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Photographer, sweary socialist. Centrist government is pro-genocide (the "Moderates"). Their political economy is failing & there's no "Plan-B". Only socialism & global co-operation can save humanity & the planet. #BDS Trans right = human rights

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@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · Jul 4

A handy list of companies to boycott that are working in or connected to Israel or the occupied territories in the West Bank. Boycotts work and the Israeli extremists are frightened by them. Don't trade with genocide.
#BDS
#NoThanks
bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS...

Guide to BDS Boycott & Pressure Corporate Priority Targeting

Ending the complicity of states, corporations, and institutions in Israel’s ongoing, live-streamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza is the most effective form of solidarity with the P...

bdsmovement.net

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@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 18h

come at me then ....

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 18h

lol I'm not even from the US - you're just angry that your chosen liberal saint has been besmirched aren't you

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 18h

All I posted can be contested point by point if you like. [pleased to meet you too]

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 18h

and still no "Resist!"

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 19h

2 Million workers on the streets is phenomenal!

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 21h

Italy’s Second General Strike for Gaza Brought 2M Workers Into the Streets

The next day, one million people joined a demonstration in Rome, which highlighted Italy’s complicity in the genocide.

truthout.org

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@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 19h

Tacks under the tyres and superglue the doors shut

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 19h

ffs hasn't there been enough of this "my dick's bigger than yours" fuckery already?

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 19h

Under Obama: 10 x the amount of bombings than under President Bush (and Bush did the illegal second Gulf war with Tony Blair, so...).

Biden signed off on $680m to genocide before leaving the scene.

Red or Blue no US president should be sainted as they are so often by liberals.

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 19h

But you give us a timely reminder :)

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@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 19h

"Ceasefire" is a lie

Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 1d

"New footage shows tent camps in Deir Al-Balah sheltering thousands of displaced Palestinians as the humanitarian crisis deepens."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNn3...

LIVE: Scenes from Gaza — Thousands Displaced in Deir Al-Balah Tent Camps

YouTube video by DRM News

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@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 19h

and real deaths

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 19h

2016: U.S. dropped an estimated 26,171 bombs across seven countries: Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan. Obama.

It was a 40% increase on 2015 US bombings. And I want to point this out: Under a red or blue president the material support for Israel's war crimes is the same

Bar chart showing the amount of military funding Israel receives from the US. It contrasts military funding with aid and military funding is hugely higher in dollars. Source: US government.

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 19h

That's your own racist notion, not mine. I am speaking on the misuse of power and the liberals who defend it

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 19h

The West had many Putin friends until they didn't. In UK all major parties had a "Friends of Russia[n money]" organisation and invited the oligarchs to tea on the lawn at parliament. Blair and Putin exchanged gifts for their families. Classic case of "follow the money and power"

Photograph shows 4 people standing beside each other on a rooftop. Bono ("Knobbo" from U2), Tony Blair, Putin and Bob Geldof after an international meeting (G8) in 2001.

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 19h

yes where the fuck is Resist?

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 19h

Will it be anything like "Resist!"?

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 20h

The irony is lost on the liberals

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 20h

And apparently it is given to people who beg Israel to bomb their country #Machado This award is the neoliberal mask slipping off the face of inhumanity

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Maya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social · 21h

As I said, after the AI crash, we’ll have to give remedial education to so many young people.

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Jan 18

So deeply not kidding when I say that the current paradigm of "Gen AI" is doing deep, lasting harm to our ability to make knowledge, meaning, & truth w/ each other.

Like… it's really fucking us up & if we don't stop it soon we're gonna see a kind of negative chaos frankly unimaginable to most ppl 👍🏾

screenshot of a Tumblr post from user ecofear yelling "what is HAPPENING" in response to a screenshot of a quotetweet from user @Ovichknox reading "this is so scary to me. i recommended a book to a friend recently and she came back to me a day later saying it was really good and i asked if she finished it already and she said "yeah i got chatgpt to summarise each chapter into 3 paragraphs to it was easy to read"
which is replying to a tweet from @alz_zyd reading "Personally, I read a bunch of classics in high register in college. I guess it was fun. I recently ChatGPT'd Aristotle into readable English, finished it around 5x as fast as a translation, and felt l got the main gist of things. idk does the pain incurred…"

Followed by a a reblog from tumblr use moonglade-poetess reading "Hey guys, with so much love, and as someone with an actual English degree:

Please just use Sparknotes if you're going to do this. I get it. I do. But chatgpt or other genAl shit doesn't actually know what's important for you to know, and in some cases it might fully make shit up. Use sparknotes. Failing that, talk to someone who did read it. I'm begging.

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@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 20h

I won't stand by and watch as someone who bombed the fuck out of foreign countries (more than most Presidents) gets a free pass by liberals who are seeing neo-fascism thrive on their watch globally.

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 21h

"You don’t want to hear the truth" do you lol

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 21h

Obama is just another neoliberal suit. He's not the messiah

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 21h

So, THIS is what European "democracy" is all about is it?

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 21h

All the tory parties il the UK parliament had links to Russia until they didn't. By which I mean Russian oligarch money.