Bruce Springsteen has no fucks to give. 👏

Perfect!

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Peace is the refusal to let fear and pain turn us into creatures who can only recognise ourselves through opposition.

Can you struggle without needing to hate?

It's a vicious circle. And according to billionaire media barons and their front-line commentators, there's no way to break it.

Today in Leeds we have the UKREIFF conference (inward investment and property development community in pursuit of economic growth (more extractive than regenerative?) and a Peace Conference. Is one creating the conditions that leads to the necessity of the other?

If economic and digital systems continually generate: * fear, * addiction, * uprootedness, * comparison, * and chronic insecurity, then therapeutic, policing or community interventions alone will always struggle. Leeds will be treating symptoms faster than it addresses causes.

The feeling of living inside prosperity while being structurally unable to participate in it meaningfully is unlikely to promote peace…

Peace is the refusal to let fear and pain turn us into creatures who can only recognise ourselves through opposition.

Beware the moment your love of justice begins to require hatred. Beware the moment your love of home begins to require fear. For that is the moment peace leaves the room.

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The NHS App: A digital illusion at the crossroads of trust and power yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/health/...

OK forget about what I said yesterday - THIS is the absolute worst picture of Trump ever taken. So for fuck’s sake, out of basic human decency, do not retweet it and accidentally expose more people to it. Fuckface would be devastated.

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Let it be clear: you are wanted here.

Perhaps Xi could release the Epstein files?

Greater Manchester still says no to #NHS data platform with Palantir at its heart Public concern has only grown, says ICB, while evidence of benefits remains thin Manchester showing the way England needs to go Wales and Scotland agree No to Palantir www.theregister.com/public-secto...

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CALL TO ACTION!!! Please support the decent journalists actually holding Farage to account. Please share far and wide! 👊💥👍

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From Apollo to Artemis: progress, power, and the costs we do not count Human invention has let us see our planet from its own moon, but do we really appreciate the true costs and responsibility that brings? By Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social

Worth remembering

Happy birthday to Leeds-born Alan Bennett, 92 today.

Thank you to everyone who voted Green 💚 Want to take the next step towards delivering real hope and real change? Join the Green Party today ⤵️ join.greenparty.org.uk?utm_source=L...

I fucking weep for my country sometimes. Who looks over the pond at Trump and all that nonsense and says..."I'll have the British version of that"? Stupid brexiter idiots. God I hate them. #LocalElections #UKlocalelections www.bbc.com/news/electio...

From Apollo to Artemis: progress, power, and the costs we do not count yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/from...

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What does Reform actually want? To lower the Minimum Wage. Get rid of the NHS and replace with US Health Insurance. Cut Benefits by at least 30%, which will have to be all of them, including State Pension, Child Benefit and Tax Credit. And much more, and it's all terrible.

In Wigan, Reform won 96% of seats on 46% of the votes. In Westminster, the Conservatives won a majority on 35%, while @greenparty.org.uk won 18% of the votes without gaining a single seat. We can’t let this happen in 2029 The time to change the voting system is *now* @makevotesmatter.bsky.social

Are you playing God? freshthinking.substack.com/p/do-not-pla...

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When the only Jewish leader of a political party in the UK is branded an antisemite for opposing genocide whilst a man who made "gas chamber whistles" at Jews is lauded as the next Prime Minister you know this country is deeply, deeply sick.

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For friends and colleagues working on the 'management' of 'population health'? "“You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing.

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substack.com/@mikechitty/... If Palantir had a visit from Soul and Spirit…

Come and explore The Ahriman Parables with me! freshthinking.substack.com/p/the-ahrima...

👇🧵 👇 Nigel Farage has committed prosecutable election offences under the Representation of the People Act 1983. He has stated quite directly, in contravention of election law, that if you don't vote Reform, and they win, there will be punitive consequences specifically for your constituency.

Philosophy with Andrew Tate

Natasha Devon is Spot on

The Telegraph’s stages of grief about the Green Party as a cereal multipack.