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Robert W. Monk @abovethetracks.bsky.social · 11d

I've just asked my MP to make it quicker to remove honours when they are no longer deserved. Will you also ask yours? goodlaw.social/805965

Tell your MP to strip Andrew of his dukedom

More than five years after Prince Andrew defended his friendship with the convicted paedophile Jeffery Epstein on national TV, there are still questions over whether he took part in the abuse of young...

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Robert W. Monk @abovethetracks.bsky.social · 27d

A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back goodlawproject.org/s/4860b3

Keep Hampstead women’s pond inclusive

A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · Sep 15

"What a patriot."
via @evolvepolitics.com

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Robert W. Monk @abovethetracks.bsky.social · Sep 15

A new law could give millions of us better rights at work, but corporate lobbyists & politicians are trying to gut it. Tell the Government: protect workers, not profits!
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UK Government: Keep your promise to protect workers

Zero hours contracts, unfair ‘fire and rehire’, waiting months or even years to be able to access benefits – the world of work in our country is weighted against actual workers. It’s billionaire bosse...

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · Sep 13

"There were 890 people arrested at a demonstration against the ban on the group Palestine Action in London on Saturday, the Metropolitan Police say." This protest last weekend was peaceful.

At a violent protest this weekend...

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Politics latest: Nine arrested amid 'significant aggression', Met says, after 110,000 'Unite the Kingdom' marchers rally in London

Roughly 110,000 protesters have been in London for a 'Unite the Kingdom' rally and 'March against Fascism' counter-protest. Meanwhile, local parties and trade unions can start choosing between Bridget...

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · Sep 13

100,000 trans people & allies march through London without threatening or making anyone feel like it is a no-go area.

Media: crickets.

100,000 fascists & Nazis march through London threatening violence & making anyone not cishet & white feel it is a no-go area.

Media: wall-to-wall live coverage.

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Amy @amzomac.bsky.social · Sep 9

In the past 24hrs, Israel has attacked:

- Palestine
- Lebanon
- Syria
- Qatar
- The Freedom Flotilla carrying international citizens in Tunisian waters.

If you're waiting for the UN to finally intervene & save us - it won't come.

Our humanity can only be saved by us.

#FreePalestine🇵🇸

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Robert W. Monk @abovethetracks.bsky.social · Sep 9

Language relax

Well-being
Or wellbeing?
Well, being, it's up to you.
Perhaps you are a well being
At home in the damp
In which case you could
Be a wet being
Chilling in the hole
Staying well in the well
Without need for stick
Or branch -
Or hyphen, come to that!

Robert W. Monk @abovethetracks.bsky.social · Aug 19

my review of Or Something, an engaging journey through New York. www.flickeringmyth.com/movie-review...

Or Something (2024) - Movie Review

Or Something, 2024. Directed by Jeffrey Scotti Schroeder. Starring Mary Neely, Kareem Rahma, Brandon Wardell, and David Zayas. SYNOPSIS: Two strangers show up at a Brooklyn apartment to collect some c...

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · Aug 14

If you put illegal cladding on a building that led to the deaths of 72 people you would have gone straight to jail for the maximum of 14 years.

8 years and 2 months later the billionaires behind Grenfell who donated millions to the Tories are still uncharged.

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Robert W. Monk @abovethetracks.bsky.social · Aug 12

Temperatures rising
Lighting up this old dark age
Recurring for the hive
Times the enslaved minds
Time capsules with added
Sleep dust so forget what you
Just read the con jobs repeat
Again again and infinite times
More extra power needed to put
This nightmare to bed

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · Aug 12

Nationalise Thames Water and the entire water network now.

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Robert W. Monk @abovethetracks.bsky.social · Aug 7

Blood is given freely
Memories dissipate, graphs go up
Go down the lift to continue with some
Semblance of clarity, even with specs
Blurred by damaged processes and dull light
Above the institution a favoured hawk glides by

2/2 #bsky.poetry

Robert W. Monk @abovethetracks.bsky.social · Aug 7

Outside grey faced detachment
This space offers time-stretched contrast
Clinical bubbles rise and fall
Amidst air-conditioned anxiety steady whirs
How many connections needed today?
How many misfires have been made?

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Robert W. Monk @abovethetracks.bsky.social · Aug 3

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Notes from the subconscious: On top of forever At the bottom of it all The mystery continues The towers will fall

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · Aug 1

Between 9-18 months after it has been completed a wind turbine has paid for itself.

After that it is all free wind energy.

Only people selling oil and gas wouldn’t want that.

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Robert W. Monk @abovethetracks.bsky.social · Aug 1

Demonic fool. Blundering into apocalypse.

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Robert W. Monk @abovethetracks.bsky.social · Jul 30

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Life

I like to put words and visuals together to create contrasts.

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Robert W. Monk @abovethetracks.bsky.social · Jul 27

Congratulations Lionesses!

Robert W. Monk @abovethetracks.bsky.social · Jul 27

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Memory

A song that has almost been forgotten is whistled by a passing drone.

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Robert W. Monk @abovethetracks.bsky.social · Jul 27

What is life? Visual poem #art #bsky.art #poem

The word ‘life’ displayed in black and white squares on graph paper. Handwritten statements follow: ‘does not look like this’ ‘is not black and white’ ‘is non-binary’ ‘is not straight’ ‘is everywhere’ ‘is forever’ ‘does not fit in boxes’ ‘does not follow a plan’ ‘is beautiful’ ‘is to be celebrated’ ‘is unique’

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Robert W. Monk @abovethetracks.bsky.social · Jul 26

#bsky.art #art #illustration #inkonpaper ‘Trinity’

3 faces in an inverse triangle look downwards to flame-like diagonal lines

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Amy @amzomac.bsky.social · Jul 24

Yes, whenever there is an immediate, desperate, extreme emergency of utmost seriousness concerning the genocide of over a million human beings, I wait until tomorrow to make a call too.

Starmer deserves to be dragged out of Downing Street and into the Hague. 👊

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wytchhazel.bsky.social @wytchhazel.bsky.social · Jul 24

Similar protest this evening at 6pm outside #Marischal #College #Aberdeen

Amy @amzomac.bsky.social · Jul 24

Tonight. 6pm. Nelson Mandela Place 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Bisan has asked the world to urgently & LOUDLY bang empty pots to demonstrate the empty pots in Gaza as a result of their forced starvation by Israel.

We will NOT be silent while our government is complicit in starving millions of people!

#FreePalestine🇵🇸

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Robert W. Monk @abovethetracks.bsky.social · Jul 24

#art #illustration #artonbsky #bsky.art #change

Ink illustration of a friendly old feline like figure saying ‘hey, wanna hear a secret?’ Below is the statement ‘the world can be changed’.

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