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"The rich are only defeated when running for their lives." - CLR James, The Black Jacobins

This place really is full of AI guys huh?

Is that good, bad, I don't know !?

The internet can be pretty gullible about tech products, but congrats to everyone who called exactly what this was going to be used for from the first moment they saw it.

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Look, I know all the reasons we got here, but we really need to start seriously thinking about what we do in a world where The Markets punish whole countries for voting for decency, compassion, and fairness. We must stop pretending the capitalist machine is an objective, value neutral force.

Green MSP Kate Nevens and SNP MP Lara Bird have been kidnapped by Israel for trying to enter Palestine. The Prime Minister should be demanding their immediate release.

Honestly the complete lack of coverage on this Turning Point UK story is going to do me in. Compare Israel to South Africa and The Lads will go through your bins, but have links to senior right-wing politicians and brag about being able to hire hitmen? Nada. Not interested. Budget's soon y'know

pretty clear evidence that republicans in the US losing any election going forward are going to always beg for a coup if they lose. lots of people will have to go to jail

This isn't even like a centre-to-far left coalition defeating Reform. Reform are fundamentally born out of the Conservative Party. Bolsonaro and Vučić lead parties that whose history is entirely one of ethbonationalist, anticommunist, paramilitary violence. Vučić took part in the Sarajevo Safari.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

A pretty straight choice here: regulate your billionaires, or billionaires will end democracy.

Genuinely I don't know that it comes across to people who haven't been here to watch how almost unbelievable this was, just people taking something that looked impossible and dragging it kicking and screaming all the way to inevitability.

These elections really make clear the damage populist hype has done The idea that anything left of centre, mildly critical of the status quo and the capitalist elite could be equated to the far right is so ridiculous and yet this is what has been pushed in most of the media aided by many academics

It would be incredibly useful for a country like Brazil to just outright ban Facebook and x. Show it can be done. Or at least apply regulatory standards that hucksters like musk and Zuckerberg can't meet. Make them rack up the fines every time some nazi posts.

Reminder that they also did this to Zack Polanski during the Holborn & St. Pancras by-election. Can't help but wonder that was a test run for future elections, such as the one that's just taken place in Brazil

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Grim stories from Brazil. Indigenous voters going to the city a day early because they don’t trust their state not to cut off their travel routes on election day: www.instagram.com/reel/De4z6kP... - while many flights to the north east, a pro-Lula region, have been cancelled without explanation.

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.

So here we have far-right militia attacking protestors and when the protestors defend themselves, the police charges them... Montpellier. These images are crazy and show where France is at regarding its fascist turn.

So much to say about this but consider how, if you are interviewed by media and have a pro-Palestinian position, you are expected to be fully across absolutely everything and to answer for anything anyone pro-Palestinian has ever said or done. And contrast with...this.

There's a persistent cliche that bluesky 'doesn't like AI' but if you go by sheer interaction volume, bsky LOVES AI and it's concentrated among these weird, gross pseudo-left accounts in the US Here's a direct link to the account so you can block them bsky.app/profile/mary...

Breaking. Data request from the CPS has confirmed the Met Police didn't supply the CPS with further information supplied by the witness about Graham Linehan that would have shown crucial context and mens rea to his tweet INCITING others to assault transgender people. This changes things massively.

The French elite love to claim the memory of the Revolution, the Rights of Man (sic), the resistance to Nazi occupation and other progressive moments in French history, but they are very quick to show they would have been on the authoritarian side whenever memory becomes action in the present

Bluesky seems to have broken saving images from your feed. Great job guys.

They are openly trying to fix voting in the USA.

They hounded him to death, and now they pursue him beyond the grave Jason Arday Again Cleared of Plagiarism as His Attackers Launch an ‘Independent Inquiry’ bylinetimes.com/2026/10/21/j...

people need to pay far less attention to what bernie sanders says about ai and far more to what aoc says about ai. sometimes you do just need to step back from the apps and the screens.

The “Burnham Bounce” has turned into the Green Bounceback. The intense media dishonesty didn’t work. Sticking to our guns on Gaza works.

Miatta can clearly see right from wrong but she's rowed into line twice with a Labour government siding with Shell and Donald Trump on climate vandalism, and into line now on cruel immigration reforms. What is the point of Labour if they can't even do the basics to protect people and the planet?

GREENS +2 This is the first poll for the Greens where they’ve gone up since Burnham became PM

there has seriously not been a single day over the last 2 years where the government hasn't revealed a policy that is a giant 'fuck you' to everyone in the country. labour are so much worse than the tories and im tired of ppl telling me truss was worse or screeching at me about boris johnson.

Huge vindication of the left wing think tank complex producing high quality MPs here. (/s)

Yeah look, how does this meaningfully differ from - to pick just one example - the entire press indulging Jonathan Ashworth and Thagnam Debonnaire in weeks of roaring into microphones about how “sectarian voting” cost them their seats? Do we think they meant “Muslims are legit Britons, like anyone”.

Fantastic news from Aotearoa New Zealand - trans healthcare professionals have won their court case against the government, overturning the country's ban on puberty blockers. Huge respect and congratulations to everyone involved in this fight.

"What does this tell us about the limits of international law when a state can withstand any potential political & legal consequences?" Xavier Abu Eid explains that intl law requires political action, and its that action that has been lacking. But things might be changing.

It’s come to something when a photographer has to get legal advice, before displaying this photo in an exhibition, due to the risk of being prosecuted as a terrorist, but that’s exactly what I had to do yesterday. What a state this country is in.

This means that the increased price of RAM and consumer electronics was a result of an artificial "supply chain crisis" created by Jensen Huang pushing NVIDIA's customers to take early delivery of GPUs. Jensen Huang is responsible for making life worse for everyone.

The choice is clear: warm homes, lower bills + jobs for the many or profits for a handful of fossil fuel firms: share.google/F1wiyUo2YF5M...

Haynes: "I do feel I have become the wargame correspondent, haven't I?" 'Ratcheting up to war' correspondent, certainly.

The French trashed the McDonalds, looted the Apple Store and Luis Vuitton's hand bags. All run by global billionaires. But they left the French Chicken shop untouched.

Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI) thinks "a significant fraction of the power on Earth should be running AI compute." But even the guys building it, hate it: The wide adoption of AI at Microsoft led an executive vice-president to complain about all the AI slop & the “ocean of sameness” he has to confront.