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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 3h

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UBI4ALL @ubi4all.bsky.social · 4h

If greed was taxed the way poverty is punished, we’d have funded UBI a decade ago.

#UBI4ALL

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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 22h

It’s a sad day when a judge has to order the President of the United States to feed vulnerable families and hungry children with funds already designated for that very purpose.

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 1d

So ask yourself...

Why the concern for women only when the perpetrator is a migrant?

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 1d

A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...

78% are murdered by a partner/ex

Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this

Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety

In fact, they voted against them...

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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, so a prince can lose his royal title? What's next, consequences for American elected politicians?

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 2d

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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Andrew Sheeler @andrewsheeler.bsky.social · 2d

The former president of the Philippines is literally sitting in The Hague right now for doing this exact same thing.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2d

Donald Trump and Peter Hegseth have now murdered 57 human beings on their boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific.

That means they've passed Seattle's "Green River Killer" (49) to become the most lethal serial killers in American history

Where is The Hague?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:

$100 billion

Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:

$100 billion

One is decried as "welfare." One is not.

Why?

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 2d

3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇

1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK

2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves

3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries
metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...

Keir Starmer tries to look tough - and exposes himself as a coward

The government's immigration policy is in desperate need of a bold change in direction.

metro.co.uk

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 2d

“White people born in Britain commit murders and sexual assault every week. But they are not defined by this action whenever it is perpetrated.”

Can we print this out and tape it to every hard right Musk fan’s forehead?

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 2d

What if we gave the worst people in the world, the people who are just fundamentally assholes, all the power? What an experiment.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 3d

Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 3d

I don’t see how anyone can hide behind the ”it’s not making her more money” or ”she’s just fighting for women” anymore.

No. She is hurting people. She’s using that money to hurt people. Stop lying to yourself.

I don’t care how much I loved those books. She is just pure hatred at this point.

Eli Erlick @elierlick.bsky.social · 6d

A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.

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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · 4d

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head

Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30

www.theguardian.com

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 5d

EXTRAORDINARY HEAT from Morocco to Japan

Record heat everywhere:
43C in North Africa,40C Middle East,35C Central Asia (former USSR),
MINIMUMS >27C in Southern Japan (Chichijma)
+record heat in Southern Africa,Australia and Caribbean
>150 countries are breaking record.Insane

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Matt Whitehead @mjwhitehead.bsky.social · 4d

A reminder that the Greens have a much more thorough proposal based on tax reform that not only includes free GP visits but also...
* Free dental care
* Income support increases
* Building 35,000 new homes
* Residential clean power subsidies
* Unwinding pretty much all of Luxon's cuts
...and more.

nzgreenparty.bsky.social @nzgreenparty.bsky.social · 4d

Join us 💚

www.greens.org.nz/join

Photo of smiling Marama Davidson and Chlöe Swarbrick behind white text on a green background that says "Want a progressive tax system? Join the Greens today."

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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 4d

"Reform are on our side..."
Are they fuck.

A stacked bar chart titled "Secondary schools attended by MPs" with the source listed as "Wikipedia/The Sutton Trust (2024)."
The chart displays the type of secondary school attended by Members of Parliament (MPs) across five political parties—Labour, Tories, Lib Dems, Reform, and Green—compared to the Current UK school population.
The bars are segmented by school type:
Private (Blue)
Grammar (Orange)
State (Green)
Data breakdown by party:
Labour: 15% Private, 10% Grammar, 73% State.
Tories (Conservatives): 46% Private, 12% Grammar, 40% State.
Lib Dems (Liberal Democrats): 31% Private, 10% Grammar, 57% State.
Reform: 80% Private, 0% Grammar, 20% State.
Green: 0% Private, 25% Grammar, 75% State.
Current UK school population (for comparison): 7% Private, 5% Grammar, 88% State.
The chart visually demonstrates that MPs from all parties, particularly the Tories and Reform, are significantly more likely to have attended Private schools than the general population.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 5d

lol the 1% of today continue to forget a very key fact:

They are the 1 PERCENT. You are the minority. The moment the masses lock in, it's game over. Not to mention the masses they're pissing off are armed... legally.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 5d

Withholding money for food and finding money for every unnecessary thing is what sparked the French Revolution. Literally.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 4d

Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 5d

The hypocrisy of Reform going on TV to allege that certain groups are constantly over represented on TV is truly epic.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 7d

My most popular cartoon by a long chalk is also oddly niche, in that it mostly appeals to a generation who remember the song it refers to and enjoy the nostalgia for their youth. I can draw one for you if you like.

www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...

Cartoon: simple black and white line drawing. A couple in a living room. The man is sitting in an armchair reading a newspaper, head turned slightly towards his wife who is standing at the window, tugging at the curtain and saying "I see the Renegade Master's back once again with the ill behaviour".

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 5d

“AI” coding assistants appear to be accelerating the decline in the fluency of software developers who rely on them often.

When the tool fails us (and it will), we’re far out at sea, struggling to swim.

codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/t...

The AI-Ready Software Developer #11 – Staying Sharp

As has been discussed in previous posts, there will be times – many times – when “AI” coding assistants simply won’t be able to do what we need them to do. And that me…

codemanship.wordpress.com

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 5d

I think about this in how the guy who ran MySpace sold his company and then traveled the world doing photography, while the guy who runs Facebook never let it go and has gone out of his way to destroy democracy in order to gain more power.

Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 5d

The desperate need to accumulate more and more at the cost of everyone else’s wellbeing should be classified as a mental disorder, and I will absolutely die on this hill.

Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 5d

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

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