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Dave
@davelikesska.bsky.social
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ska / anti-fascist / green party member / NUFC / he/him / UK.
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davelikesska.bsky.social
notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...
Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
notopalantir.goodlawproject.org
December 5, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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natacha.bsky.social
The Cass Review is the worst kind of pseudoscience & has at least 13 peer-reviewed critiques of it (all ignored by mainstream media).

Streeting now wants a Cass Review for Autism, ADHD, etc.

I have characterised these as “contrived authority” strategies (referring to the work of Max Weber)

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danielsohege.bsky.social Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d
Considering Streeting's well stated belief autism, ADHD etc, along with mental health issues, are "overdiagnosed", I won't hold my breath for this doing anything other than being used to cut support, along with opportunities for diagnosis, for people who need it. #r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Streeting orders review into mental health and ADHD diagnosis
The health secretary said the aim was to tackle a rising demand for services and the increased pressure on the NHS.
www.bbc.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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danielsohege.bsky.social
Considering Streeting's well stated belief autism, ADHD etc, along with mental health issues, are "overdiagnosed", I won't hold my breath for this doing anything other than being used to cut support, along with opportunities for diagnosis, for people who need it. #r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Streeting orders review into mental health and ADHD diagnosis
The health secretary said the aim was to tackle a rising demand for services and the increased pressure on the NHS.
www.bbc.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
Do you notice how the catch all excuse for an entire generation of awful public figures who have behaved horrendously, whether left or right, is: “the kids have all gone crazy on social media”. Do you see how it is in fact the old farts who have roasted each other’s brains on Twitter and Facebook.
December 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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jasonhickel.bsky.social
I'm excited to announce this new study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, which explores public support for degrowth and ecosocialist transformation. The findings are quite surprising.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
December 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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filthymilitia.bsky.social
Our new single, 'I Don't Know You But I Love You', is out today!

Produced, mixed and mastered by Oz Craggs at Hidden Track Studios
Filmed and edited by Ell Bobin Videography

youtu.be/gWdDnMfGZWQ?...
Filthy Militia - I Don't Know You But I Love You (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Filthy Militia
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November 28, 2025 at 8:44 AM
davelikesska.bsky.social
Would it really be me taking time off work if I didn't accidentally cut a finger in a really awkward place? So predictable. And then cutting the back of my hand on something for good measure
November 27, 2025 at 7:21 AM
davelikesska.bsky.social
Another pill for the collection box
November 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
On one of the dirty hippy US politics podcasts in 2017, after the torchlit Nazi rally where one of the marchers killed a woman.
And that's what these guys are, these guys that marched in Charlottesville, these are the people who are aware of the unspoken premise of this sort of zombie neoliberalism that we're living in, which is that we're coming to a point where there's gonna be ecological catastrophe, and that it's gonna require either massive redistribution of the ill-gotten gains of the first world, or genocide. And these are the first people who have basically said, "Well if that's the choice, then I choose genocide", ', and they're getting everyone else ready, intellectually and emotionally, for why that's gonna be okay when it happens, why they're not really people. When we're putting all this money into more fucking walls and drones and bombs and guns to keep them away, so that we can watch them die with clear consciences, it's because we've been loaded with the ideology that these guys are now starting to express publicly. On the other side of them, we have people who are saying in full fucking voice, "No, we have the resources to save everybody, to give everybody a decent and worthwhile existence, and that is what we want." And that is the fucking real difference between these two, and you can tell that to the next asshole who tells you that they're actually two sides of the same coin."
November 21, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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gimpleg.bsky.social
Did you catch the newest single by @underneathtl.bsky.social ? I sweat this is the most melodic duo in the scene right now. Slip away with Daydream for just a little bit.

