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Big ladybird fan and frog enthusiast. She/her 🕎🏳️‍🌈 Jewish Greens comms officer 💚 but all my own opinions 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇭🇦🇲🩵☪️🩵🇹🇼 Profile pic shows a 5 spot ladybird. Indie author and nature podcaster :) Tips here: ko-fi.com/hwabpodcast

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Prettiest pumpkin 2025 @wikihowtologout.bsky.social · 11h
I think it's sometimes important to note that it is not just the lives lost that matter. Obviously they do. But even if literally nobody had died (an absurd impossibility in itself) this kind of devastation would still be an atrocity that would result in unimaginable suffering.
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Sam Alston @moosealston.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A genocide is taking place and those doing it claim to do so in our name. We should not look away. Anti-Zionists are part of our community. We value discussion we should not be booing jews into silence. @zackpolanski.bsky.social was more in line with our traditions than those heckling him.
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Polanski sparks anger after declaring himself ‘anti-Zionist’ at packed communal hustings - Jewish News
Green Party's Holborn and St Pancras by-election candidate is booed and heckled
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Sam Alston @moosealston.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The briefing is mostly an improvement reversing previous positions to confirm that they do not back expelling Jewish members for synagogue membership and that they do support civil rights for Jews in their vision of a one state solution. I hope welcoming the Miller endorsement was an oversight
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Sam Alston @moosealston.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Disappointed to see that @greens4palestine.bsky.social have published a briefing welcoming the endorsement of David Miller for their motion Zionism is racism. Mr Miller wrote an libelous article about Jewish Greens and using synagogue membership to suggest Zionist affiliation.
Text from G4P briefing highlighting the endorsement of David Miller
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Sam Alston @moosealston.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As the only Jewish leader Zack in a unique place to speak to the Jewish community. Even if those in thst particular room dont want to hear it
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Statement of support for zack Polanski - Jewish Greens
SummaryA statement of support for Zack Polanski following the Jewish Community hustings A huge yasher koach (nice one) to Zack Polanski for his performance at the Jewish Community hustings on Thursday...
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Anti-Fascism and Far Right @ffrafaction.bsky.social · 12h
“She is one of a number of representatives from across the UK’s women’s sector who told us how, far from tackling violence against women, far-right activity has actively disrupted frontline women’s services – and ultimately left victims more vulnerable.” www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
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‘Fear is part of our life now’: women’s groups thrown into disarray…
Anti-immigration protestors are disrupting services aimed at those they claim to protect
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don't have friends who are creeps to women because I disown them as soon as I learn. I don't really understand - are there leftwing men who do not do this?
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you think that a society with generous pension provision is essentially stealing money from the working "young" to give to the old, then what exactly makes you different from someone who thinks disabled people are scroungers?
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In both cases, you are framing being a ward of the state (financially) as a drain on the working population!
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of the many reasons why I reject this idea is because I really dislike - no, I HATE - the notion that a demographic being maintained at state expense means they are "entitled" or whatever. I will be old one day, I want there to be a robust pension infrastructure.
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i do doubt whether certain young men on the policy wonk centre-left totally understand why child benefits exist
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Anyway yeah, pensioners are basically just a form of benefit recipient that actually gets a decent life (in the UK) and how you talk about them is pretty much evidence for how you would talk of disabled people if the DWP wasn't horrible.
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And by the way once again: Britain is /literally/ the only place in Europe where anyone on the left regards "cut pensions" as an inherently progressive thing. They might do it, but literally no one will be /delighted/ about it.
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Matt S @mattsouva.bsky.social · 22h
Google is pulling a reply to his tweet, and using that text in the search? What the heck kinda search system is that?
Screenshot of Zohran Mamdani's post on Twitter/X about the Talmud, and a very weird set of replies below. Including the bizarre one featured on Google's search results.
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 21h
I have no idea if this is because of Twitter or because of Google or some combination of the two, but this result seems to either be trying to falsely portray Mamdani as antisemitic *or* use his fame to promote antisemitism. Unless there’s a plausible explanation for this being an accident.
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 22h
Just tried it myself & the same thing happened. Google’s top result says that Mamdani wrote, “The Talmud teaches that the best of Gentiles should be killed, Jesus is boiling in excrement, and that non-Jewish souls are inferior and impure.” That is not what he wrote, on Twitter or anywhere else.
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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 15h
I honestly can't stand defamation litigation bullies, but Google presenting the text of a reply as the preview of a link to someone's tweet is really opening them up to some liability on that front...
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Samantha Burns @cheesecakechik.bsky.social · 16h
But yeah, I literally did not see the issue at first because my brain automatically registered it as “ah, that must be a reply to the tweet in question” but if you aren’t used to how Google display the results, it’s uh… yeah that’s a really REALLY bad look.
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Samantha Burns @cheesecakechik.bsky.social · 16h
ok so this is bad and it looks seriously bad, but as someone who frequently has to search for tweets on google, this is unfortunately very normal for their SEO. they often pull the replies and make it appear as the account itself is tweeting it until you click through
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mediapart revealed that Jordan Bardella, the leader of the main far right party in France, once complained that "all banks are controlled by Jews" Shockingly, the party founded by an antisemite is currently being led by an antisemite. www.mediapart.fr/journal/poli...
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« Les banques sont toutes détenues par des juifs » : Jordan Bardella face à ses écrits antisémites
« Mediapart » a mis la main sur des échanges de l’actuel président du RN, au début de sa carrière politique. On y découvre l’antisémitisme obsessionnel de celui qui rêve de devenir premier ministre. …
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yesterday's pogrom in Jaloud proves that, even in the rare case that the IDF is sent to protect Palestinians from settler violence in the West Bank , it is unwilling/unable to do so. As @nirhasson.bsky.social says, it is time for international peace keepers. www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-bl...
