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Andrew Green

@drandrewjgreen.bsky.social
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I write about music and musicians, activism, climate + environmental crisis, México. Lecturer in the Anthropology of Music @KCL. Nie wszystko co pozytywne jest realne

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 13/10/2026
hahahah #fail
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards.
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The SS United States is set to be sunk in mid-November
Okaloose County expects to sink the SS United States the second week in November, depending on weather.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
You don't fix one security crisis by creating another. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending
Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say
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Andrew Green @drandrewjgreen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
in short, that they are not equipped to lead within the party. [4/4]
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Andrew Green @drandrewjgreen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
that they mistakenly think that the meanings of words are fixed (when we know that 'Zionism' can mean a variety of things); that they have poor political judgement, and mistakenly think the purpose of politics is to rearrange semantic meaning rather than to make people's lives better; [3/]
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Andrew Green @drandrewjgreen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The people pushing this motion have given the overall impression that they do not care about our party or its members; that they are not intellectually curious and haven't thought about the consequences of the motion or respectfully considered other points of view; [2/]
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Andrew Green @drandrewjgreen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I try to avoid getting too aggy on here, but as an emphatically pro-Palestine Green Party member I do not know who Dr Kumar is, nor why he has a right to tell us what is and isn't acceptable to think based on the votes of 1/200th of the party membership. [1/] www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNnE...
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Green Party member on why he backs motion declaring 'Zionism is racism' | BBC Politics Live
YouTube video by BBC Politics
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Andrew Green @drandrewjgreen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As a member, all the members I've spoken to oppose it, and I think it will make it a lot harder to get the large membership active and on the doorstep
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When you have no concept of how people engage with music
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I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh no Gen Z is going to learn how fucked up tv was. They’re going to learn that we had psychics on the news like they were legitimate sources of information
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...
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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
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Andrew Green @drandrewjgreen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The government: stock up on essentials Me:
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes doing the "we're just normal men" meme
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Andrew Green @drandrewjgreen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Well this is a teeny big frightening
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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Anyone working in the sector already knows, but still good to see it in black & white. Professional services *people*--not just interchangeable hubs of administration--are essential to a good university. Their institutional knowledge has been consistently undervalued & their loss is catastrophic.
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Andrew Green @drandrewjgreen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
As someone who works in a university music department: it is such a tragedy that we have a generation of state school-educated kids many of whom have never had the choice to study music. So key to human connection for everyone, but especially for children who are growing up, changing, exploring
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
As the head of a university music dept, we're at the sharp end of this. Gove's EBacc is to blame. Pupils no longer encouraged to take music GCSE -> drop in A Level + drop in teacher recruitment -> drop in university entrance -> fewer teachers trained -> schools not offering A Level or GCSE music 1/2
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Andrew Green @drandrewjgreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Trying to get my head around the extent of the mollycoddling this man has experienced in his childhood and adult life that he's never learned to make an excuse better than this (yes I am envious) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘I wasn’t even listening,’ Farage says of donations scandal meeting
Reform UK leader maintains innocence in overseas funding controversy on last day of party conference
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Channel 4 documentary on Reform party donations - www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXut...
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Undercover: Exposing Reform's secret donations plot
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Reform UK Conference Ban List Michael Crick Anna Isaac - Guardian Peter Geoghegan - Democracy for Sale Ethan Shone - Open Democracy Isabella Link - Politics UK Ed Campbell - The Nerve Imran Mulla - Middle Eastern Eye Will Hayward - Guardian There’s a reported 50 journalists banned.
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Rachel Rees @rachel-rees.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
As honoured as I am to see that The Times has picked up my Chagos article practically *word for word*, including my hard-gotten quotes, I’d prefer some credit — or for everyone to read my original FT piece! free link to read the evidently enviable article below (cheaper than a Times sub!) 🌴
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Officially, the water industry in England is regulated. Practically, it's unregulated. There's no difference between what it does under the eye of the Environment Agency and what it would do if the EA did not exist. The EA is completely useless, by design. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Dry weather sewage discharges soar as water companies face scrutiny
Exclusive: 7,280 suspected illegal spills in rivers and sea recorded in first five months of 2026
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Andrew Green @drandrewjgreen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Today's the day I realized that I am quite a bit older than Anne Bancroft when she played Mrs Robinson in The Graduate
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Richard Sedgley @richardsedgley.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Zack Polanski demands "wildfire tax" on oil companies, as BP profits soar past £4bn www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/zac...
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Zack Polanski demands 'wildfire tax' on oil companies, as BP profits soar past £4bn
Green Party leader Zack Polanski is of the view that, if we're all going to burn on this planet, those doing the damage should pay for it.
