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Ellie

@elliecollins.bsky.social
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She/her, SW england ✨️ interested in tools for healing 🍒 practices for staying sane 🍻 and ideas for making sense of how we relate to each other 🇵🇸 free palestine

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Solidarity RPM @solidarityrpm.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
STOP BOMBING IRAN STOP TRUMP'S NUCLEAR THREATS U.S. OUT OF BRITISH BASES WEDS 8 APRIL 2026 6.30 PM DOWNING STREET CENTRAL LONDON SW1A 2AA @cnduk.bsky.social @stwc.bsky.social
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Weird Bristol @weirdbristol.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The grotesque reframing of AI as something all authors secretly use is a nasty lie. I write my books due to an urge to create art - to guide words out of my head and into the real world. It’s a taxing, slow, sometimes infuriating process - but it’s also beautiful and entirely human.
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The War Llama @thewarllama.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
As the parent of an SEN child I wholeheartedly agree.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
liberal's must match fascist resolve - but i don't think we can, or should, mirror their *style* of politics macho, dominance orientated, ironic, endlessly insincere - that isn't us www.liberalcurrents.com/cringe-is-go...
liberalcurrents.com
Cringe is Good, Earnestness is Strength
On irony poisoning and the importance of being earnest.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
"64 councillors have defected to the Greens since the July 2024 general election at the time of writing. Of these, 48 defections have taken place since September 2025, shortly after Polanski became party leader on 2 September." @zoecrowther.bsky.social
politicshome.com
Is The Green Party Getting A Wave Of Councillor Defections?
The Green Party has said a growing number of Labour councillors are joining its ranks ahead of the local elections. What does the data say?
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404 Media @404media.co · 15/03/2026
“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.” www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
404media.co
'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
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Ellie @elliecollins.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE AT THE BACK
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anikeru.bsky.social @anikeru.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
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Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I wrote to my Green MP @carladenyer.bsky.social to voice my concerns about the government's apparent disregard for all the voices raised against allowing AI companies to freely train their data on our life's work. I was pleased with her robust response and advocacy for stronger regulation of AI.
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
The media’s sudden shock over Mandelson is embarrassing. They fawned over him and if US authorities hadn’t released the Epstein files, they’d still be rubbing shoulders with him at Zone 2 dinner parties. Now they’re clutching their pearls like they weren’t part of it. Pathetic.
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Tasmanian Leaders @tasleaders.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
🎬 We are proud to support the NATIONWIDE screening this Monday January 26 of IMAGINE – a groundbreaking new Australian animated film created by Jack Manning Bancroft and Tyson Yunkaporta ONE DAY ONLY Grab your tickets, bring your family, be part of something truly special : imaginefilm.org/
imaginefilm.org
IMAGINE Film
A Film by Jack Manning Bancroft & Tyson Yunkaporta
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The Department for Work and Pensions has disputed claims made by its own disability minister which explained why widespread cuts were made to disabled people’s Access to Work support packages after Labour came to power in July 2024. #AccessToWork #DWP www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-disputes...
disabilitynewsservice.com
DWP disputes Access to Work claim made by its own disability minister
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has disputed claims made by its own disability minister which explained why widespread cuts were made to disabled people’s Access to Work support packages…
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Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
you love to see it
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Ellie @elliecollins.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
There must be something wrong with North East Somerset and Hanham: first Jacob Rees Mogg, then Dan Norris. Anyway, Dan's suspension has finally been confirmed, although he still seems to be our MP. Morbidly curious about who we end up with next
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Ellie @elliecollins.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Counted all the birbs 👍🏻
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RSPB England @rspbengland.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Register now for the Big Garden Birdwatch 23-26 January to take part in the world's largest garden wildlife survey Who will be this year's garden faithfuls and traitors? One hour to sit, chill & watch the birds, recording the highest number of each species seen at any one time Link in the comments
A Robin with a bright red chest stood on vivid green grass next to wet brown leaves - Jo Taylor
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Cara Lavan @caralavan.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Thank you to the many members of the public who have submitted trans supportive and inclusive statements to Bristol City Council today. I wonder whether the Times &Telegraph et al will give the same coverage they do to transphobia? Comments can be read here democracy.bristol.gov.uk/documents/b3...
democracy.bristol.gov.uk
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Bristol24/7 @bristol247.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Protesters claim there is “neglect and a failure to meet duty of care” by a prison where Qesser Zuhrah is on day 46 of her hunger strike
bristol247.com
Protesters gather outside crown court as prisoners continue hunger strike
"We ask our government now: are you willing to let us die before you stop arming a genocide?"
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Ellie @elliecollins.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
youtu.be/_IQHeSKOeMs?...
youtu.be
Samantha Fulnecky Failed the Grift
YouTube video by matt bernstein
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River Speaks Out ☕💚🌍 @riverspeaksout.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
The truth from @zackpolanski.bsky.social leader of the @greenparty.org.uk 💚🌍
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Ellie @elliecollins.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
The WI and Girlguiding have been pressured to exclude trans women – yet the law is clear as mud | Jess O’Thomson www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
The WI and Girlguiding have been pressured to exclude trans women – yet the law is clear as mud | Jess O’Thomson
Since the supreme court decision, organisations have faced lobbying and legal threats. But trans people are protected by discrimination law too, says Jess O’Thomson of the Good Law Project
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Bristol24/7 @bristol247.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
The founder of a Bristol cycling club for women and gender minorities is among several local cyclists who have declined an "exclusionary" award from Cycling UK
bristol247.com
'Decisions like those made by Cycling UK only add fuel to hatred'
Rosie Wilson on why she is declining an award naming her among the UK's top 100 women cyclists
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 07/12/2025
It is an absolutely delightful irony that the richest man in the world is universally acknowledged to be a huge fucking loser who not a single living person envies in any way at all
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Ellie @elliecollins.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Its almost as if Labour dont actually care about women (cis, trans, femme, non-binary...). Absolutely outrageous, but (tragically) not all that surprising
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pat | COMMISSIONS OPEN @patsux.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
fish and mermen
Three gouache paintings of mermen.

