🚨NEW People Just Do Something🚨 I spoke w/ Iyad Burnat - A Palestinian activist + chair of the popular committee of Bil'in who organize non-violent resistance in the West Bank We discuss the use of non-violence, the one-state solution + what you can do to help ep- open.spotify.com/episode/07aa...

*SPECIAL* Peaceful resistance in the face of Genocide with Iyad Burnat

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Yeah man, sure, that's exactly why those are there...

You expect me to believe you care about global warming when you literally own an "air fryer" with which you no doubt fry the air? You are a monster actually

Inside @20thcflicks.bsky.social, a beloved bristol video shop institution, as seen by @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social lwlies.com/articles/20t...

I’m Not Even Supposed To Be Here Today: The Video Shop at the End of the World

Tucked away on a narrow street in Bristol, an Aladdin's cave of DVDs persists despite the odds. For one employee, it's the Hotel California of video shops.

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We don't need the money we just want to make them squirm

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LATEST | Starmer says ‘moral case’ behind cuts to disability benefits, not dire finances

The walking times on Google maps are based on the walking speed of cowards and dawdlers. I will always best them. The cycling speeds however are seeming based on some Tour De France freak and I will never get anywhere close to beating them

Cool we're bringing back the asbo era. Even I managed to get the first warning towards one despite being broadly well behaved and growing up in a small town. Next stop mosquito alarms

Mikey Smith@mikeysmith.com · last yr.

Labour's war on yobs: Thugs who terrorise communities face town bans and jail time www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

I'm the belly of the beast in that there London. Finally visiting the much hyped Pelican House to have an iftar with comrades and talk about building Apartheid-Free Zones in solidarity with Palestine across this god forsaken capital city of ours.

Jesus Christ man... We have had successive governments implementing increasingly Draconian crackdowns on various forms of protests yet through that an increasingly radicalised reactionary fringe of people becoming determined to hit protesters with their car. Solidarity with the protesters

there's like 100 David Lynch-directed films listed on Letterboxd (many like a min long) so to compliment our recent episode on him I've compiled this list of what I consider the core ones, plus a few Lynch-starring, Lynch-produced, and otherwise Lynch-adjacent pictures letterboxd.com/jackfraynere...

The Reel Politik David Lynch Watchlist

the core Lynch and Lynch-adjacent works as discussed in episode 323 of the Reel Politik podcast (David Lynch In Memoriam). find out why CAT PEOPLE (1942) comes first by listening here: soundcloud.com/reelpolitikpodcast/episode-323-david-lynch-in / or here: www.patreon.com/posts/episode-323-in-122406380 / or here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_HM9o5KEEQ

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"The vile left is at the same time too strong and too weak, study finds." - The Guardian

Tried doing some coding using python and a lot of support from both my sister and ChatGPT last night. Is genuinely impressive how with a very very basic understanding of some of the logic and AI help you can do an ok job... I do lack the basics though so results were very hit and miss

Labour would let arts, culture and learning in Wales crumble away to nothing so long as it saves a few pence. Not that it will.

Richard Wyn Jones@richardwynjones.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Minister knows full-well that the funding model for universities is totally broken. She and her Welsh Govt colleagues have the power to address this but are currently choosing not to - despite £1.2B+ a year of HigherEd related spending... 1/2 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

TODAYS ep of PJDS is w/ Matt + Sasha on Palestine, the Bristol Apartheid Free-Zone campaign + how to organise your own I failed as a journo for yrs partly due to a refusal to give up on certain principles. Its such an honour now to produce stuff Im passionate about open.spotify.com/episode/4efk...

E012: Here comes the neighbourhood: Two parents mobilising Bristol for Palestine

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Just read that the WhatsApp group Andrew Gwynne was posting all his comments in had 44 members at its peak. It's genuinely mental that an MP would be posting things like that in a group that big. What did he think would happen?? Shows how untouchable they think they are.

Women getting the ick about men also just isn't new? Like it's the punch line in literally 1000s of sitcoms over decades where a female character and the male lead have been dating and she catches him doing something weird / shocking and immediately leaves him and never shows up again

gav@gavinmit.bsky.social · 2y ago

remember seinfeld when jerry got the ick about a different woman every week because she finished his sentences or had man hands? and no-one wrote columns about this unfair trend because who gives a shit when it's men judging women and we also didn't live in incel-world yet?

Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins: Trade union organise, investigative reporter, crypto-bro and dread Pirate Roberts apologist. This was a great episode though tbf so you should get your ears around it

The Bristol Cable@thebristolcable.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 New episode… How do cryptocurrencies work? Why does the right love them so much? And how can blockchain technologies be used for more positive social purposes? 🪙🪙🪙 Join @tbsocialist.bsky.social in conversation with Priyanka and @isaac-kh.bsky.social to find out… bit.ly/40Hj9Lu

My piece about being a unite representative on the @cubasolidarity.bsky.social brigade last May Day is out on @tribunemagazine.bsky.social . I discuss my time there, 60 years of solidarity tours and how the Cuban revolution is still an inspiration to us all tribunemag.co.uk/2025/01/soli...

Solidarity Under Siege

For more than six decades, the USA has subjected Cuba to a blockade designed to destroy its economy — an act of aggression met with a global solidarity movement that has helped keep the country alive.

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Did a talk about Marxist views of ideology for Bristol Transformed's Micro dosing Marxism sessions and showed that video where you're meant to count the passes of a vall and then shouldn't see the man in the gorilla suit... Everyone saw the man in the gorilla suit. Absolutely derailed me.

Should post on here more but it really does lack that misanthropic juice of the other place doesn't it?

And I have a goose that lays golden eggs

Hayden Field@haydenfield.bsky.social · 2y ago

OpenAI just unveiled Operator, its AI agent that's designed to automate tasks like planning vacations, making restaurant reservations & ordering groceries, directly competing with an earlier release from rival Anthropic. Currently debuting in research preview mode. www.cnbc.com/2025/01/23/o...

I feel like at some point the media needs to stop covering these announcements without actually using them. Can it actually do these things? has anyone seen them do it? How many times did it take to get it right?

Hayden Field@haydenfield.bsky.social · 2y ago

OpenAI just unveiled Operator, its AI agent that's designed to automate tasks like planning vacations, making restaurant reservations & ordering groceries, directly competing with an earlier release from rival Anthropic. Currently debuting in research preview mode. www.cnbc.com/2025/01/23/o...

The woman doing a fake Welsh accent on The Traitors has literally made me idpol

Yes, pathetic from local & national media - some Wilts & Swindon coverage but nothing in Somerset, despite out best efforts to alert people & challenge the ICB with questions of concern www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/yoursay/swin...

Ex-NHS employee disappointed by private company winning care contract

A retired NHS physiotherapist who worked at hospitals around Wiltshire expressed her disappointment at a billion-pound care services contract being…

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So an update on my piece on political donations for @thebristolcable.bsky.social is that Paul Addison head lobbyist for consultancy firm ARUP who was seconded to Darren Jones' office is now the Director of policy at the Department for Energy Security + Net Zero 🧵 thebristolcable.org/2024/12/poli...

Political donations: who is giving money to Bristol Labour MPs?

Local Labour MPs have taken political donations from a range of sources, including pro-Israel lobby groups. Does that affect their integrity?

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Alright then I'm going to a stag do in Benidorm so I needs some Benidorm recommendations

Remember not that long ago when you told English people you were Welsh so they'd just sort of assume you were vaguely left wing. Hmmm

Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️@leftiestats.bsky.social · 2y ago

Senedd voting intention (+LeftieStats estimate): 🟥 LAB 27% (-9), 31 seats 🟪 REF 24% (+23), 31 seats 🟦 CON 18% (-7), 17 seats 🟩 PC 17% (-4), 16 seats 🟧 LD 6% (+2), 1 seat 🟩 GRN 6% (+2), 0 seats Polling via Beaufort Research, 4-24 Nov (+/- vs 2021)

It's a huge indictment of our media that this huge privatisation of the NHS in the SW has gone unreported. The £1.3b contract to HCRG (owned by Twenty20 Capital) is maybe the biggest ever single NHS contact given to a private equity firm + has received no coverage www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

Labour just oversaw a £1.3 BILLION SELL-OFF of NHS services to a private equity firm

A private equity firm that paid out £27m to shareholders in 2022 just bought up an entire county's NHS community services in Wiltshire

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