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David Livingston

@1greenmantle.bsky.social
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Natural beekeeper ( free living ,no treatment, wild ) Gardening (organic fruit trees ) Terry Pratchet , and really really hates Nazis and loves Irish music and set dancing ; Lives in France

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 7h
The apoplectic rage of the entire media and the politicians against the Green Party shows that like Corbyn's Labour Party you have a Party that will actually stand against the Establishment A chance for a Government for you and not the billionaires for the first time in 50 years
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Parbati Sherbert @hobbledehoi.bsky.social · 7h
The photo is a beautiful counterpoint to the headline. Israel bans a Jewish man. Hmm..
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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 12h
Anti-Zionism is not Antisemitism. Pass it on. And Free Palestine.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 20h
The UK Green Party actually stands for something now, something that at least 70% of the UK support, Anti-Zionism, we do not support the War Criminal State of Israel. Something which ALL the other parties do without question. Vote for change, vote Green.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21h
Zack Polanski has just been banned from Israel for calling Zionism racism. That's got to be the biggest boost for any politician ever.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 23h
This is nuts, lads: one of these parties had an internal hate campaign that bent the rules to bully and hound out a huge number of Jewish people over their views on Israel/Palestine. It wasn’t the Green Party, was it?
Lewis Goodall C @lewis_goodall
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The Greens have a Labour PM committed to electoral reform at precisely the moment they've essentially made it nearly impossible for that same Lab PM to go into coalition with them.
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Amendment 3 on safeguarding Jews has failed to pass 684 - 1026! Absolutely shameful !!!
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 20h
Green Party members celebrate becoming an anti-Zionist Party, including a Jewish Green Party member.
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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 21h
No shit🤔💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Helen Lewis asks the secretary of state for justice if arresting a 94 year old (with an OBE!) for holding up a placard is a good use of resources Norris defends arresting 94 year olds as terrorists for holding up a placard. Tell me again how Andy Burnhams govt represents change
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"No one is born racist, it's taught. Quit teaching it" via The UK Against Hate
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Kevin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺💚 #VoteGreen #BackZack @kevbro1969.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's always the people that suffer with cuts & everything being expensive. NEVER the wealthy. They just become richer. #Labour could bring in a #WealthTax & properly end the inequality we've all been suffering since #Thatcher. But they won't - they're not on our side. They just pretend to be.
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Jaap Burger @jaapburger.eu · 02/10/2026
The Netherlands and Finland have also crossed the 50% mark. France, Ireland, Sweden and Portugal are also rapidly approaching the 50% mark. If Austria and perhaps even Germany continue their current trend, they may cross that line this year, too.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The press have decided to reimpose the two party model and unfortunately, that requires “pretending to believe Kemi Badenoch is doing a good job”. Which is pretty bad, given she’s a disastrously online wacko.
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Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Electric cars just had their best month ever in the UK (28%, near 100,000 EVs sold)... and Spain (18%) and Taiwan (19%) and Switzerland (35%) and Belgium (50%) and Denmark (88%) (!) and Norway (98%) and France (41%) and Portugal (48%) and probably more to follow when numbers arrive :D ⚡️
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 02/10/2026
👀 "Nearly 10 years ago, Nigel Farage told LBC he would leave the country if Brexit were not a stunning success. For reasons that no one can quite fathom, he is still here."
theguardian.com
Welcome to the new Reform roadshow. Same as the last but more desperate | John Crace
Nige is not rattled that the UK likes its new PM. Or that Reform is second in the polls. Oh no. Because Nige believes in
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Its weapons are whiskey, testosterone, an almost fanatical devotion to the Trump, and nice black uniforms
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Since the Hormuz crisis, EU gas prices are up 132% and oil 52%. Electricity is up 44%, after falling through spring. Every boiler, car and furnace that switches to electricity is less exposed to the energy crisis. Electrification is increasingly energy security.
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Guy Bailey @guybailey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Considering he would describe an actual earthquake in central London as a "sub-optimal outcome" - This is a hair-on-fire, red alert if you read it correctly. And Rightly so.
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Philip Larkin Society @plsoc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
National Poetry Day seems like a good excuse to share one of Larkin's most loved poems, a deceptively complex and resonant piece of writing.
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Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Some news... 1. If We Tolerate This sold just shy of 5,000 copies in its first two months. Thanks to everyone who has read, responded to or shared the book so far. 2. If you haven't yet, it's only 99p on kindle for the whole of October. Get involved! www.amazon.co.uk/If-We-Tolera...
The cover of "If We Tolerate This: How the British Establishment Made the Far Right Respectable", which features the title plus an illustration of a frog in boiling water.
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Dawny B @dawnbritten.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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David Livingston @1greenmantle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have been thinking, a bad sign I know ,about this Fairfield palava . Its obvious to me that there are lots of folks who would like to disrupt what is going on at Fairfield ranging from political , peace campaigners through to the Iranians and maybe those with even more exotic reasons .🧵
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026
The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.
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Tranquillity Base 🏳️‍⚧️ @tranquillitybase.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great piece by Bear, as you'd expect.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A cash-strapped rural police force struggles to deal with Red Diesel gangs. Until its chief inspector realises can get the Met Police to deal with the problem... ...if he pretends they're Iranian. A new six part comedy starring Toby Jones.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Farage honks his mouth off about ongoing police investigations, when told not to. His Welsh leader is in prison for taking bribes from Russia. He whips up riots. He’s in bed with Trump, foreign money, crooks and crypto billionaires…. A massive problem with national security is Farage himself.
sky news

