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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 4d

I’m not a numbers guy but this seems very bad

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 12d

Perfect thank you

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 12d

Anyone know a good place to learn self defence in Gateshead/Newcastle area? Don’t want to go somewhere and find they have various dodgy political commitments when I get there.

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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 12d

🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help.

This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Thousands of rogue bosses get away with not paying tribunal awards

The government scheme ‘enforcing’ money owed to workers has been unsuccessful in a staggering three-quarters of cases

www.thebureauinvestigates.com

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 12d

Have you ever tried having the fragments of your life destroyed by the state though? Find peace with this one life hack!

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 12d

Profoundly unhelpful intervention that obfuscates larger structural problems and solutions in favour of some vague moralising, which lays the groundwork for yet more muscular benefits policing. As someone who suffered severely with anxiety and depression in my twenties this discourse is infuriating

Paul Ridley @paulridley5.bsky.social · 12d

Starmer issues benefits warning for young people with mental illnesses www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Starmer issues benefits warning for young people with mental illnesses

The prime minister said he was concerned that young people on benefits could end up on welfare for life

www.independent.co.uk

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 12d

Galling, given all that time plotting to defeat the Labour left, that any idea they have had seems to have moved from the back of a napkin to an article written for the daily telegraph at light speed, seemingly with few threads joining them up.

ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social · 12d

There's at least one consistent pattern with this government: announcing a big policy before they've worked out any details, or planned its implementation & sending people out to defend it who've got no arguments. E.g.

1) Welfare reform: no plans for actually getting people into work (1/x)

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 12d

Guess the occupation of the vocally BNP supporting kid in my class at secondary school? I wonder where those views came from? A complete mystery.

Arbeitology @arbeitology.bsky.social · 12d

Anyone who went to school in this country who now doesn’t hold public office says the same thing - you know exactly what dickheads in your class ended up being cops

pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 12d

Everyone I grew up with who became a copper was an irredeemable scumbag, never had any reason to doubt it has changed since

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 12d

PTA is a pseud?! Surely not!

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 18d

Vichy Labour. Deliberately and repeatedly affirming and amplifying the inflammatory far right *lie* of "uncontrolled migration".

María Ramírez @mariaramirez.bsky.social · 18d

“The belief that uncontrolled legal migration was nothing but good news for an economy should never have been accepted on the Left,” writes Starmer “fighting” populism. What does even mean “uncontrolled” in the case of legal migration? www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/f9444c6...

The Left ignored immigration fears for too long. It’s time to give communities back control

Only a plan for patriotic national renewal led by Labour will counter the rise of the populist Right

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 21d

And analysis by Unite argued that in a recent half-year, 58.7 % of inflation was due to profit increases (versus ~8.3 % from labour cost rises).
www.unitetheunion.org/media/4757/u...

www.unitetheunion.org

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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 21d

This matters because "orthodox" price setting policy of the type supported by centrists in the UK, particularly during an inflationary spoke, is geared to punish wage demands. At the height of the inflationary spike, Bank of England officials were urging "harsh medicine" on wages.

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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 21d

In the UK, the @ippr.org and @cmmonwealth.bsky.social concluded that "large companies appear to have preserved or even expanded profit margins during inflationary times, thereby amplifying the inflationary shock."
www.ippr.org/media-office...

Revealed: How powerful companies are amplifying inflation through their profit margins | IPPR

The role of ‘excess profits’ by dominant companies in exacerbating inflation is revealed in new report Driven by a small number of firms, business profits

www.ippr.org

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Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research) @richamm.bsky.social · Aug 31

Free Disability Research zines, all made by the Disability Action Research Kollective (DARK) Find them and subscribe to new releases here : linktr.ee/disabilityark

Disability and film, horror, star trek, dwarfism, saints, ancient egypt, eugenics, gods, leaders, radicals, communists, anarchists, history, feminists.

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 23d

There is a deeply tragic irony and a moral cowardice to recognising the Palestinian state only at the too-late moment in which its material conditions, its social forms of life, are being annihilated by the genocidal mania of Israel.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Starmer set to announce UK recognition of Palestinian state

A host of countries, including France and Canada, are expected to do the same when world leaders gather at the UN General Assembly next week.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 23d

There is a deeply tragic irony and a moral cowardice to recognising the Palestinian state only at the too-late moment in which its material conditions, its social forms of life, are being annihilated by the genocidal mania of Israel.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Starmer set to announce UK recognition of Palestinian state

A host of countries, including France and Canada, are expected to do the same when world leaders gather at the UN General Assembly next week.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 26d

In Britain, every time you...

— turn on a tap
— flip a light switch
— board a train or bus
— post a letter
— drop your child at nursery

... you take part in a system designed to extract wealth & concentrate power.

🧵 From cradle to grave, this is how a failed experiment has shaped your life.

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 26d

Always good to see the Men of the Left™️ in action

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 26d

Yeah and it undermines the relative credibility they have

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 26d

What’s the craic here? Obviously glaring that Sultana isn’t listed on the email.

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Sam Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 27d

www.sciencealert.com/openai-has-a...

This is a good layman's terms explanation of why chatbots are not getting significantly more correct despite immense investment.

OpenAI Has a Fix For Hallucinations, But You Really Won't Like It

OpenAI's latest research paper diagnoses exactly why ChatGPT and other large language models can make things up – known in the world of artificial intelligence as "hallucination".

www.sciencealert.com

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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 28d

This is a very powerful way to show it tbf

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · Sep 12

I’m sorry 💔

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · Sep 10

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · Sep 10

These people genuinely know nothing of the history—white conservative state & vigilante violence has been arguably *the defining feature* of U.S. history. They apparently also know very little of the present, in which, again, the very opposite is the case.

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · Sep 10

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

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