Angel Forfivon
@angelforfivon.bsky.social
Black, deaf lesbian. :) Still love writing stories!
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Market concentration → Less competition → Higher prices for consumers → Corporate profits at 70-year high → Record stock buybacks → Higher shareholder value → More power for corporations and the rich.
How do we fight back? Break up monopolies and rebuild union power.
How do we fight back? Break up monopolies and rebuild union power.
December 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Market concentration → Less competition → Higher prices for consumers → Corporate profits at 70-year high → Record stock buybacks → Higher shareholder value → More power for corporations and the rich.
How do we fight back? Break up monopolies and rebuild union power.
How do we fight back? Break up monopolies and rebuild union power.
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Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left.
Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.
Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.
The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI
Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.
www.motherjones.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left.
Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.
Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.
To the UK: if you keep Starmer, Streeting, Tories, Reform to destroy the NHS, this will be our future.
To the USA: don't stop fighting to turn healthcare into a right, not a priviledge as it currently is.
To the USA: don't stop fighting to turn healthcare into a right, not a priviledge as it currently is.
Americans are spending 1 out of every $5 on health care costs. That is more than they spend on food and housing. Plus, health insurance premiums are increasing on January 1st many are going to be even more financially strapped. Midterms are coming- it's time for change.
jacobin.com/2025/12/heal...
jacobin.com/2025/12/heal...
The Health Care Crisis Is Gobbling Up the Economy
Health care spending now represents about 18% of the US economy, meaning that roughly one out of every five dollars spent goes toward health care costs — more than what Americans spend on groceries or...
jacobin.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
To the UK: if you keep Starmer, Streeting, Tories, Reform to destroy the NHS, this will be our future.
To the USA: don't stop fighting to turn healthcare into a right, not a priviledge as it currently is.
To the USA: don't stop fighting to turn healthcare into a right, not a priviledge as it currently is.
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Our new age verification resource hub will answer all your questions about the dangerous new age-gating mandates sweeping the US and the world. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Age Verification Is Coming For the Internet. We Built You a Resource
Age verification laws are proliferating fast across the United States and around the world, creating a dangerous and confusing tangle of rules about what we’re all allowed to see and do online.
www.eff.org
December 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Our new age verification resource hub will answer all your questions about the dangerous new age-gating mandates sweeping the US and the world. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Zero tolerance is the ONLY and FITTING response to genAI being used in production of media.
Sure, you might think it's too harsh. Sure, they might've only used it for early stuff in development, etc
Listen, it's not even a SLIPPERY slope, there is NO friction at all unless we speak out against it.
Sure, you might think it's too harsh. Sure, they might've only used it for early stuff in development, etc
Listen, it's not even a SLIPPERY slope, there is NO friction at all unless we speak out against it.
December 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Zero tolerance is the ONLY and FITTING response to genAI being used in production of media.
Sure, you might think it's too harsh. Sure, they might've only used it for early stuff in development, etc
Listen, it's not even a SLIPPERY slope, there is NO friction at all unless we speak out against it.
Sure, you might think it's too harsh. Sure, they might've only used it for early stuff in development, etc
Listen, it's not even a SLIPPERY slope, there is NO friction at all unless we speak out against it.
It's been mentioned in comments to this but remember: Washington Post is owned by Bezos, a billionaire who's doing what he can to make more billions by going into US-style pay-for-healthcare.
Also, Julia's right. Tories and Labour are both destroying and privatising NHS to line their pockets.
Also, Julia's right. Tories and Labour are both destroying and privatising NHS to line their pockets.
The Washington Post has published a scathing attack on the NHS, essentially claiming that socialised medicine doesn’t work. Dreadful. The reason the NHS isn’t working well is that politicians are turning the NHS into a cash cow for private companies 🚨
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Socialized medicine can’t survive the winter
The British government is begging sick people to stay away from hospitals during the holidays.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
It's been mentioned in comments to this but remember: Washington Post is owned by Bezos, a billionaire who's doing what he can to make more billions by going into US-style pay-for-healthcare.
Also, Julia's right. Tories and Labour are both destroying and privatising NHS to line their pockets.
Also, Julia's right. Tories and Labour are both destroying and privatising NHS to line their pockets.
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At this point I’ve accepted the very sad fact that people will not leave Twitter until it is literally unusable. Like literally ”I cannot access the site” levels.
artists on twitter will do anything but move when the entire system is against them apparently holy hell
why is it so hard for people to just leave that place
"not enough people are on bsky for me to move" jee i wonder why, if only all their fav artists werent sticking to THAT hellsite
why is it so hard for people to just leave that place
"not enough people are on bsky for me to move" jee i wonder why, if only all their fav artists werent sticking to THAT hellsite
December 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
At this point I’ve accepted the very sad fact that people will not leave Twitter until it is literally unusable. Like literally ”I cannot access the site” levels.
While polls are depressing to see, what's somehow worse is the misrepresentation of parties. Reform is fascist-right, not "mixed". Tories are far-right and Starmer's Labour are national-conservatives.
Essentially the top three are for billionaires and anti-everyone else.
Essentially the top three are for billionaires and anti-everyone else.
