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Manifesto for when I rule the world: All humans must take CPD-like courses all through life called Continuing Human Development.
Courses include:
how to human properly
we all matter
racism is bad
greed is bad
destroying the planet also bad

Other suggestions on what the curriculum should include?

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Grave. Of. The. Fireflies.

More water bills rises announced today, on top of those already planned.

Privatisation without competition, arguably the worst of both worlds

That's because you didn't learn to browse on technology that was so limited it was accidentally built to stop dead on 31/12/1999 23:59

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Love this, but is the simplest explanation a tactical one: that oppo teams *let Liverpool progress towards their low block - and hold them there?

My autistic youngest was particularly proficient, shutting me down mid-sentence with "No Daddy" or later just the brutally effective "Stop talking Daddy" complete with hand 🤚🏻

That is indeed one way. In my experience, works a grand total of twice before they've sussed your game and developed an effective counter strategy

If you tell people today that everyone, absolutely everyone, has a right to privacy, to freedom of movement, to asylum, to freedom of conscience & of assembly, to social security, fair wages, union membership, paid holidays, and a guaranteed standard of living, including healthcare, they just...

Just noticed the Conservatives’ British ICE proposal also involves using mass deployment of facial ID – still an unproven and unreliable technology that particularly struggles with non-white faces – to enable deportations.

Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens

Why now, Bluesky? 😭

I think we knew the adjustment was going to be rocky on an intellectual level, but weren’t really prepared on an emotional level.

Let's assume for a moment that the gov is right and those 200 old folks are terrorists. I wanna find out more about THAT story!! Plots over the Victoria Sponge! Knitting circles a front for terror cells! Panorama's expose "The Stannah Files" a MUST WATCH!

To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: You are not alone. We will not let hate or those who spread it win. We stand with you.

Why it is so hard to tax the super-rich – video Josh Toussaint-Strauss speaks to Mark Bou Mansour from the Tax Justice Network to untangle some of the myths around a wealth tax, find out how it might work and what is holding governments back from introducing one

Why it is so hard to tax the super-rich – video

That's all very well until the authorities decide to put you in Bedlam for feeling upset about a true thing that they want to declare as crazy and untrue 🇵🇸

In all honesty, it’s not rhetoric any more. It’s not narrative. I’ve experienced more racism in the last 4 months than I can ever remember. The wheels are off in the UK and it’s being led by 3 political parties.

Terrible team performance, terrible match, terrible ref

Putting me in a right mood, this

I think Labour have the concept of an acceptable moderate sensible level of racism which is better than the crass crude excessive racism of Reform, or not actually being racist.

If the government wants economic growth it must bring essential industries into public ownership Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.

UK median wage for an employee is £30,816.

A single person needs to earn £30,500 a year to reach a minimum acceptable standard of living.

A couple with 2 children needs £74,000 a year between them.

Can't rebuild economy based on low wages and poverty.

Think you misspelled 'democratically elected governments' there

It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!

The Brit Card: Nobody asked for it, it wasn’t in the election manifesto, it’s unclear why anyone would want one and the malicious uses for it are obvious, and loads of people hate the idea, but you know what? *Fuck you*, that’s what. We’re in charge. Fuck. You.

Yeah it's been a rough year for believing in boring-but-competent centre left technocrats being the right answer to the Tory shower

Everything Farage does - claiming migrants eat pets, bigging up dangerous AntiVaxxers, the data-grabbing DOGE - is a tribute act to Trump, just as the US proves it doesn't work. It's like a bad Elvis impersonator busking on a Clacton seafront

I think 80% of those nutty protestors would just shift their outrage to the "asylum seekers are housed" part

The reason centrist pundits can only beat up on the left is because if they ever admitted that the left was correct about anything they’d have to admit they were correct about a lot of things and that ends in full on existential crisis territory for those guys