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Ben (he/him)

@filosofical-140.bsky.social

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🐱will leaflet for skin-on chips and trendy water (Helped win 1st Green MP) 🌻gardener on a bike 13 years experience 📷 issue-based campaigns committee 2 years experience posting in a personal capacity, own views

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Ben (he/him) @filosofical-140.bsky.social · Feb 5

The Green Party isn’t just another political party. Green politics is a new and radical kind of politics guided by these ten core principles: web.archive.org/web/20240324...

File: Estimates of how the different control variables for seven of nine planetary boundaries have changed from 1950 to present.png

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Ben (he/him) @filosofical-140.bsky.social · 1h

The following Television portrayal of a shiva contains adult themes from the start.
youtu.be/wdliuG7OhNA?...

Broad City - Grandma Esther's Shiva

YouTube video by Comedy Central

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Ben (he/him) @filosofical-140.bsky.social · 1h

🔯Different traditions have different mourning practices
🪑In Judaism, sitting shivah, means sitting for 7 days.
The community lends the relatives a low chair. They sit in the low chair and are visited and brought meals by friends, who console them.
Shivah means seven. It lasts 7 days.

Jewish Mourning Period & Rituals

The Jewish mourning period is marked by tradition and ritual. Visit the Dignity Memorial website to learn about the five stages of mourning in Judaism.

www.dignitymemorial.com

Ben (he/him) @filosofical-140.bsky.social · 2h

You are fine natural. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIhm...

עידו בן דב & שירז אברהם - נטורל

YouTube video by עידו בן דב - הערוץ הרשמי

www.youtube.com

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 3h

Nine Job Nigel

Nigel Farage earns over £1 million from 'second jobs' - check your MP's earnings

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

#NineJobNigel

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Ben (he/him) @filosofical-140.bsky.social · 3h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UT_... a beautiful edit. Real hope. We should have more good news to celebrate.
את כולם עכשיו

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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 4h

More #FiLiAFlag pictures, now with our amazing security lead @saltnpepa.bsky.social & Cristina, Rehana, Pauline & Rachel! 🎉

Share a pic with us of you arriving in #Brighton for #FiLiA2025 with the hashtag #FiLiAFlag ♀️

🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

#Sisterhood #Solidarity

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 6d

Hey, so it’s the Jewish day of reflection. Whether or not you’re Jewish I would really like to encourage you to reflect rather than post right now

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Ben (he/him) @filosofical-140.bsky.social · 16h

I found some former Labour voters if that helps

Ben (he/him) @filosofical-140.bsky.social · 16h

Great to see the presence of Equity at today's union picket! Lots of interest from students who've sadly had gaps in their lectures.

Paul Valentine @paulvalentineactor.bsky.social · 20h

Put @greenparty.org.uk Trade Union Liaison hat on today to show solidarity with striking workers from @ucu.org.uk @unitetheunion.bsky.social and @unison.org.uk at Imperial College London.

#imperialcollegelondon #Strike

Info - www.ucu.org.uk/article/1421...

Ben (he/him) @filosofical-140.bsky.social · 2d

Our bin workers will never rest until there's an end to this dispute. Solidarity and liberation with all organised workers!

menasolidaritynetwork.com/2025/05/09/s...

Sudanese Bin Workers Send Solidarity to Striking Birmingham Bin Workers

Despite the bloody war raging in Sudan between the country’s two major militias—the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces—bin workers in Sudan have sent a powerful message of solidarit…

menasolidaritynetwork.com

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 2d

join.greenparty.org.uk

Join the Green Party

Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Ben (he/him) @filosofical-140.bsky.social · 3d

#GPconf Green Party conference has voted to abolish private landlords, on page 10 of today's Telegraph.
Tory conference is on page 4

Green Party seeking to 'abolish landlords' by Daniel Harkander The Daily Telegraph 6 Oct

Ben (he/him) @filosofical-140.bsky.social · 3d

Green Conference votes to ban IDF.
Proscription as a mechanism shouldn't exist - it's authoritarian and often racist in application.

But if we're labelling people as terrorists, let's be consistent.

If any group are terrorists, an occupying force committing genocide and apartheid fits that bill. 🛡️

Ben (he/him) @filosofical-140.bsky.social · 3d

here's some proper examples ...
it would have taken a minute to find.

Ben (he/him) @filosofical-140.bsky.social · 3d

Labour conference

possibly doing lines of cocaine off of a toilet seat with Labour students

Ben (he/him) @filosofical-140.bsky.social · 3d

www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1440/an...
Solidarity with social workers ahead of their rally in Australia.

