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Tisha Mark @tishamark.com · 1d

Sharing a peaceful autumn landscape from a few years ago. Feeling inspired by the fall foliage, and might have to paint a few of these this month 🍁🍂

Tisha Mark ©2021, Autumn Dawn, oil on gessobord, 6"x6" (Sold)

#art #painting #TraditionalArt #autumn

An autumn landscape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Autumn Dawn" 6"x6" oil on Ampersand Gessobord (2021). A sunrise with yellow light over a woodsy landscape with a river or a creek running through it. The foliage is turning fall colors. Light reflects in the water.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20h

My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

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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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 6d

Just trying on some of the new @greenparty.org.uk merch available at conference 👕😅💅

#CarlaSaysWealthTax #GPC25

Carla wearing a white t-shirt that says 'CARLA SAYS WEALTH TAX' in the same style as the iconic 'FRANKIE SAYS RELAX' tees.

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Sheffield Wednesday @swfc.co.uk · 6d

🧱 Weaver 🧱

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 8d

“We can choose decency or we can choose division”
says Labour Prime Minister
whose first acts as Labour leader
were to ditch the 10 pledges
which united the party
and got him elected leader
before instigating a Labour Left purge
including smearing & expelling
the predecessor
he'd called a friend

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 8d

BREAKING: “We can choose decency or we can choose division”

Keir Starmer opens his speech to the Labour party conference saying there's a “fight for the soul of this country”

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Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 7d

Starmer's speech was interesting for taking his most explicitly anti-Blairite, social democratic position since 2020. However a) nobody believes a word he says and b) the scale of the reforms is so inadequate to the crisis that he still comes off as not really understanding it.

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 8d

Good. This is an important victory.

It's a stain on our democracy for Michelle Mone to remain in the House of Lords. But it's even more important that the Tory ministers who set up the corrupt PPE VIP lane in the first place are properly and fully held to account for the scandal

The Independent @the-independent.com · 8d

BREAKING | Company linked to Michelle Mone ordered to repay government £122m over Covid PPE

Company linked to Michelle Mone ordered to repay government £122m over Covid PPE

www.independent.co.uk

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 8d

"Greens with their rising influence and bold politics stand ready to replace Labour’s tired ideas and stale politicians."

@zackpolanski.bsky.social responds to being included in this year's Time100 Next list 💚

TIME10O
NEXT
"I feel hugely honoured to receive this recognition. But this isn't about me, it is about the movement we are building together. I am having influence because we are growing. We are growing because we are unapologetic about demanding real change: taxing the super-rich, funding our NHS, and tackling the climate crisis head-on"
Zack Polanski
Green Party Leader
REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.
Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party. both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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Paul Allender @pauliepaul55.bsky.social · 8d

They really were dragged into it. What an awful government they are.

Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 8d

Labour dragged into a humane policy for families at last. Over a million children should not have suffered for an extra year, but it shows opposition pressure and public campaigning can work. We must use our votes and voices to win for Disabled people now! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Rachel Reeves to lift two-child benefit cap in November’s budget

Exclusive: Officials exploring options to change rule that affected 1.7 million children in Great Britain last year UK politics live – latest updates

www.theguardian.com

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 8d

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 11d

When you become a member of yourparty.uk, you join a mass movement for real change.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12d

Wounded Knee is a dark stain upon our nation’s history. We must remember it for what it truly was, not for what white nationalists would have it be.

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 12d

Fight for a different future. For your class. For your community.

Become a member of Your Party now!

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 13d

People want lower rents. They want cheaper bills and publicly-owned services. They want an NHS that works.

Why can’t this government just do things that would actually improve people’s lives?

We can fix this country. We just need the political will.

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jojitsu @joti.bsky.social · 13d

I don't join anything lightly but I've done it, I've just joined the Green Party. @zackpolanski.bsky.social you've convinced me!

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 15d

I am disgusted by Reform UK's threats to people who have built a life in this country.

They are coming for our neighbours. They are coming for our colleagues. They are coming for our friends.

We are at a dangerous moment. This hatred cannot be appeased. It must be defeated.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 15d

Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare

www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

For every €1 of public money invested in the pilot, society received €1.39 in return
The net cost of the BIA pilot went from €105m to under €72m due to tax generated and savings on social welfare payments

It also finds that recipients’ arts-related income increased by over €500 per month on average, while their income from non-arts work decreased by around €280. Dependence on social protection declined, with recipients receiving €100 less per month on average, and 38 percentage points less likely to receive Jobseeker’s payments.

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 15d

Just the President of the US telling the United Nations that the UK wants to go to Sharia law. How in the fuck did anyone look at this brainless sack of shit and say “Yep, that’s the guy to run the most powerful nation on earth”?

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 17d

The Green Party now has 78,000 members.

Thats 10,000+ new members this month alone who want to draw the line.

I know there are so many more people who want to take a stand.

Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 17d

Labour recognises the State of Palestine
while sending Israel weapons and providing intelligence
designed to exterminate Palestinians
and destroy Gaza & the West Bank

Glen Gorganzolla @ukfilmtvcritic.bsky.social · 17d

Now our government recognises #Palestine
will the #Conservatives who have allegedly taken donations from #Israel be on #PoliticsLive complaining of Anti Semitism across the whole of the Labour Party, Canada and Australia ?

Bingo cards at the ready 👍

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 21d

"We’ve done ... 25 or 30 projections since we’ve been going. Often the police come along & we have a chat to them, and they .. occasionally tell us to not do it.
But no one’s ever been arrested before, so it is ridiculous that four of our guys have been arrested for malicious communications"

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 20d

It is my mission to see solar panels on as many roofs as possible.

Great to catch up with @bhesco.bsky.social at one of their projects and hear about the new community energy scheme with residents in Preston Park #Brighton.

Lots more here 👇
bhesco.co.uk/community/pr...

Sian and the amazing co-founder of BHESCo Kayla Ente! They are stood on a roof in central Brighton. The roof has multiple rows of solar panels and Sian and Kayla are stood in the middle of them chatting.

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Amy @amzomac.bsky.social · 23d

Every single Labour MP & MSP should resign or defect to Greens.

They are ALL complicit in genocide by contributing to/remaining in a genocidal party.

The time has passed for such a thing as a good labour party member.

Not under Starmer.

Anyone with conscience should join YourParty or Greens.

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