Alan Rodgers
@bi99le5.bsky.social
Recovering former Brit finally taking ownership of being Irish. Desperate to retire so I can re-engage with restoration of my first car and become a Gaeilgeoir. Guilty of confelicity
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Alan Rodgers
@bi99le5.bsky.social
· Mar 26
The West in particular and the world in general is in a parlous stare right now. The imperfect democracies that generally served the people post WW2 have been changing in degrees. Most of us haven't noticed or paid much heed. Unfortunately the forces for change have been the politicians, driven by
I did a thread, as usual a few typos but I think it is honest and true. Sadly not one of you commented, so I'm pinning it here so anyone who decides to follow me knows where I stand.
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A silhouetted Pikeman appears to stand guard over Creevy Rocks in Saintfield. If you’d like to find out more about the 1798 Rebellion, grab one of the last few tickets for our final public tour of 2025 on Sunday at 1pm.
🎟️👉🏼 www.1798Saintfield.com #VisitMourne
🎟️👉🏼 www.1798Saintfield.com #VisitMourne
November 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
A silhouetted Pikeman appears to stand guard over Creevy Rocks in Saintfield. If you’d like to find out more about the 1798 Rebellion, grab one of the last few tickets for our final public tour of 2025 on Sunday at 1pm.
🎟️👉🏼 www.1798Saintfield.com #VisitMourne
🎟️👉🏼 www.1798Saintfield.com #VisitMourne
"All the actual industry and business part of it is awful and depressing and kinda gross to us but making art with your friends is good for you so I try not to forget that."
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November 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
"All the actual industry and business part of it is awful and depressing and kinda gross to us but making art with your friends is good for you so I try not to forget that."
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Do they simply not notice the xenophobia, or do they think it doesn’t matter?
November 14, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Do they simply not notice the xenophobia, or do they think it doesn’t matter?
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A Labour Party has jettisoned plans to increase taxes on unearned income - disproportionately enjoyed by the wealthy - and is increasing them instead on the earned income of normal people. What a shocking indictment.
November 14, 2025 at 9:35 AM
A Labour Party has jettisoned plans to increase taxes on unearned income - disproportionately enjoyed by the wealthy - and is increasing them instead on the earned income of normal people. What a shocking indictment.
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smile benevolently, roll their eyes, and explain we have to play by the rules.
These rules see women struggle to raise their children.
These rules mean poverty, violence, and rape are normalised.
Fuck this system.
We're changing the rules.
These rules see women struggle to raise their children.
These rules mean poverty, violence, and rape are normalised.
Fuck this system.
We're changing the rules.
November 14, 2025 at 8:24 AM
smile benevolently, roll their eyes, and explain we have to play by the rules.
These rules see women struggle to raise their children.
These rules mean poverty, violence, and rape are normalised.
Fuck this system.
We're changing the rules.
These rules see women struggle to raise their children.
These rules mean poverty, violence, and rape are normalised.
Fuck this system.
We're changing the rules.
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A "sliding scale of rape." There are women who'll carry water for the patriarchy. The "Pick Me's" who think they're safe if they side with abusers.
From "nice women" who say you're "too loud" or "too aggressive" or "too political" when you call out this system that supports abuse to "experts" who 1/
From "nice women" who say you're "too loud" or "too aggressive" or "too political" when you call out this system that supports abuse to "experts" who 1/
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 14, 2025 at 8:24 AM
A "sliding scale of rape." There are women who'll carry water for the patriarchy. The "Pick Me's" who think they're safe if they side with abusers.
From "nice women" who say you're "too loud" or "too aggressive" or "too political" when you call out this system that supports abuse to "experts" who 1/
From "nice women" who say you're "too loud" or "too aggressive" or "too political" when you call out this system that supports abuse to "experts" who 1/
"Nothing will change until the political system is freed from the clutches of corporations and the super-rich"
AKA stating the bleeding obvious. MPs don't represent us. We ones who do. This is why we can never again listen to the "vote for us to stop them" bullshit or those who push it.
AKA stating the bleeding obvious. MPs don't represent us. We ones who do. This is why we can never again listen to the "vote for us to stop them" bullshit or those who push it.
Corporate funded think-tanks urge govt to cut benefits, pensions, schools meals, public spending; charge for seeing GPs.
Oppose taxes on the rich.
Support subsidies for auto, steel, film, shipbuilding, oil, gas, biomass, semiconductor, internet and other companies.
