ChrisDean
@mrcjdean.bsky.social
dad, teacher, armchair philosopher, bad buddhist. here mostly for the haiku.
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Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
It just goes on and on. And our government is providing them with arms.
🚨 Footage shows Israeli soldiers executing two young Palestinian men after detaining them in Jenin in the occupied West Bank today — shooting them dead as they stood with their hands raised and posed no threat, outside a home in the city.
Video: قناة الغد via X (@AlGhadTV)
Video: قناة الغد via X (@AlGhadTV)
November 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
It just goes on and on. And our government is providing them with arms.
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
November 20, 2025 at 6:17 AM
When an allegedly democratic socialist party announces a policy to confiscate and sell the belongings of people fleeing war, it indicates that something’s rotten in the heart of our politics.
#UKPolitics
#Labour
#RefugeesWelcome
#UKPolitics
#Labour
#RefugeesWelcome
November 19, 2025 at 6:58 AM
When an allegedly democratic socialist party announces a policy to confiscate and sell the belongings of people fleeing war, it indicates that something’s rotten in the heart of our politics.
#UKPolitics
#Labour
#RefugeesWelcome
#UKPolitics
#Labour
#RefugeesWelcome
If you really loved horses, yours wouldn’t be standing alone in a muddy paddock for 23 hours a day waiting for you to decide it exists. You love riding horses,not horses.
November 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
If you really loved horses, yours wouldn’t be standing alone in a muddy paddock for 23 hours a day waiting for you to decide it exists. You love riding horses,not horses.
Anti-communist hysteria on the far right: a witch hunt conducted where there are almost no witches.
November 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Anti-communist hysteria on the far right: a witch hunt conducted where there are almost no witches.
November 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Amazing how the “COVID rules are state tyranny!” people
are now like, “Fascism? Sure, why not.”
are now like, “Fascism? Sure, why not.”
November 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Amazing how the “COVID rules are state tyranny!” people
are now like, “Fascism? Sure, why not.”
are now like, “Fascism? Sure, why not.”
If you consider one of your biggest enemies to be a group called Anti-Fascist Action, you might want to think about what that makes you.
November 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
If you consider one of your biggest enemies to be a group called Anti-Fascist Action, you might want to think about what that makes you.
November 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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That the UK - one of the architects of this fund, designed to save the world’s forests - is now refusing to put any money into it is frankly shameful. Starmer’s claim that he still continues to back the fund is meaningless without resources - so much for climate leadership
November 6, 2025 at 9:54 AM
That the UK - one of the architects of this fund, designed to save the world’s forests - is now refusing to put any money into it is frankly shameful. Starmer’s claim that he still continues to back the fund is meaningless without resources - so much for climate leadership
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In the midst of horrific mass killings and violence, British-made military equipment has been found in Sudan.
It's clear our arms export licensing system is not fit for purpose; we need a full review, alongside an embargo on all arms exports to the UAE now.
It's clear our arms export licensing system is not fit for purpose; we need a full review, alongside an embargo on all arms exports to the UAE now.
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
In the midst of horrific mass killings and violence, British-made military equipment has been found in Sudan.
It's clear our arms export licensing system is not fit for purpose; we need a full review, alongside an embargo on all arms exports to the UAE now.
It's clear our arms export licensing system is not fit for purpose; we need a full review, alongside an embargo on all arms exports to the UAE now.
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September 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
August 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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“No one deserves to live the way we are living in this world. But what truly hurts is the sense of isolation.”
Not even on the news ticker
How the global response to the Iran-Israel conflict shows up world’s lack of urgency in ending a genocide in Gaza.
electronicintifada.net
July 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
“No one deserves to live the way we are living in this world. But what truly hurts is the sense of isolation.”
July 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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We cannot stand by as Israeli attacks kill dozens in Gaza—47 people today, including children and desperate aid‐seekers, amid a worsening humanitarian collapse and famine. This brutality must end NOW. Demand an immediate ceasefire. Share. #CeasefireNow #HumanRights
Israeli air strikes kill dozens in Gaza amid worsening humanitarian crisis
Calls for ceasefire grow as US and Israeli leaders discuss potential truce amid escalating violence in Gaza.
www.aljazeera.com
June 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
We cannot stand by as Israeli attacks kill dozens in Gaza—47 people today, including children and desperate aid‐seekers, amid a worsening humanitarian collapse and famine. This brutality must end NOW. Demand an immediate ceasefire. Share. #CeasefireNow #HumanRights
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June 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Today, more starving Palestinians were lured into “aid distribution sites”.
They went in hope that they might find a bag of flour.
They were gunned down and murdered instead.
What utter inhumanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
They went in hope that they might find a bag of flour.
They were gunned down and murdered instead.
What utter inhumanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
June 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Today, more starving Palestinians were lured into “aid distribution sites”.
They went in hope that they might find a bag of flour.
They were gunned down and murdered instead.
What utter inhumanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
They went in hope that they might find a bag of flour.
They were gunned down and murdered instead.
What utter inhumanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
June 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Today is Japanese haiku master Kobayashi Issa’s birthday, so here are some of his haiku, translated by Robert Hass. This is one of my favourites (and to which I can relate)!
don’t worry, spider
I keep house
casually
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50983/selected-haiku-by-issa
#SenryuSunday
don’t worry, spider
I keep house
casually
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50983/selected-haiku-by-issa
#SenryuSunday
Selected Haiku by Issa
Don’t worry, spiders, I keep house casually. The snow is melting and the village is flooded with children.
www.poetryfoundation.org
June 15, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Today is Japanese haiku master Kobayashi Issa’s birthday, so here are some of his haiku, translated by Robert Hass. This is one of my favourites (and to which I can relate)!
don’t worry, spider
I keep house
casually
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50983/selected-haiku-by-issa
#SenryuSunday
don’t worry, spider
I keep house
casually
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50983/selected-haiku-by-issa
#SenryuSunday