Joy
@joybe.bsky.social
Fifer, reader, crafter, lefty, independence supporter. 🏴 I read a lot of books and watch a lot of tv, talk about politics and admire beautiful art & photography. I post about all these things.
There was has never been an actual ceasefire, but much of the media used it as an excuse to stop talking about Gaza altogether.
Gillian Martin@gillmartin.bsky.social · 2d agoAnother Israeli airstrike in Gaza. More people murdered. Since the ‘ceasefire’ over 1,230 Palestinians have been murdered in Gaza,and over 4,000 injured. There is no ‘ceasefire’ Stop selling UK arms to Israel.
Examination of the consequences of Elon Musk "feeding USAID into the wood chipper". Boston University estimates roughly 762,000 to 800,000 deaths occurred within the first year of the cuts, including over 500,000 children under the age of five. Do you think he cares? archive.is/202607300959...
How many people are dying as a result of USAID’s demise?
Fewer than academics imagine, but more than Elon Musk will admit
economist.com
Palantir hoovering up European defence and NHS contracts whilst funnelling earnings back to the US to pay negligible corporate tax is a complete failure of digital sovereignty. European states must stop enriching tech firms that drain public coffers. Is it time to ban them? #FBPE
Palantir funnels earnings to US to avoid European taxes, report finds
A new study finds that Palantir, which boasts of high profit margins in the U.S., barely scrapes a margin in Europe, which helps slash its tax bill.
politico.eu
@mrjamesob.bsky.social The conversation of kids spending too much time indoors instead of going outside is ever ongoing. 'Why Don't You' ran from 1973 to 1995....the entirety of my childhood 😄.
Roversi makes some of the most wondrous images ❤️
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 16h ago‘Magic from the shadows’: the dreamlike visions of Paolo Roversi – in pictures
Barcelona is ending Airbnb as we know it. Rents soared 68% in 10 years, pricing out locals. Now, by Nov 2028, all 10,101 tourist rental licences will be revoked, returning homes to the local market. Owners – many of them absentees – challenged the move, but Spain’s Constitutional Court upheld it.
The Righteous Rupert Lowe-Life preached about leaches sucking the financial blood out of Britain. This is the same Whoopert Lowe-Life whose company took £100k in furlough cash despite making £7.9 million profit He really didn’t need it but it was free, it was available so he took it like a leach
So all this money has to be sepnt on defence to protect the public from scary Russians etc, etc, BUT, they also have to let criminals out of prison early because there's no room & no money to build new ones...🤷♀️
This is what happens when anti-racism norms erode, and elites bear a lot of the responsibility for norm erosion, as they have disproportionate power to set and enforce norms
Charles EP Murphy@cepmurphy.bsky.social · 2d agonews.sky.com/story/nhs-st... stereotypically this has been seen as Old People, but not only would the old people of now have often been born post-Windrush, lot of this will be younger people who've always lived in a diverse Britain. The guy with a pregnant wife likely millennial at oldest
The state of this. A lovely day out for Badenoch and Philp, playing dress up and making pronouncements about early release schemes - having left the country with one hundred available men's prison places, after fourteen years in charge. You read that right. One hundred places.
Calling it a bubble is to miss the point. Go to where a community suits you, and where you suit the community. Where you can get what you want. I don’t want fights any more. I want facts, freedom and fun - peppered with interesting information. Is that a bubble? Maybe, but a good one. 4/4
Skys John Sparks, speaking from Jerusalem: ".. the ceasefire in Gaza, the 1st phase was implemented last Oct, its brought about a semblance of peace in Gaza" Moments later: Dr James Smith, speaking from Gaza: "I must challenge your correspondent, there is no ceasefire in Gaza"
Another conversation on the radio about the number of people being diagnosed as autistic now compared to in the past. My brother is 54. He didn't get diagnosed as autistic until he was 41. He didn't just magically become autistic at 41 he struggled with the anxiety that came with it all his life.
French forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. These fuckers really are vile bastards 😡😡
There are more than 75k wind turbines operating across the US.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2d agoTrump: Any country with windmills is a loser, OK?
I guess we’re about to find out how much some media commentators and certain politicians actually care about antisemitism….
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d agoFormer neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election
All kinds of interesting learnings, today. The editor tried to get rid of him for being a nasty piece of work and Rupert Murdoch personally intervened to protect him.
Alice Dalton Brown (American b.1939), Summer Breeze, 1995, Oil on linen, 50 in. x 70.25 in
People should look up “phosphorus bombs” And what phosphorus does to living human tissue
Human Rights Index 💙@humanrightsindex.bsky.social · 2d agoAccording to Lebanon’s National News Agency, Israeli forces used phosphorus bombs yesterday on two locations in southern Lebanon. The attacks caused fires in olive groves and pine forests, burning more than 120 hectares in Yaroun alone.
The gaslighting is off the charts with this one. Every word is a lie. His actual approval rating is the second worst in modern presidential history, behind only Nixon’s 24% just before he resigned.
Dear media, Please stop calling Zia Yusuf Reforms shadow home secretary. He's not even an MP.
Update: No deal, back to war, Trump says.
Republicans Against Trumpism@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 3d agoTrump says Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, and Iran convinced him to call off a planned attack on Iran, adding: “I think there’s a deal.” Reminder: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar all have business ties to the Trump family. Nothing about this is normal.
Amazing to see the usual TERFs wailing & pearl clutching over Rod Liddle’s demise. The same TERFs who claim they’re protecting women & girls from evil trans people are the same TERFs sobbing over the death of a man who beat his pregnant girlfriend & who wanted to shag children.
Another #renewable first for Scotland. Cars are now being charged by the power of the ocean. We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #ClimateCrisis #Climate #energy #renewableenergy #greennewdeal
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
Lots of conversations about equality on #LBC today. Whether there should be all women story lists, whether that discriminates against men etc etc... This is their lineup for tomorrow....just saying 🤷♀️.
