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Aaron Aardvark
@laughinglemon.bsky.social
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Likes budgies; reads too much Warhammer; dislikes nostalgia, which is not what it was; vaguely lefty; technical, but re-tyred
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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 9h
A simultaneous critique of far left parties and groups ... and a defence of their participation in Your Party.
What about the Little Lenins?
Last Thursday, the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition urged its supporters to take out Your Party membership . This is despite the bar ...
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Aaron Aardvark @laughinglemon.bsky.social · 10h
What's happening with #yourParty? To paraphrase a famous footballer, there is the party before the Party and the there is the Party after the party.
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Aaron Aardvark @laughinglemon.bsky.social · 10h
Probably just his stage name at the time. He changed it later, for obvious reasons.
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Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 11h
New & Notable: L.A.’s Aarktica sculpt magnificent art rock with no easy comparisons—sweeping songs with the scope of a Tarkovsky film.
Ecstatic Lightsongs, by Aarktica
9 track album
aarktica.bandcamp.com
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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 11h
The #Trumpocene in the Middle East
The Ceasefire That Changes Nothing: Trump’s Middle East Spectacle
Today’s elaborate ceremonies in Jerusalem and Sharm el-Sheikh reveal not the dawn of peace, but the terminal contradictions of American regional management
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David Timoney @fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social · 18h
This is an excellent case study in why politicians will never debate civilians if they can possibly avoid it. They're basically incapable of speaking human.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Why should you be Labour’s next deputy leader? Guardian readers quiz the candidates
As party members prepare to choose between Bridget Phillipson and Lucy Powell, the pair give their views on wealth taxes, Brexit, the climate crisis and the far right
www.theguardian.com
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 18h
One thing is clear: renewables don’t fit within the political economy of neoliberal capitalism.

We have to choose between the profits of oil producers, and the health and prosperity of entire societies. But our politicians
care more about the former than the latter.
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How the rich world lost the race to renewable energy
Renewables are booming in the global South – but vested interests and corrupt governments are blocking progress in the global North.
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Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 18h
My first book, *Unpaid: the Past, Present and Future of Wage Theft*, will be published by @versobooks.bsky.social in May, 2026!

This book is born from experience. It is written for anyone who is dissatisfied with the capitalist wage system.