Top left: Gouache painting of a merman with blue skin. He is holding a bright star close to his chest, and there are fish swimming towards it, as if inspecting it.

Top right: Gouache painting of a merman with green skin and fish tail. His tail is folded like knees and his head is resting on it, with both his arms crossed around it. He has a somber expression, like he's sleeping.

Bottom image: Gouache painting of a merman sitting on a clam-shell shaped couch. He has lime green hair and tail, and he's holding a margarita glass with red substance on it with a lime wedge on the rim. There are fish swimming around him.
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Ellie @elliecollins.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Gonna intro myself with 5 wild animals ive seen in my house (: Slug Snail Mouse Pillbugs Bees
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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
lil mermaid
a watercolur/digital painting of a small mermaid, based on the yellow  'clown goby' fish. she is surrounded by corals & starfish
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
A lot of people need to read this.
prisonculture.substack.com
We Don’t Know Where We Will End Up…
A Year Since the 2024 Election
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The Food Foundation @foodfoundation.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
💰 Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced several measures to reduce the cost of living in today's Autumn #Budget But will they be enough to reduce child poverty and improve children’s health? Here's our view: ➡️ tinyurl.com/2wyacmhp #Budget2026
Budget quote card
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Anyone who remembers the brutal WRAG cuts of April 2017 under the last govt will know why this research is important. Please share it with MPs + peers so ministers know the grim consequences of cutting out-of-work benefits for disabled people. #DWP www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-cuts-...
disabilitynewsservice.com
Labour cuts to out-of-work disability benefits likely to have ‘devastating’ mental health impact, research finds
Next April’s cuts to out-of-work disability benefits are likely to have “devastating” consequences for disabled people’s mental health, and drive many into serious poverty, research into the impact…
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Steve Hyndside @stevehyndside.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Things move quickly in politics. The idea of a Sunday broadsheet dedicating it's entire front page to @greenparty.org.uk is huge, and let's be honest, a sign of changing times. People are sitting up and noticing @zackpolanski.bsky.social join.greenparty.org.uk
Greens Party Leader Zack Polanski featured on the front page of The Observer newspaper
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Ellie @elliecollins.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
A friend and i were talking about the green party and he said "I'm voting for them no matter what, fuck tactical voting" and i was like "yeah, this is the first time a leader has elicited enough of an emotional response in us that we wanna vote for them regardless of whether we think they'll win"
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Bristol Green Party @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Once again, anti-migrant protests are happening outside a Bristol hotel sheltering asylum seekers. As @heathermackbristol.bsky.social wrote a few weeks ago: 'Targeting hotels full of children is not the answer to our problems.' bristol247.com/opinion/your...
bristol247.com
'Targeting hotels full of children is not the answer to our problems'
Heather Mack says we must target those who have the power to make meaningful change; not vulnerable and traumatised children
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Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Zack Polanski here, just casually ratioing Labour on their own Facebook attack ad. (Around 600 positive reacts to the original, 1.9k to his reply.)
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Tia Kofi to Zack Polanski, "There are better ways for everything to be better for everyone, rather than just sort of your little bubble"
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
A neat summary of why Reform will only ever fuck it up. Idiotic spending without any care about priorities or any clue as to whether they can afford it. Flags before social care or education or anything people actually need. Farage clown-cars crashing all over the country. (iPaper)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Spend on Union flags defended
Reform UK-led Nottinghamshire
County Council has defended plans to spend £75,000 on purchasing Union flags.
More than 150 flags in 82 locations will be displayed.
But opposition politicians questioned if the expenditure was a good use of public money.
Sam Smith, Conservative leader of the opposition, said:
"To spend £75,000 of taxpayers' money on flags seems a bit ridiculous."
Labour MP for Mansfield, Steve Yemm, said: "My constituents will be appalled."


