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Robin Layfield (he/they) 💚 🌈 ✊🏽

@robinlayfield.bsky.social

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Coder, Councillor, Activist, Active Travel Enthusiast Green Socialist, working for Rodborough in Stroud. Let's GO! Vice Chair, Palestine Solidarity Campaign — Stroud District 🇵🇸 “Shock them into focus with clarity of intent” — Kae Tempest, cf Ian Rickson

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Robin Layfield (he/they) 💚 🌈 ✊🏽 @robinlayfield.bsky.social · Aug 15

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BrexitPirates @brexitpirates.bsky.social · 10h

Additionally, it's worrying that it takes someone like Heseltine to educate Badenoch and Starmer on how to defeat Reform.
You don't ape their language and policies - you impress upon people that the very foundation of Reform's existence is bullshit.

BrexitPirates @brexitpirates.bsky.social · 11h

Starmer should be pushing this at every opportunity, not leaving it to a Tory grandee.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12h

Lord Heseltine, "The number of people aged below 50 who think it was right for us to leave the European Union, is less than 20%

"The latest polls tells us 56% now believe it was mistake to leave the European Union"

Hands up if you are one of the 56% 🙋‍♂️

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Robin Layfield (he/they) 💚 🌈 ✊🏽 @robinlayfield.bsky.social · 8h

Linux - this is your moment

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Scott Immordino @scottimmordino.bsky.social · 16h

Bill Gates: $106B | Microsoft: $3.9T
Jeff Bezos: $232.5B | Amazon: $2.3T
Larry Page: $204.2B | Google: $2.84T
Mark Zuckerberg: $243.5B | Meta: $1.8T

Can someone please explain why on earth we’re paying the power & water bills for their data centers?

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UK Green Stats @ukgreenstats.bsky.social · 9h

Yesterday, the Greens were celebrating 87,000 members.

Today, they have skyrocketed 93,000 members, making this most likely the fastest growth the party has ever seen before in terms of membership figures.

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Robin Layfield (he/they) 💚 🌈 ✊🏽 @robinlayfield.bsky.social · 9h

anti vaccines where I live is the gateway to cosmic right conspiracy theory - anti 5G masts, anti 15 minute cities

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11h

Data centers are receiving billions in state tax exemptions.

These centers, many owned by Big Tech giants, are driving up electric bills and sucking up huge amounts of water.

AI is boosting the stock portfolios of the richest Americans while everyone else pays the price.

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Robin Layfield (he/they) 💚 🌈 ✊🏽 @robinlayfield.bsky.social · 9h

He's just doing a Big Short on Tylenol isn't he? Talking down the market so he can bet against it

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Prism @prismreports.org · 13h

Israel calls us “human animals,” never understanding that our bond with animals is the deepest proof of our humanity, writes Hend Salama Abo Helow in an op-ed. Like all of us Palestinians in Gaza, our animals have been displaced, starved, bombed, & terrorized, yet we refuse to abandon each other.

Israel calls us “human animals,” never understanding that our bond with animals is the deepest proof of our humanity

Like all of us Palestinians in Gaza, our animals have been displaced, starved, bombed, and terrorized, yet we refuse to abandon each other

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 20h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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.

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Will is too honest to ever be an MP 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.bsky.social · 18h

But in financial terms, it makes no difference, as Labour still allows energy co's to charge you as if all the electricity is generated by gas.
You get ripped off and they make record profits.

Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 22h

Gas plays dwindling role in UK power price as #renewables roll-out accelerates www.edie.net/gas-plays-dw...

Gas plays dwindling role in UK power price as renewables roll-out accelerates - edie

The rollout of wind power is diluting the link between gas and electricity wholesale prices, pushing older and more expensive ‘peaker’ generation plants off the grid, a new analysis shows.

www.edie.net

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Robin Layfield (he/they) 💚 🌈 ✊🏽 @robinlayfield.bsky.social · 17h

Never thought I'd ever find myself agreeing with Heseltine

Robin Layfield (he/they) 💚 🌈 ✊🏽 @robinlayfield.bsky.social · 17h

BBC have a strict editorial policy so, for example - refugees fleeing from war and seeking asylum can only ever be referred to as "migrants" and attacks on people protesting are "clashes." I expect this is true for genocide.

