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What is round the next corner? Or over the next hill? Love's good coffee. And tea. But mostly coffee. And biscuits, dunked. Reluctant optimist. 325.13 carpe diem quam minimum credula postero

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
50% of modern medicines come from plants. 70% of cancer treatments come from nature. The Amazon holds 10% of all life on Earth. We've studied <1% of it for medicine. We are cutting down cures faster than we can discover them. Every forest cleared = A cure lost.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 23h
Prominent coverage in UK media - zero Speeches by MPs who give lip-service to the 'climate emergency' - zilch Promises to wind down fossil fuel use to zero ASAP - none meme via earthlyeducation
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 17h
"Only the Green Party has the policies to address inequality, through taxes on wealth; tackle the cost of living crisis with rent controls and raising the minimum wage; and fight climate breakdown through a nationwide home insulation programme and turbocharging renewables" - @carladenyer.bsky.social
Conservatives: for billionaires, inequality, and environmental damage

Carla Denyer
MP for Bristol Central

“Today Kemi Badenoch once again defined the Conservative Party as pro-billionaires, pro-inequality and pro-damaging the environment.”
 
“However much money you throw at it, you cannot have national security without action on the climate crisis. You cannot make this country fairer while you continue to favour the super-wealthy over ordinary working people, and you will not help young people into work by removing worker protections and support.”
 
“Cutting inheritance tax, cutting welfare and reigniting a new round of austerity reminds us that this is a party working for the wealthy few, not the majority.”

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Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales, c/o PO Box Green Party, London SE1P 6YL
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ofwat appoints Grant Thornton to help improve South East Water performance l £6m wasted. Similar exercise at Thames Water yielded zilch. SEW has £1.7bn debt, can't raise new money, loses 100m litres of water a day to leaks, customers fleeced for decades. End the scam. Nationalise water.
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Ofwat lines up independent monitor for troubled South East Water
The water regulator plans to appoint Grant Thornton to a multimillion-pound contract overseeing the utility's performance and turnaround plan, Sky News learns.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12h
If you are Spanish and you want a better life, affordable housing, good pensions, good wages and good educations. Pedro Sanchez is your only hope. All the other politicians are just greedy thieves who can't wait to rob you.
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 18h
Wishing Andrew Tate all the worst from the bottom of my heart.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 18h
Chocolate croissants start with precise folds. One bad pleat breaks the butter layers and ruins that flaky texture entirely.
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Redkite Traveller @redkite-traveller.bsky.social · 11h
Not sure how accurate polls are I think its time to give Zack a go
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Public ownership of water now? Vote Green 💚 Possible public ownership in the future? Vote Labour 🥀 Public owned NHS? Vote Green 💚 NHS privatisation? Vote Labour 🥀 Fight climate change? Vote Green 💚 Ignore climate change? Vote Labour 🥀 Condemn genocide? Vote Green 💚 Ignore genocide? Vote Lab 🥀
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19h
Previously unseen lobbying shows the oil and gas industry is misleading government on North Sea drilling. For now, it looks like Burnham is listening to them. Only a Green win tomorrow will force them to listen to us. New analysis from Influence Map 👇
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21h
Paddington is polite, kind and full of integrity and loved by just about everyone he meets. Maybe she doesn't have a clue...
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Freethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Hilarious." via Barry James
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23h
Failures of privatisation. Royal Mail to cut up to 2,500 jobs Foreign-owned RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets even after regulator lowered them. Postage: 1st class, £1.80, 2nd class 91p. When privatized in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p. Poor service at triple price. Customers fleeced.
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Royal Mail plans to cut 2,500 head office jobs
The postal service firm wants to cut the head office and other jobs by the end of 2027.
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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is a message for @andyburnham.bsky.social
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“The only sensible solution at this point is a moratorium on datacentres until very basic questions about how many we need, what for, where, and how pollution will be avoided are answered satisfactorily by the government” - @olliehayes.bsky.social 👏
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Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22h
Look at this, a nation state, nationing and stating.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 20h
LET THEM GO BUST ! Last year, Thames Water took out a £3bn loan - at 9.75% interest. And now they want another £2.4bn to keep going?! ENOUGH. If water companies can't survive without rip-off loans, they should be declared insolvent and brought into public hands through special administration.
Screenshot from The Daily Telegraph, 2nd October 2026: "Thames Water seeks £2.4bn lifeline after rescue plan stalls Troubled utility risks more financial turmoil if its army of hedge fund backers do not provide emergency cash", above a graphic of the Thames Water logo swirling down a drain.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 21h
Calls to remove profiteering from children’s social care are growing. But if we’re serious about tackling profiteering, we need to ask: when a council pays for a child’s care, where does the money go? Children’s care should be about children, not profit.
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Cracking down on profiteering
Following our focus on sector concerns at national efforts to curb the use of unregistered children’s care placements in last week’s edition, this week The MJ examines the challenge of removing profiteering from the care service. Paul Marinko reports.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 21h
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"This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.
 
The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.
 
Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.
 
