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@dfarb.bsky.social

Semi-retired technical writer, lives with metastatic prostate cancer, etc. "Incorrigibly woke", Green Party activist and parliamentary candidate. Trans ally. Posts are usually on politics but may be nonsense. Wülferhamptonian. He/him. לפעמים גם בעברית

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Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

07.10.2025 16:07 — 👍 823    🔁 1019    💬 45    📌 31

The ambulance man asked the Essex girl who had been in a road accident " where are you bleeding from?" and she said "I'm from bleedin' Romford"

07.10.2025 19:56 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sharing for the attention of @ashashman1.bsky.social

07.10.2025 19:27 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Peruvian bishop accused of having 17 lovers exposed by cleaning lady Ciro Quispe López has handed in his notice to Pope Leo after an investigation by the Vatican over claims he had a string of lovers including a nun

"A Peruvian bishop accused of having 17 secret mistresses has been exposed after some of the women found out about each other and nearly came to blows."

07.10.2025 04:11 — 👍 273    🔁 87    💬 38    📌 53

I remember it well!

07.10.2025 18:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Nearly 3000 new members in the 24 hours since the Party Political Broadcast.

Extraordinary.

Hope is returning. 💚🚀

Join.greenparty.org.uk

07.10.2025 17:44 — 👍 1344    🔁 312    💬 50    📌 26

And if you haven't seen it, go to seek it out on BBC iPlayer or ITVX immediately!

07.10.2025 18:50 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I'd gladly have Harold Wilson back as PM. At least he knew what the Labour party was about.

07.10.2025 18:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Contrary to Reason Steven Pinker claims to champion Enlightenment values. But his latest book is an affront to them

There are some people whom the media has decided are "leading intellectuals", regardless of the views of their academic colleagues. Invariably they are people who justify - or at the very least do not challenge - economic power. Steven Pinker is a stand-out example.
www.monbiot.com/2018/03/09/c...

07.10.2025 12:06 — 👍 394    🔁 94    💬 31    📌 11
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Gisnep | Daily Quote Puzzle You Need One More Daily Puzzle In Your Life

I solved today’s #Gisnep in 07:45. 🎉
No. 426 | 7 October 2025
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07.10.2025 04:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Seeing lots of this tonight after that party political broadcast.

The Green Party are on track to overtake the Tories in membership.

Let's make hope normal again.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

06.10.2025 18:15 — 👍 928    🔁 223    💬 48    📌 12

Better pay for ordinary workers is good for the economy because that money gets spent.
High pay and tax breaks for the wealthiest are bad for the economy because that money gets squirrelled away in offshore tax havens

06.10.2025 15:42 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

06.10.2025 14:06 — 👍 2970    🔁 914    💬 264    📌 173
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Our Conference was bursting with energy, enthusiasm, and determination. The Green Party is growing faster than ever – powered by hope, action, and thousands of passionate members. 💚

06.10.2025 11:47 — 👍 152    🔁 51    💬 4    📌 5

Anti-terror legislation in the UK has a very broad scope (surprisingly broad, some might say), but a decision to proscribe a particular organisation is a political choice.

It looks like this Labour government have got the politics wrong again.

06.10.2025 11:14 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Join the Green Party Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

Breaking: over 3,000 people joined @greenparty.org.uk over conference weekend.

Membership now stands at over 86,000.

We’re just getting started.

join.greenparty.org.uk

06.10.2025 09:36 — 👍 959    🔁 262    💬 33    📌 26

Amongst everything else that can ,(and should) be said against this - it's clearly, surely not sustainable or workable from an enforcement perspective.

It's madness to arrest people for objecting to a proscription.

06.10.2025 10:25 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

06.10.2025 10:29 — 👍 1301    🔁 533    💬 85    📌 63

I'd actually forgotten how extraordinary it is that when I won the leadership - I wasn't interviewed as it was too close to our party conference interviewed.

And then refused a second time!

Part of the antidote to all of this is creating our own media platforms.

Hey @boldpolitics.bsky.social 👋🏼

06.10.2025 10:38 — 👍 1350    🔁 424    💬 74    📌 20
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Gisnep | Daily Quote Puzzle You Need One More Daily Puzzle In Your Life

I solved today’s #Gisnep in 07:10. 🎉
No. 424 | 5 October 2025
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05.10.2025 21:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Zack on Bold Politics podium

Zack on Bold Politics podium

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

05.10.2025 16:33 — 👍 3852    🔁 1228    💬 157    📌 68
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100% worth the long journey from Shetland to Bournemouth for @TheGreenParty conference.

With @ZackPolanski’s leadership, the atmosphere is electric. The party is unified, energetic, confident and growing fast.

Great too, to see an old friend. Keep it up Zack 💚💚💚

05.10.2025 14:54 — 👍 40    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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BBC Apologises For Airing Fake Claim About Digital ID Scheme The BBC has apologised for airing a false claim about Tony Blair's son's company being awarded a government contract to produce the new mandatory d...

Not good enough...

Tim Davie and everyone else who is culpable should lose their jobs.

04.10.2025 15:39 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0
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The destruction of Gaza City is a crime against history Centuries-old mosques, churches, and ancient artifacts all face obliteration as the Israeli military systematically flattens what remains of the city.

Not only human lives are being lost in Gaza.
www.972mag.com/gaza-city-de...

05.10.2025 17:17 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I want to put this in my back pocket and carry it with me everywhere. What a powerful and beautiful message.

05.10.2025 14:36 — 👍 351    🔁 73    💬 0    📌 2
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This was in the Observer today
Worth a read

05.10.2025 10:49 — 👍 28    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 1

Here is a thing that I hear from *almost every British Jew I know* but have barely heard expressed in any of these programmes: No single person has done more to make Jewish people globally less safe than Benjamin Netanyahu.

05.10.2025 09:33 — 👍 1033    🔁 248    💬 38    📌 13

Many pundits today are pushing the line that everyone who protests the genocide in Gaza is basically either antisemitic or tolerant of antisemitism. But isn't that precisely the conflation of the actions of the Israeli gov't with all Jewish people, which is at the heart of this wave of antisemitism?

05.10.2025 09:30 — 👍 922    🔁 218    💬 43    📌 11
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Cody Dahler nailing it over on tiktok

05.10.2025 15:08 — 👍 17    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0
Ireland's basic income experiment resulted in higher incomes and the economy benefited $1.39 per $1
YouTube video by Scott Santens Ireland's basic income experiment resulted in higher incomes and the economy benefited $1.39 per $1

Clip from our most recent episode of The Basic Income Show where we talked about Ireland's basic income experiment results and how artists increased their incomes from doing art thanks to their income base and how it benefited the economy and reduced welfare spending. Essentially it was win-win-win.

05.10.2025 15:08 — 👍 140    🔁 47    💬 3    📌 0

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