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Jim Jepps!
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I was rather hoping capitalism would have finished by now. It doesn't even rhyme.

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Leonard and Hungry Paul is a wonderful book, and now the BBC has turned it into a wonderful six part series.

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Leonard and Hungry Paul - Series 1: Episode 1
After his mother’s death, Leonard begins to open up his world with the help of a new colleague, Shelley. His best friend, Hungry Paul, reluctantly volunteers at the hospital.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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theonion.com
Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/
Claim: Mamdani adheres to an extremist interpretation of Sharia law. False: Mamdani remains honor-bound to the ancient samurai code of Bushidō.
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Siegfried Sassoon
November 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
jimjepps.bsky.social
The current mood in Sheffield.
November 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
jimjepps.bsky.social
Considering how many column inches are being devoted to prisons at the moment I'm surprised [1] there's so little talk about how much of it is privatised, the need for rehabilitation and the sheer dehumanisation that takes place inside.

[1] no I'm not.
November 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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jessicaelgot.bsky.social
What an absolute hero Samir Zitouni is - doubtless he saved lives that day

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Train hero who saved passengers during attack named
The rail worker credited with saving multiple lives is named as Samir Zitouni.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 11:36 AM
jimjepps.bsky.social
Rachel Reeves says everyone 'must do their bit' - on a PR level how different is this from Osborne's 'we're all in this together'?
November 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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brianwernham.bsky.social
Conservatives call for 'stop & search' at train stations

Completely impractical

And yesterday's alleged perpetrator was unknown to the police apparently, so facial recognition would not have been of any help

What did help? Was having a guard on the train. A very brave man.
November 3, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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@seditionist.bsky.social thanks for the book, love the pro-postie sticker.
October 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.'

We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.

Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.

Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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aljazeera.com
A 2024 Coast Guard report found 27 percent of drug boat searches came back empty-handed.
Fact check: Do quarter of US’s ‘drug boat’ searches find nothing?
A 2024 Coast Guard report found 27 percent of drug boat searches came back empty-handed.
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October 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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philoof.bsky.social
Chapter 1 from On Tyranny Do not obey in advance
October 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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yougov.co.uk
The Green Party's proposal for a wealth tax on 1% of assets above £10m and 2% on assets above £1bn comes top of our list of tax reforms that Britons would support, with 75% giving it their backing

yougov.co.uk/economy/arti...
October 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM
jimjepps.bsky.social
You can pick up white rememberance poppies from the PPU, your local Quaker meeting house will usually have them or perhaps a neighbourhood lefty bookshop.

www.ppu.org.uk/remembrance-...
October 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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🇺🇦 Ukrainians, determined and resolute, are well placed to rebuild

Despite the huge problem landmines and unexploded ordnance pose, Ukraine – with our help – has plans to thrive when Russia’s war ends

By Natalie Bennett

@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
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Ukrainians, determined and resolute, are well placed to rebuild
Despite the huge problem landmines and unexploded ordnance pose, Ukraine – with our help – has plans to thrive when Russia’s war ends
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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zoejardiniere.bsky.social
The desire to protect people fleeing atrocities & to live in a society of equality and respect are, I’m pleased to inform you, STILL VERY MAINSTREAM VIEWS.
October 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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edmorrish.bsky.social
great joke from @zaltzcricket.bsky.social on the news quiz this week: “statistics are like comedians at the riyadh comedy festival: treat them right and they can be made to say whatever you want them to say”
October 18, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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seditionist.bsky.social
Freedom or Death, translated here from the original Polish for the first time, shares the thoughts and experiences of Anarchists involved in the civil defence of #Ukraine against the invasion of the Russian occupation forces.

£2 P/C or free to download.
seditionist.uk/distro/reada...
An illustration featuring a solider looking out over destroyed buildings as a hand springes bombs from above and another raises a glass with an oil derrick in it, text reads Freedom or Death, The war in Ukraine and the refugee crisis - voices of anarchists from ABC Galicja, Friends of Ukraine and Bat'ko Collectives
October 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
The war zone in Portland is out of control.
October 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
jimjepps.bsky.social
Well, this is lovely.
October 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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meemalee.bsky.social
Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI
"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian
October 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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izzykamikaze.bsky.social
Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."

This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."

RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...
Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack
A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.
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October 16, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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josiegz.bsky.social
Upon his release from an Israeli prison, Naseem al-Radee tried to call his wife, only to find her phone out of service. He then learned that his wife & all but one of his children had been killed in Gaza during his detention.

Radee was never charged with a crime

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘Cruelest forms of torture’: freed Palestinians describe horrors of Israeli jail
Men who were held in Nafha prison say they were brutally beaten, bound at the hands and feet, verbally abused, allowed to contract fungal and skin diseases, and assaulted with loud music for up to two...
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM