Peter Harrison
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Perpetual politics student, late diagnosed autistic.
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Cllr Ed Lamb
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Harrowing statement by the judge here. An extreme case of road violence took place in Liverpool in May. 130 injured, with an immense amount of trauma that followed (described in detail). That's about 2 days worth of serious injuries on UK roads đ¤ˇââď¸
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8...
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Liverpool parade attacker Paul Doyle 'drove over limbs and crushed prams', judge says in sentencing
The court heard earlier Paul Doyle used his car as a
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8xd97z0k00t
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Pluto Press
about 20 hours ago
âď¸24 hrs left in our Christmas sale!âď¸ 50% off all books!
plutobooks.com
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Another Green
about 23 hours ago
#MarxistMonday
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Existential Comics
1 day ago
Aristotle on Democracy
existentialcomics.com/comic/633
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Aristotle on Democracy
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/633
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Chris Jackson
1 day ago
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Marx, Rent, and Neofeudalism Recently I read both Yanis Varoufakis' Technofeudalism and Jodi Dean's Capital's Grave, both of which are examples of a tendency to analyse changes in modern capitalism as trending towards some sort of modern version of feudalism. In simple terms the proposition seemsâŚ
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Marx, Rent, and Neofeudalism
Recently I read both Yanis Varoufakis' Technofeudalism and Jodi Dean's Capital's Grave, both of which are examples of a tendency to analyse changes in modern capitalism as trending towards some sort of modern version of feudalism. In simple terms the proposition seems to be that we have moved to a world where the rich extract surplus from everyone else through relations of personal domination enabling the collection of rents, rather than through the passive compulsion under capitalism to work or starve.
https://marxadventure.wordpress.com/2025/12/14/marx-rent-and-neofeudalism/
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism
3 days ago
If a holiday tradition makes your autistic child (or self) miserable or unsettled, try to opt out. Please. I know change can be hard. And it can be especially difficult to let go of how things "should" be. But if taking a picture with Santa or lighting a menorah isn't realistic, that's OK.
#autism
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A mildly disappointing five and two halves đ Dorothy Parker âfwowed upâ in a 1928 review of which childrenâs classic? The Saturday quiz
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Dorothy Parker âfwowed upâ in a 1928 review of which childrenâs classic? The Saturday quiz
From demon, equal and encyclopedia to The Tour of Life and Before the Dawn, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/dec/13/dorothy-parker-fwowed-1928-childrens-classic-book-review-saturday-quiz?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Chronic Illness Humor
4 days ago
Artist: Sow Ay
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The Guardian
4 days ago
âRebranded plantationsâ: how empire shaped luxury Caribbean tourism
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âRebranded plantationsâ: how empire shaped luxury Caribbean tourism
Research shows that the British colonial wealth extraction system still influences the regionâs tourist industry
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/dec/12/rebranded-plantations-how-empire-shaped-luxury-caribbean-tourism?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1765538821
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EL PAĂS
6 days ago
Al menos 386 palestinos, entre ellos, 70 niĂąos, han muerto en ataques esporĂĄdicos israelĂes en los dos meses de alto el fuego en Gaza. Solo en octubre, mĂĄs de 9.000 niĂąos fueron hospitalizados por malnutriciĂłn aguda
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MĂĄs de 9.000 niĂąos fueron hospitalizados por malnutriciĂłn aguda en Gaza solo en octubre
La ONU denuncia que Israel sigue restringiendo la entrada de ayuda mientras se espera una tormenta que puede empeorar la ya catastrĂłfica situaciĂłn humana
https://social.elpais.com/cnrr39
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The Guardian
6 days ago
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
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Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90% Fewer than 60,000 people â 0.001% of the worldâs population â control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity, according to a report that argues global inequality has reached such extremes that urgent action has become essential. The authoritative World Inequality Report 2026, based on data compiled by 200 researchers, also found that the top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90% combined, while the poorest half captures less than 10% of total global earnings. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2025/dec/10/just-0001-hold-three-times-the-wealth-of-poorest-half-of-humanity-report-finds?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Enormously enjoying the episode of Say Nothing where they rob a bank dressed as nuns.
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The Spectre of Christmas Past Haunting Europe
7 days ago
The Conservative *and Unionist* Party putting forward more policy that would set Northern Ireland on fire, again.
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The Spectre of Christmas Past Haunting Europe
7 days ago
#Trainposting
: the new GBR livery is awful corporate nationalist slop. Just do British Rail liveries again, they were handsome, clean and welcoming.
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The Guardian
7 days ago
Would you entrust a childâs life to a chatbot? Thatâs what happens every day that we fail to regulate AI | Gaby Hinsliff
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Would you entrust a childâs life to a chatbot? Thatâs what happens every day that we fail to regulate AI | Gaby Hinsliff
As deaths in the US are blamed on ChatGPT and UK teenagers turn to it for mental health advice, isnât it obvious that market forces must not set the rules?, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/09/would-you-entrust-a-childs-life-to-a-chatbot-thats-what-happens-every-day-that-we-fail-to-regulate-ai?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1765260968
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Grace Blakeley
8 days ago
Why should young people participate in an economy that offers them no hope for the future? The inter-generational bargain that kept British capitalism afloat has collapsed - and Labour is too busy listening to corporate lobbyists to do anything about it.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/generation...
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Generation Despair
Work doesnât pay, housing is a trap, and life has been enshittified â why should young people keep propping up a system rigged against them?
https://graceblakeley.substack.com/p/generation-despair
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Stunning five pointer on
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Existential Comics
8 days ago
Philosophy in a Foxhole -
existentialcomics.com/comic/632
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Philosophy in a Foxhole
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/632
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The Guardian
8 days ago
Austerity is in the air again â from âoverdiagnosisâ to the benefits bill. Here is what's at stake | Zoe Williams
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Austerity is in the air again â from âoverdiagnosisâ to the benefits bill. Here is what's at stake | Zoe Williams
A mindblowing new show reveals the human cost when the political system turns against the people, putting stories and faces to the hundreds of thousands of citizens thought to have died due to austerity, writes Zoe Williams
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/08/austerity-in-the-air-overdiagnosis-benefits-bill-whats-at-stake?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1765211919
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Tom Cox
9 days ago
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent goats I have met during walks in the British countryside. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
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â â â â to Volume 3 of Capital by Karl Marx. Unfinished and unpolished but still fascinating and relevant
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Capital Volume III: The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole by Karl Marx
The third volume of a political treatise that changed the worldUnfinished at the time of Marx's d...
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/492b4a82-0d24-42eb-94d4-5b1e096f0fec
9 days ago
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Jack Saundrs
9 days ago
Hey everyone, here's the news, if you aren't a high earner, entrepreneur or a "skilled frontline worker" (whatever the fuck that means) the "Labour" Party says you aren't contributing, you're a taker!
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Phil McDuff
9 days ago
Starmer's Labour is worse than the Tories because there isn't a Labour party waiting in the wings, unless we see some astonishing magic from the Greens. People rejected the Tories and Labour came in to tell them, no, that's not allowed, this is the only policy there is. Fuck you.
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Phil McDuff
9 days ago
It's not the only reason to oppose the language of takers and shirkers and all that, but people have been warning with good reason: when you establish the existence of a subclass of despised, worthless people it's acceptable to hate and abuse, everyone ends up in there eventually.
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Me too bro, me too đ A reindeer called Buddy sparked a huge search operation after he went on the run from a Christmas celebration.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Runaway reindeer in Formby sparks major search operation
The animal, named Buddy, fled a festive celebration on the coast and went on the run for hours.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5l209pn1wo
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The panel: here's a hundred reasons why young people might be depressed (unemployment, outflow of the pandemic etc etc) Laura Kuenssberg: so it's all about it being too easy to claim benefits then?
#BBCLauraK
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Will Jenningsđđłď¸
10 days ago
What sort of reporting is this? 'Good news'?
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Lee Bisset as Sieglinde in Opera North's production of Die Walkure is just magnificent. Her joy at the end of Act One is just wonderful.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vxm...
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Act I: Die WalkĂźre | The Ring Cycle
YouTube video by Opera North
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VxmmncvfOE
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David Harvey
10 days ago
Coming 24 February 2026 by
@versobooks.bsky.social
www.versobooks.com/products/337...
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The Story of Capital
For decades, David Harvey has been teaching Marx's work, particularly Capital, to great acclaim. He has analysed chapter by chapter - sometimes line-by-line - Marx's three volumes and the Grundrisse. ...
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3372-the-story-of-capital
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A magnificent ten đ What links Amy Adams, Teri Hatcher and Margot Kidder? The Saturday quiz
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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What links Amy Adams, Teri Hatcher and Margot Kidder? The Saturday quiz
From Cecil at Waitrose and Slinky at Tesco to an app designed to be deleted, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/dec/06/what-links-amy-adams-teri-hatcher-margot-kidder-saturday-quiz?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Acyn
11 days ago
Mockler: It's honestly humiliating that other countries are treating our president like a child, like a baby. It's like if I created a peace prize and I gave it to myself. I'm like, I'm just going to keep this medal on all night. Our president is an actual child
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Cold War Steve
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I don't agree with everything here, and BlueSky has flaws, but the point about being able to curate your own feed and not have to see what a capitalist owner wants you to see is key.
