#Solidarity with 🇿🇼 #Zimbabwe nurses striking for fair pay, safe staffing & quality public services!✊🏥 “Nurses want to work, but they cannot continue under conditions that push them into poverty. This fight is about dignity," – ZINA President Enock Dongo. psishort.link/ZINA0426

Delegates at @forsatradeunion.bsky.social conference joined the European campaign on #publicservicesemergency The agenda bargaining for the common good includes demands for pay increase, for affordable housing, for health care and dealing with flexible work and AI ay work @epsu.bsky.social

This Public Service Day, we face unprecedented attacks on public services by authoritarians and billionaires worldwide. As democracy's last line of defense against oligarchy and market fundamentalism, we will not back down. Let the fight back begin! psishort.link/23June25

Reposting this ⬇️ because of this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Exmoor's eagles - my thoughts markavery.info/2026/05/16/e... @forestryengland.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social @lundybirds.bsky.social @exmoornp.bsky.social

Cleaning up Orban’s corruption in Hungary is a huge task after he looted their country for years, and it is certainly something we can watch unfold and learn from.

As a retired police officer I am totally baffled why @westmidlandspolice.bsky.social are not instructing officers to obtain details & report for process the summary offences against the Highways Act 1980. If they had done that months ago we might not have had the violent escalation seen last night.

We wrote a guest post on @torproject.org's blog showcasing some of what we do and what we've been working on. Give it a read below 👇️️ blog.torproject.org/keeping-the-... #InternetFreedom #FundInternetFreedom #Privacy #InternetCensorship

Speaking as a man, I understand women want to talk to one another without me and other males being there The men who object to this are, by definition, bad people and we should all recognise them as such

We knew this then. We know it now.

The question to be asked is who is paying them to produce online content by harrassing local residents. Also, an important thing to remember here is how, for many months now, Labour and the Tories have essentially welcomed this.

People and renters are positive about the Renters’ Rights Act

British Gas to pay a £20m into Ofgem’s Voluntary Redress Fund to settle force-fitting of prepayment meters probe. Will write off up to £70m of vulnerable customers' energy debt. Will BG pass the cost to customers in higher bills? Execs got bonuses for boosting profits, but not fined.

A CRISIS OF TRUST is what you create when you promise "A WAVE OF INSOURCING" but then double down on outsourcing. The government can still deliver on this promise and put the public before private outsourcing profiteers. Demand they fulfil their promise: vist.ly/54cvt

Andy Burnham will force Keir Starmer to quit as PM by standing in by-election after by-election until Labour loses its majority.

Reform UK Councillors Gone Since Local Elections Lost Seat:5 Resigned: 7 Defected: 4 Suspended: 4 Andrew Harrison & Kenny Hope just resigned from Durham Council over leadership (Andrew Husband and Darren Grimes).

Rollout of 20mph zones seen as a 'disaster' with hundreds of villages to miss out and volunteer speed watch to be axed #LDReporter #Gloucestershire

If you’ve ever longed to stay in a Travelodge just a stone’s throw away from the headquarters of South Wales Police, you’ll be pleased that the firm is converting the empty Watertown House office block into a hotel *Don’t throw stones at South Wales Police HQ www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/e...

Al Carns has stepped up against the racist flaggers that terrorise parts of his constituency today at least, which is nice (better late than never)

Great Western Railway train services will be nationalised on December 13, the UK Department for Transport has announced. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

"Tor is...proof of how you can inspire communities to contribute to owning, creating, and maintaining the infrastructures that they rely on... to stay safe and secure." Will you join us? #FundInternetFreedom - May 19 🤝🧅🛜 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFd3...

Aircraft tracking has become a powerful tool for journalism. In our Stage Talks podcast, @gillianbrockell.com demonstrates how flight data and open tools can be used to trace government flights, identify ICE aircraft, and verify aviation activity. Listen: rss.com/podcasts/bellingcatstagetalk/2829188

easy for many English people to say UK & England flags on every lamppost all the time is fine even though we never needed them to know where & who we are until Ryan Bridge started his company last year RTC are hateful bullies bringing BNP fear to my neighbours Brummies united stand up to racism

To reinforce this narrative, somewhat comically, they chose Romania as an example – a country that has not only halved its poverty rate since EU accession in 2007 but also tripled its GDP and average salaries.

