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Luke Martell

@lukemartell.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
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Former university tutor (social and green alternatives, socialism, globalism), now retired and doing other things. (Most posts auto-delete after a few months). 🌉 bridged from ⁂ social.coop/@lukemartell, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Misha @mishavelthuis.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
I found myself writing the same email over and over to introduce the #Fediverse to students, colleagues, relatives and friends, so I decided to dedicate a proper blog post to it. I hereby introduce to you: my personal landing page for people curious about the Fediverse […]
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Luke Martell @lukemartell.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
"The objective is a world in which we are seamlessly shuttled from one managed (and, ideally, exploitable) activity to the next – with no break or chance to look around us – from cradle to grave. The death of the university will bring that world a step closer". The great Lorna Finlayson on the […]
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J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @natematias.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
First, many indigenous people are in a fight to maintain our language & cultures in the long story of colonization. @risingvoices brings voices from communities speaking endangered/indigenous languages to the global conversation rising.globalvoices.org
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Rising Voices · Helping the global population join the global conversation
Rising Voices aims to extend the benefits and reach of citizen media by connecting online media activists around the world and supporting their best ideas.
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Luke Martell @lukemartell.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
What an interesting guy and life, only just heard about Alan Thornett on his death, trade union activist turned eco-socialist anticapitalistresistance.org/alan-t… #ecosocialism
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The treatment of Jason Arday was massively out of proportion to his faults. People who have committed terrible crimes have received less scrutiny, yet I don't believe anything he did or said even crossed the threshold of criminality. How many of us would have survived what he was put through? 🧵
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Luke Martell @lukemartell.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026
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Luke Martell @lukemartell.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026
Germany’s leaders say the Berlin Pride attack targeted ‘all of us’. What utter hypocrisy www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2…
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Luke Martell @lukemartell.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026
‘You have to sit quietly until you die’: The families failed by England’s social care system www.theguardian.com/society/2026/ju… #care #socialcare
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‘You have to sit quietly until you die’: The families failed by England’s social care system
Carers tell of their struggles to get loved ones the support they need, and the emotional and financial toll caring takes on their own lives
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Richard Michael Blaber @rmblaber1956.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2…. "Even as more than 35,000 #wildfires rage across the surface of our world, & as we continue to rewind our planet’s #climate so it resembles hotter episodes from its distant past […]
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Luke Martell @lukemartell.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026
50% off book on Alternative Societies until the end of July. "In a time of great gloom and doom internationally and of major global problems, this book offers an invaluable contribution to our understanding of alternative societies that could be better for humans and the environment." […]
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Luke Martell @lukemartell.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026
Use this link/code from me to get £50 off a new (ethical) Fairphone or Fairphone headphones. rwrd.io/geiocpe?c. I just get reward points, the benefit is to you and the ethical phone company from selling one more phone.
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Refer a Friend | Fairphone
Share some Fairphone love and reap exciting rewards.
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Luke Martell @lukemartell.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026
Brave people. Hong Kong artist who tried to mark Tiananmen massacre with red thread intercepted by police www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/… #tiananmensquare #China #humanrights #hongkong
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Hong Kong artist who tried to mark Tiananmen massacre with red thread intercepted by police
Public acts to commemorate the 1989 killings have become increasingly sensitive in Hong Kong
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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026
This is why the Fediverse matters: it's a platform designed for human conversation, not algorithmic engagement. osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/6nue7_v1 #Facebook #Instagram #BigTech #SocialMedia #Fediverse
LinkedIn post by Jay Van Bavel, PhD, titled "Social media is increasingly anti-social". The post highlights that only 7% of Instagram time and 17% of Facebook time is spent on content from friends or followed accounts, with the rest being algorithmic videos from strangers. It notes that platforms like TikTok prioritize engagement over social connection, and over half of long posts on Meta are AI-generated. The post links to a study, "Towards a Post-Social Media Studies" by Petter Törnberg and Richard Rogers (University of Amsterdam), which explores the shift from social-graph-based to interest-based recommendation algorithms and the rise of distinct post-social media formations.