UK (GB), Find Out Now poll:
REFORM~NI: 30% (-3)
CON~ECR: 18%
GREENS-G/EFA: 17%
LAB-S&D: 14%
LDEM-RE: 12% (+1)
SNP-G/EFA: 3% (+1)
PC-G/EFA: 1%
+/- vs. 17 December 2025
Fieldwork: 24 December 2025
Sample size: 2,879
➤ europeelects.eu/uk
REFORM~NI: 30% (-3)
CON~ECR: 18%
GREENS-G/EFA: 17%
LAB-S&D: 14%
LDEM-RE: 12% (+1)
SNP-G/EFA: 3% (+1)
PC-G/EFA: 1%
+/- vs. 17 December 2025
Fieldwork: 24 December 2025
Sample size: 2,879
➤ europeelects.eu/uk
December 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
While polls are depressing to see, what's somehow worse is the misrepresentation of parties. Reform is fascist-right, not "mixed". Tories are far-right and Starmer's Labour are national-conservatives.
Essentially the top three are for billionaires and anti-everyone else.
Essentially the top three are for billionaires and anti-everyone else.
Coming on briefly to say Merry Christmas everyone!
And to those who support the warmongers, the oligarchy, the fascists, the anti-privacys, the AIs-in-everythings... may your gifts falls apart, your TV break down, your turkeys get burnt, your vegetables apart from sprouts get spoiled.
And to those who support the warmongers, the oligarchy, the fascists, the anti-privacys, the AIs-in-everythings... may your gifts falls apart, your TV break down, your turkeys get burnt, your vegetables apart from sprouts get spoiled.
December 25, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Coming on briefly to say Merry Christmas everyone!
And to those who support the warmongers, the oligarchy, the fascists, the anti-privacys, the AIs-in-everythings... may your gifts falls apart, your TV break down, your turkeys get burnt, your vegetables apart from sprouts get spoiled.
And to those who support the warmongers, the oligarchy, the fascists, the anti-privacys, the AIs-in-everythings... may your gifts falls apart, your TV break down, your turkeys get burnt, your vegetables apart from sprouts get spoiled.
TW: Mental heath issues
December 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
TW: Mental heath issues
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SNAP is a lifeline for workers in low-wage jobs.
Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.
Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.
Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.
Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.
Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
November 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
SNAP is a lifeline for workers in low-wage jobs.
Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.
Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.
Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.
Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.
Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
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Maguire reminding viewers that the number of asylum seekers & refugees coming into the UK are relatively few (most refugees stay in countries near to where they're from)
One might wonder then, why has this story been so prominent in our politics & media over the last 25 years?
One might wonder then, why has this story been so prominent in our politics & media over the last 25 years?
November 17, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Maguire reminding viewers that the number of asylum seekers & refugees coming into the UK are relatively few (most refugees stay in countries near to where they're from)
One might wonder then, why has this story been so prominent in our politics & media over the last 25 years?
One might wonder then, why has this story been so prominent in our politics & media over the last 25 years?
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Remember: The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.
When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.
The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.
The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
November 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Remember: The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.
When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.
The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.
The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
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➡️ Brexit reduced UK GDP by 6-8%
➡️ Investment reduced by between 12-18%
➡️ Employment reduced by 3-4%
➡️ Productivity reduced by 3-4%
"Combination of elevated uncertainty, reduced demand, diverted management time, and increased misallocation of resources from a protracted Brexit process"
➡️ Investment reduced by between 12-18%
➡️ Employment reduced by 3-4%
➡️ Productivity reduced by 3-4%
"Combination of elevated uncertainty, reduced demand, diverted management time, and increased misallocation of resources from a protracted Brexit process"
November 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM
➡️ Brexit reduced UK GDP by 6-8%
➡️ Investment reduced by between 12-18%
➡️ Employment reduced by 3-4%
➡️ Productivity reduced by 3-4%
"Combination of elevated uncertainty, reduced demand, diverted management time, and increased misallocation of resources from a protracted Brexit process"
➡️ Investment reduced by between 12-18%
➡️ Employment reduced by 3-4%
➡️ Productivity reduced by 3-4%
"Combination of elevated uncertainty, reduced demand, diverted management time, and increased misallocation of resources from a protracted Brexit process"
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Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.
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Just to be clear, politicians have engineered a situation whereby the NHS is in crisis and people are so scared and angry that many no longer feel empathy for the doctors tasked with holding the service together.
Doctors are not the problem. Politicians are the problem. 💙🚨
Doctors are not the problem. Politicians are the problem. 💙🚨
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Just to be clear, politicians have engineered a situation whereby the NHS is in crisis and people are so scared and angry that many no longer feel empathy for the doctors tasked with holding the service together.
Doctors are not the problem. Politicians are the problem. 💙🚨
Doctors are not the problem. Politicians are the problem. 💙🚨
One more thing I'd like to say about this: it may not do anything, but ppl should also try to contact their MPs and tell them why both schemes are horrible ideas - and keep it factual (ie, the 35K data leak retweeted), that the OSA's scope is too wide, etc.
Thread.
This is something I can also see happening.
