide. And incredibly cynical given that the protests are directed at his own complicity

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Keir Starmer calls student protests on 7 October anniversary ‘un-British’

Prime minister urges students not to protest on the second anniversary of Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 2d

Carbon offsets are, and always have been, a complete and utter con, designed to permit business as usual and free-market capitalism in the fast lane

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Green Party Migration Policy Group @gpmigration.bsky.social · 1d

In August we investigated how the hotel millionaires were profiting from the asylum support system, good to see the BBC catching up..

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

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

www.bbc.co.uk

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Bisexual Kaiju @bisexualkaiju.myatproto.social · 2d

So you want to support living marginalized banned authors but your local banned books week displays and events are full of famous dead people?

Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help!

A thread!

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AGC @agc1985.bsky.social · 2d

I did laugh reading it, so maybe it is indeed a joke

AGC @agc1985.bsky.social · 2d

The article is also an unintentionally hilarious read. So much bristling indignation and entitlement. Can’t wait for her to lose in a landslide.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 3d

What comes after the Musk stuff is much more important ❤

Porcellino Spaziale @porcellinospaziale.bsky.social · 4d

#JaneGoodall

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 3d

I had to leave the Green Party Conference early today to visit the mosque that was firebombed in Peacehaven.
It's times like this we've got to come together as a community to stamp out hate and those thay seek to divide us.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

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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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 3d

This story describes such a psychologically complex phenomenon, breaking with the parents who didn’t vaccinate you to get protected now. But it’s encouraging to read—it’s not too late to protect yourself and others, and the shots themselves are generally no big deal

Emily Guskin @emgusk.bsky.social · 3d

When he started getting his shots in his 20s — including for polio, whooping cough and measles, according to medical records — he said it felt like an act of rebellion toward his parents, whose views he now vehemently disagrees with. “I was just like, ‘Load me up, Doc,’” he said.

Their parents never got them vaccinated. As young adults, they faced a choice.

Falling vaccination rates around the country mean more will grow up without protection from debilitating diseases until they are old enough to decide for themselves, typically at age 18.

www.washingtonpost.com

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AGC @agc1985.bsky.social · 3d

Is he a landlord?

AGC @agc1985.bsky.social · 3d

Crisis at the @greenparty.org.uk conference

A sign at the Green Party conference reading: Sold out of oat milk. Soya, almond and dairy milks available.

AGC @agc1985.bsky.social · 3d

Green Party conference just voted for the long-term abolition of private landlords. How’s that for some #BoldPolitics?

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 3d

British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.

Reform says something unhinged
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Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
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Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
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Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
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And repeat...🔁

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