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chiller @thechiller.bsky.social · 12h

Serwotka, in the Morning Star, tells us #YourParty do "class politics, not identity politics". Which explains their open transphobia.

It also means they don't understand either class politics OR identity politics.

morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stak...

This means economic radicalism,
socialist solutions, redistribution of
wealth, rebuilding public services,
opposing all cuts, privatisation and
austerity policies. Class politics, not
identity politics must be at the very core
Of our strategy to change society. We
must unite a broad movement, not divide
it by presenting a purity programme
made
up of a long list of demands which
seek
attract the already committed
core of left-wing activists rather than
ppeal to the whole of the working class,.
This failed approach is ot only a gift to
the right but also alienates the very
people we need to win.

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 14h

NHS Sussex are forcibly detransitioning trans people. These patients need full restoration of their healthcare, and everyone involved in doing this needs to be sacked.

Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 1d

"Laura fears all will be lost if ICB Sussex forces her child off the medication.

If ICB Sussex get their own way in a matter of weeks and they force detransition, Olive may well take her life."

northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

NHS threatens GP practice over trans care

A GP practice in Brighton and Hove is currently under investigation for legally providing gender affirming care to trans teens

northwestbylines.co.uk

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Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud blackouts paralysed public services across the globe this autumn — a warning of what happens when essential infrastructure is left in the hands of private US monopolies.
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/why-...

Why Digital Sovereignty Matters

Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud blackouts paralysed public services across the globe this autumn — a warning of what happens when essential infrastructure is left in the hands of private US monopolies.

tribunemag.co.uk

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chiller @thechiller.bsky.social · 2d

FUCK #LABOUR

"Reeves to ban luxury cars for benefit claimants"

1. It doesn't cost the taxpayer more.

2. The reason disabled people need the "perk" of a replacement car is because without a car they are unable to do the things an able person can walk to/get the bus/train to.

archive.li/W9aCu

Rachel Reeves will block sickness benefits claimants from
getting subsidised luxury cars in a bid to show she remains
serious about reining in welfare.

The Chancellor is set to announce sweeping changes to the
controversial Motability scheme this month over fears it has
become "unfair" to the taxpayer.

She is poised to end access to high-end marques like BMW
and Audi and pare back perks such as top-of-the-range
insurance and breakdown cover.

Ms Reeves is concerned that Motability is offering "a
premium motoring experience subsidised by the taxpayer",
which is out of reach to many working families.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 3d

When we look at this massacre and many more perpetrated by the RSF, let's be clear who funds, equips & sustains them. It's the UAE. Yes, the same UAE that might own your football club, fly you on your holidays, invests in our national infrastructure. If boycotts work, we should be boycotting now.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 4d

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism

The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.

yaledailynews.com

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Chris(tyn) Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social · 4d

If passed, this would place most of the US in the same position that *all* of the UK has been in since 2021 or so.

This is why trans people don't listen to twerps who say 'vote Labour or else you'll get Reform'. We are already getting full Trump/Reform policies from a Labour government.

Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 5d

“Access to gender-affirming care for transgender youth will be dramatically restricted by the Trump administration under new proposals by the Department of Health and Human Services.”

The ongoing political attacks on young trans people are designed to erase their existence. This is painfully clear.

Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally

The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.

www.npr.org

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 5d

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 7d

🧵 / YouGov's new study finds Britain's ethnic minority communities now tend to have a negative view of the Labour party

Greens: +17 net favourable
Lib Dems: +1
Labour: -19
Conservatives: -44
Reform UK: -62

Breakdowns by individual ethnic group in chart 👇

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

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doom boy @doomboy.bsky.social · 7d

the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 7d

The government has announced that it will convert two military bases to house up to 900 asylum seekers

When the Conservatives attempted a similar strategy, it cost millions more than predicted and was hit by delays, legal challenges and local opposition
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/w...

Britain Plans to Convert Two Military Bases to House Asylum Seekers

www.nytimes.com

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 7d

fixed that for you

CNBC headline: "Elon Musk’s AI-powered Wikipedia competitor goes live after a rocky launch". I've struck through "AI-powered" in red, and replaced it with "Wikipedia-powered"

Grokipedia attribution text: "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License."

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 7d

Thinking of people of Jamaica & other Caribbean states, facing enormous power of nature in the form of Hurricane Melissa - sustained winds of 282km/h and rainfall up to 76cm.

The #ClimateEmergency increasing the risks and the power

Warming oceans probably fueling Hurricane Melissa’s rapid intensification

Climate scientists have long warned that warming oceans are making such explosive storm development more common

www.theguardian.com

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 8d

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.

Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All

I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.

www.wired.com

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WIRED @wired.com · 8d

So far this year, according to Silicon Valley Bank, 58 percent of all VC investment has gone to AI companies. When a sector is seeing a lot of pure plays it’s more likely to overheat and have a bubble, according to expert framework.

AI is the bubble to burst them all by @bcmerchant.bsky.social:

AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All

I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.

www.wired.com

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Sex Workers Alliance Ireland @swaiireland.bsky.social · 8d

We are so delighted to see Catherine Connolly elected! She has consistently advocated for the health and safety of sex workers in Ireland during her time in the Dáil. While we will miss her as a TD, we know she will be a president for all on the island, especially the most marginalised.

10th President of Ireland
Catherine Connolly

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 9d

Reminder that “Brexit is bad because we can expel fewer asylum seekers“ is not an anti-racist position

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megan @meganmay.bsky.social · 11d

Unfortunately no 😬

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11d

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

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Slurms MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 11d

Defecting to Your Party as an elected official is just weird.

It means either a) you're joining a party with no policies, because that's all going to be decided democratically. Right? Right? b) you've been promised what the party policy platform will be, and the democratic angle is a bit of a lie

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 13d

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

📈 Since the election of our new leadership team, our membership has doubled, now sitting at more than 140,000.

And this is just the beginning: join.greenparty.org.uk

MEMBERSHIP DOUBLED
With photo featuring Zack Polanski, Anthony Slaughter, Mothin Ali, Tessa Marshall and lots of Green Party activists!
Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12d

Home Sec describes a widely held public perception (UK is the destination of choice for asylum seekers in Europe) + endorses it as true. Home Office data shows it is not true. Whatever merits of her policy change, should not make false factual claims
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3709465...

Migrants come to Britain because they think we're Europe's most generous country

TODAY’S small boat numbers are shameful, and the British people deserve better. They contain a lesson: we must go further and faster to secure our borders. Under the last Conservative Government, t…

www.thesun.co.uk

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 15d

An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them

techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...

OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math | TechCrunch

No, GPT-5 did not solve a bunch of previously unsolved math problems.

techcrunch.com

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Sex Workers Alliance Ireland @swaiireland.bsky.social · 15d

Press release: Decriminalisation of sex work bill launched by TD Ruth Coppinger

The bill was co-created by Red Umbrella Éireann, the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland and the Street Workers Collective.

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · Aug 3

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

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Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 20d

Rosebank forced to admit its climate impact would be 50x greater than it initially claimed. Clear evidence that this climate-wrecking oil field must never be developed

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Controversial UK oil field reveals climate impact if approved

The impact from the Rosebank oil field is estimated at nearly 250 million tonnes of planet warming CO2.

www.bbc.co.uk

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