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the most ashamed i have felt as an American was recognizing all my Iraqi friends had a specific facial expression when talking about dead loved ones that meant, "they were killed by your military but i don't want to say that because we're buds and i don't want you to feel bad"

submitted 11 hours ago • 39 comments

When you ponder UK positioning on US, do bear in mind the US has 13 military bases in UK, 10,000 personnel, and we lease our nuclear missiles from the US, they are not ours.

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Official figures prove that government claims that social security spending is “spiralling out of control” are “not based on any real facts”, say disabled activists.

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

Please call out dog whistles in #benefits coverage if you can. These words aren’t neutral—they’re framing devices: Genuine Working families Scrapheap Spiralling Medicalising Lifestyle choice Hardworking taxpayers Wasting potential Sickness (not disability) Ups and downs of life

submitted 5 hours ago • 9 comments

Is there seriously not a band called Hunter Biden's Laptop yet?

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OMG the BBC is further leaning into self flagellation to appease zionists. Abject cowards.

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The smart ones own hens.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

It's back . . . and it's electric Two teams, two batteries, and a junkyard: what could possibly go wrong? youtu.be/thifCyml94Y

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

Seemingly this book is being totally dishonest at how this project may have failed, it had the support of the entire Western establishment. It was not some plucky outsiders, it was an arm of hegemony.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Top Left: Watercolour artist opens exhibition at library Top Right: PE Teacher announces shock resignation at press conference Bottom Left: Accused family murderer refuses to speak in court Bottom Right: Groom nervously waits for bride at registry office

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Quatermas ranking: 1. Andrew Keir (Film 1967, BBC Radio 1996) 2. André Morell (TV 1958–1959) 3.Jason Flemyng (TV 2005) 4. John Mills (TV 1979) 5. Reginald Tate (TV 1953) 6. John Robinson (TV 1955) 7. Brian Donlevy (Film 1955, 1957)

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Nailed it.

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So with Trump/Vance reality show attack on Zelensky, was Starmer's servility such a triumph? Answers on a state visit invitation. Bigger Picture: This is the problem with imperialism, when you are a vassal state a lot depends on who the emperor is. The solution is don't do imperialism.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Indeed, I would add, we are seeing on TV what normally happens in private. Or did you think the US empire was a nice cuddly love bunny?

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NEW: "There is no set of measures the DWP can cook up that will achieve the savings the Treasury is demanding, on the timescale it is demanding them, without blanket-bombing disabled people." My deep dive on what the DWP isn't trumpeting about its latest research: www.bigissue.com/news/employm...

submitted 23 hours ago • 12 comments

Teams is a greedy system resource hog, Skype less so, MS are pushing people into Teams and for many it will not work well on older machines. Potentially a number of Skype users are going to very inconvenienced. Zoom is better option for older devices. But having to learn new things is exclusionary.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

New article with Narzanin Massoumi in the @bjsociology.bsky.social: ‘Elite Status-Seeking and Class Reproduction in Civil Society.’ Thread.👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Orange & Ham, the special relationship

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“The cost of living for people with mental illness is no less pressing than the extra costs for people with physical illness or disability…. the society they envisage does not include us”. V.important new blog from @ritb.bsky.social with vital testimony on MH costs: tinyurl.com/49s53tt9

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Good, note the BBC are fraudulently reporting this as a win for the university on the same day they defend their censorship of Palestinian survivors of the ongoing genocide. Utterly shameful.

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Qanon basically came true. a cabal of pedophile sex traffickers has seized control of the state news.sky.com/story/andrew...

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Mutual aid for Palestinians: All Our Relations- Supporting 18 Families from Gaza to Rebuild Their Lives allourrelations.co.uk/sponsor-a-fa... Sameer Project chuffed.org/project/1132... Butterfly Effect verified fundraisers spreadsheet docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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At a remote prison in Virginia, a number of incarcerated people are resorting to an extreme form of protest: they're setting themselves on fire. Jennifer Black and Noel Hanrahan of @prisonradio.bsky.social on what's driving these men to assert their humanity this way.

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Twin Peaks: Shelly Johnson at the RR Diner.

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recoveryinthebin.org/2025/02/27/i...

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Vomit

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beta.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jo... In case you're wondering what it pays to work for a service designed by transgender conversion therapy promoters, it's north of £100k potentially

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I think it's fair to say I am not in favour of these measures. Pls Take Action bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/st...

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'Progressive Zionist' Progressive Fascist

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The most pathetic shrug yet, and that is up against some very stiff competition. Britain has 165 billionaires and 3 million food bank users. Labour have picked a side, and it ain't us.

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New York Review Dec 19th 2023 'The Long War on Gaza' by Sara Roy archive.today/NNCVn 'In November (2023) a USAID official approached a colleague of mine and asked about the feasibility of building a tent city in the Sinai, which would be followed by a more permanent arrangement'

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One can only hope that some enterprising law firm is putting together a business plan for rolling no win no fee lawsuits for every woman who wants to sue them for millions, so the rest of their life is nothing but court appearances and abject poverty.

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Gaza’s war ended after 480 days, but the real battle began afterward, centered on the struggle for survival and securing the bare minimum of life’s necessities amid soaring prices, a collapsed healthcare system, and the absence of income sources. gofund.me/86908382

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

With the Tate brothers fleeing to US (I’ll call them the rape twins) it does appear that one of the common threads of Trumps coterie is sexual abusers. To the extent that unless proven otherwise, it is fair to assume if you are male and in his cohort you are an abuser.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Spot on. DEI was the bare minimum and not sincerely held by corporations and arguably a fig leaf to avoid actually dealing with the structural violence of systems. But in ref to Star Trek, I do think the Trek team should make a strong public statement of the values it has. Trek was always woke!

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The DWP are outraged at killing for political ends, gosh, just wait until they find out about the DWP. They’re going to be furious with them! Also still waiting for their tweet condemning genocide in Palestine.

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When Quordle goes you way, in 6!

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The criminal justice system happily breaching the law as ever.

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'failed to incentivise’ you can just have said FAILED. Because it never was anything but performative cruelty, what right does the state have to use poverty as slow violence against its citizens? And that Labour has not lifted it is a disgrace.

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but also 'was training to be a police officer with Devon and Cornwall Police at the time of his arrest in January 2022.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I think it's wishful thinking to imagine, at this point, that any of the frothing reactionaries in the British press ever wanted a different outcome.

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I am taking it as a badge of honour that some of my work has been attacked by ‘UK DOGE’ and the Guido tory/fash wankers. Now back to the Woke mines to dig out some more nuggets of equity and disability justice :)

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My god, he sounds like Keith Starmer and Rachel Reeves

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FREE ALAA

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

personal liberties and free markets = crowdfund an army of Luigi's

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Got some cash you can spare, you know what to do

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The thing about Bezos is, the corporate press always was prey to who owns it, it never opposed capitalism, so live by the sword, now the Post has died by the sword. It is sad, but it was always possible and they never did anything to deviate from this likely doom. Capitalism≠ democracy

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Sir Keir Starmer’s senior aides holding talks with Boris Johnson’s former policy chief as they seek to tackle the rise of Reform. Munira Mirza, who ran the No 10 policy unit from 2019 until her resignation in 2022, is a long-standing critic of liberal multiculturalism archive.today/2V8rd

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Secure at Home, Strong Abroad says the lectern message. We are not secure, we have permanent foodbanks, evictions, massive deaths tolls from benefit deaths, from bad or denied healthcare, deaths in the channel. And why do we have any right to be ‘strong abroad’? And always THE FLAGS! THE FLAGS!

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