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11 days ago
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The Spectre of Christmas Past Haunting Europe
11 days ago
'Oooh a politician using biscuits to tell a story on social media' - the clapping seals at the Guardian applaud. Except it's government-as-household-budget Thatcherist propaganda that misrepresents central bank accounting as 'debt'. Right-wing Labour MPs are a careerist cancer.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
12 days ago
If voters could vote against a party (More in Common)
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Bread and Rosie
12 days ago
Most car "safety" is just an arms race between car users with pedestrians, cyclists, scooter riders, etc., as collateral damage. Real safety would be smaller cars moving slower, and there being far, far fewer of them.
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George Monbiot
12 days ago
Or maybe diagnosis is at last catching up with the crises so many have been enduring, which have for so long been minimised, dismissed or ignored.
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Wes Streeting orders inquiry into mental health âoverdiagnosisâ
Health secretary wants clinical review of the rise in conditions such as ADHD and autism that cause people to drop out of the workforce
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The Spectre of Christmas Past Haunting Europe
12 days ago
Cass Report 2.0. They'll find a pet doctor (of engineering) to misrepresent the academic literature, come to conclusions that aren't supported by the cited papers, and which makes limited, largely irrelevant recommendations - and which Wes will use to justify dismantling all disability benefits.
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Jim Pickard
12 days ago
new construction data ominous for Labour: "Separate data from S&P Global UK showed the construction purchasing managersâ index fell from 44.1 in October to 39.4 in November, the lowest since May 2020, when Covid-19 curbs meant the sector was largely shut"
www.ft.com/content/4530...
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UK businesses cut jobs at fastest pace since 2021 while builders report steep downturn
BoE survey and S&P Global data point to impact of Budget uncertainty on headcount and activity
https://www.ft.com/content/4530e83f-acd0-4440-8cc8-9fdc163ca7d4
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I'm just spitballing here, but maybe if we had a functioning NHS mental health service that could support people with their mental health challenges, we wouldn't have so many people struggling and needing financial support.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Wes Streeting orders review of mental health diagnoses as benefit claims soar
Health secretary has asked experts to investigate whether normal feelings have become âover-pathologisedâ
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/03/wes-streeting-orders-review-of-mental-health-diagnoses-as-benefit-claims-soar
12 days ago
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Andrew Fisher
12 days ago
According to
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"eight times as many people are still waiting for mental health treatment after 18 months compared to physical health care" But yeah, let's pretend the problem is *over*diagnosis ...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Wes Streeting orders review of mental health diagnoses as benefit claims soar
Health secretary has asked experts to investigate whether normal feelings have become âover-pathologisedâ
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/03/wes-streeting-orders-review-of-mental-health-diagnoses-as-benefit-claims-soar
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đ Courtney đ˛ Love đ Actually đ˛
12 days ago
once again
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Simon Wren-Lewis
12 days ago
This weeks post: The Budget suggests the Chancellor is thinking too much about short term management and too little about long term legacy
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
The leaking deluge before the budget reveals an obsession with spin rather than evaluating long term policy impacts.
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The Budget suggests the Chancellor is thinking too much about short term management and too little about long term legacy
My posts come out on a Tuesday and Budgets are on a Wednesday. Not great timing, which is why in the past Iâve often done special posts on...
https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-budget-suggests-chancellor-is.html
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Cllr Ed Lamb
12 days ago
It's interesting how this article uses an image of wind turbines and a cyclist (blame them!) yet the second paragraph (which most people won't read) says: "Most of the money will go towards maintaining gas networks..." đ¤đŤ
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The Guardian
13 days ago
Refugee homelessness in UK has more than doubled in two years, charity says
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Refugee homelessness in UK has more than doubled in two years, charity says
Naccom members accommodated record 4,434 refugees and migrants in 2024-25 but could not house another 3,450 Thousands of refugees are facing a growing homelessness crisis, according to a network of more than 100 organisations across the UK who say homelessness has more than doubled among refugees in the last two years. Naccom, the national charity of 140 frontline refugee and migrant organisations, blames the increase on ânear-constant government policy changesâ and the introduction of eVisas, which some refugees have not been able to activate in order to access vital services and support. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/04/refugee-homelessness-increase-uk-naccom?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Fleetwood Emacs
14 days ago
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The Guardian
13 days ago
Drunk raccoon found passed out in Virginia liquor store
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Drunk raccoon found passed out in Virginia liquor store
Store employee found masked bandit sleeping off a bender after invading booze store and tippling a tad too much A liquor store employee in Virginia was startled on Saturday to discover smashed whisky bottles on the floor of the shop and, upon entering the bathroom, an apparently drunk, sleeping and spread-eagled raccoon. âHe fell through one of the ceiling tiles and went on a full-blown rampage, drinking everything,â Samantha Martin, a local animal control officer, told the Daily Mail. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/03/drunk-raccoon-virginia-liquor-store?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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