www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR6c... @novaramedia.com - you should post this so a wider audience can see this BS:

Ever wondered where TV news channels find all these young guests with near identical hard-right libertarian views? Well it turns out they're being pushed out by specialist 'talent agencies' backed by pro-Trump cash bylinetimes.com/2024/10/08/t...

This is what you need to know about fascism:

The meme I didn't know I needed

‘If Vladimir Putin is allowed to succeed in reducing Ukraine to a vassal state, he will not stop there. Our security — British, French, European and transatlantic — would be jeopardised.’ www.ft.com/content/ad00...

Lebanon’s displaced citizens are returning to a sobering trail of destruction, with entire neighbourhoods obliterated. Barely a village has been left untouched, exposing a scale of civilian suffering that has surpassed previous wars with Israel on.ft.com/4eOl06p

83% of plant life in Gaza has been destroyed. Israel's genocide is making Gaza uninhabitable - and our media outlets are complicit by suppressing the truth. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/83-all-pla...

Can you imagine if this was Tel Aviv or Jerusalem. The global outrage? It would be an image seared into your memories. But I bet for many of you, as this is Gaza, it's the first time you've seen this angle.

The West must oppose Putin's expansionism in Ukraine. A pause will just give him time to rebuild his military machine and start again | Vic Ient

"The menace of Adolf Hitler has been greatly exaggerated.... There is an innocence almost childish about the detailed fashion un which he sets out to be blood-curdling." --New York Times, Sept. 27, 1930

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The real reason Trump wants to put tariffs on Canada.

So, Starmer is selling the country to the same breed of ghouls that literally pumped literal shit all over the country after being sold the water companies. Nice. www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone...

The General Election petition is another Reform con job. They are fucking traitors implementing Bannon’s Republican playbook. Good old fashioned British signees here. The fake patriots doing Putin’s work for him. Obviously. As usual.

1/ 🚨 Conspiracy theories about the 2024 election miss the bigger picture. The truth? It wasn’t one night, one hack, or one fraud. It was a system rigged in plain sight – right in front of us. The playbook was out in the open for years. But hardly anyone paid attention. Here’s how they did it... 🧵

Let’s talk a bit about what you, an average German newspaper reader in 1933, would have learned about Hitler’s rise to power. Let’s assume you read the “Vossische Zeitung”, a comparatively liberal middle-class newspaper. In modern times, the Berlin State Library library let’s you read it online: 1/

🔴Jeremy Clarkson, James Dyson and Junk Stats: Is This the Best the Anti-Inheritance Tax Farming Lobby Has to Offer? How millionaire landowners are using dubious statistics to campaign against the Government’s inheritance tax reforms bylinetimes.com/2024/11/19/j...

"1% of the population own half the land in England...the media have portrayed a very distorted view of the countryside, how land is used & who owns it" Great to speak to @mrjamesob.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk about the #ClarksonTax protests - watch the full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-kR...

Wish this got as much coverage as the landed gentry having to pay some tax ... Child poverty is at its highest ever level - but yeah let's interview whinging millionaire landowners about their 'hardship' ...

"If it wasn’t plain before, recent years have brought home that Britain is an inescapably European country." Terrific column by Janan Ganesh on a disastrous decade for UK foreign policy:

‘Classic BBC’ :)

“So it’s not about you, it’s not about your farm and the fact you bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax?” @vicderbyshire.bsky.social speaks to Jeremy Clarkson at the farmers’ protest in Westminster where thousands of farmers are protesting the government’s inheritance tax plans. #Newsnight

This man who's protesting today because he'll have to pay a bit more tax said that public sector workers striking to be paid a living wage should be shot! The Government is working so we have an NHS, Schools, decent transport, and a country fit to live in!

@theregister.com Still pushing climate science denial? Or have you moved on from that?

Tolerance is a crime when applied to evil.

Huh. The birth name of Bluesky CEO, Jay Graber, is Lantian Graber. Lantian is Cantonese for 'Blue sky'.

The National Farmers' Union, which you'll hear from a lot opposing inheritance tax, is not on the side of ordinary Brits. It acts more like a land owners club. See this from them, opposing access rights (via the Right to Roam campaign)

@skyfeed.app I'm somewhat hesitant to give a third party my login deets. Providing something more than just a login form at skyfeed.app would be nice?

Musk is going to find out the hard way that there's only space for one dictator in Trump World. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Bluesky just broke 15 million users - bsky-users.theo.io ... niiiice

Real time Bluesky User Count: bsky-users.theo.io

Bluesky is built to make social more like the Web again, so we will never suppress links. Link to your writing, your art, your personal site — this is the social internet, designed from the ground up to be open and interoperable.

as an experiment, I posted the same post to twitter and bluesky. here is the time series of engagements (sum of comments, reposts, likes) from the two platforms. Note that I have 39K followers on twitter and 7K here, so engagement per follower here is more than 10 times higher here on bluesky.

Since hooking up with Bluesky a few days ago I've been exposed to a breadth and depth of opinion and content that far exceeds the Google-curated list I would normally consume. Which is nice.

Britain really has to focus now on securing its borders - against the influx of dark US money and the influence of foreign oligarchs. Much much more dangerous to democracy than a few small boats

Goldilocks came for those four bears. We should never forget this.

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Kemi Badenoch and four leading Shadow Cabinet members have all received donations from funders of a Tufton Street climate science denial group Badenoch now says she is a "Net Zero sceptic" and backs calls to scrap "radical" climate change measures bylinetimes.com/2024/11/05/k...

You gotta watch this - www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7cK... @hcrichardson.bsky.social

The difference between BSky and Xitter right now: www.youtube.com/shorts/zH57H...