Find my review at start-track.com/single-under... and stream it from there

As always, support artists
The single cover for Daydream is a heavy purple filter over cumulus clouds and some stars in the sky. The silhouette of a lookout tower is above the level of the cloud on the left. Underneath the Lookout is written in the top write. The bottom left has the song title- daydream- in script
October 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
davelikesska.bsky.social
It's fucking snowing and it's probably the happiest I've woken up in weeks
November 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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greenelects.world
Under-50s Back Green Party as FIRST Choice in Latest YouGov Poll.
First place is The Greens with twenty-eight percent of the vote, a six-point increase. Second are Labour with twenty-five percent of the vote, a four-point increase. Third are Reform with eighteen percent of the vote, a five-point decrease. Fourth are The Liberal Democrats with fourteen percent of the vote, a seven-point increase. Fifth are The Conservatives on five percent of the vote with a five-point decrease. These figures compare results from November seventeenth to those from November tenth and represent the combined eighteen to twenty-four and twenty-five to fifty age groups.
November 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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astralocale.bsky.social
Glimpse the mind of a ska hobbyist n you'll discover a reslience you didn't think possible. Imagine loving a genre & when you tell people, half of them laugh before you even show them your take on it, and the other half laugh once they've heard it bc it's not ska enough #skapunk
(Knuckles the Echidna meme: When I die I may not go to heaven / I don't know if they let cowboys in) Unpopular opinion: Your music taste isn't just one genre. Why should a band have to be? (Tweet from Veggitales Facts on twitter: disrespect me again and I'll determine your bodies resonant frequency and play a jaunty horn solo that boils your miserable organs inside out) "An experimental ska band? Lmao who's ever heard of that?" (Two-panel comic. In the first, someone sits on the side of a cliff, looking across an empty crevasse called "being cool" at the "results" on the other side. In the second, the "being cool" crevasse is filled with "being cringe", and the person walks across to the results.) Who's ever heard of living by someone else's rules and ending up happy? (A frog in mud. Unbothered. Wet. Happy. In my goop. Slopped up. Squelching.) We're Atlas & Oracle. Who's ever heard of us? Now, you.
November 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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neolithicsheep.bsky.social
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
arstechnica.com Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
davelikesska.bsky.social
We've not watched Home Alone 2 in a while, does it have a disclaimer at the start saying "it's got a current fascist in it, sooorry!" like those Disney films that say "we put racist animals in it, please ignore 🫤"
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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jonfeatonby.bsky.social
This won’t stop people seeking protection in the UK. It will make it harder for refugees to rebuild their lives, feel secure and contribute to their communities. It will create a load more work for the Home Office, reviewing claims every three years.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:55 AM
davelikesska.bsky.social
What is the actual fucking point of contacting your MP about anything that matters if they're a Tory dickhead? I'm not really expecting to change his mind considering all this person has done for the country already (derogatory)
November 15, 2025 at 7:21 AM
davelikesska.bsky.social
Bringing it back
Last.fm 5x5, back from the dead
November 15, 2025 at 12:36 AM
davelikesska.bsky.social
Ew the King Blues are still touring? Gross
November 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM
davelikesska.bsky.social
Tonight was the first green party branch meeting since I joined, and I think because I asked some questions and contributed a bit they thought I might want to run for parish or town councillor and I had to firmly say I simply could not do that because *life* but happy to bring ideas!
November 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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davycraig.bsky.social
End prosecution of peaceful protesters!
Please sign & share

www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/end-...
End the Prosecution of Peaceful Protestors in the UK
Police have made 2100+ arrests under terrorism laws in the UK for protesting peacefully against the banning of Palestine Action. This cannot go unchallenged. The UK’s chief prosecutors must now decide...
www.amnesty.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
davelikesska.bsky.social
Go to a Halloween ska show in Leeds tomorrow night at Crank Studios, it'll be fun!

Rookie Numbers, @nuttyskunk.bsky.social and Hot Squash!

www.ticketsource.co.uk/lavajuice-pr...
Join us this Skalloween for a ghoulishly good time with sickeningly good ska from some of Yorkshire’s finest! Where? Crank Studios, Morley, LS27 9FN When? Saturday 1st November 2025 What Time? 7.30pm doors, bands start around 8pm How much? Early Bird (Until 20th Sept) - £8, Adv Ticket (Until 3.30pm 1st Nov) - £10, On The Door -£12 We’re joined by some of the most frightfully frenzied ska-punk bands WY has to offer! Here’s your lineup… Rookie Numbers - 7 piece ska-rave from Leeds! Nutty Skunk - Still stinkin’, brass-fuelled, Yorkshire ska-punkers! Hot Squash - Everybody’s favourite chaotic, cutecore, ska-punk outfit, bringing their unique sound and party vibes! We’re also gonna have a petrifyingly good playlist of punk and ska, AND a HALLOWEEN COSTUME CONTEST, with prizes to be won! Please note - There is no step-free access to this particular venue. Lavajuice operate a zero tolerance policy towards homophobia, transphobia, ableism, racism, misogyny and harassment.
November 1, 2025 at 12:25 AM
davelikesska.bsky.social
Does anyone need 2x of tickets to @catbiteband.bsky.social / A Wilhelm Scream / Strike Anywhere in Newcastle tonight? We've got a poorly kid so can't make it 😔 18.50 each!
October 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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natashadevon.bsky.social
lol.
A warning has been issued after fake letters were posted through letterboxes, claiming people would have to house refugees if they flew St George's flag. The letter said that "patriotic" households displaying the country's flag will temporarily house refugees because ‘we know you would be proud to assist your country’.
October 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
davelikesska.bsky.social
"the gasp that you gusped"
October 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM