Rick B
@rickburgess.bsky.social
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Dissident. Pondering an anti-social model of disability?!?!
If I ever get the time and energy I like to compose odd music.
Otherwise - Ask me about my initialisms: GMCDP, MDPAC, RITB, CSMH, DBW, CSS, DPHRN.
Dissident. Pondering an anti-social model of disability?!?!
If I ever get the time and energy I like to compose odd music.
Otherwise - Ask me about my initialisms: GMCDP, MDPAC, RITB, CSMH, DBW, CSS, DPHRN.
Pinned
A lot to unpack here, but remember the thing that really boils Oberleutnant Miller's piss is to remind him how fucking bald he is and hairplug Musk shagged his wife.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
A lot to unpack here, but remember the thing that really boils Oberleutnant Miller's piss is to remind him how fucking bald he is and hairplug Musk shagged his wife.
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The vote is taking place in a highly polarised climate, with the US backing the right-wing candidate Nasry Asfura.
Polls open in Honduras presidential election marked by fraud accusations
The vote is taking place in a highly polarised climate, with the US backing the right-wing candidate Nasry Asfura.
bit.ly
November 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The vote is taking place in a highly polarised climate, with the US backing the right-wing candidate Nasry Asfura.
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Wow Torsten, that wad the opposite of what you said when you tried to fuck over disabled people earlier this year.
There’s a wider thing. Taxes are up since pre-pandemic levels. Why? The Tories will claim its welfare (which did rise as % gdp on their watch but is basically flat under us).
November 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Wow Torsten, that wad the opposite of what you said when you tried to fuck over disabled people earlier this year.
You just can't find honest genocidaire’s
Netanyahu writes to Israeli president requesting pardon in corruption cases
Israeli leader is up against three cases of corruption, including receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts.
www.aljazeera.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
You just can't find honest genocidaire’s
I love Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, but Stoppard’s moral cowardice on Gaza means that is the limit of any lionising here.
November 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I love Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, but Stoppard’s moral cowardice on Gaza means that is the limit of any lionising here.
I’m not getting into the weeds of YP. All that matters is when it comes to GE, Greens and YP co-operate and stand one candidate with best chance to win in any constituency. If the progressive side cannot do that, defeat is assured.
November 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I’m not getting into the weeds of YP. All that matters is when it comes to GE, Greens and YP co-operate and stand one candidate with best chance to win in any constituency. If the progressive side cannot do that, defeat is assured.
The clue was it not disbanding in 1992.
Trump’s hardball tactics have extorted greater allied cooperation and reasserted U.S. domination over the organization.
Trump’s Peace With NATO Reinforces Its Purpose: US-Led Global Hegemony
Trump’s hardball tactics have extorted greater allied cooperation and reasserted U.S. domination over the organization.
buff.ly
November 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The clue was it not disbanding in 1992.
The backbone of jellyfish, well done ‘The Academy'
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Archive: archive.is/A5J87
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Archive: archive.is/A5J87
Cambridge University cosies up to Reform
The vice-chancellor expects Nigel Farage to model his policies on Trump and says other Russell Group members are meeting his allies
www.thetimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The backbone of jellyfish, well done ‘The Academy'
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Archive: archive.is/A5J87
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Archive: archive.is/A5J87
Absolutely monstrous, this is racist, classist, and disablist. Vile National Front level bigotry from the Starmer regime.
UK immigration status fears prompt carer to cancel benefits she is entitled to
Woman cancels all benefits including disability living allowance for daughter after policy change announcement
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Absolutely monstrous, this is racist, classist, and disablist. Vile National Front level bigotry from the Starmer regime.
Ahhh, humans
'Mafia-style protection rackets forced people to produce grain, from which tax could be extracted and used to fund further exploitation. Scott proposed that these protection rackets were effectively the original states'
'Mafia-style protection rackets forced people to produce grain, from which tax could be extracted and used to fund further exploitation. Scott proposed that these protection rackets were effectively the original states'
The real reason states first emerged thousands of years ago – new research
New findings add weight to the theory that states didn’t just spring up from any kind of farming – it had to be grain.
theconversation.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Ahhh, humans
'Mafia-style protection rackets forced people to produce grain, from which tax could be extracted and used to fund further exploitation. Scott proposed that these protection rackets were effectively the original states'
'Mafia-style protection rackets forced people to produce grain, from which tax could be extracted and used to fund further exploitation. Scott proposed that these protection rackets were effectively the original states'
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So excited to share our new article on energy limiting conditions (ELC) and energy impairment in @ijdsj.bsky.social with Anna Ruddock and Ana Be. Open access www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
It discusses the emancipatory research process that gave rise to these terms >>
It discusses the emancipatory research process that gave rise to these terms >>
November 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
So excited to share our new article on energy limiting conditions (ELC) and energy impairment in @ijdsj.bsky.social with Anna Ruddock and Ana Be. Open access www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
It discusses the emancipatory research process that gave rise to these terms >>
It discusses the emancipatory research process that gave rise to these terms >>
Hope is here: help us deliver it www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere...
Hope is here: help us deliver it
Hope is here. In just 5 hours, we hit our £100,000 target. We're doubling our target. Let's take the fight to Reform in May.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Hope is here: help us deliver it www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere...
