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Jonathan Groves
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Software dev, electronics & railway signal engineer, radio amateur M0VRI. Director at Groves Solutions Ltd. Woke Green Vegan. Live in beautiful Deal. Deal Pirates Captain. Repair Café. Litter picker.
Keep safe…🇺🇦
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I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.
December 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Rewatched some Star Trek tonight.
Still wild how a show about warp drives and weird nebulae ends up teaching the cleanest lessons about being human.
Every episode says the same thing in its own way:
‘Be curious. Be brave.

…Try not to fire phasers unless you really have to.”
December 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Your regular reminder 👇

🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS
🏫 78% want publicly owned schools
💧 73% want publicly owned water
🚂 70% want publicly owned rail
✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail
🚍 67% want publicly owned buses
💡 65% want publicly owned energy
EXCLUSIVE: Poll shows huge support for nationalisation of key industries and utilities
Privatisation has failed.
leftfootforward.org
December 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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What are you waiting for…?

join.greenparty.org.uk
🎯ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY🎯

The Green Party has passed 180,000 members!

That's enough to fill Ally Pally 18 times - and we're not getting any littler 😉

All across the country, thousands of people are joining to build a positive movement of hope.

Be part of it. Join today ⤵️
December 9, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Yes.
December 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Ham radio operators are now officially part of Canada’s national emergency response.

www.hamradioworld.org/post/ham-rad...
December 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Daisy Cooper, "In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker that arrived on a boat"

"Today we have 46,000 a year"

"And do you know why?"

"Brexit"

"Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage"

*audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT
December 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Very proud of my amazing wife. Xx
This just came in the post. I had no idea I’d got a merit. Well chuffed 🧑‍🌾🪏
December 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Two questions to put to anyone who plans to vote for Reform UK.

1) Which UK political party do you think racists vote for?
2) Which UK political party do you think Vladimir Putin likes best?

Note - the answer is the same for both questions. Good luck Zack.
December 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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The right try and distract us by constantly talking about immigration.

Cost of Living, the NHS, the climate crisis - let's keep them on the agenda.

Join.greenparty.org.uk
December 4, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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The Express is furious about this because the moment you show those who repeat anti-immigration rhetoric the real human stories their narrative collapses.

The “immigrants” are people. Our friends, colleagues and family.

And it’s this nation of neighbours that is what makes Britain great.
December 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Not to be missed!
🖥 Tonight @zackpolanski.bsky.social and Reform's Zia Yusuf are on BBC Question Time to discuss immigration.

👀 Watch the last time they debated immigration on Question Time ⬇️
December 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Budget Breakdown…

youtu.be/rUCw66ApMko?...
Budget Breakdown
YouTube video by Jonathan Pie
youtu.be
December 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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50 seats...

Time to grow the Green Party even more.

Let's go.

Join.greenparty.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Hehe
Algebra was easy in Ancient Rome.

X = 10.
December 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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So so close to £200,000!

Other parties are funded by the super rich, hedge funders with private healthcare, oil and gas and arms traders.

We're growing our movement with the people.

If you want to help take the fight to Reform - please do chip in!

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Hope is here: help us deliver it
Hope is here. In just 5 hours, we hit our £100,000 target. We're doubling our target. Let's take the fight to Reform in May.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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In case you missed it
Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
December 1, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Moving towards our stretch target of £200,000!

A huge thank you to everyone who's donated - we're gonna challenge Labour and take the fight to Reform!

www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
Green Party raises more in a day than they did in six months
Green Party supporters are here to do two things: fundraise for the local elections and suck humbug, and they're all out of humbug
www.thecanary.co
November 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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One of my favorite Douglas Adams quotes:

“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others.”

More timely today than ever, don't you think? 💙

#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky
November 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Hehe
rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"
November 29, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Ha!
November 29, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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It is not in the interests of private companies to invest in something that isn’t going to make a profit! There’s no way literally on this earth, that our water should be privatised!

Water should be back in public hands and in the hands of a government who gives a damn!

#votegreen
November 29, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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In 24 hours this has now raised £150,000.

Thank you to the thousands of people who have donated.

Let's make small donations normal again!

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Hope is here.

Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
November 29, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Hope is here.

Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
November 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Ha!
My Brain:
"Psst, here's a great idea for your book."

Me:
"I'm busy. I'll write it down later. I'll remember it."

Morgan Freeman:
"But he did not remember it, for his brain soon moved on to wonder how cottage cheese gets made."

#WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky
November 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM