@afewbugs

Alcoholism soared in Russia during the 80s and 90s....

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4070150/

So everything in the UK is underfunded and falling apart and Labour's solution it to make it easier for us to drown our sorrows about it rather than fixing anything.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/08/pub-opening-hours-in-england-and-wales-could-be-extended

#ukpol

FOX NEWS IDIOT: If you thought the masked "Former Antifa Member" Jesse Watters had on last week looked familiar, there's a reason for that... #omg...He was also the masked "former gang member" and masked "Gaza resident" Watters had previously interviewed […]

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"The findings have led to claims that politicians who oppose investment in the sector “have grossly misjudged” voters’ views." #ClimateAction #popularsupport
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/reform-research-richard-tice-yougov-reform-uk-b2841340.html

#Handsworth and #Birmingham as a whole, is wonderfully, beautifully integrated.

It's full of #Brummies.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

This is no surprise to left-wingers, but the bigger problem now is that Starmer and his centrist sensibles are still pretending to be on the left, and unless they come clean or stand down they will make it very difficult for the Greens to challenge the Westminster […]

RE: https://aus.social/@pewnack/115333171789501185

A fascist is just a liberal having a bad day....

It seems pretty clear to me now: Keir Starmer would rather lose to Reform than to the Labour left, which is his real enemy. Any policy that might recover lost ground with voters has to be struck down, as it looks like a concession to the Labour left. And he and his team cannot contemplate that.

An unwelcome megatrend: AI that replaces family, friends — and pets
https://www.computerworld.com/article/4067326/an-unwelcome-megatrend-ai-that-replaces-family-friends-and-pets.html
Silicon Valley wants to replace that, turning person-to-person interactions into person-to-machine interactions […]

No account? No Windows 11, Microsoft says as another loophole snaps shut
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/07/windows_11_local_account_loophole/

Just another good reason to ditch Microsoft and move to Linux...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/115329694956661244

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It's not that our politicians don't know what's needed to slow #climatechange. It's that they don't care.

Their two priorities are

1. winning the next election, under the UK's absurdly dysfunctional, archaic and undemocratic system;

2. pleasing the big donors, who include the #fossilfuel […]

You should be angry at private companies making massive profits from our taxes to house the most desperate people in appalling conditions... And NOT the people forced to live in them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Macron: "We were incredibly naive to entrust our democratic space to #socialNetworks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

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Supporters of LibLabCon centrism should be watching what's happening in France, where the centrists have been fighting a desperate battle to remain in control of the country against a majority of further-left and further-right-wing political opponents […]

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French Prime Minister resigns after less than a month in office https://apnews.com/article/france-prime-minister-resign-lecornu-2faa9292442e104feef4e239df92d08f?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

@LillyHerself

And yet all those anti-Nazism UN votes seem to fail for some reason....

@ReggieHere Democracy has been hijacked by Big Business.
Democracy as a thing must be refashioned in order to guard it against the "parody of tolerance". If Germany could outlaw nazism, then other democracies can do the same.

Non-democratic (ie, fascist, authoritarian etc) actors must be […]

European "socialism" is a compromise wherein the population gets services and, in exchange, the rich are allowed to continue to exist. This compromise developed to save capitalism from the threat of the working class just rising up and just doing it all themselves. Revolutions, it turns out, can […]

@LillyHerself

It's almost as if democracy isn't especially democratic.

So depressing to hear that Austria is going full car-crazy, and spending a load of money on roads.
It's the same everywhere; governments SAY they are doing something about the climate emergency (just to shut us up), but then they DO NOTHING.
#klimakrise

After clashing with Maurice Glasman recently, I've come to realise just how pernicious he and his Blue Labour movement are. We could discuss his chumminess with Steve Bannon and JD Vance, endless pandering to the far right and evident hatred of the Labour left. But there's something even worse. 🧵

If it does turn out that the Manchester Synagogue attacker was motivated by conflating the actions of Israel with the endorsement of all Jewish people (and to be clear there's no evidence yet that he was), surely the government's request to call off Gaza protests this weekend in response to the […]