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Dr David R Brake @drbrake.bsky.social · 14h

The ZiR motion is terrible, backed by a small group of understandably committed but doctrinaire activists. But @thetimes treats a straw poll of 91 as if it was a settled Green Party decision 🙄 www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

thetimes.com

Jewish Greens face sanctions for belonging to ‘Zionist’ synagogues

The Green Party rejected an amendment to protect Jewish members attending self-declared ‘Zionist’ organisations from reports of racism

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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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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy cheese day to all who celebrate. And a good moment to remember that our political system is so broken that this woman, who is visibly inane, became prime minister.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every private conversation in Westminster: "Well the triple lock obviously has to go at some point". Every commentator on Burnham: "completely mad to propose getting rid of triple lock - political suicide".

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Dr David R Brake @drbrake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I really hope it turns out to be something trivial so all of the premature and borderline racist speculation by the usual suspects will make them a laughing stock.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Does good work for her members I assume but wrong on tax, wrong on political funding, wrong on net zero. Every policy intervention is short-termist and blinkered

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 28/09/2026

It bears mentioning that Microsoft just shut down its Microsoft Research Social Media Collective…because why should they care about the social consequences of their products, right? Including worker harms.

404media.co

Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified

Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“What is certain, however, is that a vast sum of our money will be wasted, countless Torontonians will find themselves profoundly inconvenienced for extended periods, and, eventually, a cyclist will get struck by a car. But at least the congestion will be worse.”

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.

Joint statement from National TULO

Solidarity with the trans and non-binary community

Labour's 11 affiliated trade unions stand in total solidarity with the trans and non-binary community.

Trans rights are human rights, and trans rights are workers' rights.

We in the trade union movement will do all we can to stand up for our trans members and all our trans siblings, to protect them from persecution, harassment and attack.

The government must act now to protect all trans people, to make sure their rights are protected, expanded and upheld in our workplaces and communities.

Labour Unions

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I really weary of how UK reporters are tiptoeing around the fact that the US president talked absolute shit about the RAF Fairford incident and arrests. "It's possible Trump was talking off the cuff" - no, it's in fact very clear that Trump was just lying compulsively because that's what he does.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One has to wonder if any of these guys will do any introspection and ask just who, exactly, left the door open to all of these Nazis currently taking over the party. [ed. note: They will not do any introspection.]

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The police have asked everyone to please not speculate about the RAF Fairford incident, so naturally I'm going to waste no time in making up total bollocks to suit my own agenda.

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John Dipshit @wokeoaf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“It’s not going to improve people’s lives here is it?!” I dunno man I’ve been watched children get murdered for three years straight now, it probably would improve our mental wellbeing if we stopped running cover for the murderers and maybe tried to do something about it

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hyper-fast acceleration is dangerous as well as pointless. As I wrote in 2024, the 0-to-60 metric is outdated and needs to die. No driver on a public road needs to go from 0 to 60 mph in under 8 seconds. Even the slowest car on the market is more than quick enough.

fastcompany.com

How fast can a car go from 0 to 60? It really doesn't matter

The auto industry has pushed this metric for decades. But cars—especially EVs—are so fast that comparing the decimals is pointless and dangerous.

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Dr David R Brake @drbrake.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I can't understand why this hasn't turned into a huge news story (perhaps it is going to?) The NYT has laid a trail for others to follow here... AI research, heavy LSD use, hugely wealthy men abusing their power and... effective altruism?! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/t...

nytimes.com

The A.I. Party House Where Networking Has a Dark Side (Gift Article)

Group tech houses have proliferated across the San Francisco Bay Area in the artificial intelligence boom. One of the most prominent has also racked up an extensive police record.

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I wrote to the EHRC chair about how she must monitor the impact of her code of practice on trans and nonbinary rights, and inclusive organisations. It is her statutory duty to do so and is vital if we are to make legal gender recognition for trans people a reality again in the UK. buff.ly/AhfkaJr

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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 27/09/2026

The CDC awarded a no-bid contract for exploring whether immunizing pregnant women would lead to autism in their children; to pay for this contract, the CDC took $362,000 from a program that provides free vaccines to about half American children. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...

nytimes.com

‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission

The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This story brought me back to Kara, one of the mothers in my book, There Is No Place for Us. She was homeless with her four kids while driving for DoorDash. They had to pee in bottles so bathroom stops wouldn't make her late. After gas, she earned $6.50 an hour—75 cents less than the minimum wage.

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Dan k5s @danafus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Molly White wrote a great and very thorough article about migrating "Citation Needed" from Substack to self-hosted Ghost: www.citationneeded.news/substack-to-...

citationneeded.news

Migrating from Substack to self-hosted Ghost: the details

I migrated Citation Needed from Substack to self-hosted Ghost. Here is exactly how I did that.

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Toby Lloyd @tobylloyd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sigh. This was predictable but still wrong: the persistent under delivery of new housing numbers, let alone the often poor quality and unaffordability of them, shows that we need a radically different model of house building - not pouring more subsidy down the broken pipes of the existing one.

