Depressed Reader
@depressedreader.bsky.social
I read a lot. Lawyer. UK. Trying to write more. She/Her. Bisexual. Me encantan mucho los gatitos.
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This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM
This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Given that it was the Green Party conference last week
Does anyone know why Zack Polanski wasn't invited onto Laura Kuenssberg's BBC show, or onto Trevor Phillips's Sky News program?
Does anyone know why Zack Polanski wasn't invited onto Laura Kuenssberg's BBC show, or onto Trevor Phillips's Sky News program?
October 6, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Given that it was the Green Party conference last week
Does anyone know why Zack Polanski wasn't invited onto Laura Kuenssberg's BBC show, or onto Trevor Phillips's Sky News program?
Does anyone know why Zack Polanski wasn't invited onto Laura Kuenssberg's BBC show, or onto Trevor Phillips's Sky News program?
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Before he was a Senator, a candidate for President, and our greatest champion in the fight against oligarchy, Bernie Sanders was the four-term Mayor of Burlington, VT.
I sat down with Bernie in Astoria to talk about the lessons he learned—and the work ahead.
I sat down with Bernie in Astoria to talk about the lessons he learned—and the work ahead.
September 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Before he was a Senator, a candidate for President, and our greatest champion in the fight against oligarchy, Bernie Sanders was the four-term Mayor of Burlington, VT.
I sat down with Bernie in Astoria to talk about the lessons he learned—and the work ahead.
I sat down with Bernie in Astoria to talk about the lessons he learned—and the work ahead.
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Most sensible thing I have heard today.
Bernie Sanders demands that RFK Jr step down as health secretary
Vermont senator says Kennedy is endangering the health of the American people as head of the US health department
www.theguardian.com
August 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Most sensible thing I have heard today.
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If Bluesky isn’t structurally, mechanically, far superior to every other social media site how do you explain that Ricky Gervais is here but I don’t see his posts unless I intentionally seek them out
August 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
If Bluesky isn’t structurally, mechanically, far superior to every other social media site how do you explain that Ricky Gervais is here but I don’t see his posts unless I intentionally seek them out
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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
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my main problem with the attitude of "butlerian jihad" or "killing the computer" is that it assigns blame to inanimate objects instead of the real people who very much can be held accountable who designed the computer to be this way
August 23, 2025 at 7:06 AM
my main problem with the attitude of "butlerian jihad" or "killing the computer" is that it assigns blame to inanimate objects instead of the real people who very much can be held accountable who designed the computer to be this way
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Somehow I love coffee even more now. @hankgreen.bsky.social
August 18, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Somehow I love coffee even more now. @hankgreen.bsky.social
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Want to hide something from public scrutiny? Release it late on a Friday in August. This is just what the Supreme Court has done.
🚨The GOP appointed justices have decided it’s time to do away with the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Thank you, @motherjones.com
🚨The GOP appointed justices have decided it’s time to do away with the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Thank you, @motherjones.com
August 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Want to hide something from public scrutiny? Release it late on a Friday in August. This is just what the Supreme Court has done.
🚨The GOP appointed justices have decided it’s time to do away with the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Thank you, @motherjones.com
🚨The GOP appointed justices have decided it’s time to do away with the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Thank you, @motherjones.com
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As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
August 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
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New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation
August 5, 2025 at 6:27 AM
New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation
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Right to Buy has been an absolute scam, with taxpayers paying the price. Time for govt to get a grip on the crisis once and for all - end Right to Buy now, and put in place rent controls to stop landlords ripping off renters.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Right to buy in England ‘fuelled housing crisis and cost taxpayers £200bn’
Common Wealth report calls discounted sales of council homes one of the ‘largest giveaways in UK history’
www.theguardian.com
August 4, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Right to Buy has been an absolute scam, with taxpayers paying the price. Time for govt to get a grip on the crisis once and for all - end Right to Buy now, and put in place rent controls to stop landlords ripping off renters.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Former UK Supreme Court Judge Lord Sumption, "Palestine is a state, the sooner the UK acknowledges the facts, the better"
July 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Former UK Supreme Court Judge Lord Sumption, "Palestine is a state, the sooner the UK acknowledges the facts, the better"
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Steve Rotheram, Labour mayor of Liverpool city region, has told Robert Peston he is deeply critical of Keir Starmer’s decision to appoint the former editor of the Sun newspaper to a new Whitehall perm sec position in charge of all 7,000 civil servants engaged in communications and PR
Statement here
Statement here
July 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Steve Rotheram, Labour mayor of Liverpool city region, has told Robert Peston he is deeply critical of Keir Starmer’s decision to appoint the former editor of the Sun newspaper to a new Whitehall perm sec position in charge of all 7,000 civil servants engaged in communications and PR
Statement here
Statement here
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I debated 20 far-far-far-right conservatives (racists? fascists?) on Jubilee's 'Surrounded.'
Here are some of the highlights of them unable to answer my basic questions or rebut the simplest of points. Not sure whether to laugh or cry.
Here's the full 'debate': www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W...
Here are some of the highlights of them unable to answer my basic questions or rebut the simplest of points. Not sure whether to laugh or cry.
Here's the full 'debate': www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W...
July 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I debated 20 far-far-far-right conservatives (racists? fascists?) on Jubilee's 'Surrounded.'
Here are some of the highlights of them unable to answer my basic questions or rebut the simplest of points. Not sure whether to laugh or cry.
Here's the full 'debate': www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W...
Here are some of the highlights of them unable to answer my basic questions or rebut the simplest of points. Not sure whether to laugh or cry.
Here's the full 'debate': www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W...
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“The point about PR isn't that it favours one party or another. In the unlikely event that most people choose a populist party we'd get a populist government. What PR will not do - and FPTP very much would - is to hand 100% government control to a party that most people voted against” Andy Beck MVM
July 13, 2025 at 5:26 AM
“The point about PR isn't that it favours one party or another. In the unlikely event that most people choose a populist party we'd get a populist government. What PR will not do - and FPTP very much would - is to hand 100% government control to a party that most people voted against” Andy Beck MVM
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New in PN: The worst chief justice of all time
"American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion."
"American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion."
The worst chief justice of all time
Move over, Roger Taney and Melville Fuller.
www.publicnotice.co
July 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New in PN: The worst chief justice of all time
"American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion."
"American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion."
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"Careless people … smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
July 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"Careless people … smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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Baron Hain, "Al Qaeda - real terrorism"
"ISIS - real terrorism"
"This Labour government is treating Palestine Action as equivalent to ISIS or Al Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled, and morally wrong"
"ISIS - real terrorism"
"This Labour government is treating Palestine Action as equivalent to ISIS or Al Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled, and morally wrong"
July 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Baron Hain, "Al Qaeda - real terrorism"
"ISIS - real terrorism"
"This Labour government is treating Palestine Action as equivalent to ISIS or Al Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled, and morally wrong"
"ISIS - real terrorism"
"This Labour government is treating Palestine Action as equivalent to ISIS or Al Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled, and morally wrong"
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“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
July 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
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This is how to have difficult conversations with vaccine sceptics
July 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This is how to have difficult conversations with vaccine sceptics
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Interesting analysis!
Analyzed how ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek & Gemini handle trans topics.
Key insight: Models that sound perfectly neutral on our rights are often the most harmful. Corporate doublespeak > obvious opposition for deceiving our community
Key insight: Models that sound perfectly neutral on our rights are often the most harmful. Corporate doublespeak > obvious opposition for deceiving our community
June 5, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Interesting analysis!
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This seems important from Jake Sherman
June 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
This seems important from Jake Sherman