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Ray

@warzoid.bsky.social
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Producer of notorious & occasionally award-winning TV. Comms. Media. 20yrs no-fly. Dark green/left. Arts. Precautionary principle. Existential harm reduction. Also sells eco-socialist/anti-fascist/anti-technofeudalist t-shirts @ www.revolutionarysell.com

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... “Management consultants are ruining UK universities”. No, fleecing.
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Management consultants are ruining UK universities
Relentless off-the-peg commercial rewiring has undermined British higher education
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
How the Covid Disinformation Ecosystem was established open.substack.com/pub/counterd...
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How the Covid Disinformation Ecosystem was established
Network mapping the international network's development in 2020, with a particular focus on the UK.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/03/2026
Juries want fairness in court and don’t just obey the government. That’s why ministers are attacking them | Michael Mansfield
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Juries want fairness in court and don’t just obey the government. That’s why ministers are attacking them | Michael Mansfield
Be alive to this threat. The wisdom of ordinary people is our bedrock: a sacred principle is being sacrificed to falsely explain systemic failure, says barrister Michael Mansfield
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Ray @warzoid.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Hi credibility is shot to feck, Peter. This is not just about Mandelson. It's about almost every decision he's taken since entering number 10 including the enabling of genocide. Centrist neoliberals have really shown their true colours over the last fortnight & none of it is pretty.
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Ray @warzoid.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Starmer's destroying Labour & handing Britain over to a global far-right that will likely hunt down all three pillars of his traditional support base, annihilate the poor & any last shred of ecological stability. This is worse than moral failure: it's existential defeatism & grotesque arrogance.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Over 40,000 protestors killed in Iran reports suggest. Why is there no the same level of outrage about this as there is (and should be) over similar fatalities in Gaza? Is it just lack of access to media?
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Ray @warzoid.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
When a state is serial killing legal observers you know you're in a civil war.
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Ray @warzoid.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Unbearable cruelty.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Govt minister Heidi Alexander says they want to see "proper democratic values" back in the heart of Iran Back? A reminder that it was the USA and UK who overthrew democracy in Iran in 1953 in order to protect their oil interests. A look at Venezuela tells us not much has changed
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
“If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer… And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind…And with such a people you can then do what you please.” Hannah Arendt
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Who agrees? ✋
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Ray @warzoid.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
The left and green left need effective podcasts, and they need them now.
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Ray @warzoid.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Broadcasting every detail of the Bondi attack while ignoring the six young people starving to death in British jails & the 100s of 1000s living & dying under inhuman conditions in Gaza just tells us that morality at BBC News has collapsed. The whole world can see this #ZoneOfInterest #HagueNOW
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Ray @warzoid.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Karam, this is great work and I'm so grateful you're doing it. It may not matter to you, but if it does, a few of the names could do with a check & change where there are extra or missing letters.
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
The British commentariat are to the right of Oswald Mosley and Enoch Powell. They are an existential threat to the UK—they say ‘jump’; the government says ‘how high?’
The telegraph
Falling rents. Rising wages. Perhaps stopping immigration works
Real living standards might grow if the UK replicates
Trump's mass deportation policies
Matthew Lynn
06 Dec 2025 - 07:00AM GMTThere has also been a clampdown on fresh visas and the citizens of entire countries have been banned from trav-elling to the United States.
Trump has had a mixed second term so far, but on one major issue, he has kept his campaign promises. He has dramatically driven immigration down.
We are starting to see what kind of impact that is having on the American economy and - so far - it is surprisingly positive.
Who knows, perhaps a few more developed countries should give it a try. An endless supply of cheap workers might not be as vital as we keep getting told it is.
If there was one issue that delivered Trump's decisive election victory last November, it was immigration.
As he closes the first year of his second term, he has delivered on the pledge to reduce it.
According to figures quoted by Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, half a million illegal immigrants have been deported, and another million and a half have left of their own accord.
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Ray @warzoid.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
It'd be helpful for cars to have speed limiters for 20mph areas. I don't have a car (environment), but whenever I drive my mum's old Panda I find that 20mph is difficult to maintain in any gear. I usually end up driving at 15mph in 2nd, which infuriates folk behind but is at least safe.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
An economist from Ghana told me that a bonus reason for promoting wind and solar power is that it’s much harder to use for corruption and repressive geopolitics. Remind me again. Who is in favour of fossil fuels?
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Erika Kirk hosted a $10,000 a plate gala at Mar a Lago this weekend. Children are going hungry. Veterans are standing in line at food banks. Millions of Americans are losing their healthcare. But the rich get richer.
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Ray @warzoid.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
'Make fascism great again'.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
activist360 has now launched on Bluesky. If you think the climate crisis is one of the vital challenges of our time, please follow @activist360.bsky.social. Thank you. 🙏
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Ray @warzoid.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Imo this is the worst betrayal of Britain so far: handing our most personal & national security-critical data to a far-right owned global corp already implicated in genocide via Israel's alleged use of Palantir targeting tech. Unforgivable, & guess who's paying them? During a cost of living crisis.
