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@hireco.bsky.social
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Just a ghost, trapped in a monkey, hurtling through the universe on a rock. Like everybody else. Expect plenty of stuff around the big underrepresented issues, such as inequality, climate change and other systemic problems…and a fair bit of culture babble

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
They warned us, “If you tax private schools it’ll mean more students entering the state system, costing the taxpayers more!” The ‘they’ in this scenario are wealthy people. Be wary of negative reactions to policies that hurt the wealthy. Especially around tax, climate change, and regulation.
theguardian.com
No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils
Most say they have seen no impact on applications for year 7 places, despite warnings from those against policy
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Just ensuring the government actually collected the taxes that are owed would bank enough money to close the poverty gap. Just shutting down tax evasion would bank the US a trillion dollars. Sociology professor, Matthew Desmond, on economic justice…
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Matthew Desmond - “Poverty, by America” & What It Takes to Close the Poverty Gap | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Let’s face it, I’m not sure many of us would have blamed #Zelensky to be honest…
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
#RIP #GeneHackman
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a man in a hat and tie is waving his hand in front of a stop sign .
Alt: The legendary actor, Gene Hackman, in a hat and tie, waving his hand
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
“Instead of fixing the problem, they’re blaming migrants and benefits claimants when the real issue is inequality and corrupted politicians“ - @graceblakeley.bsky.social This 1000 times. This is the real problem with our stagnant economy.
A portrait of Grace Blakeley
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Thank you @nickmckim.bsky.social. Perfectly put. There are many millions of us (rational people) thinking exactly the same way. Trump is capitalism in human form. He’s overseeing a plutocracy and is a disaster for humanity.
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I can be as critical as anyone of the government's occasionally muddled message on growth but Look! At! This! Chart!! Anything they've done pales next to this GIGANTIC UNFORCED ERROR COMMITTED IN 2016! (fagpacket maths follows) on.ft.com/4hzyvbJ
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This is a message stating that £35 million pounds per day is how much billionaires made each day in 2024.
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
An price of Italian street art showing a Nazi supporter removing a mask of Hitler
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Hit home today that Elon’s zooming in to a rally of the German hard right to tell them to stop feeling bad about the past and embrace German glory was right before Holocaust Remembrance day.
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
What is hypernormalisation? What is Corporatism? The billionaires are controlling the information we take in. America has become a plutocracy and the billionaires are positioning themselves to keep it that way. Building a community is the only way out of this. Found out more here 👇🏻
theconsciouscitizens.org
The Conscious Citizens
A directory, newsletter, and online global community dedicated to building collective consciousness & community power.
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The billionaires are winning. They have us punching downwards rather than upwards. Towards dinghy’s not yachts. Our political debate should centre around economic inequality, but instead it is being deliberately centred (by Musk, Trump, Farage and the Populists around the world) around immigration.
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'Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg are laughing at you' | James O'Brien on LBC
YouTube video by LBC
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Fixed it.
This is an image of Elon Musk doing a speech stood at a podium at Trump’s inauguration celebrations, definitely NOT doing a Nazi salute and certainly NOT looking remarkably similar to Adolf Hitler.
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
There are various types of Oligarchy (as we can see from @jesscraven101.bsky.social great explanation👇🏻) As America swore in their new billionaire president, surrounded by the world’s richest billionaires, declaring to “drill baby drill” for big oil firms, the US has descended into full Plutocracy 🥲
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We’re living in a plutocracy. Here’s why it matters. 💰 #politics #news
YouTube video by Jessica Craven
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
These people, who have stolen an extra $2,000,000,000,000 last year, have convinced you that you have less money because of other poor people. It's time to wake up. This is class warfare. Your enemy is not coming by a small boat, they're coming by private jet. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...
theguardian.com
Wealth of world’s billionaires grew by $2tn in 2024, report finds
Rate of wealth growth last year was three times faster than 2023, Oxfam inequality research reveals
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
So should he be locked up at night in a cage in order to keep the public safe, (uh, I’m pretty sure that’s ‘prison’ in a nutshell), or should he be allowed to become the most powerful person in the entire world? Which is it? He surely cannot be both of these things.
Donald Trump
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Sick of the big systemic issues causing problems around our world? Want to actually do something about it? You can take real action, generating real impact. Join Rutger Bergman. Join the charity foundation, Moral Ambition, and help make a better world.
moralambition.eu
What is moral ambition?
Moral ambition is the desire to be one of the best, but measured by different standards of success – not motivated by big paychecks, fancy honorifics or a huge corner office, but pursuing a career ded...
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
This is it folks. Prepare for the next generation of social media, deliberately designed to be kept out of the hands of billionaire megalomaniacs. You need this. I need this. We need this.
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
The Age Of AI is currently on BBC Radio 4 this morning. It’s very compelling. Of course the doomageddon isn’t helped with the fact that the ‘Godfather of AI’, Geoffrey Hinton, sounds exactly like Adam Curtis. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Radio 4 - Listen Live - BBC Sounds
Listen live to BBC Radio 4 on BBC Sounds
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
They’re not even in office yet and Trump is already invading Greenland, Musk is polling his followers about taking over the UK, Trump fancies Panama, wants to send troops into Mexico, whilst inexplicably renaming the Mexican Gulf as ‘the American Gulf’, and is considering merging Canada into the US.
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Inequality Media @inequalitymedia.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Politicians are ‘idea salesmen’ or ‘narrative retailers’. The left needs a powerful orator, an energetic, charismatic salesman, with a grip on language and a concise and clear pitch. The right has that in Farage, or Trump. It’s time for a new story (ideally about inequality and climate change)
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks bylinetimes.com/2024/12/21/b...
