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local, no-tail, mostly harmless, bit gonzo, sometimes sweary taking notes, library & research assistant English. From Norfolk, of Birmingham, in Europe, on Earth. Meet me in my pinned if you want. 🙏 ask me #alttxtplz if I missed alt-txt & you'd like it
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I voted for Ellie, and Adrian. Both have shown themselves able to get the Green Party elected in areas we can take seats. Ellie in particular has a proven track record of standing up for democracy and against Brexit, and so had my vote from the minute she stood. Caroline Lucas + Jenny Jones agreed.
*waves Orwell*
#GeorgiaProtests
still disappointing given how easy it is to vote now
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Turnout is never high, probably due to the Green Party of England and Wales having a philosophical basis of rejecting the hierarchical structure of leaders and followers. But I had hoped for more people engaging with the process given it's all electronic these days.
Feels like it's going to be a very blocky day, maybe I should just log off.
I'm not. I believe his style and emphasis will alienate people we need to vote Green in places where we can actually win seats, whereas Ellie and Adrian would've been better at engaging them. I guess we'll see. He's got a year to prove himself.
Oh well,at least there's another Green Party leader election next year.
Less than half of members voting?
Oh gods we are so screwed #GreenPartyElections
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You don't beat the far-right by adopting their arguments
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OK I gave it three goes to get this right but... #AIFail #GeminiAI
Anyone here even aware that this happened on Sunday? Literally a Russian attack on the head of the EU. Barely a whisper. Europe, you in danger, girl. Get your shit together. You may not think you are at war, but Putin's Russia sure does. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
*silent screaming*
"unprecedentedly high"?
Alas
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Putin's double with a tainted handshake took out Donald Trump two weeks ago you say? 🙃
Paddington is the British Charon Americans get Snoopy
Kernow says no
Also not having Trump visit London in a fortnight would be super good.
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
I meant to post this earlier in the school holidays but haven't had time cos I've been spending time with my kids
if you did a poll and asked people if they rejected blueskyism, you'd get like 90% asking you what the fuck you're talking about.
how much of the hate for Bluesky comes from those who resent people's attention going unmonetised?
happy to report that Mr C from The Shamen has remained sound #totp
Whether it’s Michelle Obama suggesting kids exercise instead of watching tv or RFK Jr. telling kids to drink raw milk instead of taking vaccines, both figures took a controversial approach to children’s health.
one of the worst things about this nice mess is how many people picked a side without realising what the war is for
does feel like X-Twitter has hypnotised UK media politicians + government so they imagine that level of hate and intolerance is how we all are
Putin's double with a tainted handshake took out Donald Trump two weeks ago you say? 🙃
"I completely get it"
and this, about a Coventry hotel housing asylum seekers
For everyone claiming hotels have to close to 'normal' guests due to asylum seekers, Court of Appeal says "Bell Hotel had been in decline for some years". Years ago, owners sought planning permission for partial demolition and for the remaining part to be a care home. In 2020, the hotel closed.
See also: the Quality Hotel in Dudley - which is actually just housing out of area homeless people, not asylum seekers - but that doesn't stop radicalised fools trying to attack it because they have been told to fear the people in it by far-right arseholes
This is where we are now. Just shameful. Pathetic Farage-style bollocks xenophobia from the Leader of Dudley Council even as he admits that just 6 asylum seekers in 21 yrs got 50% off at the leisure centre 🤦🏻 idiots in Dudley kicking off over this, just embarrassing @sutrbirmingham.bsky.social
French was the language of the court, government, and legal system in England for about 300 years after the Norman conquest - it's still on British passports
*silent screaming*
Trump's Health Secretary, RFK Jr. is a pro-Russian friend of convicted pedophile and paid Russian asset Scott Ritter. His assault on American medical science is consistent with his being a Russian asset. What baffles me is why the American opposition turns a blind eye to these damning facts.
In his own voice, Elon Musk is fully committed to a replacement conspiracy theory as his main lens on UK politics.
Prima facie, Elon Musk appears to be manipulating X platform for specific political voices he supports (as well as using his own account to amplify the far right & furthest right). In particular the platform dynamic has shifted & is helping Tommy Robinson to be amplified more than Nigel Farage.
A major use of resources for political impact. Our regulations appear inadequate to this manipulation. We regulate broadcast yet let Musk get away with murder on democratic standards That it is to promote racism makes the inaction of Government, Ofcom, EHRC & Royal Society a shameful failure
Such roundness in that puss ❤️
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Keir Starmer should be making it clear that he wants an end to asylum seekers being held in hotels in small towns because the conditions are awful and the only reason they are there is the fucking Tories created a backlog as red meat for xenophobes - scapegoat distraction 🧵
the people in these hotels include women and children, seeking safety, and yes, young men taking a perilous journey to try to establish a safe base to bring more vulnerable family they come here with nothing but hope for a better life, to be part of what we have and contribute to our shared future
Keir Starmer, noted human rights lawyer, had a perfect opportunity to speak to the nation through the BBC, pour oil on troubled waters, inject reality + reason into this flagged up hysteria but he failed to perform basic humanity towards refugees just reinforced far right manufactured outrage
so angry I can't post straight
aye it's a proper stinger
I put alt-txt in a reply to this if your eyes are brexed like mine
another future was possible but Keir Starmer + Yvette Cooper seem intent on keeping us close to the one we were in when he took over from Jeremy Corbyn performative cruelty + mushroom management another future was possible we gave him a massive mandate for change but so much is more of the same 🇬🇧
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"I completely get it"
Hmm
Hmm
@down.blue
This response absolutely accepts the premise that asylum seekers are definitionally, what, pedophiles and sex offenders? It is *wild* that he didn’t push back against this.
Once more, with feeling, FAO Keir Starmer
ugh, Shitchens is very depressing
Mine is that perhaps using a popularity metric such as "unique likers" on a platform where people often read but don't necessarily "like" what has been posted is not going to show how much value there is. bsky.jazco.dev/stats
Hard to see how there is a case for a Labour Government remaining on X bsky.app/profile/sund...
If I were trying to win elections and arguments, I simply would be doing everything I could to move UK political conversation away from a website run by an avowed enemy who believes and writes this stuff about me:
Elon Musk picked his side and has been pushing the UK further right with his influence since buying Twitter. He replies to and shares only far right politicians and activists. UK politics and media should call this out or at least just stop using it as a communication source. It's totally toxic.
Wait sorry, original post was 07:34, I pasted that one wrong. But practically immediate
Epping hell
it's really worrying how much influence he has
