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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 1h

The amount of fixed capital within the fossil fuel industry. They’ll keep trying to extract more until governments are brave enough to force them to stop!

Tell the government to find their courage.

Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING🚨: @Equinor has resubmitted its application to open the biggest undeveloped oil field in the UK - Rosebank.

In the next weeks, the UK gov will decide to reject or approve this disaster project.

Equinor hasn’t given up, and neither will we. We’re stepping things up.

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Gillian Mackay MSP @gillianmacmsp.bsky.social · 5h

It would be outrageous climate vandalism for the Labour government to let Rosebank go ahead.

This proposal would do nothing to lower the amount we are forking out to heat their homes.

Solidarity with @stopcambo.bsky.social

Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING🚨: @Equinor has resubmitted its application to open the biggest undeveloped oil field in the UK - Rosebank.

In the next weeks, the UK gov will decide to reject or approve this disaster project.

Equinor hasn’t given up, and neither will we. We’re stepping things up.

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 3h

I am feeling deeply frustrated with the phrase "a person has deeply held religious beliefs" being code for being transphobic or gender critical.

I have deeply held religious beliefs, but I'm (mostly) normal.

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 9h

Sometimes you can listen to a @cheekface.bsky.social song a million times and think "this is a cool song", and then you'll listen to it a million-and-one times, and it'll dawn on you that this song is identifying your most deeply held anxieties and your entire weird mode of living.

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Organise Now! @organisenow.bsky.social · 10h

Last year we visited GAIL’s Bakery locations everywhere and built interest in a union!

Join us and let’s keep growing the movement. ✊🥐

organisenow.org.uk/gails-volunt...

A flyer about organising GAIL’s bakery workers

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 10h

Just by sheer numbers alone you’re ahead of them.

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 10h

Walk-off videos rule because you get to see who really has the power at work!

AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 1d

Kaiser refuses to give workers fair pay, benefits, and the staffing they need to keep patients safe.

We stand with the 46,000 UNAC/UHCP, @steelworkers.bsky.social Local 7600, @ofnhp.bsky.social, @unitehere.org Hawaii, and HNHP health care workers on STRIKE fighting for a fair contract ✊

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 1d

The system isn't broken, it's rigged. It's time for real change.

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 12h

Christianity is absolutely essential in the mix, but the UK having less Christians isn’t as big a barrier as you’d think.

Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 12h

Right-wing Christians in the US aren’t particularly motivated by theology. It’s capitalism and culture war grievances mixed with a grab bag of incoherent theological ideas fueling that particular beast.

Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 2d

Right-wingers who think tactics they've used to criminalize abortion in the US will have the same kind of traction in the UK fail to grasp that religious fundamentalism is widely viewed as nuts in the UK, & has been for many decades, if not centuries.

As much chance of abolishing UK gun controls.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 12h

Idk I think it’s good to watch out for. Right-wing Christians in the US aren’t particularly motivated by theology, but by capitalism and the culture war!

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 12h

Nationalise pet healthcare

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13h

Price cap should be placed on vet prescriptions, watchdog says

The Competition and Markets Authority said price caps should be placed on prescriptions provided by vets to stop pet owners from being ripped off

news.sky.com/story/price-...

Price cap should be placed on vet prescriptions, watchdog says

The Competition and Markets Authority said price caps should be placed on prescriptions provided by vets to stop pet owners from being ripped off.

news.sky.com

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 20h

What if we had an opposition party capable of maintaining news coverage by insisting they would try people involved in what is obviously murder for murder?

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 1d

Celebrate @jortsthecat.bsky.social's birthday 11 days late with R E A D I N G

Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 1d

Do you need a new book to read specifically on May 12, 2026?

Yes? Oh cool, then you should pre-order the book @deandettloff.bsky.social and I wrote.

Here’s the link: tinyurl.com/MagnificastP...

Enough is enough: degrowth, capitalism, and liberation theology by matt bernico and dean Dettloff

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve all heard of Christmas in July, but get ready for Lent in May!

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The Magnificast @themagnificast.bsky.social · 1d

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Pre-order it👇👇👇
tinyurl.com/MagnificastP...

Enough is enough: degrowth, capitalism, and liberation theology

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 1d

Do you need a new book to read specifically on May 12, 2026?

Yes? Oh cool, then you should pre-order the book @deandettloff.bsky.social and I wrote.

Here’s the link: tinyurl.com/MagnificastP...

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Peter Matejic @statspeter.bsky.social · 1d

We are still at near zero real earnings growth since Sept 2024, 11th month in row. We had a very small rise in earnings in August 2025 on previous month, leaving earnings up just 0.2% on Sept 2024.

A chart showing how regular wages are growing after taking account of inflation. The first few months of the period starting September 2023 showed relatively slow growth, but there was consistent growth between February 2024 and September 2024, meaning wages grew by 2.4% over the year. This latter period is in contrast to the period starting September 2024, where growth has hovered around zero. Between September 2023 and August 2024, wages grew 2.1%, but in the same period a year later, they grew just 0.2%.

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 1d

Also, a point of clarity, there's no UK green party. There's a Green party for England and Wales and a Green Party for Scotland. They're both good.

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 1d

My time spent campaigning for a higher minimum wage and workers' rights has definitely shown this as well. People like it when you have policies that will benefit them!

onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 2d

Something awful about the 2025 internet is that everyone is constantly trying to grift, telling you that they're an expert in this or that thing, and then giving you Wikipedia-level knowledge of something.

No one knows (including myself) what it means to really know something anymore.

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GONZO the Ghoastly 👻 @gonzo.bsky.social · 3d

Yez

Orange and white cat stares in the foreground. Behind him, an orange cat blurrily naps in a window basket. Text reads, "our enemies are cowards and we are going to defeat them."

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 3d

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

www.desmog.com

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 3d

I got Malm and Carton’s new book: The Long Heat. He’s always got a pretty sober take.

Definitely the scariest book you can read this Halloween season

Andreas Malm and Wim Carton’s the long heat

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 4d

@deandettloff.bsky.social and I (mostly Dean) made a new zine

The Magnificast @themagnificast.bsky.social · 4d

We’ve got a new zine featuring Gerard Winstanley!

themagnificast.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Gerrard winstanley - the true levelers standard advance

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