Aaron Aardvark
@laughinglemon.bsky.social
Likes budgies; reads too much Warhammer; dislikes nostalgia, which is not what it was; vaguely lefty; technical, but re-tyred
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Lovelies, the Starship Alexandria advent calendar starts on Monday. You'll get a short daily episode from @aptshadow.bsky.social and I, which I hope will brighten these dark days for you. You can catch up on previous episodes here starshipalexandria.com
Starship Alexandria
The Sci-fi and Fantasy podcast from the best of futures!
In this future, humanity has solved its problems and is now sending spaceships from Earth, not in a desperate attempt to escape the apocalypse...
starshipalexandria.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Lovelies, the Starship Alexandria advent calendar starts on Monday. You'll get a short daily episode from @aptshadow.bsky.social and I, which I hope will brighten these dark days for you. You can catch up on previous episodes here starshipalexandria.com
"It could be worse. It could be me"
November 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"It could be worse. It could be me"
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When the Right says they want legal immigrants and that “illegals” are unfair to people who do things properly, this is what they actually do to people who do things properly: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
When the Right says they want legal immigrants and that “illegals” are unfair to people who do things properly, this is what they actually do to people who do things properly: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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A call for papers!
Please share 🙂
Please share 🙂
Hegemonies, Counter-Hegemonies, Anti-Hegemonies: The Theory and Politics of Social Control and Resistance
A call for papers! The Midlands Conference in Critical Thought will be held on 21st and 22nd May 2026 at the University of Warwick. The ca...
averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
A call for papers!
Please share 🙂
Please share 🙂
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Ahead of Your Party’s democratic founding conference this weekend, we need to put redistribution, sustainability, and peace at the heart of a mass socialist movement that belongs to the grassroots.
Jeremy Corbyn: Our Chance to do Something Special
Ahead of Your Party’s democratic founding conference this weekend, we need to put redistribution, sustainability, and peace at the heart of a mass socialist movement that belongs to the grassroots.
tribunemag.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Ahead of Your Party’s democratic founding conference this weekend, we need to put redistribution, sustainability, and peace at the heart of a mass socialist movement that belongs to the grassroots.
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EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS BILL
The Labour party was supposed to implement the employment rights bill IN FULL, fire and rehire, zero hours contract, rights from day one all watered down.
Workers will feel duped. PART 1 ⤵️
The Labour party was supposed to implement the employment rights bill IN FULL, fire and rehire, zero hours contract, rights from day one all watered down.
Workers will feel duped. PART 1 ⤵️
November 28, 2025 at 11:55 AM
EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS BILL
The Labour party was supposed to implement the employment rights bill IN FULL, fire and rehire, zero hours contract, rights from day one all watered down.
Workers will feel duped. PART 1 ⤵️
The Labour party was supposed to implement the employment rights bill IN FULL, fire and rehire, zero hours contract, rights from day one all watered down.
Workers will feel duped. PART 1 ⤵️
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The Edinburgh Minute ⏰ weekend guide: 28 - 30 November 2025
www.edinburghminute.com/the-edinburg...
www.edinburghminute.com/the-edinburg...
The Edinburgh Minute ⏰ Weekend edition: 24 - 26 October 2025
New concert hall gets £20m 'lifeline', St James Quarter in Westfield deal, weekend protests + Portobello Food Market returns
www.edinburghminute.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:57 AM
The Edinburgh Minute ⏰ weekend guide: 28 - 30 November 2025
www.edinburghminute.com/the-edinburg...
www.edinburghminute.com/the-edinburg...
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The Glasgow Wrap 🗞️ Friday 28 November 2025
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The Glasgow Wrap 🗞️ Friday 28 November 2025
Clydeside Christmas Village postponed, Nelson Mandela statue design chosen, VUE workers to strike, concerns council undercharging GlasGLOW, Mitchell Library £2m heating upgrade + Chinatown plans
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November 28, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The Glasgow Wrap 🗞️ Friday 28 November 2025
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“[The BBC's] 1983 Sci Fi Film Festival... was a revelation. Suddenly, the scope of what science fiction could be – its capacity to intoxicate, terrify, and transport – opened before me in ways I had never imagined.”
wearecult.rocks/even-strange...
wearecult.rocks/even-strange...
Even stranger things: The 1983 BBC-2 Sci Fi Film Festival » We Are Cult
❉ David Geldard on how a seminal season of science fiction showcased the many ways the genre could thrill, horrify and inspire…
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November 28, 2025 at 6:42 AM
“[The BBC's] 1983 Sci Fi Film Festival... was a revelation. Suddenly, the scope of what science fiction could be – its capacity to intoxicate, terrify, and transport – opened before me in ways I had never imagined.”
wearecult.rocks/even-strange...
wearecult.rocks/even-strange...
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November 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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𝗘𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗕𝗶𝗹𝗹: 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲
The employment rights bill is a shell of its former self.
With fire and rehire and zero hours contracts not being banned, the Bill is already unrecognisable. 1/2
The employment rights bill is a shell of its former self.
With fire and rehire and zero hours contracts not being banned, the Bill is already unrecognisable. 1/2
November 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
𝗘𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗕𝗶𝗹𝗹: 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲
The employment rights bill is a shell of its former self.
With fire and rehire and zero hours contracts not being banned, the Bill is already unrecognisable. 1/2
The employment rights bill is a shell of its former self.
