I cut my Labour Party membership card today... No reason other than I found it in a draw. I left years ago when Starmer started talking about jailing climate protestors.
Ben Gray
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Nottingham and East Midlands Green Party Co-Chair Dad, Cyclist, Inventor, Green Party, former Borough Councillor, keen runner, enthusiastic OCR participant, tree hugger, PhD Chemist, increasingly grumpy.
Tonight's overnight experiment. Should be printing the remaining 1/3 of a robot arm, based off a robot arm I designed some time ago. 3D printing is so slow, but kind of satisfying.
MeArm Robotics / Ben at MeArm@mearm.bsky.social · last mo.Tonight's print time lapse set up. Patented tape mount was good but turns out it gets dark when the sun goes down and the battery gave out. Old school pi hub to the rescue! #3dprinting #raspberrypi
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Pavement Overload | Britain's Pavements Are Not For Sale
Delivery robots are operating on Britain's pavements with no law to permit them. The Living Streets Pavement Overload campaign is demanding Government action to protect pedestrians and public space.
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Let nobody say that I'm not an innovator / problem solver. Time lapse camera mount. No 3D printer needed!
MeArm Robotics / Ben at MeArm@mearm.bsky.social · last mo.Time lapse camera mount for 3d printer. Patent pending #3dprinting #startup
This is one of 65 publicly owned assets that Rushcliffe Borough Council owns in West Bridgford. These will be swept into a super council unless we can form a town council to protect them. Nearby Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire County are selling assets to plug funding gaps
Nice quiet week then eh? No drama, lets just have a normal one.
Please see below for my list of people who should never be allowed near the levers of power in this country - ever.
Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 2mo agoKeir Starmer was hanging out with the Murdochs last night, according to Politico
Loving Adobe products begging for life as they're uninstalled. "But these are all the things you can do for free" - are they bollocks, you've gutted the free versions and constantly nag for extortionate payments. Yes we know AI costs money, but no we didn't want it.
River season is underway, we're asking anglers to log their catches in aid of conservation. Together, we're hoping to create an updated list of fish species in the Trent and its tributaries. Each catch you log counts: www.trentriverstrust.org/trent30/
Wonderful deep thinking and informative podcast examining the water industry, by looking closely at the River Trent
Trent Rivers Trust@trentriverstrust.bsky.social · 3mo agoIt's been an absolute pleasure to speak to @nottspod about the Trent and the vision we have for the river. The interview is part of a series called 'Trentbelly', which explores the history and causes behind the pollution crisis the Trent faces.
Urgh. AI everything. Canva was fairly decent, now they seem to have removed tools to do anything but ask AI to do it, and AI just keeps fucking around with stuff it has no business fucking around with
Time to end rip-off Britain. Time to decouple electricity prices from gas and bring down bills.
“Hope without a plan clearly isn’t going to work and a plan without hope sounds bureaucratic to me,” Zack Polanski, the leader of Britain’s Green Party, tells David Wallace-Wells. “And I will get to the plan, I promise. But first: Don’t underestimate the hope.”
Opinion | Zack Polanski on the Rise of Britain’s Green Party
Zach Polanski of Britain’s left-populist party talks austerity, Labour and the establishment crackup.
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One of those days where you just feel like every little thing is against you. Big things like the shit storm the world over, smaller things like local planners giving two thumbs up to building houses on radioactive waste sites, and yet kicking off about permitted development rights,
Ofwat £22m fine proposal for South East Water for repeated supply failures. "Proposal" = companies with criminal convictions negotiate, may never pay. Thames Water to pay 2024 fines by 2030 or never. 2024 fines on Yorkshire and Northumbrian Water quietly waived. Execs never fined or prosecuted.
South East Water faces £22m fine for supply failures
The firm was unable to cope during high demand, Ofwat says, leading to
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Plumber wins by-election for Greens From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
His principles were the exact same. Simply put, they were absent. He lacks them and just tells the lies he, personally, needs to gain more power.
Mike Galsworthy@mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 5mo agoSix years ago, his principles were entirely different.
Imagine your party has won a historic byelection. You've had election day, a loads of interviews, held a press conference with your new MP and welcomed lots of new members. Sleep? Nah. It's time for The Last Leg! #isitok
Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social, I have enjoyed our exchange of letters about which of our parties is best placed to stop Reform. Hannah Spencer MP and I trust that you agree that this question has now been resolved once and for all. Thanks, Zack Polanski
If only desperate Labour Ministers could be bothered to "... look at the difference decriminalising drugs has made in Portugal" For "an evidence based policy which had consulted hundreds of experts in the field" go to @greenparty.org.uk meme via Glyn Goodwin
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...
Let's get our ducks in a row! If you want to make hope normal again, you can: JOIN join.greenparty.org.uk DONATE donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk and HELP GET HANNAH ELECTED!!! gorton-denton.greenparty.org.uk#get-involved
The Green Party of England & Wales@greenparty.org.uk · 6mo agoSomething the Government want you to forget...
And when they have all our defence and medical information, Starmer will say, nobody told him, it didn't come across his desk. Which assistant will have to resign?
Ed Wilson@eddwilson.bsky.social · 6mo ago"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm" www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw... #R4Today