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Troovus

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Capitalism is killing us | The #HousingCrisis is deliberate | The 1% control the media & MPs

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Troovus @troovus.bsky.social · Nov 14

Advice I’ve seen for new @bsky.app users:

🔹Find X mutuals with Sky Follower Bridge
🔹add media alt notes
🔹write a bio
🔹follow feeds
🔹turn on “show posts from feeds”
🔹Post your “bestselling” Tweet - here’s mine (4M views) from the wild days in 2022 when there were four chancellors in four months:

A mock-up calendar showing photos of Rishi Sunak, Nadhim Zahawi, Kwasi Kwarteng and Jeremy Hunt for July, August, September and October 2022 respectively.

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Peace & Justice Project @peaceandjustice.bsky.social · 18h

18,457 children. Murdered by Israel.

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Troovus @troovus.bsky.social · 14h

What policies should @thisisyourparty.bsky.social have on AI?

I've started writing out my thoughts, but have run out of time for now

I'd be interested in hearing other's thoughts on this before I pick it up again

troovus.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/a...

AI development, deployment and regulation – policies for the new left party (YourParty)

Background I worked for a London local authority in the 1990s. There was a scheme agreed between the employer and unions whereby any roles that used new technology were awarded New Technology Incre…

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 2d

Since 1980, the ECHR has heard just 29 UK immigrant deportation case, and the UK won 16 of them. Quitting will make no material difference to immigration, just weaken protections for absolutely everybody in this country. But Farage and the Tories know that.

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Netpol @netpol.org · 5d

The erroneously named "Campaign Against Antisemitism" says a failure to ban practically ALL protests in solidarity with Palestinians means "the blood of British Jews is on the hands of politicians".

This is horrifying rhetoric in the current moment, from an extremist pro-Israel group

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 5d

The highest electricity prices in the world, the highest train fares in Europe and rivers full of sewage. It's almost as if privatisation was fundamentally flawed.

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Troovus @troovus.bsky.social · 7d

Jumpers for goalposts

Troovus @troovus.bsky.social · 7d

It's good that the Met Police are being further exposed for the bastards that they are, but I would question the use of the word 'hidden' in this headline

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Troovus @troovus.bsky.social · 7d

This is astonishing. We know Keir Starmer is a liar and a fraud, and his backers are unscrupulous, but the details being revealed by Paul Holden are staggering. If our mainstream media had consistency and integrity, this would already be front-page news. But they are complicit.

Double Down News @doubledown.news · 15d

EXPOSED: The Scandal That Could Bring Down Keir Starmer's Government

This is BIG

www.doubledown.news

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 8d

Today, schoolchildren are taught about history’s worst crimes against humanity.

In the future, they will learn about those who enabled the genocide in Gaza.

They will also learn about the global movement for peace, and above all, the resilience of the Palestinian people.

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 9d

Tony Blair’s catastrophic decision to invade Iraq cost thousands upon thousands of lives.

He shouldn’t be anywhere near the Middle East, let alone Gaza.

It is not up to Blair, Trump or Netanyahu to decide the future of Gaza. That is up to the people of Palestine.

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 9d

This government’s legacy will be its complicity in the greatest crime of our time.

My piece for @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social.

www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/labo...

Labour Party conference: Will Palestinians get a mention in Starmer’s speech?

The legacy of Keir Starmer's government will be its complicity in one of the greatest crimes against humanity of our times

www.middleeasteye.net

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 10d

When you become a member of yourparty.uk, you join a mass movement for real change.

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Troovus @troovus.bsky.social · 11d

Sometimes, but not in this case

Troovus @troovus.bsky.social · 11d

You could be right, but it doesn't really matter who started the petition in this case. Bad people enjoy pizza, doesn't mean I'm going to stop enjoying pizza!

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 12d

Fight for a different future. For your class. For your community.

Become a member of Your Party now!

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Troovus @troovus.bsky.social · 12d

The first million people have signed up to tell Starmer to stick his ID cards where the sun don't shine

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Peace & Justice Project @peaceandjustice.bsky.social · 12d

Tony Blair and the US government share much of the responsibility for the instability and geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and around the world.

Gaza belongs to the Palestinians— not the parasites who want to ethnically cleanse it and sell it for parts.

Tony Blair in discussions to run transitional Gaza authority

The former prime minister has been in high-level planning talks over the territory's future, the BBC understands.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Media Lens @medialens.bsky.social · 12d

It is only fitting that a major war criminal should be chosen to oversee a post-genocide Gaza.

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

Tony Blair in discussions to run transitional Gaza authority

The former prime minister has been in high-level planning talks over the territory's future, the BBC understands.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 12d

People want lower rents. They want cheaper bills and publicly-owned services. They want an NHS that works.

Why can’t this government just do things that would actually improve people’s lives?

We can fix this country. We just need the political will.

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 12d

It’s more than what they say, about ID just tackling immigration.

Eventually this kind of digital power will be used against all UK citizens… as a way to penalise and create non-people at the whim of an authoritative fascist State!

Think about it… Do you even trust THIS Government not to abuse it?

Troovus @troovus.bsky.social · 12d

Over 50k per hour are signing this petition, which would mean it will hit a million signatures by mid-afternoon today

This will be Keir Starmer's poll tax

Screenshot from the UK government's petition page. The petition says:
Do not introduce Digital ID cards
We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.
The petition counter shows 728,984 signatures as at 10:20 on 26/09/2025

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Troovus @troovus.bsky.social · 12d

This is now over three quarters of a million

Do you think Starmer / McSweeney have realised they've made a huge blunder yet?

Troovus @troovus.bsky.social · 12d

Over 50k per hour are signing this petition, which would mean it will hit a million signatures by mid-afternoon today

This will be Keir Starmer's poll tax

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Troovus @troovus.bsky.social · 12d

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

petition.parliament.uk

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Troovus @troovus.bsky.social · 12d

Over 50k per hour are signing this petition, which would mean it will hit a million signatures by mid-afternoon today

This will be Keir Starmer's poll tax

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 13d

I firmly oppose the government’s plans for compulsory digital ID cards.

This is an affront to our civil liberties, and will make the lives of minorities even more difficult and dangerous.

It is excessive state interference — and must be resisted.

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Media Lens @medialens.bsky.social · 15d

The BBC continues to describe the genocide in Gaza as a 'war': even after a UN commission of inquiry described it as genocide, along with numerous human rights organisations and genocide scholars, including Israeli experts.

BBC News 'impartiality' = genuflecting to Israel

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