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Profiteering by energy companies increases poverty, business costs and deindustrialisation of the UK.

High energy costs destroyed steel, shipbuilding, engineering and more.

Can't revive the economy without reducing the cost of essentials - public ownership, not-for-profits.

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy Economic growth? Forget it.

Economic growth? Forget it. youtu.be/dRfNWh_95MM?... Politicians in developed countries are still obsessed with growth without realising that growth is history. The question is, when will politics begin to reflect this new reality?

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Good afternoon you lovely lot! It seems that dispatches have tried doing a hit piece on disabled people. I don't know how many times I have to say this, but benefits are not easy to claim, people don't get given free cars, and disabled people aren't the reason the economy is fucked!

Welcome Sangita 🫶🏻

They are doing a great job 🙌

Did you know BlueSky only has 20 employees?

We would like to say a huge THANK YOU to those 20 warriors (who are working 24/7 to keep up with the incredible growth) for giving us a space to share.

We escaped hell to be here.

Thank you, @bsky.app & Jay Graber CEO (not a billionaire)

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I see 82.4k of you are followIng fake Mark Hamill. 😅

It even has the label "Impersonation".
@officialmarkhammil.bsky.social

Ouch!

Thank you for doing this.

Labour's Wes Streeting takes £175k from donors linked to private health firms LABOUR shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has continued to accept tens of thousands of pounds from donors with links to private healthcare while…

IMPORTANT: We completed an important project a while ago, looking into the links between MPs+the private health sector🚨

Our research has been quoted in lots of places, like this article ⬇️.

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Started my Substack mostly out of fury if I’m honest, because I’d just finished my book about how politicians were destroying the NHS and still had so much to say.

It’s just passed 20,000 subscribers and I can’t really believe that. I’ll keep writing for as long as you’d like to keep reading x

Lurpak butter in the UK, nearly £10, I wonder how much profit the supermarkets make on that?

Govt let off accountancy, architects & private equity firms. Partners taxed as self-employed.

They pay Class 4 NIC, lower rate than workers. Partners of just 4 law firms gained £4bn.

Enough to cancel two-child benefit cap, winter fuel payment cut.

Easier to hit the less well-off
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This post from the PM is problematic for a number of reasons.

A thread…🧵

The Prime Minister should make a statement, immediately, to confirm whether UK missiles have been fired into Russia. Full statement below.

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We’re calling on the government to implement a small levy on ticket sales at large arena and stadium concerts — paid for by large corporate sponsors — to save Britain’s grassroots music venues.

✍️ Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/MusicForTheMany #MusicForTheMany

So good to see you posting over here too Prem 😊

Last night only THREE peers in the House of Lords called for public ownership of England's water industry.

That was me, Jenny Jones & Natalie Bennett (Green Party) out of a membership of 827.

Public ownership officially opposed by Labour, Tories and LibDems.

Most people want to end the scandal.

Congratulations 🦋

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉

We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

Bluesky 1.94. Improvements: Redesigned settings screen. New animations when viewing images. Imported images now clearly indicate that they were imported. Fixes: Lots of performance improvements!

📢 App Version 1.94 is rolling out today (1/5)

A new release to go along with 20 million users!

Open this thread for details. 🧵

Kris Jenner looking at a computer

me watching Bluesky's user count grow by another million in a day

hello and welcome to all 19M of you! 🥳

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Congratulations 🦋 team

Wow another million in a day! 👀

Thank you everyone — we’re going to do our best to make this place great for you.

Live view of our servers hanging in there as people keep coming on

You think I’m kidding, but all our servers are actually named after mushrooms.

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18M user count

18M! And @theo.io‘s user tracker threw up confetti! 🎉

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#OTD 1897. Birth of Nye Bevan.

Born into severe poverty in South Wales, he rose to become the Labour Health Minister in 1945, overseeing the introduction of the NHS.

"No society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of a lack of means"