I've only ever heard the word "refugee" on BBC once in the last 10 years

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Lee Perry @socialistexpat.bsky.social · 17h

www.bbc.com/news/article...

BBC news still insisting on calling a genocide a 'War'

Inside one battle-scarred Gaza building, displaced families tell the story of war

The Skeik building, in a quiet road in western Gaza City, has seen many families pass through it since the war began.

www.bbc.com

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Robin Layfield (he/they) 💚 🌈 ✊🏽 @robinlayfield.bsky.social · 20h

"HopeScrolling" — far better for your mental health than DoomScrolling or SlopScrolling

Peter Welsh @peterwelsh68.bsky.social · 20h

I've been hopescrolling for the last 20 minutes, and now the most expensive coffee in the world is stone cold!

It's that @zackpolanski.bsky.social's
fault with all his great political broadcasts and speeches distracting me on blue/greensky!

So wonderful to see!

@boldpolitics.bsky.social

Coffee in a no handle cup on a wooden tray in a near empty cafe in Bristol. Chairs and tables in shot.

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Robin Layfield (he/they) 💚 🌈 ✊🏽 @robinlayfield.bsky.social · 20h

I don't see him talking at length with Muslim leaders - or even Christians and Quakers

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Robin Layfield (he/they) 💚 🌈 ✊🏽 @robinlayfield.bsky.social · 20h

Every week another review of Police protesting powers. It's almost as if Starmer doesn't want people to be able to protest at all.

At least not about UK complicity in genocide & war crimes at any rate.

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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 21h

Robert Jenrick Accepts Donations from ‘Family Friend’ Who Ships Arms to Israel. bylinetimes.com/2024/10/10/r...

Robert Jenrick Accepts Donations from 'Family Friend' Who Ships Arms to Israel

The Conservative leadership hopeful has received large donations from Quantum Pacific corporation, which is owned by Idan Ofer who featured in an earlier lobbying scandal involving the MP

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 21h

there's never been a point where we *didn't* have them saying "too many brown people". commonwealth folks had free movement until the early 60s. immigration acts which followed were largely about "how can we stop brown and black people coming here". spouse visa rules in 2012 were explicitly this too

"it was inevitable that too many people speaking polish brexitism would become outright too many brown people"

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Robin Layfield (he/they) 💚 🌈 ✊🏽 @robinlayfield.bsky.social · 21h

AI should attach a credit list of every piece of art that has been referenced in the creation of a digital asset. A bit like how hip-hop clears samples.

Contributors need to receive royalties and have the right to withdraw their contribution.

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Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 3d

A Green government would proscribe the Israel Defense Forces as a terrorist organisation.

The forces currently actioning war crimes and genocide upon the people of Gaza on behalf of the Israeli government.

This must not be allowed to continue.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
@greens4palestine.bsky.social

Picture of a shoulder clad in military uniform with an Israeli flag patch.

Text reads:
Green Conference 2025 votes to recognise
The IDF
as a
Terrorist
Organisation
Greens
Organise

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Richard Sedgley @richardsedgley.bsky.social · 1d

Have you joined the Green Party recently? If so, consider joining Greens Organise!

greensorganise.uk

Home | Greens Organise

Change won’t happen by itself. We need fresh voices, disciplined organising, and a spirit of solidarity. Join the movement today.

greensorganise.uk

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Robin Layfield (he/they) 💚 🌈 ✊🏽 @robinlayfield.bsky.social · 21h

It was such a pleasure to hang out with you all. I feel like Greens Organise is in good hands

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Robin Layfield (he/they) 💚 🌈 ✊🏽 @robinlayfield.bsky.social · 23h

What brighter future is this?

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

It would take the average UK earner 52 years’ worth of earnings to join the richest 10%.

Up from 38 years in 2006-08. Rich buy political influence.

Govts help the rich. Bottom 20% pay higher proportion of income in than the richest 20%.

Inequalities obstruct economic growth, fuel social unrest.

Lifetime of earnings not enough for UK workers to join wealthiest 10%, report says

Research finds it would take average worker saving all their earnings for 52 years to match wealth of richest 10th of society

www.theguardian.com

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Solidarity RPM @solidarityrpm.bsky.social · 1d

Green Party votes to proscribe the IDF as a terrorist organisation

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