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loopylaura.bsky.social @loopylaura.bsky.social · 7h

How surprising. What fun... 😊 👇

mcc @dryad.technology · 11h

What I'm listening to today: "jazz jungle mix at Japanese rice field", Takuya Nakamura

The composer of Virtua Fighter and Lumines goes out in an actual rice field with a Pioneer deck and trumpet and spins D&B with occasional trumpet solos. Unbelievably charming

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVvr...

jazz jungle mix at Japanese rice field l Takuya Nakamura l login.jp l juke dnb chill

YouTube video by Login.jp_

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20h

Lady in scarf, "We are the only country in the G7, apart from Italy, that doesn't charge an exit tax" #BBCQT

"The CEO of Revolut bank - net worth £11 billion- who has decided to take his money to the UAE"

"He's not taxed on the money he's made, but a cleaner is taxed on her minimum wage"

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18h

The fall of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is no fall at all.

It comes ELEVEN years too late and has only happened as a damage limitation exercise.

We need to start having a grown up conversation about monarchy... and I'm starting it here.

Me @noosphere.app

www.noosphere.app/cast-into-th...

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 21h

I think the sotto voce part here is that the national equality body was long ago seized by committed reactionary zealots who correctly understood their actual mission is politically motivated crackdowns, angry shouting and bullshit.

lan Dunt• @iandunt.bsky.social • 2h
You'll have to ignore the buckets of anti-trans campaigning commentary in the piece, but the basic news is quite simple.
The EHRC has failed to get the
government to accept its anti-guidance in haste. Something is holding it up, perhaps for another a year www.thetimes.com/uk/ politics/...

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loopylaura.bsky.social @loopylaura.bsky.social · 20h

"NHS money pilfered by PFI and privatisation" 👇

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22h

150,000 aged 90 and above wait 12 hours in England’s A&Es each year.

Older people left in excrement, wet beds, denied pain relief, forced to watch/hear other patients die.

NHS money pilfered by PFI and privatisation

But ... Govts have fiscal rules and don't want to tax the rich.

Nearly 150,000 aged 90 and above wait 12 hours in England’s A&Es each year

Older people left in their own excrement and wet beds for hours and forced to watch others die, Age UK report finds

www.theguardian.com

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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 21h

US investigation finds Israel committed repeated human rights violations in Gaza

A classified report by a US government watchdog has revealed “many hundreds” of potential human rights violations committed by Israel in Gaza. The report was completed just a few days before the ce…

www.middleeastmonitor.com

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithPalestine🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 1d

"The unashamed levelling of this irreplaceable weather-making rainforest, including paving of its exquisite carbon storing wetlands, is indicative of the hypocrisy, greed and leaderlessness gripping the globe."
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

COP30: Amazon rainforest destroyers

For 33 years, the world’s leaders have postponed climate action despite incontrovertible scientific evidence and images proving that mankind is rapidly razing and scorching our only home.

johnmenadue.com

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithPalestine🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 1d

Dr Assal Rad—

“𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘦 show up to help the illegal settlers attack Palestinians on their own land.

“This is daily life under Israeli occupation.”

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

It is obscene that this appalling situation is permitted in one of the world's richest countries

And much of it is aided by the Starmer government's refusal to scrap the 2-child benefit cap, whil leaving the rich untouched

Despicable

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Almost all children in 73 areas of England live in low-income households

New official measures show levelling up attempts have failed to shift high levels of deprivation

www.theguardian.com

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Man in grey humiliates Matt Goodwin after his anti migrant rant #BBCQT

"Do white British people not also commit these violent crimes? Is your narrative not that these crimes are only committed by asylum seekers and refugees"

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

UK Govt to capitulate to Big Pharma

Ministers have drawn up proposals to pay companies 25% more for NHS medicines.

Too many corporations holding govts/peopie to ransom - give us what we want or else
Energy
Water
Banks
Internet
Tax abuses

Who governs - Corporations or elected govts?

‘Patients will suffer’: tales from the frontline of the UK pharma crisis

The pricing standoff between government and industry has stalled research and put thousands of jobs at risk

www.theguardian.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

When the Government ape the language and the rhetoric of the right - such as Starmers island of strangers speech - there are real life consequences.

