PSA: tips to protect yourself from scams on Signal. Every major comms platform has to contend w phishing, impersonation, & scams. Sadly. Signal is major, and as we've grown we've heard about more of these attacks--scammy people pretending to be something or someone to trick and abuse others. 1/

Having bought (and loved) every Survival Street comic there is, there was only one thing left to do: get the sweater - and let more people know about this inspired, innovative, and cautionary comic book from the brilliant @jamesasmus.bsky.social!

Yorkshire Water flouted director pay rules, secretly handed £660k bonus through offshore parent company. Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet. Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced. Let customers vote on exec pay. archive.ph/9rYlp

the president of the united states, for some reason apparently:

The hero of the working class.

The irony of conspiracy theorists is, of course, that they are the most easily manipulated people on the planet. For, having no standards of evidence whatsoever, they can be led by the nose to believe anything – so long as it isn't true.

We got both billboards up tonight, in the background of this one you can see the gas flaring of a nearby oil refinery

Facebook is also going down a similar path, injecting people's feeds with around 33% content from pages they don't follow, much of it extreme-right and conspiracy nonsense, even to users who have never followed or engaged with such content.

Interesting data analysis demonstrating what Twitter users already know through experience. Elon Musk has turned it into a extreme-right propaganda factory, where right-wing accounts are boosted by the algorithm, and left-leaning users are flooded with right-wing content, despite not following it.

I will be honest: for a brief moment, I genuinely thought that this was me and that I had had an 'episode'...

Actually, to use wrestling parlance, Judge Dredd might come at one of us for "gimmick infringement" as I am aware of the resemblance, and despite the Yorkshire connection, @molcher.bsky.social and I are not siblings!

An interesting week in pop culture! Checked out the @2000ad.bsky.social podcast (or is that "Thrill-cast"?) because they talked about pro wrestling, then ended up enjoying a bunch of their episodes only to realise @molcher.bsky.social of course wrote this brilliant book I've been reading for while!

Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales is trying to use his name to convince Wikipedia editors to deny the Gaza Genocide, recognized by many human rights organizations. Although he's not seizing control, this is an extreme attempt to sway Wikipedia content in violation of its founding principles.

It is the 99% v the 1% All the propaganda out there is to get all of us in the 99% to hate each other and to fight among each other so that we don't unite to defeat the 1%. Never forget that!

So-called "Centrism" does not work.

A man shouted Britain First as he shot an MP dead and Britain First are not proscribed.

Announcement! For nearly 25 years, I've reported from protests and picket lines, sit-ins and squats, documenting various anti-fascist political protests and movements, and interviewed numerous campaigners, academics, activists, and unsung heroes of anti-capitalist struggle.

Remember, remember the Fifth of November.

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

For folks who are interested in my more personal posts and freelance work in general, I am still maintaining my own site at www.mediaactivist.com

Announcement! For nearly 25 years, I've reported from protests and picket lines, sit-ins and squats, documenting various anti-fascist political protests and movements, and interviewed numerous campaigners, academics, activists, and unsung heroes of anti-capitalist struggle.

✅Help Make COVID Vaccines Free - Again ✅Over 280 signatures in 2 days. ✅Every signature: a step towards change and equity. ✅Please share the petition widely. ✅Tag your MP. ✅Demand free vaccines for all - regardless of age or ability to pay for a vaccine. #Vaccines4All www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...

I remember growing up in a conservative household I was told about how in communist dictatorships, the people starve while the leaders build opulent palaces and ballrooms. Anyway, not sure why I brought that up.

The opening 30 seconds says these glorified roombas are actually piloted by humans can, and will, spy on you through the built in cameras.

"how to wear masks without breaking your hair, how to care for your family during a toxic air emergency and detox. In a world increasingly pushing people into isolation, the daily acts of getting people those things break isolation and are real acts of solidarity, relationship building, and love."

"Disability justice is not an academic or abstract framework or a bunch of empty statements. It is the real everyday work of getting our people (which includes us) what we need. That includes masks, information about what masks work on faces with broad nose bridges or big or small shapes...(cont)

trickle down economics trickle down economic trickle down economi trickle down econom trickle down econo trickle down econ trickle down eco trickle down ec trickle down e trickle down trickle dow trickle do trickle d trickle trickl trick

whether people voted for this or not is kind of irrelevant now, people clearly fucking hate this shit in practice, the admin and the republican party are trying to insist that they have a broad popular mandate for this, and they do not

I thought this was a parody account but turns out it's real.

It’s basically crap that the king has ‘private income’, which will now sustain the ghastly Andrew. He gets about £25m a year from the Duchies which were appropriated by the crown from previous owners and today not taxed. Basically theft or paid for by taxpayers like everything else they took.

A new review article examines whether calling COVID-19 “Airborne AIDS” is an oversimplification—or a necessary warning about immune dysfunction and long-term risk. It doesn’t equate the two diseases—it compares shared outcomes (immune exhaustion, tissue persistence, neurocognitive effects) and (...)

As usual the AI isn't good enough, so your futuristic house servant robot will be remotely piloted by a low-paid worker in the global south.

fixed that for you

They still can’t grab the culture lever and it’s making them even more insane

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

Lynch's work better than many so clearly understands that beneath the idealized nostalgia for "real" America is a teeming nightmare of violence and cosmic horror that rests just under the facade of picket fences and suburban homes.

FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE.

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

Myep

That she's cool as fuck?

You’ll recall that the selling point for organising our societies like this is that this is the best, fairest and most efficient way to determine value and allocate resources

And it has been decades of this. The COVID anti-vaxx movement was built wholesale on top of the MMR vaccine autism hoax which had been enthusiastically pushed by the Daily Mail et al.

One of the most important political messages on the internet.

Imagine launching a campaign so strongly, then softening your leftist rhetoric thus losing momentum, before also abandoning Gaza despite polls demonstrating standing up for Palestinians could in fact get you the win, ultimately gifting Trump the presidency...and then wanting to do it all over again.

L M A O

"One other hurdle Trump will have to face, beyond the unconstitutionality of running for a third term, is that voters don’t want him to run again. ...His current approval rating is incredibly low, making him a deeply unpopular president." truthout.org/articles/tru...

This is a really good read on the interaction between the ongoing COVID pandemic and the rise of the US fascists in the first half of the 2020's.

😂

Imagine a future where every computer game feels like a fever dream you had from playing a broken xbox while suffering from meningitis