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Tuta @tuta.com · 20/10/2025

🚨 Another massive AWS outage just took down Roblox, Fortnite, Coinbase, Snapchat, and all Supercell games. Half the internet has gone dark because of one Big Tech company. This is not innovation, it is monopoly risk. 💡It’s time to choose alternatives. #GoEuropean #DigitalSovereignty #AWS #Outage

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Protests against the Iraq war in 2003 mobilized millions + the war still happened. What's needed is for people to move from creating passive, viral moments, to getting involved in grassroots organizing + mass direct action. We have to be the sand in the gears grinding down the machine.

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Gwyllm Llwydd @gwyllm.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Turtle Mutual Aid:

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AMASE @amase.org.uk · 16/06/2025

We are still waiting for an explanation of how the labour government will ensure that "those who want to work should be supported so that they can do so" while cutting the benefits that support disabled people to work.

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

King Charles' recent visit to Canada:

"No one colonizes Canada but me! And maybe the boy!"

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Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

A happy National Biscuit Day to all who celebrate. 🍪

A still from the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot/Sasquatch footage, showing a furry figure striding through some woods in Northern California in 1967. Bigfoot is now Cookie Monster. If this use of the US term for biscuit, on National Biscuit Day, offends you, I would like to inform you that Cookie Monster's British cousin is called Biscuit Monster. My thanks to @davemc99.bsky.social for reminding me I made this.

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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts. Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.

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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I’m deeply concerned about what might still be on the table in future UK–US trade deals—and without proper parliamentary scrutiny, we can’t be sure what’s being traded away. From digital protections to tax policy, these decisions must be open, transparent, and in the public interest.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace. You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

This photograph captures Sir David Attenborough seated outdoors on the rugged terrain of Skomer Island. Behind him, the ocean and coastal cliffs form a scenic backdrop under a clear sky. Sir David, dressed in a khaki jacket and light trousers, looks towards the camera with a gentle expression, exuding a sense of warmth, calm, and wisdom. Around him, puffins can be seen flying and perched on the rocky ground, illuminated in rays of golden sunlight as the sun sets behind the cliffs.

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actually madeleine is the scientist🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🦇 @webway.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

a party that is rigidly enforcing patriarchal gender norms and compiling lists of which races 'commit the most crimes' certainly reminds me of something not sure if i can put my finger on it

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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

You can’t fix the NHS without fixing social care. I challenged the government to stop outsourcing leadership and start showing it—by bringing parties together to deliver long-overdue reform. The crisis in social care is a political failure, not a policy mystery.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

From the book, Bullshit Jobs.

“It’s hard to imagine
a surer sign that one
is dealing with an
irrational economic
system than the fact
that the prospect of
eliminating drudgery
is considered to be a
problem.”
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- David Graeber

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Talia al Ghoul 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

also you all need to see this, because this is something I don't think *anybody* could predict for where this ad goes

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Now Government’s own impact assessment shows no real evidence to support their argument that nature is a blocker, I look forward to ministers reversing their proposals that will trash nature protections …

theguardian.com

UK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block development

Whitehall analysis provides no data or research to support the government argument that environmental legislation holds up building

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Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

"Right through our national life we have got to fight against privilege, against the notion that a half-witted public schoolboy is better for command than an intelligent mechanic." George Orwell - 'The Lion and The Unicorn' (1941) #InternationalWorkersDay

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Have you seen fragmented aurora-like emissions (FAEs)? These small aurora “tick-tacks” are a newly-discovered phenomenon that has important implications in the aurora science community! If you think you’ve seen these in your photos, keep reading to find out how you can help. #heliophysics

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

This exchange is so very telling. Trump repeatedly claims the photoshopped MS-13 on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's knuckles is real, Terry Moran keeps telling him it isn't, prompting Trump to say this: "I never heard of you. I picked you. You’re not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed... Just say yes!"

