John Baldy
@johnbaldy.bsky.social
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All views expressed are my own, personal views.
I'm at my mother in laws 80th birthday party down the Legion. YMCA, Hokey Cokey, Jump Around, what's next?
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A military, merchant weasel sounds patriotic enough AND wildlifey enough to please all camps. Quick! Stick it on a £5 note!
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Hospital waiting room. The TV is just loud enough to be distracting and annoying - but not loud enough to hear the actual words being spoken. This is the worst volume level.
2 days ago
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Dragged myself from my sickbed to the Royal Albert Hall for Nightmares on Wax. My God its good. It's every bit as good as I didn't dare hope it might be. What an audaciously slick production! What a great sound. 🔊 🔊 🔊.
3 days ago
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I wonder which of the album's covers he claims to have designed?
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3 days ago
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What an incredible maiden speech. Big up
@greenpartyhan.bsky.social
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3 days ago
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Who are your candidates for banknote pictures? Mine are: £5 - Joe Strummer £10 -
@carolinelucas.bsky.social
£20 - Benjamin Zephaniah £50 - David Bowie
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Fiona Harvey
4 days ago
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’
Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/11/reaching-net-zero-by-2050-cheaper-for-uk-than-one-fossil-fuel-crisis?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Happy International Women's Day, friends.
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Dory Previn — Twenty-Mile Zone
YouTube video by castaneatea
https://youtu.be/O35PTBEw8F8?si=E2R_fIE7DjPyUCUL
7 days ago
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Reform Party canvassers just knocked on my door. My wife gave them the very shortest of shrifts.
8 days ago
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🔥 🔥 🔥
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10 days ago
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Sarah Murphy
10 days ago
Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.
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Interesting article about
#Reggae
sound systems in Wales.
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10 days ago
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Green age kicks. Fantastic Feargal Sharkey. What a legend.
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11 days ago
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14 days ago
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Just had my first caffeine coffee in about 8 weeks 🚀 👩🚀
14 days ago
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The Green Party of England & Wales
14 days ago
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The Green Party has over 200,000 members. More members, more councillors, more MPs. The Green Party just keep growing. Join us ⤵️
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Liam Thorp
14 days ago
As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it. Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.
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Guy Shrubsole
15 days ago
Heaven forbid that Labour should seek to copy any of the policies of the Greens after they just overturned a 13,000-vote majority in one of Labour’s safest seats. Let’s just call those voters ‘sectarian’ and ‘extremist’ instead. That’ll work
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Guy Shrubsole
15 days ago
Except Labour did move to the right, Wes - on immigration, banning protest, ‘island of strangers’, attacking nature protections, etc - chasing a tiny number of Reform switchers whilst ignoring its core vote, and never talking about its more left wing economic policies
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Deaf as a post (with an upside- down union jack attached)
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15 days ago
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Former Pingu Child Actor (Communist)
16 days ago
Lmao
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@zackpolanski.bsky.social
you handled such a hostile interview so perfectly, on zero sleep, after the world's most intense byelection campaign. I hope you get some well-earned rest and relaxation soon. Absolute legend.
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16 days ago
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Feels like a
#ska
type of morning
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I'm Gonna Take Over Now
YouTube video by The Ethiopians - Topic
https://youtu.be/2ySxLlkV63s?si=nLeohMHo1jvfgVJb
16 days ago
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The Green Party of England & Wales
16 days ago
Apologies to all of Hannah's customers! Something exciting is happening. Be a part of it ⤵️
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Wow! SO happy. What an EPIC win!! Congratulations
@greenpartyhan.bsky.social
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
@greenparty.org.uk
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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Watch: 'Working hard used to get you something', says victorious Green Party candidate
In her acceptance speech, Hannah Spencer said she was “no different from every single person in this constituency”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/clyz4ellkd7o
16 days ago
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Manchester Friends of the Earth
17 days ago
We asked people across
#GortonandDenton
what they care about. Hate and division won’t help pay our bills. We need politicians that champion real solutions
#HopeStartsHere
manchesterfoe.org.uk/blog/gorton-...
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Keeping everything crossed for a
@greenparty.org.uk
victory in Gorton and Denton today. I've got the very silly song: 'I Fell In With A Female Plumber...' by Splodgenessabounds going round and round in my head:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR7q...
17 days ago
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Kevin Schofield
17 days ago
Zack Polanski Calls On Labour To Apologise For Inventing Fake Tactical Voting Company
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/zack-p...
