Emma
@elmatthews77.bsky.social
Twitter refugee, helping build the Resistance here, there and everywhere. Freelance writer and editor, any alternative media that needs a sub/editor, let me know 😁 also, NO CRYPTO NO PORN https://ko-fi.com/elmatthews77
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Emma
@elmatthews77.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Degrees+Destitution | Emma Matthews | Substack
Freelancing is never easy... So let's chat shit about tv, work, politics and whatever else we feel like. Click to read Degrees+Destitution, by Emma Matthews, a Substack publication. Launched 4 months ...
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It's time for an intro post! First off, hello and thank you to everyone who's given me a follow 😁👋🤗 it's much appreciated 😁
I generally post politics, comedy and TV and pop culture stuff, as well as the sporadic substack posts I write every now and then 👇
degreesanddestitution.substack.com
I generally post politics, comedy and TV and pop culture stuff, as well as the sporadic substack posts I write every now and then 👇
degreesanddestitution.substack.com
#strictly thanks to the trains, my brother will now be an hour late, so I won't be able to post along with the final tonight - we're watching together 🤬😞🤬 have fun, #strictlysky and I'll see you on the other side 😁
December 14, 2024 at 6:03 PM
#strictly thanks to the trains, my brother will now be an hour late, so I won't be able to post along with the final tonight - we're watching together 🤬😞🤬 have fun, #strictlysky and I'll see you on the other side 😁
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December 12, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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Trump being named as TIME's Person of the Year epitomizes the media's complicity in fascism and the polarization of the masses. The system doesn't give us a choice. It works tirelessly to normalize authoritarianism and class warfare as ubiquitous parts of society while turning us against each other.
December 12, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Trump being named as TIME's Person of the Year epitomizes the media's complicity in fascism and the polarization of the masses. The system doesn't give us a choice. It works tirelessly to normalize authoritarianism and class warfare as ubiquitous parts of society while turning us against each other.
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Healthcare should be care, not violence. Yet in the United States, the economic structure of the healthcare system means that people regularly receive the opposite of care in a functionally violent way.
Those are the seeds.
Those are the seeds.
December 12, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Healthcare should be care, not violence. Yet in the United States, the economic structure of the healthcare system means that people regularly receive the opposite of care in a functionally violent way.
Those are the seeds.
Those are the seeds.
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Trump joins Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin as Time’s Person of the year.
December 11, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Trump joins Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin as Time’s Person of the year.
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Just imagine if you were in a position to end poverty, everywhere, for everyone, overnight.
And instead you chose to engage in political games that enrich you, engender division and further impoverish the worst off.
And instead you chose to engage in political games that enrich you, engender division and further impoverish the worst off.
December 12, 2024 at 2:17 AM
Just imagine if you were in a position to end poverty, everywhere, for everyone, overnight.
And instead you chose to engage in political games that enrich you, engender division and further impoverish the worst off.
And instead you chose to engage in political games that enrich you, engender division and further impoverish the worst off.
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Ambulance blocked by protesting tractors. Remember the outrage when it was suggested that Just Stop Oil protesters might block hypothetical emergency services vehicles? Yet no one seems to be as outraged by actual emergency services vehicles being blocked.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/ambulan...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/ambulan...
Ambulance blocked by protesting tractors
Protesting tractors impeded an ambulance heading to an emergency incident in London Waterloo on Wednesday (11/12).
www.thelondoneconomic.com
December 12, 2024 at 10:44 AM
Ambulance blocked by protesting tractors. Remember the outrage when it was suggested that Just Stop Oil protesters might block hypothetical emergency services vehicles? Yet no one seems to be as outraged by actual emergency services vehicles being blocked.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/ambulan...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/ambulan...
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That’s not what she *means* of course. She means they’re food for the Poors.
Kemi Badenoch says sandwiches are what people eat for breakfast (via Spectator)
December 12, 2024 at 9:19 AM
That’s not what she *means* of course. She means they’re food for the Poors.
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“54% of Britons who voted leave, including 59% of voters in “red wall seats”, said in exchange for single market access they would now accept full free movement for EU and UK citizens to travel, live and work across borders.”
Majority of Brexit voters ‘would accept free movement’ to access single market
Europe-wide polling finds UK and EU leaders now out of step with public opinion and pursue ‘ambitious reset’
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2024 at 6:52 AM
“54% of Britons who voted leave, including 59% of voters in “red wall seats”, said in exchange for single market access they would now accept full free movement for EU and UK citizens to travel, live and work across borders.”
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Good to see @theneweuropean.bsky.social naming Gisèle Pélicot as Person of the Year 2024 - take note, Time magazine!
December 11, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Good to see @theneweuropean.bsky.social naming Gisèle Pélicot as Person of the Year 2024 - take note, Time magazine!
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Muskonomics in a nutshell.
'Elon Musk has waded into British politics on social media, predicting "civil war" and criticising Keir Starmer. But behind the scenes his firm was trying to persuade the new government to extend a policy that would boost his firm's profits.'
www.bbc.com/news/article...