To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity."
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Tony @antonyillahiwarren.bsky.social · 20h
I watched BBC Breakfast on the morning of the first raid on #AlShifaHospital and they reported "shooting" around the hospital. I switched over to Al Jazeera, and they were livestreaming the Israelis deliberately bombing the hospital and shooting anyone they saw.
From Al Jazeera: 94% of hospitals and clinics are partly or fully out of service.
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 20h
While people are losing their lives, homes, and livelihoods, the real culprits of the #climatecrisis continue to profit off the destruction. It's time to #makepolluterspay. Sign the petition: act.gp/4usPymE
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Polluters broke it, we're paying for it. Make Polluters Pay
Sign the pact, record your story. Join the global movement to make polluters pay.
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 22h
The Oct 7 attack by Hamas was a horrific act against Israelis that made everything worse for Palestinians, the Israeli government committed war crimes, Hezbollah is a fascistic organisation that exploits its community, the IRGC feeds off endless war at home and abroad All these things are true
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 22h
That substantial portions of the European and US Left struggle with the idea that it is possible to condemn criminal actions by the Israeli government while also condemning the vicious brutality of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Iranian regime continues to baffle me.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 07/10/2026
Privatisation has benefited overseas investors, who have plundered the assets we used to own. It's way past time to call an end to the failed ideology of the Thatcher era and beyond. Read our report on how and why it should be done vist.ly/5mce2
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Redkite Traveller @redkite-traveller.bsky.social · 21h
This So many areas where The Green Party ARE the answer then this badly managed pr 🤔 and policy mess. Not quite unforgivable, but nearly I honestly despair
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Patrick Morgan @patrickmorgan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
New Zealand has more cars than USA and Australia, per capita. Why is this problem invisible? How could we fix it? Join us on Friday as we discuss with Prof. @ianwalker.bsky.social from Swansea University. Get your free tickets events.humanitix.com/motonormativ... @cyclewgtn.bsky.social
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Motonormativity: How we struggle to see the problems of car dependency
Motonormativity underpins car dependency and all the harms that entails. Prof Walker looks at how it arises, how it is shaped, and what we might do about it.
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Redkite Traveller @redkite-traveller.bsky.social · 23h
This Whatever 'it' is? Its a "bad thing" Stop.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Drax’s planned datacentre to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood to produce its electricity, nearly double the CO2 emissions of all flights from London Gatwick airport. Drax, a highly profitable company gets subsidies to burn wood and produce electricity How many lives will it ruin?
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Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
via EvolvePolitics
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Redkite Traveller @redkite-traveller.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This sicko should be in jail for ever
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Redkite Traveller @redkite-traveller.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Some of the sanest words in Parliament. Well said Ellie. Vote for the Green Party 💚
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Badenoch gave a speech at a fox hunting fundraiser earlier this year. She continued: "This is not about animal welfare; it is a political gesture driven by pressure from a small group of hard-left MPs.” Never trust a Tory to protect wildlife.
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Cleona @cleonaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Or land that's meant to be accessible to the public, but is surrounded by inaccessible private land, or literally fenced with barbed wire. The rich have been stealing our land since 1066, and it feels to me that this is a topic for the @greenparty.org.uk when @zackpolanski.bsky.social is an MP. 2/2
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The Land You’re Allowed On… But Can’t Get To
YouTube video by Paul Whitewick
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Cleona @cleonaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yet another example of the 1% taking the land for themselves. They've been doing it since Charles' ancestor migrated here in 1066. It should be banned entirely, like fox hunting. Outrageous.
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Redkite Traveller @redkite-traveller.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If you didnt already hate pheasants and the landed gentry and their cuntryside "traditions" you will, after watching this brilliant expose👇
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pitch me again why there is a public clamour in the UK for an Iron Dome rather than Sure Start centres? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Rise in babies in care proceedings raises fears of unnecessary adoptions, experts tell BBC
With better support, many babies may not have needed to go into care, File on 4 Investigates is told.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Reform UK want - lower minimum wage - no protection for workers on zero hour contracts - fewer rights for women and disabled people But - tax CUTS for the super-rich meme via UNISON
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The utter shamelessness of Kemi Badenoch boasting at Conservative party conference about 'defending press freedom' and berating Reform for banning critical journalists from their conference, just days after banning Byline Times journalists from her own
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Cllr Alex Armitage @alexjarmitage.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If @zackpolanski.bsky.social wins in Holborn & St Pancras on Thursday, words won’t be enough for Burnham. He’ll have to take ACTION on workers’ rights, ecology, and stand up to landlords, the Israeli government & the oil & gas lobby. If I can travel from Shetland to join the campaign, so can you!
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Redkite Traveller @redkite-traveller.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Totally useless tories Its.pathetic
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As Reform UK, Restore Britain & Patriot Platform convulse with rage ... "A bronze statue of a lifeguard is set to be installed at Porthmeor Beach in St Ives to mark the 25th anniversary of the RNLI lifeguard service" 'Cornwall Council approved plans for the commemorative artwork ..' bbc.in/4za9Y5R
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Statue of lifeguard set to be installed on beach
The bronze sculpture due to be installed in St Ives was made by Zennor-based artist Holly Bendall.
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Redkite Traveller @redkite-traveller.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
These bstards fcuked everyone over except for themselves and their rich mates They jumped ship to reform and expect folk to forget their record of grinding austerity and blatant corruption And apparently ⅓ of voters believe their 🐂💩 Dont be in that ⅓
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Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament @cnduk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's time to end the uncontrolled and unaccountable US military presence in Britain.
Graphic with CND logo and image of B-1 bomber. Text reads: Statement on removal of bombers from RAF Fairford. CND welcomes the removal of US long-range bombers from Britain - this is something we have long campaigned for. This also extends to the removal of US nuclear weapons - now stationed at RAF Lakenheath - US fighter jets, personnel and US military control of RAF bases. It's time to end the uncontrolled and unaccountable foreign military presence in this country.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Redkite Traveller @redkite-traveller.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
2 nights in 18 years! The lack of a care network in GB is shocking. Hats off to Ed for looking after his family and highlighting this appalling gap in care. Have a lovely few days. And keep campaigning!
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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