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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

South Korea's 49th PM knew AI should fund UBI. This is common sense policy now that all technologically advanced societies should adopt. "I am considering the idea of combining the massive wealth that will arise in relation to the AI great transformation with basic income." UBI works.

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Simon Duffy @simonduffy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Which is worse? a) Tories still seeking to blame the poor for poverty, with added stigma b) Media treating propaganda as news and thereby legitimising the stigma The bully or the bully’s friend… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Tories would prevent long-term jobless spending benefits on alcohol and cigarettes

The proposals would also see benefits cut for people who are able to work but have failed to hold down a job.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thames Water has long passed its notice period. Labour can use its massive majority to nationalise it right now.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Simon Duffy @simonduffy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yep - this is one of the fascinating dimensions of our current predicament. Renewable energy clearly belongs to all of us and none of us: who owns the power of the sun? But we lack the democratic power (and imagination) to reclaim our common source of energy. Do we want to liberate ourselves?

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Simon Duffy @simonduffy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Watching a US TV series where the London scenes were clearly inauthentic… everything was too dilapidated. So I asked the internet where they were filmed. Yep, my beloved North of England. (Not telling you where, we have our pride even if they’ve taken our money.)

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Dank Robber Frog with Money Bag

ALT: Dank Robber Frog with Money Bag

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Simon Duffy @simonduffy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I think you name the swindle correctly: “Of course I’m not racist, but I can’t afford not to pander to people who are racist in case they give their support to someone else.” (The banality of evil.)

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Simon Duffy @simonduffy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Nearly 200 years ago ordinary folk in the UK organised a petition for profound democratic reforms that mobilised millions. We need the same pressure for change now. What are your 6 Demand? @unlockdemocracy.bsky.social @compassoffice.bsky.social citizen-network.org/news/a-new-c...

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A New Citizens' Charter

Citizen Network, Unlock Democracy and Compass are formulating a new Charter – have your say.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 14/09/2026

And thus true individual freedom cannot exist without unconditional basic income and universal healthcare.

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Andy Kershaw Media @andyksheff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

An utterly splendid Community Picnic at Meersbrook Park in Sheffield today to celebrate the reopening of Meersbrook Hall by the Friends of Meersbrook Hall in partnership with @sheffieldcouncil.bsky.social it’s was our first and very successful event and raised much needed funds for the hall

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Simon Duffy @simonduffy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Except of course Picard would be a big supporter of UBI

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Income tax punishes you for working. Let's replace it with something better.

Meme with Star Trek captains: asks “What should we tax?” suggests land; punchline says “No, punish people for working.”

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 13/09/2026

Turns out that being born with a basic income of $333/mo and living with it for the first 4 years of life results in slightly slower biological aging. Because slower aging predicts longer, healthier lives in adults, this suggests UBI from birth could mean longer lives and lower healthcare costs.

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Scientists Gave Cash to Low-Income Moms, And It Altered Their Babies' Aging

We usually think of aging as something that catches up with us later in life.

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#Democracy - it would be a good idea

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Tom Pogson @basicbc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The reason for UBI predates the first electric light bulb let alone robots. Robots are just the next gate of enclosure. The next of example of shouldn't we be all doing better for all the work we've done?

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Annie Kenney was born on this day 1879.

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ChristianG @mryeswecan.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

No election fraud to be seen here.

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Simon Duffy @simonduffy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is the crazy times we live in. Politicians know ordinary people are screwed over, but they explicitly reject basic income as policy but then promise to deliver it as Trump dividend. A whiff of national socialism.

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

How do you get from Barcelona to London comfortably in a day? By train of course See @seatsixtyone.bsky.social for details

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orfc.bsky.social @orfc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Whether you're a farmer or grower looking for take-home practical knowledge, a passionate food sovereignty activist, or want to find out how we can build a better food system that nourishes people and planet - you can join ORFC online from anywhere 🌱 orfc.org.uk/book-orfc-20...

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Simon Duffy @simonduffy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

You may have misunderstood what religion is.

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Simon Duffy @simonduffy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Not sure how many citizens of #NetherEdge there are on BlueSky but if any please join us. For others have a think about the possible value of neighbourhood democracy. Why does power always seem to be somewhere else? Power is something we make together. www.netheredgefestival.co.uk/event/bringi...

