Nod @viciously.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Shabana Mahmood telling us she’s happy to continue arresting the nation’s grandparents, meanwhile The Green Party membership votes for a dysfunctional policy about an ideology. Politics continues to be a weak shitshow. Glad to be out of it. Happy to shortly resume silence. 000
Nod @viciously.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I wouldn’t have voted for it even with the amendment but it’s up to them to determine the direction of their party and I think that should be collective, not hierarchical. 100
Nod @viciously.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I think the failure is in the discussion of that motion but it’s okay if you think parties should be more of a top down hierarchy. We just differ on that. 100
Nod @viciously.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I was in the Labour Party for over a decade. I am talking about the lack of democracy in the motions process. 000
Reposted by NodAndrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Having seen lots of commentary on it, I've finally read the 'Zionism is Racism' motion before Green Party conference. Its main flaws: 1) Badly written 2) Conflates zionism with Israeli Government actions (about as logical as conflating socialism with the USSR) 3) Defines a contested term singularly 310928
Nod @viciously.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Yep, I agree, I just think it should be shut down with dialogue after being proposed. 210
Nod @viciously.bsky.social · 04/10/2026No, I think we should respond to people’s lived experience and apply nuance and compassion to difficult issues. We should treat voting seriously and we should consider and throw out bad suggestions. 300
Nod @viciously.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Yes, the second half of the motion was fine. It’s a shame they didn’t just put that up for a vote. 000
Nod @viciously.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It’s a troubled ideology but it doesn’t lead everyone to the same behaviour or brutality. 000
Nod @viciously.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The motion was proposed by a British-Palestinian person. It’s a bad motion, it would make bad policy but shutting their experience down is also highly damaging. The Greens can decide what they want for their party. 200
Nod @viciously.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I’m not a member of the Green Party and I’m not defending it, I’m just stating fact. You’re telling me you don’t want members to have control. Join Labour instead, that’s how it’s run. 400
Nod @viciously.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It’s not an excuse, it’s just real. If you want democracy you will have motions that are bad. If you don’t have motions that are bad the party will be less democratic. 100
Nod @viciously.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I don’t think it is damaging unless they pass it. All parties have problems, Reform beat protestors on the conference floor, Labour is a much bigger party and has no internal democracy, the Tories only let rich people into their conference. 🤷♀️ 210
Nod @viciously.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Eddie, stop making out that all Jewish people believe the same things. 140
Reposted by NodZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Labour just don't get it. They don't get how scared people are with extreme weather becoming our new normal. We need voices in parliament that will force them to take wildfires seriously, not quietly shirk responsibility. 411358440
Nod @viciously.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The Rookie doesn’t really work because you wouldn’t want to work with these arseholes unless you were one too. 010
Reposted by NodRose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 27/09/2026We can read the equivocations mate here i circled em for you 732684
Nod @viciously.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I hear you loud and clear and I promise that as a parent of two cis students, if their school starts to enact these policies I will speak up for trans students, support them and their families to the best of my abilities. 000
Nod @viciously.bsky.social · 21/09/2026There will only be outrage if the schools enact harmful policies. I’m going to cross my fingers here as I write- maybe the schools are finding good solutions that protect the students and the parents are keeping that quiet because I certainly would strongly support that at my kids school. 100
Nod @viciously.bsky.social · 21/09/2026In ‘90s Edinburgh apparently. A small city sure, but one with an international student community. 010
Nod @viciously.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I’ve never really bought into that whole Satan thing but if someone was working for him… 000
Nod @viciously.bsky.social · 17/09/2026So don’t mock candidates when they try to reach out to women and grandparents who only speak Urdu. Particularly if you want the respect of people who’ve spent time patiently chatting to Pakistani mums on the school gate while they’re still learning English. Don’t dismantle our good opinion of you. 000
Nod @viciously.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Use a search engine and you will learn many things. Ask strangers on Bluesky and you will only get our answers. 200
Nod @viciously.bsky.social · 05/09/2026A promising start would have been- allow refugees to become British citizens, stop funding wars, start to curtail AI. 110
Reposted by Nodhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 03/09/2026One thing you notice about Hookland artists, they don't regurgitate flower faery propaganda, myths of the Bright Folk as benevolent. Their depictions have a sense of Faeries being creatures of fierce, dark glamour. Creatures it would be deeply unwise to piss off. – #MattAdams 422836
Nod @viciously.bsky.social · 02/09/2026There was an opportunity to change this and the regional staff kicked off big time until they got their corruption back. 000
Reposted by NodPo-LINA-tergeist 👻 لينا @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The bbc announcing the number of carnival arrests like anyone fucking cares except racists, which includes them 28917
Nod @viciously.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I think it’s a mistake that a move towards mass unemployment is equivalent to the Industrial Revolution but I guess we’ll soon find out. Perhaps data centres will create more jobs but the IT industry seems to be doing the opposite. 010
Reposted by Nodhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The Hum summoned us to walk below it. Across fields, through woods. Under roads where traffic's static growl never ceased. Every transmission tower a temple. Every pylon tattooing its place on the electric ley of the land onto our very being. – Trippy Pete, ex-Pylon Person 121144
Reposted by NodX626 @x626.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The BBC choosing to quote JK Rowling about Dolly Parton is an absolute fucking intentional choice and they know it. 23605102
Reposted by NodAlex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com 69135058673
Reposted by NodNat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Colleague didn't join a call but I had Gemini Notes switched on and it the transcript caught me talking to the cat. 291290308
Nod @viciously.bsky.social · 23/08/2026All I want to talk to friends about is the books I read but I’m reading A Shining by Jon Fosse, so good fucking luck to me. 😂 000
Nod @viciously.bsky.social · 23/08/2026As these people work in (what is essentially) research the only viable conclusion is racism. 001
Reposted by NodGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 22/08/2026No, I'm not giving money to JK Rowling. No, I'm not going to Mel Gibson movies. No, I'm not posting on X. No, I'm not subscribing to Substacks. No, I'm not donating to the Republican Party. And no, I'm not using Chat Fucking GPT. 134159
Reposted by NodJJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026“I know this is going to sound extremely radical, or crazy,” she recounted telling the woman, “but ICE is there at the gate, and they're looking for you."time.comICE Is Asking Gate Agents To Help Arrest Passengers. Some Are Pushing BackAn airline manager warned a passenger that ICE agents were waiting at her gate, helping her avoid a possible arrest. 491652584
Reposted by NodDeidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+ 21920550
Reposted by NodMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15/08/2026From this review- “Think of all the diligent, decent black academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having Arday as a figurehead” - no, think of *why* black academics are held collectively responsible in ways that white academics are not 745198992
Nod @viciously.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Later I’m going to have to downplay it because my friends were in cloudy Asturias but I can’t find words for the total eclipse- they either over-dramatise it or underplay it. Photos are not representative of the experience. 000
Reposted by NodZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Climate breakdown isn't a political negotiation. It's a scientic reality borne out in lives lost and wildfires. Tax fossil fuel giants to pay for firefight helicopters, a cool space in every community and a maximum working temperature. 331264372
Nod @viciously.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I guess most people need to take a mix of what pays and what’s good. 000
