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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

my culture is not your costume

hallow-scream latex scar looks like a vag

I know it's been unusually fraught on here since the Greens voted to go completely crazy but you should see Twitter, it's like Celebrity Death Match but for 'Celebrity' read 'people who gained minor fame being angry on Twitter'.

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 1h

What's weird about this is the lack of intellectual confidence or engagement with reality? There are reasonable arguments not to revisit Brexit but they have to engage with the fact most view it as a bad idea. And that you can't eternally appeal to the referendum result as the final democratic word

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 1h

More trouble for the Greens after their 'Zionism is racism' vote - the umbrella organisation of European Greens has condemned them, and the German Greens in particular are scathing. Felix Banaszak, co-leader, called the motion "intolerable and unacceptable".

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 1h

I do not mean to single out LeBron James, but it feels completely bizarre to me that an active player is allowed to promote "prediction markets" but would get banned for life for using that service to bet ten dollars on their own team to win a game.

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 2h

Hmm I wonder if Andrew has any idea of what might have happened in 2016 to trigger an inflation of the civil service headcount...

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2h

There will never be enough quality candidates for a rightwing party if you make it a condition for entry that you sign up to a position that almost everyone earning above 70k disagrees with:

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 3h

Oh shit, we're fucked.

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Steamed Buns @aremay.bsky.social · 3h

Zack Polanski very much on the list of "experiences the Lib Dems have already had that everyone else should've learned from and instead they decided they didn't need too because they don't like the Lib Dems"

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 4h

There's a student pro-Palestine demonstration in Central London on **October 7th** 🙃🙃🙃https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwkg5220l577o

bbc.co.uk

Met Police urge pro-Palestine students to move 7 October protest

The Met said it had tried to contact the University of London Coalition to postpone its protest.

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 4h

Is the future someone pushing him off?

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 4h

Says the anti-Paddington (Peru's worst export).

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 5h

Brian Butterfield dictating the terms of the Treaty of Frankfurt: "Alsace–Lorraine"

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 5h

I'm up for this. Be like Frogger innit.

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 5h

But of course the Green ZIR motion would never be used in that way, even though explicitly rejected an amendment to protect people from this.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 5h

Uncertainty over Bond casting means it’s time for the English Cricket Board to put Question Time on hold, according to FaceTime.

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 6h

Next year the Guardian's Next Gen will include players born after I finished uni. 😥

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Rosi Sexton @rosisexton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I said some time ago that if I were someone intent on eliminating the Green Party of England and Wales as an electoral threat, the Zionism is Racism motion would be exactly how I'd go about it. (1)

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 8h

it's not an original point but it will never stop being funny to me whenever right wingers criticise religious figures for "virtue signalling". like... yes? that's kind of the point of their role?

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 8h

This does not seem entirely wise.

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 9h

I didn't realise that not only did Polanski not bother to turn up for this vote, that he encouraged lots of others to do the same and get refunds on tickets so could join him in Holborn & St P! Absolutely unforgivable.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 9h

The head of Jewish Greens has said she might quit the party, amid growing anger among some members at Zack Polanski for his inaction over the party’s policy motion equating Zionism with racism. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.com

Head of Jewish Greens says she may leave party over ‘Zionism is racism’ vote

Vivien Lichtenstein says she believes motion is unhelpful as anger grows over Zack Polanski’s absence for vote

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10h

As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)

Value of the
ECHR
Sir, In dangerous times, serious countries do not retreat into splendid isolation. They build alliances, multiply their influence and strengthen institutions. Key among those is the 46-member Council of Europe, at its heart the European Convention on Human Rights.

As former independent reviewers of terrorism legislation we have seen at close quarters that the ECHR is not just a human rights instrument. It is a national security asset. Terrorist networks, hostile states, organised crime gangs and people smugglers do not respect borders. Tackling them requires arrangements for the closest possible co-operation with our neighbours, including through joint investigations and police access to European passenger, fingerprint, DNA and vehicle data.

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 9h

It's true, but possible shades of Ed Miliband c. 2013 (but worse as he actually led/tied in the polls)? Shored up her position within the party and the party in the media, which is reflected in an uptick in ratings, but outside that the signs aren't good and has shown little theory of changing that.

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 9h

Every South American election recently has basically been: Jesús Marx Bonaventura de Corruption (Alliance to Not Kill Puppies): 48.9% Pedro Sanchez-Hitler (Reform): 50.01% Geraldo Demonslayer (Bitcoin Liberation Front): 1%

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 10h

I see Elon got Grok working as intended 🙄🙄🙄

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Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social · 10h

Grimly fascinating that Green voters, overwhelmingly in favour of immigration, are also, at 51%, the most likely to want to reduce migrant numbers from Israel. Which does rather beg the question: if Israel is to be eliminated, but Israelis barred from the UK, where exactly are they to go?

