Paul Mobbs (Ramblinactivist)
@ramblinactivist.bsky.social
Paul Mobbs: Rambler; Activist; Film-maker; Author; Researcher; Deep Ecologist; Camp cook; but none of the subsequent parameters in that list exists without the influence of the first.
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OK, as people are trying to get in touch with me:
Just a reminder that I can't use Bluesky chat because I don't have a mobile phone/webcam, to "use the app", to verify my age for the UK On-line Safety Act.
I did complain, but I was told to 'get a mobile phone' to solve this -- which I won't do!
Just a reminder that I can't use Bluesky chat because I don't have a mobile phone/webcam, to "use the app", to verify my age for the UK On-line Safety Act.
I did complain, but I was told to 'get a mobile phone' to solve this -- which I won't do!
Just saying...
www.desmog.com/2026/02/06/m...
From flags on streetlamps, to Farage, to GB News, this is one big 'business plan'.
www.desmog.com/2026/02/06/m...
From flags on streetlamps, to Farage, to GB News, this is one big 'business plan'.
MAGA Gathers in European Parliament to Attack EU Laws
BRUSSELS – Groups aligned with Donald Trump’s administration rallied against “online censorship” and “extreme environmentalism” as they took to the stage at an event held in the heart of the European ...
www.desmog.com
February 7, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Just saying...
www.desmog.com/2026/02/06/m...
From flags on streetlamps, to Farage, to GB News, this is one big 'business plan'.
www.desmog.com/2026/02/06/m...
From flags on streetlamps, to Farage, to GB News, this is one big 'business plan'.
'Big Farage' is watching you:
goodlawproject.org/update/farag...
Sounds like we all need to do subject access requests!
goodlawproject.org/update/farag...
Sounds like we all need to do subject access requests!
Farage’s Reform is collecting your data: here’s why | Good Law Project
Reform is harvesting your data, and ignoring people when they get in touch – so we’re taking them to court
goodlawproject.org
February 4, 2026 at 9:41 AM
'Big Farage' is watching you:
goodlawproject.org/update/farag...
Sounds like we all need to do subject access requests!
goodlawproject.org/update/farag...
Sounds like we all need to do subject access requests!
Being mostly off-line for two years I'm now catching-up on what I missed. Back in 2022 I got into Ren. Since then, Wow!
Ren is currently my daily earworm... go subscribe!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq3Z...
Ren is currently my daily earworm... go subscribe!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq3Z...
Ren - Money Ties
YouTube video by Ren
www.youtube.com
January 26, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Being mostly off-line for two years I'm now catching-up on what I missed. Back in 2022 I got into Ren. Since then, Wow!
Ren is currently my daily earworm... go subscribe!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq3Z...
Ren is currently my daily earworm... go subscribe!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq3Z...
@acollierastro.bsky.social has absolutely nailed the use if AI/LLMs in academia:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pqF...
Worth 20 minutes of your time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pqF...
Worth 20 minutes of your time.
this is what 2 years of chatgpt does to your brain
YouTube video by Angela Collier
www.youtube.com
January 24, 2026 at 11:38 AM
@acollierastro.bsky.social has absolutely nailed the use if AI/LLMs in academia:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pqF...
Worth 20 minutes of your time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pqF...
Worth 20 minutes of your time.
David Rovics has just been 'disappeared' by YouTube. Or should we say, 'put on ICE'?
If you're silencing musicians for singing, clearly someone is trying to censor the things they sing songs about.
www.davidrovics.com
If you're silencing musicians for singing, clearly someone is trying to censor the things they sing songs about.
www.davidrovics.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:56 AM
David Rovics has just been 'disappeared' by YouTube. Or should we say, 'put on ICE'?
If you're silencing musicians for singing, clearly someone is trying to censor the things they sing songs about.
www.davidrovics.com
If you're silencing musicians for singing, clearly someone is trying to censor the things they sing songs about.
www.davidrovics.com
Amazed to hear Robert Nozick get a mention here. Author of 'Anarchy, State,& Utopia' (pub. 1974, unfortunately largely ignored these days) it resurrects Nozick's concept of the 'experience machine', and why that predicted the failure of Zuckerberg's 'Metaverse':
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wOu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wOu...
The $73 Billion Metaverse Disaster That's Killing Meta
YouTube video by Moon
www.youtube.com
January 19, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Amazed to hear Robert Nozick get a mention here. Author of 'Anarchy, State,& Utopia' (pub. 1974, unfortunately largely ignored these days) it resurrects Nozick's concept of the 'experience machine', and why that predicted the failure of Zuckerberg's 'Metaverse':
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wOu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wOu...
OK, as people are trying to get in touch with me:
Just a reminder that I can't use Bluesky chat because I don't have a mobile phone/webcam, to "use the app", to verify my age for the UK On-line Safety Act.
