Capt spanner @captspanner.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Well a blood blister is technically internal bleeding so… 000
Reposted by Capt spanner 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 15373109
Reposted by Capt spanner It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Protests 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. 115357
Reposted by Capt spanner Gwyllm Llwydd @gwyllm.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Turtle Mutual Aid: 560181003179
Reposted by Capt spanner AMASE @amase.org.uk · 16/06/2025We 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. 33215
Reposted by Capt spanner Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 29/05/2025King Charles' recent visit to Canada: 125658958
Reposted by Capt spanner Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 29/05/2025A happy National Biscuit Day to all who celebrate. 🍪 113730
Reposted by Capt spanner Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 13/05/2025BREAKING: 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. 12475036012817
Reposted by Capt spanner Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 10/05/2025I’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. 811838
Reposted by Capt spanner RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Happy 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. 645429137900
Reposted by Capt spanner actually madeleine is the scientist🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🦇 @webway.bsky.social · 06/05/2025a 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 210420
Reposted by Capt spanner Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 07/05/2025You 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. 211036
Reposted by Capt spanner David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 06/05/2025From the book, Bullshit Jobs. 112830
Reposted by Capt spanner Talia al Ghoul 🏳️⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 06/05/2025also you all need to see this, because this is something I don't think *anybody* could predict for where this ad goes 391200086166
Reposted by Capt spanner Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Now 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.comUK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block developmentWhitehall analysis provides no data or research to support the government argument that environmental legislation holds up building 522983
Reposted by Capt spanner 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 0194
Reposted by Capt spanner Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Have 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 720247
Reposted by Capt spanner Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 30/04/2025This 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!" 1292114513997
Reposted by Capt spanner dirt squirrel @dirtsquirrel.bsky.social · 29/04/2025if 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 21473371138
Reposted by Capt spanner Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Tony 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 & misguidedtheguardian.comClimate plan based on phasing out fossil fuels doomed to fail, says Tony BlairFormer PM claims net zero policies losing public support and says there should be greater focus on carbon capture 2827250
Capt spanner @captspanner.bsky.social · 30/04/2025It’s odd how the only strategies these ghouls come up with to lower the atmospheric carbon involve giving rich people more tax money . I guess sea level rise doesn’t matter if you’ve got a super yacht 🤷♂️ 011
Reposted by Capt spanner Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/04/2025NatWest 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.comNatWest chair thanks UK taxpayers for bailout ahead of return to private ownershipRick Haythornthwaite said bank was indebted to public for £46bn rescue package that kept it afloat in 2008 26380176
Reposted by Capt spanner Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 21/04/2025People 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. 967428336853
Reposted by Capt spanner A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Nurembergers every one of them. 1049192
Reposted by Capt spanner 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 13634
Reposted by Capt spanner Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 17/04/2025You 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... 33943253
Reposted by Capt spanner Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 17/04/2025This 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. 418791
Reposted by Capt spanner George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/04/2025I 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. 9474503714359
Reposted by Capt spanner Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Scared 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.beTrump is scaring the people of the USA. They're not going to spend as a result.YouTube video by Richard J Murphy 111641
Reposted by Capt spanner Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Everything is breathtakingly stupid 376167192717
Reposted by Capt spanner Matt Erskine @matt72423.bsky.social · 12/04/2025The tardigrade has been voted Invertebrate of the Year 2025. Commiserations to Keir Starmer who came a very close second. 37524
Reposted by Capt spanner Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Scandalous 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 systemquestions-statements.parliament.ukWritten questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK ParliamentInformation from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports. 6257119
Reposted by Capt spanner Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 12/04/2025you'll never be rid of him 75160172838
Reposted by Capt spanner Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/04/202540% 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.ukWritten questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK ParliamentInformation from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports. 25539283
Reposted by Capt spanner Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen 8859111628449
Reposted by Capt spanner Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 07/04/2025As 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. 238491
Reposted by Capt spanner Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Most 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 82313558
