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Ben Gray @cllxben.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Hmmm, guess I won't just pop out to the tip and head to Asda. After 3 will be a more pleasant experience all round! Enjoy the footy and thanks for the heads up!

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Ben Gray @cllxben.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I cut my Labour Party membership card today... No reason other than I found it in a draw. I left years ago when Starmer started talking about jailing climate protestors.

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Ben Gray @cllxben.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Tonight's overnight experiment. Should be printing the remaining 1/3 of a robot arm, based off a robot arm I designed some time ago. 3D printing is so slow, but kind of satisfying.

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Ben Gray @cllxben.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

You're lucky that conversation didn't end with a long glove!

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Ben Gray @cllxben.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Let nobody say that I'm not an innovator / problem solver. Time lapse camera mount. No 3D printer needed!

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Ben Gray @cllxben.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This is one of 65 publicly owned assets that Rushcliffe Borough Council owns in West Bridgford. These will be swept into a super council unless we can form a town council to protect them. Nearby Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire County are selling assets to plug funding gaps

Bridgford Hall, a Grade II Listed building with registry office and lottery funded hotel. Image credit John Sutton / West Bridgford Hall / CC BY-SA 2.0

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Ben Gray @cllxben.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Nice quiet week then eh? No drama, lets just have a normal one.

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Ben Gray @cllxben.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Only because the proper way to describe him would get you banned from most social media channels

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Ben Gray @cllxben.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Please see below for my list of people who should never be allowed near the levers of power in this country - ever.

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Ben Gray @cllxben.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Loving Adobe products begging for life as they're uninstalled. "But these are all the things you can do for free" - are they bollocks, you've gutted the free versions and constantly nag for extortionate payments. Yes we know AI costs money, but no we didn't want it.

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Trent Rivers Trust @trentriverstrust.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

River season is underway, we're asking anglers to log their catches in aid of conservation. Together, we're hoping to create an updated list of fish species in the Trent and its tributaries. Each catch you log counts: www.trentriverstrust.org/trent30/

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Ben Gray @cllxben.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Wonderful deep thinking and informative podcast examining the water industry, by looking closely at the River Trent

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Ben Gray @cllxben.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

It's Friday night, time to part-ay

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Ben Gray @cllxben.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Lighten the sky Sky is lightened Why have you smushed all the faces? Lighten sky and don't mess around with the faces Sky lightened and faces extra smushed. Ok lets try something else. Erase the sky Here is a grey smear instead No Erase to nothing, so it's just clear. Erasing all the sky and grass

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Ben Gray @cllxben.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Urgh. AI everything. Canva was fairly decent, now they seem to have removed tools to do anything but ask AI to do it, and AI just keeps fucking around with stuff it has no business fucking around with

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Ben Gray @cllxben.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Been away for a bit. What did I miss?

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 27/03/2026

Time to end rip-off Britain. Time to decouple electricity prices from gas and bring down bills.

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.
EXCLUSIVE
GREENS PILE PRESSURE ON ED MILIBAND TO END 'RIGGED ENERGY SYSTEM'
Sky News, 26th March 2026

Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 26/03/2026

“Hope without a plan clearly isn’t going to work and a plan without hope sounds bureaucratic to me,” Zack Polanski, the leader of Britain’s Green Party, tells David Wallace-Wells. “And I will get to the plan, I promise. But first: Don’t underestimate the hope.”

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Opinion | Zack Polanski on the Rise of Britain’s Green Party

Zach Polanski of Britain’s left-populist party talks austerity, Labour and the establishment crackup.

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Ben Gray @cllxben.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

About a year ago we had one so close that it killed out TV and broadband router. I was working on a scaffold at the time.

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The Green Runners @thegreenrunners.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Holes in your uppers? Wooly nylon thread & a needle 🪡 is all you need to patch up holes in your uppers. Bookmark this video. Check out #RepairWhatYouWear on YouTube for more repair tips. youtu.be/duoCmvMY620?...

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How to repair holes in running shoes

YouTube video by Repair What You Wear

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Ben Gray @cllxben.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Why we've not even notionally separated audit and consultancy in the UK is a mystery, perhaps only solved by looking at the links with the big four and government. Same organisations now redrawing our local gov functions across the uk. I wonder who will benefit?

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Ben Gray @cllxben.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Back to the big stuff. For fuck sake.

Greenpeace are being sued by oil companies. These planet murdering scumbags have the law on their side.

