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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 2h

A few for b3ta's Two Authors One Book challenge
b3ta.com/challenge/tw...

Where Are The Wild Things by Martin Handford and Maurice Sendak

Three Men In Das Boot by Jerome K Jerome (Jerome²) and Lothar-Gunther Buchneim

A Broom of One's Own by Virginia Woolf and Julia Donaldson

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

We tried to place this story - very expensive polling, the first of its kind, strong quantitative data about what trans people feel about Britain: bluntly there is no better way to tell the story - with the BBC but it said it was "too weak".

But it will pick up any old piece of transhating garbage.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2d

In @yougov.co.uk polling of the trans community, to the best of our knowledge the first of its kind ever conducted, an astonishing 84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people.
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‘Abject terror’: survey shows 84% of trans people feel Britain is unsafe

YouGov poll reveals safety crisis for trans people in the UK

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 3h

GDP became more directly correlated with increases in quality of living.

When you break that by cutting public spending and not aiming for zero unemployment GDP growth then becomes a measure of how much money the richest have extracted from the economy.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 3h

The theory is, and I wish I was making this up, that the poorest will be paid more under neoliberalism because unemployment is when people *choose* not to work because the jobs don’t pay well enough, so companies will be forced to raise minimum wages to fill positions

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 3h

Neoliberalism is a reverse engineered economic model.

It starts from the premise “it is moral and good to let the rich become as rich as possible” and then they built an economic model to support that idea.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 3h

Sorry to bang this drum again, but, the main thing that Neoliberalism as an economic model did was to decouple GDP growth from increases in the standard of living.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 3h

This by the way accounts for 80% of GDP growth in the US this year. The US is in a deep recession, this bubble and these people sharing their money around is the only thing hiding that fact.

Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 4h

This is how you do wash trading. All these companies are investing in each other paying each other bits of the same trillion dollars in order to make it look like they’re so close to AGI so investors will keep giving them money to lose.

This is also known as a Junkie’s promise.

A chart showing where the 15 main AI companies get and spend their money. The arrows show that the money flows out and back to themselves.

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meganox @meganox.myatproto.social · 3h

I don't care if a politician needs a dentist, I care if they're going to get me a dentist

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3h

My hot take on this its great that the journalist acknowledges that the Green Party is at record membership, record polling and has huge momentum.

But why say "dentally challenged?"

Who or what is that serving?

The state of journalism.

Sean OGrady @sogrady.bsky.social · 4h

Can Zack Polanski turn the Green Party poll surge into votes? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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meganox @meganox.myatproto.social · 3h

we need to say it as much as possible before it's overused in inappropriate contexts and becomes meaningless

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meganox @meganox.myatproto.social · 3h

New Labour Cargo Cult

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meganox @meganox.myatproto.social · 3h

I like 'em. they're fun!

though I do appreciate most people when flying desire as little fun as possible

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 23h

If your shifting ideal for housing migrants is now some sort of barracks that should be located far away from the domestic population and completely isolated from amenities and infrastructure of regular life then it sounds to me like what you really want, whether you realise it or not, is a camp.

Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

Lib Dem MP here expressing concerns that “migrants” (in fact asylum seekers, or “human beings”, as they’re also known) might be allowed to live next door to people, and near a high street

Post from Angus MacDonald MP:
I’m deeply concerned by reports that the UK Government plans to house up to 300 migrants at Cameron Barracks in Inverness. This site is surrounded by residential houses and is only a ten-minute walk from the High Street - it’s simply not an appropriate or secure location.

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meganox @meganox.myatproto.social · 16h

Alexa can you set piss on fire

meganox @meganox.myatproto.social · 20h

you're a terrible advert for the Green Party

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Hogula 🧛🏻‍♂️🐷🎃 @jessemackinnon.com · 21h

if capitalism and racism were a natural part of the human condition, they wouldn’t require multi-trillion dollar military, police, and propaganda campaigns to sustain

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meganox @meganox.myatproto.social · 21h

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moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 21h

Because the Supreme Court ruled that the last ban was illegal because the guy who issued it legally had to do consultation beforehand and he didn’t. The new ban was issued by the Health Minister, who doesn’t have to consult anyone

meganox @meganox.myatproto.social · 1d

the mastodon account is because if you find community on pixelfed and peertube, or you need technical support, everyone will be using mastodon

I also suggest looking at DeltaChat as an alternative to Signal (Signal is a US company subject to US laws and heavily dependent on AWS for infrastructure)

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meganox @meganox.myatproto.social · 1d

I'd suggest just finding a medium sized general purpose instance to get used to the environment, on the understanding that you can migrate but you won't be able to take your posts with you when you do (they won't disappear though)

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meganox @meganox.myatproto.social · 1d

youtube -> peertube
pixelfed -> instagram

both of these are based on ActivityPub (known as the Fediverse) so if you're going to make accounts I suggest you make a mastodon account as well

all fediverse services require that you choose an instance as the first step which many people find offputting

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meganox @meganox.myatproto.social · 1d

the problem with paying only a little attention to these people is you miss the details that inform you you should be paying no attention to these people

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Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 1d

Take me down the paradise choco
where the girls are rats
and little guys say "kupo!"

oh won't you please take me hoooome

Choco, Seeker of Paradise
{1}{G}{W}{U}
Legendary Creature — Bird
Whenever one or more Birds you control attack, look at that many cards from the top of your library. You may put one of them into your hand. Then put any number of land cards from among them onto the battlefield tapped and the rest into your graveyard.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, Choco gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
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meganox @meganox.myatproto.social · 1d

getting validated with a rusty axe

The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 2d

Well look what we have here! It’s only The Daily Tism’s sketch show, back in audio form with a spooooooky Halloween special!

In this episode, an autistic ghost has some unfinished business, Dr. Frankenstein makes a terrible mistake, and we take on THAT “I Am Autism” ad. Enjoy & tell everyone!

The Daily Tism News Halloween Special

Podcast Episode · The Daily Tism News (Audio Version) · 27/10/2025 · 26m

podcasts.apple.com

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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 5d

The lobby groups that co-opt grieving parents like Ian Russell and Esther Ghey and rewrite the stories of their children’s lives and deaths to advocate for legislation that wouldn’t have saved them really makes me sick. That Esther also has ended up in a narrative that victim-blames Brianna is vile

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Talia "Estro Junkies" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 5d

The "online" Esther Ghey is railing against isn't even the constant transphobia of politicians and new outlets and media figures. It's that Brianna Ghey had any access to social media at all, it's about the mental health of a girl who was murdered instead of the hate she was subjected to.

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 2d

Well look what we have here! It’s only The Daily Tism’s sketch show, back in audio form with a spooooooky Halloween special!

In this episode, an autistic ghost has some unfinished business, Dr. Frankenstein makes a terrible mistake, and we take on THAT “I Am Autism” ad. Enjoy & tell everyone!

The Daily Tism News Halloween Special

Podcast Episode · The Daily Tism News (Audio Version) · 27/10/2025 · 26m

podcasts.apple.com

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