Babs ๐Ÿฉต๐ŸโŒ›๏ธ๐Ÿฆ‹๐Ÿ”ป

Babs ๐Ÿฉต๐ŸโŒ›๏ธ๐Ÿฆ‹๐Ÿ”ป

@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 ๐Ÿฉต @Babs_SK on Twitter

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The Governmentโ„ข has made an ad about all these protests happening around the world, and itโ€™s surprisingly honest and informative.

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What are your all-time top 5 artists? Post them below and defend nothing โ–ถ๏ธ bit.ly/Top5alltime

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Replying to @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Five tests for nationalism / fascism in the next 10 days. Could be genuinely transformative. ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ธ Serbia โ€” Vucic lost (yay!) ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Brazil โ€” Bolsonaro lost, Lula won !!!!! ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Israel โ€” 27 Oct ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฌ Bulgaria โ€” 1 Nov ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ USA โ€” 3 Nov Two down, one looks promising, three to go in total !!

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The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

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.

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

Iโ€™m 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. Donโ€™t 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! ๐Ÿ˜‚ Corbyn was stopped eventually, but both centrists and the right have been nabbing his ideas ever since. They were all listening too.

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

After the first round elections, Congressman Andrรฉ Janones created a WhatsApp channel titled โ€œLulaโ€™s Army.โ€ It ballooned to 10 million people following his commands on how to behave online to counteract Metaโ€™s far-right-favouring algorithms. The right knows how to use socials. We must learn, too.

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Replying to @kalimurray.bsky.social

It is ok to decide thatโ€”in the middle of constitutional crisisโ€”that 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?

Babs ๐Ÿฉต๐ŸโŒ›๏ธ๐Ÿฆ‹๐Ÿ”ป reposted

People donโ€™t 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.

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

Iโ€™m 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. Donโ€™t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.