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ACID HORIZON 👁️ @acidhorizon.bsky.social · 2d

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The Elder Memes @theeldermemes.bsky.social · 8d

Above is the Ring of Reagan. It is a constant effect ring that summons Ronald Reagan on self.

A morrowind character in dark brotherhood assassin armor is standing in Dura Gra-Bol's house with Ronald Reagan. The Morrowind character says "and this is my dwemer artifact collection".

Reagan replies "please let me go back to hell".

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 8d

reddit occupied government

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The challenge coins being handed out by @FBIDirectorKash. Seems someone put a lot of thought into this.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 8d

Jewish anti-Zionist activists breached the Israeli siege on Gaza from the land border before being stopped by the IDF

www.instagram.com/stories/then...

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 9d

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 10d

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

www.youtube.com

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 9d

BREAKING: Israel has begun intercepting the Global Sumud Flotilla, which is carrying 500 people from around the world seeking to bring aid to Palestinians starved by Israel's siege.

The crew includes 24 Americans, EU Members of Parliament, Nelson Mandela’s grandson, and Greta Thunberg.

BREAKING: Israel Begins Intercepting 44-Ship Global Sumud Flotilla

The massive flotilla, which Italian and Spanish ships shadowed until it approached Gaza, is the fourth one attacked in the last year.

zeteo.com

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Sarah from the Leftist Cooks @saribo.bsky.social · 10d

Watch live so they're less incentivised to murder these peace activists. Even just putting the stream on in the background is helpful.

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

www.youtube.com

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CerberusXt @cerberusxt.bsky.social · 10d

That Japanese edition of D&D look absolutely fire.

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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 11d

Labour rescinded my conference pass over an unspecified "breach of the event code of conduct".

10 minutes later, @owenjones.bsky.social received a similar email.

This is a terrifying, authoritarian crackdown on press freedom.

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merritt @merrittk.com · 15d

new berserk chapter is kind of weird

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15d

Again, you *have to* have a Tesco card or your shopping costs even more than the already crazy prices! Do you see how all the arguments against objections amount to tiny gilded class saying “we already treat you like cattle, so it’s stupid for you object to us fucking you in new and exciting ways”.

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 15d

Ok. They’ve pissed me off.

I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:

1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

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Gerry Hart @poorconrad.bsky.social · 15d

This whole thing is maddening. The border is not confined to the physical frontiers of this country. It's violence bleeds throughout the entirety of our society. How much are we to be expected to sacrifice in the name of stopping people from migrating and building lives here?

Gerry Hart @poorconrad.bsky.social · 15d

One thing I've not seen discussed much in relation to Labour's digital ID plans is digital exclusion. Thousands of people cannot or don't want to use the internet. People in poverty are far more likely to be digitally excluded.

Are these people to be excluded from the workforce then?

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 15d

Today’s digital ID announcement yet another example of how X being the main platform for political discourse will inevitably throw the MSM’s coverage off course, because online right opinion is fevered/way off the beat with the public.

Guess who need digital/reliable ID most? Those in poverty.

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merritt @merrittk.com · 15d

"illegal working" you should have something bad happen to you www.bbc.com/news/article...

Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme

The prime minister believes a new scheme would help crack down on illegal working in the UK.

www.bbc.com

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 15d

Unless the government introduces PR, there will be a far right government in power in 2029. And like the compliant liberals they always were, the Labour party are building the administrative tools to help those fascists round you and your friends up for deportation. Frightening.

Sky News @news.sky.com · 16d

Starmer to unveil plan for digital ID cards to crack down on illegal immigration

Every adult in Britain will require a digital ID under plans to be set out by Sir Keir Starmer.

news.sky.com

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OnlyFangs @onlycans.bsky.social · 16d

hello I am a deeply unpopular prime minister. In a last gasp attempt to save my own skin my big idea is to launch the least popular policy of an also deeply unpopular predecessor. I am forensic.

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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · 16d

These are all great points. I’d also add that we should oppose this out of solidarity with people who are here “illegally” and shouldn’t have to live lives that are even more criminalised, precarious and hunted.

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 20d

A short thread on digital ID (cards) just to bear in mind. There are a few myths that I keep hearing about this idea that need clarifying/debunking. 1/10

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Militant Nerd @militantnerd.bsky.social · 16d

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onion person @junlper.beer · 17d

the fact that so many people frame autism as “a problem that needs to be solved” is a constant reminder that being “not normal” isn’t acceptable to a large amount of the world. it’s the same reason there’s a trans panic right now too. they think people are defective

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Sophia McDougall @sophiamcdougall.bsky.social · 18d

And also that to be autistic is to be a tragedy, a burden on society, a problem that must be solved. This is deeply dangerous stuff.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 18d

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 19d

Politics, at the voter level, is so often a direction rather than a destination. Most of us have no coherent, overarching vision for how the world should work, much less how we should get there. What we so often describe as politics is, in fact, a series of shoves: splenetic, emotional and with a wilful blindness to consequence that can so easily be exploited by those with a clear destination in mind.

And so the politicians and pundits who now crack the whip on immigration need to be asked, right now, where this ends. They should be made to say the thing they are judiciously trying to avoid saying, or to renounce it completely. Bottom line: the idea of mass deportations as a realistic political agenda would have felt as far-fetched two decades ago as the idea of your non-white friends being strapped into a plane does now. This, in itself, should serve as a warning.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 22d

Some on the left are more ready to contemplate throwing minorities under the bus than to contemplate the ejection of certain toxic officials and inept leaders from senior positions. But real strategic wisdom (and ruthlessness, if you like that sort of thing) lies in the latter, not the former.

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 22d

Right. My students working two part time jobs and/or having an hour and a half commute to uni because they have to live at home due to the cost of student accommodation lack drive and vigour. Sure thing, Peter. The UK Govt still haven't a clue about the realities of universities today.

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 22d

That's a Labour government minister berating university students and staff by saying that 'too often people go to university to "explore research and knowledge"'.

I'm very glad of our students who study history to explore research and knowledge.

British students lack ‘drive’ of their American peers, says Business Secretary | LBC

The Business Secretary has defended comments he made at a meeting with investors where he said British students lack the ‘drive’ and ‘vigour’ of their American peers.

www.lbc.co.uk

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