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Paul @pawlbologna.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I remember when I became fully UBI pilled during the worst of covid and that position is a lock for life.
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STC @blobbystc.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Especially since all institutional pathways for anyone vaguely like him are cynically blocked. Just ask Faiza Shaheen. Why? Well the fear is that the actual politics would be popular
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
It's just the beginning...
comicsands.com
Former White House Historian Offers Dire Warning After Entire East Wing Is Demolished
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Glen Dunlap @glendunlap.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
This is just awful. If you are position to donate to your local food bank, they are going to need our help more than ever.
politico.com
At least 25 states plan to cut off food aid benefits in November
The pause in benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program would begin in states from California to Arkansas just before the busy holiday season.
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Ray @warzoid.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Palantir needs driving out of British infrastructure as a matter of urgent national security. This is a hostile takeover & the fact Labour are as complicit as the Tories = the end of political trust. Starmerism = austerity, authoritarianism, co-operation with the Israeli genocide & Palantir. NOPE.
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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
US "Christians" threatening to murder gay people... US Republican Party Magaism is unleashing our darker demons...🙈 Progressives need to unite & win freedom for all.. youtube.com/shorts/DlvKR...
youtube.com
MAGA supporter THREATENS to K*LL me over simple question
YouTube video by Parkergetajob
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Bari Weiss "is a self-described 'Zionist fanatic.' The idea that a 'neutral media organization' is led by someone who has a long history as a pro-Israel ideologue...is really worrying. I think there will be a lot more censorship of Palestinian voices." - me to Piers Morgan about CBS News and Weiss:
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
UN experts have said the IDF's "targeted destruction" of Gaza's health-care system amounts to "medicide." The UN has accused Israel of deliberately attacking and starving health-care workers, paramedics and hospitals in order to wipe out medical care in the besieged enclave.
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Ray @warzoid.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Same, and I am mad as hell about it. Britain is a filthy outlier that now won't even give boosters to former cancer patients in their 60s, living with one kidney and other immunity-compromised conditions. Both successive govts and the UKHSA have failed us.
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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI
"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian
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Ray @warzoid.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Labour is failing because the comfortably-off don't understand how desperate for culture and meaning the lower economic classes are. They talk about the "importance of jobs" as though servitude in any role for any recompense is better than time spent creating, connecting or thinking. It isn't.
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Ray @warzoid.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Anecdotally it seems to be increasingly common among those economic classes hit hardest by the cost of living crisis & austerity. A Labour govt that doesn't understand the effect of current policies on the morale of the working & lower middle classes is a Labour govt that will lose Britain to Reform
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Seeing lots of this tonight after that party political broadcast. The Green Party are on track to overtake the Tories in membership. Let's make hope normal again. Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
We are living through an unprecedented time. We’re witnessing a fascist uprising. We’re watching as people refuse to learn from history. Seemingly doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past. Document everything. Keep a journal. Write it all down. We must ensure they can’t re-write history.
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Ray @warzoid.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Right. So long as there's a differentiation between people selling their sole home in order to rent (distressed sales/retirees) and those selling second or third homes and rental properties, I agree.
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Ray @warzoid.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Why John? That's punishing distressed sellers to get at former buy-to-letters. Far better to regulate buy-to-letters out of business with rent controls so the money stays with the right people and tax the hell out of second and third home owners.
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Ray @warzoid.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
As someone seeking to sell without buying it just sounds like another bloody tax. Also, who's going to trust a survey commissioned by the seller or the seller's estate agents? That's a license for corruption. Far better to get rid of stamp duty and ban second homes to free up pre-existing housing
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Ray @warzoid.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Boycott every last thing Israel is connected or associated with. No rewards for genocide. No recognition for genocide appeasers.
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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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Ray @warzoid.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Starmer is a gift to Farage - not only forcing Britain to follow his agenda, but putting in place legislative infrastructure that'll enable the far-right to do anything and everything they want without oversight should they win the next election. Every Labour MP enabling this madness must go.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I'm very concerned about all the #GlobalSumudFlotilla detainees, but especially Hannah Schafer, who seems likely to be held in extended detention in Israel. Israeli armed forces have committed grave and multiple breaches of international law in attacking the flotilla and mistreating its crew.
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Gill Tavner @gilltav.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
We have no time to lose. It’s not just @zackpolanski.bsky.social - there’s a fantastic leadership team and over 80k members (and growing daily) who are all prepared to stand up for decency, kindness and the power of Ordinary people working together with moral courage at their core.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
from the smoldering ruins of 1948, to the 1982 massacres of Sabra and Shatila in Lebanon, to the ruins of Gaza and the West Bank in 2025. What is truly burning is Israel’s false moral façade, and with it, Western civilization.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
This is an overstatement, it will not protect the Flotilla, Italy has refused to blame Israel, Italy refuses to recognise Palestine. The frigate is only there to try rescue them if Israel sinks their ships and only because there are Italian citizens in the flotilla. Do more.
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Humanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
The root of all our troubles is that the concentration of wealth and power became too extreme.
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