🚨NEW People Just Do Something🚨 I spoke w/ Iyad Burnat - A Palestinian activist + chair of the popular committee of Bil'in who organize non-violent resistance in the West Bank We discuss the use of non-violence, the one-state solution + what you can do to help ep- open.spotify.com/episode/07aa...

Yeah man, sure, that's exactly why those are there...

Inside @20thcflicks.bsky.social, a beloved bristol video shop institution, as seen by @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social lwlies.com/articles/20t...

We don't need the money we just want to make them squirm

The walking times on Google maps are based on the walking speed of cowards and dawdlers. I will always best them. The cycling speeds however are seeming based on some Tour De France freak and I will never get anywhere close to beating them

Cool we're bringing back the asbo era. Even I managed to get the first warning towards one despite being broadly well behaved and growing up in a small town. Next stop mosquito alarms

I'm the belly of the beast in that there London. Finally visiting the much hyped Pelican House to have an iftar with comrades and talk about building Apartheid-Free Zones in solidarity with Palestine across this god forsaken capital city of ours.

Jesus Christ man... We have had successive governments implementing increasingly Draconian crackdowns on various forms of protests yet through that an increasingly radicalised reactionary fringe of people becoming determined to hit protesters with their car. Solidarity with the protesters

there's like 100 David Lynch-directed films listed on Letterboxd (many like a min long) so to compliment our recent episode on him I've compiled this list of what I consider the core ones, plus a few Lynch-starring, Lynch-produced, and otherwise Lynch-adjacent pictures letterboxd.com/jackfraynere...

"The vile left is at the same time too strong and too weak, study finds." - The Guardian

Tried doing some coding using python and a lot of support from both my sister and ChatGPT last night. Is genuinely impressive how with a very very basic understanding of some of the logic and AI help you can do an ok job... I do lack the basics though so results were very hit and miss

Labour would let arts, culture and learning in Wales crumble away to nothing so long as it saves a few pence. Not that it will.

Successful second homes crackdown means homes are £30k cheaper for Cymry, who actually need them.

TODAYS ep of PJDS is w/ Matt + Sasha on Palestine, the Bristol Apartheid Free-Zone campaign + how to organise your own I failed as a journo for yrs partly due to a refusal to give up on certain principles. Its such an honour now to produce stuff Im passionate about open.spotify.com/episode/4efk...

Just read that the WhatsApp group Andrew Gwynne was posting all his comments in had 44 members at its peak. It's genuinely mental that an MP would be posting things like that in a group that big. What did he think would happen?? Shows how untouchable they think they are.

Women getting the ick about men also just isn't new? Like it's the punch line in literally 1000s of sitcoms over decades where a female character and the male lead have been dating and she catches him doing something weird / shocking and immediately leaves him and never shows up again

Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins: Trade union organise, investigative reporter, crypto-bro and dread Pirate Roberts apologist. This was a great episode though tbf so you should get your ears around it

My piece about being a unite representative on the @cubasolidarity.bsky.social brigade last May Day is out on @tribunemagazine.bsky.social . I discuss my time there, 60 years of solidarity tours and how the Cuban revolution is still an inspiration to us all tribunemag.co.uk/2025/01/soli...

Did a talk about Marxist views of ideology for Bristol Transformed's Micro dosing Marxism sessions and showed that video where you're meant to count the passes of a vall and then shouldn't see the man in the gorilla suit... Everyone saw the man in the gorilla suit. Absolutely derailed me.

Should post on here more but it really does lack that misanthropic juice of the other place doesn't it?

And I have a goose that lays golden eggs

I feel like at some point the media needs to stop covering these announcements without actually using them. Can it actually do these things? has anyone seen them do it? How many times did it take to get it right?

The woman doing a fake Welsh accent on The Traitors has literally made me idpol

Yes, pathetic from local & national media - some Wilts & Swindon coverage but nothing in Somerset, despite out best efforts to alert people & challenge the ICB with questions of concern www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/yoursay/swin...

So an update on my piece on political donations for @thebristolcable.bsky.social is that Paul Addison head lobbyist for consultancy firm ARUP who was seconded to Darren Jones' office is now the Director of policy at the Department for Energy Security + Net Zero 🧵 thebristolcable.org/2024/12/poli...

Alright then I'm going to a stag do in Benidorm so I needs some Benidorm recommendations

Remember not that long ago when you told English people you were Welsh so they'd just sort of assume you were vaguely left wing. Hmmm

It's a huge indictment of our media that this huge privatisation of the NHS in the SW has gone unreported. The £1.3b contract to HCRG (owned by Twenty20 Capital) is maybe the biggest ever single NHS contact given to a private equity firm + has received no coverage www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

Any other good starter packs? Where are people on here

Went to a pre-drinks on New Years Eve and one of the people who lived there had a bone cleaning bucket as well as a soaking badger skull in the kitchen. Absolutely rad. Badgers apparently have a very unusual jaw with a hinge made of bone. Also rad. Perfect pre-drinks fun imo

Wallace and gromit so far

The woke mob can cancel me all it wants but I'm saying it now that Die Hard is a Christmas film

"you'll be visited by three spirits" The three spirits

Left my underwear draw open last night and the cat has climbed in and done a shit inside a pair of my pants. I think she's trying to frame me. What a monster.

My latest article for The Bristol Cable about Political donations to the Labour MPs in Bristol "Consultants, Millionaires and Israel Lobbyists" Including a career first - an explainer up top due a complaint received about the print version thebristolcable.org/2024/12/poli...

How am I gonna get loads of followers on here then? I can't get another Labour tattoo just to get suspended from the party two days later and go viral for complaining about it like I did on twitter

I'm still allowed to listen to the Stephen Fry read audiobook of all of the Sherlock Holmes stories for a bit though right? Till he really goes all in on being a reactionary it's still ok right?

Book talk coming up in Sheffield for Isaac Rose’s 'Rentier City' - a public event on the housing crisis and new finance in Manchester and Sheffield, w/ Sheff Tenants Union + org by the UI/Urban Riches (@qurbanist.bsky.social) Jan 30th, 6.30 (Venue TBC) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Very proud of this ep we did of People Just Do Something. A really interesting chat and a perfect example of what we are trying to do with the show approaching tough topics with a level of levity. Not to take away from their importance but to help more people actually engage with them

Very proud of this ep we did of People Just Do Something. A really interesting chat and a perfect example of what we are trying to do with the show approaching tough topics with a level of levity. Not to take away from their importance but to help more people actually engage with them

So are you allowed to be a communist on here then or what?