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Muttering ‘ ᶠᵘᶜᵏⁱⁿᵍ ᶜʰʳⁱˢᵗ ‘ to yourself but you keep drawing anyway is actually so important to the artistic process

submitted 19 hours ago • 4 comments

Libraries gave us power. It’s a choice. Hackney Library - where my sister & I waited after school every day in the 70/80s for Dad (Sligo) to pick us up after work on building sites. Our mum died when we were small. The librarians knew they were free child care. Saints. (We are both avid readers.)

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

Don’t watch this unless you are prepared to cry. ICE raided the grade school graduation ceremony of a primarily hispanic school, causing migrant parents to flee, leaving their children who have citizenship behind. This is not about dangerous gang members, it’s about racism and white nationalism. 😔😢😡

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🚨URGENT: Sign and share our petition. ❗KKR, the predatory US private equity firm lined up to rescue Thames Water, has pulled out. Thames Water is back in crisis. It's time for Steve Reed to cut the 💩and bring it into public hands. vist.ly/3n529qc

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Government officials have APPROVED a fresh wave of badger culling to begin immediately, DESPITE clear opposition from their OWN chief scientific adviser. In addition, culling periods are expected to be EXTENDED in further 10 areas, including parts of the West Country, Northamptonshire, and Cumbria.

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Keir Starmer facing scrutiny over failure to establish new ethics watchdog. Feather-duster rules won't stop sale of parties/legislators to corporations/rich, cash for questions/access. Public scepticism will grow until political donations, freebies, sham consultancies are outlawed.

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"Ministers must ban bottom trawling for fish in marine protected areas, an influential group of MPs has said, because the destructive practice is devastating the seabed and marine life." 👍 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Because someone shares your name or DNA doesn't mean you are anything like them-- or that you owe them interaction or access to you that compromises your safety, stability, or recovery. "Okay, but..." Nope. "But" nothing. Your recovery comes first-- full stop.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Most right-wing Prime Ministers start wars to win votes via "patriotism" But although Labour arms Israel & Ukraine the UK is not at war so what is Starmer not telling us a planned British invasion of Afghanistan (again) Iran (again) or maybe to share with the US oil rich Greenland ...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Thank god we've got someone covering Israel's relentless annihilation of civilians in Gaza. Thank you @channel4news.bsky.social #C4News

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Grateful to host Louis Theroux in Parliament for a screening of The Settlers and a Q&A with MPs. It sparked vital discussions on the appalling situation in Gaza and the West Bank, highlighting the need for greater scrutiny and the breaches of basic decency & democratic norms.

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UK Govt AI copyright plan suffers fifth Lords defeat, 221 to 116 votes. Copyright enables many to earn a living. It is being ripped off by tech companies. All they need to do is to inform people, get a licence to use and pay. Govt says change might come in the future. I voted against the govt.

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

You can’t tell me that what Labour & Starmer are doing with PIP cuts is right. There’s no fraud in regards to them & they enable people to work. This right here is disgraceful.

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📉 Neil sums up the lunacy of the self-inflicted hit to the UK's GDP after Brexit...

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Obliged to @jonnelledge.bsky.social for sounding so sane, which is more than one can say about the papers he writes about. www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Promoting bad development by allowing the easy destruction of our last patches of nature is wrong. It is not necessary for dealing with the real need for housing and infrastructures.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Starmer and BBC maintain the nonsense that a national economy is like a household and comparing the two has validity. It also reinforces the false notion that government debt is the same as household debt and therefore implies that it must be paid back and if not the borrower will be bankrupt.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Why is this not a bigger story? The deputy GRIFTER-in-CHIEF wants to rob new workers of their pension, give existing workers lower pay rises, while taking his glod plated MP pension in time. This is what Deform clowns voted for. To make themselves poorer birminghamunison.co.uk/2025/06/03/r...

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

Reform is a Limited Company Farage owns 53% It was formed in 2019 to push for a “no-deal Brexit” It wants to reintroduce the Liz Truss budget It wants to privatise the NHS & invest in fossil fuels Close the BBC & break International law It’s a scam Please retweet widely

submitted 23 days ago • 88 comments

This is NOT a joke

submitted 5 days ago • 46 comments

I just want a global 'turn all 'ai' off everywhere, categorically, no exceptions unless I individually approve them in triplicate' setting for all my devices

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

chatting with my mum, who is furiously angry because 'if you're from Africa, you can't get a visa to this country [the UK] any more, not for a family wedding, not to go to your son's PhD graduation - when did we become so scared of the world?'

submitted 6 days ago • 29 comments

Deep breath, lads. In response to the proposed government disability cuts, I wrote a piece about my life before The Daily Tism (it includes a PIP assessment, a mental health crisis and iced Madeira cake). We’ll fight this with everything we’ve got. #TakingThePip

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments

At the screening last night Tony Gilroy spoke about why a lot of people in creative fields are progressive. I forget his exact phrasing but basically it’s because you have to have empathy in order to make something that speaks to people. Refreshing to hear empathy talked about as a positive.

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

It's 3 years today since Shell was given the go-ahead to drill for new gas at Jackdaw field. It was later ruled unlawful, but self-styled "green" chancellor Rachel Reeves made clear she doesn't care 👇 Repost if you agree Govt should make a break with fossil fuel polluters to make a safer future

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

Happy #SocialistSunday everyone. As always, it’s the people who haven’t got much, or anything, that have to bear the brunt of repeated economic failure. Will follow/follow back like-minded people. ✊ #TaxTheRich #WealthTax #bbclaurak #TrevorPhillips

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

It is surrounded by 34 smaller wooden crosses, each of which bears a handwritten name. “In loving memory to all the homeless who have passed away on our streets of Cardiff”, reads a plaque in their midst. Scandalous. apple.news/AZwMLb3QTRkq...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

So let's get this right. The tariff war with the UK was on. Then it was off. Momentarily it was illegal. Now it is doubled. Next week it will be???? How can anyone plan as a deluded old man makes policy based on how he feels that morning? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Choosing to monetise your hobbies is one thing and being forced to commodify yourself and every part of your life is another. Personally I don’t want to be a brand, I want to be a human and an artist.

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

Cutting down Canadian forest for wood pellets to burn in a UK power station is not nor ever will be green, yet the UK government pays £££billions in environmental subsidies - more than they subsidise wind or solar - for a process that actually raises our energy bills. www.nrdc.org/bio/matt-wil...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

"Stop expecting the government to do things for you." Oh, you mean the government that takes a quarter of my income every year, whether I like it or not? That government?

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

🔴NEW:The dark money behind UK's anti-abortion backlash - Key US anti‑abortion lawyer funding Toby Young’s Free Speech Union - Alliance Defending Freedom’s UK spending soars Warnings of “obvious danger” of “importing America's toxic far right politics” democracyforsale.substack.com/p/us-antiabo...

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