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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 18m

A rib! FFS

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 19m

You're not going to be putting many of us in the ground if that thing goes off & breaks a tin, boyo

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 20m

Posing with his finger on the trigger & the butt not braced, like an absolute cosplaying twat of the first order, too

Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 57m

Unbeatable Times picture/caption combo on Oxford PPE student who led chants of " put the Zios in the ground” at London rally.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 30m

That's some bloody cheek from someone who was a cabinet minister in the government that cemented Britain's economic gerontocracy in place

Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 11h

It looks likely that the Chancellor will need to raise taxes in the autumn Budget.

This is an opportunity to make the tax system fairer while also raising revenue.

Lord David Willetts makes the case for equalising the tax treatment between pensioners and working-age people ⤵️

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 15h

Fine, but we could have lost one thing less.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 16h

Or just softened it so that we didn't crash out of the customs union.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 20h

It was more than symbolic. It boxed in the government to a hard Brexit by demonstrating that there will be no cooperation from Labour in fighting for a slower, more collaborative approach. Everything that followed us downstream of this interview. I blame him, squarely.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 21h

(For the record so do I)

Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 21h

I think they won't recover all of them, & I think Bibi will use it as a pretext to resume a ground invasion, unless the international reconstruction effort gets its bloody boots on & gets going very, very soon.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 21h

I'm not saying they do! I'm saying that the people I believe are actually holding the bodies, who are Hamas's rivals for control of the strip, do.

Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 21h

I don't understand what you're basing this on. The bodies of the Bibas family were returned even though Hamas claimed they were killed in a strike, & even after Hamas fucked up & sent the body of some other poor woman instead of Shiri, they had the wherewithal to find the right body a day later.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 21h

Why not? There were tunnels under all the hospitals. And dozens of dead bodies *were* returned in prior deals. They'd have had to have been somewhere, no?

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 21h

The destruction of Gaza is terrible & possibly amounts to a war crime, but it's not like an earthquake or a tsunami - it didn't happen all at once & overwhelm any ability to get out of is way. IDF let Hamas know exactly where they were targeting each time.

Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 21h

They wouldn't - & in fact didn't - leave hostages anywhere where strikes were being conducted. We know that most of the hostages were kept underground, in the tunnels, & moved around a lot. We also know that any time a strike did come close to hostages, Hamas used that in propaganda.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 21h

No. Regular Gazans may be buried under huge piles of rubble. Hamas operatives along with their most important assets, the hostages being one, were deep in protective tunnels. That's why they're all so pale - look at them.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 21h

My read on it is that Hamas is struggling to negotiate internally, with whatever freelancers took those people/bodies on 7/10, what concessions or bribes they want to hand them back. While also fighting a civil war & running around shooting rivals in the back of the head.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 21h

They should have no problem finding the bodies. Either they were abducted when they were already dead, with a view to ransoming them back, in which case it would have made good sense to track their whereabouts, or they were killed by their guards, or they were killed *while surrounded* by guards.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 22h

Putin must be in line for some kind of environmental prize for his achievements in rapidly decarbonising Russia.

WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 22h

The oil depot in Feodosia is still burning.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 21h

Obviously Cory Doctorow is the expert on the fact that the Internet is broken, but I feel we're not paying enough attention to the fact that it's also a shit business. It doesn't make any money.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 21h

As I was saying.

Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 3d

- the only thing making Deliveroo affordable is that Big Tech keeps prices artificially low
- Big Tech is a loss-making business model propped up by venture capital that could & should be circulating in the productive economy

David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 3d

Reading @londoncentric.media and reflecting on how everything wrong with Britain can be seen through Deliveroo:
- much of the economy is fraudulent
- people don’t go outside
- workers are underpaid and insecure
- the immigration system is broken
- society is being eroded by Big Tech

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 22h

The mad thing is that Amazon fucked the entire western economy's consumer model of growth & *still* its retail division is only barely profitable. AWS & ad revenue cross-subsidise retail, & if the company were to be broken up by antitrust it might well not survive on the internet it created.

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

www.theguardian.com

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

justin bieber and comedian jimmy carter in a car with the words immediately no written on the screen

ALT: justin bieber and comedian jimmy carter in a car with the words immediately no written on the screen

media.tenor.com

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

Martin's Churchill impression was literally the worst thing that's ever happened to me

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

They give you the runs though, apparently. So not a miracle, but certainly an *event*.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

I feel this poster very much misunderstands both the concept and the attraction of a "miracle pill"

Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 1d

If someone invented a miracle pill that reduced your risk of cancer, heart disease and strokes as well as boosting mood, memory, and lifespan it would be the most popular drug ever. Except we already have it and it's called exercise, and most people can't be arsed doing it.

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