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[personal account, views my own] Green, trade unionist, reader, CVD activist, spreadsheet monkey & counter of beans, 🖤music (eclectic). ISTJ 〓〓🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 🇺🇦Slava Ukraïni Stop genocide, end Israeli apartheid I block bigots and NSFW 🔞 profiles. 🚫Tankies🚫Putinistas🚫

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solvognen @solvognen.bsky.social · Nov 3

"So, I think we need a totem"
- Yay, right on, Boss!
"It must be a big gold disk, the Sun"
- Awesome!
"And it should be pulled by a pony"
- Wow! Radical!
"And the whole thing put on wheels"
- Yes!!
"Ok, so you go make this thing, I'll go wash my hair"
- Yeah!!......um why're we doing this again?

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solvognen @solvognen.bsky.social · 17h

Or as Grace Slick would say "One wank makes you larger,
Another makes you small..."

solvognen @solvognen.bsky.social · 1d

"Someone's always playing
Corporation games..."

Not quite Thomas Picketty.

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solvognen @solvognen.bsky.social · 2d

Also this, from Natalie Bennett -
x.com/natalieben/s...

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Clive Durdle @evilceldrud.bsky.social · 2d

Ok a compromise. Everyone who voted leave leaves everyone who voted remain remains EU Citizens. Estonia has the technology for this

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Marcus Fitzsimons Woke Bunny Hugger Green Socialist @marcusfitzsimons.bsky.social · 3d

a perfect summary of #DeformUK

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solvognen @solvognen.bsky.social · 3d

Truly this is the Age of the Gobshite 😕

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 4d

Ukraine sanctioned 33 individuals and 27 firms—including a Chinese company supplying drone parts to Russia’s Shahed plant.

These steps are mostly symbolic unless G7 and NATO countries follow with coordinated measures—which Kyiv is actively seeking.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/04/u...

Ukraine just sanctioned a Chinese firm helping Russia build Shaheds—and also extended measures on Russian oligarch-linked firms

Kyiv named Shenzhen Weiliao for supplying drone parts to Alabuga plant and renewed sanctions against Aven, Fridman, and Kosogov-linked structures.

euromaidanpress.com

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Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩 @ukrainesol.bsky.social · 4d

Whatever happens with the motion, our supporters want to build a strong Green activist network in support of UA + its workers' and social movts (while also continuing to organise to strengthen and concretise party policy).

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Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩 @ukrainesol.bsky.social · 4d

If you're at the conference and want to help or have a chat, come and find us on our stall or around and about. Or email [email protected] and we'll connect you with Green comrades who are there

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Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩 @ukrainesol.bsky.social · 4d

If you're a Green member please sign the motion to help promote: conference2025.greenparty.org.uk/login?backUr...

conference2025.greenparty.org.uk

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Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩 @ukrainesol.bsky.social · 4d

Update from Green Party autumn conference. Proceedings ran late today and the Ukraine solidarity motion not reached. There's a chance it will be tomorrow. More information, articles, a video, etc, on our website: ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org/2025/10/02/g...

Ukraine Solidarity motion, bulletin, video and resources for Green Party autumn conference 2025

The 2025 autumn conference of the Green Party of England and Wales meets in Bournemouth 3-5 October. Over 70 members have submitted a motion to reaffirm, sharpen and concretise the party’s st…

ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org

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solvognen @solvognen.bsky.social · 4d

x.com/UkraineSol/s...

Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩 on X: "VIktoriya Ball, British-Ukrainian climate activist + Green member, at the party's conference - where a motion is up to strengthen support for Ukraine More inc motion + video from Viktoriya; https://t.co/KhiY1pJ1QA Green members can still sign the motion: https://t.co/w46jzshYT7 https://t.co/zxs2sTd5Oy" / X

VIktoriya Ball, British-Ukrainian climate activist + Green member, at the party's conference - where a motion is up to strengthen support for Ukraine More inc motion + video from Viktoriya; https://t.co/KhiY1pJ1QA Green members can still sign the motion: https://t.co/w46jzshYT7 https://t.co/zxs2sTd5Oy

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 5d

Being pro-Palestinian is not being anti-Jewish.

