Rob Bryher
@robbryher.bsky.social
📍Bristol, England / 🌿 Green councillor for St George West on Bristol City Council / 🧩 Green Group Organiser (Whip) / 🅿️ Chair of Kerbside and Parking Strategy Task and Finish Group / 🏷 Agnostic, agonist, English, left populist, republican, secularist
If the North of England gets these trains in 2034, the South West, including Bristol, will still have diesel-powered trains long after 2034. This is not an acceptable position. One of the Major sources of diesel pollution in Bristol is the trains. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
New battery-powered trains will ‘bring faster journeys to north’
No 10 says new fleet of trains built in Derby will support 6,000 jobs across UK
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A good day
Patrick McAllister 🌱@patdbmcallister.bsky.social · 3d agoOnly slightly bleary-eyed as @robbryher.bsky.social and I head off to Coventry for the day to take part in a @local.gov.uk training day on Corporate Peer Challenges for councils! This is just one of the exciting opportunities for the Green Party now that we have our own LGA group.
And the Buses in the West of England Combined Authority area will still slavishly follow the Thatcherite privatisation model, where FirstBus Shareholders take all the profits. Burnham needs to have a word in Godwin's ear.
We Own It@weownit.org.uk · 6d ago🚨BREAKING: Liverpool City Region's buses are coming into public control today HUGE FIRST STEP to rescue local buses from Thatcher's Wild West deregulation and privatisation Ultimately our buses must be fully regulated in public ownership, to stop profits and serving our communities
The Government is letting data centre developers bypass local scrutiny... BUT they don't even know what the data centres are being used for 🤯 It's time to put the brakes on. It's time for a national data centre strategy.
if spreadsheet people was ever meant as an insult, i am reclaiming it. my columns and rows are beautiful even if others don't see what i see within them
I said £50 million spent on this junction in 2019, which wasn't connected to the rest of the road network, was a waste then. A slip road has now been built for a further £7m, but the bridges have now been declared unsafe! This is motonormativity gone mad. www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
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When you call your cricket team a stupid name like Manchester Super Giants, you should expect nothing less than the announcer to yell "MSG!!!" when you are receiving a trophy
Italy just beat Britain by 3 hundredths of a second to win the whole European athletics championships in the last moment of the last event. What an incredible week it has been!
I fell into watching Yesterday again last night after the athletics finished The four things missing from the parallel universe are: The Beatles Harry Potter Coca-Cola Cigarettes 2 out of 4 ain't bad! I'll leave you to decide which two things I think are expendable.
I wish my Republican-voting American grandparents were still around to endorse me. Haha!
Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · last mo.I proudly endorse this message from my grandparents ❤️
I have actually heard this song because of its status (sought it out) but I still can't remember it. I know I'm old for saying this, but please bring the monoculture back a bit. And I don't just mean TOTP repeats on BBC 2 (which are indeed sweet solace). www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...
Demise of the monoculture: why so many have never heard UK’s record-breaking No 1 single
Sam Fender and Olivia Dean’s Rein Me In is longest-running No 1 single in UK chart history, and yet it seems to have passed many people by
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Superlative video from Haringey Council (run by Greens) on the scale of the challenge re: local government austerity. There needs to be a transformative change in how local government is funded and delivers for the needs of our communities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DESr...
Facing the financial challenges
YouTube video by haringeycouncil
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Why the international authorities persist with this event is beyond me.
Phone Coop have really excellent customer service. The queue time on their phone lines is never longer than about 10 seconds in my experience too. I would recommend changing your internet service provider away from the big ones.
If you think that half time "show" was good and/or worth it, you have to go now please
"City relieved" = Burnham's government won't challenge the power of the bankers, or tax their wealth. Who is choosing our politicians - the people or the banking sector?
I think this is still Spielberg's greatest "religious experience at a spectacle" scene, because Sam Neill and Laura Dern contribute so much to it. RIP Sam Neill (who was also tremendous in Hunt For The Wilderpeople). youtube.com/watch?v=E8Wa...
Jurassic Park (1993) - Welcome to Jurassic Park Scene | Movieclips
YouTube video by Movieclips
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In case you missed it, here's Count Binface's appearance on the BBC this morning.
Pet peeves when you live in a city... "Town centre" No. It's either "city centre" or "town". Lecture over.
Misery is a world where vaccine sceptic Djokovic is still playing and winning and wonderful Serena Williams makes a comeback and loses.
Serving as an MP is a privilege and should be viewed as such by those who do the job – not as a part-time role or a get-rich-quick scheme. We need a ban on second jobs for MPs now.
South Gloucestershire's unitary authority has its first-ever Green Party councillor, after a Labour cllr for Kingswood defected. He explains why, here: www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
South Gloucestershire has first-ever Green councillor after Labour defection
"Two years into a Labour Government and foodbanks still outnumber McDonalds"
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Sign this please pavementoverload.com
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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