This story on AI aesthetics and the far right has so many great lines.
“Trump’s haircut, which we all seem to have become inured to, serves the same purpose. It looks like shit and that’s the point. It is a display of power and a small act of cruelty.”
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Someone tell this Government of ours to tax the rich A LOT more than miniscule token actions that will NOT harm the rich at all.
Tax them more! Not just 1 or 2%!.
More!
Just as the end of Nazism did not extinguish all Nazis, the end of Apartheid did not extinguish all white supremacists. They left South Africa and spread around the world. But I never expected that one would gain control of the United States.
#Musk
'Weak populist politics' to my mind is to leave the millionaire/billionaire class alone with their wealth and cut benefits and services to the poor and most vulnerable - those least able to defend themselves.
I'm with you Zarah - this is no time for timidity - we need progressive taxation and redistribution of wealth which is completely unbalanced in favour of the richest.
"We are a society of altruists governed by psychopaths"
The great @georgemonbiot.bsky.social dropping truth bombs on this weeks show. Check it out (and please subscribe) ✊️
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Slashing funding for life-saving treatment for personal gain: It's cruel, it's heartless, it's Elon.
Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.
If Brexit had never happened…
…we’d be much wealthier, with more investment in public services, better trade - and with our parliament & govt having spent the last decade doing far more productive things.
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🎧 #Ukrainecast - Ukrainians react to President Trump's plans to end the war, following his phone calls with Vladimir Putin & Volodymyr Zelensky
With Vitaly Shevchenko & me
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I’m having great difficulty right now seeing how our political system doesn’t devolve into violence.
Research shows privatisation =
❌ Lower quality care
❌ Reduced staffing levels
❌ Higher infection rates
A Lancet Public Health study found privatisation worsens outcomes.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Outsourcing has also been linked to higher mortality.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
I'm sure it's fine
Fox and hoard frost - phwoar ! Thank you Millie Barton @Millnov91 for this morning's #FoxOfTheDay
Käthe Kollwitz, Mother Pressing Infant to Her Face, detail, 1925
Today is an object lesson in the radicalisation of the British right-wing press. Britain is being disparaged and insulted by a foreign far-right conspiracy theorist. But the Mail, the Express, the Telegraph and even the Times choose focus their criticisism on the British prime minister instead.
"When I'm in England,I say,I'm from Ireland.
When I'm in Ireland,I say,I'm from Dublin.
When I'm in Dublin,I say,I'm from Crumlin.
When I'm in Crumlin,I say,Leighlin Road.
When I'm in Leighlin Road,I say,I'm a Lynott."
Remembering Phil Lynott who died on this day in 1986
Pity Farage wasn’t asked about this - he should be forced to own it @bbclaurak.bsky.social @theneweuropean.bsky.social
Celebrate the anniversary of Ivor Wood’s beautiful TV Paddington animations with this, arguably the series’ masterpiece. Paddington does Gene Kelly. I watched the VHS of this as a kid until it wore through.
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‘Ironic’: climate-driven sea level rise will overwhelm major oil ports, study shows
Everything stated in this post is a provable fact.
You are entitled to your own opinion.
You are not entitled to your own facts.
Looking at YOU, 2020 election-deniers.
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget
America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth.
The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%.
Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
This will end in tears www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/12... The gross disparities in wealth that have increased significantly in 2024 are not a cause for celebration. They are a sign of stress to come.
Musk is telling Trump supporters to go fuck themselves while Trump just wrapped up another set of Studio 54 hits in the ballroom at MAL after a tough day of golf.
It’s time for THE charger.
Today, the USB-C becomes officially the common standard for charging new mobile electronic devices in the EU.
It means better-charging technology, reduced e-waste, and less fuss to find the chargers you need!
#DigitalEU