'We have a massive problem with national security': Farage challenged on Fairford speculation
Reform UK leader told his social media followers the five men arrested after an RAF Fairford situation were "Iranian nationals". Sky's Rob Powell spoke to him after it was confirmed the men arrested are British nationals.
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Mark Sugrue 🇪🇺 @marksugrue.com · 28/09/2026
You'd never guess from this @theguardian.com headline that Le Pen's party came joint 7th in this election.
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don’t understand this “very British/very English” framing. According to the Today programme it was “very English” that a member of the public called the police on seeing something dodgy. I’d no idea this is a specifically English thing. Perhaps we can encourage other countries to adopt this idea?
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now. Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
'It's a mystery, isn't it' via Christopher Warner
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Matthew Redhead @matthewrr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sorry Andy. Lifting the ban on drinking in the stands would soon be regretted. And let’s be fair, you’ve got more important things to be speaking out on. Balaclava wearing thugs for a start.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"When faced with skyrocketing pesticide and nitrate levels in its drinking water supply, the city of Munich, Germany bypassed expensive chemical treatment plans and chose a radical path: they tackled the contamination at its very root." via Thefarmacyreal www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Again, this is what Tucker says to normal audiences. To his own audience, literally today, he went on a deranged rant about, among other things, how Oswald Mosley wasn’t a Nazi.
I know, buddy, you did that during World War II. When the very first thing the British government did was imprison the opposition party, called them Nazis, which they weren't, run by one of the great war heroes of the First World War, Oswald Mosley. Oh, he was a Nazi.
No, he wasn't. If he was a Nazi, he'd be living in Britain, in Germany. He didn't want the war.
And he has been slandered ever since. It's like scary even to defend him. I'm not even defending the guy.
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David Livingston @1greenmantle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A great post thanks to Jan for posting and Jaap for sharing
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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A series of tweets that reads "we didn't have a measles outbreak until we let in four years of millions of people pour over our border" 

"I live in Honduras. We vaccinate" 

"I live in American we can choose if we want the shot or not" 

"I know and that's why you have measles and we don't"
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oh my God, I agree with WSJ opinion Oh my God, shoot me in the face
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
OPINION COMMENTARY (U.S.)
The Hidden Agenda Behind the Al Panic
A mathematical model doesn't rebel.
Anthropomorphizing it helps obscure human errors and accountability.
By Gabriele Mazzini
September 21, 2026, 5:43 pm EDT
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 22/09/2026
Interesting: “Whenever a case concerning immigration or linked to Islam arrives at the European Court of Human Rights, ‘engineers of chaos’ appear who distort the reality of the decisions taken”👇 🔗 www.nouvelobs.com/opinions/202... via @nouvelobs.com (FR) Not exclusively a British thing, then.
nouvelobs.com
La Cour européenne des Droits de l’Homme et la polygamie, itinéraire d’une nouvelle fake news
Dès qu’une affaire concernant l’immigration ou une pratique religieuse en lien avec l’islam arrive à la Cour européenne des Droits de l’Homme, apparaissent des « ingénieurs du chaos » qui déforment la...
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
'The far right is not a revolt against the system. It is the insurance policy the rich buy when democracy threatens their wealth' “Germany's steel barons paid for Hitler. A beer fortune paid for Reagan. The owner of X paid for Trump and then turned up on a ..." www.facebook.com/groups/10392...
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Nelly Probin @lillmagill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'll repost this. The triple lock is being weaponised, using it as an issue to divide the generations. If it's dropped, the real losers will be the future pensioners. For a currency issuing government keeping any cohort in poverty is is a political choice.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I must share with you this epic community note on Twitter 😂
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Guardian joins the campaign to abolish the state pension triple-lock. Portrays it as a old v young, social security v defence spending issue. Silence on corporate welfare, tax perks of the rich, maldistribution of wealth, low govt spend on state pension, how future retirees will survive.
theguardian.com
Britain needs cash and everyone knows we should break the pensions triple lock. Where is the courage? | Gaby Hinsliff
The issue cannot be avoided any longer. Andy Burnham and his chancellor must face the fear of a pensioner backlash, and find a fair solution, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Tractor Boy🚜 #FBPE 🇪🇺 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @tommoitfc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Its hard to understand how Mi6 and Government has continued to allow Farage his clear association with Russia…thought they were supposed to protect their citizens… bsky.app/profile/adyb...
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A different kind of AI apocalypse
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Laura Kuennsberg on the BBC Politics Show asked whether musicians should speak out on political subjects... Woody Guthrie, ladies & gentlemen:
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Trumpton @trumpton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Saving wives ...
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The whole point of Reform UK is to ensure we blame migrants & claimants and not millionaires for everything going wrong in our lives, and never think #TaxTheRich "What it looks like for millionaires and billionaires not to offshore wealth and to pay a fair rate of tax " via The UK Against Hate
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
And they are 100% correct.
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