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Birdpoof @birdpoof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So I was looking at some Fidelity mutual funds. They have a "Climate Action Fund" with the top holdings in....NVIDIA, Google, Apple, Microsoft. Not sure about Apple, but everyone else is guilty of massive climate pollution in pushing AI.

Screenshot of the Fidelity Climate Action Fund, showing the top holdings as NVIDIA, Alphabet (Google), Apple, Microsoft.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One of the maddest posts I've seen

Nick Buckley MBE

Danny Tommo. To be convicted of criminal damage - the owner of the boat must be identified. If not, then Tommo might own the boat and is just damaging his own property. None of the above matters. He was arrested for being anti illegal migration. The government and establishment are terrified of the English people. We are beginning to roar. What comes next will change the country forever - good or bad.

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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He imposed Shania Law

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

no they weren't very close to 0% of the SS were hanged the vast, vast seriously vast majority of people who carried out the Holocaust weren't ever punished.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

can't believe the car that runs on millions of tiny explosions transmitting energy through a complex series of oily metal parts doesn't last as long as the one that's four wheels attached to a battery

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NEW: BBC reducing the number of local specialist correspondent roles. Instead, each BBC region going down to two dedicated, multi-platform correspondents (generalists, not specialists). Will no doubt prompt concerns about reduced local knowledge and expertise. Story coming.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.

motherjones.com

ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

These guys are protesting about 'groups of fighting age men threatening local areas'. You've got to admire the irony.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Uhhh, why is anyone listening to this Nate Soares guy on AI?? “I think global warming is going to be fine. I think either we’re going to kill ourselves with the AI or we’re going to be able to invent the tech to just pull the carbon right out of the atmosphere. It’s going to be fine.” Boneheaded!!

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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is important. Zack will do a good, conscientious job for the people of Holborn & St Pancras. But equally important, he will have the platform to be a powerful voice for the Green movement, and for genuine socialism. He is the *only* realistic alternative to Labour. @greenparty.org.uk

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 24/09/2026

Hot take: fuck Tucker Carlson.

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 24/09/2026

Le Pen got a $10 million Russian loan, which was instrumental in getting her party to where it is now.

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barefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

hell of a day to post like this when the AP Stylebook account just came out swinging against the anthropomorphization of AI. "Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics."

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 24/09/2026

Healthcare should be there when you need it. No exceptions. Trans people deserve the same dignity, respect and access to care as everyone else.

Quote graphic. Headline reads: “When trust in healthcare is broken.”

Quote from Anthony Slaughter, Leader of the Wales Green Party:

“People had surgeries cancelled at the 11th hour, with no explanation or option to reschedule. These are people who had spent years preparing, both physically and mentally, for this life-affirming surgery.

In my own way, I was able to relate to that agonising wait. In the days leading up to planned surgery over recess, I underwent scheduled and serious surgery. You trust the system around you. For some, that trust has been broken.

What is important is that the voices and experiences of the trans community are amplified and understood. Gender-affirming healthcare saves lives. What this community needs now more than ever is decisive action, proof that their government will stand up for them and take the lead.”

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Dr David R Brake @drbrake.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

They collaborated to put the Tory leader of West Sussex CC into a scrutiny committee instead of a Green. Red/blue/purple alliance?!

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.

forbiddenstories.org

The Deportation Project Map

Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We can win this - but only with your help. linktr.ee/HSP_6thGreenMP

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Len @len.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Taxes = Bad" is I think one of the most persistent lies the right has indoctrinated people with that we would need to exorcise to make much real progress as a society.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thank you to the Independent for including me in Climate List of Worlds Top 100. The UK Labour Govt are due to approve new oil & gas licences in the north sea. They've delayed the decision post October 8th. We can invest in renewables instead. Vote Green in Holborn & St Pancras

Since becoming leader of the Green Party in 2025, Zack Polanski has made the links between climate change, inequality and the cost of living central to his politics, arguing that environmental action must also make people’s lives better.

This summer, as the UK faced its hottest summer ever and wildfires swept across the UK and the rest of the globe, he called for oil and gas companies to pay higher taxes to fund climate adaptation. That is alongside investment in cooling homes and public spaces and bringing water companies into public ownership.

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The most wholesome and radical event in Brighton this weekend was… Kidical Mass! All our cities need to make cycling safe and enjoyable every day, for everyone from 3 to 93. 💚

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The driver’s behavior before and after the crash is sociopathic. But also, no car operated on public roads should be able to go 100 mph, much less 142 mph.

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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Last week - when all the front pages headlines were about Farage and his £72m - Farage fronted his own GB News show ….to talk about Farage! He compared his critics to communists and then interviewed other guests - about himself! app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75017/...

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Farage and the £130m even his detractors have missed

GB news has provided relentless positive PR for Nigel Farage while racking up tens of millions in financial losses. And now there is a new channel in the offing

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That feeling when you’re reading an 1817 William Hazlitt essay about Shakespeare’s Coriolanus and it’s suddenly all about 2026. www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5...

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The "massive weekly grocery haul" is a symptom of car-dependent sprawl, not a universal rule of life. Healthy cities don't force you to drive to a warehouse store. Good design makes grabbing fresh food a quick, passive part of your daily walk or bike commute. These straw men arguments bore me.

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