Simon A.
@simona62.bsky.social
I lurk, sometimes ‘like’, and occasionally comment. I try to follow people who seem pretty decent. Personal insults demonstrate you’ve lost the argument. UK based.
Former Israeli war chief Yoav Gallant admitted that Israeli forces killed their own civilians and soldiers during the Hamas' attack on October 7, 2023. He revealed that the Hannibal Directive was issued, leading the Israeli army to indiscriminately fire at people Don't think you will see that in MSM
This guy has been and still is my ‘human university’. By that I mean he’s taught, inspired and echoed my inner thoughts & theories more than any other human I’ve ever come across. Here he is talking about humanity’s “circling the drain”. His name — GEORGE CARLIN.
1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.
Emma Yeomans@yeomans.bsky.social · 3w agoWorrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
This! 👇
Kevin 🏴🇪🇺💚 #VoteGreen@kevbro1969.bsky.social · 3w agoA reminder that privatised companies only have one priority, & that's to make as much money for their bosses & shareholders as possible. Good service does NOT come into it. With #NHS privatisation, our health will not be prioritised over profits. #Labour know this & yet they STILL don't care.
This is truly awful. My heart weeps. 👇
Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco@joshpizpom.bsky.social · 4w agoEXC: 90 programmes in Edinburgh University's College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences are to be closed. The casualties, which include 48 language and literature programmes, will be 'taught out', w/ no admissions after 2027. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655839...
Thames Water is a zombie company, kept alive by debt. Take it into Special Administration. That way cash from customer bills can go straight into sewage and water infrastructure rather than servicing the debt. Then take it into public ownership. We can't afford privatisation.
We loved this so much we just had to put English subtitles on it, apologies to the French speakers for our translation. But this is what it would look like here in the UK if Farage or Lowe or another of their ilk got their own way.
This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.
It's hard to think of anything less British than the morons doing this to the heroic RNLI
RL what a nasty, nasty individual. Threatening someone for simply doing their job. 👇
David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social · last mo.Lowe going even lower. An official carrying out the policies of an elected government is threatened with imprisonment. What's going on here is deeply disturbing.
A few things (international) commentatoes should remember. Only 2 million people live in Sachsen-Anhalt. Half of Berlin, a tenth of NRW. Around 400k will vote AfD. Even with this strong result, 80% of people living in S-A will not have voted for the AfD. In a state that is a far-right stronghold.
Please RT! 👇 🙏🏻 X
Reece Dinsdale@reecedinsdale.bsky.social · last mo.I’m going for a viewing at #SquareChapelArtsCentre Halifax tomorrow, to see what state it’s in after it fell into darkness. Even if I’m unable to save it (& I’d dearly love to) let’s hope there’s some kindly, art-loving benefactor out there who cares enough about it to do so! 🙏🏻 🤞 🙌
This is disgusting. Mind, I wouldn’t expect anything less from a RF conference. 👇
Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · last mo.Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
Worth reading for the comments. Not that the ‘great unwashed’ will go anywhere near reading this. 😂👇
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last mo."Why are young men so lonely? They're not showering and they're drinking their own urine, so I'm not sure what else they could do to attract women."
Trust Dr Fauchi Anthony Fauci is an American physician-scientist and immunologist. He served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022 and as Chief Medical Advisor to the President from 2021 to 2022. Science Is Under Attack By Republicans
The loss of dolly feels so significant because she was a fundamentally decent person publicly. We live in such an era of proudly public assholery that her example was especially profound.
Once again @monkemma.bsky.social shows ‘journalists’ how it’s done. Mr Jason Arday (RIP 😢). Most seem to be too quick to create badly researched articles for clickbait, acting as ‘influencers’. As well as being too keen to denegrate/hound others irrespective of the facts.
Emma Monk@monkemma.bsky.social · 2mo agoOne of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26
One day, people in power will be asked what they did during the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians… And they’ll be able to say …we kept sending Israel arms, trading with them and issued a joint statement.