UK pre-order: www.waterstones.com/book/unpaid/...
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RMT Union @rmtunion.bsky.social · 21h
Defend RMT members’ right to stay
📢 Demonstration outside Parliament
Old Palace Yard, SW1P 3JY
📅 Wednesday 15th October at 1pm
Please join us
Poster advertising RMT demo on Wednesday October 15, 2025 at 1pm
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Aaron Aardvark @laughinglemon.bsky.social · 21h
Looking through my newsfeed saves, I found this from @jacobinmag.bsky.social
How Sci-Fi Shaped Socialism
From William Morris to Ursula K. Le Guin and Iain M. Banks, science fiction has provided an outlet for socialist thinkers — offering readers a break from capitalist realism and allowing us to imagine ...
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Ken MacLeod @amendlocke.bsky.social · 22h
The London Minute ⏰ Monday 13 October 2025
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The London Minute ⏰ Monday 13 October 2025
Walthamstow shooting, Castle traders bailed out, Brixton town centre plan, Diwali celebrations + Frieze Week 'Survival Guide'
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Ken MacLeod @amendlocke.bsky.social · 22h
The Edinburgh Minute ⏰ Monday 13 October 2025
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The Edinburgh Minute ⏰ Monday 13 October 2025
'Burnt out' game studio staff take legal action, GP closing, tributes to ex-councillor, Mark Beaumont says ‘Save Roseburn Path’ + a new home for Pianodrome
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Ken MacLeod @amendlocke.bsky.social · 22h
The Glasgow Wrap 🗞️ Monday 13 October 2025
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The Glasgow Wrap 🗞️ Monday 13 October 2025
National pro-Palestine demo, Amen Teklay was attacked with 'sword', First Minister backs asylum seeker pause calls, Graham Wright case update, + George Square statues restoration cost revealed
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Gilbert Achcar / جلبير الأشقر @gilbert-achcar.bsky.social · 22h
Narcissistic Compassion in full display in the way Western media have gone Hollywood-like on the freeing of 20 Israeli hostages held in Gaza in contrast with the freeing of 1700 Gazans held as hostages in Israel in hardly better conditions.
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Ukraine, Africa, and Narcissistic Compassion | Gilbert Achcar / جلبير الأشقر
Last Wednesday, 3rd of May, Ishaan Tharoor, the brilliant Washington Post columnist, gave his daily newsletter a title that was particularly attention-grabbing: “The death toll in Ukraine is huge. It ...
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Aaron Aardvark @laughinglemon.bsky.social · 22h
I was involved in a Green local council campaign earlier this year and one of the organisers said, "There are 80 members of the party in this ward, but not one has turned up to help." Getting those members to turn up is the next step. But, yeah, it is nice.
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Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · 22h
In response to the harsh reality of national decline, Labour has offered only a ‘theme park politics’ fuelled by the sugar rush of the growth delusion. Might a more substantial, more humane vision of nationhood arise amid the ruins of Britain’s broken infrastructure?
The Decline Rollercoaster
In response to the harsh reality of national decline, Labour has offered only a ‘theme park politics’ fuelled by the sugar rush of the growth delusion. Might a more substantial, more humane vision of ...
tribunemag.co.uk
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Aaron Aardvark @laughinglemon.bsky.social · 22h
Cannon cavalry?
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 23h
“Debt trap nation is a chilling and eye-opening expose on how the British state keeps some of the most vulnerable women in society trapped in a cycle of debt, homelessness, and domestic violence."

My endorsement for this brilliant book, which you can order here: www.waterstones.com/book/debt-tr...
Debt Trap Nation by Katherine Brickell, Mel Nowicki | Waterstones
Buy Debt Trap Nation by Katherine Brickell, Mel Nowicki from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
www.waterstones.com
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Aaron Aardvark @laughinglemon.bsky.social · 23h
What's Dragonbane like to play?
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 1d
In the 1950s, France engaged in an ambitious effort to modernize its empire by embracing local customs and promoting limited home rule.

“Revolutionary Warfare” by Terrence Peterson outlines this failed attempt to create a modern ideology for colonialism.
France’s Failed Attempt to Save Its Empire
In the 1950s, France engaged in an ambitious effort to modernize its empire by embracing local customs and promoting limited home rule. Revolutionary Warfare by Terrence Peterson outlines this failed attempt to create a modern ideology for colonialism.
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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 1d
If people fancy seeing the sort of fantasy stuff I'm doing for Warhammer, my novella "On the Shoulders of Giants" has its paperback preorder starting next Saturday. If you don't know Warhammer, you don't particularly need to. Just the story of a man with a gun who lives on top of an ogre.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d
Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧
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sparrowflybynight.bsky.social @sparrowflybynight.bsky.social · 1d
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 1d
License to Kill: Trump’s Extrajudicial Executions

@akelalacy.bsky.social, @radleybalko.bsky.social and yours truly discuss the Trump administration’s rhetoric and rationale to justify extrajudicial killings abroad — and possibly at home.

theintercept.com/2025/10/10/b...
License to Kill: Trump’s Extrajudicial Executions
Akela Lacy, Radley Balko, and Nick Turse on the administration’s rhetoric and rationale to justify extrajudicial killings abroad — and possibly at home.
theintercept.com
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Aaron Aardvark @laughinglemon.bsky.social · 1d
Every state in the US needs an Inflatable National Guard, with a mandatory number of unicorns, Kenny's, T-Rexes, penguins, polar bears and, of course, frogs.
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