Which countries to 2024 voters want to see fewer migrants from?

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Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social · 10h

Scaring Jews is part of the fun.

If the headline motion is itself racist, the refusal to even pretend to make a carve-out for Jewish members of your own party is perhaps most revealing. Evidently, a majority of Green Party members who voted for the motion and against the amendment simply have little interest in finding an accommodation with Jews.

And I think this speaks to what a lot of people fail to understand. That for Jew-haters, antisemitism is fun. Even better, it frequently forces Jews to play the game of emptying their pockets and patiently explaining why this obviously horrible, racist thing — a slogan, a placard or a burning of ambulances operated by a Jewish charity — is in fact antisemitic. That, too, is part of the fun.

You don’t need to label every antisemitic terrorist attack (and there are horrifyingly many to choose from this year alone) a “false flag” or suggest that “Zionists control the media” to oppose a terrible war or in any way dilute support for Palestinians. You certainly don’t have to, as Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories claimed in a recent interview, say that Jews in Nazi death camps were called “Muslims”.

I could attempt to explain why they do this. Why so many people believe that Jews, whether stabbed on the streets of Golders Green or murdered in gas chambers, are molecularly incapable of being victims. Indeed, how and why the Holocaust itself is an example of Jewish power and privilege. But that would be to play the pocket-emptying game.

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Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social · 10h

You can support net zero, LGBTQ+ rights and a Palestinian state. But if you attend a synagogue or partake in almost any aspect of communal Jewish life, the Green Party now considers you a racist.

linestotake.com

Jewishness itself is now the offence

The Green Party votes to say “Zionism is racism”

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

From an activist: "[Amendment] 3 [falling] was the most brutal imo. It is proposed by a Jewish member who has already been victimised and called for a clause that protects Jewish members from being targeted because they belong to a synagogue or other group that identifies as Zionist."

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 23h

What it comes down to is this. If you’re determined a motion on Zionism isn’t seen as antisemitic, you pass this amendment. Obviously. It was instead rejected twice. First in a pre-conference meeting re: all amendments, then by conference members in the hall. This is now what the Green Party is.

Suggested amendment: This motion shall not be used to pressure, proscribe or discipline members based on affiliation with Jewish community institutions, such as Synagogues, community centres or denominational groups, that describe themselves as Zionist, or used to discipline or sanction Jewish members for holding views that would be non sanctionable if expressed by non Jewish members (such as supporting a binational state, or two state solution).

The amendment was rejected.

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🎃EM-SCREAM-KAYVEE 🔪 @youremceekayvee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Staying up a hours in a modern long distance dating argument via text can best be described as a Three Dot Night.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Badenoch is first post-war Leader of Opposition to fall into third place in party polls for any sustained period (most of 18 months, Jan 2025-Sept 2026) Michael Foot did fall into third place but for only a very short period in Spring 1982: Labour often first, then a narrow second

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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Imagine doing a PhD in history and ending up as the official interpreter of the AI-generated Kemi tapestry.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You realise we all saw how an amendment specifically designed to remove the targeting of Jewish Green Party members for Synagogue attendance was rejected, right? These "assurances" are as worthless as your "solidarity".

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Heads up for UK folks, The Substance just got added to BBC iPlayer.

A movie poster for the movie The Substance directed by Coralie Fargeat starring Demo Moore, Margaret Qualley, and Dennis Quaid. The poster shows a green vial of activator fluid and lots of positive review quotes.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something I repeatedly find with far left politicians is that they seem to think that if they say the magic words "antisemitism has no place in our society" this frees them from doing anything tangible about the antisemitism right in front of their sanctimonious fucking faces.

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Given one of you named here supported this racist motion, and your leader didn't turn up, this rings somewhat hollow.

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Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes. I keep reading pained and earnest explanations of how this targets and marginalises Jews across the board, written by people who somehow don't realise this is literally the point.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 04/10/2026

hard not to despair at the state of the world!!! if I had to pick between nice-but-flawed Lula and The Failson Of The Worst Man Bolsonaro I would find it easy! how do these decisions keep being a toss-up! they should not be a toss-up! ahhhh!

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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Zack Polanski’s rank cowardice on this motion should be hung round his neck forever.

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Mrs Quent @quarkquent.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So it passed. If people had anything to them at all this would be the only reason they would need to not vote for this party.

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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Full Zionism is Racism motion passed by 1022 votes to 813. The Greens are now officially an antisemitic party.

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Is there a subtle contrast being drawn between who Labour help and who the Tories help 🤔 #CPC26

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Better than that. Chansiri.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

From the sound of things (journalists were excluded from the conference hall) it was not close. Still, it's not as if history is full of examples of people, with the purest motives imaginable in their own eyes, engaging in behaviour designed to exclude Jews from society. Oh, wait...

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