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sallyb36.bsky.social
Vegan ecological socialist, linguist, and humanist. Love reading and swimming.
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This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up *took* $80 million from an NYC bank account!

What the US is experiencing right now is fascism. There's no other word for it and pretending that it's verboten to say so diminishes the truth as much as they are diminishing the truth. It's fascism. It's arrived.

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

How is this legal? How? Why is every top Democrat not outside the Treasury right now, holding a press conference at least? Or filing a lawsuit?? I am losing my mind.

Made this delicious Satay THIS is not Chicken tonight. From Green Chef.

Deleted my X account last night. Can no longer be part of anything that fascist owns.

Musk’s denials that it was a Nazi salute might be just that little bit more credible but for this. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The wonderful Nile Rodgers and Chic in concert last night.

Good times

Railways set to come back into public ownership after nationalisation bill clears penultimate hurdle. www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/railway...

Jeremy Clarkson, a notorious supporter of hunts, owns a pub and farm business. If you don’t want your money supporting those linked to wildlife cruelty, check out bloodbusiness.info to make ethical spending choices.

England's privatised Water, expensive and filthy. Scotland's nationalised Water, cheap and clean.

Argh not more Private Finance Initiatives!! Two excellent journalists have written this👇This substack newsletter is really great: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

The public have never been asked if they would like the NHS to be privatised, and yet governments have enabled infiltration of private companies into the NHS for the past 4 decades 🚨

Also: If you don't have money to buy my (or anyone's) books, and you live in the anglosphere, before you pirate them, try to get them from your local library instead. They have it or can get it, they pay for the books, and in many places writers get paid for their books being lent. Everyone wins!

The NHS is collapsing because of the actions of politicians, and everyone deserves so much better than this.

Large parts of adult social care in England face collapse, thinktank says. The budget blamed but there are other factors. Massive real cut in local govt funding since 2010. Privatisation: 30%-40% of money vanishes in profits. Money buys less. End Privatisation www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Quick reminder that NHS staff were treated terribly by the Conservative government for 14 years and kept the NHS going throughout that entire period. They are *definitely* not to blame for problems in the NHS, no matter what the media is saying! 🌟

The government is using UK aid to further privatisation in war-torn Ukraine Independent media outlet @declassifieduk.org uncovered that 'UK aid is being used to open up Ukraine’s wrecked economy to foreign investors' for privatisation www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Nov 13th Great news – this year’s cruel “fire bull” festival in Spain has been cancelled! Following a successful appeal filed by Spanish animal rights party PACMA in 2023, the Toro Júbilo has been deemed illegal, and the 2024 event has been subsequently suspended. www.peta.org.uk/blog/fire-bu...

If you’re still defending Israel, you’re what’s wrong with the world

I think it speaks volumes that right wingers criticize bluesky for being “liberal” and “left wing”, when it’s really just that hate speech isn’t allowed.

If you oppose NHS privatisation, please could you repost this and follow me? I need to know who to follow next (it’ll be you!) 🌟🌟🌟

How cosy is she?

Nearly all US farmed animals live on mega #factoryfarms, where they’re mutilated without pain relief, and fattened up in dark, overcrowded warehouses, before being slaughtered. Marketing claims of 'idyllic' life + 'humane' slaughter bear little resemblance to reality. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Yippee snow!!

Why do 70,000 'farmers' think they should own 90% of the UK forever and never pay tax. While the other 68,930,000 have the other 10% to share and must pay tax. The ultimate elitist BS.

Pope Francis calls for an international investigation into the Gaza genocide.

BlueSky has already started censoring criticism of Israel. Israel is literally committing genocide. To label criticism of that ‘intolerance’ is obviously absurd — and a mechanism of suppressing opposition to, and therefore emboldening, that genocide. Do better @bsky.app.

It’s so important we support @bylinetimes.bsky.social. It’s the newspaper we’ve all been waiting for. Truly independent journalism at its very best subscribe.bylinetimes.com

Humans, why are you struggling to put even the simplest measures in place to deal with climate change ?? Leaving ancient forest = easy win. Would it happen to be because you value $$$ more than a habitable, healthy biosphere, and trees are just another resource to be exploited to exhaustion.

An academic study found that on July 13, 2024 — the day Musk endorsed Trump — there was a systemic change across Twitter resulting in massive increases in reach for Musk and other accounts supporting Trump. This should be a scandal.

Delightfully wonky story on the 43 escaped lab monkeys and what the law says about their right to be free: www.vox.com/future-perfe...

As 2023 comes to a close, the #VeganLandMovementCIC would like to share with you a little recap of what was achieved with YOUR help in 2023, in removing land from cruel animal agriculture & helping save wildlife. Thank you as ever for your support – just look at the difference you made in 2023! 🧵

If you need a bit of a break from politics - come and focus with us on what should underpin it… facts and values… good epistemology and inclusive ethics… evidence, reason and compassion… an aspiration to make a better world... www.youtube.com/@Sentientism/ #Sentientism

Hello world! #Sentientism is a worldview: "evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings" Simple yet radical. We hope you like it! https://sentientism.info/ https://linktr.ee/sentientism https://www.youtube.com/c/Sentientism/ https://apple.co/391khQO

If you haven't watched Pignorant yet, it's available on Amazon Prime but also now for free on Tubi in certain countries. #vegan #pignorant

Cillian Murphy, Known for Peaky Blinders, Inception, Oppenheimer has gone Vegan for ethical & health reasons. #vegan #peakyblinders #oppenheimer www.veganfoodandliving.com/news/cillian...