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Netpol @netpol.org · Sep 6

Saturday morning timeline cleanser: It looks like the Elbit Systems Aztec West facility in Bristol has closed down permanently www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Israeli arms manufacturer closes UK facility targeted by Palestine Action

Exclusive: Elbit Systems UK Bristol site was subject of protest days before direct action group was proscribed

www.theguardian.com

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Charlie the Fox @sabcharlie.bsky.social · Sep 6

I genuinely believe there is a plan and a purpose to all of this, but I can't for the life of me imagine what it is.

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Charlie the Fox @sabcharlie.bsky.social · Sep 6

"Peace process" update: five people sent to prison for doing a traditional dance, and police deploying armoured vehicles to stop a funeral.
anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/fi...

Five people, including two children, sentenced to prison for ‘spreading protest by dancing halay’

Last year, Kurds dancing halay at weddings to Kurdish songs became the target of an online campaign fueled by racist and militarist social media accounts. What began on digital platforms turned int...

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Count Mysterioso @mysteriosox.bsky.social · Sep 5

This might be important to some people

NHS
Northumbria Healthcare
NHS Foundation Trust
Government Emergency Alerts
and Domestic Abuse
On the 7 September 2025 at 3pm, the government will be testing
the emergency alert system to activate phones and tablets with a
loud alert. If you have one hidden from an abusive partner, switch
it off.
It will alert even if it's on silent or disconnected
from data and wifi.
How to opt out of emergency alerts:
!
Android
· Open the settings app
· Search 'emergency alerts'
· Select emergency alerts and from here you
can turn them off
. Tap the toggles on the right. If they are grey,
this means they are switched off.
iPhone
· Open the settings app
· Tap on notifications
. Scroll to the bottom of the page. There'll be an emergency alert section
. Tap the toggles on the right. If they are grey, this means they are
switched off
@northumbrianhs

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Charlie the Fox @sabcharlie.bsky.social · Sep 4

One of the most important things to learn from the Rojava revolution is that you don't have to do everything perfectly the first time, so long as you build systems that can adapt and improve.

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Charlie the Fox @sabcharlie.bsky.social · Sep 4

There are costs, obviously, but they're far less than the cost of locking yourself into a rigid system and being unable to change mistakes, or of never implementing anything because it isn't perfect yet, or of refusing to listen and respond to criticism.

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Charlie the Fox @sabcharlie.bsky.social · Sep 4

The commune system, the cooperative system, the election system - all of these are core pillars of democratic confederalism, and all of them have gone through major changes. If something isn't working - either for the party or the people - it gets changed.

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Charlie the Fox @sabcharlie.bsky.social · Sep 4

One of the most important things to learn from the Rojava revolution is that you don't have to do everything perfectly the first time, so long as you build systems that can adapt and improve.

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · Aug 30

Our full statement on our action against Sodexo Leeds

STATEMENT ON BASH BACK ACTION
AGAINST SODEXO (29/08/25)
On the week of the 28th of July, a trans man, Toni Asik was murdered in the Sodexo-run HMP Bronzefield. He had endured weeks of abuse because of his gender identity, constant misgendering and harassment by Sodexo staff. In the same week, an 18 year old trans man, also incarcerated in Bronzefield, attempted suicide by throwing himself off of a high railing. Sodexo and prison staff responded with aggressive 5 day lockdowns, further restrictions on prisoners' rights, and further violence against the prisoners themselves.
Every death in prison is a murder. Every incarcerated trans person is a
victim of the same harassment that killed Toni Asik and Taylor Atkinson, a prisoner held for 14 years under the UK's draconian IPP laws.
Through the violence inherent in discrimination, misgendering, abuse, denial of HRT, and segregation from other prisoners of the same gender, the prison system is designed todehumanize, erase and kill trans prisoners.
By taking action against Sodexo this week we stand in solidarity with
Prisoners for Palestine, CAGE, No More Exclusions and the Anticarceral
Solidarity network, in condemning the hideous abuse the prison system wreaks on its victims, and standing with all prisoners - our trans siblings, and our fellow activists, the Filton 24 (especially T. Hoxha who remains on hunger strike in HMP Peterborough as we write this) - in holding these
murderers to account.

OUR DEMANDS
We DEMAND that trans prisoners be transferred
to prisons of their gender.
We DEMAND investigations. into the abuses that led
to these deaths.
We DEMAND the immediate release of all political
prisoners held without trial or under IPP legislation.
Until then, we will continue to hold the bigots at
Sodexo and HMP to account.
SMASH SODEXO. SMASH THE STATE.
LIBERATION FOR ALL PRISONERS NOW.
STAND UP,
BASH BACK

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A Spooky Goose @anarchygoose.bsky.social · Aug 26

This is something that got lost a little in the wider Itch wildness but Itch has banned almost all queer content from the UK citing the OSA, even though that isn't what the OSA requires and almost certainly nobody asked them to.

