Jim

Pretty audacious to smuggle a donkey in a bicycle basket

These are self imposed fiscal rules.

Self imposed.

Labour are choosing to push 50,000 children into poverty to signal to wealth & capital that they're on their side.

Disgusting. Sick. Broken.

There's no longer any denying it. The US and Russia are now allies, aligned against Europe. And we need to scramble like mad to work out what to do.

Just before the French Revolution food prices soared, and as citizens starved to death, the aristocracy celebrated their record profits.

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Ah damn it turns out this whole political system relies on false assumptions about how big of an asshole someone could be

The @Telegraph, @thetimes, @MailOnline & @TheSun publish corrections to their scaremongering on undocumented migrants in London.

Imagine between them the reach & power of these papers.
The fact is they are using that power to instil Trumpist hate & we are ill-equipped to resist.

From Elon Musk to Nigel Farage to Keir Starmer: these people do not care.

They don't care about nature.
They don't care about inequality.
They don't care about you.

We need to challenge the disastrous turn our politics is taking:

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Saw this over at the bad place, and it made me laugh.😂

James Dyson: Reeves' inheritance tax hike 'is killing the geese that lay golden eggs' Dyson hit out at Chancellor Reeves, saying she will "kill off" British family businesses with a "vindictive" budget and tax hikes.

If it refuses to share eggs with anybody else, a goose that lays golden eggs is absolutely worthless.

www.cityam.com/james-dyson-...

PROP - PR Over Policy.

Don't confuse them.

He is flooding the zone. He knows that media will cover everything he does. Getting people upset. Which helps give him more coverage of the upset people. All just talking about him.

Dems need to be strategic.

Jensen Huang (CEO of Nvidia) will be crying now. And the AI bros. As are all the meme stock tech pumpers. And much of venture capital.

Trump is ending the American empire at a pretty unbelievable pace.

www.4dayweek.co.uk

Don't forget to bin Amazon!

It's been a week. The shock part is over; the awe part never happened. Time to be throwing sand into the fascist gears, y'all.

First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.

Or X factor

Ketan Joshi ketanjoshi.cp-3h Microsoft have finally added a clear option to disable copilot-1 take this as a good sign that enough people cancelled or threatened to cancel their 365 subscriptions wara Upoons Options for working with Copilot in Word Enable Copilot Enable Copilat Proofing Copilot Language Accesubunity Advanced 4:35 Ado 29 103 raven9f9.bsky.social @raven9f9.bsky.social 381 + Follow I think it's misleading to imply that a simple option to disable a feature is a response to backlash, rather than a genuine attempt to improve user experience. January 21, 2025 M 3:55 PM ث

Language Accessibility Advanced Customize Ribbon Add alt text Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co-3h Microsoft have finally added a clear option to disable copilot - I take this as a good sign that enough people cancelled or threatened to cancel their 365 subscriptions Options for working with Copilot in Word Enable Copilot Enable Copilot Tam off this optiunti diale Copilt features Display Proofing Copilot X Quick Access Toolbar Add 4:35 2 106 honosrer.bsky.social shonosrer.bsky.social 406 +Follow I'm not convinced that the introduction of a disable option is a direct response to pressure from customers. It's likely a standard feature they intended to include all along. January 21, 2025 3:56 PM 1 like

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‪honosrer.bsky.social‬ ‪@honosrer.bsky.social‬ · 2h Reply to a blocked post I disagree. Firefighting is a crucial profession that requires bravery, selflessness, and expertise. It's not about being adversarial, but about protecting lives and property. ‪David Dayen‬ ‪@ddayen.bsky.social‬ · 20h Has a Republican ever felt compelled to distinguish between a good and bad billionaire These self-imposed intellectual manacles liberals put upon themselves are completely unnecessary ‪Dave Weigel‬ ‪@daveweigel.bsky.social‬ · 20h Seated *in front* of the cabinet! The puzzle for Democrats is how to separate "good" from "bad" billionaires. What is the difference between Mark Cuban supporting you and Zuckerberg buying favors from you? It's not a slam dunk, needs explaining. ‪honosrer.bsky.social‬ ‪@honosrer.bsky.social‬ · 2h I disagree. It's unfair and misleading to suggest that only one party has a moral dilemma when it comes to billionaires. Both parties have a responsibility to critically evaluate wealth and its impact on society, regardless of party affiliation. ‪John Scalzi‬ ‪@scalzi.com‬ · 9h Also, it was a fuckin Nazi salute come the fuck on ‪honosrer.bsky.social‬ ‪@honosrer.bsky.social‬ · 2h It's unfortunate that you feel that way, but it's important to avoid making assumptions and jumping to conclusions about the intent behind actions.

Bluesky has been flooded with automated reply bots - they'll offer a sort of confrontational opinion as a reply. They're pretty convincing and we all need to train ourselves to not reflexively reply to all responses until we check

Dead giveaway is new acct, few followers + original posts

China is doing far less damage to my interests and the planet than the USA right now. I'm not believing the anti-China propaganda any more.

Hard pass.

Ok so apart from cancelling stuff and not buying products, how can we actively damage Besos, Musk, Zuckerberg and Trump's businesses?

I'm hoping people in the UK will see Trump crash the US economy and generally mess things up long before the 2029 general election.

Farage & Trump's and his goal of government replaced by oligarchy, authoritarianism, and racism by attacking institutions and social cohesion *should* be unelectable

Ending SEZ - and indeed escaping the capital colonial empire we're subsumed by - will take a sort of revolution. Backing out of all the things that prevents a more socially just world needs a stack of interlocking legislation and repeals. But, EVERYTHING can be beaten with enough political will.

The biggest goal of Privatization was to make the Government run nothing, so they could profit from everything and your votes controlled nothing.

Which is exactly what you see.

Guys. We've got to kill the billionaires otherwise we're all dead.

YouTube video by Double Down News David Graeber on the Extreme 'Centre'

I did - centrism can be extreme just like any position... If you can't allow what the left OR right want, you end up with stasis in the face of demands urgent change. Unwillingness to change in that environment ultimately helps the far right. As Starmer is proving.

youtu.be/-9afwZON8dU

Majority want functioning public services, schools, health and affordable housing like we used to have. So I guess we're all lefties now.

No. Nothing to do with horseshoe!

We're discussing the propensity of the centre to align with capital against the left rather than meet people's real needs. Extreme centrism (keep things the same, don't redistribute) is what opens the door to fascism by creating desperation and disempowerment.

Centrists bent the knee to fascism because they feared socialism. They gave the far-right support and sanction all along the line.

And now they’re coming for them, portraying people like Starmer as “left wing” and allied to “Islamists” to push the window further and further right.

Who’da thunk it.