Aiming to erode support for Moldova’s EU accession, Kremlin outlets continue a disinformation campaign falsely claiming that EU membership would be economically ruinous.

Not just because Elon Musk is an enemy of progress & decency so other main forms of information sharing must be adopted [just check your interactions and let X go as primary comms 🙏🏼 govs] Also for your own sanity - the hostile people in X replies are not good people, no point trying to please them

I am in Al's replies in a hazmat suit making sure that the people still stuck on Twitter know what he is referring to. The BBC have picked it up but these men have been terrorising Stirchley for months, but local people have resisted many times. Brum council had avoided it but Greens will be better

Over on X, Al Carns @alcarns.bsky.social has stood up for the people of Stirchley after the latest assault on their community from Raise the Colours which is good to see I wish that he & all the Labour MPs would spend more time on Bluesky among decent normal folk

Oh. My. God. This is despicable.

Sentenced to 15 years, would have got longer if older. Sentence may be appealed against by convict or by citizens who think it lenient.

Horrific news. In addition, there will be so much never reported. I’ve known people spat at, drenched in pretend acid attacks, called vile slurs, and threatened with violence. All unprovoked and never reported because that is the reality of their daily lives and they expected nothing to be done.

'Clear the plate' (yes - to this day).

No pudding til you've eaten ALL your dinner! Threat that uneaten breakfast porridge would be served at teatime to be eaten before proper tea.

Bedminster teenager tried to murder a barber in East Street after she became a neo-Nazi Full story here: www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

My tendency definately comes from grandparents and parents, all of whom were very poor AND lived through WW2. They also saved paper bags and bits of string.

I wonder if that wonderful feeling I get when I've ordered too much shopping and the scullery is filled to the brim with food, comes from my ancestors. It feels like we hunted & gathered & farmed enough, our tribe will be fed, no famine this week. Also I just had a tompoes.

Interesting article, Prof Foran was clearly not impressed with Sal’s legal team in the previous hearing in 2024. “However, the first and most glaring observation must be how poorly run it was on both sides, but particularly on Giggle’s side.”

Disgusting it was behind closed doors, & disgusting that not one of the 60 councillors present (because 16 didn't turn up - including 3 Cabinet members) didn't argue with the chair when she autocratically said "We're going into exempt session." Voting was almost as I predicted, they're 90% gutless.

No or Labour, though the latter are compromised because much of the corruption at Bristol went on under their last Mayor - Marvin Rees, who is now a Labour peer. His emails mysteriously evaporated the day after he left office.

Hopefully a few more migrate here, but apparently the rate of growth here is significantly lower than predicted (and needed) so BlueSky’s long term future is kinda uncertain. No ads, either, so as a business model it’s not particularly viable, either.

You’re right. It’s still pretty bad.

That’s the thing, innit? I miss being over there too, and various online muckers, but Uncle Elon made it a bit too untenable for me, alas.

Nice to see you here, btw. 👋

Hello! I’ve suddenly found some motivation, especially after the behaviour of our overlords. You’ve been missed over there!

Bloody hell 😨.

I've heard that one of the local Green Party members messaged the Bristol Greens on the back of my email about O'Gara, and asked if they were happy with him as MO: reply was "Yeah, all good here." They didn't mention Green leader Tony Dyer's role in suppressing the Safety Valve papers back in 2024

The @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social refused to investigate this appalling behaviour by the Labour administration, once they were in power. It took nearly two years of public pressure. The Greens are very happy to team up with Labour though. Godwin was part of the spying administration.

These are valid matters of public concern which should have been debated in open session, not squirreled below the line at the first opportunity by the Chair. Any mitigations, or measures to minimise risk, should also have been discussed openly. This episode has done your administration no favours.

The unlawful code of conduct process he presided over for 5 years, his misconstruing of the Localism Act, the 3-year FOI backlog, the backlog of 561 SARs as of March 2024, and his unsuccessful appeal of the ICO enforcement notice, are all matters of stone-cold fact, not "trial by social media".

Hi @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social , please have all your cllrs read this about Bristol’s chief planning officer: templescenes.substack.com/p/who-is-bri... With power comes responsibility. It’s a shame I have to remind you.