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Zack Polanski Calls On Labour To Apologise For Inventing Fake Tactical Voting Company
A by-election leaflet sent to voters in Gorton and Denton has sparked an angry backlash.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/zack-polanski-calls-on-labour-to-apologise-for-inventing-fake-tactical-voting-company_uk_699fe9c1e4b01b76c0e3c19b
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Seriously dirty tricks from Labour in Gorton and Denton. For clarity - ALL of the REAL tactical voting sites are recommending a vote for the Green Party to keep out Reform.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
17 days ago
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Zack Polanski
18 days ago
Dear
@lucympowell.bsky.social
, Why did you invent a fake tactical voting company to stop the Green Party beating Reform? I'm starting to think your letters haven't always been in good faith...
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Birmingham 81
18 days ago
Remembering Ed Cobb on his birthday. He wrote Tainted Love, Dirty Water and Every Little Bit Hurts, which guarantees him hero status round these parts. Here's a playlist featuring his finest compositions and productions 🎧▶️
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eops
19 days ago
Shafted
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Pick a remix, any remix
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI7U...
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19 days ago
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Laura Ashe
19 days ago
Working from home proving more stressful than I feel is necessary
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#Reggae
question. Does anyone know please, what the vocal cut might be, to this wonderful dub, on the wonderful 'Big Showdown' album?
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Round 2
YouTube video by Roots Radics - Topic
https://youtu.be/5PgnN3bNwl8?si=f_rj85fTipzqrPPV
19 days ago
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sherri cola ✺
19 days ago
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#NowPlaying
Just discovered a CD of rips of Earl 16 - 10" records, that I didn't even realised I had - and it is excellent. Every now and then - being massively disorganised pays off
21 days ago
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The Green Party of England & Wales
22 days ago
✅ Tactical voting organisations ✅ Doorstep data ✅ Constituency polling It's clearer than ever that it's Green vs Reform in Gorton and Denton. A vote for Hannah Spencer is the only way to stop Reform's hate and make hope normal again.
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It would be more fun if the four man bob was restricted to teams of four men called Bob. All events should start at 8:08 - obvs.
22 days ago
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Depeche Median
22 days ago
Well that seems unfair.
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In the Olympics- when they say 'amplitude' - do they simply mean height?
23 days ago
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Jolyon Maugham KC
23 days ago
The betting has the Greens at 1/2 and Labour at 5/1. If you actually want to keep Reform out, rather than making a rhetorical point, you can only rationally argue for Labour to step aside.
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I see two things in Gorton and Denton: palpable frustration and the need for wise voting to stop Reform | Polly Toynbee
After speaking to locals, I still can’t predict the result, but a big, combined effort will be needed. Without a united front the left may splinter and lose, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/20/gorton-and-denton-reform-labour-greens?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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This time next week, we'll hopefully have 25% more Green Party MPs. Go
@greenpartyhan.bsky.social
!!! 🤞🤞🤞
23 days ago
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Guardian Environment
23 days ago
Wood burning pollution leads to 8,600 premature US deaths a year, study finds
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Wood burning pollution leads to 8,600 premature US deaths a year, study finds
Wood is primary heating in 2% of homes but contributes to producing 21% of country’s wintertime particle pollution
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/20/wood-burning-air-pollution-premature-us-deaths-study?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu_env
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Zack Polanski
24 days ago
This campaign is about hope vs hate. United, we can make sure Greens defeat Reform.
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24 days ago
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Adam Bienkov
24 days ago
So it turns out Matt Goodwin's Reform campaign manager was a holocaust-denying Nazi who said he would "never touch a Jewish woman.” When do we start seeing all the coverage of the antisemitism crisis in Reform UK?
www.jewishnews.co.uk/reform-uk-su...
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Reform UK suspends by-election campaign activist over ‘antisemitic and misogynistic’ posts
EXCLUSIVE: Adam Mitula, Reform UK’s interim campaign manager in Tameside, has been assisting Matt Goodwin's Gorton and Denton by-election campaign
https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/reform-uk-suspends-by-election-campaign-activist-over-antisemitic-and-misogynistic-posts/
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Manchester Green Party 🐝
24 days ago
🚨 1 WEEK LEFT 🟩 GREENS CAN WIN! We're SO CLOSE! 📢 There's phone-banking from home, leafleting, door-knocking, letter writing + bundling and election day! 👇 Please sign up + share the link
gorton-denton.greenparty.org.uk#action-days
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