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Luke Martell @lukemartell.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026
A footballer's experience of racism in the game. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articl… #racism #football
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Roly Gregoire: Sunderland's first black player describes impact of racism
Roly Gregoire, Sunderland's first black player, sometimes wishes he had never played football because of the racist abuse he found too painful to talk about for 46 years.
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Luke Martell @lukemartell.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026
Reasons to maintain critical thinking about Andy Burnham www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2… #ukpol #labourparty #andyburnham
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After the painful ruse of Starmerism, the left should be cautious about Andy Burnham | Owen Jones
With the Greens now a viable alternative, a Labour leader will not win power again without the progressive vote. But they will need to earn it, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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Donty @donty.mastodon.tetaneutral.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2026
@lukemartell as a vegetarian for about 45 years, when I went to Sylvan I had the best meal ever. Paired with some brilliant Alsace wines my psyche met my senses and my heritage and celebrated. Fan-fng-tastic.
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Luke Martell @lukemartell.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2026
My son's vegetarian restaurant in Glasgow, reviewed in The Observer today. observer.co.uk/style/restaurants/ar… #glasgow #restaurants #vegetarian
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Sylvan, Glasgow: ‘A blueprint for the kind of vegetarian ...
They don’t tell you there’s no meat or fish there, but once lured inside you’ll be thrilled
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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026
Just got doorstepped by a Times reporter looking for dirt on #ZackPolanski, whose BF lives in the area. Desperate grasping-at-straws fuckery. #NoComment #VoteGreen #GreenParty
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FrugalGamer @frugalgamer.snug.moe.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026
Made a blog post about how to discover new music if you’re moving away from Spotify or other streaming services. There are a ton of posts around about how to own your music, but not as many about how to keep hearing new stuff, so I thought this might be helpful […]
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Luke Martell @lukemartell.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026
"Triodos Bank launched a renewed energy vision today, including its approach to financing the energy transition. The bank prioritises financing of energy storage, local electricity grids, energy efficiency and circular supply chains, while maintaining exclusions for the fossil fuel industry […]
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I'm not saying that this has *never* happened but I reckon that this is 99% bullshit. I also have an idea of what is really going on.🧵 BBC News - Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation finds - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation finds
The BBC exposes a shadow industry charging migrants thousands of pounds to help them cheat the asylum system.
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Luke Martell @lukemartell.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026
The war profits of big oil and the alternatives. www.theguardian.com/environment/202… #climatechange
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/04/2026
"Instead of providing a link to a blog post Ketan has written, Ecosia will call on a software service that has ingested all of my written work, and that service will re-word and re-publish my work , often botching and mutating it thanks to its clumsy probabilistic word-guessing design"
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Ecosia’s “Green AI”: false hope for corrosive tech
Why replace human work with fossil-fuel-slurping mistake generators? Ecosia’s “Green AI” is selling false hope for bad tech
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Luke Martell @lukemartell.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026
Racehorse "Gold Dancer put down after winning at Aintree". Emma Slawinski, chief executive at the League Against Cruel Sports, said: "Year after year we see horses dying at Aintree for people's entertainment and a cheap bet. Sadly, Gold Dancer is the latest victim of this heartless spectacle […]
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Lyle Solla-Yates @lyle.cville.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026
I believe I have removed all of the many Google apps I had installed on my phone now. The reversal of their climate pledge and their embrace of air pollution to max out fire and flood and starvation deaths was the final straw for me […]
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Luke Martell @lukemartell.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2026
March against the far right, London, March 28th, #antifa #antifascism #london
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Why should any political donations other than a standard annual party membership fee (say £25) be permitted? All other options allow wealthy people disproportionate political influence.
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Luke Martell @lukemartell.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2026
Social media makes us unhappy, but it's complicated. The World Happiness Report 2026. www.worldhappiness.report/ed/2026/e… #socialmedia #happiness
worldhappiness.report
Executive summary: happiness and social media
The World Happiness Report is published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, in partnership with Gallup, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and an independent editorial board.
