General Strike

Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.

"Men are an embarrassing cringe gender" - this is true (go on, label me @moderation.bsky.app, I dare you)

With Microsoft Publisher, any village fete could knock up a decent poster with minimal skills and effort. With AI, those same people can put together a real piece of shit.

NPO Spotlight on Corruption: —“considerable revolving door” in govt’s AI growth zones (Starmer’s AI + economic policy) —38 ministers, senior civil servants & special advisers hired to AI co.s, Jul24–Sep26 And so far, what's Burnham done about corruption & cronyism? Stick up for Man City's owners...

Admidst their internal party politics, Labour have done nothing to redress how Cameron stuffed the BBC full of right-wing political bias. They have done nothing to effect proper #MediaReform. They have not instigated #Leveson2. Shocking dereliction of duty.

#Genocide by #Israel.

Can highly recommend.

Ali Fortescue to Ellie Chowns on the group Greens4Palestine: "This group obviously has a big influence over your partys direction... do you think they should be kicked out of the party?" Can you imagine a journalist asking, should Labour Friends of Israel be kicked out of Labour? Of course you cant

"Under Brazilian federal law, all legislators have immunity...To run for President, Bolsonaro decided not to run for his Senate seat. Now, after losing the Presidential election, he no longer has legislative immunity when his Senate term expires in January 2027." Very Special Episode of no amnesty

#Consequences for #Fascism, #Brazil.

Insolvency scam The boss of twice-bust business back despite £3m debts. These people gut a company, HMRC and creditors not paid. Then buy assets cheaply from the administrator in pre-packs, and back in business. Gone on for decades. No transparency of administrator dealings. No investigation.

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

It is so fascinating that boomers skipped learning how to use cell phones and basic computer functions, but they are enraptured by AI like toddlers staring at a tablet

Since his ennoblement in Boris Johnson’s 2023 resignation list, Tees Valley regional mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen has claimed more than £25,000 in tax-free daily “attendance” allowances from the House of Lords for 73 days when he hasn’t voted, spoken or performed any recorded parliamentary activity.

Another episode of #TheNerdReich doesn't get real humans. Encouraging you to be fake with your family. These are the people who want us to rely on AI... This is how they suggest you use it. Just shit behaviour, like Kyle from the copilot ad.

The world needed hope right now - and Brazil delivered it. After a wave of pro-American far-right candidates swept Latin America, Lula defied the odds. The world's fourth largest democracy has been saved from far-right authoritarianism. Here's to hope ✊

Today is Intersex Awareness Day. I am intersex – and did not find out until I was 26! Intersex people are also impacted by the decision in FWS, but this is much less talked about. Intersex people continue to be subjected to non-consensual medical interventions. Intersex rights are human rights.

What's striking to me are the rules of engagement and the methodology of action here, which more or less is predicated on burying liberal delusions about "debate" or the "marketplace of ideas". The rules were ultimately very simple: amplify your own message and suppress your opponent's.

At one point he had a Whatsapp group with 10 million people in it, coordinating action. Which I didn't even think whatsapp was infrastructurally designed to support. And yes, whatsapp is of course a meta network, but the strategy was to be everywhere, to act redundantly, to be unbannable.

Maybe the fascists overplayed their hand; both domestic news media and foreign social media didn't so much put a thumb on the scale as elbow it from the rafters, and maybe people finally saw that. I don't know.

I spent all day writing the thread in my head about how Bolsonaro's win was the culmination of a 20-year project to end Brazilian democracy, with the participation of both domestic elites and foreign actors like the US state department and Meta. This is all true, of course, except he didn't win.

The mobilization itself was already not something I ever expected to see, but to actually win? Hell, to double the winning margin from the 2022 runoff? Genuinely surreal. Maybe child raping billionaires *don't* have to run the world with a shit-eating grin. Maybe that can stop.

Would love to see this.

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

Any coverage that doesn’t mention that isn’t really reporting on democracy as we find it in 2026. See also: The USA.

A really important thing is that Bolsonaro lost *despite cheating in every way within his power*.

great news to wake up to. a huge amount of the right-wing machine depends on people feeling beaten by the system, that their vote doesn't matter because it's an unwinnable fight. it's not true. they're stacking the deck in every way imaginable, but nothing is inevitable.

This in the context of THOUSANDS of arrests over Palestine action which, no, I will not shut up about. The disparity is very clear and we all know why it exists.

NEW: Trump is a Russian asset. And the UK government is finally waking from its decade-long slumber Read this. And order a wind-up radio. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-dark-t...

"There’s not enough room in my chest for all this joy". What incredible news to wake up to. First Serbia, now this www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

The Society of Authors has withdrawn from the ill-conceived concession to the dark side that was the "ethical GenAI" charter because of the mass and vocal outrage of authors. Publishers need to be made afraid of this level of anger too.

OPEN LETTER: Sally Rooney is a writer, not a terrorist. www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/...

This is heartbreaking. God I hate AI and American tech companies.

Not only a vital defeat of the far right, but also a win of inestimable value for the planet.

A Russian satellite made an extraordinarily close approach to a Western commercial spacecraft that provides imagery to Ukraine. A retired Russian colonel portrayed the maneuver as a warning to companies aiding Kyiv, including Starlink. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

This is a beautiful, beautiful thing

Private equity buys UK fertility clinics. PE already controls social care, hospitals, GP surgeries, dentistry, child fostering. Usual business model. High debt, quality of care declines, prices increase, high profits. When things go wrong, NHS has to step in, PE doesn't pay.

*Hold on, Vivian Wilson is Elon's trans child and also that's a dead Tesla robot *Don't all rush to the Desigual all at once

okay I need you all to stay Calm and Normal about this, but I have discovered that there is a variety of autumn raspberry called "Himbo Top" www.rhs.org.uk/plants/23977...

“Young people have already concluded that AI is a mistake. Now it is time for the rest of us to see the truth”: former Google and Facebook investor Roger McNamee AKA @moonalice.com on how the industry’s financial problems may undermine the entire economy www.thenerve.news/p/roger-mcna...

Anyone going on BBC this month should order one of these beforehand and let them sweat www.poppyshop.org.uk/products/pri...

"They'll say that I am in the wrong for saying 'I'm fairly sure they're Nazis'. Fuck you, yeah I said what I said <303 solo!>" #Fight #Fascism music.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qe9...