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Reg @reggiehere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h
The obvious answer is 'Yes', although it's probably worth noting that they're no worse off than their great and great great grandparents were before they returned from war to frighten the Establishment into social concessions.... Maybe it's time for another reversal, before all memories of […]
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Reg @reggiehere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h
A regular reminder that the imposition of the Premiership and Rupert Murdoch's Sky Sports killed football when it was privatised in the 1990s. All due respect to the rent-seeker in this clip for acknowledging that NFL is a minority sport, but the sad reality is that whenever big bizzniss gets […]
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Reg @reggiehere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h
When can we skip to the part where unwanted adverts are classified as commercial abuse?
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CelloMom On Cars @cellomomoncars.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h
Count on a Dutch news outlet to say it like it is: Climate summit in Fiji and Tuvalu was largely a failure, most countries did not attend. The idea was that world leaders seeing in person the dire consequences of climate change would bring home the urgency and influence decision making at COP31 […]
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Chris Harris @headfirstonly.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h
A question for you all, because my #ActuallyAutistic brain has been stressing out lately about feeling isolated: How many people do you know who you could get together with and have a really chewy conversation about Life, The Universe, and Everything that would really get into the deep stuff?
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Claire McNab @2legged.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 19h
THIS is how you mourn the dead without abasing yourself before I-Stand-With-Genocide Zionism. Compassion for individual suffering. Unflinching legal — and moral — judgement of state-sanctioned atrocities. Calling a #genocide a "genocide," without mealy-mouthed […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]
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Claire McNab @2legged.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 9h
#HolbornAndStPancras: 'impartial '#BBC joins pile-on against #GPEW's defeated #ZackPolanski. Green vote tripled, in their 2nd-best by-election ever. #LabourParty won only by throwing huge resources at one of its safest seats. In 2019, Labour got 66% in HSP. But […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]
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Claire McNab @2legged.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 23h
"Editor, I'm off home". "But what about your report of tonight's #HolbornAndStPancras by-election result?" "Done. Both versions here. Just grab the actual numbers off Twitter." "Splendid work, Jones. First rate" "Thank you, boss." "Here at The Daily Thunderer […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 8h
All countries expel foreign citizens who commit serious crimes. A major problem right now is (or possibly always has been?) that a lot of countries don't respect international agreements enough to let their own criminal citizens back in. In Sweden, more than half of the criminals expelled in […]
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: The big new Aaron Sorkin film The Social Reckoning opens tomorrow with a plot centred on Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen....but we need to talk about *another* Facebook whistleblower, Sarah Wynn-Williams. And why Zuck is gunning for her.. 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?is=NP3...
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THE SOCIAL RECKONING – Official Teaser Trailer (HD)
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KevinOnEarth @quantillion.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 21h
@ReggieHere Every attack by Iran until the US pulls out completely is retaliatory. the US has already murdered 1000s of Iranians, including 100s of children, gratuitously & unprovoked. NO retaliation by Iran will be enough to punish #USrael for that. That said, #Iran seems happy to see Trump […]
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Reg @reggiehere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21h
I've read several summaries of this story, and none of them have explicitly stated that the warrants were quashed because of some exclusive privilege or police bungling.
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Reg @reggiehere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21h
A retaliatory attack that dispensed with even more US and Western assets in the region wouldn't sit well with Trump's election claims.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 21h
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KevinOnEarth @quantillion.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 21h
I hereby declare that #AI derivation and even collection by anyone for any commercial purpose whatsoever, ad infinitum, is prohibited on EVERYTHING I ever wrote or recorded. At least until such prospective collectors propose a price that I agree to. (While I/we wait for our govts/EU etc. to do […]
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Reg @reggiehere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
“Despite scriptural claims that these ill-fated cities were punished for their sinfulness, it appears their obliteration was actually phase one of a plan to replace their older housing stock with brand-new condominium apartments that featured roof decks, indoor and outdoor pools, and onsite […]
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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 08/10/2026
Can the world's smartest people please figure out a way to eliminate the busywork so I can spend more time with my family and friends, please and thank you.
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Claire McNab @2legged.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Yes, @ReggieHere. The Irish govt's response to the techbros is "how high". That's why 27% of Ireland’s lecky goes to data centres. That right: twenty feckin seven feckin per feckin cent. 😡😡😡😡😡
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Claire McNab @2legged.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
#EdMiliband isn't closing the UK consulate in #EastJerusalem, after all, despite #Israel's threats. Purely coincidentally, Ed's sudden appearance of spine comes on polling day in the #HolbornAndStPancras by-election, where #ZackPolanski is outspoken on […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]
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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
The Labour candidate didn't even bother to show up! And these people wonder why their members have abandoned them for the Greens. www.middleeasteye.net/news/polanski… #ukpol #ukpolitics #uklabour
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Polanski makes his mark as Labour candidate fails to attend election hustings
Green Party leader speaks confidently at Holborn and St Pancras meeting, but Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali is nowhere to be seen
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Reg @reggiehere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Maybe British and Irish students ought to be following the lead of students in France..... www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/8/ho…
Chart showing education spending in European countries (%GDP) from https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/8/how-much-does-france-spend-on-education-compared-with-the-rest-of-europe?
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Reg @reggiehere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
"That panel – called “USA as a FIMI threat: adapt, acknowledge, push back”, with the acronym FIMI referring to “foreign information manipulation and interference” – took place Wednesday. It explored how Europe’s disinformation community could rebuild resilience without Washington, and is the […]
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Reg @reggiehere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Es ist wirklich traurig wie Antisemitismusvorwürfe in den Sondierungsgesprächen in Berlin als Verhandlungsstrategie eingesetzt werden. Offenbar sollen Rot-Rot-Grün bis jetzt über nix anderes gesprochen haben. Der öffentliche Druck wurde einfach genutzt um die SPD Forderung „keine Koalition mit […]
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This looks like a crucial investigation to me, building on an essential body of work by @bylinetimes.bsky.social Please help to support it. subscribe.bylinetimes.com/lightuptheda...
