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John Baker

@johnbakerfolk.bsky.social
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Writer and singer of songs. Melancholy alt-folk

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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
True. Hydrocarbons are really, really energy dense, the supply chain is mature, and our societies are organised in such a way as to ignore the externalities. Capital will ride this train until the last wagon of coal. Shareholders demand it.
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
That will never be allowed to happen. Until after the revolution 🙂
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Please don't subscribe to the notion that there's some Committee of Sensible And Nice People who will come along and stop the naughty disaster capitalists. The system is functioning precisely as intended.
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Oh no really? RIP David, you old rogue.
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
A commercial monopoly is a modern form of the same elite capture that installed well-resourced families into power in medieval Europe. Tech bros are the new royalty and they are remodelling the structures of our societies to their advantage, just like medieval kings.
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Given that he's in Labour Friends of Israel, no chance.
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Peace marches are "hate marches", hate matches are "outrage"
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
It's still just a road with some red paint though, isn't it? I predict a mum with kids will cycle this right up until an impatient prick in a 4x4 gets up behind them, shouts abuse and forces their way though. Or have I misunderstood and it's closed to motor vehicles?
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
True that. And the pills were pretty good, University was free and women still had pubic hair
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I don't think this exposé will damage him at all. His voters would agree with his views on race and immigration. With Reform, racism and stupidity is a feature not a bug.
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Bourgeois gatekeeping.
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Sergei Eisenstein's Cocktail
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Politicians are docile by definition. Any politician who looks like they might actually challenge established power structures are destroyed.
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I was thinking pills that had actual MDMA in them, and women with pubic hair, but you do you 😉
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
"Protect are women an girls"
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The media exist to reproduce a dominant ideology that best serves the interests of Capital. And that's what they do. That's all they do.
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The media constitute and represent a class whose interests are best served by charming gangsters like Farage. There's nothing more to it.
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
You know your Gramsci I'm sure. The media are a reproducing a dominant ideology in which even mildly subversive figures like ZP are viewed with ridicule and suspicion. "Loony Left" etc
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
You know your Gramsci I'm sure. The media exist to reproduce, not challenge, a dominant ideology that favours the interests of the elite class. Genuinely subversive voices are silenced/marginalised.
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Establishment gonna establish
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Gala Bingo?
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The whole thing's a mess. All that 6th Form stoner philosophy, and none of it matters in the end because the goodies beat the baddies. On skis.
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Woken by cat. Now raging at the Today Programme. Standard morning
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Watching these suits squirming and lying about appointing their mate Mandelson is nauseating. No wonder people have lost faith in mainstream politics.
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Yes. The class interests of newsmakers coincide with those of global capital.
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Like, did John Dowland ever worry about whether his latest, "Looke at Alle My Teares Againe" was "a bitte samey"
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Sometimes I think we just need to get it on tape and rationalise afterwards. Man.
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
My sex machine? Unstoppable.
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Your replies are like a recommended reading list and I'm 100% here for that
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
If you see a group of Muslims praying in public and you think that it should be "banned", then you're a very fucking bad person indeed
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Bro
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Oh ok. Are "side" and "station" similarly retired? I've only recently stopped calling cinemas "the pictures"...
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
The police complain "lack of resources" then turn out 1000-strong to defend a genocide by a foreign power. The police have exactly the resources they need for the job of suppressing dissent and defending the corrupt, amoral global elite. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
independent.co.uk
Crowds chant ‘death to the IDF’ at al-Quds rally in London as protesters arrested
At least 1,000 Met officers were drafted in to manage the ‘static protest’ after the home secretary approved a police request to ban the annual march
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Just a thought
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
A corrupt, amoral rentier class is stealing the labour of the productive masses, and has captured governing institutions in order to avoid accountability. The general depravity (genocide, fucking children, bombing elementary schools) is a byproduct. They're doing it because they can.
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Essentially my point was about the attitude of the writer and the Telegraph in general. Authoritarian spewing on the one hand, whilst bleating about being held accountable on the other.
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
If only there were a way of avoiding being fined. With the authoritarian right, it's always other people who must follow the rules or suffer the consequences.
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Good to see someone calling this. "If there aren't actually extermination camps then it isn't fascism" is a common fallacy.
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Whether British, American, Iranian or Israeli, we are governed by monsters.
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The colonialist impulse. Brown lives don't matter. Imagine the coverage on the BBC if an elementary school in the USA had been bombed.
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The RAF are in the air shooting down Iran's missiles for Israel and the US. Starmer is their poodle and has the morals of a tapeworm.
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
You know how most people do an interview in front of their bookcase? Well...
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
This is an example of where centrists aren't mild-mannered pragmatists; they're monsters. Anyone who thinks slightly preferential trading conditions with an economic superpower is worth a few thousand brown lives can fuck off to the bottom of the sea.
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
It's a circular argument. It's only in the "British national interest" to align with USA and Israel because our ruling elite have decided it is.
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
It wouldn't surprise me if the military is a victim of hollowing out, just like every other government function in this neoliberal dystopia. Lots of great big impressive hardware like B2 bombers and aircraft carriers, but without the supplies to fight an actual war.
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
You are Sarah Connor and I claim my £5
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
You know when @zackpolanski.bsky.social says he wants UK to leave NATO and everyone loses their minds? Well maybe he has a point. We've served this imperialist axis with our blood and treasure for too long.
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Yep 100% imperialist propaganda. It's us, not Iran, who needs to "rise up and overthrow" our corrupt, morally bankrupt ruling class.
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Can we have "regime change" in the UK please? Our government has the morals of sewer rats. #iran
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John Baker @johnbakerfolk.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
We need regime change. In the USA and Israel. #iran #imperialism
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