Just as being pro-Jewish is not being anti-Palestinian.

Irresponsible language and framing from the Home Secretary.

It is perfectly right that people both protest the Gaza genocide and mourn the Manchester attack.

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solvognen @solvognen.bsky.social · 5d

Well, he's not wrong on this one. Low-hanging fruit, mind.

solvognen @solvognen.bsky.social · 5d

In the hall, watching the panel now. Excellent speeches, very moving.
Caroline Lucas chairing, another standing ovation just now.
Emotional speeches from wronged arrestees on the accelerating erosion of rights.

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Steve Hyndside @stevehyndside.bsky.social · 6d

Greens within 5 points of overtaking Labour. @zackpolanski.bsky.social wasn’t joking when he said we’re not here to feel disappointed in them, we’re here to replace them.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 5d

Green leader Zack Polanski says privatised firms (e.g. in the water sector) have "taken our wealth, and friends, it's time to take it back"

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solvognen @solvognen.bsky.social · 6d

Advocating for Solidarity with Ukraine at the Green Party Autumn Conference this weekend, I was asked to write an article in support of our conference motion which we hope gets tabled.
Published today -

bright-green.org/2025/10/02/w...

Why Defunding Military Aid to Ukraine Would Be a Mistake: A Green Defence of Self-Determination

'Defunding military aid to Ukraine would be a grave mistake. It would betray the principles of self-determination, embolden authoritarianism, and deepen human suffering. Greens must advocate for a bal...

bright-green.org

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solvognen @solvognen.bsky.social · 6d

If you're attending Conference in person or remotely, please support our motion! 💙💛
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Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩 @ukrainesol.bsky.social · 6d

The Green Party autumn conference opens tomorrow in Bournemouth. Over 70 members back a motion to reaffirm & sharpen support for Ukraine. Read more (inc. articles, video & bulletin) + info on how to help 👇 ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org/2025/10/02/g...

Ukraine Solidarity motion, bulletin, video and resources for Green Party autumn conference 2025

The 2025 autumn conference of the Green Party of England and Wales meets in Bournemouth 3-5 October. Over 70 members have submitted a motion to reaffirm, sharpen and concretise the party’s st…

ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 6d

news.sky.com/story/barone...

The argument that Mone's offer was VIP'd because it was an emergency doesn't wash.

Long-standing manufacturers had their offers refused whilst Tory pals were waved through.

They were deliberately enabled and advantaged.

One name keeps re-appearing...

Gove.

Baroness Mone should resign from Lords, senior Tory says, after order to pay back £122m over COVID PPE

Shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho said the former Tory peer do the "honourable thing" and resign after PPE Medpro was ordered to pay back the government close to £122m.

news.sky.com

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solvognen @solvognen.bsky.social · 7d

Adventures in vandalism 🤬

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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 7d

There are two kinds of reactionary centrism:

1. "The radical left are lunatics, the far right has legitimate concerns"

2. "Vote for me and uphold zombie neoliberalism or else you are helping the fascists"

They are inconsistent but people like Starmer, Marcon & co switch between them all the time.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 12d

What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.

Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social

We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.

Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊

Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 13d

Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts

After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...

Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts

Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.

pressgazette.co.uk

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 9d

🔴The Attack Lines That Could Hurt Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Hardest

A new mega poll of voters reveals where Reform UK are most vulnerable to political attacks from their opponents

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/29/t...

The Attack Lines That Could Hurt Nigel Farage's Reform UK Hardest

A new mega poll of voters reveals where Reform UK are most vulnerable to political attacks from their opponents

bylinetimes.com

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solvognen @solvognen.bsky.social · 9d

So who did that to whom, Mark, for the benefit of us without an encyclopedic knowledge of the regional geography? 😏

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