I did complain, but I was told to 'get a mobile phone' to solve this -- which I won't do!
Just a reminder that I can't use Bluesky chat because I don't have a mobile phone/webcam, to "use the app", to verify my age for the UK On-line Safety Act.
I did complain, but I was told to 'get a mobile phone' to solve this -- which I won't do!
January 15, 2026 at 8:14 PM
OK, as people are trying to get in touch with me:
Just a reminder that I can't use Bluesky chat because I don't have a mobile phone/webcam, to "use the app", to verify my age for the UK On-line Safety Act.
I did complain, but I was told to 'get a mobile phone' to solve this -- which I won't do!
Just a reminder that I can't use Bluesky chat because I don't have a mobile phone/webcam, to "use the app", to verify my age for the UK On-line Safety Act.
I did complain, but I was told to 'get a mobile phone' to solve this -- which I won't do!
Wake-TF up people! The SS. Great Britain has been seriously holed and is sinking into the cesspool...
pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...
#fascismnotmybrand
pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...
#fascismnotmybrand
GB News beats Sky and BBC on average viewers for six months in a row
GB News viewing figures: Channel says it has beaten both the BBC News Channel and Sky News on average viewership for six months in a row.
pressgazette.co.uk
January 15, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Wake-TF up people! The SS. Great Britain has been seriously holed and is sinking into the cesspool...
pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...
#fascismnotmybrand
pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...
#fascismnotmybrand
Some cool geology, yes, but also a beautiful metaphor for the pointlessness of certain people's claims to the Earth right now:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZlO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZlO...
Tectonic forces in Ethiopia are carving a new ocean across the continent
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
www.youtube.com
January 11, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Some cool geology, yes, but also a beautiful metaphor for the pointlessness of certain people's claims to the Earth right now:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZlO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZlO...
From Zoe Broughton: "It's 30 years since the start of the evictions at the Newbury road protest. I was interviewed for this BBC Wired feature on why filming campaigns is so important. I'm still doing the same job..."
youtu.be/DAHYOqc6s4s?...
youtu.be/DAHYOqc6s4s?...
Wired- Video Activism
YouTube video by Undercurrents Media
youtu.be
January 10, 2026 at 1:01 PM
From Zoe Broughton: "It's 30 years since the start of the evictions at the Newbury road protest. I was interviewed for this BBC Wired feature on why filming campaigns is so important. I'm still doing the same job..."
youtu.be/DAHYOqc6s4s?...
youtu.be/DAHYOqc6s4s?...
Multiple shootings of Americans in cars by Trump's equivalent of the SA... I think I've heard that story somewhere else before:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTrM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTrM...
South Park - It's coming right for us
YouTube video by South Park
www.youtube.com
January 9, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Multiple shootings of Americans in cars by Trump's equivalent of the SA... I think I've heard that story somewhere else before:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTrM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTrM...
Seems UK is involved in breaking yet more "international laws" (whatever they are these days):
www.thenational.scot/news/2574720...
In the meantime, in the USA, 'The Clown' has given his latest brivado performance to stress his leadership prowess...
www.thenational.scot/news/2574720...
In the meantime, in the USA, 'The Clown' has given his latest brivado performance to stress his leadership prowess...
January 7, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Seems UK is involved in breaking yet more "international laws" (whatever they are these days):
www.thenational.scot/news/2574720...
In the meantime, in the USA, 'The Clown' has given his latest brivado performance to stress his leadership prowess...
www.thenational.scot/news/2574720...
In the meantime, in the USA, 'The Clown' has given his latest brivado performance to stress his leadership prowess...
As a reluctant engineering geek this was hilarious...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_F4...
#anarchism #diyprojects #tech
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_F4...
#anarchism #diyprojects #tech
Gadgets For People Who Don't Trust The Government
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
www.youtube.com
January 4, 2026 at 10:22 PM
As a reluctant engineering geek this was hilarious...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_F4...
#anarchism #diyprojects #tech
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_F4...
#anarchism #diyprojects #tech
Sorry if you don't like me saying this, but for anyone 'active' in the 1980s/90s, this article shows a level of liberal naiveté that operates in complete ignorance of the 800 year history of the English state:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
It's an elite dictatorship... get over it.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
It's an elite dictatorship... get over it.
Spycops sent thousands of surveillance reports to MI5, inquiry documents reveal
Security Service was able to compile detailed files on members of legitimate protest groups infiltrated by undercover police officers
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Sorry if you don't like me saying this, but for anyone 'active' in the 1980s/90s, this article shows a level of liberal naiveté that operates in complete ignorance of the 800 year history of the English state:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
It's an elite dictatorship... get over it.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
It's an elite dictatorship... get over it.
Can science fiction save us from 'the machine'?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8bj...
