community centres, youth clubs, anywhere you could be without paying for the privilege ...and as a result we're losing our social muscles...
29.11.2025 08:42 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@rolieche.bsky.social
activist+community organiser @youthsolidarity.bsky.social I believe in anarchy & abolition. We have nothing but each other. ๐ต๐ช Child migrant@rural Bristol. Vipassana meditator. Health equity researcher. Metal fabrication biz co-owner(Soldura). She/they.
community centres, youth clubs, anywhere you could be without paying for the privilege ...and as a result we're losing our social muscles...
29.11.2025 08:42 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Weak analysis at best .children having no or less siblings as a reason? Please...talk of structural issues but COVID, tech and cost of living is not why people are more lonely..what about the systems we live in such as capitalism taking away all our places , parks libraries,
29.11.2025 08:42 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0๐ฌ And the decision to shelve bolder, widely supported reforms raises serious questions about the role of money in politics.
We warn that too many of the Budget's decisions appear shaped less by evidence than by private influence.
๐Many of the reforms unveiled are steps in the right direction.
Yet freezing thresholds and making only minor adjustments to capital gains and dividend income leave the very richest largely untouched.
I thought this was good. ๐๐ฝ๐
27.11.2025 12:46 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0๐จ An accurate take on the utterly appalling Badenoch...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
For everyone that says โbut 14 years of the Toriesโ or anyone that has to listen to it๐๐ป
26.11.2025 11:44 โ ๐ 23 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1๐ข Tend to agree that the rich weren't hit nearly hard enough in the Budget but the lifting of the 2-child benefit cap is a welcome, moral, and long overdue step in the right direction... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
26.11.2025 17:05 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Sudan & Sudanese people have always been integral to the global struggle for Black liberation. Revolutionaries like Amical Cabral, Thomas Sankara & Malcolm X credit Sudan with developing their political consciousness. Citing the revolutionary spirit of our people & being embraced in our kinship.
05.11.2025 14:51 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The Peruvian in me likes this post
03.11.2025 03:28 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Absolutely packed with people, amazing workshops/talks, great stalls, incredible food and lovely company. Just what the head and heart needed ๐ฉทโ๐ฝ
01.11.2025 16:56 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Being historically illiterate costs us a lot.
30.10.2025 18:34 โ ๐ 387 ๐ 85 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 0Poster with image of ibis hotel and places saying Refugees welcome on front. The poster reads Gloucestershire stands together march rally and community celebration 2nd Nov, meet at 12 noon barnwood Park March back at 4pm more info at http://solidarity-glos.net
Our literal neighbours in Gloucestershire are getting ready this Sunday 2nd. South glos solidarity network will be there, ....join us! More info at solidarity-glos.net
30.10.2025 06:30 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0C U der
24.10.2025 04:20 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Do you live in an apartment complex? How about printing out some fliers letting your neighbors know that on a particular day of the week, u will be cooking X extra meals and that anyone who needs one can stop by your place at X hour to pick one up no questions asked? Can even leave them at the door.
22.10.2025 18:59 โ ๐ 630 ๐ 199 ๐ฌ 8 ๐ 1Plaid Cymru 47.4% Reform UK 36% Labour 11% Conservatives 2% Greens 1.5% Lib Dems 1.5% More info at BBCNews.co.uk
Well done Caerphilly!
24.10.2025 04:05 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1The burial of a report exposing the Met police's institutional racism shows a lack of commitment to change. Black, minoritised, and migrant communities deserve transparency.
The Met must make the report public and accept the findings of the report and the Casey Review on force culture.
Just dropping this here: beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool...
23.10.2025 13:03 โ ๐ 44 ๐ 20 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0๐ฃ The migrant-led Not a Stranger campaign wants to hear from you.
If you want to share your experiences of being a #migrant, and help challenge the Immigration White Paper proposals, then we invite you to fill out a confidential survey: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/Not_a_Stra...
#Migration #WhitePaper
The government is preparing to announce itโs (delayed) child poverty strategy. Undermining the goal to end child poverty are harmful policies and deprivation. Bold coordinated solutions are needed. Read more โฌ๏ธ
22.10.2025 10:01 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Loneliness, disconnect & lack of community are radicalizing people into everything from conspiracy theories to cults to fascism. Care is the antidote.
13.10.2025 11:34 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0looking at the root causes is public health - the harms that are perpetuated by the structures that created these things (capitalism, white supremacy, colonialism,etc)
13.10.2025 08:29 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I bang on about this a lot: I think the combination of a global pandemic, underregulated internet/SM, collapse/corruption of trustworthy media, plus now unregulated genAI, is a wildly toxic environment for radicalisation & mental health. We see the results of that in our politics & lives every day
13.10.2025 07:00 โ ๐ 793 ๐ 197 ๐ฌ 21 ๐ 10There is work being done by individuals+orgs around the wider harms capitalism is causing society and the impact of living in a hyper capitalist, colonialist, white supremacist is having on us.
13.10.2025 08:24 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Trevor Moore from a Whitest Kids U Know sketch. I don't know why I've attached this picture it's entirely unrelated.
Did you know it's legal to say "an Elbit arms manufacturing plant in Bristol has closed its doors after months of targeting from Palestine Action". But it'd ILLEGAL to follow that with "what incredible work from those heroes". That'd be an offence under the Terrorism Act of 2000. Don't say that!
07.09.2025 09:34 โ ๐ 2498 ๐ 646 ๐ฌ 12 ๐ 7The UK has a disproportionately high prison population of around 1.34%. Of that population, Black people are approximately twice as overrepresented as white people. The prison system is violent, cruel, and racist and should be abolished.
09.10.2025 21:51 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0On the bus making my way to the counter protest...ironic that a small group of fascist teens, also going to the protest are on the bus and singing 'you can never trust a leftie with your kid's ...ironic cause as soon as we get into Bristol we will be physically separated by the police ..
05.10.2025 10:33 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
05.10.2025 09:08 โ ๐ 38252 ๐ 17083 ๐ฌ 821 ๐ 2410As fascism becomes more entrenched, microblogging will become even less reliable and likely useful as a site for communicating. So many bots, bad actors and an inability to discern.
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