It is class war.
Oppose taxes on the rich.
Support subsidies for auto, steel, film, shipbuilding, oil, gas, biomass, semiconductor, internet and other companies.
It is class war.
Nothing will change until the political system is freed from the clutches of corporations and the super-rich
The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few
leftfootforward.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM
"Nothing will change until the political system is freed from the clutches of corporations and the super-rich"
AKA stating the bleeding obvious. MPs don't represent us. We ones who do. This is why we can never again listen to the "vote for us to stop them" bullshit or those who push it.
AKA stating the bleeding obvious. MPs don't represent us. We ones who do. This is why we can never again listen to the "vote for us to stop them" bullshit or those who push it.
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“More than 90% of vegetation cover in the Gaza Strip has been destroyed”.
“80 percent of the water in the Gaza Strip is completely contaminated.”
"We are facing a real catastrophe that will result in the spread of diseases and epidemics.”
This was always the plan, wasn’t it.
“80 percent of the water in the Gaza Strip is completely contaminated.”
"We are facing a real catastrophe that will result in the spread of diseases and epidemics.”
This was always the plan, wasn’t it.
Everything in Gaza destroyed systematically by Israel, says Khan Younis mayor - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/everything-gaza-destroyed-systematically-israel-says-khan-younis-mayor
Everything in Gaza destroyed systematically by Israel, says Khan Younis mayor
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>Mayor of Khan Younis, Alaa Al Din Al Batta, on Thursday said that everything in Gaza, including the vegetation, has been destroyed by Israel in a deliberate and systematic manner, Al Jazeera reported. </p>
<p>"Access to landfills is difficult due to the destruction. More than 90% of the vegetation cover in the Gaza Strip has been destroyed," he said. </p>
<p>"We are facing a real catastrophe that will result in the spread of diseases and epidemics," he added. </p>
<p>On Tuesday, Bashar Murad, the director of health programmes at the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, said that 80 percent of the water in the Gaza Strip is completely contaminated. </p>
<p>On 3 November, the United Nations said more than 81 percent of all buildings in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed by Israel’s relentless bombardment.</p>
<p>Entire neighbourhoods across Gaza have been reduced to rubble, leaving families displaced and essential infrastructure obliterated.</p>
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November 13, 2025 at 9:31 AM
“More than 90% of vegetation cover in the Gaza Strip has been destroyed”.
“80 percent of the water in the Gaza Strip is completely contaminated.”
"We are facing a real catastrophe that will result in the spread of diseases and epidemics.”
This was always the plan, wasn’t it.
“80 percent of the water in the Gaza Strip is completely contaminated.”
"We are facing a real catastrophe that will result in the spread of diseases and epidemics.”
This was always the plan, wasn’t it.
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‘They surround our car’: Families at Citywest IPAS centre tell of ongoing ‘harassment’ People fleeing war, poverty, insecurity are being abused daily by local racist gobsh*tes, desecrating the tricolour as they harass women, children & men. Shameful! #speirgorm
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‘They surround our car’: Families at Citywest IPAS centre tell of ongoing ‘harassment’
‘Intimidation’ includes children being told ‘go home’ and witnessing parents being called derogatory names
www.irishtimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
‘They surround our car’: Families at Citywest IPAS centre tell of ongoing ‘harassment’ People fleeing war, poverty, insecurity are being abused daily by local racist gobsh*tes, desecrating the tricolour as they harass women, children & men. Shameful! #speirgorm
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Again yesterday I saw one of those posts glorifying the achievements of this 'Labour' government. Two problems, the 'successes' ere merely planned legislation and to the shame (as always) of those desperately trying glorify this government, they were endorsing complicity in genocide by omission.
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Again yesterday I saw one of those posts glorifying the achievements of this 'Labour' government. Two problems, the 'successes' ere merely planned legislation and to the shame (as always) of those desperately trying glorify this government, they were endorsing complicity in genocide by omission.
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Here's a brief clip from the programme yesterday, about why Keir Starmer's Labour Party is tanking in the polls.
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George Monbiot nails Keir Starmer's government in under a minute #ukpolitics
YouTube video by The National
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November 13, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Here's a brief clip from the programme yesterday, about why Keir Starmer's Labour Party is tanking in the polls.
www.youtube.com/shorts/jcUXX...
www.youtube.com/shorts/jcUXX...
