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Rick B

@rickburgess.bsky.social

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He/They Dissident. Pondering an anti-social model of disability?!?! If I ever get the time and energy I like to compose odd music. Otherwise - Ask me about my initialisms: GMCDP, MDPAC, RITB, CSMH, DBW, CSS, DPHRN.

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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · Jul 23

Mutual aid:
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Sameer Project
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Map of Gaza in Palestinian flag colours, with names of regions.

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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 15h

Not everyone lives in North America part eleventy billion.

P Simon @simonwinning.bsky.social · 16h

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!

Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 16h

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 · 16h

Inspired by an earlier design by the brilliant #rubyetc

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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 16h

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.

Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 17h

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.

Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 17h

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

Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 17h

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

Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 18h

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

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 18h

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 · 19h

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 · 19h

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

jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 20h

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 · 19h

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 · 1d

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

Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 20h

Oh fuck off. British courts not had enough of persecuting Irish people?
And still no prosecutions for genocide. Wig wearing fucking tossers.

Prosecutors to appeal against decision to throw out terrorism case against Kneecap rapper

Liam Og O hAnnaidh was charged with the alleged display of a flag in support of the proscribed terrorist group Hezbollah at a gig, but the case against him was dismissed due to a technical error.

news.sky.com

Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 20h

Oh yeah, let Norris out, he is full of contrition.
-faces away from camera
-still using racist slurs
-won't name other killers

Stephen Lawrence killer admits role but refuses to name accomplices

David Norris, speaking at a parole hearing, becomes the first of the teenager's killers to publicly admit his role in the 1993 attack.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 21h

The Harvest Full Moon rises tonight... and it's a supermoon! 🌕

These occur when the Moon coincides with perigee — its closest point to the Earth during its orbit

Northern areas of the UK will have the best viewing chances as skies clear overnight 🎑

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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 21h

9 vessels in follow up thousandmadleens.fr/tracker/

Flotilla Tracker – Thousand Madleens & Freedom Flotilla Coalition – Thousand Madleens France

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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 1d

One of the best words ever, and not necessarily a bad thing, it can have its place and charms.
dreich
/driːx/
adjectiveSCOTTISH ENGLISH
(especially of weather) dreary; bleak.
"a cold, dreich early April day"

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

The Green Party for the last few days have gained 1000 new members every single day.

We've just reached 87,000 members!!!!

Let's make hope normal again.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 1d

Zack Polanski is the Mamdani of the UK - and he's Green!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxt4...

Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

www.youtube.com

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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 1d

Movies make you think vampires could be kind of cool, in reality though...

Spook E Peyote @niceandinnocent.bsky.social · 1d

Hello yes we are 2 normal fellows

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abdohassan.bsky.social @abdohassan.bsky.social · 1d

Greta Thunberg gives her first words after she was released from Israeli prison where she was beat and forced to kiss the Israeli flag. She says the story is not about them, the story is about Gaza.

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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 1d

BBC Verify journalist quits due to its anti Palestinian bias
www.thenational.scot/news/2547271...
Archive: archive.today/HL0fs

I left the BBC over its Gaza coverage. This is what I saw behind the scenes

“WE put targets on our colleagues. We undermined Palestinians and Palestinian voices. We contributed to dehumanising them. We, I became…

www.thenational.scot

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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 1d

ICE would have kidnapped and deported a young Steve Jobs, but Apple is now aiding ICE

Pluralistic: Apple’s unlawful evil (06 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.

pluralistic.net

Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss, new editor-in-chief of CBS News, is an assassin of Palestinians.

Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 3d

Refaat in Gaza @itranslate123
If I get killed by Israeli bombs or my family is harmed, I blame Bari Weiss @bariweiss and her likes.
Many maniacal Israeli soldiers already bombing Gaza take these lies and smears seriously and they act upon them.

New York Post
@nypost • Oct 2
Bari Weiss to be named editor in chief of CBS News as part of major Paramount Skydance shakeup: sources trib.al/IcZPbSf

Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 2d

Haringey Council has been ordered to make “lasting changes” to its social care system after it was found to have more than 1,100 welfare reports and police emails unread
I doubt this I just one LA.

Council apologises for leaving over 1,100 welfare and police emails unread

Investigators said the council’s lack of action left at least one resident at significant risk of harm

www.independent.co.uk

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Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 2d

Disabled people have warned for years that welfare reform pushes us deeper into poverty and exclusion.

Now the UN has called out the UK again. It's time for rights, dignity, and justice at home.

We write with @justfairuk.bsky.social in the Big Issue

Universal credit is back in the dock – this time at the United Nations

United Nations special rapporteurs have called for the UK government to question its reforms to universal credit.

www.bigissue.com

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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 2d

Holy shit, total abdication of duties and submission to Israeli power. Tel Aviv Keith is back baby!

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

Keir Starmer’s spokesman asked about Israel detaining British citizens who were on the Gaza aid flotilla, while in international waters, replies that it is a “matter for the Israeli Government”