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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 5m

WTF?

Netpol @netpol.org · 5h

One of our team was arrested yesterday for allegedly breaching protest restrictions, even though they weren't protesting – because wearing a keffiyeh while walking down the street is "reasonable suspicion".

This is the result of Starmer's crackdown: we're back in time to Nov 2023 under the Tories

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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 13h

Capitalism works

Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 13h

'Inequality by Design': EU Billionaire Wealth Soared by Over €400 Billion in 6 Months
www.commondreams.org/news/europea...

'Inequality by Design': EU Billionaire Wealth Soared by Over €400 Billion in 6 Months | Common Dreams

“Europe is minting billionaires at a record rate while millions of Europeans are struggling to make ends meet," said one tax expert.

www.commondreams.org

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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 14h

-After multiple women, accused him of sexual misconduct, his deal with Warner Bros was ended.
In 2023, he moved to Israel and called himself a “proud Zionist”. Ratner is known to be friendly with Benjamin Netanyahu-

Amazon’s $40m Melania Trump doc set for January release with ‘exclusive footage’ of ‘critical meetings’

The film from disgraced director, Brett Ratner, will premiere in cinemas and follow the first lady in the 20 days before the 2025 inauguration

www.theguardian.com

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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 17h

What this piece fails to dig into enough is the school he was speaking at, Hillsdale College is christo-fascist cause celebre aligned with Trump, so try this: www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 18h

The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation
By design.
But OBR? Just a scam to embed austerity whoever is in power anyway. Independent, scientific? LOL

The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

My newly launched report on how we can safeguard the independence of our important scientific and evidence-generating institutions - not least so they can hold government to account

christinapagel.substack.com

Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 20h

I am completely unexcited by most cultural products now it is clear that the majority of global north industry will make works expressing their artistic 'truth'& claiming bravery, but say absolutely fuck all about a genocide in the real world. No art in cowardice.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22h

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 22h

We Are Elated by the Gaza Ceasefire News. Now, the World Must Hold Israel to Account for 2 Years of Genocide

In an emotional essay, former Palestinian negotiator Diana Buttu reacts to the ceasefire announcement, what it means for Palestinians, and what still worries her.

zeteo.com

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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 22h

You know what actually worked? Putting welfare rights people in surgeries to help people deal with DWP nonsense and get benefits they are due. Employment advisors is cart before horse and a sinister sign they consider MH something unreal that work will cure.

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Sam Missingham @samatlounge.bsky.social · 1d

Can only speak for myself, but think I'm not unusual, by the time you see a GP about mental health issues, you are at crisis point - finding it hard to get out of bed, eat, speak to anyone, deal with finances etc - but sure, tell me about the jobs I can apply for at that moment.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Specialist employment advisers will be based in GP surgeries and mental health services as part of government plans to get people back to work.

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden speaks to #BBCBreakfast about the government’s plan to tackle long-term sickness

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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 22h

IDF: Always lying www.972mag.com/israeli-army...

How a Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel’s 3D propaganda

An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators.

www.972mag.com

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Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · 23h

Job coaches are not a treatment for mental ill health, whether they sit in a GP surgery or anywhere else. This is not a government that is at all serious about treating people so they can recover and stay well.

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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 23h

LOL, considering their current repose is pretend it does not exist, victim blame and cut welfare I wonder what else they can come up with? Thoughts and prayers?

Tim Durrant @timdurrant.bsky.social · 23h

What day is it? That's right, it's Day 2 ("containment") of Exercise Pegasus, the "largest ever simulation of a pandemic in UK history" - right now, teams in the NHS, govt depts and others are testing their approach to dealing with a possible future pandemic...

hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025...

A written statement from Ashley Dalton MP, health minister:

Exercise Pegasus will be the largest ever simulation of a pandemic in UK history and will involve participation from every Department, the devolved Governments and representation from arm’s length bodies and local resilience fora.

The exercise is due to take place from September to November 2025, led by the Department of Health and Social Care and delivered with the UK Health Security Agency. Core exercise days have been confirmed for 18 September, 9 October and 30 October, simulating the first phases of a pandemic: emergence, containment, and mitigation. A fourth phase—recovery—is also planned for 2026. The UK Government have committed to communicating the findings and lessons of the exercise as recommended by the covid-19 inquiry and a post-exercise report will be delivered in due course.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 1d

the audit report: www.mozillafoundation.org/en/youtube/f...

YouTube Regrets

Mozilla and 37,380 YouTube users conducted a study to better understand harmful YouTube recommendations. This is what we learned.

www.mozillafoundation.org

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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 2d

Not everyone lives in North America part eleventy billion.

P Simon @simonwinning.bsky.social · 2d

I take it you didn't vote for Kamala and is the reason Trump is President. You make up reasons to appose the system so you don't have to take responsibility when it fails because people like you refuse to participate.
Convince yourself what ever you want if it helps you sleep at night.
MUTE!

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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 2d

I’m guessing all the masked ICE brown shirts were all ‘I’m not masking’ at height of pandemic?

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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 2d

Inspired by an earlier design by the brilliant #rubyetc

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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 2d

There are more than two sides in the world, fascists and centrist who enable them are the problem. And people thinking that is all there is. Try Leftism. You might like it.

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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 2d

Keir Starmer said Israel can do whatever it likes to UK citizen’s it kidnapped.
Keir Starmer is directing the arrests of hundreds of people for holding a piece of paper supporting action to stop a genocide committed by Israel.
Keir Starmer sold £20,000 worth of bullets to Israel in August alone.

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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 2d

nice try, that was done to protect genocide supporters from accountability and crush student protests.

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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 2d

Just to be clear, Labour is moving right to achieve the ruling clique's goals, and using Reform as the excuse to do so.

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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 2d

If this is who the Dems think will beat Trump, they are stuck in their loser rut.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 2d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 2d

Just @mind.org.uk having a bake-off with the DWP, who regularly impoverish people with mental health issues and drive them to suicide. Cake or death? Or let them eat cake? 🤔

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 2d

Poetic for a technology that often (incorrectly and offensively) hides behind a shield of "giving disabled people access to creativity"

jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 2d

NEW: People are generating Sora 2 videos of famed physicist Stephen Hawking being horribly brutalized in terrible ways -- no matter how bad you thought OpenAI's guardrails were, I guarantee they're worse

futurism.com/artificial-i...

People Are Making Sora 2 Videos of Stephen Hawking Being Horribly Brutalized

People are using OpenAI's Sora 2 to generate videos of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking being brutalized in ghoulish ways.

futurism.com

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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 2d

Well, to be fair being against genocide is very un-British, Britain fucking loves mass murdering people for shits and giggles.

David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 3d

Incredibly dangerous for a senior politician to suggest that there's some zero-sum game to be played between mourning the losses of Oct7 and protesting an ongoing genocide. And incredibly cynical given that the protests are directed at his own complicity

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Keir Starmer calls student protests on 7 October anniversary ‘un-British’

Prime minister urges students not to protest on the second anniversary of Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel

www.theguardian.com

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