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#LightUpTheDark – Byline Times
Dark Enlightenment: The US Far-Right War on British Institutions Help Byline Times Fund aN URGENT New INVESTIGATIVE SERIES #LightUpTheDark What is the Dark Enlightenment? The extraordinary anti-DEI me...
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Reg @reggiehere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Seeing the near-perpetual pro-Palestine protests across the West, I can't help wondering if Western govts have ever been quite this out of touch with their electorates....
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Reg @reggiehere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
"“It’s curious, in many ways the West’s reduced need for Gulf oil has increased the degree to which Israel has become a liability for the US,” Israeli political economist Shir Hever told Al Jazeera, referring to a diplomatic alliance between the two states long underpinned by Israel’s strategic […]
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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
The CIA is allegedly working behind the scenes in Brazil’s election, planting stories to favor Flávio Bolsonaro and build a positive narrative about the right-wing senator. www.panamericandispatch.org/p/ex-ag…
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Ex-Agent Says CIA Is Planting Pro-Bolsonaro Stories to Influence Election
Former CIA agent John Kiriakou says the evidence fits a known CIA pattern of trying to influence elections abroad
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Reg @reggiehere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Any thoughts on the 'foreign power' in this story? "Teddy Young, 24, has been charged with two offences under the National Security Act, including having “obtained, copied, recorded or retained protected information, intending the conduct to benefit a foreign power”." […]
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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
"The people holding up the internet" A good-looking but somewhat depressing exposé about the people holding up current digital infrastructure as a hobby. sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-th…
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The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.
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Reg @reggiehere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
I think the tax is largely superfluous in this scenario. Dropping the billionaires own aeroplanes on them would probably solve the problem one way or another.
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Reg @reggiehere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Somewhat ironically, the American quisling quoted below is behind a good old American paywall so you can't read it..... Land of the rent-seeker.
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Reg @reggiehere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
TlDr: Zionism is not racism, but Israel under its Zionist leaders is racist.....
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Claire McNab @2legged.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
#GPEW leader #ZackPolanski is madly unreasonable, clamour the UK's MSM in unison. Like McCready to V, they ask why won't he die? #Polanski is the wrong sort of Jew. While genocidal #zionists claim victimhood, Polanski opposes apartheid & genocide & ethnic […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]
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Anna Haunthro @annaanthro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
The #Trump admin has officially blocked European election monitoring of the US midterms in November. The US elections have been monitored since 2003. “In recent years, the OSCE has been unable to monitor elections in #Belarus, #Georgia, and #Tajikistan due to the refusal of these governments […]
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
power to get our country back on the path towards democracy. Because if we lose the right to protest, we stand to lose so much more.” robertreich.substack.com/p/a-short-hi...
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A Short History of Protest
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
”History shows that nonviolent protest is one of the most powerful tools ordinary people have ever wielded, helping advance social and environmental progress while serving as a cornerstone of democracy.
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Claire McNab @2legged.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
@ReggieHere, Your definition of failure is solid, but not shared by the people with power. This is an old problem. Sociopaths hoard resources & power. 19th-century democracy campaigners such as the #Chartists thought that democracy could overthrow oppression. The Liberals' Georgist hymn "The […]
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Claire McNab @2legged.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
@ReggieHere This is how #neoliberalism ALWAYS works. The patient is getting worse. The medicine is hurting the patient, and making them weaker. So administer more medicine! Forcibly!
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Reg @reggiehere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
This is centrism paraphrased. Many centrist parties in Europe *used* to support the interests of ordinary people before allowing themselves to be corrupted by neoliberalism. Those same people now want us all to vote for them, not because they're any good, but because they're not fascists.....
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amalia @amalia22.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Trump hit with 'most embarrassing hack' of the year: 'We have no team to handle this' - Raw Story www.rawstory.com/trump-mobile-hacked
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Trump hit with 'most embarrassing hack' of the year: 'We have no team to handle this'
A phone company launched by President Donald Trump's sons was hacked, and the hackers say they released customer data because the company told them it had "no team to handle this."A new criminal group called BYOD posted the records of 3,615 Trump Mobile customers on its dark web leak site last week,...
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Reg @reggiehere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
"The neoliberal reforms have not delivered sufficient growth to resolve France's fiscal problems, but because they have not done so, France is now being told that it needs more fiscal restraint. Let me be blunt: that is neoliberalism prescribing more neoliberalism to cure the failure of […]
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Reg @reggiehere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
This is why no one likes liberals and centrists......
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Reg @reggiehere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Robert Reich nails it.
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Bristol Green Party @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A statement from the Bristol Green Group Councillors on conference motion "Zionism is Racism".
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TC Won't Give In To Lies @tcatinreality.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
😂😂😂 #VoteReformGetATrump Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000 www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/o…
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AFA Nederland @afa.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Some good journalism here on France 24. Showing how the far-right is using fake footage to frame the French student protest is some sort of 'race war'. Don't let that scum fool you! We as AFA Netherlands are of course in solidarity with the students. 'FRANCE HAS FALLEN': FAR-RIGHT FIGURES FUEL […]
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
And mobilisation in Argentina www.theguardian.com/global-developm…
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‘They take our water, our soil’: protesters fight ‘foreignisation’ as Javier Milei encourages land sales in Argentina
The country’s far-right president is courting billionaire investors by removing a block on foreign ownership of land and natural resources
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Reg @reggiehere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
With the US resurrecting the religious crusades of the medieval ages to hasten in the end'o'times, the plague seems oddly fitting.....
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