TomButcher

Fido on the roof, surely?

Not quite as fizzy as it used to be

The Hamas attack on October 7 was a horrendous crime against humanity. But the only relationship between it and the even greater crimes against humanity being perpetrated in Gaza today is that it is being used as an excuse for what certain Israeli ministers and generals have long wanted to do.

Effluentcer?

Also the Greek word xenos, as in xenophobia, doesn't just mean foreigner or stranger. It includes the concept of guest and hospitality. We are afraid of being hospitable. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenos_(....

Explaining a 31-month sentence for a tweet How a mixture of court process, law and sentencing policy led to the lengthy imprisonment of Lucy Connolly

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Explaining a 31-month sentence for a tweet

How a mixture of court process, law and sentencing policy led to the lengthy imprisonment of Lucy Connolly

By me

Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/explaining...

Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/05/expl...

An ex Israeli PM speaks. “What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination : indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal and criminal killing of civilians

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The Girl With The Cat Earring

Bridget Hangs Out With The Hunters In The Snow

Bridget Meets The Beatles On Abbey Road

Bridget Does Edward Hopper

THREAD. When my parents' cat Bridget went missing, my dad, to try to ease his worry, painted her on a variety of historical ventures. Soon, these numbered in the dozens.

After much nagging, my dad has had some postcards printed of this brilliant series: michaelcoxmoredaysthansausages.bigcartel.com

via Peter Jenkins

Does this surprise you?

Poem response to Starmer's Farage/Powell cosplay - full text in the link

Island of Strangers - by @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

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Our own Marjorie Taylor Greene🙁

Nigel Farage still insisting that he has "never ever, ever suggested anything other than the NHS should be free".

Here's what he's said in the past behind closed doors

Reform projected to do brilliantly in mayoral contests IN SHOCKING news many of the people who thought their lives would get better after Brexit are going to be voting for a party led by the man who told them Brexit would solve all Britain's problems. "It just makes sense,” said one voter, whose personal income had been hammered by a drop-off of trade with Europe, by the government having less money to spend and by an overall lack of economic growth. "This guy tells it like it is - he blames someone else and denies all responsibility. We should be punishing the government for not making my life better - and to do that, I'll be voting for someone who has made my life worse." Many thousands of others have decided that they will make a vote to protest against the mainstream, and, in order to register their disapproval, they will vote for a man who's been a professional politician for several decades and earned millions of pounds off the back of it. "This is the way to show those mainstream politicians what's what," said one voter, casting a ballot for arguably the most influential British politician of the last three decades. "This will turn everything round."

On the eve of the #localelections thank you @privateeyenews.bsky.social for absolutely nailing the weapons-grade, rock-solid, brain-melting idiocy of voting for Farage and Reform…

Andy Burnham, "The country took a series of wrong turns in the 1980s"

"It's left people in a situation where the essentials of life, water, homes, electricity, buses, rail, these are way expensive compared to everywhere else in Europe"

"It's about fixing that and turning it around"

Someone once said; there's nothing a Tory fears more than seeing someone they regard as an inferior, being treated as an equal.

Words say: *copied from a human on an Indivisible page hi Everyone -- Want to make a suggestion about wording that is taken straight out of the indigenous Hawaiian's activist playbook, ie: that we refuse to use the word "protestor" when referring to our activities and activism (particularly when talking to the press). The indigenous Hawaiians realized a long time ago that words matter and the word "protestor" is triggering in the American context so they now insist on being referred to as "protectors" not "protestors" and will immediately correct anyone who says otherwise. I want to suggest we emulated this because we are not "protestors for American Democracy" but "Protectors OF American Democracy". It takes a critical mass of people to do this but once accomplished,it changes the entire dialogue and perspective in our favour.

Similarly, I think. Looking at our use of language when we try to change things for the better for all is important. I got this below, off a group page on FB Obviously it refers to the American context, but similarly we can find the positive narrative and build our new story that way.

Picture of Morrison's "Mrs Unis Haggis Pakora with a spicy chilli dip"

I defy anyone to look at this and still say integration isn't working in the UK.

1927 'La Trahison des Clerks'. We've been here before
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Especially the reference to Marcus Crassus. …

Darren Jones, "What is it that we need from our government?" #BBCQT

We need a government that, when it sees an impact assessment of a policy that puts 50,000 more children into poverty, says, no, that's a bad policy, we aren't doing it. That's what we need

Yep

How a false Net Zero claim became ‘news’: the right-wing disinformation loop This direct debunk and mini-lesson on how the right-wing media ecosystem can work may help you to spot and critique these types of ‘stories’ in the future

How a false Net Zero claim became ‘news’: the right-wing disinformation loop

This direct debunk and mini-lesson on how the right-wing media ecosystem can work may help you to spot and critique these types of ‘stories’ in the future.

✍️ @monkemma.bsky.social

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YouTube video by Nato Green Nato Green -- "What Do Politics Have to Do with Me?"

Nato Green nails it
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Michael Gove on June 21st 2016, two days before the Brexit referendum,

"By voting to leave, we can not only take back control of hundreds of millions that we sent to the European Union, we will also be detaching ourselves from the sinking ship that is the European Union economy"

UK billionaires added £182,000,000,000 to their wealth last year. That’s £35,000,000 every single day.

Their combined wealth is £795,361,000,000.

So don't let anyone tell you austerity is a “necessity”. There’s more than enough wealth to fund our NHS, public services & welfare.