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Meanwhile in the other place lunacy continues to reign

submitted 99 days ago • 155 comments

This is a war not just against the living planet, not just against the common good, but against the very nature of material reality. The ultimate expression of power is to say "night is day", and have others believe you. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 106 days ago • 73 comments

🚨Millions of people in this country are living in poverty, destitution & using food banks. It’s barely getting a mention. I’m joining forces with @bigissue.bsky.social in calling for a POVERTY ZERO LAW - a statutory duty for every gov’t to set POVERTY REDUCTION TARGETS youtu.be/uAr58YqXW7I?...

submitted 108 days ago • 56 comments

I love it here. You actually get to read a post with out refreshing half way through and missing half the post.

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

This gave me goosebumps. “My 18-year-old daughter was at Starbucks, alone, the other night. A man came up to her and started talking to her. A barista handed her “an extra hot chocolate someone forgot to pick up.” How grateful I am for people who look out for other people!” We need each other.

submitted 108 days ago • 759 comments

We're one of many independent left media alternatives on here. We encourage everyone to not only follow us, but others who will challenge the neo-liberal status quo. Repost to help yourself get connected! @rickyhale.bsky.social @novaramedia.com @thecanaryuk.bsky.social @voicesmedia.bsky.social

submitted 107 days ago • 8 comments

Our media is in such a mess. I met with the @mediareformuk.bsky.social this week & discussed need for proper regulation and the Leveson Inquiry. 90% of our media is controlled by the same 3 people. A huge amount of hope seeing these new independent media organisations - they deserve our support! 👇🏼

submitted 107 days ago • 4 comments

submitted 108 days ago • 903 comments

Look at the difference in traffic between Twitter and BlueSky when you compare my newsletter last week (image one) with the one this week (image two).

submitted 107 days ago • 45 comments

I’m so going to miss X once it’s gone

submitted 107 days ago • 282 comments

The cost of living crisis is a crisis driven by fossil fuels. It's a crisis of inequality where richest 1% of the world emit more than poorest two thirds. Marching today with @thegreenparty.bsky.social & lots of organisations for social, racial, economic & environmental justice. 🇵🇸🌎✊🏼

submitted 107 days ago • 3 comments

Many commentators say that vigilante groups are never the answer. But they clearly don't know about the masked Ecuadorian trio named “Acción Ortográfica Quito,” who roam the streets at night with a singular purpose: to correct all the spelling and grammar mistakes they find in graffiti.

submitted 108 days ago • 813 comments

If your wondering why ticket prices for giggs are extortionate. Why bills and rent are going up and up. Why food prices are through the roof. It's called capitalism folks. Only the rich win 👍

submitted 107 days ago • 3 comments

Who here thinks billionaires shouldn’t exist? Share if you agree!

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment

Appalling. Remote controlled drones being used to hover over, look at, and then cynically shoot children ranks amongst the sickest cowardice ever. Best not highlight who is doing it though, hey BBC?

submitted 108 days ago • 99 comments

Tesla Girl - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment

The new edition of Byline Times is hitting the press, with lots of brilliant pieces from Hardeep Matharu, Peter Geoghegan, Sonia Purnell, Peter Oborne, Otto English, Rosie Holt and many more. Get your copy here: subscribe.bylinetimes.com

submitted 109 days ago • 15 comments

Exclusive: Michael Gove secretly looked for extremism in Tower Hamlets audit but found none - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-gove-appointed-former-middle-east-diplomat-inspect-lutfur-rahmans-council-over

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

Bitch Flaccidly & the Sun-blanched Kid

submitted 108 days ago • 2 comments

Sorry, I know this is upper level shallow. But I've waited 30 years as a published author to see one of my books in an actual bookshop and today was the day! Thanks Leeds Waterstones. (In distinguished company, too!)

submitted 109 days ago • 901 comments

I'm struggling to find words for the absolute madness of the Trump election, so I commissioned this from my daughter. I must add, that I asked for farridge to be emerging from the turkey's arse, but she was too traumatised🤣🤣🤣 Art courtesy of @fairypainter.bsky.social

submitted 108 days ago • 8 comments

A new UN report finds that the policies and practices of Israel are "consistent with the characteristics of genocide". There is no excuse for saying you did not know. This is genocide in plain sight. www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

submitted 108 days ago • 56 comments

Word of the Day, should you need it, is ‘latibulate’, a 17th-century verb meaning to find a corner somewhere and hide in it.

submitted 109 days ago • 473 comments

TODAY a fresh attempt will be made to resolve the shocking IPP scandal once and for all in the form of a Private Members’ Bill by the Labour peer Lord Woodley which I’m supporting- More here thecriminaljusticeblog.com/2024/09/04/c...

submitted 109 days ago • 3 comments

This is absolutely ridiculous. Hundreds of GP practices have closed across the UK in recent years. Millions of patients are waiting longer than 4 weeks to see their GP. Why won’t Wes Streeting support GPs? 🚨🚨🚨

submitted 109 days ago • 31 comments

GDP figures out today show that the economy is tanking under Labour. It's time for a Wealth Tax. #FolloForFolloBack if you agree.

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

STORY 'Nazi song' sung by comic at dinner attended by Boris Johnson and Liz Truss www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

submitted 109 days ago • 8 comments

Reacclimatising to life without a constant stream of abuse over here is wild. Anyone else not quite sure what to do with themselves? Quick… someone scream ‘Lesbo 🤡’ at me in case I forget.

submitted 109 days ago • 3 comments

I’m absolutely delighted that the Bylines Network is now over 20,000 followers on Bluesky. This is real “citizen journalism”, real articles, edited, IMPRESS-regulated… …Elon Musk wouldn’t comprehend.

submitted 109 days ago • 11 comments

Want to join us in building these stats? Now's a great time! join.greenparty.org.uk

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

Loved being at the launch of @garethdennis.bsky.social book "How The Railways will fix the future." The worlds railways were created for extraction and exploitation. How can we harness them for good? Mobility is a human right. Very much looking forward to reading! 👇🏼

submitted 109 days ago • 6 comments

Wild that Dutch MP Caroline van der Plas is wielding in parliament a hastily written report by the Israeli Ministry of Diaspora Affairs containing a bunch of accusations smearing pro-Palestinian Dutch orgs. Remember this is the same ministry secretly caught funding anti-Muslim hate campaigns

submitted 109 days ago • 2 comments

More good news 👇

submitted 110 days ago • 61 comments

I've been on here for a day now and nobody has told me that my music is well shit and nobody has asked to see me next Tuesday. I think I'll stay🤣🥳❤️

submitted 110 days ago • 53 comments

Of all the reasons I’m boiling mad at Biden, this is top. There’s plenty to say about Trump’s cruelty to migrants, and likely abandonment of Ukraine. But it’s on Biden’s watch that hundreds of thousands in ME are dying, displaced, facing disease and starvation www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

submitted 109 days ago • 16 comments