@damiengwalter.com produces analyses of current events through the medium of science fiction criticism. He posits 'The machine' is the problem we face because it's the embodiment of all that enslaves us... hmmnn! :-)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8bj...
@damiengwalter.com produces analyses of current events through the medium of science fiction criticism. He posits 'The machine' is the problem we face because it's the embodiment of all that enslaves us... hmmnn! :-)
January 3, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Can science fiction save us from 'the machine'?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8bj...
@damiengwalter.com produces analyses of current events through the medium of science fiction criticism. He posits 'The machine' is the problem we face because it's the embodiment of all that enslaves us... hmmnn! :-)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8bj...
@damiengwalter.com produces analyses of current events through the medium of science fiction criticism. He posits 'The machine' is the problem we face because it's the embodiment of all that enslaves us... hmmnn! :-)
This was an interesting way to start he day: A really thought-provoking set of people talking about anthropomorphism & human mythos and how it affects our relationship to the world (echoing some of my reading/research on similar issues).
...and the raven agrees! ;-)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
...and the raven agrees! ;-)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Animals and Meaning
Naomi Alderman with Justin Gregg, Peter Fretwell and Marianne Hem Eriksen
www.bbc.co.uk
December 29, 2025 at 9:57 AM
This was an interesting way to start he day: A really thought-provoking set of people talking about anthropomorphism & human mythos and how it affects our relationship to the world (echoing some of my reading/research on similar issues).
...and the raven agrees! ;-)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
...and the raven agrees! ;-)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
@damiengwalter.com really hits the nail with this: It's a grift (that's a 'business plan' to any in the PMC reading this). Problem is the social media grift is giving license to the people who are really, deadly f**kin' serious... and that's making them electable.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVMX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVMX...
Why are right wing grifters all like Batman villains?
YouTube video by Science Fiction with Damien Walter
www.youtube.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
@damiengwalter.com really hits the nail with this: It's a grift (that's a 'business plan' to any in the PMC reading this). Problem is the social media grift is giving license to the people who are really, deadly f**kin' serious... and that's making them electable.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVMX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVMX...
Apparently, in Britain it's not lawful to call for an internationalized movement oppression against any more...
Well:
Well:
December 17, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Apparently, in Britain it's not lawful to call for an internationalized movement oppression against any more...
Well:
Well:
Damn! I find myself agreeing with #TommyRobinson...
He was on the radio just now saying that we had to 'go back' to Britain's traditional religion.
I agree. Let's hope we can usher-in a new era of Earth-loving/nature-loving #paganism as soon as possible!! :-)
He was on the radio just now saying that we had to 'go back' to Britain's traditional religion.
I agree. Let's hope we can usher-in a new era of Earth-loving/nature-loving #paganism as soon as possible!! :-)
December 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Damn! I find myself agreeing with #TommyRobinson...
He was on the radio just now saying that we had to 'go back' to Britain's traditional religion.
I agree. Let's hope we can usher-in a new era of Earth-loving/nature-loving #paganism as soon as possible!! :-)
He was on the radio just now saying that we had to 'go back' to Britain's traditional religion.
I agree. Let's hope we can usher-in a new era of Earth-loving/nature-loving #paganism as soon as possible!! :-)
Reposted by Paul Mobbs (Ramblinactivist)
The UK has turned into a censorious nightmare state because of transphobia
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The UK has turned into a censorious nightmare state because of transphobia
I must admit, I've never been a fan of Ince's 'geek' comedy, but all respects to you dude!
www.thenational.scot/news/2569568...
www.thenational.scot/news/2569568...
Top presenter quits BBC after fallout with bosses over 'problematic' views
A top presenter has quit the BBC after a fallout with bosses over views which he said had been deemed problematic
www.thenational.scot
December 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I must admit, I've never been a fan of Ince's 'geek' comedy, but all respects to you dude!
www.thenational.scot/news/2569568...
www.thenational.scot/news/2569568...
This is rather good. Personally I would have concentrated on how 'statism' legitimates power, and hence why changing the relationship to 'state' is fundamental to personal change, but I think this is a beautiful piece of work:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEFO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEFO...
Borders
YouTube video by The Leftist Cooks
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This is rather good. Personally I would have concentrated on how 'statism' legitimates power, and hence why changing the relationship to 'state' is fundamental to personal change, but I think this is a beautiful piece of work:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEFO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEFO...
Yes, this is interesting, BUT WHY do the British media/chattering classes fail to report on the wealth gap between the 50% to 90% of income 'middle class' and the bottom 10% 'underclass'?
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
‘The 0.001%’: a quick visual breakdown of the world’s wealthiest people
About 56,000 people control three times as much wealth as half of humanity. Here’s one way to illustrate that
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Yes, this is interesting, BUT WHY do the British media/chattering classes fail to report on the wealth gap between the 50% to 90% of income 'middle class' and the bottom 10% 'underclass'?
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...