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Doge' unit fails to carry out audits
Reform UK's so-called "Doge" unit has carried out no audit work in the councils it won control of nearly six months ago.
The party vowed swingeing efficiency cuts to council budgets, in the mould of Elon Musk's US Department of Government Efficiency, after gaining control of nine local authorities across England in May.
Deputy party leader Richard Tice told the Financial Times it was never the "intention to audit them, because audits are expensive".Reform council dysfunctional


As a Kent resident, I welcome that the national media is starting to pick up on the chaotic nature of our Reform-led administration at Kent County Council.
I hope that this is the
beginning of Nigel
Farage's latest political project being subject to proper scrutiny.
In Kent, seven Reform councillors of the 57 elected in May have resigned the whip or been suspended and they have taken a series of economically illiterate decisions.
Local authorities are responsible for running essential social care, education and highways.
It is dangerous to have overconfident zealots running such services.
ROB FIELD
MAIDSTONE, KENT
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
They gained more than 6000 members in a single day. There are now more Green members than members of the Conservative Party and their membership is more than double the reported membership of the LibDems. www.thenational.scot/news/2555611...
thenational.scot
Will the BBC face up to the Green Party's membership surge?
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 19/10/2025
It's incredibly telling that student newsrooms have shown more bravery in the past few years than many national outlets
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
She was arrested for holding a sign reading: “I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action” How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
This story is now big news all over the world... except in the UK.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 03/10/2025
"We will break the shackles of poverty and hardship that lock so many in. We will end rip-off Britain." - @zackpolanski.bsky.social
"We have a vision for this place we call home. Boldness 

means connecting with how hard it is right now for so many 

people. It means listening, not just finger pointing. 

It means presenting a positive vision not just of the future 

but what we can all do right now." 

ZACK POLANSKI 

GREEN PARTY LEADER 

GREEN PARTY CONFERENCE 

BOURNEMOUTH 

3-5 OCTOBER 2025
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
UK living standards have collapsed while govt after govt have sat on their hands. Now the vacuum they left is being filled by fascist agitators like Tommy Robinson and super-rich big-business-backed politicians like Farage. There is an alternative–and we can all play our part in fighting for it.
Screenshot of top of Carla's Huffpost article. Machine readable version available at link in next post.
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404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2025
The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
404media.co
DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14/09/2025
Hi ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere If you have any national platform at all Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us
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Rachel Millward @rachelmillward.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I woke up wondering how we're ever going to stop the violence and start conversations. And then I saw this. #Hope. Let's all do this!
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Disabled union activists have appealed successfully to the TUC to support their fight against the government’s continuing attacks on disability benefits. #TUC25 #Labour #DisabilityBenefits www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-wor...
disabilitynewsservice.com
Disabled workers win TUC support for fight against Labour’s cuts to benefits
Disabled union activists have appealed successfully to the TUC to support their fight against the government’s continuing attacks on disability benefits. Two motions opposing Labour’s cuts and call…
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Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Mr Dodgy and his girlfriend’s house in Clacton
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Steve Griffin @profstevegriffin.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Kudos to @lewisgoodall.com for calling out this blatant platforming of antivax bile. "Free speech" and "allowing honest debate" is being continually used as a vehicle by which divisiveness is pushed by far right eejits with only the thinnest veneer of "respectability". It needs calling out 👏
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