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James Southern

@james.fieldleveltech.org
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Founder - FieldLevelTech.org - A better world is possible. Be heroic, pragmatic and effective. We win in the next few years or AI will render labour entirely at the mercy of capital. Drop me an email to chat. (Work out Email from my @)

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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 3h
@antoniabance.bsky.social fair play and all that. 🫡 Still gotta vote to get an electoral reform majority. Reform UK having mysteriously gone off the whole thing. 🙄
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 7h
Are you alright? I know you know bsky has a bunch of options to control this. And your account is marked as a bot. I think the moment is pretty stressful all around but getting yourself angry ain’t gonna change that.
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 8h
Fascinating thanks for sharing
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Declan @dskews.bsky.social · 11h
>collect a commission when the site manager purchases stock from one of the mandated suppliers (Gregg's included). Quick summary of where we are: 1) Gregg's franchise out to owners of large chains 2) Those chain owners contract out to 'independent contractors' >
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 13h
Most TV is just this now.
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 10h
It is just not a very compelling one, I know some others!
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 15h
O2 -> CO2
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 15h
What? That isn't the advantage of FPTP! Hang on this is bait for PR campaigners. Nice one. 🤣😉
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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 16h
A perfect illustration of "capitalists (owners of capital sense) hate free markets and try to get away from them wherever possible"
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
My suspicion is that AI decided to sucker them into Iran as a way to fix climate change. The alternative is to accept that Trump is accidentally the greatest climate activist the world has seen. I am not ready to do that.
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
Cos this is the leaders conference speech not the budget mate.
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
I used to have a video of some guy at an Eastleigh Lib Dem book signing event saying something like: “The Labour internal policy process is a maze that leads no where designed to waste the time of over enthusiastic activists.” You said nice things about these activists and signed my Mvm bag too! 😀❤️
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
Yeah I don’t think under priced in terms of impact. I think in terms of how much the right wing press loses their minds over it.
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
Sooo greens would work with the govt to get it thru the lords? Can you whip green lords?
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
@zackpolanski.bsky.social I think taking up the offer of cross party collaboration to solve the hard problems we face is about the only move left? Kinda hard to see you not enthusiastic about the biggest pro PR move we’ve seen. Smacks of only wanting the country to prosper if you get to do it.
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Labour Party is having a moment My analysis of the speech, the most radical from a prime minister in more than a decade www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 29/09/2026
This is really important to flag because there is a tendency among Bluesky centrists to blame 3 specific trans women discouraging trans people from voting by criticizing democrats when the reality of trans people not voting is because of actual GOP voter suppression around our IDs.
A new study from the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law found that one in four transgender Americans will face significant hurdles in voting this fall and nine percent will face the real prospect of disenfranchisement because of mismatching identification documents.
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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aidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30) @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Also can i just say as a higher rate tax payer, i really dont mind if No.11 want to tax me (and the rest of us) another £50 a month or pay for Social Care. If that can help somebody have a dignified retirement, I'm very happy to help.
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
The problems with “everyone owns shares” are already well documented so if you care I’d argue with a chat bot.
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
This is an implementation problem? You can’t tax anyone cos ppl will avoid taxes! A solution does not need to be perfect to work. You would certainly allow some conversation between capital 💎 and $$ but it is it 121? Is there a life time limit? Well once you’ve got that system in place you can
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
I would say unregulated capitalism? Ownership of capital in some form seems better to me than absolute state control or absolute worker control? I do wonder if capital ownership via a different currency like 💎 in p2w games so you can’t just convert it to material consumption
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
You think it was worse than Starmer? The man called for the release of sausages. His best conference speech moment was being glittered by a protester.
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
If you want to hate the guy you’re gonna find reasons to. He was also far from perfect on immigration and absolute silence on trans issues too. I don’t think these will be the main takeaways though.
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Reform Political Advertising @reformpoliticalads.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thanks to all the MPs, peers and civil society people we spoke at the Labour Party conference. With a commitment by @andyburnham.bsky.social ⁠ on electoral reform the agenda also needs to include the electoral information environment .. including disinformation via ads and deepfakes. #Lab26
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
Mm hmm
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president, Spreadsheet Persons Local 153 @werrrp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
a weird and disturbing side plot of the Trump years was discovering a crowd of nominally leftist guys who made it extremely clear their absolute, unconditional line in the sand was over there being any sort of consequences whatsoever for sexual assault
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge on here and being so gracious with my bumbling questions. 🙏 Bluesky needs more of this!
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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Figures from councils (which are the ones they'd have to use) say around 300,000 empty 6+ months. There's no solid data breakdown on the reasons, but from speaking to councils who've looked into it, it's a mix of all those different reasons.
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
Hmmm the threat of it would certainly light a fire under others asses though. And how many votes do they lose in egregious cases?
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
Nothing ever is! Do you have any ideas on numbers vs the total market though?
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
“Failing to sell” or “owner can’t afford to renovate” I guess are both cases where this can be a home for someone to live in if the owner takes more of a hit then they would like.
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
How many empty and semi liveable houses are there?
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
Councils can make long term empty houses get used… that’s the one I think ppl are under pricing
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
Mechanically how can it work? I dunno but if it does holy holy shit
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
Councils can make long term empty houses get used… that’s the one I think ppl are under pricing
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
🤦‍♂️
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
"Require young people to take up the support offered" Is that basically take jobs or lose benefits??
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
Oh so we're breaking the triple lock.. AH to fund the care service.
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
A national care service free at point of use... not paid out of state pension..
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
A report to scope a new social contract.. Reform social care...
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
We about to get a wealth tax??
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
cutting VAT off energy bills this thursday, bus cap £2 extended. <insert Bus joke here>
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
"Great british grid, new branch of GB energy" Publicly owned company to increase competition ...
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
New powers for mayors to regulate water companies... Well hope we get good mayors I guess.
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
Water bill to repeal ban on public ownership of water companies.. I guess when Thames goes bust they get it by default?
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
Councils taking control of unused houses.. well damn
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
No right to buy on new homes. Building on unused state owned land.
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HJV...
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WATCH LIVE: Prime Minister Andy Burnham addresses Labour Party Conference at 2pm
YouTube video by Labour Party
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
With thanks to @hikikomorphism.bsky.social for reminding me about gifs
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Omg Popcorn
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