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Cathy

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Women's rights and LGBTQ+ rights now, always, and forever. Intersectional feminist. She/her 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The men who claimed to be ‘defending women and children’ when they were burning down asylum hotels are now threatening to take to the streets to protest the banning of an app that facilitates creation of abuse images of children and women.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 07/01/2026
📮 Help us deliver hope one letterbox at a time. Join us and join in ⤵️
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The rules based order was only ever convention as we learnt during Boris Johnson's prime ministerial period and Trump's first term The rules could have actually been codified since then, but both in the UK and in the US, it has not been done. It's incredibly disappointing and depressing
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The special relationship was always a one way thing, but our political leaders would never acknowledge it We need to pull back our relationships with the US, even more so after this
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/01/2026
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I hate working on windows, so many restarts to handle installs and rubbish like that. I miss being able to work on Linux, heck even macOS would do This is what I get for working on legacy code projects
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Another day, another Cloudflare outage Don't we all just love relying on other people's hardware for everything...
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I think so much of this falls upon those who said "we just need to hear out their concerns" over and over as they moved the Overton window and then the law, step by step. Almost nobody with any actual power stood up and said "no, we don't debate the concerns of bigots"
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Interesting watching @zackpolanski.bsky.social on The Rest is Politics, good first half and then it got a bit weirder in the second half Some difficult questioning from Rory where he didn't seem at all receptive to the answers, and then Rory repeating his issues with Gary Stevenson repeatedly
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 28/11/2025
Hope is here. Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
I am here for the rise of "theatre kid" politics, this is amazing
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
People overwhelmingly voted against the Tories, not for Labour to impersonate the right of the Tory party They seem to have no awareness of what traditional Labour voters want, nor people on the Left in general Good thing we have the Green Party to turn to now for actual progressivism
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Ben Chu @benchu.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
"We have become the destination of choice in Europe" according to the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood. Data from Eurostat & the Home Office shows the UK had the fifth largest number of claims of the EU/UK area in 2025, at 108,000... assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691ae0...
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 17/11/2025
The Greens don’t believe providing safe refuge for endangered asylum seekers is an “out-of-control” policy. Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society. Refugees are welcome.
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
don't give labour a single vote under any circumstances
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
You would think that this would be a sign to Labour that they're walking a dark path, but I can almost imagine them cheering that this might mean a couple Reform voters move over (at the cost of thousands on the left and even centre)
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Seeing a Labour home secretary go on national television to say that human rights have gone too far was honestly not something I was expecting to see... until Starmer's Labour
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
We were told to vote Labour otherwise these bad things would happen, then they ensured the bad things would happen anyway It comes across like their actual argument wasn't with the unethical ideology of the Tories, but the incompetence when it came to implementation of that ideology
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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
I will never vote for a party that gleefully attacks the vulnerable like this Labour government has attacked: • refugees • trans people • disabled people • children in poverty Even if they claim some bogeyman wants to do it too. There’s no point in Fascism Lite™.
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
I don't get it, how far are they willing to go towards the far right in the hopes of picking up a few right wingers? We all know the people calling for this would never take a Farage-light The only plus side is them self-imploding after the Tories doing so means we might finally modernise politics
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
If income tax goes up but a wealth tax isn't introduced or capital gains isn't brought inline with income tax (or raised higher), I will be absolutely livid
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
That's the most frustrating part in some ways - it feels like a lot of those issues the trans community raised were picked up and warped into a transphobic attack on trans healthcare
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK... 78% are murdered by a partner/ex Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety In fact, they voted against them...
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Transphobes don't just hate trans people, but they're generally quite shit - racists, islamophobes, shit politics, that's what they stand for When I said our fight is one, I meant it, the same people coming after one minority also target others Legitimate concerns need space, hate doesn’t
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Goes to show how little he knows about what being a member of parliament actually is like. He's such a joke
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
They played the game in the lead up to the election and then their true colours showed afterwards. I'm sure there are many trans people and trans allies which have gone from Labour voters to never being able to vote for them again I hope it was worth it for you, Starmer, it wasn't for us
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Steve Hyndside @stevehyndside.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
BREAKING: @zackpolanski.bsky.social confirms on #BBCLauraK that @greenparty.org.uk now has a bigger membership in England and Wales than the Tories do across the UK.
