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george766.bsky.social
Liberal democratic based in UK. Teacher. Accepting of all lifestyles except those that want to stop others living their lives... so a proud "libtard, snowflake". Centre ground, slightly left leaning. Love the arts, travel, and getting back to basics.
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Shein will continue to be profitable because the need of a westerner for a cheap party dress or shirt is more important than the rights of other humans. Ironically, many of the westerners making this choice would have been the ones being abused 150 years ago.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Hey! The US is shortly to have it's inauguration day. Everyone pay attention, for 'tis the centre of the universe! Oh wait... pause, sleep and snore.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

There is no maternity leave for members of Congress. And members aren't allowed to cast votes remotely while recovering from childbirth or caring for young kids. Yet, 47% American men believe the US has gone so far to promote women's equality that we're hurting men. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/u...

submitted 50 days ago • 37 comments

“Certain titans of Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and (God forgive us) the media have hustled off to Mar-a-Lago, a scene of such flagrant self-abnegation, ring-kissing, and genuflection that it would embarrass a medieval Pope,” David Remnick writes.

submitted 50 days ago • 15 comments

Some say with disgust; “Bluesky is a Liberal Echo Chamber” Newsmax, Fox, Breitbart, Alex Jones, Joe Rogan, X, FB, and just about every news outlet in America is a Right Wing echo chamber.. all owned by rich dudes wanting power!

submitted 51 days ago • 94 comments

As a reporter who covered the Facebook apology tour circa 2016, and spent HOURS on the phone with FB flak and executives earnestly telling me Zuckerberg was torn up over Russian election interference and was making it a top priority to fix misinfo on FB, this week’s developments are 🙃

submitted 52 days ago • 76 comments

Do me a kindness! Share this if you love and support your local library & librarians (and remember: that includes your school library & school librarian) 😊📚 Thank you libraries & library workers… for everything ✨💚

submitted 51 days ago • 255 comments

The 13th Amendment allows for modern day SLAVE LABOR. They risking their lives for pennies.

submitted 52 days ago • 450 comments

Hey readers if you get my books from the library….THANK YOU! Libraries are wonderful! Authors do get paid when our books are in libraries and it’s a way to get our books in the hands of readers who might not have picked it up otherwise. Thank you for using the library, keep it up! Libraries rock!!!

submitted 52 days ago • 21 comments

You might not think you're in the 1%, but "the richest 1% – about 77 million people, including all those earning more than $140,000 (£114,000) a year – are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution each year as the poorest half of humanity."

submitted 52 days ago • 69 comments

My DMs this entire week as a Meta employee.

submitted 52 days ago • 203 comments

Scientists are warning that the world has entered a dangerous new era of chaotic floods, storms and fires made worse by human-caused climate change. The wildfires in Los Angeles are just the latest examples of this extreme weather.

submitted 52 days ago • 272 comments

If you don’t have a local library card, it should be your New Year’s resolution to get one. It’s an easy resolution to keep and you’ll actually use it, trust me.

submitted 52 days ago • 359 comments

I know I keep screaming this into the void but just because climate change isn’t the *only* factor contributing to an extreme event doesn’t mean it’s not *a* factor. Literally nothing on Earth is unaffected by the changing climate.

submitted 52 days ago • 179 comments

The issue isn’t whether Universal Healthcare can work. The issue is how do we get from where we are to UH. It took Canada decades and it has a ton of limits we might not like. The point being we have to find a starting point that can grow it into what works here www.canada.ca/en/health-ca...

submitted 52 days ago • 2043 comments

So upsetting that a guy who has changed his look to this on purpose has any kind of influence over anything. Should not be allowed

submitted 52 days ago • 252 comments

Meta is making big changes to hiring practices, sources told me and @mikeisaac.bsky.social - no more teams devoted to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - no diversity preference for working with outside minority owned supplier businesses - no goals for hiring women and minorities

submitted 52 days ago • 953 comments

Hi all, I've joined this media site due to the changes on X and meta that I find incredibly disturbing.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments