Once again, liberals 🤝 fascists. The only answer they have is repression to keep doing Capital's interests.

Le Monde@lemonde.fr · 3d ago

Mobilisations sociales : Emmanuel Macron a présidé un conseil de défense pour préparer les manifestations du week-end

If you can't see what's wrong with this and all the people being lauded and promoted for hounding a man to death I don't know what to say other than unfollow me and one day try and become a decent person.

Media Diversified@writersofcolour.bsky.social · 4d ago

Should journalists be rewarded for the ‘sustained racist targeting, harassment and humiliation’ that preceded Professor Arday's death @pressgazette.co.uk?

*nods in trans* Hounding minorities, and backslapping each other for doing it, has been a staple of the BJA for many years.

Samantha Asumadu@samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 4d ago

If you can't see what's wrong with this and all the people being lauded and promoted for hounding a man to death I don't know what to say other than unfollow me and one day try and become a decent person.

I always find it heartwarming to see how billionaires and multi-millionaires, in one word, capitalists, have all the resources and none of the fun. They've got the money to be completely care-free, but they're the lamest humans on earth.

Futurism@futurism.com · last wk.

"I have an AI agent that logs every negative comment someone makes about me online."

Dear UKHEI I beg you. Start privileging pedagogy. Stop cascading 'busy work'. Yours, An educator

I have ADHD and I'm not a wanker. We exist. 🥲

I wish white US liberals would take heed, but they love spreading and boosting right-wing bigotry just to say "omg look how bad this is"

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com · 6d ago

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Arrest him, throw away the key, turn his private companies into collective property. Seize all means of production and show the world what all billionaires really are: sad pathetic little men.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 7d ago

Musk is panicking about his recent anti-Ukraine moves following bi-partisan demands to bring his business under scrutiny, and perhaps control.

When you say, "This is just a stunt to attract attention," what you're really saying is, "I'm someone who does not think this cause is important enough to pay attention to."

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · last wk.

"The Jews who went to Mississippi didn't take selfies and post tweets." Okay, but honestly, if tweets had been a thing in 1961, many of them probably would have done.

🔴 NEW Jason Arday Again Cleared of Plagiarism as His Attackers Launch an ‘Independent Inquiry’ By @nafeez.bsky.social Read below. ↓

Jason Arday Again Cleared of Plagiarism as His Attackers Launch an ‘Independent Inquiry’

Backed by Reform UK megadonor Ben Delo, the Committee for Academic Freedom defended Arday’s accusers and has now commissioned a report into his appointment by Cambridge University

bylinetimes.com

Liberals really want to make sure we all understand they're the fascists' best friends

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · last wk.

Might it be quicker if we gave a short list of places where it is appropriate to protest and make statements? Because it appears to be quite literally nowhere.

1. Eugenics is as British as King Charles. 2. you don’t need a show for this. I can tell people won’t recognize eugenics if it’s repackaged; and the British media has done everything to ensure the public won’t recognize such ideologies. 3. Not sure I would trust said British media with this project

The Paul of the House of Usher@katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 2w ago

Wait - has this whole period of Labour governance been a Channel 4 experiment?

Another landmark moment in the suppression of free speech to protect a Genocidal entity. Labour will pay a very high price.

Liberals are the fascists' best friends.

💢Marx Was Right.🕊@paulwalker44.bsky.social · 2w ago

🇫🇷 www.instagram.com/reel/Depfw-k...

While very little of what the new UK porn bans talk about are things I'm into, I'm still uncomfortable with the idea. Consenting adults playing with fantasy with other consenting adults - that's not an area I think the law should be wandering into.

For me, the answer to both is education. It doesn't help if we treat approaches to doing so as a perverse thing in itself. If young people are getting sex education from pornography, then we need better sex education.

What do you do when the press is made up of people unable of any thinking, let alone critical thinking? This is elementary statistics - it tells us absolutely nothing. Labour and press are complicit in the culture war started by the fascists against neurodivergent people.

Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2w ago

Interviewing a govt minister Hazarika shows a graph comparing young people claiming PIP to the size of our armed forces & declares it "tells a story about modern Britain" I can't even make a sarcastic comment about our fearless fourth estate, because Hazarika is a Labour politician

My whole life Britain has been megaphoning me the msg that because of my politics of peace & values of equality I'm hateful villainous scum fit only to be monstered out of public life & frauded & fucked off. You think I'm signing up to die for you?

Sky News@news.sky.com · 2w ago

Half of adults would not go to war for the UK, poll suggests

The mediocre managerial class that is destroying UK universities by deferring decisions to consultants while they take home eye-watering salaries is somehow convinced that staff and students are buying all their snake oil comms. We're not. None of us is. We can all see through your performance.

University of Nottingham UCU branch@uonucu.bsky.social · 2w ago

Our students were sent an email from the Vice Chancellor advertising the benefits of Future Nottingham. Turns out, they are having none of it.

Our students were sent an email from the Vice Chancellor advertising the benefits of Future Nottingham. Turns out, they are having none of it.

It upsets me that a man who stands accused of saying ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas em all’ to Jewish students at his college, who refuses to acknowledge or apologise for this, and more recently has made disparaging comments about ‘globalists’ & George Soros is the Jewish Chronicle’s latest columnist.

This is fun. The Critic Magazine - funded by some right wing billionaire, has teamed up with another criminally convicted right billionaire, to investigate Jason Arday (rather than their two writers prosecuted for sex offences). Oligarch media, and la trahison des clercs

Academia is not a woke space. Beyond superficial claims, it's very much governed by the same old structures of oppression present in wider society (racism, misogyny, ableism, queerphobia, classism etc) further entrenched by neoliberal logics

It seems the Tories and the Telegraph are teaming up to try and rid Britain of disability by taking away people’s safety net, whilst blaming them for all Britains problems. It’s cruelty personified. It is the very worst of humanity and they should be ashamed of themselves.

OK, since this thread has blown up a bit, I think it's worth clarifying in a new thread to what extent the 'GenAI is asbestos for the mind' analogy might hold up, and where it breaks down (as even useful analogies always do): 1/n

Shannon Vallor@shannonvallor.bsky.social · 3w ago

We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind

Like many others, I had unfortunately called the government's delirious "let it rot" policy - we'll see further collapse before we see any improvement. And unless @ucu.org.uk takes back its role and calls a national, open-ended #strike blocking all Unis in solidarity, nothing will improve.

Karen Gregory@karengregory.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Pointing to estimates of about 30,000 job losses in the past three years..." www.ft.com/content/ded7...

What has the BBC ever done for… transphobia?

Come on now Burnham, you said you wanted to end neoliberalism, so do it. Start by ending the outsourcing of our services to the profiteers.

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 3w ago

NHS faces exodus of ADHD and autism services staff to private clinics. Low wages have caused brain drain, loss of skilled staff. Part of privatisation of the NHS by stealth. Private sector picks up NHS contracts, profiteers, higher cost to public purse, increases NHS queues.

Today is World Mental Health Day. And given the dismal state of our world, the only thing I can think of is that one scene in Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, when the troops arrive in Britain. - Old Man: "Well done, lads. Well done." - Alex: "All we did is survive." - Old Man: "That's enough."

Sighs in trans… how often has the trans community pointed out that every approach to attacking us can be reused / repurposed against other minorities and folk were like, “Ah but trans folk icky” and so here we are… see also today’s misreporting about ADHD