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Rob Dyson ✍️ 💚

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Progressive public & media relations, rooted in non-profit sector for 25 yrs. Worked extensively w/ disabled people's orgs & charities in health, equality, & allyship spaces. 1/5 @futuresounds.bsky.social #CassetteCulture #Boombap #Vaporwave #DavidLynch

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 💚 @robdysonpr.uk · 10h

Link to @nicklowles.bsky.social interview and book review here:

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

‘There’s a basic decency among British people’: Hope Not Hate’s Nick Lowles on how to defeat the far right

Lowles has spent his entire adult life organising against fascism, facing countless threats as a result. He discusses the street confrontations of the 80s, foiling a murder plot, Nazi satanists – and ...

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 💚 @robdysonpr.uk · 21h

An early #Cassunday in case I forget. @remirough.bsky.social's Honest [2024] has arrived, adorned with his distinctive overlapping colour lines art - on the tape, cover, and inlay. Also, thanks so much for throwing in the extra @thedeadcanrap.bsky.social book 🙏🏼✊🏽

A Sanyo Walkman lies to the left with a tape inside. On the right is the cassette box of Remi Rough's album Honest. Remi's face from eyes down us depicted in black and white - but in the lenses of his white glasses is his bright, bold overlapping colour lines. The tape sits on a lyric book of Remi's other music collaboration, The Dead Can Rap; again with Remi Rough's distinctive street art.

Rob Dyson ✍️ 💚 @robdysonpr.uk · 21h

#31DaysOfHalloween Movie 11 is Last Staw (2023), described as a home invasion film with the twist being its setting - a rural diner.

A young woman stares ahead, looking defiant, clutching a knife. She looks like she has a splattering of blood on her. The image is cast in a neon red light. The title, Last Straw, is in a diner-style neon lettering.

Rob Dyson ✍️ 💚 @robdysonpr.uk · 1d

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 💚 @robdysonpr.uk · 1d

"If" is breaking a sweat in that sentence.

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 3d

Now Jenrick says "a lack of integration leads us into a very dark place as a country". His remarks and his apparent embrace of Anglofuturism demand an answer from the Conservative Party.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 💚 @robdysonpr.uk · 1d

Going to this, come down too - it's free :)

@hopenothate.org.uk @theobserveruk.bsky.social

observer.co.uk/our-events/t...

The Observer Book Club with Nick Lowles | The Observer

Independent journalism | News, culture & style | Investigations, analysis, features, ideas, recipes, newsletters & podcasts that make sense of the world

observer.co.uk

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 💚 @robdysonpr.uk · 1d

This is an important read, & those watching #BBCQT tonight will recognise the talking points and dog whistles from everyone on the panel *apart from* Polanski, who is countering the narrative of division favoured by Reform, Labour, & that other Party that used to govern...began with a T or C....

Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks! Fun fact, a few years ago our team helped do bring what we call the Race Class Narrative to the UK and Zack was extensively trained in it. neweconomyorganisers.org/resources/uk...

UK Race Class Narrative Report | NEON - New Economy Organisers Network

neweconomyorganisers.org

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 💚 @robdysonpr.uk · 1d

Ah its finally popped up on iPlayer, so watching now before I pop off to sleeptown

Rob Dyson ✍️ 💚 @robdysonpr.uk · 1d

WTAF?

Aaron Parnas trying to keep a straight face as he delivers the latest madness.

Journalist and commentator, Aaron Parnas, explains in a video update that RFK Jr has now - inexplicably - linked early circumcisions to autism. That feels...both antisemitic and ableist.

Rob Dyson ✍️ 💚 @robdysonpr.uk · 1d

Rewatching Vampire's Kiss (1988), which is a weird film anyway, but first time I actually paid attention to the very start where ESG are the band playing in the bar. Nice!

youtu.be/6k5gpHxJoAw?...

esg "moody" from vampire's kiss 1989

YouTube video by boogiesaur

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 💚 @robdysonpr.uk · 1d

Yes! Ah they are due a rewatch....

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 💚 @robdysonpr.uk · 1d

Ah gosh, yea, casting my mind back as I was between 9 and 11 years old when it aired.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 💚 @robdysonpr.uk · 1d

#31DaysOfHalloween. Movie 10 is going to be Immaculate (2024), set in a Catholic Italian convent...with terrifying secrets.

Sydney Sweeney (yea I know, but we'll ignore all that) is pictured in some kind of veil, and the whole thing is drenched in a red colour scheme; implying blood. She looks dazed, or resigned.

Rob Dyson ✍️ 💚 @robdysonpr.uk · 1d

Yep - was that the Happiness Patrol?

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 2d

“the first American-born pope urged them to “speak strongly” on behalf of migrants and refugees affected by Trump’s deportation drive.”

Sure hope—and honestly kind of assume— that’s coded language for “take action, hide people,” etc.

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 2d

www.thedailybeast.com/pope-leo-ram...

Pope Leo Ramps Up His Trump Feud With Order to American Bishops

The Chicago-born pontiff has sharpened his criticism of the Trump administration and reportedly decided to take action.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 💚 @robdysonpr.uk · 2d

Ah don't worry. But thank you so much for sharing this resource with me. And great to have discovered you via Wajahat.

Rob Dyson ✍️ 💚 @robdysonpr.uk · 2d

Digging into the report now - great reading (I'm a sociology grad so this is all up my street). It's resonating with texts like Minority Rule by Ash Sarkar, How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi, and Ain't No Black in Union Jack by Paul Gilroy. Hardcopies available? (My printer is broken).

Rob Dyson ✍️ 💚 @robdysonpr.uk · 2d

The Tory Party "stand up" with a couple of compensatory claps had me digging my toes into the ground in a cringe I haven't felt in ages. Another solid episode. We'll stop calling out the BBC for bias, when they stop displaying it :)

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 💚 @robdysonpr.uk · 2d

Ah love this! Will check it out. Cheers Anat.

Rob Dyson ✍️ 💚 @robdysonpr.uk · 2d

Was thinking the same thing. McCoy era too which had some pretty anti-authoritarian storylines.

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 2d

is this real life?

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 5d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 💚 @robdysonpr.uk · 2d

@anatosaurus.bsky.social @wajali.bsky.social 👀 ☝️

Rob Dyson ✍️ 💚 @robdysonpr.uk · 2d

Thanks for checking it out, and sharing. From Mamdani in NYC to Polanski in the UK, there is a growing fight back helping voters make a choice between status quo, hate and fear, and progressive policies.

Rob Dyson ✍️ 💚 @robdysonpr.uk · 2d

And in the video, Anat gives credit to @zackpolanski.bsky.social here in the UK, for taking the far right tactic of leveraging these big 'populist' topics, and confronting them to effectively communicate who *really* causes inequality and division (clue: it's not migrants, dinghies, or trans people)

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