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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Donations are one thing. This is something else.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Weird watching the right-wing columnist cohort try to collectively pull the handbrake on ethnonationalism. Like the world's biggest hotdog man convention.
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Andrew Green @drandrewjgreen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Paul Marshall, the co-owner of GB News, has tripled his hedge fund investments in fossil fuel companies in the first quarter of 2026 to £2.1bn. They're a propaganda channel cashing in on destroying our future. Always follow the money.
Zack Polanskis four biggest climate claims explained and why experts disagree
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Andrew Green @drandrewjgreen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Total insanity at a time wildfires intensified by climate change are ripping across the UK www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Gatwick airport to open second runway after legal challenge fails
£2.2bn project will allow about 100,000 more flights a year to use Britain’s second busiest airport
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
❗️Zelensky: Today, many were shocked by another video of the Russian drone safari against people in Kherson. The man was injured by the explosion. The world must see this. It must see every fact that Russia has gone mad, and every fact that the Russian military enjoys killing and mocking people.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Btw, just in case you had any illusions left that Trump’s promise of a license for Ukraine to was genuine, the US NATO ambassador just said nothing can happen until winter at the earliest. It was all a cruel joke to weaken Ukraine by the USA. www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
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US ambassador to NATO believes agreement on joint production of interceptors for Patriot systems is unlikely before winter
US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker has said that talks on the joint production of interceptors for Patriot air defence systems with Ukraine and European partners are ongoing, but that an agreement...
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Andrew Green @drandrewjgreen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
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Andrew Green @drandrewjgreen.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
View of wildfire on Middlewick Ranges in Colchester
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Andrew Green @drandrewjgreen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr4o...
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I Was Just A Boy
YouTube video by Madra Salach - Topic
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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Every commentator saying too many kids go to university has to tell their own kid to not do a degree
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Latest free piece is out. Praising a racist, conspiracist, anti-democratic, Trump-worshipper because she takes one position you like is a dangerous move and is to be regretted. The struggle is basically the same in the US and Ukraine. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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It Is All One
Because a Racist, Conspiracist, Anti-Democrat, Oppression-Supporting, Trump-Worshipper Takes One Good Position, Does Not Make Her Worthy Of Praise
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Andrew Green @drandrewjgreen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Not the point and not going to sway anyone, but as someone who has a degree in (among other things) biological anthropology, I just want to point out that the argument that there is only a gender binary is complete and utter bunk, the sort of thing that gets demolished in a 101 course on this stuff.
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Liz Faber @lizwfab.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"Don't comply in advance" includes not telling everyone around you that things are only going to get worse and that there's no hope for anything. Cynicism is complicity.
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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
🥹 "I didn't recognize you." A border guard released from captivity saw his son for the first time in a long time
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Burnham’s new chief of staff was chief executive of lobbying firm Flint It’s like the British political elite is addicted to conflicts of interest www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Andy Burnham picks former Blair minister James Purnell as chief of staff
Decision is one of Makerfield MP’s most significant since his Westminster return as he builds his team for government
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Andrew Green @drandrewjgreen.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"AI whoops" of the week www.newscientist.com/article/2531...
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People training new AI models admit they just get chatbots to do it
The next generation of AI models are meant to be trained by people paid to have conversations with them, but several of these workers have admitted to New Scientist that they simply get chatbots to do...
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 22/06/2026
Today we celebrate the Windrush generation and the immense contribution they have made to communities across Britain. Their story is one of courage, resilience and determination, and their legacy continues to shape our country for the better.
Celebrating Windrush Day banner showing a yellow-tinted historic photo of the Empire Windrush crowded with passengers, overlaid with bold text "Celebrating Windrush Day," the Green Party logo, and the slogan Real hope. Real change.
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Andrew Green @drandrewjgreen.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Say what you like about Keir Starmer as PM, but he had his moments of insight www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8ow...
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Keir Starmer “Meep Meep”
YouTube video by PoliticalDigest
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Andrew Green @drandrewjgreen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Absolute chancers. Nationalise water. Now. And keep it in public hands forever.
Thames water told the BBC we remain of the view that w market led solution is the best way to secure the long term stability needed to continue improving performance and advancing our turnaround plan for the benefit of customers, the environment and our stakeholders
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Andrew Green @drandrewjgreen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
We probably should be asking ourselves more often "what stage in the Oryx and Crake timeline is this" www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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OnlyFans: Inside the Machine review – monumentally grim and unsexy TV
Amber Haque’s preposterously bleak film shows how hordes of men have turned the ethical answer to sex work into a sleazy nightmare – and how big tech is turning a blind eye. Sound familiar?
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