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@akondakor.bsky.social

Left leaning, father, husband, daft dog owner. living atop a hill in Sheffield UK. Concerns: Climate and biodiversity crisis, rise of fascism, poverty, misogyny and the dystopian future we are building for our children.

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Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

07.10.2025 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 6925    πŸ” 1781    πŸ’¬ 128    πŸ“Œ 34
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Share if you agree with this book's narrative that #Brexit is Nigel #Farage's massive tax-dodging scam.
www.amazon.co.uk/BREXIT-Great...

06.10.2025 05:52 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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PORTLAND PUSHBACK: ONE JUDGE STOOD UP β€” BUT THE PILLARS OF OUR DEMOCRACY ARE FALLING Black Hawks over Chicago to the death of healthcare and the rise of β€œFIGHT FIGHT FIGHT” coins, America is watching the Founders’ guardrails collapse β€” and the making of a modern-day king

A Portland judge blocked Trump’s latest power grab β€” but America’s guardrails are collapsing. Black Hawks over Chicago. ICE raids in hospitals. β€œFIGHT FIGHT FIGHT” coins with his face. We ran from a king in 1776. Now he’s back β€” crowned in red, white & fear. Pls read & share ↓

05.10.2025 13:35 β€” πŸ‘ 459    πŸ” 205    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 3

They should really try and find out who was behind the #FarageRiots and maybe fine them? Might help towards the cost of policing future #FarageRiots , if only they could work out who is really responsible for inciting them... πŸ€”

05.10.2025 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We are in the foothills of a solar-wind-battery civilisation. This is our best chance of avoiding catastrophe. But it threatens the profits of fossil fuel companies & nations - so these are pouring money into right-wing populism to stop the transition. This seems to me the biggest story in politics.

02.10.2025 09:15 β€” πŸ‘ 227    πŸ” 82    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5

war-ravaged

04.10.2025 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 243    πŸ” 88    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 1

Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.

04.10.2025 04:48 β€” πŸ‘ 11372    πŸ” 3562    πŸ’¬ 305    πŸ“Œ 216

Absolutely right
Governments often use a false credit card analogy to justify spending cuts on the poor but this is wrong.
The economy is a Β£ circulation system the key is to keep Β£moving and not let it leak out or sit in one place too long.
The poor spend, most Β£ will go back to treasury

04.10.2025 07:21 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It hurt when I crashed my bike into a pothole – and it taught me the true price of austerity | George Monbiot Fixing that hole could have cost under Β£100; the cost of not doing so is limitless. My prang highlights the neoliberal folly of false economies, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury.
My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

04.10.2025 06:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1420    πŸ” 600    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 45

I'm mostly on WiFi so only use about 1.5Gb
on Lebara so Β£4.50/month for 5Gb cheap as..

03.10.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Exactly....took the words right out of Hitler's mouth....

30.09.2025 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ€‘πŸ˜‚πŸ€£πŸ‡·πŸ‡ΊTomsk, Russia β€” everything is going according to plan. I like the safety rope, very useful.

03.10.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 68    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Don't let the stupidity and incompetence distract from the racism, malice and contempt for the very principles that underpin all democracies.

02.10.2025 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Re posted with correction
bsky.app/profile/akon...

30.09.2025 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Straight out of the fascist playbook -
"The enemy within"πŸ˜”

30.09.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Yes! bollox! bloody autocorrect.
Enemy obviously thanks for spotting it

30.09.2025 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.

30.09.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3194    πŸ” 1158    πŸ’¬ 119    πŸ“Œ 103

Straight out of the fascist playbook -
"The energy within"πŸ˜”

30.09.2025 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country?

Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide.

It undermines police and the law.

29.09.2025 06:22 β€” πŸ‘ 6756    πŸ” 2667    πŸ’¬ 624    πŸ“Œ 356
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NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka.

I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.

Federal agent: β€œWe are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

30.09.2025 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 32101    πŸ” 15773    πŸ’¬ 1263    πŸ“Œ 1081
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Two Golden Eagles β€˜disappear’ in south Scotland – Police appeal for information Press release from Police Scotland, 29 September 2025: APPEAL FOR MISSING GOLDEN EAGLE Detectives are appealing for information after a satellite-tagged golden eagle disappeared in the hills to the…

Gosh, what a mystery. Whatever could have happened to them?

No bodies, no tags, no prosecutions, no accountability, no deterrent. This will continue.

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/09/29/t...

29.09.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 135    πŸ” 81    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 5

Unfortunately they can both be right.
33% of the vote could be enough for a majority in parliament.
That's "first past the post"

26.09.2025 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Farage built Brexit, and Brexit broke Britain.

Nigel Farage is the cause of the mess we’re in - not the solution.

25.09.2025 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 703    πŸ” 359    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 29

Labour’s plan for compulsory digital ID risks creating a more authoritarian state.

Under constant surveillance, we would have to pass through digital checkpoints just to live our daily lives β€” with even more barriers for minorities, migrants and the digitally excluded.

25.09.2025 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 491    πŸ” 145    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 17
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Ed Davey, "Nigel Farage's change is a change towards Trump's America"

"Where there's no NHS so patients are hit with crippling insurance bills or denied healthcare altogether"

"That is Trump's America, don't let it become Farage's Britain"

23.09.2025 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 234    πŸ” 85    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1
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AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

19.09.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 31165    πŸ” 7957    πŸ’¬ 639    πŸ“Œ 427

"malicious communication" they're just making shit up now.

18.09.2025 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

At this rate, coming up next week: Disney orders Marvel to retcon Black Panther as a white dude from Rhodesia who fights for the rights of Afrikaner farmers.

18.09.2025 04:54 β€” πŸ‘ 214    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2

bsky.app/profile/bunn...

I'm only linking to this post so that others can see the full horror of what they did. Not because I think it's magnificent in any way. Oh no.

17.09.2025 05:49 β€” πŸ‘ 95    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

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