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@minophis.eurosky.social
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He/Him. UK 30-year software QA veteran and moderate Python developer. Interested in Data Science, Python, IoT, Environmental Sustainability, Human Rights, Ethics, Rejoin EU. Green Party Member.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Damn
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Vote Green in Holborn & St Pancras on October 8th. 💚
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026
Trump says he was carried out of the rubble of Twin Towers by two big firemen. I honestly can't tell if this is: A. A complete lie from a repulsive narcissistic fraud. B. A delusion from a senile old man unable to tell what's real anymore. C. An idea he's had for gay erotic fiction.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026
No data centre should be built in the UK or Europe unless it can provide its own energy by renewable means, use a closed water cycle and use its excess heat to warm local homes and buildings. LUMI supercomputer in Finland does all of these things.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Green Party - for people and planet. Labour - for carbon emissions, droughts and tech bros. Join.greenparty.org.uk
Labour rejects Zack Polanskis call to "Alan brakes" on building AI datacentres
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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Definitely!
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Andy Burnham should rip up our undemocratic first past the post system – even if some in Labour disagree | Neal Lawson
Rearguard reactionaries may try to block the idea of a national commission into proportional representation, but we should want more not less democracy, says Neal Lawson, director of Compass
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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
GNU Dolly Parton 💔 A genuinely wonderful human being. This beautiful artefact from the Pratchett household, circa the mid 80s, was known as the ‘Dolly Parton Eggcup.’
An impressive double eggcup.
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Carol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
🇬🇧🫵🏻🇬🇧🫵🏻🇬🇧🫵🏻🇬🇧🫵🏻🇬🇧 If you are boycotting US products, this might help. Canadian maple syrup is excellent, also honey, Mccain’s foods are Canadian
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 14/08/2026
So the entire country receives a message over the government's national emergency messaging system telling us not to have bbq's or let off fireworks in the hottest summer ever recorded. But it's still not the right time to talk about fossil fuels or building reservoirs. Got it.
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is a brilliant idea :
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Wow. Just wow.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 09/08/2026
Have successfully migrated my social network from bluesky.social to eurosky.social
bluesky.social
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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
substack.com/@warehamphot...
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Ian Clark (@warehamphotographer)
Clacton yesterday (15 July)
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Zack Polanski, "If we decarbonise by 2050, that would cost less than a single (fossil-fuel) energy shock" "We've now had two energy shocks in just a few years" "We cannot keep waiting, we cannot keep hoping for magic technologies - it already exists, what is lacking is the political will"
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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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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 01/08/2026
the.organise.network/campaigns/ne...
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Our NHS is not for sale: keep it out of Trump's trade deal
Add your name:
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Britain's most persecuted minority ... according to The Daily Telegraph's front page ... Millionaires. It's clear who they are here to serve. No wonder they hate Greens for unashamedly calling for wealth to be taxed fairly. Let's make it happen join.greenparty.org.uk
Britain's most persecuted minority? Millionaires
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 19/07/2026
I would never spread this picture.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism
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BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) on X
Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 16/07/2026
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I just signed a petition calling on the UK government to end Palantir's involvement in the NHS. A secretive US spy tech company has no place in our health service. Sign here: nopalantir.org.uk
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No Palantir in our NHS
Add your name now to call for US data company Palantir to be dropped from the NHS – and for the future of health data to keep faith with patient trust.
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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
www.amnesty.org.uk/issues/inter...
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No Palantir in our NHS
Our campaign for the NHS to refuse the use of Palantir’s technology.
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garro30k @garro30k.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Count Binface, ready to serve as a bounty hunter in my Necromunda Collection. #CountBinface #Necromunda #Nerdlings
Count binface miniature by troublemaker games, painted by myself.
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 13/07/2026
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 Signed! The agreement that paves the way for the UK to join our €90 billion Ukraine Loan. This will give Ukraine access to a wider range of defence suppliers. So they can get what they need on the battlefield. Together, we are supporting Ukraine's brave resistance. link.europa.eu/hhgpCG
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Daily Mail poll going hilariously south for Nigel Farage.. www.dailymail.com/news/article...
Who would you vote for in the
Clacton by-election?