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PM blames ‘small number’ of West Bank rioters as mass settler attack draws wide condemnation
Some right-wing politicians echo Netanyahu's rare rebuke of settler violence, after over 100 extremists attack Jalud; top settlement leader calls for police crackdown on attacks
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Attacking trans women = attacking political organising for all women.
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I actually despise pensions policy talk on the UK wonk left, it's entirely made up of frankly childish axe grinding against a generation perceived as The Enemy
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ᚅᚓᚃ ᚆᚐᚔᚏᚇᚑ ᚃᚆᚑ ᚇᚔᚄ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
I tell you what, when I was young there none of these people in school, then they grow up, try to take over whole websites and if you criticise them they'll have you cancelled Every time you turn on the TV there they are, ramming their lifestyle down your throat Oh, not trans people, billionaires
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 29/09/2026
This would be at least somewhat believable if the police, operating on instruction from the Home Office, hadn't done just exactly that with apparently eager willingness.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 29/09/2026
The government could, at any time, tell the police to knock it off. They have no problem not arresting people displaying terrorist insignia in Northern Ireland, for instance.
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Emmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 28/09/2026
My friend's office is next door, I wasn't sure where she was at the time. Just heard from her and thankfully she is unharmed. What is happening in Kyiv right now is truly horrific. Millions of people are at risk of dying at any time. I'm not quite sure this really comes across, abroad.
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Sophie Petzal @sonicscrewup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maybe this is a problematic boomer take and sue me but I’m so aware as I age how Queer spaces for LGBTQ women have this self imposed pressure to represent THE ENTIRE POLITICAL LEFT in a way that is so boring and you almost never see the same in Queer male spaces. They just get to have vibes.
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Max @swordznsorcery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So many tragic cases where a child has been terminally ill, with no possibility of recovery, and Christian Concern have taken the hospitals involved to court, prolonging everybody's suffering, in an effort to prevent life support being turned off. They give false hope to parents, and are so warped.
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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think we need to have a conversation about the amount of "true leftists" that turn out to be completely awful, monstrous pieces of shit. There's a pipeline that we're all aware of but mostly refusing to name outright.
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Big Immigrant Naturals. @shinery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Michael Tracey wants to get a rape victim murdered. This is why victims don't speak up.
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rimidar @rimidar.au · 29/09/2026
Michael Tracey? The Jeffrey Epstein supporter?
Michael Tracey tweet stating ‘Haters Gonna Hate’ with a photo of Jeffrey Epstein wearing a coat
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The raw visceral hatred some men have for women, at least women who step out of line, is shocking. I know it sounds like some sorta "one of the good ones" ploy but I am genuinely taken aback when I see it because I think: I had a fairly normal socialisation as a man in the west, how did I miss this?
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For the record I am broadly pro triple lock - I realise that’s not popular on much of Bsky! The fact is we have many asset poor pensioners coming down the line, and a robust safety net is important and I don’t see triple lock refuseniks coming up with good enough alternatives!
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I realise my views on this are a bit controversial in the wonk sphere, but I am a bit perplexed that anyone on the left who really wants to spend political capital views this as the hill to die on? You realise you could have some social liberalism for free before you even to get a big ticket item?
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bugs xo ↙↙↙ 🐞 @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maybe we could do it like with the buses on Oxford high street but with lorries? 😆
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bugs xo ↙↙↙ 🐞 @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What's the problem with doing this? Am serious
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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yeah, would be like me demanding that I don’t have to flip the burgers because I’m a vegan. They would be entitled to say, ‘but that’s the job’.
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naffdoodaa.bsky.social @naffdoodaa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh. That one. Again. He joined a team that supports LGBT people with LGBT issues and they asked if he would be OK with supporting them in this and he said "no" 🤷🏼‍♀️ If I was applying as a burger chef at McDonald's and I said I wasn't willing to flip burgers, I'd expect to be told to get on my bike too.
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Mx Xs @jamtart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is Christian Concern.
Christian Concern, Andrea Williams, states her belief that abortion of pregnancy that's the result of rape is a "double violation".
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mahmood’s policies are absolute poison, and this pseudo intellectual rubbish she uses to justify it is just fundamentally illogical. It doesn’t bear any resemblance to reality.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
OMG can you imagine if extremists were in charge of America, it doesn’t bear thinking about
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This notion of bigoted beliefs being a protected characteristic like gender or race is just absolutely barmy. Those of us who’ve experienced genuine discrimination for who we are know there’s no comparison, and the political and legal collusion on this stuff is disastrous.
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Jon Dunn @dunnjons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I can't wait to lead this tour! Serbia justly has a stellar reputation as a butterfly-watching destination.
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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@fiercemum.bsky.social and I are really pleased to see this one out.
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Shani Aviram @shaniaviram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/o...
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Opinion | There Is a Word So Powerful It Need Be Spoken Only Once
The film that makes a powerful statement without ever raising its voice.
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is just bollocks. When my dad and grandma faced the most disgusting racism in the 60s and 70s (more extreme than what would ever be considered mistreat today) migration was far lower and many Brits were facing plenty ‘inwards’
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bugs xo ↙↙↙ 🐞 @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As above except frog is ringed
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bugs xo ↙↙↙ 🐞 @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Stripey 🥰
A common frog (Rana temporaria) in a tangle of vegetation with a distinctive striped pattern
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