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After due consideration, having weighed up the relevant evidence, assessed the balance of arguments and gamed the likely implications, I have reached the conclusion that Keir Starmer can fuck off from a great height.
May 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
After due consideration, having weighed up the relevant evidence, assessed the balance of arguments and gamed the likely implications, I have reached the conclusion that Keir Starmer can fuck off from a great height.
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They say there’s no money for housing, food or health. Yet war, surveillance and repression are endlessly funded. The system protects capital not people. The real war is against the poor. No war but the class war. It's time for us to wake up and fight against the system before they kill us ⚡🏴
April 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
They say there’s no money for housing, food or health. Yet war, surveillance and repression are endlessly funded. The system protects capital not people. The real war is against the poor. No war but the class war. It's time for us to wake up and fight against the system before they kill us ⚡🏴
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⚡🏴When our basic needs are met, we stop surviving and start living. Freed from hunger and fear, we unlock imagination. A nourished people don't just survive... they build, dream, and reclaim their dignity.
April 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
⚡🏴When our basic needs are met, we stop surviving and start living. Freed from hunger and fear, we unlock imagination. A nourished people don't just survive... they build, dream, and reclaim their dignity.
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Happy St George' Day!
![Cartoon for St George's day by Stephen Collins for the guardian. Script as follows:
Scene is outside a cave, ST GEORGE in armour etc is confronting the DRAGON while the CAPTURED PRINCESS looks on.
DRAGON:
So let me get this straight.
DRAGON:
You’re hoping to reinforce ‘helpless princess’ tropes…
DRAGON:
By publicly stabbing an *endangered animal* to death with a *sword*…
DRAGON:
So you can force a whole Syrian village to convert to Christianity….
DRAGON:
And become a nationalist icon for a colonial state…
DRAGON:
Through the cultural appropriation of ancient medieval dragon myths.
DRAGON:
You’ve not been *online* very long, have you?
GEORGE:
I have been quite surprised by the comments.
GEORGE’S SOCIAL MEDIA ASSISTANT [who is filming this encounter on an iPhone]:
I told you it’s problematic, George.
DRAGON:
Problematic? It’s a *bin fire*!
DRAGON:
OK. Here’s how you turn this round -
CUT TO a YoutTube post called ‘MY JOURNEY (An apology)’. GEORGE is crying to camera, Dragon in background.
GEORGE:
I am *so sorry* guys…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreihzpskp6p4u4ejrjhmp4tdye2rzg75vmbyxbn45o5g4xk7dpairge@jpeg)
April 23, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Happy St George' Day!
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Oh FGS. Anything that upsets corporate power and/or the far right is now deemed by the BBC to invoke "public controversy", and must therefore be nixed.
The BBC has done more to censor public debate than any other organisation in the UK.
And still it goes on.
The BBC has done more to censor public debate than any other organisation in the UK.
And still it goes on.
Sad news about the Happy Heat Pump Podcast.
Sorry to say, that after about 20 episodes, we’re drawing it to a close at the request of the BBC which worries it may be seen as steering into areas of public controversy.
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youtu.be/RJPKgngqoX0?...
Sorry to say, that after about 20 episodes, we’re drawing it to a close at the request of the BBC which worries it may be seen as steering into areas of public controversy.
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youtu.be/RJPKgngqoX0?...
https://youtu.be/RJPKgngqoX0?si=92B9xN4zy6BiWXqK
t.co
April 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Oh FGS. Anything that upsets corporate power and/or the far right is now deemed by the BBC to invoke "public controversy", and must therefore be nixed.
The BBC has done more to censor public debate than any other organisation in the UK.
And still it goes on.
The BBC has done more to censor public debate than any other organisation in the UK.
And still it goes on.
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Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"
April 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"
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Homelessness – the other housing crisis politicians aren’t talking about
theconversation.com/homelessness...
theconversation.com/homelessness...
Homelessness – the other housing crisis politicians aren’t talking about
More than 120,000 people are homeless in Australia. The problem can be solved, but it will take more than just building more homes
theconversation.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Homelessness – the other housing crisis politicians aren’t talking about
theconversation.com/homelessness...
theconversation.com/homelessness...
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Germany teeters on a dangerous precipice, grappling with a social and political upheaval. Without collective action for social-ecological transformation, this essay argues that it may spiral into unchecked authoritarianism.
By Mario Candeias in @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social
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By Mario Candeias in @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social
buff.ly/nKgxRe0
Understanding the Monsters - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
The reciprocity between fascization and obstructed transformation in Germany
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March 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Germany teeters on a dangerous precipice, grappling with a social and political upheaval. Without collective action for social-ecological transformation, this essay argues that it may spiral into unchecked authoritarianism.
By Mario Candeias in @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social
buff.ly/nKgxRe0
By Mario Candeias in @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social
buff.ly/nKgxRe0
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22 years ago today, the US and UK illegally invaded Iraq.
In doing so, they unleashed bloody chaos which so many are still paying the price for today.
As I wrote in 2016, the Iraq war was not a "blunder" or a "mistake".
It was a crime.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In doing so, they unleashed bloody chaos which so many are still paying the price for today.
As I wrote in 2016, the Iraq war was not a "blunder" or a "mistake".
It was a crime.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The war in Iraq was not a blunder or a mistake. It was a crime | Owen Jones
Tony Blair says he did not know military action would be disastrous. In truth, he was warned many times
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 8:02 AM
22 years ago today, the US and UK illegally invaded Iraq.
In doing so, they unleashed bloody chaos which so many are still paying the price for today.
As I wrote in 2016, the Iraq war was not a "blunder" or a "mistake".
It was a crime.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In doing so, they unleashed bloody chaos which so many are still paying the price for today.
As I wrote in 2016, the Iraq war was not a "blunder" or a "mistake".
It was a crime.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Happy Ostara 🐇🌼🌞🌕💛
March 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Happy Ostara 🐇🌼🌞🌕💛
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“Every time you see a headline on “the cost of the benefits bill”, what you are really reading is “the cost of disabled people”.
My col. on Labour’s reported benefit cuts and the toxic narrative of the “moral” virtue of work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My col. on Labour’s reported benefit cuts and the toxic narrative of the “moral” virtue of work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There is a shameful tradition of demonising disabled people. Why is Labour reigniting it? | Frances Ryan
Ministers run away from a wealth tax and then concoct a punitive benefits system. They have made that choice and it’s immoral, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com
March 11, 2025 at 8:34 AM
“Every time you see a headline on “the cost of the benefits bill”, what you are really reading is “the cost of disabled people”.
My col. on Labour’s reported benefit cuts and the toxic narrative of the “moral” virtue of work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My col. on Labour’s reported benefit cuts and the toxic narrative of the “moral” virtue of work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism?
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
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Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
March 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism?
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
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Trump never had a peace plan for Ukraine. He had a plan for Ukraine's surrender, with a colonial resource grab. As Zelenskyy rightly refused it, or to cooperate in Trump's TV spectacular, the US has now cut Ukraine off.
That's what blackmail looks like.
That's what the world is up against.
That's what blackmail looks like.
That's what the world is up against.
March 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Trump never had a peace plan for Ukraine. He had a plan for Ukraine's surrender, with a colonial resource grab. As Zelenskyy rightly refused it, or to cooperate in Trump's TV spectacular, the US has now cut Ukraine off.
That's what blackmail looks like.
That's what the world is up against.
That's what blackmail looks like.
That's what the world is up against.
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Yes, the UK government SHOULD abandon its Carbon Capture and Storage scheme, which
a. would cause a net *increase* in emissions
b. is unlikely to work
c. uses tens of billions that'd be much better spent on genuinely green projects.
Let's hope it has seen sense.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
a. would cause a net *increase* in emissions
b. is unlikely to work
c. uses tens of billions that'd be much better spent on genuinely green projects.
Let's hope it has seen sense.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour’s carbon-capture scheme will be Starmer’s white elephant: a terrible mistake costing billions | George Monbiot
The supposedly green project – brainchild of the previous Tory government – will increase emissions, not reduce them, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
March 3, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Yes, the UK government SHOULD abandon its Carbon Capture and Storage scheme, which
a. would cause a net *increase* in emissions
b. is unlikely to work
c. uses tens of billions that'd be much better spent on genuinely green projects.
Let's hope it has seen sense.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
a. would cause a net *increase* in emissions
b. is unlikely to work
c. uses tens of billions that'd be much better spent on genuinely green projects.
Let's hope it has seen sense.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
medium.com/the-new-clim...
It's time to face the uncomfortable truth: capitalism must end or fundamentally change.
It's time to face the uncomfortable truth: capitalism must end or fundamentally change.
More Growth, More Problems: System Change Not Climate Change
The illusion of endless growth and why bigger economies and capitalism don’t make our lives better.
medium.com
March 3, 2025 at 7:59 AM
medium.com/the-new-clim...
It's time to face the uncomfortable truth: capitalism must end or fundamentally change.
It's time to face the uncomfortable truth: capitalism must end or fundamentally change.
Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
No second state visit for Trump
This is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he...
you.38degrees.org.uk
March 1, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
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Halfway to the weekend. LFG!
February 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Halfway to the weekend. LFG!
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A Cool Guide Towards The Rise of Totalitarianism in the USA" based on the book Origins of Totalitarianism By Hannah Arendt.
#USA #Totalitarianism #Thinkthanks #wewantdemocracynow
#USA #Totalitarianism #Thinkthanks #wewantdemocracynow
February 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
A Cool Guide Towards The Rise of Totalitarianism in the USA" based on the book Origins of Totalitarianism By Hannah Arendt.
#USA #Totalitarianism #Thinkthanks #wewantdemocracynow
#USA #Totalitarianism #Thinkthanks #wewantdemocracynow