Harry Stokes

We do not need huge numbers of data centres to gobble up water and power. This isn't about helpful artificial intelligence it is about billionaires taking the biggest share they can get of wealth and leaving the rest of us increasingly powerless. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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.

People power. 🇧🇷🇷🇸 Real hope. Real change.

Is it a wealth tax on assets? Lol no it's welfare cuts, of course. Consent machine for disabled genocide go brrrrrr www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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

Brazil proves you can beat fascism without cowardly appeasing their every wish. Keir Starmer/Andy Burnham look weak, cowardly, ineffective. You beat fascists by squaring up to them and smashing them in the face, not meekly cowering behind appeasement. Andy Burnham is a snivelling coward.

But also Tony Blair needs you to have a fully digital ID on your phone at all times and the government spent the last decades making you do everything online as part of efficiency or something But yeah, guess copy shops are, like swallows, returning home to the high street?

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

Tonight Brazil and Serbia have proven that in every corner of our planet the forces of hope can defeat the fascists, but only if we are willing to fight like hell. 🇧🇷💚🇷🇸

Labour/Tory/Reform are all pushing sick and twisted politics that has resulted in deaths and will likely continue to result in deaths. The fact that this hasn’t been stopped is a putrid stain on the state and country

This week's Budget must tackle the cost-of-living crisis. Tax the super-rich. End austerity.

Reminder, no one is safe until everyone is safe. And #OneHealth means human, animal and environmental health are indivisible

I regret not murdering more poors & sicks while I had the chance

This looks bad but neither the writer nor his target readership know anybody killed, starved or otherwise immiserated by long years of austerity. This is just a fun little thought experiment with Monopoly money.

We’ve seen this script before. This Labour government won’t take action for the people who so desperately need change right now.

Labour sure know how to curate a hostile environment! Someone's playing the guitar while our home starts to burn. Time to Join.greenparty.org.uk

Libs think they are real people who have emotions and can feel pain and the rest of us aren't and don't. It's why they'll smugly state that people suffering and dying are a rounding error to be ignored but then screech when people are mean to them in response. They count, you don't.

Liberals who say trans people or refugees or disabled people or Palestinians etc need to go under the bus are telling you very clearly they will harm and kill anyone as long as it benefits them. That absolutely includes you. Pure self preservation means you should oppose them.

Neal Lawson: "I couldn't live on the meagre benefits people are getting. To suggest that we have to cut those.. actually that's where the engine of growth is, that's the people who spend.. how do you get people out spending.. not by cutting benefits of people at the bottom"

A couple of big Starmer chicken came home to roost this week. First, a huge increase in domestic abuse despite his pledge to halve it in a decade. Now we find his much promoted and trumpeted control measures for social media haven’t changed a thing since their introduction.

The UK Government’s approval of the Jackdaw gas field is a climate catastrophe. It'll do nothing to lower household bills. It'll have no meaningful impact on the UK’s energy security. It'll only help greedy shareholders rake in obscene profits. greens.scot/news/jackdaw...

I think that after twenty years of scything cuts and demonstrative cruelty, we can conclude that this system is not intended to improve the lives and wellbeing of citizens.

Comes around earlier every year

This week, scientific publisher Taylor & Francis concluded an investigation which cleared Jason Arday, the former Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge, of plagiarism. The Guardian hasn't commented.

Spreading the word about Buy the Supply around Brighton! I've been leaving copies of my Zine, which will help you make the case for buying as well as building council homes, in libraries and organisations across the city. Print one out! 👇https://www.sianberry.org.uk/buy-the-supply-evidence/

No art, no culture, just a wasteland of jails

Amazing, the new wonder technology is recreating the paperful office

The real reason Gen Z is flocking to the @greenparty.org.uk Young people are looking ahead at what their future could look like if we carry on burning fossil fuels and don't take climate change seriously. @zackpolanski.bsky.social @turnleftmedia.co.uk

It is entirely manufactured by a fairly small number of rich people shado-mag.com/articles/opi...

Arts & culture to be banned by 2030. A cop in every home by 2035

As I keep saying: the international fascist movement

Palantir being given access to this stuff is basically treason.

If Labour wasn't dominated by cowards and right-wingers, they would have taken serious action to sort the BBC out by now. The Tories weren't subtle about stuffing it with their people. Now we're at a point where any expression of support for marginalised groups is seen as unacceptable.

and to all of creation.

Remember when Labour shitehoused that vote to keep the words “collective punishment” out of the parliamentary record, then lied about what they’d done and said it was about protecting MPs’ safety? Do you think they did that because they *didn’t* believe this stuff is collective punishment.