Fishingnet

Fishingnet

@fishingnet.bsky.social

Wokey lefty with an interest in anything political. Or music, nature, cycling, cats and cities.

1.3K followers2.4K following219 posts

I've joined the biggest global debt movement in 25 years! Thousands are calling out private lenders and rich countries who put profit before people lives. It's time to #CancelDebtChooseHope and get debt justice once and for all. Add your name here: act.debtjustice.org.uk/canceldebt

act.debtjustice.org.ukCancel Debt, Choose HopeJoin the biggest global movement for debt cancellation in twenty-five years. Campaigners and activists around the world are uniting to demand action on unjust debt. It’s a huge year for the campaign –...

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NEW: Channel 4 to broadcast the doc about Gaza medics ditched by BBC. The Beeb worried about partiality. C4 says they believe it is “duly impartial view of a subject that both divides opinion and frequently provokes dispute about what constitutes a fact”. Shown this Wednesday.

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First they came for the innocent man deported to a Salvadoran gulag on an “administrative error” they falsely claim they’re powerless to reverse, flouting court orders even from the Supreme Court — and I spoke out, because I know how the damn poem ends.

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Replying to @bylines.scot

Aside from the horror of leaving vulnerable people to suffer, in the end, where vaccination is concerned, we protect everyone or we protect no-one. More unvaccinated people leads to more mutations, more new strains of disease, and fresh threats facing us too.

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Does “Golden Age” refer to a time when planes keep crashing, eggs cost $10–15 a dozen, the U.S. is being booed and protested by all our allies, workers are losing their jobs, and Americans’ personal data is being rummaged through by unelected oligarchs and their strange crew of 20-something incels?

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Sharing this blocklist again. I'm doing semiregular roundups to add to this list of transphobes, "here to see libs cry" types, and racists. Feel free to tag me to add people to block. Hit "subscribe" and then choose "block" to block all in 2 clicks! bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Important context here: ● over half of farms are less than 49 acres (20 hectares) ● "a big farm" is 217 acres. Now let's see who's angry: ● Clarkson farm is 1,000 acres ● Lloyd Webber farms 4,000 acres ● Viscount Rothermere (Mail owner) 4,700 acres ● Dyson owns 36,000 acres

AndrewT@andrewt500.bsky.social

A message from a REAL farmer who hasn’t been brainwashed by the Tories, wealthy landowners and the right wing media👇🏽 #FarmersProtest