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Given that the far right hates Black and Brown people, hates women, hates immigrants, hates liberals, leftists and greens, hates students and universities, hates civil servants, hates disabled people, hates gay and trans people and hates Jews and Muslims, what is this country it claims to love?
November 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Given that the far right hates Black and Brown people, hates women, hates immigrants, hates liberals, leftists and greens, hates students and universities, hates civil servants, hates disabled people, hates gay and trans people and hates Jews and Muslims, what is this country it claims to love?
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“Main cause is an overload of phosphorus & nitrogen from agriculture, including farm runoff, fertilisers & animal waste”.
The price of our current model of industrial farming is the death of nature. Is that *really* a price worth paying?
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The price of our current model of industrial farming is the death of nature. Is that *really* a price worth paying?
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‘It’s dying in front of our eyes’: how the UK’s largest lake became an ecological disaster
Signs tout a natural paradise, but pollution from over-farming has left Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh choked by toxic algae
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September 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
“Main cause is an overload of phosphorus & nitrogen from agriculture, including farm runoff, fertilisers & animal waste”.
The price of our current model of industrial farming is the death of nature. Is that *really* a price worth paying?
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The price of our current model of industrial farming is the death of nature. Is that *really* a price worth paying?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Now do tell. Why would politicians, invested in the best interests of the electorate do deals like this?
(Hi t: They wouldn't)
If you can't come up with an answer maybe forget the electorate, why would a politician do a deal like this?
(Hint: It's either stupidity or greed)
(Hi t: They wouldn't)
If you can't come up with an answer maybe forget the electorate, why would a politician do a deal like this?
(Hint: It's either stupidity or greed)
The Rule of Law and enriching the rich.
For £60bn private sector investment in public assets, UK govts paying £306bn + billions in servicing traps.
Govt has revived PFI, calls it Public Private Partnership (PPP) and will apply it to the NHS. Billions will be drained from public purse.
For £60bn private sector investment in public assets, UK govts paying £306bn + billions in servicing traps.
Govt has revived PFI, calls it Public Private Partnership (PPP) and will apply it to the NHS. Billions will be drained from public purse.
Nothing will change until the political system is freed from the clutches of corporations and the super-rich
The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few
leftfootforward.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Now do tell. Why would politicians, invested in the best interests of the electorate do deals like this?
(Hi t: They wouldn't)
If you can't come up with an answer maybe forget the electorate, why would a politician do a deal like this?
(Hint: It's either stupidity or greed)
(Hi t: They wouldn't)
If you can't come up with an answer maybe forget the electorate, why would a politician do a deal like this?
(Hint: It's either stupidity or greed)
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The Rule of Law and enriching the rich.
For £60bn private sector investment in public assets, UK govts paying £306bn + billions in servicing traps.
Govt has revived PFI, calls it Public Private Partnership (PPP) and will apply it to the NHS. Billions will be drained from public purse.
For £60bn private sector investment in public assets, UK govts paying £306bn + billions in servicing traps.
Govt has revived PFI, calls it Public Private Partnership (PPP) and will apply it to the NHS. Billions will be drained from public purse.
Nothing will change until the political system is freed from the clutches of corporations and the super-rich
The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few
leftfootforward.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:36 AM
The Rule of Law and enriching the rich.
For £60bn private sector investment in public assets, UK govts paying £306bn + billions in servicing traps.
Govt has revived PFI, calls it Public Private Partnership (PPP) and will apply it to the NHS. Billions will be drained from public purse.
For £60bn private sector investment in public assets, UK govts paying £306bn + billions in servicing traps.
Govt has revived PFI, calls it Public Private Partnership (PPP) and will apply it to the NHS. Billions will be drained from public purse.
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Finland's approach to housing the homeless is a comprehensive, well-funded national strategy aimed at ending it by treating a home as a universal human right. They also provide free health support and assistance with addiction etc. There’s virtually no homeless in Finland.
November 12, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Finland's approach to housing the homeless is a comprehensive, well-funded national strategy aimed at ending it by treating a home as a universal human right. They also provide free health support and assistance with addiction etc. There’s virtually no homeless in Finland.
More billionaires than ever. Profits rising as wages stay flat, rents exorbitant, gap between rich and poor accelerating, in fact gap between rich and everyone else rising exponentially. Constant drove to deskill and automate to increase profit.
When is the revolution?
