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Margaret Nelson 🌦

@flashmaggie.bsky.social
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Old, knackered. Cloud-spotter and dendrophile. Suffolk UK. Cat's mother. "The cure for boredom is curiousity. There is no cure for curiousity." - Dorothy Parker deadinteresting.blogspot.com/2018/0…

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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 4h
It's much more complicated than that. The foundation of Israel was a very bad idea, as many non-religious Jews agreed at the time. Isaac Asimov was one of them. He predicted it would cause immense problems. He was right, and it has. It became an invasion, swelling the population unsustainably.
bbc.co.uk
Israel and the Palestinians: History of the conflict explained
The conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people is one of the longest-running in the world.
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 5h
There are, and it sounds like many of them would like to see Netanyahu lose the election, but it hasn't prevented them all from illegally claiming land. Did you imagine that the settlers who are driving Palestinians off their land on the West Bank are unique? New Israelis hane done that since 1948.
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 5h
Which is what the worst Zionists have done to Palestinians. Ethical Jews want nothing to do with them. Others are simply brainwashed.
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Zionism isn racist. It's mythology. If we could trace our origins back to a single tribe, aeons ago, and claimed it as home, the world would be very different. We've migrated across continents, and still do.
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Made a fairly innocuous comment on a Facebook post about the Green Party's "racist Israel" hoo-ha, and drew the ire of some Zionist zealots. Of all political or religious zealotry, it seems particularly nasty. The fate of 7+ million Palestinian refugees or the Gaza genocide is ignored.
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Had to look that up: Public Relations and Communications Association. Never heard of it before.
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Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @sheldricktrust.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wild dogs are incredibly inquisitive by nature – and with our SWT/KWS Anti-Poaching rangers taking a break on patrol, it's hard to tell who is watching whom. Behind this quiet encounter is years of boots-on-the-ground conservation, helping this endangered species return to Tsavo.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 06/10/2026
More than 9,600 have already taken action and called on Ofcom to investigate Nigel Farage's GB News show. A party leader and sitting MP should not be allowed to host their own news show. Help us reach 10,000 signatures. ⬇️
bestforbritain.org
Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
See what I wrote earlier.
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You've made some false assumptions. Perhaps you haven't read my other posts? I'm not a member of the Greens or any other party.
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Good intentions, but bad strategy.
theguardian.com
Green party votes to adopt policy that equates Zionism with racism
Motion calling for single Palestinian state, which is opposed by most Green MPs and expected to be challenged, passes by 1,022 votes to 813
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Good riddance!
theguardian.com
No 10 insists RAF Fairford is safe after US withdraws its bombers from base
A dozen B-1 bombers stationed at Gloucestershire base were redeployed to US on Sunday amid concerns over possible threat from Iran
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So, what is?
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There are many reasonable Jews who would agree with the criticism of Zionism that has caused the outrage.
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm not a member of the Green Party, but would point out that it isn't antisemitic to criticise Zionism, which many Jewish people do, including this Holocaust survivor.
youtu.be
Holocaust Survivor Absolutely DEMOLISHES Israel
YouTube video by Double Down News
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Collectively? No. Like all political parties, except perhaps Reform UK, the Green Party includes reasonable people who have differences of opinion. And, like all political parties, its members don't all fully understand the issues that they've been talking about.
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There's no direct connection between Musk's billions and our pensions. It's all related to our international financial system, which is chaotic.
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"To kill us, it only needs to keep feeding us false information until we kill ourselves/each other." Don't need AI for that. It's been happening for decades, via mass media and now social media.
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Or are aiming to be.
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Seriously? 😊 I doubt that there are any crazy anarchists, but there are people who may call themselves anarchists who don't understand what the word means. I used to know a very nice anarchist.
theguardian.com
Colin Ward obituary
Writer, social theorist and anarchist who believed in self-sufficiency, allotments and better town planning
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Green Party women were denied a platform at their conference, but Labour women have broken through that barrier. Their conference was held in the main conference venue, though boycotted by silly trade unionists.
morningstaronline.co.uk
Labour’s women’s rights faultline opens up at conference
TRADE unions are broadly enthusiastic about Labour’s current direction — but there’s a big exception when it comes to sex, gender identity and women’s rights.You would not have thought, given the prai...
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
He's very different from the others. Absolutely no self-control, or any control.
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
And they're all dominated by megalomaniac men.
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Meanwhile, humans are busy killing each other off in traditional ways and by ignoring our effect on Nature, which doesn't care about any of us. It's not just human intelligence we need, but wisdom, which is sorely lacking among the powers that be.
Head of a sculpture of Athena, goddess of wisdom.
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I googled "Could AI kill humanity?" This was one of the results. Can autonomous AI mine, move and form materials? Can it build its own energy sources? Does it want to destroy us, and if so, why? None of it makes any sense. By the way, I used AI to read the article to me. I'm still none the wiser.
edition.cnn.com
How do experts think AI would kill us, anyway? | CNN Business
Industry insiders are once again warning that a superpowered artificial intelligence could exterminate the human race. But how? And which scenarios are actually plausible?
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sorry, I don't understand.
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A familiar story.
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It has its uses. It just needs to be controlled.
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I read the party's policies, or whatever they were called, a few years ago. It was over-long and badly written, as if by a large committee determined to leave nothing out, the part about transgenderism especially so.
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Polanski is an idiot and has been thoroughly transified, but they've corrupted all the leftish parties.
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A girl trend? WTF is that? I don't know where this woman lives, but they must have some strange social habits in her area. You can get paid for writing any old drivel for the Guardian.
theguardian.com
The hill I will die on: not everything is a ‘girl’ thing – stop gendering and infantilising it all | Elle Hunt
No, I don’t want to go for a girl walk before my girl dinner with my girl mates: I am a grown woman who walks and eats and votes – and, patriarchy, I am on to you, says freelance journalist Elle Hunt
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Saturday night telly is usually rubbish.
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Green Party Women were denied a stall at the party's conference in Brighton and had to meet outside. Anyone would think that those who ostracised them were afraid of the truth about sex and gender. The Greens aren't the only party to have denied women a platform. It's all rather childish.
share.google
Green Women's Declaration | Support Women's Rights Now
Learn about the Green Women’s Declaration advocating for sex-based rights within Green politics, supporting women, and promoting ecofeminism and free speech.
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
More dire warnings about rogue AI and how it could kill us all, again without specifying exactly how. Can it build its own data centres, generate its own electricity, channel its own water, and make machines of any description? It couldn't even write the above as I dictated it without errors.
theguardian.com
OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’
David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technology
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you click the three dots, top right, you can then ask to listen to the page.
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dear Mr Raffensperger, I'm sorry that doubt has been cast on the reliability of your voting machines. If they're not ready in time for the election, perhaps you could take a leaf out of the British book and try voting the old-fashioned way? Sincerely, Margaret Nelson
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sarcasm against sexism.
youtu.be
Jena Friedman: Treat Nazis Like You Treat Women | CONAN on TBS
YouTube video by Team Coco
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sounds very fishy. How can they mess with machines? Our very simple system in the UK is possibly safer. Our votes go into old big black ballot boxes that are emptied on tables in a hall and counted by local government staff, observed by party members. Iffy Xs are checked with observers. Simple!
Local government staff emptying a black ballot box full of votes, marked with an X, onto a table at a British election count.
Photo from The Guardian.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 02/10/2026
Georgia's election board director just asked the Trump admin to seize the state's voting machines. James Mills, an unelected official, sent a letter asking the DOJ to declare Georgia's voting system unlawful and force a system update. This isn't over. Stay close: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Apparently there is such a thing as a national temperament. I suppose that will be influenced by social morals, and ours tends to be more emotionally inhibited than the French. Bin-burning racist rioters aren't typical. I'm partial to a bit of passion.
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Campaigners in the US are successfully slowing the rolling out of Data Centres in the US. These destructive projects would have decimated habitats for wildlife if they had gone unopposed. The success of grassroots movements in the US shows that we can do it here too.
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I played a very small part in the financial system at 16, as a bank clerk, mostly counting money. Things have got much more complex since then. How many of us understand it?
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The French have had a tendency to take to the streets and riot since the revolution. Why is that?
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Corpsy @corpsepilot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"How could any Lord have made this world?... there is no reason, order, justice: but suffering, death, the poor. There was no treachery too base for this world to commit . . . No happiness lasted." Virginia Woolf
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Winnie the Pooh liked honey. Why should big bears be any different?
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There's something seriously wrong with our economic system when one man can cause so much damage, and all those billionaires and trillionaires get away with what they're doing. Can't we just shut it down and start again?
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh, what a shame! I missed this.
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today's filmmakers, journalists, and citizen journalists have been able to record much more about Israeli atrocities than it was possible to do during the Nakba of 1948. Israel has had a very bloody history from its beginning.
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In his conference speech, Burnham spoke of the parties having to work together to solve our problems. In today's World at One Prof. John Curtice provided a succinct explanation of how that would be necessary in a government elected after electoral reform. No more "majority" government.
thetimes.com
Proportional representation would come at a price for Labour
Electoral reform might allow Reform UK to establish a significant parliamentary presence
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The government has been criticised over the prison early release scheme, which is unfair, considering that the problem has been festering since the Tories were in power for 14 years. Most of those being released were serving short sentences, an issue that's contributed to the overcrowding problem.
prisonreformtrust.org.uk
England and Wales send more people to prison each year than anywhere else in western Europe | Prison Reform Trust
There were more than 140,000 admissions into prison in England and Wales in 2017—the highest number in western Europe, according to a new report published today (24 June 2019) by the Prison Reform Tru...
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