MichaelLondonSF
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MichaelLondonSF
@michaellondonsf.bsky.social
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semi-retired / activist on London housing and planning / UCL Bartlett / grandfather JustSpace.org.uk michaeledwards.org.uk I don't follow people with empty bios.
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Goedemorgen! Fijn weekend! Vandaag is #kunst het thema van #Fot_O_ktober van @jolanda.bsky.social Dit klasje in het Louvre liet het zich heel lief uitleggen
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😉 The chicken will eventually come home to roost!!
Sir Keir Starmer has been specifically named in a UN report for complicity in Israel's genocide.

The report states that the UK government played "a key role in military collaboration with Israel... a collective crime... with detailed knowledge and cooperation in the destruction of Gaza." 🧵
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Applications are now open for two two-year UBC Biodiversity Postdoc Fellowships biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and.... $77,000 /y + benefits and $7000 /y research funds.
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Goldfish, Henri Matisse 1912
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They can be beaten but Labour isn't up to the job, they behave like a tribute act and still don't grasp that's why they lose votes.

Thank fuck for Plaid Cymru.

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Reform UK Thought Caerphilly Was The Breakthrough – It Became The Breakdown
YouTube video by KernowDamo
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Could Chatham House please invite more foreigners with no …. to give, so they will say exactly what they think. Thank you.
"You left Europe because you wanted less boats, you have more boats. You left Europe because you wanted more investment. You have less investment."

Prime Minister Edi Rama of Albania on the UK's decision to leave the European Union.

Watch in full ➡️ bit.ly/4qkZnS0
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Da iawn, Caerffili. 👏💜
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“I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”
— Charles Babbage (1864)
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The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?
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It's that moment again for National Trust members to vote to keep the entryists out.

Quick and easy to vote and please do so by 31st of October

Quick Vote link keeps the AstroTurfers out.

Then share. Thank you.

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Marking the rejection of the Farage mob in Caerphilly
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The COVID-19 vaccine should be universally available to all who wish to have the vaccination. The government's first duty is to keep us ALL safe.
‘Doctors have warned that the government’s decision to exclude health and social care workers from its covid vaccination programme is putting patients at risk and will have a major impact on an overstretched NHS.’

🤦 Unbelievably shortsighted, based on what exactly!

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Covid-19: Excluding doctors from vaccination programme puts patients at risk, clinicians warn
Doctors have warned that the government’s decision to exclude health and social care workers from its covid vaccination programme is putting patients at risk and will have a major impact on an overstr...
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Trump gave Amazon a $16 billion tax break to accelerate its investments this year.

Now, Amazon will replace 600,000 workers with robots as Jeff Bezos accelerates his plan to automate warehouses.

No. Corporate tax breaks do not trickle down to workers. Never have. Never will.
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Great to join loads of local people young & older at (re) opening of #Brighton Youth Centre #BYC www.brightonyouthcentre.org.uk
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What you can't sense from the picture is that I stink of hops resin, as I was taking the hops bines down when the postie arrived...
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This journal looks absolutely and utterly fabulous. The list of possible topics reads is fascinating, capacious… and but a sample of the kind of stuff they’re looking for. Please share!
We seek submissions from across the humanities and social sciences and we are especially keen to hear from authors from under-represented groups (both within the academy in general and within economic discourse in particular).
Call for Papers
We are pleased to invite contributions to Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice. Money on the Left publishes peer-reviewed articles about monetary arrangements, knowledges, and cultures with…
moneyontheleft.org
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Well deserved 🥂🥳
I edited my first newspaper when I was 26 in 2014. 11 years on, a lovely surprise to be nominated for the 2025 Editors' Editor Award by The British Society of Magazine Editors for my work at Byline Times. A testament to the entire brilliant team @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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I’m good with my taxes subsidizing social welfare for people who can’t afford food.

I’m enraged with my taxes subsidizing corporate welfare to businesses that won’t pay a living wage.