@laughinglemon.bsky.social
Likes budgies; reads too much Warhammer; dislikes nostalgia, which is not what it was; vaguely lefty; technical, but re-tyred
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
I'm spending the weekend leafleting with the Greens. I'll stick with the party until the May elections and then I'm done with the lot of them. She's vain, he's stubborn, and the rest, with a few notable exceptions, are nobodies wanting to be somebodies. What a weary bunch we are.
29.11.2025 09:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Council By-Elections November 2025
CON 17% (-3 cllrs)
LAB 11% (-6)
LDEM 13% (+1)
REF 28% (+8)
GRN 13%* (0)
*The first time the Greens have out-polled the Lib Dems and Labour in monthly by-election vote tallies. See post for detail and a brief discussion.
*but it's not producing any net gain. I've noticed that they're also not contesting recently where they would normally have at least a "paper" candidate. What's the plan?🤔
29.11.2025 09:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A conversation on my book The Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective (Manchester) @saqibooks.bsky.social, @ucpress.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAOv...
"Contrary to Miller and Trump, Lakanwal’s shooting spree is not the result of importing Afghan culture to America. While much will surely be revealed in Lakanwal’s upcoming trial, it looks more like the result of importing American culture to Afghanistan." New from me @zeteo.com
28.11.2025 22:20 — 👍 834 🔁 235 💬 9 📌 6
Hegseth's not the only war criminal here. "The [USSOCOM] commander overseeing the operation from Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Adm. Frank M. 'Mitch' Bradley, told people on the secure conference call that the survivors were still legitimate targets... He ordered the second strike."
28.11.2025 21:32 — 👍 424 🔁 150 💬 15 📌 16Ooh! Look ... A new zoomable interactive Rail Map is online!
railmap.nationalrail.co.uk#/mapview
Easier to say what I don't like. Put "coffee" and "chocolate" on there and it's pretty much everything.
28.11.2025 17:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Left Politicians vie to be Ringmaster of Cat Circus Shock"
28.11.2025 17:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lovelies, the Starship Alexandria advent calendar starts on Monday. You'll get a short daily episode from @aptshadow.bsky.social and I, which I hope will brighten these dark days for you. You can catch up on previous episodes here starshipalexandria.com
28.11.2025 14:27 — 👍 36 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 1
Man of who lost 7,300+ votes to a decent bloke, standing in front of some flags
"It could be worse. It could be me"
28.11.2025 13:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When the Right says they want legal immigrants and that “illegals” are unfair to people who do things properly, this is what they actually do to people who do things properly: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
28.11.2025 13:22 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Ahead of Your Party’s democratic founding conference this weekend, we need to put redistribution, sustainability, and peace at the heart of a mass socialist movement that belongs to the grassroots.
28.11.2025 12:34 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS BILL
The Labour party was supposed to implement the employment rights bill IN FULL, fire and rehire, zero hours contract, rights from day one all watered down.
Workers will feel duped. PART 1 ⤵️
The Edinburgh Minute ⏰ weekend guide: 28 - 30 November 2025
www.edinburghminute.com/the-edinburg...
The Glasgow Wrap 🗞️ Friday 28 November 2025
open.substack.com/pub/theglasg...
“[The BBC's] 1983 Sci Fi Film Festival... was a revelation. Suddenly, the scope of what science fiction could be – its capacity to intoxicate, terrify, and transport – opened before me in ways I had never imagined.”
wearecult.rocks/even-strange...
Opposing genocide is not terrorism.
Make your choice.
www.wedonotcomply.org
𝗘𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗕𝗶𝗹𝗹: 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲
The employment rights bill is a shell of its former self.
With fire and rehire and zero hours contracts not being banned, the Bill is already unrecognisable. 1/2
Like stories, it has two sides. An inside and an outside.
27.11.2025 18:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Group of people standing behind green and red RMT union banners during an official picket outside a building.
RMT members at Poplar this morning.
Cleaners working for Bidvest Noonan on the DLR are taking strike action today as the company has failed to offer any sick pay to its staff.
A new cinematic graphic novel should finally bring one of England’s most overlooked working-class socialist writers to a wide audience.
27.11.2025 09:27 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
The Glasgow Wrap 🗞️ Thursday 27 November 2025
open.substack.com/pub/theglasg...
Rachel Reeves has done just enough to ward off a leadership challenge this side of next May.
27.11.2025 08:54 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com/3172/
"Labour are happily - gleefully - building up the infrastructure an authoritarian regime would find useful. It's a good job a right wing extremist party isn't topping the polls and stands no chance of winning the next election."
26.11.2025 11:55 — 👍 19 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
"Tweaks to taxation and spending aren’t going to un-break Britain.
A tax on multi-million-pound properties, while welcome, is not going to erode the extraordinary wealth of those at the top of our society – nor their grip over our democracy."
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
