Wowww! ๐ 'When Brazilians realized that Musk and Zuckerberg were manipulating the algorithm to interfere in their country's elections, they turned to social media and flooded it with AI-generated videos of Lula. A social phenomenon to be studied for decades.' x.com/socialholico...
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@babs05.bsky.social
For he was more than over shoes in love. 'Tis true; for you are over boots in love I rather like music. Moderator for http://Last.fm She/her. Deep Woke. Man City FC ๐ฉต @Babs_SK on Twitter
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A petition calling for an inquiry into the UK's role in Gaza has reached over 11,000 signatures ๐ Launch a public inquiry into the UK's role in Israeli operations in Gaza petition.parliament.uk/petitions/78... x.com/TurnLeftMedi...
Oh! 17,172 signatures now! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/78...
No congratulatory tweet from Burnham to Lula. #Brazil Three - THREE!! - from Corbyn who also attended the London rally. I'll just grab this one. x.com/jeremycorbyn... If you want to see the other two: x.com/jeremycorbyn... x.com/jeremycorbyn...
Hmm! Looks really good! Might pop down then. ๐ Oxford Street now. x.com/BBCTomEdward...
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12 people control more wealth than half of humanity combined. A 2 minute break down on why a wealth tax isn't radical โ it's necessary for our survival as a species. youtu.be/uv7R1oNnF6E...
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I Just Left the West Bank: What Israel is Planning is TERRIFYING
Serbia students and citizens' assemblies. This is the model for Corbyn and Zarah's YP. 'In Serbia, students brought the method of direct democracy into electoral politics.' [cont'd in ALT text] x.com/IsinElicin/s...
Serbia students and citizens' assemblies. This is the model for Corbyn and Zarah's YP. 'In Serbia, students brought the method of direct democracy into electoral politics.' [cont'd in ALT text] x.com/IsinElicin/s...
Israel has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Occupied Palestinian Territory amid continuing genocide in Gaza, UN Commission of Inquiry finds 26 October 2026 www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
So London's Batman isn't on Bluesky? Saw a feature about him on a politics programme. He was giving away free fuel recently, then he gave people free umbrellas during the storm over the weekend. www.instagram.com/reel/Deo2zk0...
So London's Batman isn't on Bluesky? Saw a feature about him on a politics programme. He was giving away free fuel recently, then he gave people free umbrellas during the storm over the weekend. www.instagram.com/reel/Deo2zk0...
Who is London's mystery Batman doing good deeds? 23 October 2026 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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What are your all-time top 5 artists? Post them below and defend nothing โถ๏ธ bit.ly/Top5alltime
#Brazil #Serbia #Lebanon #USelection #Israel #imperialism @gregjstoker.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/De-BF50...
Elina Xenophontas - The European Protests and Revolution (10 slides) www.instagram.com/p/De5JiDzirZ...
#Brazil #Serbia #Lebanon #USelection #Israel #imperialism @gregjstoker.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/De-BF50...
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A petition calling for an inquiry into the UK's role in Gaza has reached over 11,000 signatures ๐ Launch a public inquiry into the UK's role in Israeli operations in Gaza petition.parliament.uk/petitions/78... x.com/TurnLeftMedi...
Launch a public inquiry into the UK's role in Israeli operations in Gaza petition.parliament.uk/petitions/78... x.com/TurnLeftMedi...
'key findings from Francesca Albaneseโs report, โTruth Under the Rubble: Media in the Time of Genocideโ' x.com/visualizingp...
Excellent visual summary of my last report on MEDIA and Genocide โถ๏ธIsrael has tried all it could to eliminate professional reporting from/on Gaza: through propaganda, censorship, influencers โถ๏ธWestern media has often been Israel's house organ:for habit, convenience or just racism x.com/FranceskAlbs...
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5 - 6 - 7 - 8 Leaving all my troubles behind For you, #Brazil #Serbia ๐ฅณ๐๐ซโจ Django Django - Feel Alright youtu.be/ME38uNwNQ9Y?...
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Replying to @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Five tests for nationalism / fascism in the next 10 days. Could be genuinely transformative. ๐ท๐ธ Serbia โ Vucic lost (yay!) ๐ง๐ท Brazil โ Bolsonaro lost, Lula won !!!!! ๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel โ 27 Oct ๐ง๐ฌ Bulgaria โ 1 Nov ๐บ๐ธ USA โ 3 Nov Two down, one looks promising, three to go in total !!
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Learnt this is Twitter. I only post on my page what I want to amplify. I don't do 'omg! look what this far right person said! urgh!', it amplifies them. There are occasional exceptions, eg something Trump said we need to know, otherwise boundary on that stuff, focus on ours.
Iโm not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Donโt share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.
When we supported Corbyn and acted like his media bc Isr captured the mainstream to smear him, we were called Corbyn's Army. The far right were extremely triggered! ๐ Corbyn was stopped eventually, but both centrists and the right have been nabbing his ideas ever since. They were all listening too.
After the first round elections, Congressman Andrรฉ Janones created a WhatsApp channel titled โLulaโs Army.โ It ballooned to 10 million people following his commands on how to behave online to counteract Metaโs far-right-favouring algorithms. The right knows how to use socials. We must learn, too.
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It is ok to decide thatโin the middle of constitutional crisisโthat the job of social media is not persuasion, but organization and organization. It is also ok to decide that listening and persuasion does not have to involve violence and abuse. You know why trolls hide under bridges, right?
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People donโt understand why I keep noting that BlueSky is not a bubble, it is a counterpublic. It serves its own organizational function: you can see in realtime in January 2025, on multiple types of social media, shouting that an executive order is instruction to an agency. This one stuck.
Iโm not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Donโt share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.