Matt Payne

Matt Payne

@mattyp7.bsky.social

Arsenal supporter. Communist. Photographer. Serial scroller. Reposting for the lads. Peace and Love. Back the Greens 💚. North London is red ✌🏾⚽🔴⚪

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Matt Payne reposted

Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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#GMB on the banks: "£45.9bn profit in 2024. They've already generated £21.4bn in the first half of [this] year" "And on a personal level.. executive bankers are earning in 2 days what it takes a lot of people a year to [earn]"

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NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

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On the day he is a main candidate in a very important by-election, Facebook has *suspended* Zack Polanski’s account. This ON ITS OWN should be reason to vote Green in Holborn & St Pancras. This is foreign interference in British democracy. And guess what, the media (and Labour) is silent.

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I'm unemployed so I don't have a lot of money to spend on booze, what with interest rates and utility bills always going up. Plus I'm seven years sober. How about the government actually rising to the challenges we face rather than shrugging?

The National@scotnational.bsky.social

Andy Burnham has suggested people could have 'a glass or two' of wine to help them through an emergency, as he defended UK Government advice for households to stockpile essential supplies

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This won’t be reported widely, but Jason Arday has been cleared of plagiarism for a second time. Still nobody has been held accountable for this man’s death.

UCU Edinburgh@ucuedinburgh.bsky.social

A reminder: Jason Arday was innocent. "A fresh investigation by scientific publisher Taylor & Francis has concluded without substantiating plagiarism allegations against Jason Arday, the former Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge."

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Sure, we should, if we can (many cannot). But as I keep pointing out, the government itself is making no provision at all. No stockpiles, no back-up, no alternative sources. It's individuating the response to a collective problem, and that never ends well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.comEvery Briton should stockpile water and food supplies, government advisesBe Ready campaign aims to prepare UK for impact of climate crisis, technological dependency and threats by hostile state

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The looting of the country by Donald Trump, Jared Kushner, the Trump sons, and their orbit of aides and friends is directly tied to *your* inability to afford housing, health care, child care, and more. It's their illegal wealth versus our ability to live.

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“We need to make the transition as fast as possible, not least because genuinely, the future of our kids depends on this.” Ellie Chowns makes the case for accelerating the transition to clean, renewable energy following Labour's approval of Jackdaw on #BBCQT.

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26 jobs created helping destroy the planet! I suppose that will help make up for a fraction of a percent of the tens of thousands of life saving jobs, this government made redundant in the NHS.

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Sally Nugent: "We know though, don't we, that Jackdaw actually only reduces the need for gas imports by 2% over 10 years. That does not seem like very much" Energy secretary: "Look, it isn't"

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A young US man interrupts JD Vance's propaganda rally and calls for the release of the Epstein files; MAGA the pro-Epstein Trump cult chanted USA as the brave man was dragged out by police for questioning the Trump-Epstein class.

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No further action to be taken against the wife of the Prime Minister’s national security adviser for support of Palestine Action 3,800+ arrests of people peacefully holding signs, and 36 counter-terror home raids for social media posts have taken place. www.thenational.scot/news/2664659...

thenational.scotNo police action against national security adviser’s wife over Palestine Action postNO further action will be taken against the wife of the Prime Minister’s national security adviser after she was accused of backing the banned protest group Palestine Action

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The left can't advocate any sort of meaningful change without enraging the media. It is utterly unavoidable. We can win unprecedented levels of support by taking on hard fights and having the courage of our convictions. The Green party is more successful than ever because we've understood this.

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In any sane country Jenrick would be out of a job after these grotesque remarks, but AFAICS almost no-one thinks they’re even worthy of comment

Gareth Davies@garethtbij.bsky.social

They want to create a 'Deportation Command' and the 'Migrant Identification Centre'. Their Chancellor in waiting is comfortable telling TalkTV that the Navy should be allowed to use 'lethal force' against migrants www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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At times like this, the mask really comes off the British media. There is no pretence - at all - about their impartiality or objectivity towards the Green Party. It is a blatant naked partisan cross-media assault against the Greens.

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Wes Streeting accuses Russia of aggression and imperialism. Now do the United States. Illegally kidnapping the head of state of Venezuela. Launching an illegal war on Iran. Escalating an illegal blockade of Cuba. And what are we doing? Helping them!

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Replying to @writersofcolour.bsky.social

In the footage, they can be heard shouting: "We're gonna smash every black c**t.” “More of the bl*ck b*s***ds there!” “P*kis an' all” “Fuck off, nobody wants you here, you're not welcome anymore. There's too many of you here and we've had enough…"

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Shitbag Trump confirms he attacked the ICC because he wasn’t awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and because a WOMAN won it. The 34 time convicted felon then attacks Judge Navi Pillay, who has dedicated decades to justice and human rights, before launching into a long, stupid rant.

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So the press is going for guilt by association, smear bullshit again and the left are shitting themselves again too. Have I woken up in 2018?

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Replying to @nickjg50.bsky.social

Israel requires the ethnic clensing of Palestinians and is carrying it out. The motion calls for a state where everyone has equal rights. One of those is racist but it's not the one you're claiming.

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ModernWarships by ArtStorm Games used my atomic ekranoplan design without permission or so much as buying me dinner, cmon guys don't do me dirty like this, cut me a cheque I'm broke! #Modernwarships #ArtStormGames

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Zack Polanski, "Over the next year, more than 1/3 of the money that the DWP spend on housing benefits, go straight into the pockets of private landlords, subsidising their extortionate rents" "That's £13.4 billion" "That could be spent building new council homes"

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Suella Braverman suggests on #BBCQT that you can't be English unless you are white, and have a lineage or heritage going back some generations

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Replying to @jackbern.bsky.social

The Prime Minister intervening in favour of sportswashing because they poured money into his city, and casting doubt on the independent verdict by referring to Everton, a completely different situation. staggeringly corrupt.