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Bringing Democracy to Nether Edge | Nether Edge Festival

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RB @rbisrb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Same As It Ever Was...

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

What a surprise, NOT. US #BigTobacco funding Reform. "The stand is operated by We Vape, a group funded in part by US pro-tobacco pressure group Consumer Choice Center." We need to get #BigMoney out of politics www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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Reform UK gives vape lobbyists funded by US group prime spot at conference

EXCLUSIVE: A stand bearing the slogan "Labour's inconvenience store" was placed at the entry of the conference, seen by thousands of people on their way in and out of the event

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greytdog @greytdog.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The GOP has always cheated...and harmed Americans in order to gain and hold power.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A few years ago I listed relatives (4th cousin of grandparents or closer) who were murdered by the Nazis. Far from complete but more than 80 at Auschwitz and 100 more at Bergen Belsen, Buchenwald, Chelmo, Dacauch, Izbica, Kaunas, Łódź, Majdanek, Mauthausen, Minsk, Mungersdorf, Ravensbrück etc etc

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#Privatisation - a few profit and the most vulnerable - children in care - pay. I put down an amendment to the Children's Wellbeing Bill to end this. Unfortunately the Labour government rejected it www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Private equity owns 11 of England’s 20 biggest children’s care providers, research finds

Investigation comes amid growing calls for an end to ‘obscene’ profit-making in care sector

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Cat 🐈 @mrsbadcrumble1975.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This post is ten years old and still accurate. #climatechange

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 02/09/2026

The Just World fallacy is a helluva drug. The rich love getting passive income and feeling they earned everything they get, and feeling the poor deserve to be poor because they aren't making good choices. Meanwhile, many of the poor and working class go along with this in the hope they too will WIN.

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Simon Duffy @simonduffy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Q1 I notice that there are some who think you can Wittgenstein your way out of these questions. But can you? Once you realise that this isn’t something you can resolve with a colour blind test you’re woken to the strangeness of being. Thus is born metaphysics.

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I spent happy years as volunteer @britishmuseum.bsky.social & knew quite a few staff. Bet they, & today's volunteers, are rightly _really_ unhappy. "It is understood the museum chair, George Osborne, was aware of the viewing". One thing to say: #OsborneOut www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

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British Museum hosted Palantir founder Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry

Concern among staff that fragile artwork’s scarce ‘light hours’ given to someone with no known interest in museum

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 29/08/2026

I finally got around to watching this video by @barryseconomics.bsky.social about UBI and it's superb. It feels like a video informed by multiple articles I've written, especially my rats in cages one. I'd go so far as to say it's among the best UBI videos ever made. A++. Watch and share widely.

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Why The Rich Think The Poor Are Lazy

YouTube video by Barry's Economics

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Urgently need to #Unlearn hubris We know so little: Genomes are not 'machine blueprints'; biology is far richer & more complex than acknowledged. "Genetic diversity is shaped not only by inherited factors but also biological processes that vary from person to person" phys.org/news/2026-08...

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Unexpected source of genetic diversity found in human sperm

Scientists have identified an unexpected source of genetic variation in human sperm that occurs earlier in sperm development than previously thought. Published in Nature, researchers at the Wellcome S...

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 27/08/2026

"Research shows that for every dollar distributed, $2.50 of economic activity is created over the next 30 months and prices only rise marginally... Other benefits include a fall in child mortality, as pregnant women can pay for transport to clinics and stop working in the weeks before childbirth."

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What Happens If You Give Everyone $700? A Local Economy Thrives

A project in Malawi, one of the world’s poorest countries, aims to demonstrate how aid might work in future.

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Simon Duffy @simonduffy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Or St Aquinas - there’s no right to property when you are hungry - my paraphrase ; )

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 24/08/2026

"I wouldn't have to do crime, and steal to eat." Quote by someone released from incarceration who was polled about the idea of unconditional basic income. And here's another quote you may already know. It's a line from Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera: "First comes food. Then comes morality."

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Simon Duffy @simonduffy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

James Baldwin will stand as one of the great minds of the 20th Century… Not sure who Paul Weiss is.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Recent events have brought this classic debate to mind. James Baldwin puncturing philosopher Paul Weiss’s arrogant complacency on the Dick Cavett show. youtu.be/-jIlK6oDyWo?...

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The Most Powerful Debate on Race in TV History | The Dick Cavett Show

YouTube video by The Dick Cavett Show

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