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"Good evening, and welcome to The Xenophobic News at Ten: you can rely on us to tell you that a malign foreign influence is to blame."

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Proud to announce that my town is the first to appoint an anti-mayor. Their role is primarily symbolic, attending the many closing down ceremonies, tying ribbons across the doors of failed businesses, ushering the final occupants out of social services premises, shutting the library down, etc.

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Photo credit: Rough Stuff Fellowship archive, 1959.

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youtu.be/MSZgoFyuHC8?...

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Elon Musk perfectly laying out the case against privatization in a single tweet

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I'm sure it's an insightful article, but I can't get past the notion that, in that image of the two flags, the wind is apparently blowing simultaneously in two, opposing directions. It's weirding me out.

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When was the last time you heard a politician talking like this? Join the green party, vote Zack in.

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Yep. And, to truly compare apples to apples, you'd add in MSPs and councillors in Scotland, too. There are 7 @scottishgreens.org MSPs and (I think) 35 councillors, taking the comparison to: Reform UK: 824 councillors, 5 MPs/MSPs Greens: 894 councillors, 11 MPs/MSPs Media airtime is out of whack

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The Government said it’d cost £99bn to publicly own our water. But this drew on calculations by — drumroll — water company lobbyists. The true cost is closer to zero. Here’s why. 🧵

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Whilst undeniably true, this slightly obscures a bigger truth: only London zones 1-4 have a modern transportation system in the entire country. We've privatised transport which means cars or no/low mobility if you can't afford them for almost everyone else. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Writing for the thinktank @cmmonwealth.bsky.social, @ewanmg.bsky.social says that the £99bn figure commonly-cited as the cost of nationalisation takes no account of real market value, including levels of debt. - Which reveals nationalisation as being much more affordable than we keep being told.

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Pamela Grace, a contemporary artist and printmaker living and working in Galloway, southwestern Scotland #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

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"Blue Labour has absolutely no influence whatsoever on the Labour Party" - that's not what it looks like tbh www.politicshome.com/news/article...

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Mixed use trails: don't be a dick.

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Is it wrong to covet thy neighbour's polytunnel?

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"Peace through strength" ? Get your Orwell bingo cards at the ready, folks, we're off.

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"If you can’t distinguish between a framework and a contract – between a spending ceiling and actual expenditure – how exactly are you planning to manage departmental budgets? How will you oversee major infrastructure projects?" REFORM UK BOSS IN ARSE/ELBOW SHOCKER

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Class war, my arse. If you opt out of the state system, the Children and Families Act 2014 kicks in. Brought in by the Tories, the effect of this Act is that services such as occupational therapy provided by the LA to state schools, are not available to non special independent schools.

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May was a good month for solar PV: - We used £50 of electricity generated by our solar array, either used directly or stored in our battery; - We sold another £50 back to the grid; - The only thing our electricity supplier charged us for was their standing charge (circa £0.50 per day)

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Chris is absolutely right to observe that there's energy behind Zack's campaign. That's true, but there's more than that: at our worst, we Greens are too timid about our values, our policies, what we stand for. It doesn't serve us well. Zack's bold. So I'll be voting for @zackpolanski.bsky.social

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Found this an interesting interview on a number of levels, not least of which being this is how I learned that an industrial strategy is - finally - due to be launched. Let's hope it has a strong focus on equipping left-behind communities to make the most of the UK's home-grown renewables growth.

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This Kid for Congress

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If your business model only works because you're allowed to do crimes, you don't have a business. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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“There's a reason why European cities have trams,” Brabin says. “They can carry three times as many people. They are often segregated, so they are reliable: you go to the tram stop, and the tram is there in a few minutes. It’s also cleaner and greener.” Trams ftw

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"Oh, councillor, with these seventy centimetre cycle lanes you're really spoiling us."

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Big Oil is selling the myth that their planet-warming pollution can be solved by carbon capture technology. The reality is that it's an expensive distraction, and they want the rest of us to pay for it.

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“In realistic terms, I don’t think it (carbon capture and storage) is ever going to happen.” Pretty rare for me to agree with fossil fuel advocates, but this is one of those times.

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"Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ebay.us/m/uNfuvo

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Hell of a photo

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Released 46 years ago Dead Kennedys - California Über Alles #punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #deadkennedys #history #punkrockhistory

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I applaud you, unnamed manager of the Hawksmoor steakhouse. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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This voter does.

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"I watched bacon glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.."

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Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉

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just one more

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Just had an EPC done for our house. Thoughts: 1. We're almost fully optimised, at least according to their methodology; 2. The only suggested improvements are floor insulation and solar hot water which, at £4-6k each, are not attractive; 3. We have a battery, but it counts for nothing on an EPC

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This is the reality you're calling for when you want "free" parking at hospitals.

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These things are an outdated, shit (discrimatory) design. An unanswered FOI for the Equality Impact Assessment suggests they didn't do one. Latest government active travel guidance is clear, and aligns with best practice advice from @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk: - a 1.5m air gap between bollards.

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"Mortally stupid": both splendid and apt.

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What happens when ProudPaytriot1962, the angriest and worst-informed man on local Facebook, finds out that managing local government finances is complicated and difficult, and that for every £1 of "vanity project" spending, there's £100,000 of social care need? We may be about to find out.

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