With fire and rehire and zero hours contracts not being banned, the Bill is already unrecognisable. 1/2
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RMT members at Poplar this morning.
Cleaners working for Bidvest Noonan on the DLR are taking strike action today as the company has failed to offer any sick pay to its staff.
Cleaners working for Bidvest Noonan on the DLR are taking strike action today as the company has failed to offer any sick pay to its staff.
November 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
RMT members at Poplar this morning.
Cleaners working for Bidvest Noonan on the DLR are taking strike action today as the company has failed to offer any sick pay to its staff.
Cleaners working for Bidvest Noonan on the DLR are taking strike action today as the company has failed to offer any sick pay to its staff.
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A new cinematic graphic novel should finally bring one of England’s most overlooked working-class socialist writers to a wide audience.
Recovering Ethel Holdsworth
A new cinematic graphic novel should finally bring one of England’s most overlooked working-class socialist writers to a wide audience.
tribunemag.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:27 AM
A new cinematic graphic novel should finally bring one of England’s most overlooked working-class socialist writers to a wide audience.
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The Glasgow Wrap 🗞️ Thursday 27 November 2025
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The Glasgow Wrap 🗞️ Thursday 27 November 2025
Glasgow University building doused in paint, second-highest crime rate in Scotland, former Alba candidate's car fire-bombed, Govan club at risk of closure + calls for mural of Scotland goal
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The Glasgow Wrap 🗞️ Thursday 27 November 2025
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Rachel Reeves has done just enough to ward off a leadership challenge this side of next May.
Postponing the End
After a bad time of it, what with rumours of plots and a seemingly rudderless approach to state finances, bar the preservation of the wealt...
averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Rachel Reeves has done just enough to ward off a leadership challenge this side of next May.
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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"Labour are happily - gleefully - building up the infrastructure an authoritarian regime would find useful. It's a good job a right wing extremist party isn't topping the polls and stands no chance of winning the next election."
Labour's Continued Attacks on Liberty
Here is a story that won't stick in the headlines for more than a day. David Lammy has unveiled plans to curtail the right to jury trial for...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"Labour are happily - gleefully - building up the infrastructure an authoritarian regime would find useful. It's a good job a right wing extremist party isn't topping the polls and stands no chance of winning the next election."
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"Tweaks to taxation and spending aren’t going to un-break Britain.
A tax on multi-million-pound properties, while welcome, is not going to erode the extraordinary wealth of those at the top of our society – nor their grip over our democracy."
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A tax on multi-million-pound properties, while welcome, is not going to erode the extraordinary wealth of those at the top of our society – nor their grip over our democracy."
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Rachel Reeves is living on another planet
A country in crisis and a government in denial.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"Tweaks to taxation and spending aren’t going to un-break Britain.
A tax on multi-million-pound properties, while welcome, is not going to erode the extraordinary wealth of those at the top of our society – nor their grip over our democracy."
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
A tax on multi-million-pound properties, while welcome, is not going to erode the extraordinary wealth of those at the top of our society – nor their grip over our democracy."
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
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🚨BUDGET 2026
On the fundamental issues of who pays for the crisis and the investment required to back British industry, the wrong decisions are being made.
Millions of workers are being forced to live hand to mouth, surviving rather than living. 1/3 ⤵️
On the fundamental issues of who pays for the crisis and the investment required to back British industry, the wrong decisions are being made.
Millions of workers are being forced to live hand to mouth, surviving rather than living. 1/3 ⤵️
November 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🚨BUDGET 2026
On the fundamental issues of who pays for the crisis and the investment required to back British industry, the wrong decisions are being made.
Millions of workers are being forced to live hand to mouth, surviving rather than living. 1/3 ⤵️
On the fundamental issues of who pays for the crisis and the investment required to back British industry, the wrong decisions are being made.
Millions of workers are being forced to live hand to mouth, surviving rather than living. 1/3 ⤵️
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Labour have a chance in this budget to rectify what they haven't done.
Labour be Labour. #Budget2026
Labour be Labour. #Budget2026
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Labour have a chance in this budget to rectify what they haven't done.
Labour be Labour. #Budget2026
Labour be Labour. #Budget2026
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If you’re wondering who’s guiding our transition, it’s the best New Yorkers that money can’t buy.
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
If you’re wondering who’s guiding our transition, it’s the best New Yorkers that money can’t buy.
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![Comic: Typical Geologic core sample. [Cylindrical core sample with labels for difference sections from top to bottom] Topsoil, till, granite bedrock, bottomsoil, roof of subway car, floor of subway car, more granite, municipal water main [gouge in core sample], slightly different granite, piece of screaming spelunker’s forearm, cool crystals with no resale value, mangled fragments of drillbit from previous attempt, some boring intrusive rock that’s basically granite but has a name like “diorite” or “Andalite” that you always have to look up, netherrack, Balrog wing. [break between next chunk of core sample] Granite, topsoil, cement, floorboards, carpet, possessions of a confused and angry homeowner in the other hemisphere.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicffnydtpbb2x24cfbblv2qtcwbr37zyw44vtqx47ocj2a26b2j2u@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
David Cronenberg's "The Odd Couple"
Rob Zombie's "Tootsie"
Werner Herzog’s “Annie”.
November 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
David Cronenberg's "The Odd Couple"
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