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The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks
The broadcaster provides an oversized platform for representatives from opaquely-funded libertarian lobby groups, says media academic Julian Petley
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James Jenks @jenksy.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Once you have a billion dollars, what on earth would the next billion possibly add to your life?
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
“British politics is asleep” Britain is not immune to the rise in Populism. Farage is coming. For inequality, for the environment, for all the big issues facing society, we all need to be concerned by this damaging prospect.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Today seems like a good day to debunk the 12 biggest myths about taxing the rich.
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12 Myths About Taxing the Rich | Robert Reich
Robert Reich debunks 12 misconceptions about tax policy in America. Watch More: Do Corporate Tax Cuts Actually Help Americans? ►► https://youtu.be/srJZHQHHT8...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
It’s one thing to watch an ill-informed, cynical old mate disappear down a YouTube rabbit hole, or for a teenager to melt their attention via TikTok. Shit’s so warped now, from Bolsanaro, to Trump, to South Korea’s Yoon, we’re watching world leaders govern whilst suffering social media brain rot.
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I’m not suggesting they’ve been distracting you from the real problems in society, by loudly pointing at refugees and indulging in conspiracy, while empowering billionaires and funnelling our generated wealth up to them and their corporations. But if they were to do that, what would that look like?
Trump and Farage smiling having held a private meeting.
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Sums it up pretty well…
It’s an eloquent warning to Trump voters that they need to accept what they voted for.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not opposed to big rewards for entrepreneurs. But should billionaires exist?
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How Much Wealth Is Too Much? | Robert Reich
Should billionaires go the way of the dodo?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Why do so many feel like they've fallen behind? It's not because of immigrants, trans people, the “deep state,” or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP. It's because big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 09/12/2024
It’s important to explore what capitalism actually involves and the arguments for and against it, so you can make your own decisions about the world you’d like to live in. ⤵️
teenvogue.com
Everything You Need to Know About Capitalism
What it is, how it works, and who is for and against it.
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
If you’re sick and tired of the billionaires winning help complete this quick survey. The billionaires already own the channels from which we get our information. They own the lobby groups that secretly obtain the ears of our politicians. Their money is funding our MPs. Time to fight back.
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Inequality is the biggest issue of today. I’m gonna die on this hill. It bleeds into everything else. Inequality is ruining everything. We need a new economic model and a total shake up of capitalism. This is unsustainable.
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Just popped back onto my Twitter timeline…
Zombies walking through a post apocalyptic city, much like revisiting Twitter
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
“France have said children should not be allowed to use smartphones until they are 13 and should be banned from accessing conventional social media such as TikTok and Instagram until they are 18”. We have all seen the addiction in kids, just look, it’s all around us. Something needs to be done.
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Loop holes, (such as Musk donating $100m to Reform via the UK arm of Tesla), allow foreign interference in our democracy. Financial contributions and dubious think tanks lobbying our governments are corrupting our political system, allowing the billionaires to win and it simply must be stopped.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
People are leaving Twitter because it’s not fun anymore and no one is obligated to be on a platform they don’t enjoy. It’s not rocket science.
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Australia ban social media for anyone under 16 years of age. This is positive, progressive, science-based political law-making at its very best. Time for the UK government to step up next. Our kids are depending on it.
reuters.com
Australia passes social media ban for children under 16
Australia passed a law on Thursday to ban social media for children aged under 16 after days of heated debate, setting a standard for other countries to follow in a global push to curb the power of Big Tech.
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Inequality is rising partly because the super wealthy are able to avoid paying their fair share of tax. Nigel Farage helps them. Can’t get a Drs appointment? Well, if only Nigel didn’t help the rich avoid funding more Drs. Nigel wants you to blame migrants for a lack of Drs instead.
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
This is a fab chat with the excellent @johannhari101.bsky.social “If it’s enraging it’s engaging” How social media muffles the kind and amplifies the mean. I’m hoping Bluesky is a new way to curate our feeds, well away from those algorithms that are set up to serve us nasty content.
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Johann Hari: This Is Why Your Kids Are Angry All The Time. This Is The True Cause of Addiction!
YouTube video by Begin Again with Davina McCall
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
‘Prime Minister, Nigel Farage’ These words shudder through me They should also shudder through you The billionaires are winning As if damaging the UK by manipulating us over Brexit wasn’t enough He wants to privatise the NHS and take us back to the 70s This prospect is very, very dark
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
@support.bsky.team. On X I had various accounts One for following and tweeting about my personal views, and separate ones for music and my football team My football followers didn’t care for my music/political views and visa versa Should I create several accounts here, or is there another way?
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I’ll keep shouting about this until it’s centre stage… “It’s about inequality stupid!” It’s time for truly progressive politics to step up and provide us the real (economically systemic) change that we all so clearly and desperately desire.
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
“The elephant has shat in the room” 😂😂😂 Gotta love Dissappointed Optimist…
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This feels like the end of the big, one-size-fits-all, online social platforms Users have grown tired of them being ruined with ads, promoted/suggested/unwanted timelines, algorithms tipping us into angry content, polarisation etc Bluesky, Discord, Patreon, Substack, among others feel contemporary
List of four logos for a new breed of media platform apps, including Substack, Bluesky, Discord, Patreon.
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
@windycoys.bsky.social the explanation for Porro’s goal celebration…
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"WE'VE GOT A GOOD MARIO KART SQUAD!" James Maddison on the Mario Celebration: Man City 0-4 Tottenham
YouTube video by Chris Cowlin: Spurs Chat Podcast & Tottenham News
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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
What Threads collects from you. (first image) vs What Bluesky collects from you. (second image)
This is the list of data Threads (Meta) collects from you. This is the list of data Bluesky collects from you.
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