International Day Of Solidarity With The Palestinian People
November 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
International Day Of Solidarity With The Palestinian People
She is the second hunger-striking prisoner to be hospitalised after Kamran Ahmed on Tuesday. Ahmed reportedly collapsed on Friday 21 November
Second Palestine Action Prisoner Hospitalised | Novara Media
Exclusive: Teuta ‘T’ Hoxha has been taken to hospital after 20 days on hunger strike, following the hospitalisation of Kamran Ahmed earlier this week. Harriet Williamson reports.
novaramedia.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
She is the second hunger-striking prisoner to be hospitalised after Kamran Ahmed on Tuesday. Ahmed reportedly collapsed on Friday 21 November
The Graun is hopeless on objective analysis of the Labour Right in power (they’re part of it) so this is very polite, but does trace some of the lines of how fascist shadow money resulted in government policy. A totally shameful capitulation, but not isolated, by the utterly repulsive Starmer regime
How Motability cuts went from a rightwing online campaign to Rachel Reeves’s budget
How Motability cuts went from a rightwing online campaign to Rachel Reeves’s budget
Car lease scheme for people with mobility problems portrayed as ‘free’ but is funded by benefits and their own contributions
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The Graun is hopeless on objective analysis of the Labour Right in power (they’re part of it) so this is very polite, but does trace some of the lines of how fascist shadow money resulted in government policy. A totally shameful capitulation, but not isolated, by the utterly repulsive Starmer regime
'They act all-knowing, but they’re not. I learned what I know from other survivors, and it is actually better knowledge. It speaks to the epistemic value of our everyday narratives, including the horrors and humiliations'
The Damage Doesn’t End When the Drugs Do: Diana Rose on Psychiatry’s Long Shadow
Diana Rose on her long-term adverse experiences from psychiatric drugs, survivor knowledge, and the humiliations built into the system.
www.madinamerica.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
'They act all-knowing, but they’re not. I learned what I know from other survivors, and it is actually better knowledge. It speaks to the epistemic value of our everyday narratives, including the horrors and humiliations'
Amol Rajan always has been a total POS.
November 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Amol Rajan always has been a total POS.
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NEW | Wading through coverage of the Budget…
THE BUDGET, THE BRITISH PRESS, AND THE LONG SHADOW OF BENEFITS STREET
Why a TV show from 2014 is still easy shorthand for creating division.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-budget...
THE BUDGET, THE BRITISH PRESS, AND THE LONG SHADOW OF BENEFITS STREET
Why a TV show from 2014 is still easy shorthand for creating division.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-budget...
The budget, the British press, and the long shadow of Benefits Street
Why a TV show from 2014 is still easy shorthand for creating division.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM
NEW | Wading through coverage of the Budget…
THE BUDGET, THE BRITISH PRESS, AND THE LONG SHADOW OF BENEFITS STREET
Why a TV show from 2014 is still easy shorthand for creating division.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-budget...
THE BUDGET, THE BRITISH PRESS, AND THE LONG SHADOW OF BENEFITS STREET
Why a TV show from 2014 is still easy shorthand for creating division.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-budget...
Financial markets have little to no utility, close them, this is nonsense:
The yield on 10-year UK government bonds initially dropped by four basis points, while the pound jumped by 0.3% on the news
The yield on 10-year UK government bonds initially dropped by four basis points, while the pound jumped by 0.3% on the news
How Rachel Reeves’s budget was leaked 40 minutes early
By the time the chancellor reached the dispatch box, the OBR had accidentally published its verdict in full online
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Financial markets have little to no utility, close them, this is nonsense:
The yield on 10-year UK government bonds initially dropped by four basis points, while the pound jumped by 0.3% on the news
The yield on 10-year UK government bonds initially dropped by four basis points, while the pound jumped by 0.3% on the news
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🔴230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment About the COVID Inquiry
The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello
The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello
230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment About the COVID Inquiry
The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello
www.bylinesupplement.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🔴230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment About the COVID Inquiry
The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello
The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello
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Ending the two-child benefit cap in today's budget is huge, wonderful news for the 500,000 children lifted out of poverty and the 1 million who will face less deep poverty. But the other 4.1m children in poverty deserve the same. This was the right start: now do the rest.
November 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Ending the two-child benefit cap in today's budget is huge, wonderful news for the 500,000 children lifted out of poverty and the 1 million who will face less deep poverty. But the other 4.1m children in poverty deserve the same. This was the right start: now do the rest.
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Budget 2025.
The wealthy hardly hit.
Minor tweaks on dividend and mansion tax.
No wealth tax.
No alignment of taxes on dividends & capital gains tax with taxation of wages.
Partnerships won't pay NIC on partners' share of profits
No financial transactions tax.
Lobbying and political donations pay
The wealthy hardly hit.
Minor tweaks on dividend and mansion tax.
No wealth tax.
No alignment of taxes on dividends & capital gains tax with taxation of wages.
Partnerships won't pay NIC on partners' share of profits
No financial transactions tax.
Lobbying and political donations pay
November 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Budget 2025.
The wealthy hardly hit.
Minor tweaks on dividend and mansion tax.
No wealth tax.
No alignment of taxes on dividends & capital gains tax with taxation of wages.
Partnerships won't pay NIC on partners' share of profits
No financial transactions tax.
Lobbying and political donations pay
The wealthy hardly hit.
Minor tweaks on dividend and mansion tax.
No wealth tax.
No alignment of taxes on dividends & capital gains tax with taxation of wages.
Partnerships won't pay NIC on partners' share of profits
No financial transactions tax.
Lobbying and political donations pay