Huge solidarity with @mothinali.bsky.social and everyone facing racism.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Police investigate alleged racial abuse of Green deputy leader

Mothin Ali claims a "racist thug" threatened to "smash my head in" at a London train station.

www.bbc.com

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loopylaura.bsky.social @loopylaura.bsky.social · 1d

High electricity prices are threatening industrial jobs across Britain and holding the country back.

I've just signed this petition asking the Chancellor Rachel Reeves to cut industrial electricity prices at the Budget. Add your name too! www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/cu...

Cut Industrial Electricity Prices in the Budget

High electricity prices are threatening industrial jobs across Britain and holding the country back. Sign the petition asking the Chancellor Rachel Reeves to cut industrial electricity prices at the ...

www.megaphone.org.uk

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 1d

Sahar keeps getting her account's deleted, but she really needs to maintain support for her injured son Odai.

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loopylaura.bsky.social @loopylaura.bsky.social · 1d

actionnetwork.org/letters/invi...

Invite Your MP to Our Parliamentary Event on Tackling The Retrofit Crisis

We are inviting MPs, their researchers and their caseworkers to an important event on tackling the retrofit crisis. Previous and current retrofit schemes like Eco4 have been badly designed and delive...

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 1d

Prince Andrew’s titles have been removed.

Good start — now let’s do the rest of them and abolish the monarchy.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know that Disabled People can claim 5x child benefit for up to 3! children.

Oops actually that's MPs.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

So either Labour need to ask candidates to step aside for the Greens to take on Reform....

Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally.

It's time for Proportional Representation.

www.thenational.scot/news/2558507...

'Just getting started': Zack Polanski reacts as Greens SECOND in new poll

ZACK Polanski has welcomed a new poll putting his party in second place at Westminster.

www.thenational.scot

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

US politicians are calling it “help.” In reality, it looks a lot more like forced labor and internment camps for homeless people.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9eV...

Internment Camps for Homeless People — Disguised as ‘Help’

YouTube video by Invisible People

m.youtube.com

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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 1d

Trump’s Secret Trade Deals with Malaysia and Cambodia Revealed: Imperialist Bullying on Behalf of Big Tech, Other Corporate Interests

www.citizen.org/news/trumps-...

Trump’s Secret Trade Deals with Malaysia and Cambodia Revealed: Imperialist Bullying on Behalf of Big Tech, Other Corporate Interests - Public Citizen

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Donald Trump travels through Asia, he has been attempting to win applause for trade deals inked over the…

www.citizen.org

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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 1d

Not a good day for Farage. His motion to withdraw from the ECHR was defeated, and he was heckled

leftfootforward.org/2025/10/nige...

Nigel Farage heckled by MPs while presenting bill to leave the ECHR

Farage’s bill to take the UK out of the ECHR was firmly rejected

leftfootforward.org

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

Whenever money is involved - which is always - nature ineveitably comes second best

Outrageous behaviour that has to be stopped

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Insurers calling for trees to be felled as cheap fix for subsidence, say critics

Campaigners say problem so common that some of the UK’s most irreplaceable ancient trees in danger of being lost

www.theguardian.com

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Mike Sivier @midwalesmike.bsky.social · 1d

Rachel Reeves breaks housing rules but avoids probe, unlike Angela Rayner. Starmer slammed for double standards and sleaze. #RachelReeves #AngelaRayner #Labour #UKPolitics #Sleaze
voxpoliticalonline.com/2025/10/30/f...

Rachel Reeves gets free pass over housing breach under Starmer

Rachel Reeves broke housing rules but avoids investigation, unlike Angela Rayner. Starmer faces criticism for double standards.

voxpoliticalonline.com

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 1d

London - I can't recommend this event enough.

It's with the author of THE FRAUD - a devastating, scandalous exposé of Starmerism.

If you're around on 5th November, don't miss it 👇

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-fraud-...

'The Fraud', by Paul Holden

Join us for the launch of Paul Holden's sensational new book that exposes the ruthless project that brought Keir Starmer to power.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

Note, not a single one in the south. So much for 'levelling up'

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