Claire Sheppard
@shinyshep.bsky.social
Green Party and community campaigner. 2024 Green GE Peckham and Lambeth & Southwark GLA candidate and CoFounder Nunhead Knocks also market research field queen. Likes crows.
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Any new joiners to the Green Party? WELCOME!
I'm so happy you've joined us but the fight we face is about more then membership. We need you to get involved with your local party, we need canidates & fundraisers & leafleters & doorknockers & socials & phonebankers & designers & videographers & more
I'm so happy you've joined us but the fight we face is about more then membership. We need you to get involved with your local party, we need canidates & fundraisers & leafleters & doorknockers & socials & phonebankers & designers & videographers & more
Am so glad that Labour have finally reached the humane viewpoint many of us held since the outset. Hopefully anyway.
NEW: Rachel Reeves signals she intends to remove the two-child cap *in full*
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Am so glad that Labour have finally reached the humane viewpoint many of us held since the outset. Hopefully anyway.
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I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
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This is literally treated as radical, outside-the-bounds of normal political discourse.
But Elon Musk gets $1,000,000,000,000.
Enough to by every unhoused person in America a $1.3 million home.
Enough to cover federal spending on school lunches for 57 years.
But Elon Musk gets $1,000,000,000,000.
Enough to by every unhoused person in America a $1.3 million home.
Enough to cover federal spending on school lunches for 57 years.
I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
This is literally treated as radical, outside-the-bounds of normal political discourse.
But Elon Musk gets $1,000,000,000,000.
Enough to by every unhoused person in America a $1.3 million home.
Enough to cover federal spending on school lunches for 57 years.
But Elon Musk gets $1,000,000,000,000.
Enough to by every unhoused person in America a $1.3 million home.
Enough to cover federal spending on school lunches for 57 years.
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Billie Piper announced as the new BBC Director General but we've got to wait until next Christmas to find out why.
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Billie Piper announced as the new BBC Director General but we've got to wait until next Christmas to find out why.
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It’s ironic to resign over editing a bunch of lies to reflect the truth.
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
It’s ironic to resign over editing a bunch of lies to reflect the truth.
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Any new joiners to the Green Party? WELCOME!
I'm so happy you've joined us but the fight we face is about more then membership. We need you to get involved with your local party, we need canidates & fundraisers & leafleters & doorknockers & socials & phonebankers & designers & videographers & more
I'm so happy you've joined us but the fight we face is about more then membership. We need you to get involved with your local party, we need canidates & fundraisers & leafleters & doorknockers & socials & phonebankers & designers & videographers & more
November 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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The Labour Party - and Steve Reed - is completely out of touch with reality.
Landlords don't build homes; they drive up prices and suck away our wages. Housing should be a right, not a commodity.
Abolish landlords.
House everyone.
Landlords don't build homes; they drive up prices and suck away our wages. Housing should be a right, not a commodity.
Abolish landlords.
House everyone.
November 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The Labour Party - and Steve Reed - is completely out of touch with reality.
Landlords don't build homes; they drive up prices and suck away our wages. Housing should be a right, not a commodity.
Abolish landlords.
House everyone.
Landlords don't build homes; they drive up prices and suck away our wages. Housing should be a right, not a commodity.
Abolish landlords.
House everyone.
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The BBC is apologising for its Panorama edit. It shouldn’t. First, the narrative is true: Donald Trump *did* incite the Capitol riot. Second, the apology won’t appease those attacking it. So why not at least stand for something?
Wrote this on it earlier this week:
inews.co.uk/news/world/b...
Wrote this on it earlier this week:
inews.co.uk/news/world/b...
The BBC was right about the Capitol riots. In a sane world, Trump would be in jail
The US President faced impeachment over the violence, and in a world where Republicans had more courage, he would have been found guilty
inews.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 7:05 AM
The BBC is apologising for its Panorama edit. It shouldn’t. First, the narrative is true: Donald Trump *did* incite the Capitol riot. Second, the apology won’t appease those attacking it. So why not at least stand for something?
Wrote this on it earlier this week:
inews.co.uk/news/world/b...
Wrote this on it earlier this week:
inews.co.uk/news/world/b...