They are a wildly incompetent company, regardless of wider issues.

Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (Very scary) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · Aug 26

@itch.io is this something y'all did on your end or is this the UK government because if my *page* is hidden now I'd like to know

Trans Revolutionary Anarchist @traexecutive.bsky.social · Aug 26

What the fuck.

I can see this bundle page, as well as the pages for any books I've bought, but because of the UK government I guess, I can't see your actual page??

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Charlie the Fox @sabcharlie.bsky.social · Aug 25

Can someone who understands the war explain to me why Turkey is drone striking Tel SyriaTel? As far as I'm aware, it's on the other side of the river and therefore held by Turkish proxies.

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Hunt Saboteurs Association @huntsabs.org.uk · Aug 25

This week has seen sabs across the country out in force while most people are still asleep. For many hunts, the cubbing season has now started.

“𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮’𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙘𝙪𝙗𝙨 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩.” 👀 ⬇️

www.huntsabs.org.uk/cubbing-take...

Cubbing Takes A Drubbing From Sabs Across The Country - Hunt Saboteurs Association

This week has seen sabs across the country out in force while most people are still asleep. For many hunts, the cubbing season has now started. Sab groups have been keeping an eye on their local hunts...

www.huntsabs.org.uk

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Charlie the Fox @sabcharlie.bsky.social · Aug 25

Things you should bring to Rojava: insect repellent.

Things you shouldn't bring to Rojava: anything that takes up space in your bag which could otherwise be used for insect repellent.

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Charlie the Fox @sabcharlie.bsky.social · Aug 24

Anarchists in Rojava love saying things like "I think it's bad that the youth attacked the security forces."

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Charlie the Fox @sabcharlie.bsky.social · Aug 24

In Bakur

Charlie the Fox @sabcharlie.bsky.social · Aug 23

Peace process update: nobody is allowed to speak Kurdish at the parliamentary commission about it.

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Charlie the Fox @sabcharlie.bsky.social · Aug 22

Can everybody please try to act like they're running a state instead of a mafia?

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Charlie the Fox @sabcharlie.bsky.social · Aug 22

My initial analysis of the internal violence between PUK factions in Slemani is that I'm deeply embarrassed for everyone involved.

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Charlie the Fox @sabcharlie.bsky.social · Aug 19

One thing I love about social media is getting a notification that someone has replied to my post, but having no idea which post it is, and getting to imagine it as a possible reply to everything I've posted recently.

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Charlie the Fox @sabcharlie.bsky.social · Aug 19

In fairness, a lot of the time these laws don't bind white people - lots of people are pointing out the soft touch the UVF get, but also you can walk around in Combat18 merch and never get worse than a high five from the police.

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Charlie the Fox @sabcharlie.bsky.social · Aug 19

I think the proscription of PalAction is bad. I'm glad people are fighting it. But when all this is over, people are going to go back to being fine with the proscription of other leftist groups. Because that's just the social contract. Those people aren't real people.

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Charlie the Fox @sabcharlie.bsky.social · Aug 19

Nothing that is happening with PalAction is new.

All of this happens to other proscribed groups.

But suddenly it's happening to white people and other white people are up in arms because they thought those laws didn't bind them.

Charlie the Fox @sabcharlie.bsky.social · Aug 19

Look, everyone knows I fully support Palestine and also a wide range of criminal activity. But people need to be smart. If someone says "any money you give me for this will go to a designated terrorist group", and you give them money, you've funded a designated terrorist group.

Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · Aug 19

More "free speech" in the Times, as "Lawyers for Israel" suggest that booksellers could be criminally liable for selling Sally Rooney's novels.

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Charlie the Fox @sabcharlie.bsky.social · Aug 19

And I'm not saying it's good if people get punished for buying or selling the book that's openly funding Palestine Action. But I am saying it's extremely predictable. Just because Lawyers for Israel are terrible people doesn't mean they're wrong about this.

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Charlie the Fox @sabcharlie.bsky.social · Aug 19

Terrorist groups tend to raise money covertly because it's strategically necessary in a legal context that sends people to prison for donating to them. They do is because it's smart, not because they're sketchy people who like doing sketchy things.

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Charlie the Fox @sabcharlie.bsky.social · Aug 19

Look, everyone knows I fully support Palestine and also a wide range of criminal activity. But people need to be smart. If someone says "any money you give me for this will go to a designated terrorist group", and you give them money, you've funded a designated terrorist group.

Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · Aug 19

More "free speech" in the Times, as "Lawyers for Israel" suggest that booksellers could be criminally liable for selling Sally Rooney's novels.

BBC under pressure over Sally Rooney’s Palestine Action support

The author of Normal People, which was a big hit for the corporation, said at the weekend she would donate money from her work to the proscribed group

www.thetimes.com

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