This story is now big news all over the world... except in the UK.

The highest electricity prices in the world, the highest train fares in Europe and rivers full of sewage. It's almost as if privatisation was fundamentally flawed.

Visto #DoloresIbarruriPasionaria, documental imprescindible sobre una mujer que personificó la lucha para hacer la esperanza realidad, por lo que se le recuerda como una de las figuras históricas del siglo XX, ya no de España sino todo el mundo.

He visto este documental apasionante y suscribo cada palabra.

‘You can identify as anything nowadays’

Visto #OnFalling. Peli sutil pero demoledor sobre la deshumanización de la economía digital, cuyos trabadores luchan no sólo para llegar a fin de mes sino para encontrar algún sentido en su propia existencia.

Visto #Sirât. No lo tenía claro antes de ir pero es un peliculón que me ha dejado impactado. No la voy a destripar, hace falta verla para saber por qué es un merecido candidato al Óscar. Gracias a @diasdecine.bsky.social y @gerardoquietman.bsky.social por la recomendación: youtu.be/ww-IXHXvS70?...

Walter Peters, a 51 year old doctor with a firm mouth and a direct gaze. Imprisoned for being gay, he survived only five days in Auschwitz. But he is not obliterated or forgotten, for today we say his name--Walter Peters--and we remember him with honour and respect. May his memory be for a blessing.

Reform’s Russia connections are a danger to our national security. It’s time for a public inquiry.

30 September 1942 | A French Jewish boy, Daniel Serge Szuster, was born in Paris. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 2 August 1943 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. He was among 727 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.

There you go, Germany. That is roughly 40% of currently known resources. Start your battery industry. www.electrive.com/2025/09/25/n...

29 September 1913 | A Pole, Władysław Szumilas, was born in Krakow. A handball, table tennis & football player of Wisła Kraków. He was arrested for participation in resistance. In #Auschwitz from 14 January 1942 No. 25538 He perished in the camp on 18 June 1942.

Hero!

Reform Is the Political Arm of the Fossil Fuel Industry A handful of oil execs in a trench coat. It wants to bin net zero because that’s in the interests of its polluter paymasters. novaramedia.com/2025/05/09/r...

28 September 1908 | A Hungarian Jewish woman, Ibolya Remenyi, was born in Csenger. In June 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive. --- Learn about deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_6_dep_zydow/

I want to see this in Madrid.

Age yourself with a film you saw in the cinema as a kid

UK inflation is caused by profiteering Since the pandemic electricity generation companies hiked profit margins by 198%. Electricity/Gas supply margins up 363%. Shipping up by 650 times. Health and social work up by 118%. People impoverished. Can't rebuild economy without ending profiteering.

Nigel Farage's attendance record as an MEP was 748 out of 751, yet he turned up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian disinformation. Now one of his MEPs has admitted taking bribes to spread Russian propaganda. Why is this not all over the media?

The Israeli military official now says troops acted without the required approval of the senior regional commander. The official told Reuters about the breach of command after Reuters presented the findings of its investigation to the Israel Defense Forces. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Funeral held in home town of Mexican man shot dead by ICE agents in Chicago earlier this month: oem.com.mx/elsoldemorel...

The world today is not the same as 80 years ago. The #UN Security Council must reflect that. Africa, Asia & Latin America need to be represented accordingly - as does Germany, which bears major political & financial responsibility. Together with 🇧🇷, 🇮🇳 & 🇯🇵, we push for reform.

Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Happy European Day of Languages. I got 2/3 in the language quiz. How'd you do? www.coe.int/en/web/porta...

Visto #LosLazosQueNosUnen drama entrañable sobre enlaces y desenlaces entre vecinas, viudos, padres y, sobre todo, hermanitos. Reparto de órdago. Para no perdérsela. Preestreno gracias a @diasdecine.bsky.social @gerardoquietman.bsky.social youtu.be/KpQi1mLIAhs?...

The head of the UK's leading anti-racism campaign group Hope not Hate wrote to Keir Starmer to complain about his "silence" in the face of a rising far-right threat. "At the time when people needed leadership there was silence. “And for the far right, that silence just emboldened them further"

🪨 Extract, refine, process, recycle – repeat. We've launched a new call for strategic projects to secure a sustainable supply of critical raw materials for European industry. They'll drive the green and digital transitions, boosting 🇪🇺 production and diversifying supply ↓ link.europa.eu/kdRxKN

Good thread. Well worth reading.

Esperanto version of Pere Català Pic's famous and powerful 1936 poster "Let's crush fascism" (Piedpremu fasismon!”) created in a cobbled Barcelona street for the Catalan government's Comissariat de Propaganda. More on use of Esperanto during Civil War: www.comissariatdepropaganda.cat/esperanto-gu...

This is amazing.

Good moment to remember that US foreign policy is also being reoriented to enable foreign censors and authoritarian propaganda around the world www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Visto #MadridExt, ensayo fotográfico emocionante que se centra en la gente de barrio y comercios tradicionales en peligro de extinción, casi una elegía de un Madrid que se va, pero ojalá me equivocase. #CinesGolemMadrid youtu.be/I2Z-wmfhIWg?...

Visto #LaPrimeraEscuela. Cine francés en estado purto, la historia de la lucha de una profesora por establecer la educación obligatoria, gratuita e laica en una aldea aislada en 1889, una de las grandes aportaciones de la Tercera República Francesa.

A new study led by @clairbarnes.bsky.social shows that human-caused global warming tripled heat wave deaths in European cities this summer to 24,400. These 16,500 people would still be alive if we weren't burning fossil fuels like there's no tomorrow.

Some guy gets arrested for a t-shirt that says “plasticine action” but a guy who in broad daylight says on video the Prime Minister needs to be killed walks free

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

Visto #Tempsmort, docu que demuestra que no hay nada más sorprendente ni emocionante que la verdad, sobre todo cuando un buen periodista se dedica a buscarla. Preestreno gracias a @julia9254.bsky.social Cines Verdi Contracorriente. youtu.be/Rky307vPIeI?...

Visto #Romería que encierra la inmensa trilogía de Carla Simón cuya prota Llúcia Garcia es toda una revelación. Para no pérdersela. @cinesrenoir.bsky.social youtu.be/AafBPL156-M?...

Visto #Joneaveces impresionante ópera prima y peli de iniciación que rezuma tanto naturalidad como sensibilidad. Muy recomendada. Preestreno gracias a @diasdecine.bsky.social @gerardoquietman.bsky.social Golem Madrid youtu.be/vUmqDgGht4c

One track. One standard. One step closer to Europe. 🇺🇦 Ukraine opens its first European-gauge railway, a 22-km line from Uzhhorod to Chop. A €28.6 million #EUfunded project bringing: ✅ Faster border crossing ✅ More trade ✅ Better links to 🇸🇰🇭🇺🇦🇹 and beyond → europa.eu/!gypNxR

"Zack Polanski said it was 'rank hypocrisy' for Nigel Farage to call for Angela Rayner's resignation and not to do so himself." inews.co.uk/news/green-p...

A mob of angry drunken men screaming abuse outside an asylum hotel have defended their actions, saying all they want is for women and girls to feel safe walking the streets. From the new Private Eye, out now.

⚔️ Almeida wins on the Angliru and promises a great battle with Vingegaard until the end of #LaVuelta25. Relive the last kilometre thanks to Carrefour ⚔️ Almeida vence en el Angliru y promete grandes batallas con Vingegaard hasta el final de #LaVuelta25. Revive el último km gracias a Carrefour

Immortality... or at least living 150 years ... "With the development of biotechnology, human organs can be continuously transplanted... and people can .... even achieve immortality" Via BBC News

The horror never stops

The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024. Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay. The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year. Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M See the problem?