When is the revolution?
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“Youth unemployment has been hovering at just under 20% for some time, those who have jobs fear they could lose them, and the ongoing property crisis can make the prospect of home ownership seem unreachable, especially in big cities.”
“Youth unemployment has been hovering at just under 20% for some time, those who have jobs fear they could lose them, and the ongoing property crisis can make the prospect of home ownership seem unreachable, especially in big cities.”
Two meals for $1: Why China's youth are not spending
Economic uncertainty is encouraging some young people to cut back on their spending.
www.bbc.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:31 AM
More billionaires than ever. Profits rising as wages stay flat, rents exorbitant, gap between rich and poor accelerating, in fact gap between rich and everyone else rising exponentially. Constant drove to deskill and automate to increase profit.
When is the revolution?
When is the revolution?
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It's funny how much the BBC and Labour have in common. Challenged by the Right, they immediately throw their base under a bus, in a doomed and foolish attempt to appease those who will always hate them.
November 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
It's funny how much the BBC and Labour have in common. Challenged by the Right, they immediately throw their base under a bus, in a doomed and foolish attempt to appease those who will always hate them.
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Male? ✅
Local? ✅
White? ✅
Another one that won't arouse the attention of the Pink Ladies and the anti-immigrant groups because, apparently, only brown-skinned people living in hotels and HMOs are a threat.
Local? ✅
White? ✅
Another one that won't arouse the attention of the Pink Ladies and the anti-immigrant groups because, apparently, only brown-skinned people living in hotels and HMOs are a threat.
Belfast man Thomas McAllister jailed for domestic abuse of ex-partner with MS
Thomas Anthony Gavin McAllister, 38, from Edlingham Street, subjected his ex-girlfriend to a
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November 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Male? ✅
Local? ✅
White? ✅
Another one that won't arouse the attention of the Pink Ladies and the anti-immigrant groups because, apparently, only brown-skinned people living in hotels and HMOs are a threat.
Local? ✅
White? ✅
Another one that won't arouse the attention of the Pink Ladies and the anti-immigrant groups because, apparently, only brown-skinned people living in hotels and HMOs are a threat.
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I watch good people generate AI images for the craic, knowing its environmentally destructive.
Shein peddles child r*pe, but there's that £10 dress they "need."
Politicians fund a slaughter, and people will smile and shake their hand.
"Sure, what can I do?" say millions of "good people"....
Shein peddles child r*pe, but there's that £10 dress they "need."
Politicians fund a slaughter, and people will smile and shake their hand.
"Sure, what can I do?" say millions of "good people"....
November 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I watch good people generate AI images for the craic, knowing its environmentally destructive.
Shein peddles child r*pe, but there's that £10 dress they "need."
Politicians fund a slaughter, and people will smile and shake their hand.
"Sure, what can I do?" say millions of "good people"....
Shein peddles child r*pe, but there's that £10 dress they "need."
Politicians fund a slaughter, and people will smile and shake their hand.
"Sure, what can I do?" say millions of "good people"....
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The BBC fiasco shows a core left–right difference, the left long criticised its bias but defends its core principles when unfairly attacked.
The right, having shaped its bias by installing their own, now gleefully throw it under the bus, amplify foreign attacks, and call for its destruction.
The right, having shaped its bias by installing their own, now gleefully throw it under the bus, amplify foreign attacks, and call for its destruction.
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The BBC fiasco shows a core left–right difference, the left long criticised its bias but defends its core principles when unfairly attacked.
The right, having shaped its bias by installing their own, now gleefully throw it under the bus, amplify foreign attacks, and call for its destruction.
The right, having shaped its bias by installing their own, now gleefully throw it under the bus, amplify foreign attacks, and call for its destruction.
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Steven Baker, whose partner Robyn Barnes is the lead organiser for the "Pink Ladies" protest, has responded to journalist Allison Morris covering their rally's anti-muslim speeches and goodie bags with knuckle dusters in them with the following:
November 11, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Steven Baker, whose partner Robyn Barnes is the lead organiser for the "Pink Ladies" protest, has responded to journalist Allison Morris covering their rally's anti-muslim speeches and goodie bags with knuckle dusters in them with the following:
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Nobody cares that Paul Givan ordered schools to (illegally) discriminate against trans kids.
November 11, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Nobody cares that Paul Givan ordered schools to (illegally) discriminate against trans kids.