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It's not every day that both poles set new monthly temperature records (see my earlier post). Last month also observed the warmest October on record for the #Arctic Circle. Not great!!
Data provided by doi.org/10.24381/cds....
Data provided by doi.org/10.24381/cds....
November 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
It's not every day that both poles set new monthly temperature records (see my earlier post). Last month also observed the warmest October on record for the #Arctic Circle. Not great!!
Data provided by doi.org/10.24381/cds....
Data provided by doi.org/10.24381/cds....
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Hope is being
able to see
that there is light
despite all of the darkness.
~Desmond Tutu
🕉️ Did you hear that...? 🦌🌿
#FeelingFall
#WeekendVibes
#EastCoastKin
#Photography
#GetOutThere
#Autumn
#Mammals
#Scape
able to see
that there is light
despite all of the darkness.
~Desmond Tutu
🕉️ Did you hear that...? 🦌🌿
#FeelingFall
#WeekendVibes
#EastCoastKin
#Photography
#GetOutThere
#Autumn
#Mammals
#Scape
November 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Hope is being
able to see
that there is light
despite all of the darkness.
~Desmond Tutu
🕉️ Did you hear that...? 🦌🌿
#FeelingFall
#WeekendVibes
#EastCoastKin
#Photography
#GetOutThere
#Autumn
#Mammals
#Scape
able to see
that there is light
despite all of the darkness.
~Desmond Tutu
🕉️ Did you hear that...? 🦌🌿
#FeelingFall
#WeekendVibes
#EastCoastKin
#Photography
#GetOutThere
#Autumn
#Mammals
#Scape
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if shitposters have more of an insight about major political events with our so-called special ally, than members of the government, then perhaps you shouldn’t be… in… the… job.
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
if shitposters have more of an insight about major political events with our so-called special ally, than members of the government, then perhaps you shouldn’t be… in… the… job.
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X is designed to radicalise people.
The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.
Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.
Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:53 AM
X is designed to radicalise people.
The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.
Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.
Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
I’d go so far as to say Marcus Rashford might be The Greatest Living Englishman… and I’m a Liverpool fan. Genuinely every time I think of how proud his mum but be of him, it makes my heart ache.
Nobody who is not an overt and vocal racist would insist on denying that Marcus Rashford or Maro Itoje can genuinely and legitimately identify as English. It should be a basic foundation that Braverman dies not impose her idea of how it ought to work on most people who do identify as English
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I’d go so far as to say Marcus Rashford might be The Greatest Living Englishman… and I’m a Liverpool fan. Genuinely every time I think of how proud his mum but be of him, it makes my heart ache.
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To be clear, what is being proposed here is to axe the main mechanism for getting Britain’s homes insulated - which is by FAR the best way to reduce household energy bills in the long term 🤦♂️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️
Reeves considers cut to green levies in effort to reduce cost of energy bills
Exclusive: Chancellor hopes to save up to £170 from average bill but industry insiders say move would be ‘disastrous’
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:17 AM
To be clear, what is being proposed here is to axe the main mechanism for getting Britain’s homes insulated - which is by FAR the best way to reduce household energy bills in the long term 🤦♂️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️
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I seem to remember Labour very recently making attack ads about how @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the Greens didn't care about the environment and that Labour are the REAL party of climate action.
Labour are an absolute disgrace on every conceivable level.
Labour are an absolute disgrace on every conceivable level.
UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests
UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests
Decision is bitter blow to Brazil ahead of fund’s launch at Cop30 – and an embarrassment to Prince William
The UK will not contribute to a flagship fund for the world’s remaining tropical forests, in a bitter blow to the Brazilian hosts on the eve of the Cop30 climate summit.
Keir Starmer flew to Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon, on Wednesday to join the summit of world leaders hosted by Brazil’s president, Lula da Silva. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I seem to remember Labour very recently making attack ads about how @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the Greens didn't care about the environment and that Labour are the REAL party of climate action.
Labour are an absolute disgrace on every conceivable level.
Labour are an absolute disgrace on every conceivable level.
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I have two - TWO - of these gorgeous original A4 meadow hare linoprints by my mum, Jo, to give away to a couple of lucky people here on Bluesky today.
Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...
Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...
November 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I have two - TWO - of these gorgeous original A4 meadow hare linoprints by my mum, Jo, to give away to a couple of lucky people here on Bluesky today.
Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...
Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...
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Nigel Farage's favoured Mayoral candidate for Doncaster said black people cannot be English.
Reform councillor Alexander Jones claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’.
The messages were deleted after questions were raised by Byline Times
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
Reform councillor Alexander Jones claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’.
The messages were deleted after questions were raised by Byline Times
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
Nigel Farage's Chosen Reform Mayoral Candidate Suggested Black Britons Can’t Be English
The party's candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon 'lineage' and attacked 'third world cultures' in now-deleted posts
bylinetimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Nigel Farage's favoured Mayoral candidate for Doncaster said black people cannot be English.
Reform councillor Alexander Jones claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’.
The messages were deleted after questions were raised by Byline Times
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
Reform councillor Alexander Jones claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’.
The messages were deleted after questions were raised by Byline Times
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
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November 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Oh happy day! Welcome to @southwarkgp.bsky.social Kath!
November 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Oh happy day! Welcome to @southwarkgp.bsky.social Kath!
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Any new joiners to the Green Party? WELCOME!
I'm so happy you've joined us but the fight we face is about more then membership. We need you to get involved with your local party, we need canidates & fundraisers & leafleters & doorknockers & socials & phonebankers & designers & videographers & more
I'm so happy you've joined us but the fight we face is about more then membership. We need you to get involved with your local party, we need canidates & fundraisers & leafleters & doorknockers & socials & phonebankers & designers & videographers & more
October 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Any new joiners to the Green Party? WELCOME!
I'm so happy you've joined us but the fight we face is about more then membership. We need you to get involved with your local party, we need canidates & fundraisers & leafleters & doorknockers & socials & phonebankers & designers & videographers & more
I'm so happy you've joined us but the fight we face is about more then membership. We need you to get involved with your local party, we need canidates & fundraisers & leafleters & doorknockers & socials & phonebankers & designers & videographers & more
Billie's right though, it's disgusting to be a billionaire, give it away shorties, volunteer to pay more tax, fund a thousand food and baby banks, spread some love, you greedy swines!
Why the anger with Billie Eilish? Because it’s against the rules to say what we all know about billionaires | Zoe Williams
Why the anger with Billie Eilish? Because it’s against the rules to say what we all know about billionaires | Zoe Williams
The singer is giving away millions – but the parameters for criticising the super-rich are very narrow, and hardly anyone qualifies, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Billie's right though, it's disgusting to be a billionaire, give it away shorties, volunteer to pay more tax, fund a thousand food and baby banks, spread some love, you greedy swines!
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I know many of you will already have done something to help the people of Jamaica, but if you felt like helping a specific family, this is the GoFundMe set up by my son’s girlfriend for her relatives, who find themselves in dire straits. Every bit helps, shares appreciated. gofund.me/9b5b74984
Donate to Hurricane Melissa: Please help support our family in Jamaica, organized by Taylor Mitchell
Hello everyone,
Many of you have heard about Hurricane Melis… Taylor Mitchell needs your support for Hurricane Melissa: Please help support our family in Jamaica
gofund.me
November 5, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I know many of you will already have done something to help the people of Jamaica, but if you felt like helping a specific family, this is the GoFundMe set up by my son’s girlfriend for her relatives, who find themselves in dire straits. Every bit helps, shares appreciated. gofund.me/9b5b74984
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And now, a physical metaphor for "LLMs can be just as good as human writers and artists!"
(And I know, I shared it twice. But it's just that nice!)
(And I know, I shared it twice. But it's just that nice!)
November 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
And now, a physical metaphor for "LLMs can be just as good as human writers and artists!"
(And I know, I shared it twice. But it's just that nice!)
(And I know, I shared it twice. But it's just that nice!)
We’re so happy to have Kath joining @southwarkgp.bsky.social - welcome to the Green team!
Southwark Councillor Kath Whittam on defecting from Labour to Greens: “I can breathe the fresh air of the Green Party and enjoy my politics again! There are no divisive factions, no sides to take; just a shared space to talk about common goals. It’s positive, hopeful, and focused on real solutions.”
November 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
We’re so happy to have Kath joining @southwarkgp.bsky.social - welcome to the Green team!