Use Of Weapons
@use0fweap0ns.bsky.social
Everybody knows the war is over.
Everybody knows the good guys lost.
Everybody knows the good guys lost.
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communism is when a thing i dont like happens adn the less i like it the more communism it is
He’s shaken because 5 women asked for his credentials…imagine ICE asking you for your papers…
January 28, 2026 at 8:28 PM
communism is when a thing i dont like happens adn the less i like it the more communism it is
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A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot.
"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."
"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."
ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social
"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."
"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."
ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social
January 28, 2026 at 7:09 PM
A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot.
"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."
"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."
ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social
"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."
"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."
ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social
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@unitetheunion.bsky.social GS @unitesharon.bsky.social attacked the government's criticism of direct worker control (DBT said it enables the 'tyranny of the majority').
She warns it's “wrong-headed and offensive”.
Unite's now issued a full statement too:
www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/...
She warns it's “wrong-headed and offensive”.
Unite's now issued a full statement too:
www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/...
www.unitetheunion.org
January 28, 2026 at 2:16 PM
@unitetheunion.bsky.social GS @unitesharon.bsky.social attacked the government's criticism of direct worker control (DBT said it enables the 'tyranny of the majority').
She warns it's “wrong-headed and offensive”.
Unite's now issued a full statement too:
www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/...
She warns it's “wrong-headed and offensive”.
Unite's now issued a full statement too:
www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/...
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NEW: Labour pledged pre-election to let “workers decide how tips are allocated”, via the employment rights act.
But I've just discovered it's quietly decided workers can’t be trusted to decide how tips are allocated.
More in my first @labourlist.bsky.social column:
labourlist.org/2026/01/utur...
But I've just discovered it's quietly decided workers can’t be trusted to decide how tips are allocated.
More in my first @labourlist.bsky.social column:
labourlist.org/2026/01/utur...
Tom Belger column: 'Union revolt as U-turn revealed on workers’ tips' - LabourList
A quiet U-turn on workers’ tips has ignited a union revolt. Tom Belger reveals what changed, who’s angry, and why it matters now.
labourlist.org
January 28, 2026 at 2:16 PM
NEW: Labour pledged pre-election to let “workers decide how tips are allocated”, via the employment rights act.
But I've just discovered it's quietly decided workers can’t be trusted to decide how tips are allocated.
More in my first @labourlist.bsky.social column:
labourlist.org/2026/01/utur...
But I've just discovered it's quietly decided workers can’t be trusted to decide how tips are allocated.
More in my first @labourlist.bsky.social column:
labourlist.org/2026/01/utur...
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The Workers’ Rights Bill is getting weaker every time it’s mentioned
NEW: Labour pledged pre-election to let “workers decide how tips are allocated”, via the employment rights act.
But I've just discovered it's quietly decided workers can’t be trusted to decide how tips are allocated.
More in my first @labourlist.bsky.social column:
labourlist.org/2026/01/utur...
But I've just discovered it's quietly decided workers can’t be trusted to decide how tips are allocated.
More in my first @labourlist.bsky.social column:
labourlist.org/2026/01/utur...
Tom Belger column: 'Union revolt as U-turn revealed on workers’ tips' - LabourList
A quiet U-turn on workers’ tips has ignited a union revolt. Tom Belger reveals what changed, who’s angry, and why it matters now.
labourlist.org
January 28, 2026 at 7:05 PM
The Workers’ Rights Bill is getting weaker every time it’s mentioned
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“He was a very bad guy: the sort of guy who never put the plastic divider down for the person behind him in the supermarket queue.” Opening line of my next novel.
January 28, 2026 at 8:43 PM
“He was a very bad guy: the sort of guy who never put the plastic divider down for the person behind him in the supermarket queue.” Opening line of my next novel.
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
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People are organizing We Ride in Unity rides on Saturday, January 31, in memory of Alex Pretti.
Here's an article with a map of where rides are happening. I'm also posting info for rides in this thread. You're welcome to post for your own area in the comments.
Here's an article with a map of where rides are happening. I'm also posting info for rides in this thread. You're welcome to post for your own area in the comments.
This Weekend, We Ride in Remembrance of Alex Pretti (+ Event Map)
Bike shops and groups across the United States are hosting memorial rides this weekend for slain bikepacker Alex Pretti...
bikepacking.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:24 PM
People are organizing We Ride in Unity rides on Saturday, January 31, in memory of Alex Pretti.
Here's an article with a map of where rides are happening. I'm also posting info for rides in this thread. You're welcome to post for your own area in the comments.
Here's an article with a map of where rides are happening. I'm also posting info for rides in this thread. You're welcome to post for your own area in the comments.
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![3-panel comic. (1) [Three small arthropods on ocean floor.] ARTHROPOD 1: Now that we’re multicellular, what are your plans? I’m gonna evolve little legs and swim around with them! ARTHROPOD 2: I’m gonna evolve sharp pincers and use them to crunch stuff! ARTHROPOD 3: I’m gonna evolve glands to make string from my butt and use it to construct elaborate geometric nets hundreds of times my size to catch other animals. (2) [Silence] (3) ARTHROPOD 1: *Dude.* ARTHROPOD 2: Can you *please* just be normal about this? ARTHROPOD 3: *What??!*](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreia3p425asp237hjolbn5lly6g6hzm2eoygqjpkd5dii6zrwqnp7qi@jpeg)
January 28, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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I'm sorry, but the reaction to Brianna Ghey being murdered by people she knew offline *because she was transgender* becoming 'we should stop teenagers from being on social media' rather than 'we should deal with the recent horrifying rise of transphobia in the UK' is unbelievably fucking bullshit.
January 28, 2026 at 6:32 PM
I'm sorry, but the reaction to Brianna Ghey being murdered by people she knew offline *because she was transgender* becoming 'we should stop teenagers from being on social media' rather than 'we should deal with the recent horrifying rise of transphobia in the UK' is unbelievably fucking bullshit.
How did anyone manage to get laid in the 70's?
January 28, 2026 at 7:09 PM
How did anyone manage to get laid in the 70's?
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Good news!
High Court throws out Moorland Association's legal challenge against new burning regulations in England ⚖️🌍
New blog ⬇️
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/01/28/h...
High Court throws out Moorland Association's legal challenge against new burning regulations in England ⚖️🌍
New blog ⬇️
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/01/28/h...
High Court throws out Moorland Association’s legal challenge against new burning regulations
Some good news! This morning, the Moorland Association’s legal challenge against Defra’s new burning regulations (which restrict burning on deep peat) has been thrown out by the High Co…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
January 28, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Good news!
High Court throws out Moorland Association's legal challenge against new burning regulations in England ⚖️🌍
New blog ⬇️
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/01/28/h...
High Court throws out Moorland Association's legal challenge against new burning regulations in England ⚖️🌍
New blog ⬇️
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/01/28/h...
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Dear World: what will it take to convince you to boycott the World Cup and Olympics? Does this help?
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
ICE plans to be camped out at the Super Bowl looking for migrants
Department of Homeland Security to send federal agents the Super Bowl between Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots in California but insists the law-abiding ‘have nothing to fear’
www.independent.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Dear World: what will it take to convince you to boycott the World Cup and Olympics? Does this help?
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Sure, sex is great, but have you ever cracked open a new notebook and written something on the first page with a really nice pen?
January 28, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Sure, sex is great, but have you ever cracked open a new notebook and written something on the first page with a really nice pen?
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#5debutalbums50s60s The Stooges - S/T (1969) Innovation, aggravation. You can see how they were ignored or sidelined. This must have sounded like everything the Nixon establishment hated. Better albums were to come but this snarling debut was a neighbour scaring start. #NowPlaying #MusicSky
January 28, 2026 at 3:19 PM
#5debutalbums50s60s The Stooges - S/T (1969) Innovation, aggravation. You can see how they were ignored or sidelined. This must have sounded like everything the Nixon establishment hated. Better albums were to come but this snarling debut was a neighbour scaring start. #NowPlaying #MusicSky
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I actually heard about an ice vehicle being chased by a cyclist with a whistle last week. It's not going to get easier for them.
January 28, 2026 at 1:24 PM
I actually heard about an ice vehicle being chased by a cyclist with a whistle last week. It's not going to get easier for them.
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You think we are organized in 30 below temps on foot and in cars? Wait til it’s 40 above and we add bikes to the mix. Theres a whole fucking army of people who know the bike lanes in their neighborhoods intimately. This will turn even the worst bike lane haters into fans.
January 28, 2026 at 1:25 PM
You think we are organized in 30 below temps on foot and in cars? Wait til it’s 40 above and we add bikes to the mix. Theres a whole fucking army of people who know the bike lanes in their neighborhoods intimately. This will turn even the worst bike lane haters into fans.
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“A THIRD of people who turn to our community of food banks are in a household where someone works”
@trusselluk.bsky.social
@trusselluk.bsky.social
January 28, 2026 at 8:25 AM
“A THIRD of people who turn to our community of food banks are in a household where someone works”
@trusselluk.bsky.social
@trusselluk.bsky.social
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Rwanda suing UK for more money under cancelled expulsion deal - www.dw.com/en/rwanda-su...
This is known in technical legal terms as taking the piss
This is known in technical legal terms as taking the piss
Rwanda takes UK to court over contentious migrant deal
Rwanda accuses the UK of "intransigence" and says London owes it millions of pounds over a controversial migration agreement.
www.dw.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:04 AM
Rwanda suing UK for more money under cancelled expulsion deal - www.dw.com/en/rwanda-su...
This is known in technical legal terms as taking the piss
This is known in technical legal terms as taking the piss
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You mean it's not all to do with Andy B? Sorry, no: I can't, I won't, believe it!
A reminder from @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social that Manchester's astonishing turnaround was a decades-long process
www.ft.com/content/606d... via @FT
www.ft.com/content/606d... via @FT
Andy Burnham’s Manchester and its rapid revival
The city is growing faster than the national average after an economic transformation that started 30 years ago
www.ft.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:27 AM
You mean it's not all to do with Andy B? Sorry, no: I can't, I won't, believe it!
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Over 8,000 emails sent and we have 24 hours left to stop Sex Matters sabotaging the vote for the conversion therapy ban 🔥
Email your MP right now 📩
https://goodlaw.social/945cd5
Email your MP right now 📩
https://goodlaw.social/945cd5
January 28, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Over 8,000 emails sent and we have 24 hours left to stop Sex Matters sabotaging the vote for the conversion therapy ban 🔥
Email your MP right now 📩
https://goodlaw.social/945cd5
Email your MP right now 📩
https://goodlaw.social/945cd5
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It's shocking that "1,442 doctors offices have closed since 2015"
Robots can't fix the problems caused by closing GP surgeries and failing to hire enough humans
Government should create new caring jobs instead of handing out profits to tech companies
metro.co.uk/2026/01/26/m...
Robots can't fix the problems caused by closing GP surgeries and failing to hire enough humans
Government should create new caring jobs instead of handing out profits to tech companies
metro.co.uk/2026/01/26/m...
Meet the 'AI receptionist' picking up the phone for 1,000,000 GP patients
'I once had a call back within 15 minutes, which is off the scale.'
metro.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 8:34 AM
It's shocking that "1,442 doctors offices have closed since 2015"
Robots can't fix the problems caused by closing GP surgeries and failing to hire enough humans
Government should create new caring jobs instead of handing out profits to tech companies
metro.co.uk/2026/01/26/m...
Robots can't fix the problems caused by closing GP surgeries and failing to hire enough humans
Government should create new caring jobs instead of handing out profits to tech companies
metro.co.uk/2026/01/26/m...
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You’ll recall Dominic Cummings told that committee that Tory PRs could tell the BBC and ITV basically anything, no matter how plainly absurd it was, and their senior correspondents would read it out live on air as urgent breaking news
Sophy Ridge: "Lord knows where that briefing came from. I think it shows the general chaos.."
I think it shows the culpability of our mass media, which laps up these briefings & reports them & at no stage wonders, even now(!), if they're being used.
I think it shows the culpability of our mass media, which laps up these briefings & reports them & at no stage wonders, even now(!), if they're being used.
January 28, 2026 at 8:40 AM
You’ll recall Dominic Cummings told that committee that Tory PRs could tell the BBC and ITV basically anything, no matter how plainly absurd it was, and their senior correspondents would read it out live on air as urgent breaking news
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Reform seem to have been charging people £125 to put themselves up as potential Gorton and Denton parliamentary Candidates:
Applications closed Sunday.
When did they select Goodwin?
Applications closed Sunday.
When did they select Goodwin?
January 28, 2026 at 8:19 AM
Reform seem to have been charging people £125 to put themselves up as potential Gorton and Denton parliamentary Candidates:
Applications closed Sunday.
When did they select Goodwin?
Applications closed Sunday.
When did they select Goodwin?
Guardian quoting Institute of Alcohol Studies without mentioning they're part of UK Temperance Alliance. I'm always amused by The Guardian's temperance campaign. Still, more for me. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
One in four adults in England do not drink alcohol, survey finds
Questionnaire completed by 10,000 people finds sobriety on rise, with women slightly more abstemious than men
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Guardian quoting Institute of Alcohol Studies without mentioning they're part of UK Temperance Alliance. I'm always amused by The Guardian's temperance campaign. Still, more for me. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...