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Ben Gray @cllxben.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

this Sunday. You're about to give advice to the local church group on practical issues around their next excellent community project. You've got four of your kids school mates round to help solder and glue together their scitech project. Oh and the whole house needs tidying, painting, and sorting

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Ben Gray @cllxben.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

You're on a committee where people will ask "who is doing this? and have we done that?" but nobody else ever seems to do this or has done that. Hundreds of little fuck you moments stacking up and up and up. But yet again you've volunteered to open the coffee provision to miss your kids playing sport

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Ben Gray @cllxben.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

the shop not coming on time, apps constantly logging you out, taking time out for a gym session only to find you've forgotten your water bottle and one of your kids (probably) has borrowed your padlock. The car has started making a clunking sound and its MOT is due next week and you've not booked it

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Ben Gray @cllxben.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

One of those days where you just feel like every little thing is against you. Big things like the shit storm the world over, smaller things like local planners giving two thumbs up to building houses on radioactive waste sites, and yet kicking off about permitted development rights,

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Ofwat £22m fine proposal for South East Water for repeated supply failures. "Proposal" = companies with criminal convictions negotiate, may never pay. Thames Water to pay 2024 fines by 2030 or never. 2024 fines on Yorkshire and Northumbrian Water quietly waived. Execs never fined or prosecuted.

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South East Water faces £22m fine for supply failures

The firm was unable to cope during high demand, Ofwat says, leading to

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Plumber wins by-election for Greens From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

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Ben Gray @cllxben.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

That title gave me a much needed laugh today

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Ben Gray @cllxben.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

His principles were the exact same. Simply put, they were absent. He lacks them and just tells the lies he, personally, needs to gain more power.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Imagine your party has won a historic byelection. You've had election day, a loads of interviews, held a press conference with your new MP and welcomed lots of new members. Sleep? Nah. It's time for The Last Leg! #isitok

Adam hills, josh widdicome and Alex Brooker. Jason manford, Lou Sanders, Bella hull and Zack Polanski. The last leg.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social, I have enjoyed our exchange of letters about which of our parties is best placed to stop Reform. Hannah Spencer MP and I trust that you agree that this question has now been resolved once and for all. Thanks, Zack Polanski

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Derbyshire Dales Greens @derbsdalesgreens.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Can't argue with them numbers!

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

If only desperate Labour Ministers could be bothered to "... look at the difference decriminalising drugs has made in Portugal" For "an evidence based policy which had consulted hundreds of experts in the field" go to @greenparty.org.uk meme via Glyn Goodwin

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Bold Politics @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Zack Polanski and Caroline Lucas Premiering at 7pm: youtu.be/HSw620OysHc

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social, Why did you invent a fake tactical voting company to stop the Green Party beating Reform? I'm starting to think your letters haven't always been in good faith...

Dear Lucy
On the eve of the by-election, your Labour party spokesperson has admitted to the Huffington Post that a
Labour party leaflet has been delivered through doors with your imprint recommending a vote for Labour
by a tactical voting organisation which does not exist.
This is deeply troubling, it is actually lying to voters. Did you approve this? Do you feel the Labour Party
in government should be held to different standards in terms of honesty to the British public?
In your last letter to me you mentioned your ‘very extensive data’ and ‘having spoken to over a third of
eligible voters’ which led you to an understanding that the by election ‘was a contest between labour and
Reform’. Clearly this latest development only tells voters one thing - you will employ any type of
political deception (or in Urdu “Dhoka” ) to win.
You will be very aware that all three real tactical voting organisations are recommending a vote for the
Greens as the best way to stop Reform. Lying to the voters, as you have been caught doing, raises the real
prospect that Reform will be the beneficiaries, something you have said that you don’t want.
As this is such an important issue, for the sake of your own reputation, I would strongly urge you to
apologise to the voters of Denton and Gorton before the polls open in the morning.”
Kind regards,
Zack Polanski
Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales

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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

The change starts here!!!

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Moireibh na Chreig @muuuz.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Let's get our ducks in a row! If you want to make hope normal again, you can: JOIN join.greenparty.org.uk DONATE donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk and HELP GET HANNAH ELECTED!!! gorton-denton.greenparty.org.uk#get-involved

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lesleyak.bsky.social @lesleyak.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

And when they have all our defence and medical information, Starmer will say, nobody told him, it didn't come across his desk. Which assistant will have to resign?

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Ben Gray @cllxben.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Listening to @zackpolanski.bsky.social and Hannah Spencer on @boldpolitics.bsky.social whilst getting some plaster on the walls! More normal people in parliament please 💚 #voteGreen

Getting plaster ready for slopping onto the walls

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Ben Gray @cllxben.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

A level of humanity we're missing in our politics. The only time I ever saw my teak tough, boxer, bouncer, brawler dad ever cry was on the day our lurcher Brandy died. Dogs connect with us all and show our humanity

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Bold Politics @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Tomorrow's episode of Bold Politics is so so rare in British politics: real people who are unafraid to just be themselves for an hour because they know they don't have to protect any vested interests. It's time for a clearout of robots in Westminster.

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