Green Left Radio: Ange Carr on cuts to the community sector

Angela Carr on the proposed cuts to the community sector and why they should be opposed.

www.greenleft.org.au

Ben (he/him) @filosofical-140.bsky.social · 3d

That's not the IDF logo. I say this as someone who's been attacked in my own local streets by a mob with the IDF flag and that's not it. I know the uniform so well. these must have been the first soldiers I saw when I was a baby.

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Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 3d

Green Party Conference 2025 just passed a motion that would Abolish Landlords!

Through a programme of unprecedented council house building, taxation and housing those who need it, a Green government would eliminate profit from a human right.

Housing for all.

Letting agent sticking a FOR RENT sign to window.

Text reads

Green Conference votes to
Abolish
Landlords

Greens
Organise

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Cllr Emma Garnett @greenpartyemma.bsky.social · 4d

🥳 I'm so so delighted that my motion for completely building East West Rail and fully electrifying it passed overwhelmingly at conference.

🙏 Huge huge thanks to @greenchloem.bsky.social , Ed Fraser and @benwheels.bsky.social for speaking in favour.

#TrainsNotPlanes #RailNotRoad
#GPConf

E01: Electrify the East West Railway line as soon as possible

Synopsis
East West Rail will fill an important gap in the rail network and help reduce car and lorry use in the region. It will largely replace the Varsity rail line, much of which closed in the 1960s. However, it should be electrified as soon as possible to replace diesel trains.

Motion Text
insert into Record of Policy Statements “The Green Party supports the building of East West Rail in full from Cambridge to Milton Keynes to Oxford, and calls for the project to be fully electrified as quickly as possible. The railway should be accessible for everyone and be well connected to active transport routes. The route should minimise disruption to local communities as far as possible and bring benefits locally as well as regionally and nationally. The route should minimise negative impacts on housing, public green spaces, nature and wildlife and carry out appropriate mitigation works with sensitivity and generous compensation.”

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Cllr Emma Garnett @greenpartyemma.bsky.social · 3d

🥳 Thank you to everyone who co-proposed and voted for it and commented on drafts.

🛤 It takes a village to write a good motion.

3️⃣ This is the third conference I've brought it too.

♻️ Our HS2 motion in 2024 was E01 on the agenda; East West Rail was E01 this year so we recycled this sign!

Pete, Matthew and I standing in the conference hall holding a sign which says "Train not planes. I'm voting for E01"

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Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @the-librarian.bsky.social · 4d

Billy Bragg has started a ‘reclaim the lampposts’ campaign and is happy to supply these stickers for you to attach to lampposts with flags on. If you want to call the Xenophobes out then send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Billy Bragg at Bragg Office PO Box 6830, Bridport DT6 9BH

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Ben (he/him) @filosofical-140.bsky.social · 4d

vote green: for a lanyard, tote-bag, tee-shirt, sweater, Barnet. #gpconf #ElectTheDolls New to the party? you may be interested in these greenparty.org.uk/members/spec...

Special Interest Groups - Green Party

The Green Party has a range of self-organising Special Interest Groups, undertaking specialist work on behalf of members. All groups are open to all members. If you are interested in registering a new...

greenparty.org.uk

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Ben (he/him) @filosofical-140.bsky.social · 4d

Looking forward to Amanda's Global Majority Greens speech TODAY (not to be confused with Global Greens our international confederation of green parties)

Antoinette Oyínkánsọ́lá Fernandez @greenantoinette.bsky.social · 4d

Green Party Autumn Conference 2025 with some of my fellow E&D committee and @globalgreens.bsky.social members✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽💚

Antoinette alongside her fellow E&D committee members from left to right - Teresa Ravenshaw, Ekua Bayanu and Antoinette.
At the Bournemouth International Centre for the Green Party’s Autumn Conference 2025.

From left to right - Hamza Egal, Amanda Omwenmwue, Antoinette Fernandez and Animah Kosai - all members of Global Majority Greens at the Bournemouth International Centre for the Green Party’s Autumn Conference 2025.

Ben (he/him) @filosofical-140.bsky.social · 4d

Naranee there well worth a seat

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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 4d

Next up @mothinali.bsky.social who told us the leadership team is

Brave and unapologetic
Kind, but ready ready to show our teeth.

his dad wasn’t a tool maker, his dad made the steel that made the tools.
#GPConf

Mothin speaking surrounded by photographers on stage at GP Conf.

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