Two bad ideas does not make a good idea. It just increase how bad things will be.
This is something I can also see happening.
Two bad ideas does not make a good idea. It just increase how bad things will be.
The "Do Not Introduce Digital ID" petition is being debated on the 8th of December.
The "Repeal the Online Safety Act" petition is being debated on the 15th of December.
The "Repeal the Online Safety Act" petition is being debated on the 15th of December.
November 16, 2025 at 3:32 AM
One more thing I'd like to say about this: it may not do anything, but ppl should also try to contact their MPs and tell them why both schemes are horrible ideas - and keep it factual (ie, the 35K data leak retweeted), that the OSA's scope is too wide, etc.
The same Switzerland that just agreed to "voluntary" digital ID. Probably just a coincidence...
*smh* if you give a centimetre toward giving up privacy and letting them bring in surveillance, they'll take a kilometre.
*smh* if you give a centimetre toward giving up privacy and letting them bring in surveillance, they'll take a kilometre.
November 16, 2025 at 3:21 AM
The same Switzerland that just agreed to "voluntary" digital ID. Probably just a coincidence...
*smh* if you give a centimetre toward giving up privacy and letting them bring in surveillance, they'll take a kilometre.
*smh* if you give a centimetre toward giving up privacy and letting them bring in surveillance, they'll take a kilometre.
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35,000 PEOPLE DATA BREACH
After decades of warnings NOT to splash data over the web unless absolutely necessary, Labour has turned that on it's head with the chaotic Online Safety Act.
Barbarically stupid.
Yet another data breach. The OSA might be next.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
After decades of warnings NOT to splash data over the web unless absolutely necessary, Labour has turned that on it's head with the chaotic Online Safety Act.
Barbarically stupid.
Yet another data breach. The OSA might be next.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Somalia e-visa breach: US warns thousands of people's data exposed
Tens of thousands of people's personal data has been leaked online, according to the US embassy.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
35,000 PEOPLE DATA BREACH
After decades of warnings NOT to splash data over the web unless absolutely necessary, Labour has turned that on it's head with the chaotic Online Safety Act.
Barbarically stupid.
Yet another data breach. The OSA might be next.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
After decades of warnings NOT to splash data over the web unless absolutely necessary, Labour has turned that on it's head with the chaotic Online Safety Act.
Barbarically stupid.
Yet another data breach. The OSA might be next.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Why did the nation that used Christianity to justify slavery, ethnic cleansing of indigenous populations, racial segregation, homophobia and preemptive war elect a dumb racist crook who's the opposite of everything Jesus taught?
Is that the question?
Is that the question?
The real question we need to ask ourselves as a nation is, WHY did so many people vote for this in the first place? Trump is the symptom. Not the problem.
Who would've guessed that "the Mark of the Beast" would wind up being just a clot of cheap spray-tan goo.
November 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Why did the nation that used Christianity to justify slavery, ethnic cleansing of indigenous populations, racial segregation, homophobia and preemptive war elect a dumb racist crook who's the opposite of everything Jesus taught?
Is that the question?
Is that the question?
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🇪🇺✅ SUCCESS: We've prevented mandatory #chatcontrol through the back door!🎉 A big win & THANKS to everyone! 🙏
But ⚠️: Anonymity-breaking age checks & "voluntary" mass scanning are still planned. The fight continues next year!
https://chatcontrol.eu
But ⚠️: Anonymity-breaking age checks & "voluntary" mass scanning are still planned. The fight continues next year!
https://chatcontrol.eu
November 15, 2025 at 8:12 AM
🇪🇺✅ SUCCESS: We've prevented mandatory #chatcontrol through the back door!🎉 A big win & THANKS to everyone! 🙏
But ⚠️: Anonymity-breaking age checks & "voluntary" mass scanning are still planned. The fight continues next year!
https://chatcontrol.eu
But ⚠️: Anonymity-breaking age checks & "voluntary" mass scanning are still planned. The fight continues next year!
https://chatcontrol.eu
Thread.
This is something I can also see happening.
Two bad ideas does not make a good idea. It just increase how bad things will be.
This is something I can also see happening.
Two bad ideas does not make a good idea. It just increase how bad things will be.
The "Do Not Introduce Digital ID" petition is being debated on the 8th of December.
The "Repeal the Online Safety Act" petition is being debated on the 15th of December.
The "Repeal the Online Safety Act" petition is being debated on the 15th of December.
November 15, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Thread.
This is something I can also see happening.
Two bad ideas does not make a good idea. It just increase how bad things will be.
This is something I can also see happening.
Two bad ideas does not make a good idea. It just increase how bad things will be.
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NEW: U.K. Parliament is set to debate the "Repeal the Online Safety Act" petition on Dec. 15th, 2025
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
November 14, 2025 at 4:13 AM
NEW: U.K. Parliament is set to debate the "Repeal the Online Safety Act" petition on Dec. 15th, 2025
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
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The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
Exclusive: Ofcom is monitoring VPNs following Online Safety Act. Here's how
Ignoring VPNs risks creating ineffective laws, but tracking them threatens people's privacy
www.techradar.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.