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dirt squirrel @dirtsquirrel.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

if your sick wife is like three hours from death, busting her free to smoke meth and get railed to slayer one last time is fuckin awesome and sweet and you can't convince me otherwise

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Tony Blair Institute report criticising the drive to Net Zero is a decidedly odd dossier. We won’t halt climate breakdown *without* phasing out fossil fuels & to suggest solution lies in more nuclear & carbon capture rather than renewables is costly & misguided

theguardian.com

Climate plan based on phasing out fossil fuels doomed to fail, says Tony Blair

Former PM claims net zero policies losing public support and says there should be greater focus on carbon capture

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

NatWest bank set for private ownership. Received £45.5bn govt bailout in 2008. Reverse socialism - Lame ducks bailed out but when profitable handed back to private sector. Why? They could form part of industrial strategy - lending to SMEs, investment in new industries.

theguardian.com

NatWest chair thanks UK taxpayers for bailout ahead of return to private ownership

Rick Haythornthwaite said bank was indebted to public for £46bn rescue package that kept it afloat in 2008

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Nurembergers every one of them.

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Disabled People Against Cuts - DPAC @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

#PIP This is truly shocking, the table below sets out from a freedom of information request how many disabled claimants in receipt of PIP daily living will lose out under proposed pip cuts

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 17/04/2025

You know democracy is going well when the decision to remove the rights of an already marginalised community is celebrated in "serious" analysis for allowing politicians "to dodge difficult questions" Smells increasingly like the Weimar republic to me...

Guardian headline:

Transgender
Analysis
Judicial ruling on legal definition of ‘woman’ will have UK politicians sighing with relief
Peter Walker and Severin Carrell

A unambiguous decision by the supreme court helps MPs, MSPs and others dodge difficult questions

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 17/04/2025

This is the raison d'être of Palantir as a company. From inception, their purpose has been to provide the data infrastructure for fascism. They create the "ontology layer" of fascism—helping to give its ideological goals a material reality. For decades, Palantir has been working toward this moment.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

A tweet by Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25
) reads: "He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. Don’t you see what’s happening here?"

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Scared people do not spend. This is a fact of economic life. Once somebody is worried about their economic future, they begin to save, and that means Trump is heading the US and the world into a recession. youtu.be/GXRhm36h7BU?...

youtu.be

Trump is scaring the people of the USA. They're not going to spend as a result.

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Everything is breathtakingly stupid

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Matt Erskine @matt72423.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

The tardigrade has been voted Invertebrate of the Year 2025. Commiserations to Keir Starmer who came a very close second.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Scandalous Every year thousands of UK workers are denied minimum wage. 2016 - 2023: Over 3m workers robbed of the minimum wage. 2007 - 2023: Only 21 employers prosecuted for underpaying the minimum wage, puny fines. NO criminal prosecutions. Lack of prosecutions emboldens more to game the system

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Written questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament

Information from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports.

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

you'll never be rid of him

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

40% of the world's dirty money is laundered through the UK and its crown dependencies and overseas territories. Laws passed to create impression but not enforced. 49,521 UK registered companies have not provided details of persons of significant control. Companies not struck off.

questions-statements.parliament.uk

Written questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament

Information from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

As companies frantically try to fuck over workers and downsize, the *very* first workers they will find an excuse to lay off will be disabled workers on leave, or with basically any form of accomodation.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Most infighting on the left in the US is simply due to the US government spending a century shooting any leftist leader in the head and strangling every organization with. You've never seen a healthy, thriving leftist movement in the US, a Pinkerton put a bullet in its head a century ago

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

The way society apportions money gave a whole class of people confidence beyond their knowledge in all matters. "Wow they are rich, they must be really smart." Transphobia is a tailor-made bigotry for that class (and of course for their imitators, people cosplaying wealth/success).

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Our economy is more and more resembling Feudalism.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

The thing about genAI dipshits is that they are partially motivated by knowing, with 100% certainty, that if they picked up a pen and paper to create something, they would be bad at it. And instead of going "why wouldn't I be? I just started, of course I'm not good at it yet," they don't.

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Alonso Gurmendi @alonso-gd.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

We’re in the “first they came for the students” phase of the Trump autocracy. What happens next, how far and how bad it gets, is up to what you, yes you, you the American reading this right now, do today, tomorrow and the day after. It won’t just go away, trust us

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