'Elon Musk has waded into British politics on social media, predicting "civil war" and criticising Keir Starmer. But behind the scenes his firm was trying to persuade the new government to extend a policy that would boost his firm's profits.'
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Elon Musk's Tesla lobbied UK to charge petrol drivers more
Musk's firm backed the government's green stance, despite its maverick chief executive's social media attacks.
www.bbc.com
December 11, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Muskonomics in a nutshell.
'Elon Musk has waded into British politics on social media, predicting "civil war" and criticising Keir Starmer. But behind the scenes his firm was trying to persuade the new government to extend a policy that would boost his firm's profits.'
www.bbc.com/news/article...
'Elon Musk has waded into British politics on social media, predicting "civil war" and criticising Keir Starmer. But behind the scenes his firm was trying to persuade the new government to extend a policy that would boost his firm's profits.'
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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We need to make @bsky.app the biggest social media platform in the world, we need to do it with urgency, we need to make sure Reform UK never get any where near power & we need to send Elon Musk packing. TOGETHER we can do it
December 11, 2024 at 8:11 PM
We need to make @bsky.app the biggest social media platform in the world, we need to do it with urgency, we need to make sure Reform UK never get any where near power & we need to send Elon Musk packing. TOGETHER we can do it
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Levi Fishlock sentenced to 9 years after changing his plea to guilty.
He threw bricks, smashed windows & stoked a fire to set alight & burn over 200 people.
He said his actions were for “a good cause” & there are plenty we give mainstream platforms to who agree. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
He threw bricks, smashed windows & stoked a fire to set alight & burn over 200 people.
He said his actions were for “a good cause” & there are plenty we give mainstream platforms to who agree. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Levis Fishlock: Man gets joint-longest sentence for summer riots
Levi Fishlock is jailed for nine years for his part in an attack on a hotel housing asylum seekers.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 12, 2024 at 11:38 AM
Levi Fishlock sentenced to 9 years after changing his plea to guilty.
He threw bricks, smashed windows & stoked a fire to set alight & burn over 200 people.
He said his actions were for “a good cause” & there are plenty we give mainstream platforms to who agree. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
He threw bricks, smashed windows & stoked a fire to set alight & burn over 200 people.
He said his actions were for “a good cause” & there are plenty we give mainstream platforms to who agree. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Remember all the outraged coverage about a handful of climate protesters slowing ambulances a few years back?
Well it turns out that wealthy farmers doing exactly the same thing on a much bigger scale is absolutely fine
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...
Well it turns out that wealthy farmers doing exactly the same thing on a much bigger scale is absolutely fine
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...
Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass?
Media outlets rush to condemn climate change campaigners as "middle class" protesters causing "chaos" while ignoring greater disruption by millionaire landowners
bylinetimes.com
December 12, 2024 at 12:03 PM
Remember all the outraged coverage about a handful of climate protesters slowing ambulances a few years back?
Well it turns out that wealthy farmers doing exactly the same thing on a much bigger scale is absolutely fine
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...
Well it turns out that wealthy farmers doing exactly the same thing on a much bigger scale is absolutely fine
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...
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I think we need to consider just ignoring America for the next few years
December 12, 2024 at 11:58 AM
I think we need to consider just ignoring America for the next few years
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A regular reminder to the far right arseholes, in the media and online, who constantly say that people were only jailed after the Farage riots for sending "silly tweets", that the prosecuted were actually violent criminal thugs or inciters of hatred & violence, and deserved incarceration.
December 12, 2024 at 12:05 PM
A regular reminder to the far right arseholes, in the media and online, who constantly say that people were only jailed after the Farage riots for sending "silly tweets", that the prosecuted were actually violent criminal thugs or inciters of hatred & violence, and deserved incarceration.
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How many times…
December 12, 2024 at 9:08 AM
How many times…
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Luigi Mangione’s fellow prisoners yelled “Luigi’s conditions suck” and “Free Luigi” from their cells in Pennsylvania during an interview: www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/lui...
December 12, 2024 at 12:07 PM
Luigi Mangione’s fellow prisoners yelled “Luigi’s conditions suck” and “Free Luigi” from their cells in Pennsylvania during an interview: www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/lui...
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The next Trump presidency will largely leave #AI unregulated. That makes it essential that tech firms see Europe’s AI Act as legitimate, to maximise the law’s global influence.
🆕 insight by @zach-cer.bsky.social
Read here: https://buff.ly/4gm1hw0
🆕 insight by @zach-cer.bsky.social
Read here: https://buff.ly/4gm1hw0
December 12, 2024 at 12:00 PM
The next Trump presidency will largely leave #AI unregulated. That makes it essential that tech firms see Europe’s AI Act as legitimate, to maximise the law’s global influence.
🆕 insight by @zach-cer.bsky.social
Read here: https://buff.ly/4gm1hw0
🆕 insight by @zach-cer.bsky.social
Read here: https://buff.ly/4gm1hw0
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This is how America should work.
December 11, 2024 at 7:36 PM
This is how America should work.