Nigel Farage


17%
1546 votes


Count Binface


72%
6391 votes


It's all a waste of time and
money


1 1%
941
votes


8878 votes. 72% of others agreed with you.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
An absolute banger of an exclusive from the Sunday Times. It's devastating. For the first time, I'm uncertain if Farage can actually survive this www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Revealed: Nigel Farage secretly funded by convicted criminal
The Reform UK leader did not declare benefits including staff, security and housing by crypto-gambler George Cottrell, our investigation reveals
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Want a party that will tax the super rich? Lower your bills? And tackle the climate crisis? Join.greenparty.org.uk
The greens are ready to fight Andy Burnham. Zack Polanski plans to paint Burnham as a continuity Starmerite.
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Damien Marie AtHope Ⓐ 🚩🏴🌍 @damienmarieathope.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 13/06/2026
I condemn any attempt to sell property in the settlements in the West Bank, be that in London or anywhere else in the world. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/...
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London mayor slams event touting illegal Israeli settlement land sales
'Great Israeli Real Estate Event' promotes the sale of stolen Palestinian land in settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.com · 23/05/2026
🦊 “Longbridge Foxes” — By Annatomix in Longbridge, Birmingham, UK 🇬🇧 Underpasses That Became Secret Art Worlds (12 Photos): streetartutopia.com/2026/05/23/u...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This is just the beginning. Join our movement of hope: Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 08/05/2026
The danger to this country isn't that too many Labour voters are leaving for the Greens. It's that too many are staying. Labour is a sinking ship and Reform must not be the alternative.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
This deserves to be circulated. A former Red Cross staff member got in touch. She testifies about @zackpolanski.bsky.social's role. For transparency: her name is Brea Thibodeau. The whole thing is a desperate smear.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I hear neither Reform nor donor Delo want this news getting round. Via Private Eye
NUMBER CRUNCHING

**£7.4m** Fine Ben Delo agreed to pay in 2022 after pleading guilty in the US to anti-money-laundering failures at BitMEX, the crypto exchange he founded

**£4m** Donation Delo, since pardoned by Donald Trump, has made to Reform UK
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Gill Tate @gillyhx.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Daily Mail poll on rejoining EU now at 65% for rejoining 👇 Participate on the following poll www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Hungary's new PM urges Starmer to rejoin EU amid push to unwind Brexit
Péter Magyar, who defeated Viktor Orbán in a stunning result overnight, said he 'hoped' the UK would become a member state again.
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Marcy Gall @marcygall.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Should be part of his next test.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 13/04/2026
It is said that someone can achieve world class mastery of any skill by practicing for 10,000 hours. This raises the question why is Donald Trump so bad at lying.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 13/04/2026
So now between the US and Iran the ships in the Strait are on double secret probation.
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a man in a sweater and tie is looking at another man .
Alt: John Belushi as Bluto from National Lampoons Animal House raising his eyebrows suggestively.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Ursula von der Leyen President of the European Commission👏
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Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I spent 16, SIXTEEN years fighting this crap. I can’t believe it 😭
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 12/04/2026
I am now hoping that J D Vance can come to the UK to campaign on behalf of Nigel Farage 😆
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 12/04/2026
While it's a pity that the US and Iran both feel the the Strait of Hormuz should be blockaded it's nice to see them finally agreeing on something.
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Richie Daiches Barlow @thedogwalker.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Every council should follow suit.
BBC NEWS
Shropshire Council
Issuing statement on council website:

"We will be removing all unauthorised flags from our street lighting columns and other highway assets.

This will be in Shrewsbury initially with plans to remove all unauthorised flags across the county in time. Where appropriate and legally possible, we will seek to recover the cost of removal from the individuals responsible for installing the flags."
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Troels Halken 🍉🇱🇧 🇪🇺 🇬🇪🇷🇸🇺🇦🌻 @halken.eurosky.social · 11/04/2026
MAGA is all the tech bros and their US monopolies including IBM & Oracle. We need independent & EUropean solutions, preferable FOSS and open standards. First EU officials should leave X for Blue-EuroSky. Second EU is key to regulate the US monopolies and taxing them, and in overseeing them. #EUsky
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Clean, safe, cheap, renewable energy that you don't have to fight deadly wars or destroy the environment to get. Good for wildlife, too, when done properly. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Britain breaks solar energy record twice as UK’s biggest solar farm gets approval
Record high set on Monday and raised on Tuesday, with 14.4GW of electricity generated in sunny spring weather
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 09/04/2026
In response to Trump wanting NATO to back him up during the Iran war I would ask: Where was the US during the Falklands war?
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 08/04/2026
The problem with Israel finally finding a US president weak enough and stupid enough to attack Iran for them is that he is too weak and too stupid to actually win.
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 08/04/2026
America burned through billions in weapons, lost 13 men, destabilised the entire region, cost thousands of lives, and wrecked its relationships globally. Iran got an end to sanctions, kept its missiles, kept enrichment and gets tens of billions a year in tolls on a waterway that was free. Wow!
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Colin Payne🇬🇧💛💙💚🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @minophis.eurosky.social · 07/04/2026
No Kings is very impressive but achieves very little. The american people need to remember that without them Food Gas Trains Buses Planes Water Electricity Don't move or happen, They have the power to selectively pick any part of the functioning of the country and shut it down. #GeneralStrike
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