"Asking enslaved people if they actually want to work the plantations for free would kill the cotton industry." -- Nick Clegg #AI #aicon #exploitation #bigtech

Labour have fucked it by telling all of us to fuck off as they chase the Bigot Vote. It's as plain as day, but the Labour Party can't admit it to themselves and change. "Let's Fucking Go!" as someone excitedly exclaimed in those comments #ZackPolanski #polanski #gpew #labour #ukpol #ukpolitics

Marx's Capital, Vol. 1 is now complete! Congrats to the comrades who've been listening along with the posts. Here's a link to all 35.5 hours of it: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #politics #economy #economics #history #capitalism #socialism #communism #marxism #capital #politicaleconomy #karlmarx

Making people pay for vaccines that protect public health to save money is like when all the seaside councils started charging two quid to use the public toilets then were surprised when the nature reserves behind the beach ended up covered in loo roll and human turds

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy

👀 The Intercept: The Atlanta narcotics unit’s deadly raid on 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston. "...In 2006, a 92-year-old Atlanta woman was gunned down in her own home by police during a drug raid. The police initially claimed the woman was a marijuana dealer who fired a gun at them. The story […]

The state administration of Schleswig-Holstein has completed the migration of its mail system from #microsoft Exchange and #outlook to more #freesoftware https://www.heise.de/en/news/Schleswig-Holstein-s-e-mail-systems-converted-to-open-source-10733737.html

A really interesting piece from @brianklaas on the Victorian roots of the attitude that poverty is probably caused by peoples' laziness and giving them "money for nothing", and how we can save a lot of of suffering (and government expenditure) by just, shock horror, giving people who need it […]

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury https://apnews.com/article/vatican-poor-pope-leo-francis-wealth-elite-fb63ece4f0c302c7a321a09da52374ac?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

So everything in the UK is underfunded and falling apart and Labour's solution it to make it easier for us to drown our sorrows about it rather than fixing anything. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/08/pub-opening-hours-in-england-and-wales-could-be-extended #ukpol

FOX NEWS IDIOT: If you thought the masked "Former Antifa Member" Jesse Watters had on last week looked familiar, there's a reason for that... #OMG...He was also the masked "former gang member" and masked "Gaza resident" Watters had previously interviewed […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

"The findings have led to claims that politicians who oppose investment in the sector “have grossly misjudged” voters’ views." #ClimateAction #popularsupport https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/reform-research-richard-tice-yougov-reform-uk-b2841340.html

#Handsworth and #Birmingham as a whole, is wonderfully, beautifully integrated. It's full of #Brummies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

RE: https://aus.social/@pewnack/115333171789501185 A fascist is just a liberal having a bad day....

It seems pretty clear to me now: Keir Starmer would rather lose to Reform than to the Labour left, which is his real enemy. Any policy that might recover lost ground with voters has to be struck down, as it looks like a concession to the Labour left. And he and his team cannot contemplate that.

An unwelcome megatrend: AI that replaces family, friends — and pets https://www.computerworld.com/article/4067326/an-unwelcome-megatrend-ai-that-replaces-family-friends-and-pets.html Silicon Valley wants to replace that, turning person-to-person interactions into person-to-machine interactions […]

No account? No Windows 11, Microsoft says as another loophole snaps shut https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/07/windows_11_local_account_loophole/ Just another good reason to ditch Microsoft and move to Linux...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/115329694956661244 😬

It's not that our politicians don't know what's needed to slow #ClimateChange. It's that they don't care. Their two priorities are 1. winning the next election, under the UK's absurdly dysfunctional, archaic and undemocratic system; 2. pleasing the big donors, who include the #fossilfuel#climatechange[…]

You should be angry at private companies making massive profits from our taxes to house the most desperate people in appalling conditions... And NOT the people forced to live in them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Macron: "We were incredibly naive to entrust our democratic space to #socialNetworks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies." 🤔

Supporters of LibLabCon centrism should be watching what's happening in France, where the centrists have been fighting a desperate battle to remain in control of the country against a majority of further-left and further-right-wing political opponents […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

French Prime Minister resigns after less than a month in office https://apnews.com/article/france-prime-minister-resign-lecornu-2faa9292442e104feef4e239df92d08f?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

@ReggieHere Democracy has been hijacked by Big Business. Democracy as a thing must be refashioned in order to guard it against the "parody of tolerance". If Germany could outlaw nazism, then other democracies can do the same. Non-democratic (ie, fascist, authoritarian etc) actors must be […]

European "socialism" is a compromise wherein the population gets services and, in exchange, the rich are allowed to continue to exist. This compromise developed to save capitalism from the threat of the working class just rising up and just doing it all themselves. Revolutions, it turns out, can […]

So depressing to hear that Austria is going full car-crazy, and spending a load of money on roads. It's the same everywhere; governments SAY they are doing something about the climate emergency (just to shut us up), but then they DO NOTHING. #klimakrise

After clashing with Maurice Glasman recently, I've come to realise just how pernicious he and his Blue Labour movement are. We could discuss his chumminess with Steve Bannon and JD Vance, endless pandering to the far right and evident hatred of the Labour left. But there's something even worse. 🧵

If it does turn out that the Manchester Synagogue attacker was motivated by conflating the actions of Israel with the endorsement of all Jewish people (and to be clear there's no evidence yet that he was), surely the government's request to call off Gaza protests this weekend in response to the […]

Targeting a country's beer supply is a spectacularly evil thing to do. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0r0y14ly5ro

And just so, it's dictatorship, not communism, that killed 100 million people. (although I'm personally more in favour of anarcha-socialism, not communism) #dictatorship #anticapitalism #eattherich #feedthepoor #communism #socialism #anarchism#communism#anticapitalism#eattherich#dictatorship#feedthepoorvism

“Fuck them kids.” That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Only 23% of US adults are evangelical protestants. Christian nationalists are a fraction of that 23%. And Seven Mountain Mandate followers are a fraction of Christian nationalists. But it jumped out at me a few days ago when I read Mike Johnson is one of them as is Paula White and Ted Cruz’s […]

Sales of Zaytoun Palestinian olive oil and dates up 50% in the UK in solidarity. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/02/palestinian-food-brand-uk-sales-up-shoppers-solidarity-zaytoun It's a small thing, but more than nothing

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pivxcrypto/115304793646230095 Protecting privacy is obviously important, but there should also be recognition of people's right to conduct objective research online without being subject to personal targeting or assumptions based on past online behaviours or digital […]

Jane Fonda reboots Red Scare-era committee to protect free speech https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/10/02/Jane-Fonda-first-amendment-committee/2401759382714/

Ireland, Turkey and Colombia standing up for international law against an act of piracy by Israel. The UK, France, Italy, not.

Over 40 years, we were collectively told to give tax cuts to rich people. And we were told that if we did that, wealth would trickle down and everyone would be better off. Over 40 years, pretty much everything got cut to fund these tax cuts. Schools. Hospitals. Public housing. Public […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@wellingtonrock/115298853471518637 Never forget what we used to have, what we used to own and how we used to live before Thatcher and Blair sold the country to foreign investors.

Tony Blair’s long experience in the Middle East is both his strength and his weakness https://apnews.com/article/britain-tony-blair-mideast-gaza-trump-plan-76e663c132d73ba151ad70ebf6ac958c?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Vi och våra 977 partners hanterar din persondata!!!!! 977 - ni behagar skämta! #privacy

"Electricity demand in Great Britain has been fully covered by the output of clean-energy sources for a record 87 hours in 2025 to date, new Carbon Brief analysis shows. This is up from just 2.5 hours in 2021 and 64.5 hours in all of 2024, ahead of the government’s clean-power target for 2030." […]

"My numbers are tanking, my Party is in open rebellion, I really need a good policy that the public can get behind me on....." #keirstarmer #starmer #digitalid #ukpol #ukpolitics #labour

If Trump is openly planning to withhold federal funds from New York over anti-Zohran politics, at what point do New Yorkers — who put in far more than they take out — get to stop paying federal taxes? This is now a full blown constitutional crisis.

Londoners tore down the police barrier hiding Banksy’s new mural on the Royal Courts of Justice, showing a judge striking a protester with a gavel. The artwork appeared just two days after nearly 900 pro-Palestine activists were arrested in London.

#gaza Des italiens et des italiennes hilares que tout soit bloqué pour la #palestine !! Belle journée à vous ! #stopgenocide #bds #bdsmouvement #bdsitalia #freefreepalestine

RE: https://mastodon.social/@knoppix95/115269185686307545 Golly. Who would have thought it?