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
It really shows one of the scarier sides of AI, while it's hard to get the specific outcome that you want, if you're someone like Musk with effectively infinite resources, you can choose to manipulate what people are using as a source of knowledge Feels like we're past the end of reliable knowledge
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The thing is, Labour's comms and social media work is so awful that their attacks will only result in even more people joining the Greens I say bring it on, Labour
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
After seeing the video of Trump and Starmer, I can't tell if it's Starmer being humiliated, Trump genuinely not remembering who Starmer is, or most likely both at the same time
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Really looking forward to seeing @greenparty.org.uk overtaking the Tories, first for membership, then in polling, and with any luck, then with MPs
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/10/2025
Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader
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Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader
Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since Zack Polanski took over last month The Greens in England and Wales have more than 100,000 members for the first time, the party has announced, a near-50% rise since Zack Polanski took over as leader last month. It puts them on a potential course to overtake the Conservatives and comes little more than a week after the Greens announced they had moved past the Liberal Democrats in membership numbers, getting to 83,500. Continue reading...
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
The thing about him saying "bad apple" is that you're kinda meant to deal with bad apples or they'll spoil the whole bunch... Yet Farage didn't deal with the bad apple in any way. What does that tell us?
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Jess Short @shorttics.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I’m a few days late but seeing @zackpolanski.bsky.social on this week’s Question Time gave me more hope for politics and people in the UK. So much so that I’m now a member of the Green Party! (This is also the first time I’ve become a member for a political party!) it’s safe to say I’ve been swayed!
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Watching @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Piers Morgan has made me so incredibly happy to have joined the @greenparty.org.uk, he is incredible Heck yeah
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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 08/10/2025
Council of Europe adopts landmark Recommendation on Equal Rights for Intersex Persons www.coe.int/en/web/sogi/...
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Council of Europe adopts landmark Recommendation on Equal Rights for Intersex Persons
Strasbourg, 7 October – Today, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers has adopted Recommendation CM/Rec(2025)7 to member States on Equal Rights for Intersex Persons, marking a historic...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
What I find frustrating about this is that it was obvious from the beginning that LLMs are (to be overly simplistic) predictive text with extra steps, and everyone knows it would be silly to trust predictive text. At least they're starting to actually being honest about that
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 21/09/2025
Elon Musk is no friend of our United Kingdom. He should be held to account for allowing truly vile and illegal child abuse content on his platform.
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Oh no, oh please right wing press, please don't go after these people so much that they would have to be replaced, that would be ever so much of a shame 👀
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
It's annoying and misleading a lot of the time, it's one of the reasons I switched over to Ecosia so I could turn that off (plus being more privacy focused and eco-friendly company, of course)
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Two dozen members of the US congress threatening to sanction countries who recognise Palestine goes to show how meaningless any diplomacy with them is now The sooner we move on from centering the US in global politics, the better
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Reminder: Magneto was right
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Seeing the absolute mess of Your Party is making me think it wasn't exclusively a Labour right stitch up when Corbyn was leader, but that his incompetence was a big part of that as well I hope Sultana joins a real party
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Yesterday the UN declared that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Today Keir Starmer rolls out the red carpet for Trump - Israel's biggest ally and a cheerleader for its atrocities. Shameful.
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
I'm seeing reactions to @eddavey.libdems.org.uk this morning quite funny. People complained about asylum seekers being an economic drain, so Davey suggests we give them some amount of right to work and pay taxes. Then people complain about that. It's like it's not economic concerns but just racism
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
This is objectively the correct response to Musk
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Annoyingly, they both have motives for lying, too... Gabbard - It makes the US look like the sole protector and saviour of Israel Netanyahu - It involves another country which has aligned with them on Gaza, potentially dragging them into more involvement It's a troubling time, to put it mildly
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
In other words, take the "evidence" which was used to support the war in Iraq, and replace all the "q"s with "n"s
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Cathy @aw-cathy.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I certainly hope so, would be nice to be a member again by then, at the very least in the process of rejoining
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