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James Stegall @james.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2026
A couple small web resources kevinboone.me/small_web_is_big.html blog.kagi.com/small-web #smallweb #getablog #savedforlater
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“小网”比你想象的要大
The “small web” is bigger than you might think (kevinboone.me) 01:17  ↑ 105 HN Points
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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026
Kagi brings its 'small web' of a human-only internet to mobile devices | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2026/03/17/kagi-smal… > Kagi's #SmallWeb offers a handpicked collection of more than 30 […] [Original post on indieweb.social]
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Luke Martell @lukemartell.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/03/2026
Unpaywall: Extension that looks for open access versions of paywalled academic articles. unpaywall.org #academicchatter #paywalls #academia #openaccess
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Unpaywall
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Luke Martell @lukemartell.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/03/2026
Library of Short Stories www.libraryofshortstories.com #books #shortstories
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Library of Short Stories
Journey through classic short stories filled with adventure, horror, tragedy and fantasy. Read For Free, Anywhere, Anytime. H. G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Anton Chekhov, Beatrix Potter.
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Luke Martell @lukemartell.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2026
A third horse has died at this year's Cheltenham Festival after collapsing on the way back to stables following the Gold Cup race. How do the participants justify this sport. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd709je…
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Cheltenham Festival Gold Cup race ends with third death this week
Envoi Allen, due to retire after this week, collapsed on the walk back to the stables.
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Luke Martell @lukemartell.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 12/03/2026
Black female footballers are praised for their strength, white players for their intelligence: what our study shows theconversation.com/black-female-fo…
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Black female footballers are praised for their strength, white players for their intelligence: what our study shows
We analysed 2,905 comments of praise given to footballers during 80 hours of BBC and ITV coverage.
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Luke Martell @lukemartell.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2026
What is public space for, or who is it for. Dancers loved practising in this Singapore walkway. Then the complaints came. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g4q9x…
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Singapore: Frosted mirrors and dancers set off a fight over public space
In super-organised Singapore, disputes over public space are a battle between control and chaos.
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/03/2026
Lol, Labour took us for granted and sucked up to the Epstein Class, now they could lose London! www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/m… #Greens #GPEW #GreenParty #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #London #Labour #EpsteinClass
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Crucial and powerful essay by @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social. Lest we forget. www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
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The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
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Luke Martell @lukemartell.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026
Dictionary of Radcial Alternatives Platform Launch [GTA] globaltapestryofalternatives.org/ev…
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Dictionary of Radcial Alternatives Platform Launch
Dictionary of Radcial Alternatives Platform Launch Date and time * Date: March 24th * Time: 1pm GMT * Format: Online event * Access and registration * This event will have interpretation in English and Spanish Illustration by Deepika Nandan, instagram.com/deepikanandanalternativesGTAGTAGTAWeaversGTA
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Luke Martell @lukemartell.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026
The Dictionary of Radical Alternatives altdic.online
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ProjectFearlessness @projectfearlessness.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026
Old Trafford Manchester, U.K. By Everyone Hates Elon.
Billboard outside Old Trafford football ground in Manchester.
Immigrants have done more for this city than billionaire tax dodgers ever will.
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Luke Martell @lukemartell.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026
“Policymakers and the public remain largely unaware of the risks posed by what would effectively be a point-of-no-return transition". Most people are unaware. Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say […]
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Birmingham Green Party @brumgreens.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
If @teamlabouruk.bsky.social really wants to stop Reform winning Gorton and Denton, they should stand aside. www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
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If Labour really wants to stop Reform winning Gorton & Deton, they should stand aside
Hypocritical Labour candidate claims the Greens should step aside in order to defeat Reform - it's Labour who should do that
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Luke Martell @lukemartell.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026
Old news, but I can't believe left-wing people choose substack to blog from. Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters | Substack | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/…
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Benjamin Geer @benjamingeer.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2026
Florida Introduces ‘Sanitized’ Sociology Textbook "The volume was created after a state review found that existing course materials violated a law prohibiting general education courses from teaching about systemic inequality. So far, at least two universities have adopted it." […]
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot
It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026
The royalty system is broken. Spotify unilaterally changed royalty payment rules to artists. "Musicians might notice that 87% of tracks now receive the same from Spotify as from Anna's Archive: zero" "Since April 2024, no track with fewer than a thousand streams a year on Spotify can claim any […]
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