Ellie

I actually really like the pillbugs, they have a lot of personality

Three gouache paintings of mermen. Top left: Gouache painting of a merman with blue skin. He is holding a bright star close to his chest, and there are fish swimming towards it, as if inspecting it. Top right: Gouache painting of a merman with green skin and fish tail. His tail is folded like knees and his head is resting on it, with both his arms crossed around it. He has a somber expression, like he's sleeping. Bottom image: Gouache painting of a merman sitting on a clam-shell shaped couch. He has lime green hair and tail, and he's holding a margarita glass with red substance on it with a lime wedge on the rim. There are fish swimming around him.

fish and mermen

The shirt with the bone really makes him perfect for me

Gonna intro myself with 5 wild animals ive seen in my house (:

Slug
Snail
Mouse
Pillbugs
Bees

a watercolur/digital painting of a small mermaid, based on the yellow 'clown goby' fish. she is surrounded by corals & starfish

lil mermaid

U got my vote for that sick burn

We Don’t Know Where We Will End Up… A Year Since the 2024 Election

A lot of people need to read this.

Budget quote card

💰 Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced several measures to reduce the cost of living in today's Autumn #Budget

But will they be enough to reduce child poverty and improve children’s health?

Here's our view: ➡️ tinyurl.com/2wyacmhp
#Budget2026

This would hurt so many people i know. It also puts a huge strain on informal care givers. Can absolutely see it leading to increased mortality amongst disabled folks (incl POC, queer and trans people, women and the elderly, who will be disproportionarely affected)

Labour cuts to out-of-work disability benefits likely to have ‘devastating’ mental health impact, research finds Next April’s cuts to out-of-work disability benefits are likely to have “devastating” consequences for disabled people’s mental health, and drive many into serious poverty, research into the impact…

Anyone who remembers the brutal WRAG cuts of April 2017 under the last govt will know why this research is important. Please share it with MPs + peers so ministers know the grim consequences of cutting out-of-work benefits for disabled people.
#DWP
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-cuts-...

Ive worked with underprivileged communities in Bristol/Bath for 10 years now and I was wondering: would you say that the southwest specifically has been overlooked? Or is it just national stripping of public services? Pretty sure parts of the north have it much worse

Greens Party Leader Zack Polanski featured on the front page of The Observer newspaper

Things move quickly in politics. The idea of a Sunday broadsheet dedicating it's entire front page to @greenparty.org.uk is huge, and let's be honest, a sign of changing times.

People are sitting up and noticing @zackpolanski.bsky.social

join.greenparty.org.uk

2 items cursed in such different ways...

A friend and i were talking about the green party and he said "I'm voting for them no matter what, fuck tactical voting" and i was like "yeah, this is the first time a leader has elicited enough of an emotional response in us that we wanna vote for them regardless of whether we think they'll win"

Speaking truth to power, thanks Zarah. Also, amazing suit

'Targeting hotels full of children is not the answer to our problems' Heather Mack says we must target those who have the power to make meaningful change; not vulnerable and traumatised children

Once again, anti-migrant protests are happening outside a Bristol hotel sheltering asylum seekers. As @heathermackbristol.bsky.social wrote a few weeks ago: 'Targeting hotels full of children is not the answer to our problems.'
bristol247.com/opinion/your...

Zack Polanski here, just casually ratioing Labour on their own Facebook attack ad. (Around 600 positive reacts to the original, 1.9k to his reply.)

Tia Kofi to Zack Polanski, "There are better ways for everything to be better for everyone, rather than just sort of your little bubble"

LOCAL GOVERNMENT Spend on Union flags defended Reform UK-led Nottinghamshire County Council has defended plans to spend £75,000 on purchasing Union flags. More than 150 flags in 82 locations will be displayed. But opposition politicians questioned if the expenditure was a good use of public money. Sam Smith, Conservative leader of the opposition, said: "To spend £75,000 of taxpayers' money on flags seems a bit ridiculous." Labour MP for Mansfield, Steve Yemm, said: "My constituents will be appalled." REFORM UK Doge' unit fails to carry out audits Reform UK's so-called "Doge" unit has carried out no audit work in the councils it won control of nearly six months ago. The party vowed swingeing efficiency cuts to council budgets, in the mould of Elon Musk's US Department of Government Efficiency, after gaining control of nine local authorities across England in May. Deputy party leader Richard Tice told the Financial Times it was never the "intention to audit them, because audits are expensive".

Reform council dysfunctional As a Kent resident, I welcome that the national media is starting to pick up on the chaotic nature of our Reform-led administration at Kent County Council. I hope that this is the beginning of Nigel Farage's latest political project being subject to proper scrutiny. In Kent, seven Reform councillors of the 57 elected in May have resigned the whip or been suspended and they have taken a series of economically illiterate decisions. Local authorities are responsible for running essential social care, education and highways. It is dangerous to have overconfident zealots running such services. ROB FIELD MAIDSTONE, KENT

A neat summary of why Reform will only ever fuck it up.

Idiotic spending without any care about priorities or any clue as to whether they can afford it. Flags before social care or education or anything people actually need.
Farage clown-cars crashing all over the country.

(iPaper)

Will the BBC face up to the Green Party's membership surge?

They gained more than 6000 members in a single day. There are now more Green members than members of the Conservative Party and their membership is more than double the reported membership of the LibDems.

www.thenational.scot/news/2555611...

It's incredibly telling that student newsrooms have shown more bravery in the past few years than many national outlets

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

This story is now big news all over the world... except in the UK.

"We have a vision for this place we call home. Boldness means connecting with how hard it is right now for so many people. It means listening, not just finger pointing. It means presenting a positive vision not just of the future but what we can all do right now." ZACK POLANSKI GREEN PARTY LEADER GREEN PARTY CONFERENCE BOURNEMOUTH 3-5 OCTOBER 2025

"We will break the shackles of poverty and hardship that lock so many in. We will end rip-off Britain." - @zackpolanski.bsky.social

This sounds promising, I know a lot of folks whos health is impacted by housing. But if some people are bumped up the list then others are being bumped down. Who is being bumped down? Is this even news? Isnt the headline just: New council proposal moves people to different positions on a list?

Screenshot of top of Carla's Huffpost article. Machine readable version available at link in next post.

UK living standards have collapsed while govt after govt have sat on their hands.

Now the vacuum they left is being filled by fascist agitators like Tommy Robinson and super-rich big-business-backed politicians like Farage.

There is an alternative–and we can all play our part in fighting for it.

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Hi

ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday

Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere

If you have any national platform at all

Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us

I woke up wondering how we're ever going to stop the violence and start conversations. And then I saw this.

#Hope. Let's all do this!

Disabled workers win TUC support for fight against Labour’s cuts to benefits Disabled union activists have appealed successfully to the TUC to support their fight against the government’s continuing attacks on disability benefits. Two motions opposing Labour’s cuts and call…

Disabled union activists have appealed successfully to the TUC to support their fight against the government’s continuing attacks on disability benefits.
#TUC25 #Labour #DisabilityBenefits
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-wor...